November 10 edition

Former Port Royal Mayor Sam Murray dies

By Mike McCombs

Nobody said more by saying less. That’s a common sentiment among those remembering long time Port Royal Mayor Sam Murray, who died Saturday, Nov. 5, at Coastal Carolina Hospital in Hardeeville. He was 82

The Town of Port Royal confirmed the reserved Murray’s passing on its Facebook page Sunday evening.

“We are deeply saddened to hear about the passing of former Port Royal Mayor, Sam Murray,” the post read. “Mr. Murray served the Town of Port Royal for 41 years & will be greatly missed. Sending all of our love & prayers to his family & friends at this time.”

A retired educator, Murray was on the Port Royal Town Council for 17 years before serving six terms as Mayor, from 1995-2019.

Port Royal Town Manager Van Willis worked for Murray for two decades. Willis said the two worked extremely well together.

“I got here in 2002 I was still relatively young and he’d been on council for some time. I looked to him significantly for advice though the years,” Willis said. “He was very calm and very hard to anger. We were basically opposites, but he would impart his wisdom on me. I’ve tried to incorporate the things I learned from him into how I do things.”

And Willis was familiar with Mur ray’s calm, thoughtful demeanor.

“When he did speak,” Willis said, “it meant more than most.”

Billy Keyserling met Murray when he moved back to Beaufort in 1989, and said the two always supported each other. Murray made an impact on the longtime Beaufort Mayor.

“Gentle. Polite. But when he made up his mind, he was determined and was able to very gently navigate his council or the public,” Keyserling said. “I don’t think I ever heard him raise his voice or say anything neg ative or derisive about another per

The people have spoken

Voters re-elect Reps Erickson, Rivers; put familiar face, newcomer on Beaufort City Council

By Mike McCombs

Another Election Day has come and gone, this one seeing more than 72,000 Beaufort County voters cast their ballots. Let’s take a look at what voters had to say in the Northern Beaufort County races.

State House of Representatives, District 124

Voters angry over Roe v. Wade be ing overturned may have made their mark in this election across the coun try, but it didn’t happen in this race.

Two years ago, Republican incum bent Shannon Erickson handed Dem ocrat Barb Nash a nearly 27-point loss. It was essentially a repeat on SEE VOTERS PAGE A6

Heritage Days returns to Penn Center

Saturday, Nov. 13.

Usually held in November, Penn Center’s Heritage Days Celebration is a three-day cultural event celebrating Penn School/ Penn Center, and the Gullah

Geechee history, folk arts, food, music, crafts, and West and Central African cultural legacy of the region.

Admission is $5 and children younger than 6 are free. Some events

may require museum admission. Attendees are encouraged to bring folding/lawn chairs. Parking is free.

State Rep. Shannon Erickson (R-124), right, and campaign manager Angie Peterson go over early election results during the Beaufort County Election Watch Party on Tuesday night at Bricks on Boundary Street. Bob Sofaly/The Island News

From staff reports After a two-year hiatus, the 38th annual Heritage Days Celebration is returning to Penn Center on St. Helena Island this weekend, Thursday, Nov. 10 through

Voting in Port Royal was steady on Tuesday afternoon, as a prospective voter shows a pictured I.D. before getting to a voting booth. One poll worker said voting was steady with what appeared to be a good turnout. Bob Sofaly/The Island News

EDITORIAL/DESIGN

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VETERAN OF THE WEEK

CHRIS HULBERT

Beaufort’s Chris Hulbert, 58, joined the United States Marine Corps in Atlanta in 1982. After boot camp at Parris Island and training as a Ground Radio Tech nician to service communications in tanks, Jeeps and tracked ve hicles. He was first stationed at Lejeune followed by tours in Oki nawa and Pendleton. He was dis charged in 1989 and subsequently found to be 100 percent disabled

due to conditions contracted from the Lejeune drinking water. He was hired by and served 30 years at Siemens USA and was deeply involved in the Siemens Veterans Network, which hires veterans and provides close mentoring to adjust to corporate service. He is a member of DAV, AMVETS , the Marine Corps League, Bugles Across America and Taps for Vet

erans, which plays at funerals for veterans. He’s volunteered at the Parris Island Marine Corps Muse um, the Parris Island Living His tory Detachment and raises mon ey for the Semper Fi Fund.

– Compiled by John Chubb, American Legion Post 9. For nominations, contact jechubb1@gmail.com

Lady’s Island Garden Club hosting bake sale

From staff reports

The Lady’s Island Garden Club will be holding its second annual Baked Goods and Fall Floral Ar rangements Sale from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., Saturday, Nov. 12, in front of Grayco Hardware and Home at 136 Sea Island Parkway.

Homemade baked goods will

include whole cakes and pies and packages of cookies, snack mix, muffins, cupcakes, brownies, sug ar-free and gluten-free items and treats for man’s best friend. Many of the baked goods will be pack aged for gift giving.

Holiday and seasonal wreaths and fresh floral arrangements

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Critical thinking, thinking for one’s self

My teacher's heart speaks. On the topic of banning books and censorship, the crux of this issue has a bigger, more important question: How are students learn ing in school? It’s the ‘how’ that matters most.

I’m an educator of 22 years and my daughter has gone through both private and public schools, educated by highly qualified teachers throughout her learning journey. With my dual experience as a parent and teacher, I can share with those who care about the “how” that all educators I have known practice the foundation of effective teaching; facilitators of information, without bias, empow ering students to think critically – and for themselves.

A critical thinker considers perspectives other than one's own. This can sometimes involve content that is diverse, perhaps at times evocative, and should always be developmentally appropriate.

There are measures in place for parent(s) to opt out for their child from reading a book, and the pro cess for questioning the content of a book is fair, reasonable, and should be followed.

Let’s continue the privilege of thinking for oneself and allow ing others to do the same. Our teachers are professionals, well equipped to guide students to an alyze, evaluate, and come to their own conclusions.

– Monique Dobbelaere, Bluffton

Why Social Security and Medicare?

Why is it at the time of elec tions, general or mid-term, politi cians talk about the budget; And with that, it always comes down to the amount of spending occur ring; the discussion then comes down to cutting Social Security and Medicare to reduce Federal spending? The politicians always threaten the senior citizens and our fixed income.

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created talented gardeners will be offered.

The Lady’s Island Garden Club is a 501(c) (3) organization and proceeds from the fundraiser will be used for community service projects. Current projects include maintaining the Tree Walk on the Point, planting flowers at the Beau

fort National Cemetery, supporting Wreaths Across America and more. The Club also contributes financial ly to many charitable organizations, such as Habitat for Humanity, Friends of Hunting Island, Friends of Fort Fremont, Port Royal Sound Foundation, Lowcountry Raptors and Beaufort Open Land Trust.

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Just once, I would like to hear one of them threaten the Foreign Aid spending. I mean trim some from that $47 billion budget. How about they threaten their annual congressional salaries. That line item is $84,390,000. They are all extremely wealthy and could stand to lose one year’s income. Wouldn’t that send a great mes sage that they really care.

I as a senior citizen living on Social Security and using Medi care, which are benefits I paid into my entire working career, should not have to worry about what those people in Washington are planning on doing.

– David Gisch

‘Look up these books; see what is in them’

Your front-page story titled "Bring Back the Books" ought to have included a web address where readers could find a list of the 97 books that have been removed from our school libraries. Readers who were curious about

what titles were removed had to search for themselves, as I did.

Let's be clear, though: Taking books out of our school libraries is a far cry from "banning" books. I doubt anyone is saying these books should not be allowed to be published, but it is quite reason able to say that our kids should not be exposed to such material in their school libraries.

I would encourage everyone to do the research: Look up these books; see what is in them, and then ask whether they should be available for our kids to check out from school libraries.

Your article almost made it sound as if kids are being denied the opportunity to read, which is an unfair representation of reality. Many of the removed books had content that could be considered pornographic. We should not have sexually explicit content on the bookshelves of our schools. There's a world of difference be tween book-banning and exercis ing wise discernment.

– Steve Walton, Port Royal

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Beaufort/Port Royal Fire Department’s newest engine rolls over

By Bob Sofaly City of Beaufort/Town of Port Royal Fire Department’s

Engine 4 rolled over onto its side shortly after 7 p.m., Thursday, Nov. 3, while mak ing a turn off Boundary Street onto Robert Smalls Parkway.

The right wheel struck the curb, taking out a large chunk of concrete, and momentum – the engine has a combined weight of 43,000 pounds –took over, rolling the truck over. There were no other ve hicles involved.

The two firefighters on board at the time were strapped in and uninjured,

according Deputy Chief John Robinson.

“They were a little shaken but nothing serious,” he said.

“Both were ambulatory but we took them to Beaufort Memo rial Hospital” just to be sure.

Robinson said the engine, a Pierce “Enforcer” was the newest engine in the Depart ment’s fleet.

“It’s not new, new, but it’s less than a year old,” he said, as he removed the American flag from the back of the en gine. “I’m just glad nobody got hurt.”

Interstate Towing of Beau fort had to use its heavy duty

NEWS BRIEFS

County dedicating pool to Settles

Beaufort County is hosting a cer emony dedicating the pool at the Charles Lind Brown Center to Alvin Settles at 10 a.m., Monday, Nov. 14 at 1710 Greene Street, Beaufort.

The ceremony will be broadcast live on The County Channel at https://www.youtube.com/c/The CountyChannel

Participants will include: Paul Sommerville Beaufort County Council ViceChairman Stephen Murray, Mayor, City of Beaufort Kenneth Hodges, Tabernacle Baptist Church York Glover, Beaufort County Councilman District 3 Gen. Ret. Harold L. “Mitch” Mitchell, City of Beaufort

Councilman

tow truck to right the engine before it could be towed away.

All the associated firefighting equipment was salvaged and placed onto a second wrecker to be used again.

Robinson said Engine 4’s sister truck, a nearly identical twin, will be here in February of 2023.

The accident investigation will be conducted by the S.C. Highway Patrol.

Bob Sofaly has been photographing people and what they do in Beaufort since Ronald Reagan was elected president in 1980. He can be reached at bobsofaly@gmail.com

Edward Allen, Friends of Lind Brown Center

Members of the Settles family Alvin Settles, a native of South Carolina, started a swimming lessons program after the Greene Street Gym Pool was built in 1981. He stayed for more than 30 years, giving lessons to thousands of children and adults over the summer months during his break as a speech-language pathol ogist for the U.S. Department of De fense School System. A new pool was constructed in the mid-1990s at the current location, and eventually, the complex was renamed the Charles Lind Brown Community Center.

In May 2015, he was recognized for his service to our community by the S.C. House of Representatives via a resolution sponsored by Kenneth Hodges, a state representative and

pastor of Settles’ church, “Whereas, many of Mr. Settles’ students who never would have had exposure to swimming or the opportunity to learn how to swim have excelled, some of them even becoming lifeguards.”

In June 2015, the Beaufort City Council proclaimed June 23 as Al vin Settles Day in honor of his many years of service to our community.

Beaufort County Council, by res olution, on May 9, 2022, does af firm that the outdoor pool facility at the Lind Brown Recreation Cen ter shall be named in honor of Mr. Alvin Settles.

Remembering Our Fallen

The Remembering Our Fallen ex hibit will visit Henry C. Chambers Waterfront Park through Sunday, Nov. 13. Remembering Our Fallen is a pho

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tographic war memorial that honors our country’s military fallen from the War on Terror (Sept. 11, 2001 through present). Unlike brick and mortar me morials, Remembering Our Fallen is designed to travel and includes both military and personal photographs. Its legacy will be that these men and women will be remembered and their names will be spoken while healing to lessen the grief of their families.

LWV cancels meetings

The League of Women Voters Beaufort announces the cancelation of the upcoming general meetings for 2022. There will be no meetings on Thursday, Nov. 10 and Thursday, Dec. 8.

