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By Mindy Lucas A 100-plus townhome development could be coming to an area off Broad River Boulevard in Beaufort.

Cannon Gate would feature 69 two-unit duplexes, for a total of 138 individual townhomes on roughly 16 acres on FC Carter Drive, west of Parris Island Gateway.

Preliminary plans for the subdivision were approved at the Monday, May 17 meeting of the Beaufort – Port Royal Metropolitan Planning Commission (MPC), though with several stipulations attached.

Preliminary, or “sketch plans” are meant only to provide the MPC with an idea of the general layout of a project for the sole purpose of subdividing the land.

The intent, as the planning commission has stated, is to “provide the applicant confirmation that the simple line drawing is consistent with the development code in terms of lot dimensions, street connectivity, street dimensions, and the allocation of required open space. … It is not a building development plan.”

The property was recently annexed into the City of Beaufort and rezoned to a T4-N, or neighborhood, at the request of Robert Sample, the applicant and property’s owner.

A corner of the development would front Broad River Boulevard.

The entire site would have an estimated 240 to 276 parking spaces depending on the number of bedrooms in each unit. At Monday’s meeting, Sample said he would like to see three-bedroom units for the development.

Though surrounded by a mix of individual homes and tracts of undeveloped land, the overall area has grown in recent years and another project, also approved recently by the MPC, could add to traffic congestion.

Beaufort Station, a large-scale, mixed-use retail center, is being planned for the corner of Robert Smalls Parkway and Parris Island Gateway. The MPC gave conditional approval to a conceptual sketch plat for the shopping center on the 28-

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Frieda Mitchell, who died in October at the age of 95, was a tireless civil rights and social justice activist and champion for children and families. She was recently honored for her life’s work at her alma mater, the Mather School.

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A lasting impact Beaufort County civil rights and social justice activist honored at Mather School

By Mindy Lucas

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enacious. Driven.

Kind-hearted. Loving.

Those were just a few of the words used to describe Frieda Mitchell at a small, intimate gathering held in her honor at the Mather School Museum recently.

The longtime civil rights and social justice activist from Sheldon died in October at the age of 95, but her work and contributions have had a lasting impact on the lives of so many and continue to do so, said those who were on hand for the event held at Mitchell’s alma mater on Friday, May 14.

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Former U.S. Rep. Joe Cunningham chats with Mayor Stephen Murray and former Mayor David Taub in Beaufort on Tuesday. Cunningham, a Democrat who has announced his plans to run in the 2022 South Carolina gubernatorial race, was in Beaufort, then Bluffton on Tuesday to meet with supporters and talk about issues ranging from teachers’ pay raises to law enforcement reform. Photo by Lolita Huckaby.

“She touched so many lives in this community, in this world and internationally,” said Rufus Pinckney, who recounted growing up near the Mitchells in Sheldon.

Mitchell didn’t take no for an answer, said Pinckney and many others on hand for the gathering, especially when it came to something that would ultimately benefit that person.

Case in point: When Mitchell discovered Pinckney had graduated from high school but wasn’t planning to go to college for a year, she called to tell him he would be going to

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Karen Ulmer (left) and Muriel A. Hawkins stand in front of a new exhibit honoring the life and contributions of their mother, longtime civil rights and social justice activist, Frieda Mitchell. The photos and proclamations are now on display at the Mather School Museum on the Technical College of the Lowcountry. Photo by Mindy Lucas.

USCB Center for the Arts brings the entertainment this summer

By Mindy Lucas From an enchanted bookshop to concerts on the lawn, USC Beaufort’s Center for the Arts has several events coming up that are sure to entertain.

First up is the video premiere of The Enchanted Bookshop Musical presented by Beaufort Children’s Theatre.

After COVID-19 put a halt to the theater’s production of “Seussical Jr.” last year and in-person rehearsals, the production team decided to switch to The Enchanted Bookshop Musical, about a magical book shop that comes to life at night.

Viewers will have several innovative ways to watch the musical.

In-person screenings will be held with a limited number of audience members at 7 p.m. on May 21 and 22, at USCB Center for the Arts, 801

Carteret Street. Tickets are $12 and student tickets are $8. Masks are required.

Those who would rather watch from home can watch on demand, with the entire family through an emailed link for $25. For schools or donors who wish to hold a screening in their, a classroom rate of $100 for 30 students is also available for viewing on demand.

For more information or to purchase tickets call 843-521-4145 or visit www.uscbcenterforthearts.com.

Listen on the Lawn If you’ve been missing live music, you’ll want to check out the center’s “Listen on the Lawn Concert Series” coming up the second and fourth Sundays of the month this summer.

Katie Lynn Godowns of Beaufort will take the stage on the center’s

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lawn on Sunday, May 23.

Godowns released her debut album “Movin’ Mountains” at the center in 2019 and describes her premiere work as “modern country.”

The lawn will open at 5:30 p.m., with the show starting at 6 p.m.

Tickets are $10. Children younger than 12 are admitted for free.

Next up in the concert series is the Beaufort Mass Choir on June 13.

Comprised of singers from more than a dozen area churches, the Beaufort Mass Choir will feature Gospel and Gullah music. Tickets are $10.

Participants are encouraged to bring a chair or blanket, and a picnic dinner or snacks and beverages.

Tickets must be purchased in advance at www.uscbcenterforthearts. com or by calling 843-521-4145. In case of rain, performances will be moved inside the center.

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George Miller

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Beaufort’s George Miller, 83, enlisted in the United States Marine Corps in Indianapolis in 1956. After Boot camp in San Diego he was posted as a Heavy Equipment Operator at a variety of stations in California, Okinawa, and the Philippines before

serving in Vietnam, where he received a Purple Heart during the Tet offensive at DaNang in 1968. Later duty took him to Korea, back to Okinawa and three tours at Parris Island. He retired in 1979 with 24 years of service as a 1st Sergeant. Thereafter he

Dog of the Week: Malin has been through it all and has still not found her forever home. She is working so hard with our training team and really enjoys her bike rides every day. Malin is 1 year old, spayed, up to date on vaccines, and microchipped.

Cat of the Week: Jacki has been working hard on her weight-loss journey. She has two to three daily laps around the building before snuggling up in her bed for a nice snooze. She is currently supervising our team members in our front office to make sure they stay on task. She would make a great companion for someone with no other cats. She is 10 years old, spayed, up to date on vaccines, and microchipped.

Dock Permit Jeffery Secor has applied to the South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control, Office of Ocean and Coastal Resource Management for a permit to build a residential dock for private use, at 92 W. River Drive, Beaufort SC 29907 (Lot 4, Red Bluff) on Brickyard Creek. Comments will be received by the Office of Ocean and Coastal Resource Management, 1362 McMillan Ave., Suite 400, Charleston, SC 29405 by May 27, 2021.

From staff reports Young people interested in the mechanical aspects of aircraft and a possible future in aviation won’t want to miss an upcoming free event on St. Helena Island.

Altitude Academy, a local nonprofit organization, will hold a

city’s Facebook page May 25 – Beaufort City Council Work Session, 5 p.m., Regular Meeting, 7 p.m., City Hall, Planning Conference Room, 1st Floor, 1911 Boundary Street, Beaufort, or watch on city’s Facebook page or via Zoom May 26 – Beaufort Memorial Hospital Board of Trustees, 7:30

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William Glover, 72, of the John Fripp community of St. Helena Island, SC and husband of O'Kasamar Izzard Glover entered into eternal rest at his residence Wednesday, April 21, 2021. William was the son of the late Lewis Fred Glover and Evelena Mungin Glover. Memorial services, 10 A.M. Tuesday, April 27, 2021 in the Front Courtyard of Bethesda Christian Fellowship.

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Jordan Amari Johnson, 21, of Ridgeland, SC, beloved daughter of Adriane M. and Ben Johnson III entered into eternal rest Saturday, May 1, 2021 as a result of a car accident. Viewing was May 9 in Hel-

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Altitude Academy to hold meet and greet “Meet and Greet” from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., Saturday, May 22 at Martin Luther King Park at The Green, 860 Sea Island Pkwy.

The organization aims to encourage an early start in the field of aviation, introduce the art of flight to young people and teach

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Deacon Lewis Fred Glover

Deacon Lewis Fred Glover, Jr., 76, of Lady's Island, SC and husband of Floretta Heyward Glover entered into eternal rest at his home, Saturday, May 1, 2021. Viewing was May 5, Helen Galloway's Memorial Chapel of Chisholm Galloway Home for Funerals, Edith Galloway, Director. Graveside services, May 6, Faith Memorial Baptist Church Cemetery. Burial with Military Honors, Beaufort National Cemetery.

life skills through the study of aviation.

The event is for ages 7 to 17 and will also offer free refreshments.

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Transportation Authority, 2 p.m., watch via Zoom May 26 – Burton Fire District Commission, 6 p.m., check for meeting information at www.beaufortcountysc.gov

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Thursday, April 29, in Helen Galloway's Memorial Chapel of Chisholm Galloway Home for Funerals. Graveside services, Friday, April 30 at Riverside Cemetery.

Brenda Gale Rhodan

Brenda Gale Rhodan, 63, of the Capers community of St. Helena Island, SC and daughter of the late Jeff Rhodan, Sr. and Dorthy Wilson Rhodan, entered into eternal rest at her home Wednesday, April 21, 2021. Viewing was

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Karoy Lorenza Brown, 55, of Lady's Island, SC entered into eternal rest from his home Tuesday, May 11, 2021. Visitation was Friday, May 14, 2021 in Helen Galloway's Memorial Chapel with Edith Galloway and staff of Chisholm Galloway Home for Funeral, 808 Bladen Street, Beaufort, SC.

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Diana Simmons

Diana Simmons, 71, of the John Fripp Community of St. Helena Island, SC entered into eternal rest from the Beaufort Memorial Hospital, Tuesday, May 13, 2021.

Visitation, Sunday, May 16, in Helen Galloway's Memorial Chapel of Chisholm Galloway Home for Funerals. Graveside services Monday, May 17, burial in Tom Fripp Cemetery with Pastor Henry Chisholm presiding.

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A championship send-off The Beaufort High School tennis team gets an official Beaufort sendoff on Friday, May 14, including a police escort by both the Beaufort Police Department and the Beaufort County Sheriff’s Office as it heads to Florence to compete against A.C. Flora for the State 4-A tennis championship held Saturday, May 15. Here, the convoy makes its way over the Richard V. Woods Memorial Bridge with sirens screaming and well-wishers applauding.

From staff reports The Beaufort High boys tennis team departed Beaufort in style on Friday on its way to Saturday’s 4-A state championship match against A.C. Flora in Florence.

With a police escort, the Eagles made their way across the Woods Memorial Bridge and into downtown Beaufort.

Fans, friends and family lined both sides of Bay Street as the team passed by.

In one of their best seasons ever, Coach David Riedmayer’s

Family and friends of members of the Beaufort High School tennis team lined up on Friday, May 14, on both sides of Bay Street to wish the team luck. The Eagles played for the 4-A state championship against A.C. Flora on Saturday in Florence. Photos by Bob Sofaly.

Eagles finished with a perfect region record (12-0) on their way to the state championship.

Unfortunately, Beaufort (15-2) fell one match short, dropping a close state title match, 4-2.

“Coach Stone and I are very proud of the boys for their never-give-up attitude and making history with the best run Beaufort High has ever had,” Riedmayer said.

“We will be back in the state championship next season.”

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City to honor Henry C. Chambers with new signage at park

From staff reports The City of Beaufort will celebrate the legacy of Mayor Henry C. Chambers, whose vision led to the creation of what is known informally as Waterfront Park, with the unveiling and dedication of new signage in Mayor Chambers’ honor on Friday, May 21. The dedication will be held at 3:30 p.m. near the flagpole at the park.

When the 7-acre opened in 1979, it was dedicated to May-

or Chambers and named after him, with a simple plaque that is easy to miss.

Chambers, who was elected mayor in 1969 and served for 20 years, fought hard for the park, and many times was opposed by members of City Council. But his vision “saved the town of Beaufort,” Duncan Fordham, longtime downtown business owner, said in a video tribute to Chambers.

When Chambers was elect-

ed, the fishing industry that had sustained Beaufort was in decline, and the waterfront was an unsightly mishmash of old buildings and dilapidated docks. The marsh was little more than a dumping ground.

Chambers, a Beaufort native, saw the potential for a beautiful park along the Beaufort River, and the economic boost it would deliver to his city. He went to work, looking for money from federal sourc-

es, meeting on a regular basis with Sen. Strom Thurmond, and enlisting allies throughout the state and federal governments. Ultimately, the park cost $5.3 million; bridge loans from local banks kept the project alive as it waited for funding sources to come through.

Today the park is the City’s crown jewel – a place for residents and visitors to dine, play, gather, and immerse themselves in the beauty of

the riverfront.

Former Mayor Billy Keyserling and former City Councilmember Edie Rogers led the drive to memorialize Mayor Chambers, who died in 2018 at the age of 89. “Henry C. Chambers had the vision and tenacity to ‘bring back’ a dying downtown Beaufort by creating an environmental and commercial destination to draw people from the greater Beaufort area and from across

the region to enjoy our natural resources in what was then the center of commerce for the region,” Keyserling said.

