FREE
lowcountry social diary
there’s a plethora of fundraisers, events coming up, Page 10
The Island News covering northern beaufort county
www.yourislandnews.com
november 17-24, 2011
WHAT’S INSIDE?
THANKSGIVING RELATED EVENTS • THE GIVING Returns to Beaufort County The Giving, a community-wide, multichurch effort to provide Thanksgiving meals to those in need, returns for its third year November 20 to Beaufort County. Families benefitting from this effort are referred by charitable agencies and participating churches. Volunteers are being solicited for collection, inventory and distribution. Those interested should contact Heather Prince Doss at heather@sipcnet.org or (843) 525-0696. Donations of Thanksgiving meals may be dropped off beginning at 4:30 p.m. on November 20 in the Beaufort High School Auditorium. A community worship service will follow at 5 p.m. Donations will be taken to the YMCA in Port Royal that evening and meals will be delivered November 21. Donations beyond the scope of The Giving will be turned over to HELP of Beaufort. Suggested food items are frozen turkeys, potatoes, canned yams, green beans and cranberry sauce, and rolls. Approximately 210 families benefitted from this effort in 2010. Participating organization are: Love House Ministries, Sea Island Presbyterian Church, Seaside Vineyard, Spoken Word Outreach Ministries, St Luke’s Lutheran Church, The Link and Tidal Creek Fellowship. • 32nd Annual Community Thanksgiving Dinner The Parish Church of St. Helena will host the 32nd Annual Community Thanksgiving Dinner and Community Service on Thanksgiving Day at 507 Newcastle Street, Beaufort. The Community Thanksgiving Service will be held in the 299-year-old Parish Church at 11 a.m., where worshippers will gather to first give to thanks to the Lord. Following the service, dinner and fellowship will be served across the street in the Parish House. All are welcome. Dinner will be served from noon to 2 p.m. Take away meals are available from 9 a.m. to 11 a.m. for those who want to carry meals to the elderly or home-bound. The dinner is a gift to the community with admission being a smile and a thankful heart.
HEALTH
Beaufort Memorial Hospital earns state designation. see page 6
the empty
BOWLS project
PROFILE
The story of Cyndi Allison-Simpkins’ healing hands. see page 12
By Tess Malijenovsky Three hundred forty-five children raised their hands when Steve Deal, Assistant Manager of Stop Hunger Now, asked them if their lives were worth saving. In an effort to raise hunger awareness, students at Riverview Charter School, from Kindergarten to eighth grade, came together Nov. 9 to package 20,000 meals for kids like them in Nicaragua who are suffering from acute starvation. This year, Riverview partnered with Stop Hunger Now, an international organization based out of Charlotte, N.C., in an effort to actively involve parents and students from all grade levels together in one activity. According to Deal, Stop Hunger Now is a multi-generational program that works with volunteers from age 2 to 90, with the blind and hearing impaired, and with businesses, churches, rotary clubs, schools and other organizations. Riverview’s commitment to raising $5,000 purchased 20,000 meals worth the food. Together in small teams, the students packaged vitamin packets, soy, dehydrated vegetables and rice into one baggie at a time that can feed six hungry kids abroad.
SCHOOL
Students perform the Beaufort 300 Revue. see page 14 INDEX
News 2-5 Arts 8 Social Diary 10 Profile 12 School News 13-15 Sports 16-17 Lunch Bunch 24 Wine 25 Pets 28 Events 29 Directory 30 Classified 31
BOWLS continued on page 15