Meetings will resume from 6 to 7:30 p.m. on Thursday, Jan. 12, 2023 in the Meeting Room of Sea Island Presbyterian Church and on the sec

ond Thursday of each month going forward.

The LWVB is a non-partisan group that encourages voters to be aware of issues of concern to all of us nation ally, state-wide and locally. Please join us to strengthen our democracy and uphold the commitment of all voters to the U.S. Constitution. Our meet ings are open to all.

LowCountry Habitat for Humanity needs volunteers

LowCountry Habitat for Humani ty is looking for volunteers for con struction, special events, cashiers, sales floor associates, and donation processing and data entry. Visit low countryhabitat.org/volunteer or call Candace Camp at 843-522-3500 for more information.

We Keep You IN

At Beaufort Memorial, our entire team of physicians and joint care experts is committed to helping you be your best and enjoy life without pain.

A testament to our quality outcomes, the Joint Replacement Center is one of only three programs in South Carolina to achieve advanced certification in knee and hip replacement. Our boardcertified surgeons are skilled with state-of-the art minimally invasive technology, including Mako SmartRoboticsTM for knee and hip replacement. Many of our patients go home the same day as their surgery.

At Beaufort Memorial you’ll also find:

• Joint preservation therapies

• Numerous non-surgical treatment options

• A personalized approach to restoring joint function

• Pre-operative education classes that engage patients and caregivers in the healing process

• A Joint Optimization Program that follows you through the process to ensure the best outcomes

• Outpatient and in-home rehab services to get you back in the game faster

Beaufort/Port Royal Deputy Fire Chief John Robinson saves the American flag that flew on Engine 4 after it rolled over onto its side shortly after 7 p.m., Thursday. Two firefighters onboard were uninjured. The exact cause of the accident is still under investigation, but appears the driver turned too wide from Boundary Street onto Robert Smalls Parkway, hitting the curb with the truck’s right front tire causing the truck to jump and roll over. Bob Sofaly/The Island News

Beaufort County Human Services receives grant to provide housing stability

From staff reports

United Way of the Lowcoun try recently awarded $65,000 to the Beaufort County Human Services Department to sup port housing access for chil dren and adults facing home lessness or housing security.

“Homelessness can only be combated with a wholistic community approach,” Assis

tant County Administrator for Community Services Au dra Antonacci-Ogden said in a news release. “This grant goes a long way to providing stability to families and chil dren in our area.”

The Human Services De partment will use the grant funds to enhance its existing partnerships with the Beaufort

County School District and Beaufort County Detention Center. This partnership will allow School District and De tention Center staff to identify families with children and in dividuals experiencing home lessness or housing insecurity and make referrals to the Hu man Services Department.

The grant is part of $1.25

million in Emergency Rental Assistance Funds received by United Way of the Low country through partnership between SC Housing and the United Way Association of South Carolina.

The funds will be distribut ed to the Human Services De partment and 22 other partner organizations in both Beau

fort and Jasper County. The funds are to be used to sup port housing stability services such as case management, housing navigation, land lord-tenant mediation and eviction-related legal services.

The Human Services De partment hopes these pilot initiatives will result in data and sustained partnerships

that underscore the need for continued funding.

To learn more about the Beaufort County Human Services Department visit http://bit.ly/3WMpiDl

To find out more about SC Stay Plus and other ways to find rental assistance, visit http://bit.ly/3NXnoMb or call 1-800-476-0412.

Rotary Club of the Lowcountry’s Oyster Roast

One injured from overturned vehicle

From staff reports

The Burton Fire District and Beaufort County EMS assisted the Beaufort/Port Royal Fire Department in a late morning colli sion Wednesday, Nov. 2, in which a driver sustained minor injuries when his vehicle overturned.

Just before noon, bystand ers alerted Burton fire crews at the Shell Point fire station that there was a motor ve hicle collision on Savannah Highway by the Parris Is land Gateway intersection.

Burton firefighters imme diately responded as the 911 call came in, and arrived to find a two-vehicle collision with one vehicle having rolled over on its roof with the driver sitting by the side

A driver sustained minor injuries when his vehicle overturned in a late morning collision Wednesday, Nov. 2. Photo courtesy of the Burton Fire District.

of the road. The driver sus tained minor injuries and was transported by Beaufort County EMS.

Beaufort/Port Royal fire units then arrived on scene

and crews worked to assist the occupants and remove roadway hazards. Traffic on Savannah Highway was delayed for approximately one hour.

BOO BABIES!

It was all

Met Opera postponed again

From staff reports

For the second perfor mance in a row due to con tinued technical issues with the Met Opera satellite feed, USC Beaufort’s Center For The Arts was forced to post pone a broadcast of the Met Opera in HD. This time, No vember 5, it was the presenta tion of La Traviata. The Octo

ber 22 performance of Medea was postponed, as well.

“We are working with the Met Opera and our IT staff to solve this problem before the next scheduled show ing,” said Director of the USCB Center For The Arts Bonnie Hargrove.

With that thought in mind, the following encores

have been scheduled: Medea – Noon, Tues day, Nov. 15.

La Traviata – 1 p.m., Saturday, Nov. 12.

If patrons would like a re fund, they can contact the Center For The Arts at 843521-4145. Otherwise, they will be able to use their orig inal tickets for these encores.

Event Schedule

EVENT SCHEDULE

Ongoing Activities York W. Bailey Museum self-guided tours 10 a.m. to 4 a.m., everyday $10 adults, $5 students

Andrew Young Exhibit “The Many Lives of Andrew Young” Through Jan. 31 York W. Bailey Museum

Thursday Gullah Roots Village 10 a.m to 2 p.m. $5 admission

PACE/Heritage Old Time Country Store 11 a.m. to 2 p.m.

38th Annual Heritage Days Celebration Opening Ceremony 3 to 4 p.m., Center Stage Flags Of The Gullah People Processional and presentation

Lowcounry Supper

4:30 to 7:30 p.m., Emory S. Campbell Dining Halloween Gullah cuisine $18

“The Road of Remembrance” (Youth theatrical production of Eras of Penn School) 6 to 7 p.m., Frisell Community House Adults $15, students $8, children younger than 6 free

Exhibition Opening and Artist Reception

Featured artist – Sonja Griffin Evans 6:30 to 9 p.m., York W. Bailey Museum

Old Fashioned Prayer Service 6:30 to 7:30 p.m., Brick Baptist Church

Friday Sankofa Museaum on Wheels 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., Frisell Community House

Food, Arts and Craft vendors

Penn Center grounds 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Crafts, exhibits, food and merchandise

Family and Friends Day 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., Penn Center grounds

Demonstrations of the West African/Gullah connection, including cast net making, quilting, basket making, wood burning

Heritage Symposium 9:30 a.m. Check-in/Lowcountry breakfast 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.

Session 1 & 2 panel discussion w/ Q@A Gullah Roots: A Documentary A Gullah Journey: An excerpt from Alice Childers Book Brick Church Fellowship Hall Adults $20, stunts $10

After Sherman: A Film About Inheritance and Black History 4 to 5:45 p.m., Darrah Hall Free

Old Fashioned Fish Fry, Oyster Roast, Crab Crack A festival favorite 6 to 10 p.m., Penn Center Grounds Soul Music Night

Saturday Heritage Days Coffe Cafe 7:30 to 10 a.m., MLK Park

Sankofa Museum on Wheels 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., Frisell Community House

Food, Arts and Craft vendors Penn Center grounds 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Crafts, exhibits, food and merchandise

38 th Annual Heritage Days Parade (Visitors should be in place by 8 a.m. to avoid traffic)

Parade begins at 9 a.m.

St. Helena Elementary School to Penn Center Historic Landmark District

Center Stage Entertainment Penn Center – Center Stage Noon to 4 p.m.

Gullah storytellers, singers, dancers, spirituals, shouters, presntations, reenactors and more

Soul Slide Dance Party 4 to 10 p.m., Frisell Community House Advance ticket $10; At the door $15 21 and older

“You Gotta Run”

A musical/theatrical presentation highlighting the life of Andrew Young 6:30 to 7:30 p.m., Emory Campbell Dining Hall

treats last week at the Beaufort Memorial Hospital Collins Birthing Center with the arrival of two Halloween babies! Congratulations to the parents these sweet baby girls (left to right): Heloise, daughter of Daniele Turski and Alexandre Almeida of Bluffton; and Adley, daughter of Marlee and Christopher Wilson, also of Bluffton. The Halloween-themed quilts were gifted by the Sea Island Quilters. Photos by Charlotte Berkeley Photography.

Some of the 600 people who attended the annual Rotary Club of the Lowcountry’s annual Oyster Roast on Saturday in Port Royal. Photos by Bob Sofaly/The Island News

Rotarians with the Rotary Club of the Lowcountry finish up a load of freshly steamed oysters ready to be devoured by hundreds of hungry people Saturday at Live Oaks Park in Port Royal.

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son. And I don’t really know anyone who didn’t like Sam.”

In his time serving Port Royal, the town grew from roughly 1,500 in population to something 10 times that size. He oversaw the building of a new Town Hall, police station, fire station and much more.

“He navigated that without too many bumps in the road,” Keyserling said. “Once the county, city and Port Royal set their sites on how they were going to grow, they did it. He’s had strong town manag ers and he supported them as much as they supported him.

Murray“He never appeared to be ambitious, but he knew where he was going, and that gave him the opportunity to serve.

He saw the world the way it was and made the best of it and put his heart into doing it.”

Born in Dorchester County, Murray received his Bach elor's and Master's Degree from South Carolina State University with graduate studies at The Citadel, the University of South Carolina, Appalachian State, and Har vard.

His first career was as an educator. He taught school in the Beaufort County School System for 16 years and was an elementary school princi pal for 20 years.

He won the CIVITAS Life

time Achievement Award for Business Excellence present ed by the Beaufort Regional Chamber of Commerce. A Mason and a Shriner, Murray chaired the Beaufort County Board of Special Needs and volunteered to build homes for Habitat for Humanity.

Beaufort Mayor Stephen Murray always considered Sam Murray a friend.

“He had this calm, thought ful demeanor about him, something I always really ad mire but not really one of my strengths,” Stephen Murray said. He served his communi ty. He was an educated public official, who embodied the best of a public servant. His passing is a bog loss to the Lowcounty and a reminder the younger guys are going

to have to step up.”

Earlier this year, Murray received the Order of the Pal metto, the state’s highest civil ian honor. The award, per the Governor’s website, is “award ed to South Carolinians who demonstrate extraordinary lifetime achievement, service and contributions of national or statewide significance.”

He was nominated for the award by Town of Port Royal Mayor Joe DeVito and town staff, and State Representa tive Shannon Erickson gave him the award on June 18.

“I’m going to miss the heck out of Sam Murray,” Er ickson said. “When Kendall and I first moved to Beaufort, we lived in an apartment on Southside Drive. He was, lit erally, the first person I met

in Beaufort, in a park in Port Royal.

“He never, ever forgot, and he always claimed me. He advised me and advised me well. He had no ulterior motives except to serve the community. I’m truly going to miss his counsel and his insight and his advice and his memory.”

Murray sought and was elected for one final term as Mayor in 2015 with the intent of seeing the sale of the Port of Port Royal through. He did not run for re-election.

“We’re not going to see many more like him” Key serling said. “This is a very difficult environment for that kind of public servant. People would rather be contentious than cooperate.”

Murray is survived by his wife Charlotte Murray.

There will be a public view ing from 4 to 7 p.m. Thurs day, Nov. 10 at Marshel’s Wright-Donaldson Home For Funerals at 1814 Greene Street in Beaufort.

Services will be at 3 p.m., Friday, Nov. 11, at Bethesda Christian Fellowship, 36 Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Drive, on St. Helena Island. Buri al will follow in the Church Cemetery. There will be no viewing after the eulogy. Services will be live streamed via the Bethesda Christian Fellowship's Face book page.