Chamber’s son, Bill, an architect, designed the bronze lettering that is affixed to the wall. The cost of the memorial is approximately $10,000, and was funded through the City’s Beaufort Pride of Place program. Pride of Place is funded through donations, not tax money.

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Members of the Beaufort Memorial ICU nursing team celebrate their Daisy Award, a prestigious national honor reserved for RNs who go the extra mile to care for patients and their families. Submitted photo.

Beaufort Memorial Hospital honors ICU team, charge nurse with DAISY Awards

By Marie McAden In the early days of the pandemic when health officials were struggling to understand the deadly novel coronavirus, the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) nurses at Beaufort Memorial Hospital (BMH) put aside their fears to care for a ward full of critically ill patients isolated from their loved ones.

What was already a high-pressure environment took on epic intensity as protocols and treatment plans changed daily with the rising number of COVID-19 deaths.

Even as they coped with a heavy workload and the anxiety of infecting their own families, the nurses demonstrated extraordinary compassion for patients and their families, taking time to use FaceTime to make them feel connected.

To add to their burden, the RNs had to don full personal protective equipment (PPE)

to care for the COVID patients.

“Until you have worn an N95 mask and shield, a plastic gown and other safety gear for 12 hours, you will never understand the physical exhaustion involved in the process,” BMH Director of Critical Care Diane Razo said. “The masks left indentations and raised red areas on their faces. Sores formed on their ears from the elastic bands.”

But it was the emotional toll that left the most scars.

“The burden of death was upon their shoulders as they became the family of the patient so they would not die alone,” Razo said. “You can’t imagine what it is like to place patients into body bags – sometimes two or three times a day.”

For their dedication and teamwork throughout the extended crisis, last week the ICU nurses were awarded the

Beaufort Memorial 3T Medical Department Director Shannon Adams and Chief Nursing Officer Karen Carroll present 3T Charge Nurse Johnice Hawkins (center) with the Daisy Award for Extraordinary Nurses. Hawkins was nominated by several members of her staff for the prestigious recognition. Submitted photo.

DAISY Award for Exceptional Nurses, a prestigious national honor reserved for RNs who go the extra mile to care for

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Port Royal Cypress Wetlands

Open to the public everyday during daylight hours, located on Paris Ave. Free. Experience the wonders of the wetlands as you stroll the boardwalk and visit the rookery. This is a working organic laboratory and stormwater system for the benefit of all. A photographer’s paradise with nesting birds, alligators, turtles, etc.

For more information visit www. friendsofportroyalcypresswetlands. org , Facebook at FriendsofPRCypressWetlands, or on Instagram at friendsofprcypresswetlands.

The Historic Port Royal Museum

10 a.m. to 3 p.m. or upon request, Thursdays through Sundays, The Historic Port Royal Museum, 1634 Paris Ave. The museum features the turn-of-the-century businesses and industries of Port Royal: Shrimping, crabbing, oystering, the railroad, the school and the mercantile. Great gifts featuring local artists are available. For more information. visit www.portroyalhistory.org, email unionchurch1004@ gmail.com or call 843-524-4333.

Ancestor of the Land – Rufus Daniel Mitchell

5 to 8 p.m., Thursday, May 20, Beaufort Arts Council, Mather Campus, Technical College of the Lowcountry, 921 Ribault Road, Building 1. A Tribute by Bernice Mitchel Tate, Andy Tate and Dr. Derek Mitchell Tate to the Beaufort County Rural Black Farmer. An authentic Beaufort County, S.C. Gullah Cultural Heritage photographic, visual art, digital art, material culture exhibition and instillation

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experience celebrating the life and times of Rufus Daniel Mitchell (1913-1987), his family and the historic Sheldon farming community.

Northern Beaufort County Democratic Club meetings

6:30 to 8 p.m., Thursdays, May 20, June 17, July 15, Washington Street Park. After a year of masks, social distancing, hygiene measures and vaccinations (you have yours, right?), we can finally meet in person. Meetings at the beautiful, newly refurbished Washington Street Park at the corner of Washington Street and Newcastle Street in Beaufort. Speaker for May 20 will be Rev. Kenneth Hodges, Pastor of Tabernacle Baptist Church and champion of the Harriet Tubman Monument.

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5 to 8 p.m., Thursdays, May 20, June 17, July 15, downtown Beaufort. Every third Thursday of the month is downtown Beaufort’s newest recurring monthly party with live music, local artists, late night shopping and drink and food specials. Rain or shine. Free entertainment, sponsored by Activate Beaufort, featuring Wayne Grabenbauer and Southbound 17.

Bookfest 2021

11 a.m. to 4 p.m., Saturday, May 29, Zen Den, 707 and 709, Paris Avenue, Port Royal. Hosted in partnership with the Pat Conroy Literary Center. The best of the best local authors are gathered in one place to present new projects and sign books. For more information, email zendenpr@gmail.com or call 843-929-9449.

patients and their families.

“Across the nation, many ICU nurses and units fell apart,” said Razo, who nom-

CPR training

8 a.m to 12:30 p.m., Saturdays, May 29, June 12, July 10, Aug. 21, Sept. 18, Oct. 16, Nov. 20, Dec. 11, at the Wardle Family YMCA, 1801 Richmond Ave., Port Royal, offers CPR. Cost is $35 for YMCA certified course. Those interested need to register at the Y as space is limited and filled on a first come, first serve basis. Questions? Contact William Howell, Aquatics Director, 843-5229622. To register visit the Y front desk or online at beaufort-jasperymca.org and click ‘Register for a Program’ at the top of the page.

Beaufort Regional Chamber of Commerce’s Legislative Luncheon

5 to 7 p.m., Thursday, June 3, Tabby Place, 913 Port Republic Street.

Cost for Chamber Members is $45.

Cost for nonmembers is 65. The Chamber's Legislative Reception is the business community’s opportunity to connect with Beaufort County’s state legislative delegation, federal officials, and local elected leaders. This two-hour, evening event will feature passed hors d'oeuvres and complimentary beer and wine. Seating will be limited to encourage attendees to circulate.

Attendees can choose to be indoors with A/C or on the patio with fresh air.

BIFF Bites Fun-Raiser

5:30 to 7:30 p.m., Thursday, June 3, Lowcountry Produce, 302 Carteret Street. $35 ticket includes two drink tickets for beer/wine. Proceeds benefit the Beaufort Film Society. Tickets to the 2022 Beaufort International Film Festival, a value of $650, will be given away.

inated her nursing staff for the award. “Yet today, if you look into our unit, you will see the same nurses that were here at the beginning, still advocating and caring for our patients. It speaks volumes about their resilience.”

This week, 25 ICU nurses were presented with the award at a surprise ceremony held at the hospital. A plaque was placed in the unit and each nurse received a DAISY lapel pin.

Also honored with a DAISY Award last week was 3T charge nurse Johnice Hawkins, who was nominated by four members of her nursing staff.

“From my very first shift on 3T, it was clear to me that Johnice is a different kind of nurse,” Mary Margaret Achurch wrote in her nomination. “She is exactly what you’d hope a nurse would be – and then multiply it by a

Beaufort Garden Club Plants and Flowers Show and Tell

9 a.m to noon, Saturday, June 5, at the gazebo, Port Royal Farmers’ Market. Free to the public. The club’s dedicated plant whisperers will be on hand with a collection of plants and flowers and will share their secrets for successful growing. Members are expected to bring their favorite but not widely known plants or flowers. Visitors will receive information to take with them on how each item is grown.

Maye River Quilters Guild meeting

10 a.m., Saturday, June 5 via Zoom. To get the link for the meeting, visit mayeriverquiltguild.com.

For additional meeting dates and times, and for membership forms to join the group, visit the website or call 843-530-1244.

CPR re-certification

8 a.m to 12:30 p.m., Saturdays, June 5, Aug. 14, Sept. 25, Nov. 13, at the Wardle Family YMCA, 1801 Richmond Ave., Port Royal, offers CPR. Cost is $25 for YMCA certified course. Those interested need to register at the Y as space is limited and filled on a first come, first serve basis. Questions? Contact William Howell, Aquatics Director, 843-522-9622. To register visit the Y front desk or online at beaufort-jasperymca.org and click ‘Register for a Program’ at the top of the page.

The Girl Who Wore Freedom screening

7 to 10 p.m., Sunday, June 6, Tabby Garden, 307 West Street. Free and open to the public. Donations

thousand.”

In addition to serving as an example for the nurses in her charge, Hawkins is happy to assist her staff even while caring for her own patients, the nurses said.

“This is a charge nurse that goes above and beyond for everyone,” RN Hanna Mont said. “She never backs down from a challenge and is always willing to lend a hand.”

At the surprise ceremony, Hawkins received a handcarved sculpture titled “A Healer’s Touch” along with a bouquet of daisies.

Created in 1999 by a Seattle couple as a way to honor the nurses who took care of their dying son, the DAISY Award has since been adopted by healthcare facilities all over the world. Anyone can nominate a Beaufort Memorial nurse for the honor. Applications are available throughout the hospital.

are encouraged and benefit the Beaufort Film Society. Cash bar available. Venue is outdoors, dress accordingly. The Girl Who Wore Freedom was the 2021 Beaufort International Film Festival Duty and Honor category winner, as well as Audience Choice. Director Christian Taylor will be available for questions immediately following the screening.

Beaufort Sportfishing and Diving Club’s May meeting

6 p.m., Thursday, June 10, Beaufort Yacht Club's new deck on Lady’s Island off Meridian Road. The social will be from 5 p.m. to 6 p.m.

Dues and renewals will continue on the same monthly system prior to the pandemic. The porch bar will be utilized and Club restrooms will be available. Captain Tim Carver, local guide, for Tight Lines Unlimited will discuss Spot Tail Bass (Red Fish). He will present rods and reels, and baits/lures of choice.

This information will also include how to select best fishing spots, dealing with water clarity, tides, and currents. Captain John Mathews will also give a brief presentation on his new program – Marsh Sense – learning to wade and fish in tidal marsh on foot. Remember to weigh in your favorite catch at the Port Royal Landing Marina – Safe Harbor – during regular hours. The Club will draw names for those who weighed in during May. Beaufort Boat & Dock Supply is sponsoring the monthly $50 weigh-in drawing.

Guests are welcome. Reservations are not needed. For additional information, contact Captain Frank Gibson at 843-522-2122 or email fgibson@islc.net.

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Members of the local Palmetto Garden Club spent the spring sprucing up the city-owned Succession Park, located at the corner of Bay and Boundary Streets. Club family members Joe Pizzo and Scott Dudley do some heavy lifting. The new landscaping was supported by a grant from the National Garden Club Association. Submitted photos.

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A lone woman takes advantage of perfect weather as she soaks up the sun while sitting in the middle of a sea of umbrellas during a track meet at Beaufort High School on Saturday, May 15. Photo By Bob Sofaly.

Beaufort Memorial adds nurse practitioner to gastroenterology practice

From staff reports Beaufort Memorial Hospital (BMH) has added a board-certified nurse practitioner to its gastroenterology practice at Lowcountry Medical Group in Beaufort.

Kimberly Stockstill, APRN, FNP-BC, brings broad clinical experience to the practice, where she will work with a team of GI specialists and other advanced practice providers to prevent, diagnose and treat acute and chronic disorders of the digestive

system, thus promoting gastrointestinal health for her patients.

A MississipKimberly pi Gulf Coast Stockstill native, Stockstill earned both a Master of Nursing in the family nurse practitioner specialty track and a Bachelor of Science in Nursing from Chamberlain University in Downers Grove, Ill. No stranger to Beaufort

Memorial, Stockstill served as a charge nurse in the hospital’s emergency department from 2003 to 2011.

Afterward she was a nursing supervisor at a regional hospital while obtaining her advanced degrees and most recently was employed as a primary care nurse practitioner at a family practice, helping patients of all ages manage widely ranging diseases and conditions, including those related to the GI system.

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St. Mark’s returns to renovated, expanded church

From staff reports St. Mark’s Episcopal Church in Port Royal is returning to its church building on Sunday, May 23, 14 months after suspending in-person worship and following a major remodeling and expansion.

While the church was closed, the sanctuary was totally renovated and enlarged, while new rooms were added to the rear of the building.

Union Church, as the building is known to many, was constructed in 1878 and is listed on the National Register of

Historic Sites. Following its purchase in 2018 by St. Mark’s and a successful capital campaign, Frederick & Frederick Architects were engaged as design architects and Beaufort Construction as contractor.

Emphasis was placed on designing the renovation to complement the existing structure.

St. Mark’s formed in 2003 as a “house church” with a small group meeting in the living room of The Reverend Roger Smith and his wife, Headley and now has more than 350 members. It is a

member of the Episcopal Diocese of South Carolina and the only Episcopal Church north of the Broad River.

Sunday services will be at 9 a.m. and 11 a.m. More information is available at www. stmarksc.org.

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Preliminary plans for Cannon Gate, a 100+ townhome development on Broad River Boulevard, were approved at the MPC's recent meeting.

NEWS BRIEFS

Beaufort County seniors can get free fruits, vegetables

Beaufort County senior citizens may qualify to receive $25 worth of coupons to buy fresh fruits and vegetables from authorized farmers this summer through the South Carolina Senior Farmers’ Market Nutrition Program.

To qualify, applicants must be a low-income senior aged 60 or older, have a valid driver’s license of state-issued ID, and live in a participating county (Beaufort, Jasper, Hampton ad Colleton counties are all participating).

To apply, visit dss.sc.gov to complete an online application through June 1. Contact Willie Nixon at 803898-1760 with questions.

Vaccinated? You don’t have to wear a mask in City buildings

To conform with new guidance from the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), members of the public who are fully vaccinated do not have to wear masks when they enter City of Beaufort buildings.

The City is asking those who are not fully vaccinated to continue to wear masks as a courtesy to others.

Beaufort Municipal Court continues to require masks for anyone who enters the courtroom, per the order of the State Supreme Court Chief Justice Donald Beatty.

McKissick re-elected SC GOP chairman

After conducting the largest party reorganization in state history, the South Carolina republican Party (SCGOP) hosted its 2021 state convention where delegates re-elected Chariman Drew McKissick and First Vice Chairman Cindy Risher, as well as elected Second Vice Chairman Kizzie Smalls, and Third Vice Chairman Leighton Gray Smith – the first time all three Vice Chairman positions will be held by women.

One of the candidates McKissick defeated for chairman was Beaufort County resident Lin Wood.

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Per state law and party rules, the SCGOP reorganizes every two years. Participation from 2019 to 2021 doubled, according to the SCGOP, with officially organized county parties in all 46 counties for the first time in a decade.

County hosting open house for Okatie River Park

Beaufort County is hosting an outdoor open house event for Okatie River Park from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m., Thursday, May 20. Since the property is not yet accessible to the public, the Open House will take place under the grand live oak tree at nearby Pinckney Colony Preserve, 7 Pinckney Colony Road, Bluffton.

Stefanie Nagid, Beaufort County Passive Parks Manager, and the planning consultant from Witmer Jones Keefer will be on site to discuss the draft conceptual plan and answer any questions from the public.

The draft conceptual plan was created based on 279 responses from the March 2021 public input survey. The public is encouraged to attend and share feedback about the draft conceptual plan.

For more information about the Passive Parks Program please call 843-255-2152.

County hosting electronics recycling events

Beaufort County’s Department of Solid Waste and Recycling will host two free electronics recycling events for County residents from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m., Saturday, May 22, at Beaufort County Public Works, 9 Benton Field Road, Bluffton and Beaufort County Public Works, 140 Shanklin Road, Beaufort.

Residents are asked to stay in their cars during the event. Staff will unload electronics.

Any personal computers, laptops, CRT monitors, LCD monitors, CRT televisions, non-CRT televisions, printers, hard drives and miscellaneous electronics (microwaves, cell phones, radios, fax machines, and

typewriters) will be accepted.

Call the Solid Waste and Recycling Office at 843-255-2736 for more information or visit their website at www.beaufortcountysc.gov/recycle.

County business license renewals due June 1

Businesses that operate within the unincorporated boundaries of Beaufort County must renew their County business license by Tuesday, June 1. Those who pay after the deadline will be subject to a penalty of 5 percent of the unpaid fee for each month or portion of the month past the due date.

The County mailed renewal forms to license holders in January.

Additional forms are available at https://bit.ly/3bhtYLq. If you own or operate a business within the unincorporated boundaries of the County without a valid business license, you are subject to additional penalties.

For more information, call the Beaufort County Business License Department at 843-255-2270.

Chamber’s Legislative Luncheon set for June 3

The Beaufort Regional Chamber of Commerce’s Legislative Luncheon is set to be held from 5 to 7 p.m. on Thursday, June 3 at Tabby Place, 913 Port Republic Street.

The Chamber's Legislative Reception is the business community’s opportunity to connect with Beaufort County’s state legislative delegation, federal officials, and local elected leaders. During the event, organizers will recap progress on the Chamber’s Public Policy Priorities from the 2021 Legislative session and invite brief remarks from elected leaders.

This two-hour, evening event will feature passed hors d'oeuvres and complimentary beer and wine. Seating will be limited to encourage attendees to circulate. Attendees can choose to be indoors with A/C or on the patio with fresh air.

Cost for Chamber Members is

acre site in April.

A traffic impact analysis requested by the MPC for the Broad River Boulevard project was conducted to study the impact of traffic on area streets and intersections. The analysis indicated that the intersections “currently operate and are expected to continue to operate at an acceptable level of service” with the proposed development.

However, several members at Monday’s meeting voiced concerns over the number of cars that would be attempting to exit the development each morning given that there is currently only one entrance and exit to the development.

Commission members raised the possibility of the applicant developing interconnecting roads, or stub roads, that would connect to future developments on either side of the property. “… It’s still 138 residents with people who live there having to get out all at once in case of an emergency,” said commission member Judy

$45. Cost for nonmembers is 65.

Beaufort Garden Club holding Show & Tell

In honor of National Garden Week, the Beaufort Garden Club will hold a Plants and Flowers Show and Tell, free to the public, around the gazebo at the Port Royal Farmers’ market from 9 a.m to noon, Saturday, June 5.

The club’s dedicated plant whisperers will be on hand with a collection of plants and flowers and will share their secrets for successful growing. Members are expected to bring their favorite but not widely known plants or flowers. Visitors will receive information to take with them on how each item is grown.

“Since Covid is still with us, it’s difficult to hold our annual Garden A Day event during National Garden Week, so instead we will share our knowledge with the public,” Club Vice President Lora Quincy said in a release.

Prior to the pandemic, the Beaufort Garden Club had held Garden A Day during the first week of June every year since 1984.

Serve on a board

The Beaufort County Legislative Delegation encourages qualified citizens who are willing to serve on a board or commission to submit an application. All applicants must be a registered voter in Beaufort County to be considered for an appointment.

The following boards and commissions have legislative delegation-appointed vacancies: • Foster Care Review Board; • Beaufort County Veterans Affairs Officer; • Board of Voter Registration & Elections of Beaufort County; • Beaufort Jasper Water & Sewer Authority; • Coastal Empire Community Mental Health Center; • Beaufort Jasper Higher Education Commission; • Lowcountry Resort Islands Tourism Commission; • Broad Creek Public Service District; • South Island Public Service

Alling. “The future isn’t going to help today. I just find it difficult to accept that many dwellings with only one exit.”

Ultimately, the sketch plan passed by a 5 to 1 vote – Alling voting against – with the following stipulations: • Stub road access to the east and west be developed; • Approval from the Army Corps of Engineers for development around wetlands and development of a detention pond; • Development of open space amenities for families. The sketch plan currently includes 2.63 acres of open space.

MPC Chairman Michael Tomy advised the applicant to “take the stipulations diligently.”

“It is a large community that you’re developing here so it’s going to be important that it’s done right,” he said. “With all the developments on either side of you, you’re going to start setting a precedent.”

Mindy Lucas is the Beaufort reporter for The Island News and is a staff writer for Lowcountry Weekly. She can be reached at mindy.islandnews@gmail.com.

District; • Technical College of the Lowcountry Area Commission; • Saltwater Recreational Fisheries Advisory Committee.

All applications must be received by the close of business, Monday, June 7, to be considered.

For questions or to obtain an application, please contact the Beaufort County Delegation Office at cmaxey@bcgov.net or 843-255-2260.

2020 Adopt-AHighway numbers released

PalmettoPride has announced the results of the Adopt-A-Highway volunteer litter pickup program for the year 2020. In spite of Covid-19 interruptions, more than 13,000 volunteers pulled together and removed nearly 800,000 pounds of trash from state highways.

The full results are as follows: • 790,120.5 pounds of trash picked up; • 3,359.7 of miles covered; • 1,233 groups; • 13,709 volunteers; • 110 new groups.

The results indicated a drop of about 25 percent in pounds picked up and 20 percent fewer volunteers.

2020 presented many challenges in regards to litter prevention and pickup with many large-scale volunteer events and routine maintenance collection services suspended for health and safety reasons.

“By end of summer when we were more informed about Covid-19 health and safety protocols, we encouraged folks to get out and pick up litter as a way to enjoy the outdoors,” Executive Director for PalmettoPride Sarah Lyles said. “These volunteers provide a tremendous service to the state, and we want to make sure they know how appreciated they are.”

Adopt-A-Highway is a volunteer litter pickup program coordinated

by PalmettoPride and the S.C. Department of Transportation. AdoptA-Highway participants agree to clean up a section of state highway four times a year. Each cleanup results in a value of approximately $1,047,500 in service.

NEWS & BUSINESS

Charitable giving considerations for 2021

By Wells Fargo Advisors If the COVID-19 pandemic’s far-reaching impacts have you looking to enhance your charitable giving, be sure to remember these tax-related considerations for 2021:

Cash gifts. A special rule for this year allows taxpayers who do not itemize deductions to claim up to $300 ($600 for joint filers) for gifts to qualifying charities.

If you do itemize, cash contributions to qualified charities in 2021 might be used to offset up to 100% of your adjusted gross income (AGI) (60% of AGI for cash gifts to a donor

advised fund or 30% for cash gifts to a private foundation).

This means that if you’re in a position to make generous gifts, you may potentially offset all of your taxable income.

In addition, cash gifts could be used to offset Roth IRA conversion income or capital gains realized upon the sale of real estate or a large position in a single investment.

If you’re unable to itemize but would like to, evaluate the possible impact of bunching several years’ worth of charitable contributions into one year. This may increase your itemized deductions above the standard deduction threshold

so you can potentially receive a tax benefit for those gifts. Review your income and deductions for the current year and the next few years with your tax advisor to determine what is the best timing for those bunched contributions.

Qualified Chartitable Distribution (QCD). For taxpayers age 70½ or older, a QCD allows you to gift up to $100,000 per year directly from your IRA to qualifying charities.

QCDs are tax-free distributions and count toward satisfying your required minimum distribution (RMD). Remem-

ber that, while RMDs were waived for 2020, they must be taken for 2021.

No deduction is allowed for a QCD since the distribution is not taxable. This strategy is beneficial if you will not itemize deductions this year.

It could also help you control your AGI, which is used to determine many tax-related limitations.

Note that the amount of the QCD you are able to exclude from your income is reduced by any deductible IRA contributions you make in the year you reach age 70½ or after.

Stock gifts. Gifting stock

directly to charity rather than selling it and contributing the proceeds provides a current tax benefit if you itemize deductions. In addition, it lets you avoid capital gains taxation on the stock’s appreciation if it increased in value while you owned it. Deductions for stock gifts are limited to 30% of AGI when contributing to public charities.

Before employing any of these strategies, please contact your tax and financial advisors to help provide the best outcome.

Wells Fargo Advisors does not provide tax or legal advice. Please consult with

your tax and/or legal advisors before taking any action that may have tax and/ or legal consequences.

This article was written by/for Wells Fargo Advisors and provided courtesy Katie C. Phifer, CERTIFIED FINANCIAL PLANNER™, and Vice President-Investments in Beaufort, SC at 843-982-1506.

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Beaufort History Museum hosts Nigerian Air Force students

Keith Walker of Saugatuck, Mich., was the winner of the quilt raffled off by the Maye River Quilt Guild. Pictured are, from left, Linda Forry, Maye River Quilt Guild President Jaiden Overland, First Responder Walker from Lady’s Island/St. Helena, who drew the winning ticket, and Raffle Quilt Committee Co-Chair Nancy Vandenberg, who sold the winning ticket. Bobbi Giddings sold the most tickets. Submitted photo.

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school and he would be going to Mather.

“She said …I’ve got a scholarship for you to go to Mather School, and you will be going to school,” he said laughing.

Humble beginnings Born in 1925, in Sheldon, Frieda R. Mitchell was one of four children and the daughter of farmers.

Since there was no school bus transportation for Black children, Mitchell and her siblings could not attend the segregated high school in Beaufort. The only option was to go to Mather.

Originally created in 1868 to educate the daughters of freed slaves, the Mather School was one of the oldest boarding schools in the country for African American women.

The school would become co-ed in the mid 1950s and eventually become part of the South Carolina Technical College System.

At Mather, Mitchell excelled in business education earning a perfect 4.0.

She also earned a fouryear scholarship to Spelman College, in Atlanta, but her parents wanted her to attend Allen University, an African Methodist Episcopal school supported by her church.

At her parents wishes, Mitchell attended Allen but had to withdraw before graduating after money became short. But that wouldn’t stop

Mitchell who went on to teach and eventually accepted a position with a Beaufort County school.

Helping others Once she had earned an education and secured a career, Mitchell turned her attention to helping others, becoming a champion for children and the working poor in the Lowcountry.

When she wasn’t driving young people to Mather to enroll, she was making sure they got to the polls to vote, many said at Friday’s gathering.

In fact, back in Sheldon, Mitchell organized a massive

the school board for 16 years.

Mitchell also worked for the Penn Center in the late ’60’s and early ’70’s, and met Martin Luther King Jr. during one of his visits to the center.

She became the co-director of a community development project for Penn Community Services Center and worked to address daycare needs for poor working families, according to Mitchell’s biography on the South Carolina African American History Calendar website.