Mike McCombs is the Editor of The Island News and can be reached at TheIslandNews@gmail.com

The Beaufort County Library held its 40th annual Book Sale Friday through Sunday at Henry C. Chambers Waterfront Park. Here patrons search through some of the 20,000 books available. Last year, according to Deb Chevas, a volunteer with the Friends of Beaufort County Library, only $15,000 was raised due to Covid and very bad weather. This year, she said, with the help of 150 volunteers they expect to make more due to some “very generous buyers.” Photos by Bob Sofaly/The Island News

Michelle Latimore, left, helps her two children Cornelious, 6, and Amaya, 8, sort through some of the 20,000 books available for purchase during the 40th annual Friends of Beaufort County Library Book Sale on Saturday at Henry C. Chambers Waterfront Park. Bad weather took a toll on last year’s sale but Saturday’s weather was picture perfect. Volunteer Deb Chevas said thanks to “some very generous buyers” and the help of 150 volunteers, they should surpass that number. Chevas said that 100% of the money raised goes back into the library system, including it’s many branches and both bookmobiles.

Both local green space questions on ballot pass

From staff reports

There were two local ques tions on the ballot Tuesday related to 1% sales and use tax for open land and green spaces – both passed.

This allows the County to buy development rights or total ownership of land to retain it as green spaces, in and outside the boundaries of Beaufort County.

The first question approves a 1 percent sales tax for two years to raise $100 million dollars for land acquisitions; purchases of groceries, gas, and medicine are excluded from the tax.

The second question al lows the County to issue bonds to raise the money pri or to the actual receipt of the tax money (that will be used to pay the bonds).

Question 1A – Passed

Shall a special one percent (1%) sales and use tax be im posed in Beaufort County for not more than two (2) years to raise up to $100,000,000 for preservation procurement for the purpose of procuring open lands and green space by and through the acquisi tion of interests in real prop erty, located within or outside the boundaries of Beaufort County, such interests to in clude: (a)the acquisition of fee simple titles; (b)conserva tion easements; (c)develop ment rights; (d)rights of first refusal; (e)options; (f)leases with options to purchase; or (g)any other interests in real property?”

Question 1B – Passed

I approve the issuance of not exceeding $100,000,000 in principal amount of gener al obligation bonds of Beau fort County maturing over a period of not to exceed two (2) years to fund the procure ment of open lands and green space identified in Beaufort County Local Referendum

Vote totals for Beaufort County and the entire state can be found at SCVotes.gov

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Tuesday as Erickson won by more than 25 percentage points.

This will be the eighth term for Erickson, the Chair of the S.C. General Assembly Re publican Women's Caucus.

“Work hard every day!” Erickson texted The Island News from the Beaufort County Election Watch Party late Tuesday night at Bricks on Boundary Street. “Very thankful for the community support.”

State House of Representa tives, District 121

Much like Erickson’s win over Nash in the District 124 race, incumbent Democrat Michael Rivers repeated a 2020 win over repeat Repub lican challenger Eric Erick son, the principal attorney at Beaufort’s Erickson Law Firm, public defender and former special prosecutor for the S.C. Attorney General’s office.

Rivers win was by 17 per centage points this time, in stead of 27, but nonetheless, he’s headed to his fourth term in the S.C. House, where he is a member of the House Legis lative Oversight Committee, as well as the Education and Public Works Committee.

Beaufort City Council First the familiar face.

Mike McFee has served 14 years as City Councilman for the City of Beaufort. And barring the unexpected, he’ll serve two more.

McFee, a business and re altor who has spent the last

eight years as Mayor Pro Tem pore, was the top vote-getter among the five candidates vying for two open Council seats with 2,122 votes.

Now for the newcomer.

The second Council seat goes to Josh Scallate, who edged out third-place Josh Gibson by 23 votes (1,3661,343). It is possible – though improbable – this could change when provisional bal lots are counted Friday.

Scallate, 31, a native of Beaufort and a 2009 gradu ate of Beaufort High School, is a lieutenant with the Lady’s Island St. Helena Fire Dis trict, where he has worked since 2013. In 2018, he was named Firefighter of the Year.

At 22, Scallate lost his brother to a drug overdose and has since committed to public service.

“Throughout the course of this campaign, I’ve had good support,” Scallate said Tuesday night from Shellring Ale Works in Port Royal. “I was born here, raised here, and the last nine years, I’ve worked as a public servant here. That may have helped my relationship with the vot ers, but ultimately, it was up to the citizens.

“So this feels good. They’ve given me the chance to rep resent them, and I appreciate it.”

Scallate said, to understand what people want for the fu ture of Beaufort is the next task at hand.

“I’m excited to hear what the community wants me bring the to council,” he said. “My goal is to represent them with accuracy.”

Wilma Holman (832 votes)

LOCAL RALLIES

and Michael Andersen (760) were fourth and fifth.

Beaufort County Council District 2

Two newcomers to Beau fort County politics – Repub lican David Bartholomew and Democrat Marilyn Har ris – ran a classy campaign.

It didn’t help Harris as Bar tholomew won the battle for Paul Sommerville’s old seat easily, by about 25 percent age points (62.36 to 37.61).

Each credited the other with wanting to improve Beaufort County, but Bar tholomew will get the chance.

It would also be a surprise if this is the last we hear of Har ris.

“Thank you to all the amaz ing people who showed up and worked hard for me. I am humbled and grateful for each and every one of you,” Harris posted on her Facebook page. “I congratu late David Bartholomew on tonight’s win for Beaufort County Council District 2.”

Beaufort County School Board District 2 Terry Thomas, a retired Beaufort County educator and coach, edged out Chloe

Gordon, a retired Beaufort County school administrator by just four votes. It is once again possible – though un likely – this could change when provisional ballots are counted Friday.

Beaufort County School Board District 5

There were 541 votes cast in this race where no one was on the ballot.

The current District 5 rep resentative – Richard Geier – was moved into District 4 when the county redrew the boundaries for both the coun ty and school districts follow

ing the results of the 2020 census.

U.S. Navy veteran Gwyn eth J. Saunders ran as an or ganized write-in candidate. Write-in votes will be count ed Friday.

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District Commissioner

Four candidates were in the running for two seats. Mike Murphy was the clear No. 1 with 352 votes, and it looks like Mike Wilt is No. 2 with 203 votes.

However, No. 3 is John L. Newman tallied 202 votes, just one fewer than Wilt. It is once again possible – though unlikely – this could change when provisional ballots are counted Friday.

Gary M. Nizzi was fourth with 87 votes.

And don’t forget …

Here’s a list of the local election winners who were running unopposed: Sheriff P.J. Tanner Probate Judge Heather Galvin

Auditor David Cadd

Treasurer Maria Wells

Beaufort County Council District 4 Alice Howard

Beaufort County School Board District 3 Wil liam Smith

Beaufort County School Board District 4 Rich ard Geier

Vote totals for Beaufort County and the entire state can be found at SCVotes.gov

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Vernon Kemp, IT Elections Systems Manager for Beaufort County Board of Voter Registration and Elections, runs simulation ballots in the vote tabulation machine during a final public test Friday. Kemp said all the voting machines and vote tabulation machines have all checked out and are ready for the mid-term elections. Bob Sofaly/The Island News

Gov. Henry McMaster, a Republican, on Wednesday shows his pocket edition of the U.S. Constitution and Bill of Rights to a crowd of nearly 200 at the steps of the former Wells Fargo Bank on Bay Street. Several other Republican candidates, including Lt. Gov. Pamela Evette and S.C. State Rep. Shannon Erickson (SC-124) and candidates for local offices were present, as well. In the background is Bob North, president of the Beaufort Federation of Republican Men. Bob Sofaly/The Island News

Democratic gubernatorial candidate Joe Cunningham addresses his supporters Friday night, Nov. 4., during a rally with running mate Tally Casey at Shellring Ale Works in Port Royal. Cunningham promised if elected he would support a woman’s right to an abortion, end the opiod crisis in South Carolina and repair all the roads by legalizing, regulating and taxing marijuana to help pay for road repairs. Bob Sofaly/The Island News

Surprising benefits of laughing

By Amberlee Lovell Peterson selecthealth.org

Studies show a good dose of laughter has great benefits for your body.

Laughter may not be the best medicine, but it’s still a pretty good one. Scientists have spent years studying laughter, and studies still show a good dose of laugh ter has great benefits for your body. Taking a self-care break and finding things that entertain you can feel like a luxury, but for the sake of your health, it’s es sential. Even 15 minutes a day to do something that makes you laugh could help you live into retirement. Or, if nothing strikes you as fun ny, just force a fake laugh and see what happens.

Here are seven health bene fits of laughter:

1. Relieves pain: True laughter releases endor phins. One effect of the release of this hormone

is that it increases pain tolerance. One study had participants watch 15 minutes of a comedy show in a group. Their pain tolerance increased 10% more than before the laughter. For those who watched a comedy

show alone rather than with others, their pain tolerance also increased, but it was slightly less than 10%.

2. Increases your chances of getting pregnant: A 2011 study showed wom en going through in vi

tro fertilization were 16% more likely to get preg nant when entertained by a clown than those who did not have the clown encounter.

3. Helps your heart: A good guffaw is healthy for your heart. It helps

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your heart by increasing the amount of oxygen in your blood and kick ing up your heart rate. It also decreases arterial wall stiffness—a link to cardiovascular disease.

4. Boosts your immune system: Laughing can help you stay safe from viruses by improving your immune system. Laughing releases more anti-infection antibod ies to help protect your body from infection.

5. Makes you happier: Laughing helps lighten your mood. It can lessen chronic depression and anxiety as well as make it easier to cope with challenging situations.

6. Reduces stress: Your body releases cortisol when you’re stressed. Because it’s known as the stress hormone, cortisol gets a bad rap, but it plays an import ant role in the body. It helps manage blood

sugar levels, reduces inflammation, manages metabolism, and trig gers the fight or flight response in your body at critical times. But too much cortisol and your body feels that stress. Laughter is one of the ways your body can help regulate cortisol. Laugh ing increases your oxy gen intake, which stim ulates body circulation and decreases your cor tisol levels. Some stud ies show that just the act of laughing—without having humor in it—can have positive stress-re lieving effects.

7. Relaxes your body: Stress causes your mus cles to tense up. Laugh ing can help relieve stress because it relaxes your muscles. A good laugh can relieve your muscles of extra stress for up to 45 minutes be cause it stimulates circu lation.

Caffeine during pregnancy may affect a child’s height

Experts say that some caffeine during pregnancy can be safe, but a recent study says that it may affect a child’s height by nearly an inch.

• Caffeine consumption during pregnancy is an area of ongoing re search, but experts continue to say that some caffeine during pregnancy may be safe. Data from a recent study found that preg nant people who con sumed caffeine had children who were shorter than children conceived by those who did not have caffeine during pregnancy.

• Pregnant people can follow the advice of medical professionals and work closely with their doctors through out pregnancy, includ ing asking about the safety of caffeine in take.

Recommendations and tips for a healthy pregnancy have changed throughout the years with the emergence of more data. One area of

interest is how caffeine in take can impact pregnancy outcomes and child devel opment. A recent study pub lished in JAMA found that caffeine consumption during pregnancy may impact child growth. The study found that pregnant people who con sumed caffeine had children who were shorter in stature in early childhood.

Recommendations

for caffeine during pregnancy

The data on caffeine intake during pregnancy is mixed.

Some evidence suggests that caffeine may be harmful to certain aspects of preg nancy. However, some caf feine intake may be fine and not cause adverse health im pacts. Genetics also comes into play… tall people tend to have tall children and shorter people, shorter children.

In fact, the American Col lege of Obstetricians and Gynecologists states that less than 200 milligrams of caffeine during pregnancy is considered safe. Women should always discuss any questions and concerns they have with their doctor; their physician can inform them of

existing general guidelines and make any specific recom mendations for a given pa tient, based on their unique history.

Does caffeine in pregnancy impact a child’s development?

The new study looked at caffeine intake during preg nancy and its impact on child growth.

Researchers examined a historical cohort of moth ers between 1959–1965 and children between 1960–1974.

They then examined a more recent cohort of mothers and children between 2009–2013 and 2017–2019.

Researchers measured con centrations of caffeine and paraxanthine (a metabolite of caffeine) in the pregnant woman’s blood during the

first trimester of pregnancy. They then looked at chil dren’s heights up to age 8.

The analysis indicated that caffeine consumption during pregnancy was asso ciated with children being shorter later in life.

The difference was distinct, amounting to about a 2-cen timeter height difference be tween children whose moth ers had caffeine and children whose mothers did not.

Study limitations and future research on caffeine during pregnancy Overall, the study’s results indicate that caffeine during pregnancy may influence children’s height—but the study had several limitations that need to be considered.

First, there is a risk of fac tors that researchers did not consider, such as other as pects of maternal diet.

The study also had limited data collection in some ar eas. For example, in the mod ern-day cohort, children’s height measurements were only taken at one point in time.

“It would be important to explore this association

Study author Jessica Gleason, Ph.D., MPH, explained key points of the research:

“The main takeaway is that even low exposure to caffeine during pregnancy was associated with shorter height in childhood. There have only been a handful of similar studies, and none had really evaluated height separately from overall BMI. Considering prior research, I was a little surprised that we found no association between caffeine exposure during pregnancy and child weight but found such a consistent association between caffeine and child height even up until age 8.”

between maternal caffeine consumption and child growth in later childhood to see if kids eventually ‘catch up’ in height—ideal ly, following the children into their early 20s after growth has stabilized. Un til we have this long-term follow-up data, we cannot determine the clinical im plications of shorter height measures.”

— Jessica Gleason, Ph.D., MPH, study author

The bottom line is that

women expecting a child should choose to regularly communicate with their doc tors and other specialists as they decide how to handle caffeine intake during preg nancy, taking any potential risks into account.

Source: https://www. medicalnewstoday.com/articles/ caffeine-during-pregnancy-mayimpact-a-childs-height-by-an-inchstudy-shows#Study-limitations-andfuture-research-on-caffeine-duringpregnancy

Options & References for a Healthier Life

What cold medicines can a person living with diabetes safely use?

Treating a cold while managing blood sugar can be difficult for a person with diabetes. Infections can increase blood glucose, and cold medicines may contain sugar. It is advisable to follow a sick day plan and use sugar-free medications.

Diabetes is a group of con ditions that impair how the body processes glucose and maintains blood sugar lev els. When a person is ill, their body’s effort to fight off the infection can disrupt their blood sugar level. Addition ally, many over-the-counter medicines that a person may take to help relieve symp toms may contain sugar.

Therefore, when a person with diabetes has a cold, it is advisable for them to regu larly check their blood sugar level and try to use only sug ar-free medicines in order to better manage their blood sugar.

Illness and blood sugar

Having an illness or infec tion, such as a cold or the flu, can raise a person’s blood sugar level. This is because being ill puts additional stress on a person’s body, leading to the release of stress hormones to help fight the sickness. As a result, the body releases more glucose into the bloodstream, and blood glucose levels in crease.

In a person without dia betes, the body produces more insulin to manage blood sugar levels. However, in people with diabetes, the body either does not pro duce enough insulin or does not use it effectively. Addi tionally, if a person loses their appetite or experiences diarrhea, their blood sugar may drop because they are not consuming or absorbing food as usual. This can make it difficult to keep blood sug ar within a person’s target range.

Sick day plans

If possible, it is advisable for a person with diabetes

to prepare for illness before they feel unwell. This can include having enough med ication, such as insulin, on hand, as well as having easyto-prepare foods and medi cal supplies so that they can continue managing their di abetes without interruption.

If a person cannot eat meals while they are ill, it is sensible to have fast-acting carbohydrates, such as juices or other glucose-rich drinks, nearby.

Illness can make it more difficult to manage blood sugar levels and may in crease the risk of potential complications. A person may want to discuss an ac tion plan with their health care team. This may include advice on adjusting diabetes medication, checking for ke tones, and using cold medi cines.

Healthcare experts typi cally recommend that people follow sick day rules. These guidelines include:

• Sugar: A person should check their blood glu cose levels every 2–4 hours and keep a record.

Insulin: A person should continue admin istering insulin or other diabetes medications. If a person’s blood sugar is high, they may need to increase their insulin dose.

Carbohydrates: It is im portant for a person to maintain hydration and carbohydrate intake. De pending on their blood glucose levels, this may involve a regular intake of sugary fluids.

• Ketones: It is advisable to check ketone levels every 2–4 hours and drink plenty of fluids to prevent diabetic ketoac idosis.

What to consider about cold and flu medicines

Some cold remedies, such as flavored medicines, may be unsuitable for people with diabetes because they contain sugar. Therefore, it is advisable to check prod uct labels to see how many grams of carbohydrates a medication has.

When possible, it is pref erable to use sugar-free versions of medications or choose a pill form rather than a liquid form of a medi cation. If a person must take medication that contains sugar, it is important to ac count for that sugar when administering their diabetes medications.

Additionally, individuals with hypertension may want to avoid using deconges tants because they may fur ther increase blood pressure. Many decongestants con tain pseudoephedrine. This drug constricts blood ves sels in the nose and sinuses to relieve congestion, but it also tightens blood vessels throughout the body.

As an alternative, people may consider natural meth ods of reducing congestion, such as taking a steamy shower, drinking plenty of fluids, and eating spicy foods.

What to eat and drink

It is important that a per son with diabetes contin ue to eat while they are ill. This will help maintain their blood sugar levels and help their immune system fight the infection. If they cannot consume food as usual, they may consider trying the fol lowing foods and drinks to prevent their blood glucose levels from becoming low: juice

sports drinks regular soda — not sug ar-free milk

yogurt soup, broth, or bouillon regular gelatin — not sugar-free ice pops saltine crackers dry toast

Preventing illness

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) provide the follow ing guidelines help prevent illnesses and reduce their spread:

• Practice proper hand washing: Regular hand washing with soap and water or alcohol-based hand sanitizer can help

eliminate germs and prevent people from getting sick.

Disinfect objects: Simi larly, a person can disin fect frequently touched objects such as remotes, doorknobs, and mobile devices.

• Follow proper cough ing and sneezing et iquette: To prevent transmission of germs, people can cough, sneeze, or blow their nose into tissues; throw the tissues away; and wash their hands after ward. People can also sneeze or cough into their elbow.

Avoid touching the eyes, nose, or mouth: If a person touches these areas when they have not recently washed their hands, pathogens may enter their body and make them sick.

Avoid close contact with people who are

sick: If possible, it is ad visable to avoid spend ing much time with people who are sick, as they may transmit the pathogen that is making them sick.

When to contact a doctor

The American Diabetes Association (ADA) notes that a person can work with their healthcare team to cre ate an action plan. A person may seek guidance on when to contact a doctor, how to best manage blood sugar, and what medications to use.

The ADA adds that it is help ful for a person to write this information down so they can refer to it when feeling sick.

The CDC adds that a per son may consider seeking emergency care if they expe rience: difficulty breathing high ketone levels inability to keep foods

or liquids down difficulty eating weight loss very low blood sugar vomiting and diarrhea a fever sleepiness or an inabili ty to think clearly

Summary

Having a cold can make it difficult for a person with di abetes to manage their blood sugar levels. If a person is feeling unwell, it is advisable that they follow their sick day plan and their doctor’s recommendations on which cold medicines to use.

Typically, a healthcare professional will suggest that a person with diabetes use cold medicines that are sugar-free. Additionally, they may advise avoiding decon gestants if the person has hypertension.

Source: https://www. medicalnewstoday.com/articles/coldmedicine-for-diabetes

Helpful holiday shopping!

The Hospital Auxiliary Gift Shops at Hilton Head Hospital and Coastal Carolina Hospital are filled with holiday treasures. Whether you want to decorate your home or find that special gift, the shops have stocked their shelves with something for everyone. The Auxiliary and its Gift Shops have served the community by providing funds to assist patients with the cost of prescription drugs through the A.C.T. program. Every gift you purchase, is also a gift to the community. The Auxiliary Gift Shop is a not for profit. For gift shop hours please call HHH @ 843-689-8459 or CCH @ 843-784-8191.

BOSS Orthopaedics

The practice of Andrew Castro, MD

Mark T. Dean, MD

Board-certified, fellowship-trained orthopaedic spine specialist Andrew Castro, M.D., joined BOSS Orthopaedics (formerly known as Beaufort Orthopaedic, Sports & Spine). Dr. Castro brings extensive experience to the practice, having treated a variety of disorders of the spine in both adults and children. Trained in the latest surgical techniques, including minimally invasive surgery and disc replacement, he most recently spent over 20 years in Denver, Colorado, where he built one of the busiest spine practices in the area and was selected as one of Denver’s “Top Docs.”

Daniel J. Del Gaizo, MD

Ralph F. Salzer, MD

Douglas A. Scott, MD

Scott E. Strohmeyer, MD

Emre Caglayan, PA-C

James Langford, PA-C Paul Linnert PA-C

Dr. Castro is active in spinal biomechanics research and has presented at various national conferences and published journal articles and book chapters on the subject. Recipient of the John H. Moe Award from the Scoliosis Research Society, he has also designed and patented medical implants that are currently in use.

Bachelor of Science & Master of Science in Bioengineering Clemson University University of South Carolina School of Medicine Residency in Orthopaedic Surgery, SUNY Downstate Medical Center Fellowship Training in Complex Spinal Deformities, University of Colorado

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Eagles roll past Bruins in playoff opener

By Justin Jarrett LowcoSports.com

Tougher tests are ahead, but Beaufort High was all business in its Class 3A playoff opener Friday night, and the Eagles made quick work of Orange burg-Wilkinson at home.

Samari Bonds passed for three touchdowns and rushed for another, Colton Phares had another monster game, and Kacy Fields rolled up 168 rushing yards and two touch downs to complement a dom inant defensive effort in a 52-0 rout of the Bruins.

Kicker Jack Troutman even got in on the action — he hasn’t had the opportunity to punt much during the Ea gles’ nine-game win streak — booting a 38-yard field goal to open the scoring before the Eagles cracked the seal on the end zone.

It turned out those three points would have been enough for a workmanlike

Beaufort defense to lock down a win. The Eagles racked up six tackles for loss and three sacks, with Quion Rivers lead ing the way with five tackles (one for loss) and a quarter back hurry. Phares and Jamar Knight each picked off passes.

Jack Sumner and Will Codding each had three tack les and a tackle for loss, and Codding, Zach Talbert, and Robbie Winburn each added a sack in what has become a trademark team effort for a deep unit.

The Bruins were determined to bottle up the dynamic Fields in the first half, so Bonds called his own number more often and made them pay. The soph omore rushed three times for 59 yards and completed 7 of 11 passes for 110 yards and three touchdowns in an efficient ef fort, hitting Phares for a pair of touchdowns and adding a scoring strike to McLeod Reichel. Phares finished with

Beaufort’s Kacy Fields gets extra yards even after getting wrapped up by an OrangeburgWilkinson defender during Friday night’s playoff game at Beaufort. Fields’ extra effort contributed to the Eagles 52-0 rout of the visiting Bruins. Bob Sofaly/The Island News

three catches for 78 yards and two scores, rushed twice for 34 yards, and recorded a tackle, a pass breakup, and a pick on defense.