But Mitchell’s work in the realm of child care reform didn’t end with Beaufort County or South Carolina.

She also organized a

She saw something in some of us that we didn’t see in ourselves.”

Rufus Pinckney voter registration campaign which led to the election of the first African American to Beaufort County Council and the unseating of a local magistrate who had held the position for 50 years.

In 1965, Mitchell founded the Beaufort County Education Community (BCEC), an organization that became the central force for school desegregation.

The committee’s efforts led to a landmark election in 1968 in which Mitchell and another member were the first Black council members elected to a school board in South Carolina. She stayed on

coalition that included the Children’s Defense Fund, the National Black Child Development Institute and a number of other state agencies that came together to create United Communities for Child Development (UCCD). UCCD is a private, non-profit federation established to assist and promote community-controlled child care centers in South Carolina. Mitchell left the Penn Center to become UCCD’s first executive director.

Within two years, the UCCD model was replicated in Alabama, Georgia, North Carolina and Mississippi, ac-

From staff reports The Beaufort History Museum hosted 66 Nigerian Air Force International Military Students on Sunday, May 15, along with their U.S. Air Force supervisors and families, for a one-day visit to Beaufort to learn about the area’s rich history.

“The point of these ‘field trips’ is to immerse the students in American culture while they are in the states for this training,” Master Sgt. Juscording to her biography. The program received national attention and Mitchell became a central figure in major daycare policy discussions.

In 1992, her work would take her out of the country when she was recruited by the W.K. Kellogg Foundation to conduct an international tour of five southern states in the U.S. and three townships in South Africa – Durban, Cape Town and Johannesburg. The tour led to the establishment of child care programs in other African countries.

Among the recognition Mitchell received for her work was the Marian Wright Edelman Award for Service to Children and the prestigious John D. Rockefeller, III, Public Service Award.

‘Plenty of work’ to do Several community leaders in attendance at Friday’s event said they owed their accomplishments to Mitchell or were influenced by the example she set.

Beaufort County Councilman York Glover, who read one of three proclamations given at the event in Mitchell’s honor, said she had a “profound impact” on him.

Glover served alongside Mitchell on the school board for two years and was impressed by the respect she commanded.

“When she spoke, people listened,” he said.

Recently elected Beaufort City Councilman Harold “Mitch” Mitchell, echoed Glover’s comments.

Mitchell recounted how, in

tin M. Baldivia, USAF, said.

Baldivia is the International Military Student Officer with the 81st Fighter Squadron, Moody Air Force Base, Valdosta, Ga. “We decided to do Beaufort ... because I had heard good things about the area,” he said.

The group’s one-day visit included tours of some of Beaufort’s historic attractions – all within two blocks of each other. In addition to

the Beaufort History Museum, the group also toured The Arsenal, The Reconstruction National Historic Park (all on Craven St. at Scott St.), as well as the newly-renovated John Mark Verdier House on Bay St. The Beaufort History Museum, founded in 1939, has evolved to focus specifically on the deep and rich history of the Beaufort District. For more information, visit www.

BeaufortHistoryMuseum.org.

A PERMANENT TRIBUTE The Frieda R. Mitchell Early Childhood Development Student Award has been established in Mitchell’s honor at the Technical College of the Lowcountry (TCL).

The Mitchell Award will recognize students enrolled in the college’s Early Childhood, Elementary and Special Education Program who are engaged in community service and demonstrate a commitment to early childhood education.

Those interesting in giving to this permanent, endowed fund, can send checks payable to the TCL Foundation, P.O. Box 2614, Beaufort, S,C. 29901. Make sure to note Frieda R. Mitchell Award on the memo line of the check. Or, to learn more or contribute online visit https://www.tcl.edu/ foundation/.

1974, he ran into his former Sunday School teacher in the Piggly Wiggly parking lot.

Now a retired military officer and commercial airline pilot, Mitchell was then on his way to an assignment in California.

Though she was proud of his accomplishments, Frieda Mitchell reminded him there was still “plenty of work” left to do there in Beaufort County.

“Forty-one years later I came back by choice,” Mitchell said. “I left because I was pursuing my dream, and I came back by choice. … I contribute a lot of that to Frieda Mitchell.”

For others, Mitchell was an ever-present force with a watchful eye on children.

“She had children and people at heart and she fought for us,” said Geraldine Dawson.

Dawson recounted how, in the summer of 1965, when South Carolina’s public schools began to integrate, Mitchell was on the front lines working to make sure Beaufort County children were included in the process.

Mitchell even drove behind the buses that fall making sure everything went smoothly – something Dawson and her brother, now Beaufort County Councilman Gerald Dawson, were glad of.

When the bus failed to stop for her and her brother, Mitchell stopped, picked them up and took them on to school, she said.

“That’s the kind of person Frieda was, and I just loved her for it,” Dawson said.

For some though, Mitchell’s presence was greatest felt at a time when they didn’t know what they were capable of yet.

“She saw something in some of us that we didn’t see in ourselves,” Rufus Pinckney said, telling the crowd gathered that he was glad she pushed him.

“Her presence was everywhere in those days and even now, she is still influencing people,” he said.

Mindy Lucas is the Beaufort reporter for The Island News and is a staff writer for Lowcountry Weekly. She can be reached at mindy.islandnews@gmail.com.

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HEALTH & WELLNESS Options & References for a Healthier Life

Melanoma in People of Color

Darker-skinned races produce more melanin, the pigment that gives color to skin and hair and protects the skin against damage from ultraviolet radiation.

Most skin cancer warnings are directed towards fair skinned individuals with blue eyes and blond or red hair who sunburn easily, as these individuals are at greatest risk. Given this fact, one may mistakenly assume that people with darker skin types such as Hispanics, Asians and African-Americans do not need to worry about melanoma.

This is not true. Increased pigmentation does protect individuals from UV-induced melanomas, but there is a type of melanoma called acral lentiginous melanoma (ALM) that occurs even without UV exposure.

This type of melanoma, which also occurs, though less frequently, in the Caucasian population, is sometimes ignored or mistaken for an injury or a nail fungus. Because this particular form of melanoma is often misdiagnosed or ignored, it is often more deeply invasive when it is finally discovered.

Common Locations • • • •

On the soles of the feet The palms of the hands Between toes and fingers Under toenails and fin-

IMPORTANT!

• Like people of other heritages, African-Americans should develop an awareness of the moles on their bodies and be alert for new or changing moles.

• African-Americans should examine their fingernails and toenails for suspicious changes, which may include brown or black colored stripes under the nail or a spot that extends beyond the edge of the nail.

• Anyone who notices such changes should see a doctor promptly because they may be signs of melanoma.

gernails (especially the large toenail and thumbnail).

Late Diagnosis

• By the time many African-Americans are diagnosed, melanoma has often spread to other parts of the body. A recent Washington Cancer Institute research study of 649 people with melanoma showed that 32%

of African- American patients were diagnosed with Stage III or Stage IV melanoma, while only 13% of Caucasian patients were similarly diagnosed.

• One factor that may prevent African-Americans from seeking early treat-

ment is that they usually develop melanoma in areas that are different from Caucasians. A recent study showed that, while 90% of Caucasian patients develop melanoma on skin that is regularly sun-exposed, only 33% of African-American

patients developed it in sun-exposed areas.

Survival

Studies have shown that once African-Americans are diagnosed with melanoma, their long-term survival is significantly lower than that of Caucasians.

Survival rate: • 58.8% African-Americans • 84.8% Caucasians For comprehensive additional information about melanoma, please visit AIM at Melanoma Foundation. https://www.aimatmelanoma.org (source).

Family Reunion Health and Safety Tips

Family reunions are on again! These get togethers are an opportunity to reconnect families, honor relatives, have fun, and share memories. Reunions are also an opportunity to plan safe and healthy activities. If you are planning or participating in a family reunion, take steps to make healthy living a part of family activities for a lifetime.

problems like heart disease, stroke, diabetes, and cancer.

Use the family reunion as a time to talk about family health. Let members know about health issues that are common in the family. Family members share not only their genes, but also their environment, lifestyles, and habits. You can’t change your genes, but you can change behaviors that affect your health, such as smoking, inactivity, and poor eating habits.

People with a family history of chronic disease may have the most to gain from making lifestyle changes. Take a health quiz with family members to determine risk for disease or injury.

Plan Healthy Meals, Snacks, and Drinks

Eating and exchanging recipes is a big part of family reunions. Use this opportunity to adapt recipes, snacks, and beverages to incorporate healthier options low in saturated fat, salt, and calories. Also, consider relatives that may have high blood pressure, diabetes, obesity, or other conditions where special attention to foods and healthier options are needed.

• Recipe Re-Mix helps you enjoy your favorite comfort foods in a whole new way. Find helpful hints to reduce the total fat, saturated fat, calories, and sodium in your recipes. Discover how fruits and vegetables can give your all-time favorites a healthy new twist. Think about one of your favorite recipes and follow the steps to change it for the better.

• Rethink Your Drink helps you understand that another way to cut calories may be to think about what you drink.

Many people don’t realize just how many calories beverages can contribute to their daily intake. But there is good news: there are plenty of options for reducing the number of calories in what you drink and in making smart beverage choices.

Other important sources: Nutrition Topics Diabetes and Me: Eat Right

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Other important sources: Health and Safety Quizzes and Tools Family Health History: Resources and Tools Buffet Table Tips for People with Diabetes (NIH)

Prepare Food Safely

Make the most of the fun by making sure your food remains safe. Foodborne illness is caused by consuming contaminated foods or beverages. The following steps are easy, and they’ll help protect you and those around you from harmful foodborne bacteria.

• Cook: Cook meat, poultry and eggs thoroughly.

Using a thermometer to measure the internal temperature of meat is a good way to be sure that it is cooked sufficiently to kill bacteria. For example, ground beef should be cooked to an internal temperature of 160° F. Eggs should be cooked until the yolk is firm.

• Separate: Don't cross-contaminate one food with another. Avoid cross-contaminating foods by washing hands, utensils, and cutting boards after they have been in contact with raw

meat or poultry and before they touch another food. Put cooked meat on a clean platter, rather than back on one that held the raw meat.

• Chill: Refrigerate leftovers promptly. Bacteria can grow quickly at room temperature, so refrigerate leftover foods if they are not going to be eaten within 4 hours.

Large volumes of food will cool more quickly if they are divided into several shallow containers for refrigeration.

• Clean: Wash produce.

Rinse fresh fruits and vegetables in running tap water to remove visible dirt and grime.

Remove and discard the outermost leaves of a head of lettuce or cabbage. Because bacteria can grow well on the cut surface of fruit or vegetable, be careful not to contaminate these foods while slicing them up on the cutting board, and avoid leaving cut produce at room tem-

perature for many hours.

Wash your hands with soap and water before preparing food. Avoid preparing food for others if you yourself have a diarrheal illness. Changing a baby's diaper while preparing food is a bad idea that can easily spread illness.

• Report: Report suspected foodborne illnesses to your local public health department, an important part of the food safety system. Calls from concerned citizens are often how outbreaks are first detected.

Know and Share your Family Health History

Family history refers to health information about you and your close relatives. Family history is one of the most important things that may increase your chance for health

Travel Safely

If you are traveling down the street, across the country, or internationally, be prepared. Don’t drink and drive, and don’t let someone else drink and drive. Wear a seat belt every time you drive or ride in a motor vehicle. Always buckle your child in the car using a child safety seat, booster seat, or seat belt according to his/her height, weight, and age. If you’re taking a cruise, know your ship’s recent inspection scores.

If traveling internationally, make sure you have all the vaccinations required for that area.

Other important sources: Child Passenger Safety Travel

Be Safe

Have lots of fun, but take precautions to make sure that family and friends are safe, especially outdoors and while traveling.

Other important sources: Healthy Swimming / Recreational Water Injury, Violence, and Safety Keep Your Cool in Hot Weather Skin Cancer Prevention Spring and Summer Outdoor Safety

Be Active

Some reunion plans may involve walking, hiking, dancing, tennis, bowling, or other fun activities. All of these activities can contribute to our daily need for physical activity to stay fit. There is no need to think of strenuous exercise or boring workouts.

Instead, imagine doing fun physical activities you enjoy, and watch the health benefits follow!

• Adults should be active for at least 2½ hours a week. Include activities that raise breathing and heart rates and that strengthen muscles.

• Kids and teens should be active for at least 1 hour a day. Include activities that raise breathing and heart rates and that strengthen muscles and bones.

Regular physical activity may help reduce your risk for many diseases, including cardiovascular disease, type 2 diabetes, colon and breast cancers, and osteoporosis. It also helps to control weight; contributes to healthy bones, muscles, and joints; and reduces falls among older adults.

Go Green

Help reduce or prevent waste to lower greenhouse gases. Use less and throw away less. Reuse products instead of throwing them away.

Recycle items, such as glass, plastic, or paper.

Everywhere That People Care The trusted Care magazine is now back in print as a regular contributor to The Island News, with Karen Mozzo as editor. Together we’ll deliver information, references, and options for a healthier life.

HEALTH & WELLNESS Options & References for a Healthier Life

How to replace five common vital records

Vital records, like birth and marriage certificates and military service records are often necessary to access a variety of government benefits and services.

But sometimes life happens, and those vital records go missing. Maybe they were misplaced in a move, were stolen, or got damaged in a fire.

USA.gov has information to help you find copies and replacements of your vital records so you can apply for whatever benefits and services you need.

Birth, Marriage and Death Certificates

These records come from the states. To find a copy, you’ll have to contact that state office where the life event occurred. Find the contact information for state and territory offices that can help you.

Passport

Report lost or stolen passports to the State Department right away by calling 1-877-487-2778 (TDD/ TTY:1-888-874-7793). To report and replace the lost or

stolen passport, you’ll have to submit forms DS-11 and DS64 in person at a passport agency or acceptance facility. If you lose a passport, and then find it again, you won’t be able to use it to travel. You should return the lost passport and request a new one.

Military Service Records

You often need copies of military service records to apply for a variety of government programs available for veterans, like health care, retirement, or education benefits. The National Archives

keeps copies of all veterans’ services records, and you can apply online to receive a copy of yours or an immediate family member’s if they are deceased. If you prefer to mail or fax a request for your records, you can download form SF-180 http://www. va.gov/vaforms. You can also find out how to replace lost military medals and awards.

will still be able to collect Social Security benefits, get a job and apply for many government benefits and services. However, if you do want to replace the card, you’ll need to gather documents proving your identity and citizenship to mail or take to a local Social Security office.

Social Security Card

If you have a U.S. Permanent Resident (Green) Card, you may need to replace it if it was lost, stolen or damaged or if your name or other biographical information

If you can’t find your Social Security card, you may not actually need to replace it. As long as you know your Social Security number, you

Green Card

has legally changed since it was issued. You can easily request a new one online https://www.uscis.gov/i-90.

If you’re outside the United States and have lost your green card, you should contact the nearest U.S. consulate or immigrations office before you apply online for a new card.

If you need help getting copies of other vital records like tax returns or school records, you can find the information you need to replace them at USA.gov.

Research Recommends Water Aerobics to Ease the Pain of Arthritis

Arthritis is the nation's most common disability, affecting 50 million adults in America. Between 20072009 50% of adults 65 years or older reported an arthritis diagnosis. For seniors who suffer from arthritis, new research recommends the benefit of water aerobics to ease their pain. Seniors, or others who feel stymied by arthritis pain, all too often the prospect of increasing movement is the last thing they want to do because they fear injuring themselves further. But exercise in the water adds buoyancy and protects inflamed joints, and it can be fun.

The Disease

Arthritis is an inflammation of a joint, usually accompanied by pain, swelling, and stiffness, and it may occur as a result of infection, trauma or degenerative change. A research study was published in the Annals of Internal Medicine.

One of the more interesting findings of this study is that perseverance counts.

For seniors who begin a recommended exercise, such as water aerobics, sticking to it is associated with better outcomes. The results from the study indicate that

water exercise patients report less pain, improved joint function, increased muscle strength and better perceived quality of life and well being. Researchers caution however that complying with an exercise does not mean exercising intensely.

In fact, moderate exercise is just fine.

Checklist for Seniors Starting a Water Aerobics Regimen

• Check in with a physician before beginning a water aerobics routine.

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If taking a class, find a certified instructor.

There are several associations that certify instructors including the Aquatic Exercise Association and the Arthritis Foundation.

Begin exercise in moderation to avoid injury.

Individuals may also exercise safely on their own. The Arthritis Foundation has a 45-minute water exercise DVD. Water exercise may also be conducted in a bathtub at home focusing on the small muscle groups rather than the large

muscle groups that require a pool or spa.

• Seniors who use the support of wheelchair or walker may still enjoy benefits of water exercise with help of flotation belts.

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HIGH SCHOOL TRACK & FIELD

Beaufort High’s Mathew Duralve passes the baton to Jonathan Briggs during the 4x800 relay during the Lower State Qualifier track meet Saturday, May 15, at Eagles Stadium. Photo by Bob Sofaly.

Going for gold Large number of Lowco standouts punch tickets to state meet LowcoSports.com Beaufort High’s girls and May River’s boys will send the largest local contingents to the SCHSL Class 4A Track & Field State Championships after the Eagles qualified five individuals and a relay team and the Sharks had seven individuals and all three relays at the Lower State qualifier meet Saturday at Beaufort High.

Layla Warren led the way for Beaufort’s girls, winning the 100-meter hurdles (15.67) and the 400 hurdles (1:08.33), and she helped the Eagles finish third in the 4×400 (4:19.56). Anaiya Houseal finished second in the high jump (5-2) and Reyonce Black was runner-up in the long jump (17-7), and Jayla Daise (shot put, 36-1) and Acionna Lowe (discus, 88-3) qualified with third-place finishes.

Bluffton and May River each had three individual qualifiers and a top-four relay showing on the girls side. Madison Washington led the Bobcats, wining the shot put (36-3.25) and finishing second in the discus (92.8), while Tacoya Heyward was second in the 200 (12.46) and third in the long jump (17-5.75). Kayleigh Washington finished fourth in the long jump (16-11.25), and the Bobcats placed fourth in the 4×100 (51.29) with Heyward running the anchor.

May River’s Anya Arroyo finished second in both the 1600 (5:11.41) and 3200 (11:10.07) and

Beaufort High School’s Aya Neese, left, keeps up her pace during the girls 4x800 relay in Saturday’s Lower State Qualifier track meet at Eagle Stadium. Photo by Bob Sofaly.

Beaufort High School’s Mathew Durrance easily clears 7 feet on his first pole vault during the Lower State Qualifier track meet Saturday at Eagles Stadium. Photo by Bob Sofaly.

helped the Sharks finish second in the 4×800 (10:02.51), while McKenna Swinton was second in the shot put (36-3) and Grace Kline finished fourth in the discus (83-1.5).

Hilton Head High’s Sarah Neville qualified third in the 800 (2:23.13) and helped the Seahawks finish third in the 4×800 (10:10.80), and fellow relay-mate Cynthia Gudaitis placed fourth in the 3200 (11:48.75).

The May River boys had an impressive showing on the track, qualifying all three relays with a win in the 4×800 (8:20.34), third in the 4×400 (3:31.99) and fourth

in the 4×100 (43.93). Sean Hamby added a win in the 400 hurdles (57.40) to his gold in the 4×800 and bronze in the 4×400, and Fareed Abdullah finished second in the 200 (22.31) and third in the 100 (11.24) in addition to his 4×400 performance. Colin Keck was second in the 1600 (4:29.17) and ran with the winning 4×800 relay, and Mills Campbell finished third in the 3200 (10:17.72). May River also had three qualifiers on the field with Kyle Rivers (high jump, 6-2) and Jashawn Bacon (long jump, 21-4) notching runner-up finishes and Jason Epke-Bueso placing fourth

Eagles’ dream season ends with runner-up finish in Class 4A

LowcoSports.com Beaufort High’s best-ever boys tennis season ended with a heartbreaking 4-2 loss to powerhouse AC Flora in the Class 4A state championship match Saturday in Florence.

Bodie Daniel and Griffin Stone earned wins at No. 4 and No. 5 singles for the Eagles, but the Falcons swept the remaining courts, including a thrilling three-set victory at No. 1 and a hard-fought victory at No. 2 doubles to clinch the title.

The Eagles complete the season with a 15-3 overall record with their only losses coming to undefeated

state championship teams — two to SCISA 3A power Hilton Head Prep and one to AC Flora.

Coach David Riedmayer’s squad put together another outstanding effort Tuesday, beating visiting South Aiken 4-1 in the Class 4A Lower State final to advance to the state championship match.

With a crowd of football, baseball, and basketball players and coaches cheering them on, the Eagles claimed four of the five singles courts, clinching the victory without contesting the doubles matches. Graeme Angus, Tucker Mar-

tin, Daniel, and Stone all claimed straight-sets victories to secure the victory.

Angus, only a seventh-grader, had an outstanding campaign in the No. 1 spot and finished in the top eight at the Class 5A/4A state singles tournament on Monday and Tuesday.

“Coach Stone and I are very proud of the boys for their never-give-up attitude and making history with the best run Beaufort High has ever had,” Beaufort coach David Riedmayer said. “We will be back in the state championship next season.”

in the high jump (5-10).

Beaufort High had four individual qualifiers and won the 4×400 relay (3:30.11) with stars Nash Mills and Charlie Bennett leading the charge. Mills also qualified second in the 800 (2:01.33), third in the 1600 (4:29.36), and fourth in the 3200 (10:32.65), and Bennett was second in the 800 (2:02.48).

Alvin Wilson also captured gold for the Eagles, winning the discus with a throw of 135 feet, 1.5 inches, and Gabriel Jenkins (130-5.5) was close behind in the third.

Camauri Simmons led Bluffton’s three individual qualifiers, winning the 100 (11.10) and placing third in the 200 (22.66) while helping the Bobcats place third in the 4×100 (43.75). Relay-mate Phillip McCants was fourth in the long jump (20-3) and Adarion Ransburg won gold in the triple jump (41-10).

Hilton Head High’s Jaylen Sneed won the shot put with a heave of 49-7.75 inches, while Nathaniel Rohr was second in the javelin (146-2) and the Seahawks finished second in the 4×800 relay.

Franklin Holland snagged the Seahawks’ final qualifying spot with third place in the pole vault (11-0).

Colleton County’s Ian Shark will represent the Cougars in the state meet, finishing fourth in the shot put (44-8.25).

The Class 4A State Championships are set for Friday at Spring Valley High School.

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Warriors send strong contingent to Class 1A state meet LowcoSports.com Whale Branch will send 10 individuals and three relay teams to the SCHSL Class 1A Track & Field Championships after top-four finishes at the Lower State qualifier meet Saturday in Seabrook.

The Warrior girls had a big day with five individuals and two relays qualifying for state.

Kaylyn Caldwell led the way with gold in the triple jump (32-9), and silver in both the 100-meter hurdles (17.91) and the 400 hurdles (1:17.38), while Talaijah Bartley won the 100 hurdles (17.21) and placed fourth in 800 (2:55.38).

Kynew Barnwell also won gold in the 800 (2:44.49), and Diamond Wright qualified in two events, placing third in the high jump (4-4) and fourth in the 100 hurdles (18.07).

Gabby McMillan was second in the triple jump (31-11.5), and the Warriors qualified second in the 4×100 (50.71) and third in the 4×400 (4:36.85).

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Smith leads seven Dolphins headed to state meet LowcoSports.com Myra Smith qualified in four events and Erica Tobin punched her ticket in three disciplines to lead Battery Creek’s track and field team at the Class 3A Lower State qualifier meet Saturday in Camden.

Smith won the 100 meters with a time of 12:39, placed second in the long jump (164), and finished fourth in the 200 (26.55) and triple jump (33-2.5) to lead the Dolphins’ seven state qualifiers and pace Battery Creek’s girls to a fourth-place finish.

Tobin was second in the javelin (101-1.5) and third in the 100 hurdles (17.34) and high jump (5-0), and Keona Sanders won the high jump with a mark of 5 feet, 2 inches.

Michael Martello led Battery Creek’s boys to an eighth-place finish, winning the discus with a throw of 148 feet, 7.5 inches and place third in the shot put (44-10). David

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Beaufort Eagle Griffin Stone, seen here in last week’s tennis match against North Myrtle Beach, was also victorious in his singles match Saturday, May 15, in the 4-A state championship against A.C Flora in Florence. Stone won his match 6-4, 6-2. Photo

by Bob Sofaly.

SPORTS

The Beaufort High boys golf team recorded its best finish ever with a third-place showing in the Class 4A state championship Tuesday at Dolphin Head Golf Club. Photo courtesy of Beaufort High School.

Bruns finishes 2nd, Eagles 3rd at state meet

LowcoSports.com Beaufort High held its ground in the final round of the SCHSL Class 4A Boys Golf State Championships on Tuesday, as the Eagles finished the day where they started to notch a program-best third-place showing, and sophomore Jerry Bruns was the individual runner-up.

The Eagles carded a team score of 311 for a two-day total of 618, finishing just one shot behind North Augusta, which was a distant second to AC Flora’s 36-hole total of 603. Host Hilton Head High improved upon its day one

score and standing, posting a 329 to move up one spot and finish seventh at 662.

Scoring proved more difficult overall than in Monday’s first round, but Indian Land’s Mason Kucia was dialed in, making five birdies — including the 17th and 18th — in a round of 3-under 69 to finish at 3-under for the tournament and claim the individual title.

Bruns took a one-shot lead into the final round after firing a 69 on Monday, but it was a bumpy ride Tuesday beginning with a bogey at the par-5 opening hole. The sophomore standout was able to grind out a 4-over 76

and finish the event at 1-over, good for a runner-up finish and All-State honors. Beaufort’s Simon McAlister also earned All-State honors, following his opening 77 with a 75 to finish ninth, while Jack Lubkin tied for 25th at 16-over and Jack Sumner was one shot back and tied for 27th with Bluffton’s Jones Saylor.

May River’s Andrew Swanson had a wild ride in his final-round, opening with an eagle and closing with a triple-bogey to shoot 77 and finish tied for 18th at 13-over.

Hilton Head’s Michael Gavin finished a shot behind in a tie for 20th after a 76 on Tuesday.