Fields found more running room after Bonds loosened up the defense and was able to grind out 168 yards on 20 carries and reach the end zone twice more, giving the senior an incredible 1,560 rushing yards and 21 touch downs this season — and he started the season at wide receiver. Fields is averaging 9.2 yards per carry and has averaged 209.6 rushing yards over the past seven games since becoming the Eagles’ primary ball carrier.

Beaufort (9-1) hosts Crest wood in a second-round matchup scheduled for 7:30 p.m. Friday.

Justin Jarrett is the sports editor of The Island News and the founder of LowcoSports.com. He was the sports editor of the Island Packet and the Beaufort Gazette for 6½ years. He has a passion for sports and community journalism and a questionable sense of humor.

Harris becomes winningest coach at USCB

USCB Sports Information

USCB women's soccer shut out Allen, 8-0, on Wednesday after noon to end the regular season, and with the victory, head coach Jay Harris claimed his 49th career win, surpassing inaugural coach Ed Heberling on the all-time career wins list.

USCB (11-6-1) went on attack mode from the opening kickoff taking multiple shots before Jenny Hesby found the back of the net in the 22nd minute. It was Hesby’s first career goal

Eva Kristjansdottir added to the tally just 90 seconds later, putting one past Allen's goalkeeper from the penalty spot.

Brodersen capped off the half with her first goal of the season in

the 37th minute on an assist from Ellie Fielding. The goal was the eighth of Brodersen’s career.

The Sand Sharks cruised in the sec ond half, netting five goals in the final 45 minutes. Mari Kalvatn scored her first goal of the match in the 56th minute and then her sec ond just six minutes later to giver her nine on the season and 44 for her career.

Lexi Kaeser and Savanna Page followed suit over the course of the next 14 minutes, while Julia Ghe rardi capped off the scoring with a PK goal in the final seconds of the match.

USCB awaits its opponent in the Continental Athletic Confer ence Tournament. The conference postseason tournament begins in the semifinals on Friday, Nov. 11 in Lawrenceville, Ga.

Worrell nabs 8th Player of the Week honor in 2022

For the second consecutive week, USCB women's soccer goal keeper Emily Worrell earned an other conference player of the week honor on Monday, Oct. 31. This week came from the Conti nental Athletic Conference office, as she garnered her fourth CAC Defensive Player of the Week acco lade during the 2022 season.

With her weekly honor, she has now won eight player of the week honors –four from the Peach Belt Conference and four from the Continental Ath letic Conference.

In the one-game week, Worrell saw out a 3-0 win over NCAA DI South Carolina State on the road. This was her eighth shutout of the year and 10th shutout of her career.

On the season, Worrell has claimed nine victories and has moved her goals against average (GAA) to below one goal allowed per game. She has amassed more than 1,400 minutes and has better than an 85 save percentage.

Moore, Eagles lead local cross country qualifiers

From staff reports Beaufort High’s boys cross coun try team has seen one runner after another graduate to the collegiate level in recent years, but a phenom has led a thin Eagles squad back to the state meet.

Freshman Gavin Moore finished third in his heat and fourth over all with a 5K time of 16:43.82 at the SCHSL Class 3A state qualifier Sat urday in Newberry, leading the Ea gles to a seventh-place team finish to earn a spot in the state champion ship field this week.

Xzavier Lacefield was next across the line, finishing 43rd in 19:10.97, and Connor Eby (19:18), Andrew Caprio (19:24), and Ryli Corbin (19:47) weren’t far behind, helping the Eagles secure a seventh-place finish in their heat and a spot in the state championship field.

Battery Creek’s Sophia Felix and Whale Branch’s Jesse Richardson qualified as individuals, with Rich ardson winning his heat in 17:32.60 and posting the second-best time of the day in the Class 1A boys division.

Bridges Prep’s David McDivitt (19:06.83) and Elise Thompson (22:40.04) finished seventh and eighth in their heats in the Class 1A races but just missed qualify ing, while Charlize Antia (22:40.96) paced Beaufort’s girls squad in 29th, and Aiden Northway (20:11.65) led the way for Battery Creek’s boys in 68th.

The SCHSL state championship meets are scheduled for Thurs day and Friday in Columbia with the Class 1A boys race at 1:30 p.m. Thursday, the Class 3A girls race at 9 a.m. Friday, and the Class 3A boys at 9:30 a.m. Friday.

PREP FOOTBALL ROUNDUP

Lake View 43, Whale Branch 21

Keith Chisholm scored a pair of second-half touchdowns and Austin Stephens had a rushing score, but the Warriors couldn’t get enough stops on defense to keep pace with the Wild Gators. Whale Branch took an early 7-0 lead before Lake View re sponded with 36 consecutive points, though it was 20-7 at halftime. The Warriors finish their injury-ravaged season with a 6-5 record.

Wilson Hall 35, John Paul II 8

Christian Tilton rushed for a touchdown before leaving at half time with a broken hand suffered on the first series, leaving the Golden Warriors without the firepower to keep pace with the Barons in the rematch despite an improved de fensive effort since last week’s 49-14 loss at home. Bryant Jolley rushed for 130 yards on 17 carries for JPII, while Sebastian Slusne added 11 tackles with a tackle for loss, a sack, and a forced fumble, and Sam Rem bold had seven tackles. JPII finishes with a 4-7 record.

Beaufort High’s Samari Bonds stretches the ball out for a touchdown in the first half while Orangeburg-Wilikinson defenders try to tackle his clothing Friday night at BHS Stadium. The Eagles crushed the Bruins, 52-0, to advance in the playoffs. The Eagles will host the Crestwood Knights at 7:30 p.m., Friday night. Bob Sofaly/The Island News

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Beaufort Academy blasts OP, earns rematch with War Hawks

By Justin Jarrett LowcoSports.com

They knew a rematch was coming in the semifinals, but the Beaufort Academy Eagles stayed focused on the task at hand Friday and dispatched Orangeburg Prep with a strong all-around effort.

Devonte Green led the way with 221 rushing yards and three touchdowns on 25 carries as the Eagles rolled up more than 500 yards of total offense and cruised to a comfortable win to open the SCISA 2A postseason and set up a second showdown with Colleton Prep on Friday at Merritt Field.

Jaxen Porter added 65 yards and a TD on the ground and had a long catch and run to set up the first of two field goals from Zeke Gonzalez, who added 122 yards from scrimmage and two twopoint conversions.

Braydon Dineen gave an other standout effort on both sides of the ball to lead the Eagles. Dineen rushed for 74 yards on five carries and completed 6 of 10 passes for

126 yards, including four for 89 yards to Gonzalez. And he added a team-high 11 tackles

(two for loss) on defense, but it was Green who carried the bulk of the load and found

the end zone three times. BA’s defense gave up a long touchdown pass in the first

quarter but otherwise locked down the Indians en route to a 26-8 halftime lead, and

EVERYBODY’S SAFE

most of the starters were on the sideline when the Indians scored a pair of fourth-quar ter touchdowns in a lopsided contest. Tres Delaney col lected seven tackles (three for loss) and two sacks, Ediel Gonzalez had five tackles (two for loss) and two sacks, and Tripp Gregory added five tackles (one for loss) and a sack for BA.

Now the Eagles (8-2) get another visit from Colleton Prep (10-1), just three weeks after edging the War Hawks, 20-19, when they stopped a two-point conversion with no time left on the clock.

That time, it gave BA an in side track to the region title. This time, the winner books its spot at Charleston South ern for the SCISA 2A state championship on Nov. 19.

Justin Jarrett is the sports editor of The Island News and the founder of LowcoSports.com. He was the sports editor of the Island Packet and the Beaufort Gazette for 6½ years. He has a passion for sports and community journalism and a questionable sense of humor.

Beaufort High grad earns prestigious TV internship

From staff reports

Beaufort High School grad uate Virgil Wade has been selected for the prestigious Television Academy Founda tion Internship Program.

Wade is one of just 12 students chosen by Tele vision Academy members from across the country for the 2022 fall program. The Foundation’s annual In ternship Program provides eight-week paid internships at top Hollywood studios

and produc tion compa nies to col lege students nationwide.

Wade is a senior at Loyola Ma rymount University and is studying writing and producing for television. This fall he will be interning in the script ed television department at Valhalla Entertainment in

Los Angeles.

Valhalla Entertainment is a film and television pro duction company founded by veteran producer Gale Anne Hurd, with credits that include the two-time Em my-winning series The Walk ing Dead, its companion se ries Fear the Walking Dead and spin-off The Walking Dead: World Beyond.

While attending Beaufort High School, Wade recalls watching the popular “Lois

Riverview Charter seeking nominations for Board of Directors

From staff reports

Riverview Charter School (RCS) is now taking nomina tions for its Board of Direc tors.

RCS is seeking five board members, each to serve a two-year term from Janu ary 2023 through December 2024.

Three of the board mem bers will be seated through the election process and the remaining two appoint ed by the currently seated board. The plurality of the vote will identify the first three candidates to be seat ed on the board. Following the election, the Riverview

Board of Directors will then select two additional candi dates from the nomination pool for appointment to the board.

Six of our current board members will be returning to serve the second year of their two-year terms.

In order to be most effec tive, according to a letter from RCS Board Chairman Reece Bertholf, the board needs a breadth and depth of experience and specific skills in education, facilities, finance, fundraising, legal, business, human resources, public relations and mar keting and previous gover

nance experience (non-prof it or corporate).

The Board Nomination and Election process and timeline is as follows:

Nov. 18: Deadline for sub mission of nominations.

Nov. 21-25: Candidate eli gibility review.

Nov. 28: Ballets distribut ed via email.

Dec. 5: Deadline for re ceiving votes is 6 p.m. Dec. 15: Announcement of election results at regular ly scheduled board meeting.

For questions or more in formation, contact Bertholf at reece.bertholf@riverview charterschool.org

& Clark” television series on Sunday Nights and discuss ing each episode with his classmates.

“My high school crush and I would discuss the se ries on Monday mornings. Now, I want to be the per son telling the story that in spires the chess nerd to talk to the cheerleader because it turns out they both like the same show!” Wade said.

“This feels amazing. I’m ex tremely honored to be a part

of the Television Academy Foundation Internship Pro gram.”

Interns become lifelong members of the Founda tion’s alumni family, giving them access to events and networking opportunities as they build their careers in the industry.

Established in 1959 as the charitable arm of the Tele vision Academy, the Televi sion Academy Foundation is dedicated to preserving

the legacy of television while educating and inspir ing those who will shape its future. Through renowned educational and outreach programs, the Foundation seeks to widen the circle of voices our industry rep resents and to create more opportunity for television to reflect all of society.

For more information on the Foundation, please visit TelevisionAcademy.com/ Foundation

Technical College of the Lowcountry awarded for marketing excellence

From staff reports

Technical College of the Lowcountry’s marketing de partment has been honored with two National Council for Marketing and Public Re lations (NCMPR) Medallion Awards.

TCL received a gold Me dallion for its 2022 State of the College report and a bronze Medallion for its program flyers. The awards, chosen from nearly 300 en tries, recognize excellence in design and communication at community and technical colleges at the district level.

“We are excited to be rec ognized by our peers and

other marketing profession als from around the south east,” TCL Assistant Vice President for Marketing Leigh Copeland said. “We love what we do and hope our marketing materials help encourage more people to take advantage of the great opportunities here at TCL.”

TCL marketing staff mem bers are Copeland, graphic artist Mark Rand, and public relations specialist Mindy Lucas.

The awards were present ed at the NCMPR Medallion Awards Ceremony at the District 2 Fall Conference in St. Petersburg, Florida, on

October 24. TCL is a mem ber of NCMPR District 2, which includes 11 southeast ern states – Alabama, Flori da, Georgia, Kentucky, Lou isiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia, West Virginia – as well as Bermu da, British Virgin Islands and The Bahamas.