Beaufort’s Jerry Bruns finished second overall in the Class 4A state championship at Dolphin Head Golf Club, shooting 1-over-par 145 over 36 holes.

Beaufort’s Simon McAlister earned All-State honors with a top-10 finish in the Class 4A Boys Golf State Championship. Photos by Justin Jarrett.

Rivalry on the diamond

SIGNING DAY

Battery Creek’s Kyle Kirkland can’t get the ball in time as Beaufort’s Zack Talbert slides safely into third base during the bottom of second inning Monday at Beaufort High School. The Eagles outslugged the Dolphins, 18-8. Photo by Bob Sofaly.

Beaufort Academy star basketball player Shanese Bostick, center, signed her letter of intent to attend and play basketball at Bob Jones University in Greenville. Photo by Justin Jarrett.

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Richard Parker led the Whale Branch boys with a pair of golds in the 110 hurdles (16.23) and 400 hurdles (1:03.97), and he helped the Warriors capture the 4×100 relay (43.38).

Xavier Chaplin also won double gold in the discus (1213) and shot put (46-8), and Trenoyne Greene qualified third in the 100 (11.65) and fourth in the 200 (23.58). Mason Griffin placed second in the 400 (52.84), and Jaylen Roberts was third in the discus (111-4) to earn their spots in the state meet.

The Class 1A state championships are set for Saturday at Lower Richland High School.

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Tobin notched a third-place finish in the pole vault (10-6), Tanner McCracken was third in the javelin (123-0), and Trevin Singleton qualified fourth in the 110 hurdles (16.29).

The qualifiers will compete in the SCHSL Class 3A State Championships on Friday at Lower Richland High School.

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Eagles split first two games in district playoffs LowcoSports.com In the all-important playoff opener, Beaufort High coach Keith Riley turned to Wes Graves to shut down a dangerous lineup. On a Saturday afternoon at North Augusta, his pitcher delivered.

Graves put together a clutch six-inning performance on the mound, and the Eagles edged the Yellowjackets 2-1 on the road in the opening round of the SCHSL Class 4A District 4 tournament before falling 9-2 to visiting May River on Monday. Beaufort was set to host an elimination game Wednesday night against South Florence with the winner advancing to take on the Sharks in Friday’s district championship.

Graves came up huge to start the postseason run, allowing just one run on five hits with some clutch high-leverage pitching to pick up a well-earned win.

Chase McKelvey did the rest, throwing a perfect seventh to finish off the victory and advance his Eagles in the winners bracket. William Winburn was 2-for-3 at the plate with an RBI, and Colin Peterson knocked in the game winning run from the seven-spot

in the lineup.

But the Eagles ran into trouble against a red-hot May River team that has won 12 straight to reach the district championship game. Riley Stokes threw six strong innings to outduel Ollie Holmes in a matchup of tough senior left-handers, and the Sharks manufactured a couple of big rallies to extend their winning streak and advance in the championship bracket.

The Sharks broke up a scoreless tie with a four-run third inning, and they did it in unconventional fashion.

James Layman drew a leadoff walk, and the Eagles failed to record an out on consecutive bunts from Darin Horn and Zack Morillo to load the bases with no outs. Caleb Allinder and Walker Taylor each brought home runs with grounders to the right side, and Luke Holland, Danny Farrell, and Stokes each came up with two-out hits to push across two more.

The Eagles answered with a two-out rally of their own in the bottom half, bringing the robust home crowd back into the game with an RBI single from Rhogue Wallace and a run-scoring double down the

Beaufort High’s Ollie Holmes delivers a pitch in the third inning of the Eagles’ 9-2 loss to May River on Monday in the Class 4A district playoffs. Photo by Justin Jarrett. left-field line from Holmes before Stokes got out of the jam with a strikeout.

The wheels came off for Beaufort when it had to go to the bullpen in the sixth, as back-to-back walks followed by consecutive hit-by-pitch-

es forced home a run before Patrick Daley came on to get out of the mess without any further damage.

The Sharks played some more small ball in the seventh, when Farrell worked a leadoff walk and Stokes laid

down a bunt and reached on a wild throw to second, putting runners on the corners. Cole Boyles brought in a run with a hard grounder to short and Layman deposited an RBI double into left-center before Morillo added the punctuation with a laser beam over the left-field fence for a tworun homer.

Stokes struck out five and walked four over six frames, allowing two runs and four hits, and Bennett Roemer finished it off, working around back-to-back walks to pitch a scoreless seventh. Holland was 3-for-4 with an RBI and a run, and Morillo finished 2-for-3 with two runs and two RBIs on his shot to left in the seventh. Rush Riley was 2-for4 and scored a run to lead the Eagles at the plate.

Holmes went five innings, allowing four runs — one earned — on seven hits with five strikeouts and two walks.

The Sharks (16-6) are the only remaining undefeated team in the double-elimination bracket and will host the district championship Friday.

They’ll await the winner of an elimination game between Beaufort (13-9) and South Florence, who meet Wednesday at Beaufort High.

ARTS & EDUCATION

DECORATION DAY

Anita Prather, far left, as Aunt Pearlie Sue and the Gullah Kinfolks, presented “Decoration Day, An Old Fashion Memorial Day Celebration” on Saturday, May 15, at the USC Beaufort’s Center for the Arts. The presentation, a historical musical, raw and edgy at times, depicted the story of slavery and emancipation and of America’s “peculiar institution” throughout its history. Photos by Bob Sofaly.

‘On The River’

Anita Prather as Aunt Pearlie Sue of the Gullah Kinfolk, narrates using traditional Gullah language.

District announces teachers, support staff of year for 2021-2022

From staff reports Some Beaufort County School District teachers and staff were treated with flowers, balloons and other goodies today as Board of Education members and district administrators made surprise visits to their classrooms and work areas to announce the 2021-2022 Teachers of the Year and Support Staff of the Year.

“This is a terrific opportunity to celebrate the unique gifts of our best of the best

teacher and staff leaders,” Superintendent Frank Rodriguez said in a release.

“They represent all district employees who have worked tirelessly to innovate instruction and have been instrumental in supporting our students’ needs in so many ways during this unprecedented year.”

Teachers of the Year are selected by their peers according to criteria established by the schools, the South Carolina Depart-

ment of Education and the district’s Teacher Forum.

Teachers honored will be eligible for District Teacher of the Year honors next fall.

Support staff honorees are selected by school staff and can include social workers, school nurses, bookkeepers, office managers, teacher assistants, school secretaries and technology and data specialists. Staff honored will be eligible for District Support Staff Person of the Year.

2021-2022 Beaufort County Teachers of the Year and Support Staff of the Year Beaufort High School’s Camille Pendarvis was an honorable mention in the 2021 Congressional High School Art Competition for South Carolina's 1st District. Congresswoman Nancy Mace's (SC-01) on Tuesday announced the winners and Pendarvis’ "On the River" was just outside the top three. “The Lowcountry is home to some of the nation's most talented artists, and I was looking forward to seeing the work of our next generation of local artists,” Mace said in a release. "Our office received so many incredible submissions from students across the district, making choosing a winner all the more difficult.”

Submitted photo.

2 BA students named SC Junior Scholar

From staff reports Beaufort Academy 8thgrade students Grace Simmons and Gordon Ivey have earned the designation of 2020-2021 South Carolina Junior Scholar by the South Carolina Department of Education.

Simmons and Ivey earned the honor as a result of their scores on the PSAT/NMSQT administered in October of this school year.

Eligible students include those who score 550 or higher on the Evidence-Based Reading and Writing portion of the PSAT/NMSQT or those who scored 530 or higher on the Mathematics portion of the PSAT/NMSQT. Also, Duke TIP participants, who met the eligibility requirements

outlined by the program, who were invited to attend either the State or Grand Recognition CereGrace monies during Simmons their seventh grade year (2019-2020) automatically qualify to become 2020-2021 South Carolina Junior Scholars.

South Carolina Junior Scholars will receive a certificate signed by the State Superintendent of Education, a sticker, and they will be recognized in a formal announcement and at promotion ceremonies at Beaufort Academy.

The Junior Scholars Program was developed by the South Carolina Department

EDUCATION BRIEFS

Public forum gives residents input on BofE budget

A virtual public forum presentation is being offered for community members to learn more about the school district budget being developed by the Beaufort County Board of Education for the 2021-22 school year.

The district hopes the new virtu-

of Education to identify 8thgrade students with exceptional academic talent and to develop Gordon strategies for Ivey inclusion into special programs. The program includes a process for screening, identifying, and recognizing students with high scholastic achievement and intellectual ability.

In addition, those students are eligible to be contacted by various colleges and universities concerning summer enrichment programs, and they can also use this special recognition to bolster their applications to colleges and universities.

al format will provide more people an opportunity to participate in the forum process. The virtual public forum video presentation can be viewed on the district’s YouTube page at any time through June 30, 2021: https://www.youtube.com/ watch?v=WDXEM7HLkIU&t=6s.

Viewers of the presentation have the opportunity to make comments and ask questions by submitting

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McCullough St. Helena Elementary, ELC Marie E. Murray Carmen Bultron-Griffith Whale Branch E.C. High Hannah Stevenson Jissie Simmons Whale Branch El., Davis ECC Erica Parker Roberta Mullen Whale Branch Middle Angela Roberts Holly Mehrer Adult Education Dr. Otis Smith Jill Maclaughlin Transportation Richard O’Connell District Office

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them to budget@beaufort.k12.sc.us or calling 843-322-5928. Responses to questions will be answered on the phone or followed-up shortly thereafter via email.

The district will receive community input over the next several weeks. Beaufort County Council’s current timeline calls for a third and final reading of the district’s budget on June 28.

Two from Beaufort earn Academic Awards at USC Beaufort

As the academic year draws to a close, USC Beaufort recognized Beaufort’s Laura Cenci (29907) and Brice Adkins (29907) for academic excellence.

USCB reaffirmed its commitment to excellence in teaching, scholarship, learning, and service, recognizing the members of the academic community who have achieved excellence.

USCB is the fastest growing fouryear institution within the University of South Carolina System. It offers 20 baccalaureate degrees on three campuses – Bluffton, Beaufort and Hilton Head Island.

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GOP lawmakers stuck in attack mode

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think we sometimes forget politics is about people. Literally. It originates in the Greek politika, affairs of the cities. It’s supposed to be about how we find ways to relate to each other, hopefully peacefully.

So why do Republicans seem intent on using their political influence to attack?

There’s no desire to “relate to each other.” There’s only the quest to gain, maintain and expand power, to elevate one constituency and to beat down – sometimes literally – all others.

Look at the agendas GOP lawmakers across the country are pursuing.

First and foremost is their assault on voting rights.

The Big Lie that the past presidential election was stolen is the driving factor behind a broad series of moves by red-state legislatures to “secure the vote” or “to make voting easier and cheating harder.” Never mind election fraud is virtu-

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ally nonexistent, but making voting “easier?”

If that’s the case, why is the Heritage Foundation bragging about writing the bills being used in these GOP-led states to advance their cause of voter suppression? The measures limit hours at polling places, reduce the number of days for early voting, eliminate no-excuse absentee voting, require surrendering personal information to request absentee ballots … you get the idea.

Even Republicans who accept the election was free and fair are voting for these measures. You can ask Liz Cheney what happens to

anyone who doesn’t toe the party line.

The transgender population is another target.

The Human Rights Campaign calls 2021 a record-shattering year for legislative attacks on transgender rights. Proposals include bans on participating in school sports or getting gender-confirming medical treatments, affirming rights to refuse providing care to transgenders on religious grounds, and preventing discussing LGBTQ issues in the classroom. No talking in class! Especially about (whispering) those people.

According to CNN, those most affected would be children. Most of us were able to make it through puberty without worrying we might break the law by joining the high school track team. We can wonder on an instinctive level whether boys and girls can compete on a level playing field physiologically, but we're not amoebae.

There are experts available to advise on these matters.

Sorry, I forgot we don’t like experts anymore.

A cursory glance at other bills proposed by Republicans in just the past few weeks reveals their relentlessness in attacking people – and facts – they don’t like.

– Rep. Perry Scott (RPA) last week introduced a bill to ban funding to the Wuhan Institute of Virology.

This came after Sen. Rand Paul and Dr. Anthony Fauci sparred over whether the National Institutes of Health funded WIV research making viruses more infectious and easier to study. Fauci said NIH does not, but hey, Paul ranting at Fauci looked good on TV, so, …

– Rep. Barry Loudermilk (R-GA) proposed ending federal unemployment compensation related to the pandemic. Republicans like to say these enhanced benefits are making it harder for small businesses

to find employees to help them recover lost business.

Study after study has shown this not to be the case, but again, once you’ve adopted a talking point you gotta support it, right?

– Rep. Burgess Owens (R-UT) introduced a measure preventing executive agencies from offering race or gender diversity training in adherence to an executive order by the previous administration. Owens somehow overlooked an injunction had already been declared against the order and that President Biden revoked it earlier this year.

Owens introduced another measure against “Critical Race Theory” being part of public school curricula.