The National Council for Marketing & Public Re lations (NCMPR) is the leading professional devel opment association exclu sively serving those working in communication at twoyear community and techni cal colleges.

Virgil Wade

Beaufort Academy quarterback Brandon Dineen turns to hand off the ball as lineman Dylan Chapman (70) looks for an Orangeburg Prep defender to block during SCISA 2A playoff action Friday night at Merritt Field. The Eagles won the contest, 36-23, and will advance to face Colleton Prep at 6:30 p.m. this Friday, Nov. 11, at BA’s Merritt Field. Bob Sofaly/The Island News

Red Snappers third baseman Tucker Mickel fields the ball but can’t make the tag on Sand Fleas’ Tyler Brant in Beaufort County Adult Men’s Baseball League action on Wednesday night at Burton Wells Athletic Complex. The Snappers won the contest, 8-5.

Royals shortstop P.J. Stanley can’t hang onto the ball as Braves pinch runner Danny Morgan safely steals second base Wednesday night at Burton Wells Athletic Complex. The Royals went on to win, 8-2, in Beaufort County Adult Men’s Baseball League action. Photos by Bob Sofaly/The Island News

LIVING ON PURPOSE

Joy and peace are a state of mind

Fearand stress are often blamed for ruining our contentment and hap piness, but anxiety is not an uncontrollable monster that forces us to be afraid. Actual ly, these negative responses originate from within our own beliefs. In this light, pessi mism is a personal decision that will continue to influence our thinking until a new system of thought processing is installed.

The Bible says in the book of Romans 12:2, “Do not conform to the views of this world but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s will is his good, pleasing and perfect will.” Simply stated, this verse is generally talking about interpreting our views through the lens of God’s Word and the inspiration of the Holy Spirit, rather than through the lens of our emo tions, past experiences, or the opinions of others.

Recognizing our patterns and tendencies to be gloomy can explain why we react in certain ways and help us improve our pessimistic attitudes. Asking God to help us re-wire our minds is the key to learning how to trust Him as changing the way we think will change who we are as we demonstrate a life that honors Him.

The recent decline in our economy is now at the point where many are feeling stressed and worried. My wife and I have noticed our home and auto insurance is climbing along with a signif icant increase in our utility bills and property taxes. With mortgage interest rates rising, we are seeing home sales slowing down and subse quently real estate prices are

falling.

HOLLAND

We have concerns about shortages, along with the rising cost of food and fuel and it only makes sense that as the cost of operating a business increases, they must raise prices to maintain a profit. Some are indeed jumping on the price-gouging wagon, but nonetheless, our world is currently not heading in a good direction.

We can look back in history and see there are ups and downs in the stock markets and inflation, but whether enjoying prosperity or expe riencing difficulties, it’s wise to remember that God is our source and it’s more secure to place our truth in Him than any earthly government.

We are not to ignore what is going on, but the way we live is not based on a political party, it’s standing for truth and doing what is right in God’s eyes.

It only makes things worse to blame others or to argue about the condition of our nation. We must realize that it is Satan who manipulates humans and his purpose is to steal, kill, and destroy which includes wreaking havoc on economies, creating division, and causing people to suffer.

However, the Lord promis es in Joshua 1:9, “Have I not commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Do not be afraid; do not be discouraged, for the Lord your God will be

with you wherever you go.”

People talk about going to their “happy place” a seemingly magical location where we can take shelter from whatever is threatening our security. But what is this about? It can mean different things to different people but for those who have a relationship with God, it’s a place in the deepest part of our conscience where we can commune with God and embrace the safety and joy of His presence.

It is said that trying times are not the times to stop trying and that we can either give up or get up. Often when people face serious chal lenges in life, they lose hope rather than persevere in faith.

We are reminded in Psalm 91:1, “They who dwell in the secret place of the Most High shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty.”

In 1st Samuel, Chapter 3, it says that David found strength in the Lord, which means he encouraged him self. He was facing one of the most difficult challenges of his life, and no one was around to encourage him. There will be times when no one is around to counsel or give us a pep talk, and it’s during these seasons that we will need to embrace God’s promises for ourselves.

Whether it be an emotion al, psychological or spiritual issue, we can either be in control of our thoughts or our assumptions will control us. When we receive God’s wisdom it allows us to see life from His positive perspective which is never associated with fear, depression, or hope lessness.

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VOICES

The marshes are key to our survival

Itis Friday, Oct. 30, and I’m standing in 6 inches of water trying to sub merge a 6 inch-wide hose that comes capped-off with a stainless steel nozzle. The nozzle and hose are attached to a Honda,120 GS, gas pow ered suction pump.

This morning I’m doing this with a mug of coffee — Green Mountain Dark Magic — and with five friends who are helping me keep Ian’s unwanted, unwelcome water from going under my office building on Carteret Street.

Each of these 5 people have their own homes, their own worries, which are now attenuated, dissipated by “breaking news” that Hurricane Ian is drifting to the Northeast and appar ently taking its wind, water, mayhem and mischief to Myrtle Beach. The mention of Myrtle Beach takes me back my childhood.

When I was still a freck

SCOTT GRABER

led-faced, large-lipped, often-sunburned boy, I spent almost every July at Ocean Drive Beach which has since been subsumed into a vast, unbroken assemblage of hotels, high-rise condomini ums and discount towel and flip-flop shops called North Myrtle Beach. I spent my days swimming and build ing drip-styled sandcastles on it’s wide strand. I was a carefree child who was wellloved by a large, outspoken, fearless woman named Min nie Teachey — my maternal grandmother.

On Oct. 15, 1954, Hurricane

Hazel made landfall at Ocean Drive Beach completely removing my grandmother’s 2nd row cottage from the face of the earth. I want to be clear that I was not inside that doomed cottage on Oct. 15, 1954. But for years after that “Hazel” was a dark presence in my consciousness synon ymous with septicemia and sudden death brought on by an aneurysm.

I must admit that this lurking, childhood darkness has never completely gone away. Every time I see that an unnamed “disturbance” has formed just off the coast of Senegal — I think back to the flat, vacant, second-row lot scrubbed-clean in the early morning hours of Oct. 15, 1954. These days I also think of Hurricane Irma.

On Aug. 27, 2017, Hurri cane Irma began its life off the coast of Senegal, mean dered into the Caribbean, and on September 17 hit the West

Coast of Florida. Like Ian, Irma battered and busted up central Florida. Some of us in Beaufort believed we had escaped, yet again, and Susan and I broke out a bottle of Lamarca Prosecco and drank to our good fortune. But we were wrong. We were too soon in our drinking and toasting and, if memory serves, breaking out a second bottle of Lamarca.

Even though Irma sucked water out of Tampa Bay, and was down-graded and diminished by its path over Florida, it came into Beaufort County from the Southwest with a full moon and a high tide. These two factors — like the late, great Bobo Olsen leading with a left jab then hitting us with a right cross — flooded the stormwater pipes on the Old Point.

My office was and is located on Carteret Street in an area populated with small buinesses like the Chocolate

Tree, Budget Print and J. H. Hiers Construction. We were all hit when Irma sent its surge through the City’s drainage pipes and into my tasteful, well-appointed lobby.

As Tim Wood, Kristy Wood, Dean Moss, Wendy Zara, David Taub, Susan and I drink our Green Mountain Dark Magic Coffee and tinker around with the Honda 120 pump, we talk about Beau fort’s repeated designation as “America’s Best Small Town”.

Why, we wonder, would anyone want to live in a place where periodic evacuation to a pet-friendly Motel 8 in Augusta and days-long expo sure to the gospel as revealed by Jim Cantore routinely interrupt our “warm, welcom ing, laid-back lifestyle?”

Why do retirees continue to move to Beaufort County given our recent encounters with Irma, Matthew and Hugo? Why do they come to

a place that is biblically hot for five months every year and home to a huge biome of flying, biting, impervi ous-to-DEET insects?

I think it’s the marsh.

The marshes of Beaufort County — illuminated every morning with low-angled sunlight — give us our daily dollop of hope. These same grey-green, life-filled waters give us an immediate escape — physical and mental — from our ubiquitous, depress ing architecture of fast food, Chinese-made retail and same-day nail salons.

Notwithstanding all of this overwhelming banality, the sun and the marsh reliably perform their nondenom inational baptism every morning; their forgiving benediction every night.

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

Elon, you should have called me

Ishake

my head at the upheaval surrounding billionaire Elon Musk’s purchase of social media outlet Twitter.

On one side you have conservatives who praise the native South African for using the bully power of his wallet to take over a platform that vexed them by taking away access for people like former President Donald Trump and other merchants of misinformation.

On another side you have liberals who criticize Musk for saying he will reopen Twitter to Trump and others who had been de-platformed for their misdeeds. They are leaving in droves and encour aging others to do the same.

Financial experts wonder why Musk paid $44 billion for something that in August of this year was worth only about $14 billion, according to GO Banking Rates, and had revenue in 2021 of only $5 billion. Musk is offering a

monthly subscription option to users, but users ask why they should have to pay for the “free speech” he prom ised.

Politicos wonder what Musk is trying to accomplish in joining the likes of other bigwigs trying to control the public discourse. There have been more than a couple attempts by right-wingers to create Trump-friendly Twit ter alternatives. Truth Social, Dissenter, Gab, and Parler are just a few.

They’ve mostly failed because top talent tends to go to the top sites — like Twitter — and the also-rans

don’t have the expertise to make user-friendly sites that won’t also leak your personal information to the average 12-year-old with a Chrome book. And they have failed because most advertisers want no part of controversy.

Founders cry about “cancel culture,” but that’s just how things work.

Finally you have folks like me who are content to wait and see what happens because we know Twitter and most other social media plat forms are chaos magnets.

My first experience managing a social platform came when I was multime dia editor at a newspaper in Alabama’s capital. We had a popular message board where readers could go back and forth about what was going on in the city and its bedroom communities.

Sports was a big topic.

Fervor for Alabama and especially Auburn football at that time still amazes me

(when I was asked which team I followed and an swered, “Clemson,” I was typically dismissed with, “Oh, we already beat y’all” by members of both fanbases. I regret I wasn’t still there in the Deshaun Watson-Trevor Lawrence years.)

Being a moderator for the board mostly meant tweak ing the content filters built in to the system to catch obscenities before they could be posted. I’d weigh in if a user complained, but normal ly the system policed itself. Who had time to sit and read all those posts?

Our Auburn beat writer had his own successful mes sage board and leveraged it into a job with a rival media outlet. I was asked to oversee the board he had run, also. That’s where the fun began. His faithful users resented his departure and blamed me because I was a representa tive of the company that had “gotten rid of” their favorite.

They resented that I updated the content filters to match the one on the newspaper’s main site. A few resented me because I wasn't an Auburn fan like most of them, and there were probably a couple who resented my being Afri can-American.

Their challenges were aggravating at times, but I generally kept a professional demeanor. You might even say jovial. But then the former writer started a new site and began asking his support ers to leave the site I was in charge of to come to his new one. One user became so concerned they sent me a screenshot of messages between users who were privately discussing under mining the old site. Why did I ever mention that I knew what they were doing? Suddenly, I was attacked for violating their freedom of speech, stealing their personal information, contacting their places of

employment and trying to get people fired.

I had done none of that, of course, but the watering hole had been poisoned and users began to leave it. The newspa per’s Auburn forum withered, and the new forum thrived until the same writer left it for yet another competitor.

And that's the problem with these platforms. They aren't built for longevity. For the most part, they live fast, die young and leave behind a few good-looking bank accounts — and a lot of ugly empty ones, too.

Assigning too much relevance to any of them is a waste of time. And money. I could've told Elon Musk that, but guys like him only listen to people who congratulate them on being smart enough to be born rich.