(Sigh) “Critical race theory” is another label conservatives rally around without knowing what it means, but in a nutshell, they say being truthful about the discrimination and racial violence in the nation’s history is racist

against white people and makes schoolchildren think America is slightly less than the greatest country on earth.

Owens is Black and should know better, but he also is a former Democrat anxious to establish his conservative credentials by advancing Fox News talking points and writing books like his “Liberalism or How to Turn Good Men into Whiners, Weenies and Wimps.” There’s a guy you can trust to be impartial.

People like to say about politics, “Both sides are the same.” I dismiss that as lazy thinking or, worse, delusion.

Or, as one commenter wrote on Facebook, “When people say ‘both sides,’ it usually means they know their side is wrong.”

Terry E. Manning lives and works in Savannah, Ga. He is a Clemson graduate and worked for 20 years as a journalist. He can be reached at teemanning@gmail.com.

Despite his flaws, Hemingway continued quest for truth

t is Sunday and it is brisk.

This morning I have my coffee — Honduras Honey — and a newspaper entirely focused on a forthcoming golf tournament. There is also national news about the proposed stimulus bill that seems to have money for just about everyone.

But, for me, the real news is a couple of paragraphs saying that Donald Trump has delayed any planning on a Presidential Library.

Apparently, Mr. Trump is not interested in a memorial to his presidency because, well, it’s not over. As far as he’s concerned we’ve only had Part One of the Trump Presidency.

To be honest, Trump generated few letters and fewer documents than any other President save James A Garfield who served from March to September, 1881 — a period of 7 months.

I have been to Roosevelt’s Library at Hyde Park; and Jimmy Carter’s Presidential Center in Atlanta. I wasn’t looking for any specific document, but was interested in the way each man framed

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his time in office. And, of course, the ship models in the basement at Hyde Park are fascinating.

All of this brings me to the recent PBS biopic on Ernest Hemingway — Ken Burns’ latest effort to help us better understand our history-makers, his effort to make sense of the complicated men and women who led larger than life-sized lives.

It is not enough these days to look at the written word, or paragraph, and say, “Damn, that’s a marvelous sentence. I wish to God I could put words like that in the mouths of the characters I create.” No, these days you’ve got to dig past the prose; past the stunning insights on fly fishing and how to insert a banderilla. In the case of Hemingway you go

The best people possess a feeling for beauty, the courage to take risks, the discipline to tell the truth, the capacity for sacrifice. Ironically, their virtues make them vulnerable; they are often wounded, sometimes destroyed.” straight, like a Sidewinder heat-seeking missile, to the writer’s masculinity.

Hemingway’s masculinity — his love of shotguns, tequila and the killing of large African animals — is a target that is just too easy to shoot at. And so we get the suggestion that there was some “sexual ambiguity,” some androgyny, some confusion in his mind about gender.

Then we move to the allegation that he was a liar inflating his wartime experience in Italy and Spain. Then we move to the women he married and how he screwed-up each of those

marriages. It is really hard to focus on his words with all of this ripe, rotting, low-hanging fruit.

But most mornings of his life he sat down, early, and thought very hard about composing a sentence.

“All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence you know.”

Yes, he described where to insert the sword in the neck of an exhausted, dying, dulleyed bull, but he was better at explaining abstractions.

“Courage is grace under pressure.”

“If people bring so much courage to this world the world has to kill them, to break them, so of course it kills them. The world breaks every one and afterward many are strong at the broken places. But those that will not break it kills. It kills the very good and the very gentle and the very brave impartially. If you are none of these you can be sure it will kill you too but there will be no special hurry.”

for their beauty. And likewise, the men of means were routinely pilloried for their diffidence or their idleness.

In this context we got,

“Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime.”

Hemingway had a duty to keep readers interested; so he built stories about bullfights; long bouts of rum drinking; unhealed, unspeakable war wounds; adultery; and, of course, death.

But that obligation — to entertain — doesn’t diminish the fact that he sat down every morning in a search some truth. He struggled to distill his life experience into “One true sentence, …”

The vehicle for his truth-telling was not a TEDTalk; or a podcast featuring a sociologist who has learned how to synthesize her master’s thesis into a dozen bullet points. Hemingway had to put these insights into people’s mouths.

Or in the narrator’s mouth.

His characters were usually white, often rich and did a lot of drinking in Pamplona and Paris. Some were women, mostly beautiful women who were penalized

“The best people possess a feeling for beauty, the courage to take risks, the discipline to tell the truth, the capacity for sacrifice.

Ironically, their virtues make them vulnerable; they are often wounded, sometimes destroyed.”

Scott Graber is a lawyer, novelist, veteran columnist and longtime resident of Port Royal. He can be reached at cscottgraber@gmail.com.

Ending the Silence key to addressing mental illness in youth

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n in-patient mental health stay placed the first stone on the path that would forever change Maria Beth Smith’s recovery journey.

Smith first became familiar with NAMI (National Alliance on Mental Illness) during that stay. She learned the presence of NAMI within a community created opportunities for advocacy, support and education through the programs they offered. This eventually led to her role as NAMI SC Regional Program Coordinator for Ending the Silence.

NAMI Ending the Silence originated in Illinois to create real-life perspectives

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on mental illnesses to high school students. The once-local program was then offered to NAMI National.

The demand led Ending the Silence to spread to NAMI affiliates throughout the country. At this time there are three presentation versions available: Ending the Silence for Students, Ending the Silence for Fam-

ilies and Ending the Silence for School Staff.

Smith describes Ending the Silence as an interactive and innovative program that starts with the community requesting it. The program is available to any group such as churches, schools, work places, or local organizations. The more people know, the more they can better help support those around them with mental illnesses.

The presentation is led by a two-person team. The youth presenter, an individual under the age of 31, shares their own mental-health challenges in an effort to open a discussion among the audience. This is a safe

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atmosphere to ask questions someone may have not even known they could ask. The lead presenter facilitates a PowerPoint presentation with facts and embedded videos.

For those questioning why such a program is even necessary, please consider these statistics provided by NIMH (The National Institute of Mental Health): – 20 percent of all youth, ages 13-18, experience mental illness each year; – ½ of these people never receive treatment; – and ½ of all lifelong mental health conditions begin by age 14, and ¾ begin by age 24.

“In many communities, (mental health) has been a taboo subject because the origins of these conditions have been misunderstood,” Smith explains. “Ending the Silence emphasizes that mental health conditions are medical conditions just like other physical medical conditions.”

This program educates the audience on how to recognize the signs and the symptoms of mental health disorders, statisics on mental health disorders in youth, ways to reduce stigma, recovery and coping strategies, suicide awareness and prevention, and how to get help for yourself or a friend.

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Resources are provided to all participants. Additionally, at the end of the program, anonymous evaluations are given out to improve the program, as well as provide important data to the University of South Carolina.

The most important resource to any NAMI program are the volunteers.

Smith strongly encourages people to reach out to NAMI SC to help improve the impact Ending the Silence can have within the community.

Laura Kaponer is a mental health advocate and blogger, as well as a volunteer with the local chapter of NAMI. You can find her on social media by searching #Laurakaponeris1in5.

VOICES Editor’s Note: The opinions of our columnists in the Voices section are not necessarily the opinions of The Island News.

Waterfront Park splash fountain’s time has come

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here’s a surprise in the Southside Park Task Force’s recommenda-

tions.

The Task Force found, after considering the views of the 1,100 respondents to its survey, that while Southside Park is not the place for it, that somewhere in northern Beaufort County there should be a splash pad.

I agree!

For the uninitiated a splash pad is the new (and better) descriptor for what used to be called an “interactive fountain.” These are those public places where children love to play on hot days where they can be sprayed with water, but where also they cannot drown because there’s no pool or standing water that is a part of the facility. Accordingly there’s no need for lifeguards, and parents can keep an eye on things while they rest easy nearby but safely out of range of the fun.

In their characteristically gritty way, big cities like New York and Chicago addressed this need long ago with the introduction of “spray caps” that on hot days, firemen screw onto the hose fittings of fire hydrants so that a cool shower of water can, to the delight of the neighborhood’s youngsters, spray out onto the sidewalk before it runs into the gutter and down the storm drain.

Charleston has a very popular — and attractive — version of the splash pad in its Ravenel Waterfront Park which, incidentally, former Charleston Mayor Joe Riley, who built the park, was always careful to say he had modeled on Beaufort’s Henry

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C. Chambers Waterfront Park.

But when Beaufort had its chance to build its splash pad, its city council balked.

I was there. Here’s the story.

In the year 2000, Beaufort’s Waterfront Park was washing storm-by-storm into the Beaufort River. Man-sized sinkholes were appearing regularly under the seawall walkway and elsewhere throughout the park, and the City’s Public Works staff, led

by Public Works Director Isiah Smalls and City Engineer Lamar Taylor, were regularly fencing off parts of the park until the necessary stop-gap repairs could be made.

The Beaufort City Council didn’t really want to take on the project — and especially to have to find the money to pay for its implementation — but they (we) finally tasked City Manager John McDonough with coming up with a plan to really fix the park.

About half the park is built on fill, and surprisingly the riverside half is built on a concrete shelf that rests on concrete pilings that are sunk into the river bottom. Understanding that, City Manager McDonough knew that fixing the park would call for some major engineering work.

So that’s where McDonough’s efforts began

The site of a proposed splash pad in Beaufort’s Henry C. Chambers Waterfront Park. Submitted photo.

A Charleston fountain similar to a proposed splash fountain at Beaufort’s Henry C. Chambers Waterfront Park. Public domain photo.

— with the engineers who told him that to actually fix the park, it would have to be closed for more than a year, that it would have to be dug up right down to the shelf and pilings so that the pilings that had cracked or shifted and the parts of the shelf that were giving way to erosion could be made secure for the next generation.

Once the extent of the structural work was truly perceived, it was clear to McDonough that this was the time for a full-fledged park redesign to correct whatever design shortcomings had been revealed by the park’s 25 years of use.

A national search brought to Beaufort from Watertown, Mass., Sasaki Associates, a 75-year-old engineering and design firm that is one of the handful of foremost park designers in the U.S. Sasaki’s planners went all over town speaking to everyone they could find about what was right and wrong with the park. Then they came up with their Master Plan, all of which (all of Phase 1 of which) except one feature is in bricks, mortar and con-

The discussion that preceded the vote was brief, but there was one memorable line uttered by a then-council member (who recently stepped down as mayor). As he cast the swing vote that evening to kill the splash pad, the councilman opined that “Beaufort isn’t a fountain city,” as if it was his objection to the fountain as a objet d’art that caused him to vote as he did.

The Southside Park Task Force, it seems, holds a contrary view. They want a fountain. So too should the present now more kid-friendly City Council if they believe what they say about wanting to attract to Beaufort young professionals, some of whom will undoubtedly be wishing to bring up children here.

The new splash pad should go where it was originally proposed by Sasaki to go, where the Tricentennial historical plaque garden was subsequently placed. And the Tricentennial plaques should be moved down to the marina (for grown-ups) end of the park near the other historical plaques. There is a leafy and contemplative

crete today along the river in downtown Beaufort.

What’s the one missing feature?

You guessed it: the splash pad.

Yes, the 2002 Sasaki Waterfront Park Final Master Plan called for “an active recreation amenity fountain” at the foot of Scott Street where the Beaufort Tricentennial bronze history plaque display sits today just outside the playground’s front gate.

The interactive fountain there was to be the capstone of what Sasaki’s planners envisioned as “the children’s end” of the park.

What happened?

Well, there was a group of well-heeled mothers in town in those days who saw it as threatening that their children might play in the fountain with children whose parents were of racial backgrounds that differed from that of the mothers. At the last minute the mothers made the rounds of the five council members.

A vote was taken, the decision was made, and in the end, three of the five members nixed the fountain.

circle of benches there where the historical plaques will fit nicely.

The children of the wellheeled mothers for whom the three council members were so concerned are all grown now.

It is time to right the wrong.

Finally, it warrants noting here that John McDonough who shepherded the Sasaki Master Plan through all the necessary hoops in 2001-2 actually believed in it. Moreover, he saw the future and knew this day would one day come. That is why he ordered that while the park was dug up in 2004-5 that all the underground infrastructure for the splash pad be installed.

And so all the necessary pipes are in place already — capped off — waiting patiently for a City Council kid-friendly enough to bring a new summertime joy to the city’s children.

Bill Rauch was the Mayor of Beaufort from 1999 to 2008 and has twice won awards from the S.C. Press Association for his Island News columns. He can be reached at The RauchReport@gmail.com.

Healed by God Anointing of the Sick

During his ministry, Jesus had great compassion for the sick.

When he encountered people who suffered from serious illness or physical affliction, Jesus would take time to speak with them and give them comfort. He miraculously healed many who were on the brink of death, instantly taking away their illness. He gave sight to the blind, made the deaf hear, cleansed those with leprosy, and enabled the lame to walk. (Matthew 11:5) Since he was God in our midst, Jesus healed with divine power.

At times, he worked these miracles with merely a word of command, but often his words of healing were accompanied by physical elements, such as when he made clay and placed it on the eyes of the man born blind. (John 9) These healings were signs pointing to the more important spiritual healing he had come to do, to free humanity from the eternal death caused by sin.

Jesus sent out the apostles to heal in his name.

During his ministry, Jesus sent his disciples to teach and heal in his name. “They went out and preached that men should repent. They cast out many demons, and anointed with oil many that were sick and healed them.” (Mark 6:12-13) And before he returned to heaven, Jesus commanded the apostles to continue this ministry, promising that in his name they will lay their hands on the sick, and the sick will recover. (Mark 16:18) In the early Church, the apostles continued to heal.

In the New Testament, James writes, “Is anyone among you sick?

Let them call the elders of the church to pray over them and anoint them with oil in the name of the Lord. And the prayer offered in faith will make the sick person well, and the Lord will raise them up. If he has committed any sins, he will be forgiven.” (James 5:14-15) The word “elders” is what later became translated as “priests.” The oil mentioned is olive oil, used in biblical times as a medicinal ointment.

We call this the Sacrament of Anointing of the Sick.

The gift described by James has been passed down through the centuries, and it is now known as Anointing of the Sick. It is usually requested when a Catholic is sick with a serious illness or about to undergo a life-threatening surgery. The priest prays with the sick person, asks God’s healing through the laying on of hands, and anoints them on the forehead and hands with olive oil that has been specially blessed for this purpose.

Jesus continues his healing ministry among us today.

Sometimes Jesus works a miracle of physical healing through Anointing of the Sick, to the astonishment of the doctors and nurses!

But more often, he gives strength to endure one’s sufferings with patience and love. If the sick persons are unconscious or otherwise unable to confess their sins, the Lord also forgives their sins and gives them spiritual healing. Through his family of faith, the Church, Jesus is still caring for the sick with great love and compassion.

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Eleven Wishes of a Police Officer

his is the final article of a series of 12 articles on what citizens should know about policing, use-of-force, risks, and challenges citizens and police officers face today.

As the author of this series, I hope you have found the past 11 columns to be informative and provocative. More importantly, I pray that these articles have helped to promote understanding, cooperation, trust, and respect between citizens and law enforcement.

This final article is a notional list of things that I believe most COPs wish that citizens knew and would do to help promote safety, cooperation, crime prevention, and trust between our police and the public. Police Officers wish: First, Citizens knew that when a police officer first meets you, except in a very few cases, the officer does not know you. COPs also do not know if you: are armed, mentally ill, under the influence, happy, angry, under great stress, going through a divorce, grieving, just loss your job, have a police record, are a member of a gang, just committed a crime, or are on parole. Expect officers to be cautious when first meeting you and please obey their requests until the officer knows who you are and what you are doing.

Second, Citizens knew that COPs are sworn to serve and protect, and that they entered this high stress, low paying, and highrisk law enforcement profession based a sincere and powerful desire to serve ---and not put him or herself, you, or others in danger.

Third, Citizens knew that in a routine traffic stop, an officer is taught to be as friendly as possible and to say to you something like this when he or she comes up to your vehicle, “Good morning sir or mam. I am officer XXXXXXX with the YYYYYY Police Department. The reason I stopped you is you were driving 45 miles per hour in a 25 MPH zone. Is there some reason you are driving so fast today?” Remember, police officers are taught to understand that if you are rushing someone to a hospital that you may be driving fast. If

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you are not driving under the influence and confirm you are rushing your wife to the hospital, because she is in labor or he or she is seriously injured or ill, the officer will assist you as much as he or she can (first aid, call for emergency medical care, etc.) and will not give you a ticket and allow you to continue quickly with just a warning to slow down and arrive alive.

Fourth, Citizens knew that if a COP makes a felony traffic stop of you and your vehicle, the officer suspects (and in many cases has probable cause) that you or your passengers or both or your vehicle has been involved in a felony (serious) crime and that you or your passengers may dangerous. You will be required to obey all officer commands, probably be handcuffed and searched, and detained until the officer can determine if you are a suspected criminal and if your vehicle is not stolen or has been used in a crime. You can also expect for your vehicle to be searched for weapons and illegal drugs, explosives, or other illegal items.

Fifth, Citizens would be patient until the officer can figure out what is going on.

Officers are taught to be polite and use words like please, thank you, you are welcome, and yes sir. If citizens are patient, compliant, and non-threatening, they have the best chance for the situation to be settled peacefully, quickly, and with no force used. Most officers know that a verbal warning or warning ticket will do what the officer wants done, that is raise your level of awareness of driving safely.

Officers are sympathetic to the fact that even a small fine or requirement for you to go to court could be disastrous for you financially.

Officers know that if you do not have the money to pay a $200.00 traffic violation, cannot get off work to go to court, and miss court, a

warrant will be issued for your arrest ------ and the officer does not want that to happen to you.

Sixth, Citizens understood that officers are human too and make far less money than most other professions, get ill, have a higher-than-average divorce rate and suicide rate, get scared, and suffer from higher-than-average heart disease and PTSD rates.

Officers are under stress almost constantly and get in vehicle accidents because they drive over 50,000 miles per year in all kinds of weather --- sometimes in hot pursuits, and get injured or killed while working near highways far more than others. Officers are constantly frustrated and saddened with being the mental illness first responders and frequently the only help mentally ill people get.

Officers are continuously witness to our poorest, most victimized, least educated, most unhealthy, and most disadvantaged members of society. They are witness to more human tragedy than almost any other profession.

Seventh, Citizens knew that officers are constantly aware that they are in a profession that is unforgiving of the smallest mistake and that if they make a serious error with force or applying the law, they will be required to be retrained or severally punished or demoted or fired or sued in civil court or criminally charged, or all of these remedies will be used on the officer.

Eighth, Citizens understand that police officers do not create poverty, unequal education and housing, slow and unjust courts, an inadequate mental health system, but COPs do promote and support remedying these problems.

Ninth, Citizens would attend a citizen’s police academy and promote the enrollment of minority and other youth to join a Police Explorer Program and seek a career in public safety.

Tenth, Citizens would not drink and drive, not use or abuse legal or illegal drugs, wear seat belts, wear motorcycle and bike helmets, and join a neighborhood watch program.

Eleven, Citizens would contact their congressmen

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This is column 12 of a 12-column series on what citizens should know about police officers, use of force, and challenges the police and citizens face. Columns 1 through 11 introduced the series by answering the questions: 1.

What are the risks involved in police work?

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How does a COP (Constable on Patrol) decide on what level of force to use?

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When can a police officer use deadly force?

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When can deadly force be used on a fleeing felon?

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Do life and death decisions made by police really have to be made so quickly?

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Do police officers take care to avoid hurting innocent bystanders?

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Do police officers have to retreat when facing a dangerous person?

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Can a police officer be unfit to serve, even if they do not break the law?

10. Do police officers have to retreat when facing a dangerous person?

11. Can a police officer be unfit to serve, even if they do not break the law or violate department written policies?

12. Why do police officers not hot pursue and chase down every person who runs from them in a vehicle?

13. Why do police officers sometimes use choke holds on people?

14. Why do the police not shoot guns and other weapons out of people’s hands?

15. Why do police sometimes use deadly force on people brandishing a Fake Gun? 16. Why do the police not read everyone their Miranda rights?

17. How does a police officer deal with a person with a knife or other edged weapon?

18. Why do many police officers have second jobs?

19. How much training does a police officer get?

20. How many police departments are there and how many COPS are on the job per 1,000 citizens?

21. Are all police departments certified by the Commission on Accreditation for Law Enforcement Agencies (CALEA)?

22. How thorough are the background checking, screening, testing, and interviewing, of police recruits and officers transferring from one department to another?

23. Why do police departments need armored cars and other military types of equipment?

24. Are Driving While Impaired (DWI) and Driving Under the Influence (DUI) really all that serious crimes?

25. What is qualified immunity?

These columns are not meant to replace carefully reading local, county, state, and federal law or the need for a lawyer when seeking legal advice.

Larry Dandridge is not an employee of THE ISLAND NEWS and his opinions are his alone.

Readers should rely on their local police and sheriff’s departments, federal law enforcement agencies, and their attorneys for all law enforcement information and legal advice. Although every precaution has been taken in the preparation of these articles, the publisher and author assume no responsibility for errors or omissions. Neither is any liability assumed by the author or THE ISLAND NEWS for damages resulting from the use of information contained herein.

and ask them to support a reasonable police and criminal justice system reform bill that: • Provides robust inpatient and outpatient treatment of the mentally ill.

• Expands rehabilitation and training for those convicted of crimes.

• Requires a completed background check of all commercial weapon sales.

• Bans assault rifle sales and large capacity (more than 10 rounds) magazines, except to the military and police.

• Ensures bad actor COPs are identified, weeded out quickly, and debarred from law enforcement service.

• Creates a national police registry to compile data on complaints and records of police misconduct.

• Establish new reporting requirements, including use of force, officer misconduct, and routine practices.

• Creates uniform accreditation standards for law enforcement agencies.

• Requires officers to complete training on racial profiling, implicit bias, and the duty to intervene when another officer uses excessive force.

• Creates uniform accreditation standards for law enforcement agencies and requires law enforcement officers to complete training on racial profiling, implicit bias, and the duty to intervene when another officer uses excessive force.

• Grants administrative subpoena power to the Department

of Justice (DOJ) in pattern-or-practice investigations.

Larry Dandridge is an honors graduate of three police academies and a DoD Counter Terrorism course graduate. He served as a police officer and deputy sheriff in AL and MO. He has also worked as a consultant with the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center in GA and SC, and the Military Police and Customs operations in TX. An accomplished writer and motivational speaker, the owner of TVV Publishing, a retired Army Test Pilot, the author of the award-winning BLADES OF THUNDER (book One), a retired Aerospace Industry Region Manager, a past University Business, Writing, and Aeronautics Instructor, and volunteer Patient Adviser at the RHJ VA Medical Center, he writes two columns, as a free-lance writer, for the ISLAND NEWS, the Veterans Benefits Column and the What Citizens Should Know About Policing Column. You can contact Larry at his email, LDandridge@earthlink.net.

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Ash, S. E.

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Byers, G. W.

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Claggion, C. O.

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Cabrera, A. M.

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Garciamejia, K. D.

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Dawson, S. N. *

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Fandino, M. J.

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Matheson, K. L.

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Pazvergarasalcedo, K. D.

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Rivadeneiramarin, J. S.

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Paco, A.

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Pierre, S.

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Rivera, J. L.

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Polanski, K. J.

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Riverarugerio, A.

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Pleso, J. F.

Pvt.

Richards, A. T.

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Rutkowski, A. R.

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Risse, J. M.

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Sadler, M. F.*

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Rivera Jr, A. J.

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Salazar, S. R.

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Rudelich, A. M.

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Sanchezestrada, A. *

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Stassi, S. F.*

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Santiagomuniz, J. M.

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Smith, R. K.

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Silva, A. I.

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Hughes, J.R.

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Pvt

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PFC

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Marrs, J.J.

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Mickel, J.A.

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Moon, J.

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Mundy, M.T.

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Miller, K. E.

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Moyer, C. A.

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Ortega, M. K.

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Mung, G. Z.

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Ortiz, J. L.

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PFC

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Romerocaldero, C.

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Ross, H. M.

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Tocci, A. A.

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Sutherland, J. D.

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Torres, S.

PFC

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Soriano, G. A.

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Sullivan, M. F.

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Trejomurillo, A.

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Walker, D. J.

Pvt.

Torresacevedo, A. L.

PFC

Valtierra, A. E.

Pvt

Wesley, J. C.

Pvt

Urion, C. N.

PFC

Weisman, A. N.

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Varghese, A. J.

PFC

Wampler, C. M.

Woodyard, T.C.

PFC

Williams, B. E.

PFC

Valenzuela, L. M.*

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White, T. C.

Pvt.

Wentland, L. T.

Pvt.

Zavala, J. A.

Zohner, J.A.

Pvt

Wilson, B. R.

Pvt

Wadding, G. I.

Pvt.

Zhou, K.

Pvt.

Word, N. R.

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LADY’S ISLAND | MLS 171087 3BDRM | 2B | 1694sqft Bryan Gates 843.812.6494

$1,499,000

BULL POINT | MLS 170015

4BDRM | 4.5B | Deepwater | Private Dock Amy McNeal 843.521.7932

$295,000

ACREAGE | MLS 171050 27.6acres | Minutes to Downtown Lloyd Williams 1.843.754.4735

$369,000

$465,000

FRIPP ISLAND | MLS 171100

DATAW ISLAND | MLS 170497

$3,450,000

$495,000

$1,165,000

FRIPP ISLAND | MLS 171139

COOSAW POINT | MLS 170853

2BDRM | 2B | 1672sqft Pat Dudley 843.986.3470

DEEPWATER ESTATE | MLS 167297 5BDRM | 6.5B | Deep Water | Private Dock Edward Dukes 843.812.5000

3BDRM | 3B | 2091sqft Trudy Arthur 843.812.0967 Nancy Butler 843.384.5445

2BDRM | 3B | 1092sqft Trudy Arthur 843.812.0967 Nancy Butler 843.384.5445

$165,000

AZALEA SQUARE | MLS 171020 2BDRM | 2B | 1088sqft Heidi Smith 1.850.803.1216

5BDRM | 5B | 5258sqft | Water Views Lloyd Williams 1.843.754.4735

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