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

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

TERRY MANNING

WHAT’S HAPPENING

CALENDAR

Shorts at High Noon at TCL

Noon to 1 p.m., every Wednesday, TCL’s Beaufort campus. Free and open to the public. Check-in is at 11:30 a.m. All films were featured at the 2022 Beaufort International Film Festival.

Bluffton Night Bazaar — a Lowcountry Made Market

5 to 8 p.m., first Thursday of each month, Burnt Church Distillery, 120 Bluffton Road. A highly curated selection of accessories, clothing, home goods, custom gifts and more by local artists and makers.

Rooted Beaufort Yoga classes

5:30 to 6:45 p.m., Thursdays, Cypress Wetlands, Port Royal; 9 to 10:15 a.m., Whitehall Park or Pigeon Point Park. Rooted Beaufort is a collective of local Yoga teachers who host outdoor yoga classes and donation-based events with proceeds being donated locally on a rotating basis.

Wet Willie's Trivia Night

7 to 10 p.m., every Thursday, Wet Willie's, Beaufort Town Center. Win awesome prizes while you sip the worlds greatest daiquiris and munch on delicious bites.

Wet Willie's Bingo Night

7 to 10 p.m., every Friday, Wet Willie's, Beaufort Town Center. Win free giveaways, merchandise, and more cool prizes.

Port Royal Farmers Market

9 a.m. to noon, Saturdays, year round, Naval Heritage Park, 1615 Ribaut Road, Port Royal. Rain or shine. You will find fresh, local, seasonal produce, shrimp, oysters, poultry, beef, pork, eggs, bread and cheese, as well as plants, ferns, camellias, azaleas, citrus trees and beautiful, fresh cut flower bouquets. There are prepared food vendors serving barbecue, dumplings, she crab soup, crab cakes, paella, coffee, baked goods, bagels and breakfast sandwiches. No pets allowed. For more information, visit http:// www.portroyalfarmersmarket.com/, visit @ portroyalfarmersmarket on Facebook or call 843-295-0058.

Lowcountry Made Markets

9 a.m. to 1 p.m., first and third Saturday of each month through December, Buckwalter Place Park, next to Kroger off Buckwalter Place Blvd., Bluffton. Each market includes local vendors, live music, food and drink. The events are free. Participating vendors include: Gullah Express LLC (food truck), Declan’s Delights, Pick N Paint Pottery, Preservation Tree Art, 7th & Palm, Kara Artman Art, Southern Botanica, Hedone (bath & body), Blue Door Boutique, The Herb Room Organic Apothecary, Juke Joint Sweets, BPC Custom Furniture, Back to Eden Self Care Products, LLC, Shutterbug Custom Designs LLC, Pet Wants Hilton Head, Grind Coffee Roasters, LLC, Fabula Collective, The Artsy Girl, KODA Glass Designs, Lowcountry Livin’, Legacy Art Gallery, Cottonwood Soap Company, Marsh View Candles and Crafted With A Purpose.

Lady’s Island Garden Club bake sale

10 a.m. to 2 p.m., Saturday, Nov. 12, in front of Grayco Hardware and Home at 136 Sea Island Parkway. Homemade baked goods will include whole cakes and pies and packages of cookies, snack mix, muffins, cupcakes, brownies, sugar-free and gluten-free items and treats for man’s best friend. Many of the baked goods will be packaged for gift giving. Holiday and seasonal wreaths and fresh floral arrangements created talented gardeners will be offered. The Lady’s Island Garden Club is a 501(c) (3) organization and proceeds from the fundraiser will be used for community service projects. Current projects include maintaining the Tree Walk on the Point, planting flowers at the Beaufort National Cemetery, supporting Wreaths Across America and more. The Club also contributes financially to many charitable organizations, such as Habitat for Humanity, Friends of Hunting Island, Friends of Fort Fremont, Port Royal Sound Foundation, Lowcountry Raptors and Beaufort Open Land Trust.

Snowball Crafts Market

11 a.m to 3 p.m., Saturday, Nov. 12, Beaufort Yacht and Sailing Club, 30 Yacht Club Drive, off Meridian Drive, Beaufort. BYSC Artisans will have handmade craft items including fabric arts, pottery, glass, paintings, pet portraits, jewelry, ornaments, gifts and more. There will also be food, games and activities.

Port Royal Cypress Wetlands tours

4 to 5:30 p.m., Sunday, Nov. 13; 4 to 5:30 p.m., Friday, Nov. 25. You don't want to miss the Free guided tours of the Port Royal Cypress Wetlands. Master Naturalist Jill Moore is full of information about the alligators, turtles, trees, plants, and the variety of birds that call the wetlands home. This is a great opportunity to learn about this magical place. Tours are limited in size so sign up now – Kat Bray, Tour Coordinator, info@foprcw.org. Sponsored by Friends of Port Royal Cypress Wetlands.

YMCA Puppy Plunge

9 to 11 a.m., Saturdays, Nov. 19, Dec. 17, Jan. 28, Feb. 25, March 25. Wardle Family YMCA, Outdoor pool, 1801 Richmond Ave., Port Royal. Well-behaved canines of all breeds and sizes are welcome. Cost is $10 per pup. All proceeds benefit the Y’s Learn to Swim program. Owners will be required to sign a waiver before entering the enclosed, exterior pool area (use the side entrance gate), must be present with their pups at all times, and humans are not permitted to swim in the Puppy Plunge. The YMCA asks that pets be up-to-date on all vaccinations. Event is weather dependent so check the YMCA social media or call the Y front desk at 843-522-9622 the morning of the Puppy Plunge to check any status update.

Lowcountry Christian Women’s Connection

11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m., Wednesday, Dec. 7, Hampton Hall Clubhouse, 170 Hampton Hall Blvd., Bluffton. Christmas music, holiday games, fun, prizes, guest speaker, and lunch.

Prepaid Reservations: Luncheon is $28 payable to CWC Bluffton and send to Carol Mock, 607 Argent Way, Bluffton SC. 29909 or email Julie. ott.az@gmail.com

Beaufort Oyster Festival

Saturday-Sunday, Jan. 21-22, 2023, Henry C. Chambers Waterfront Park, Beaufort. www. BftOysterFestival.com.

MCAS Beaufort Airshow Saturday-Sunday, April 22-23, 2023, MCAS Beaufort. Visit BeaufortAirShow.com. General admission is free.

GOLF

Inaugural Stingray Scramble Saturday, Nov. 12, Ocean Creek Course, Fripp Island. Tournament benefits Riverview Charter School. Event features golf, food, awards and an after party. Details to come.

HISTORY

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 historicportroyalfoundation@gmail.com or call 843-524-4333.

Tour Historic Fort Fremont Dawn to dusk, Monday through Sunday, The Fort Fremont Preserve, 1124 Land’s End Road, St. Helena Island. Free and open to the public. The History Center is open Fridays from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., and Saturdays from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Visitors can learn about the fort’s history during the Spanish-American War through interpretive signs, self-guided walking tours with a smart phone, exhibits in the history center, and docent-led tours. For more information visit www.fortfremont.org or contact Passive Parks Manager Stefanie Nagid at snagid@bcgov.net.

MEETINGS

Beaufort Sportfishing and Diving Club

November

meeting

7 p.m., Thursday, Nov. 10, Beaufort Yacht and Sailing Club located on Lady’s Island off of Meridian Road. Social begins at 6:30 p.m. Guests are welcome. Reservations are not needed. The guest speaker is Ryan Yaden, DNR Director of the S.C. Artificial Reef Program. Ryan will present the history of this very successful program with updates on the reef from Edisto to Hilton Head White Water Reef, including new coordinates. He will also present deployments of materials of opportunity at these reefs with underwater video of deployed tanks, APCS Barges, Tug Boat, and NY Subway Car. Weigh in your favorite catch at the Port Royal Landing Marina – Safe Harbor – during regular hours. Swinton Anderson won the monthly $50 drawing for October. Winners must be present at the next month’s meeting to receive the cash award. For additional information, contact Captain Frank Gibson at 843-522-2122 or email fgibson@islc.net.

The Beaufort Trailblazers –A Volunteer Group

8 a.m., first Thursday each month, Herban Marketplace, Beaufort. Anyone interested in supporting or building off-road/dirt/wilderness mountain biking/jogging/walking trails near is encouraged to attend. For more information, call 843-575-0021 or email universitybicycles@ hotmail.com.

Zonta Club of Beaufort

6 p.m., 4th Tuesday of each month, Smokehouse, Port Royal. Until November 22, we are participating in a service project with a global organization called Free the Girls. We are currently collecting new and gently used bras to help women rescued from trafficking start their own businesses selling the bras. Last year our club collected more than 600 bras and we are hoping to beat that number this year. Our collection sites are Amy Bowman State Farm Agency, 1284 Ribaut Rd., Myrna B. Breland, CPA, 1 Professional Drive, Port Royal, and Nourishing Health Acupuncture and Herbs, 34A Savannah Hwy.

Maye River Quilters 10 a.m., Saturday, Nov. 5, Palmetto Electric Cooperative, 1 Cooperative Way, Hardeeville. The wearing of masks is encouraged. For more meeting dates and times, and for membership forms to join the group, call 843-705-9590. To attend the meeting as a guest, send an RSVP email to mayeriverquilters@gmail.com.

Sea Island Quilt Guild 6:30 p.m., Thursday, Nov. 17, Carteret Street United Methodist Church, 408 Carteret Street, Beaufort.

Hosting our annual auction. Be sure to bring items you would like to donate to the guild, and we will auction it off to the highest bidder. All are welcome.

MUSIC

Fripp Island Friends of Music Concert Series

5 p.m., specific Sundays, Fripp Island Community Centre, 205 Tarpon Blvd., Fripp Island. Individual shows are $30. Consider becoming a member of Fripp Island Friends of Music (FIFOM). Membership gives you access to all five concerts, including the post-performance reception where you meet the musicians while enjoying delicious hors d’oeuvres prepared fresh by Harold’s Chef Services. It also helps fund FIFOM’s Musicin-the-Schools program. The basic FIFOM membership, $100, has not changed. To become a member, text or call Vanessa Peñaherrera at 704-807-0255 or email vandy116@gmail. com. Go to frippfriendsofmusic.com for more information. Schedule: Nov. 13, TAKE3 (highenergy mix of classical, pop and jazz); Jan. 8, Andrew Armstrong (piano); Feb. 26, The Tony Lee Group (jazz); March 26, Kim Richey (singer-songwriter).

Sons of Mystro

7:30 p.m., Friday, Nov. 11, USCB Center For The Arts. Tickets are $30 for adults, $25 for senior citzens or military and $15 for students. For more information, visit www. uscbcenterforthearts.com or call 843-521-4145.

LIBRARY ACTIVITIES

Escape Quest Games

9 a.m. to 6 p.m., Mondays through Thursdays; 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., Fridays and Saturdays, Beaufort Downtown Branch Library, 311 Scott Street, Beaufort, 843-255-6456.

Dungeons & Dragons

4 p.m., Mondays, Beaufort Downtown Branch Library, 311 Scott Street, Beaufort, 843255-6441. Ages 12 to 18.

Lego Club

4:30 to 5:30 p.m., Mondays, St. Helena Branch Library, 6355 Jonathan Francis Senior Road, St. Helena Island, 843-255-6540. All ages welcome.

Time for Tea (English Tea Party)

3 p.m., 1st Monday of each month, Beaufort Downtown Branch Library, 311 Scott Street, Beaufort, 843-255-6456.

Recipe Club

10 a.m., 2nd Monday of each month, Beaufort Downtown Branch Library, 311 Scott Street, Beaufort, 843-255-6456.

Online

is available at hwy21drivein. com on the Now Playing page. Patrons are asked to arrive early on Friday and Saturday nights. Gates open at 6:30 p.m.

“Our family at the Hwy. 21 drive in feel a responsibility to our community,” a statement from Highway 21 Drive-In management reads.

“We are concerned about many things in these trying times and in making the right decisions.

We are concerned with our employees, our patrons, our business, our community’s businesses, and the health and well-being of all.”

A reminder: no outside food or beverages can be brought into the drive-in.

Upcoming movies include Black Panther Wakanda Forever (November) and Avatar The Way of Water (November).

Knitting/Crochet Class

2:30 p.m., 1st Tuesday each month, Beaufort Downtown Branch Library, 311 Scott Street, Beaufort, 843-255-6456.

Teen Art Club

4 p.m., 1st & 3rd Tuesdays of each month, Beaufort Downtown Branch Library, 311 Scott Street, Beaufort, 843-255-6441. Ages 12-18.

Teen Anime Club

4 p.m., 2nd & 4th Tuesdays of each month, Beaufort Downtown Branch Library, 311 Scott Street, Beaufort, 843-255-6456.

Coffee & Conversation

9 a.m., 1st Wednesday of each month, Beaufort Downtown Branch Library, 311 Scott Street, Beaufort, 843-255-6456. Coffee with a librarian.

Teen Video Game Club

4 p.m., 1st & 3rd Wednesdays of each month, Beaufort Downtown Branch Library, 311 Scott Street, Beaufort, 843-255-6441. Ages 12 to 18.

Hoopla Class

4 p.m., 4th Wednesday of each month, Beaufort Downtown Branch Library, 311 Scott Street, Beaufort, 843-255-6456.

S.C. Works Job Coaching

2 to 4 p.m., Thursdays, St. Helena Branch Library, 6355 Jonathan Francis Senior Road, St. Helena Island, 843-255-6540. Free help with job searches, interviews.

Line Dance Class

3:30 p.m., 1st & 3rd Thursdays of each month, Beaufort Downtown Branch Library, 311 Scott Street, Beaufort, 843-255-6456.

Chess Club

1 to 2 p.m., Saturdays, St. Helena Branch Library, 6355 Jonathan Francis Senior Road, St. Helena Island, 843-255-6540. Ages 5 and older.

Chess Meet Up

11 a.m., 2nd Saturday of each month, Beaufort Downtown Branch Library, 311 Scott Street, Beaufort, 843-255-6456. Instructor Henry Otto Seim will show beginners the basics or play a friendly game with more experienced players. All skill levels welcome. Extra boards will be set up.

Beaufort Downtown Branch Library Special Programs

Select Tuesdays and Thursdays, Beaufort Downtown Branch Library, 311 Scott Street, Beaufort, 843-255-6456. 2:30 p.m., Sept. 13, Civic Awareness; 2:30 p.m., Oct. 20, Friends of the Library Celebration; 2:30 p.m., Nov. 15, Beekeeping; 2:30 p.m., Dec. 13, Gingerbread House Contest.

Two-year-old Gunner Willis decided he’d had enough of the jumping and decided to exit during the annual Harvest Festival on Saturday at Community Bible Church. There were also games, hay rides, live music and plenty of food to be had during the event on church grounds.

Bob Sofaly/The Island News

UNITED STATES MARINE CORPS

Recruit Training Regiment, Marine Corps Recruit Depot

Parris Island, South Carolina, 10 November 2022

Recruit Training Regiment • Commanding Officer, Colonel B. W. Ward

1st Recruit Training Battalion • Commanding Officer, Lieutenant Colonel M. C. Rock Company “C”, 1st Recruit Training Battalion • Commanding Officer, Captain D. R. Durno 4th Recruit Training Battalion • Commanding Officer, Lieutenant Colonel A. R. Dones Company “N”, 4th Recruit Training Battalion • Commanding Officer, Captain A. B. Cranford Commander of Troops, First Sergeant B. J. Curry • Parade Adjutant, Staff Sergeant E. A. McPherson Drill Masters • Gunnery Sergeant T. M. Moore, Staff Sergeant B. Guzman

PLATOON 1080

Senior Drill Instructor

Sgt C. J. Bohorquez

Pvt Acosta, L. M.

Pvt Beckner, D. T.

Pvt Berganza, B.

Pvt Berkenmier, B. J.

PFC Bradshaw, D. W.

PFC Burnett, W. J.

PFC Cathey, W. G.

Pvt Chamblinbetancourt, A. E.

PFC Chapman, A. L.

Pvt Chavez, M. A.

PFC Cleveland, A. K.

Pvt Cline, M. J.

Pvt Cook, J. A.

Pvt Creamer, D. E.

Pvt Eadie,W. L.

Pvt Enriquez, J. A.

PFC Gonzalezvaldez, B. M.

PFC Heagle, E. C.

PFC Hodges, J. M. PFC Hubbard, K. W.

Pvt Hunt Jr, D. R.

Pvt Jordan, J. B.

Pvt Kilgore, I. J.

PFC Laster Jr, A. L.

Pvt Laville, J. K.

PFC Lesnak, S. E. *

Pvt Manikas, K. L.

Pvt Manning, C. J.

PFC Mcleod, C. D.

Pvt Naylor, D. T.

PFC Newell, A. G. *

PFC Nguyen, K.

Pvt Nicholls, A. R.

Pvt Parnell, D. T.

Pvt Pate Jr, J. H.

PFC Pearson, J. J.

Pvt Philbrick, C. D.

Pvt Pope, K. B.

PFC Ramirez, A. J.

PFC Ramsey, J. T.

PFC Roberts, T. D. *

Pvt Rosado, F. A.

PFC Scronce, H. K.

PFC Sharpe, C. D. *

PFC Shook, S. A.

Pvt Singletary, B. C.

PFC Smith, B. P.

PFC Snipes, J. K. *

Pvt Stanley, B.

Pvt Tellezlucas, C.

PFC Thompson, E. E.

Pvt Trinidadgracia, A. G.

Pvt Varanadoe, B. W.

Pvt Villalbaaguilar, D.

Pvt Villamor, B. L.

Pvt Wakeman, C. J.

PFC Winston, J. N.

PLATOON 1081

Senior Drill Instructor

Sgt M. Mbengue

Pvt Alvarez, C. D.

Pvt Baisden, T. D.

PFC Belill, L. T.

PFC Bouck, G. S.

PFC Brandimarte, E. G. *

Pvt Burdeshaw, E. Z.

Pvt Catalanbello, M.

Pvt Colon, D. M.

Pvt Contrastato, M. A.

PFC Cook, E. D.

PFC Cueman, A. J.

Pvt Eras, J. E.

Pvt Fancher, H. D.

Pvt Gonzalez, M. A.

Pvt Guerrero, Z. P.

Pvt Harper, B. K.

PFC Herndon, H. T.

Pvt Holland, J. R.

Pvt Holland, N. R.

Pvt Hunt, L. R.

Pvt Hutchins, K. A.

Pvt Karl, D. C.

Pvt Kutzli, J. T.

Pvt Litchmore, O. N.

PFC Lockett, S. R.

Pvt Lopezsantiago, E. M.

Pvt Lormond, D. M.

Pvt Lunaalvarado, A. M.

PFC Maddox II, D. S.

Pvt Maldonado, M. A.

Pvt Marconi Jr, A. J.

PFC Marsh, S. T.

Pvt Mckenzie, D. A.

PFC Mckiver, M. X.

PFC Monroymolina, M. A.

Pvt Montgomery, D. S.

Pvt Myatt, J. I.

Pvt Nunez, L. G.

PFC Odell, Jacob A.

Pvt Perezsantos, O. M. Pvt Pina, J. A.

PFC Post, T. J. *

Pvt Reese, A. M. Pvt Rigby, R. R. Pvt Riley, K. L.

PFC Rivasmedina, R.

Pvt Roach, A. P. PFC Ruffner, A. S. Pvt Sanchez, J.

PFC Sandersdills, H. S.

Pvt Schlueter, A. B.

Pvt Schultz, I. M. Pvt Smith, A. A.

Pvt Smith, L. C.

Pvt Somiah, K. S. PFC Steinmetz Jr, F. W. PFC Stewart, K. M. Pvt Sweeney, P. P.

Pvt Tennian, T. J.

Pvt Thibault, C. E. PFC Torressanchez, L. * Pvt Trefry, J. L.

Pvt Veles, E. J.

Pvt Villavicencio Jr, D. H. PFC Warsaw, J. N.

Pvt Wehrley, B. D.

PFC Wilkins, J. T. *

PFC Williams, L. A. Pvt Wolfeswann, A. M.

PLATOON

1082

Senior Drill Instructor SSgt E. EstradaQuinones

PFC Alicea, J. E. *

Pvt Allen, J. J.

Pvt Badillo, J. A.

PFC Bastias, A. D.

PFC Bellnoski, T. P.

Pvt Cariellosuarez, M.

Pvt Carr, J. E.

Pvt Delicat, M. A.

PFC Diaz, C. A.

PFC Diaz, T. A. *

Pvt Dieppatejeda, M. J.

PFC Dytzel, I. C.

Pvt Elam, P. L.

Pvt Fairley, J. P.

PFC Fernandez, J. A.

Pvt Fernandezgutierrez, P. N.

Pvt Fucetola, G. L.

Pvt Galeoterodriguez, J. J.

Pvt Gomez, C. A.

Pvt Gossard, S. E.

Pvt Grant, J. R.

Pvt Hagedorn, E. W.

Pvt Hill, C. J.

Pvt Hilton, S. S.

Pvt Hinestrosa, J. J.

Pvt Kjelshus, L. B.

Pvt Lemaguartazaca, J. D.

Pvt Lesperance, D. K.

Pvt Lopez, X. S.

Pvt Lukes, K. J.

Pvt Martin, M. B.

Pvt Massengill, L. J.

Pvt Mccullough, C. C.

Pvt Mcdougalldinzey, B.

Pvt Michel, T. J.

Pvt Miller, J. P.

PFC Mixon Jr, M. C.

Pvt Ohara, H. J.

Pvt Padilla Jr, E. G.

PFC Paladino, E. L. *

Pvt Pedroso, C. S.

Pvt Perea, A. A.

Pvt Pruett, R. K.

PFC Ramirezchavez, B. Pvt Rey, E.

PFC Richardson, M. L.

PFC Rodriguezleon, L.

Pvt Roesener, K. J.

PFC Roth, B. P.

PFC Salezrecoba, J. M.

PFC Sanjuan, S.

PFC Santiagosanchez, R. M.

Pvt Sargent, A. R.

Pvt Schreib, T. A.

PFC Serret, N. J. *

PFC Sundaram, N. K.

Pvt Taft, S. L.

PFC Taylor, L. A.

PFC Terrero, J. A.

Pvt Texocorodriguez, B.

PFC Vanriper III, R. J.

Pvt Vargas, W. E.

Pvt Vasquezrebata, N. A.

Pvt Vazquez, R. Pvt Warner, J. A. PFC Weimer, R. D.

Pvt Wiedenman, T. R.

PFC Wiseman, M. G. Pvt Woods, R. M.

PLATOON 1084

Senior Drill Instructor SSgt S. O. Morman

PFC Acevedodelgado, J. J. Pvt Aliff Jr, A. W.

PFC Alvarez, E.A. *

PFC Aponte, C. R. *

Pvt Arroyo, I. J.

PFC Baldwin, J. D. *

PFC Barrows, C.V.

PFC Bates, V.T.

Pvt Bergiste, J. Pvt Brown, J. Z.

Pvt Bryant, A. K.

PFC Cardenas, J. E.

PFC Checchia, J.C.

Pvt Corchogarcia, A.

Pvt Crawford, C. G.

Pvt Diaz, R. A.

Pvt Dillon, A. J.

Pvt Dysonhines, J .I.

Pvt Ellis, N. D.

Pvt Espinoza, S. E.

Pvt Estes, W. W.

Pvt Exposito, S. E.

Pvt Ferchawkazmin, A. N.

Pvt Foley, A. C.

Pvt Fritz, N. C

Pvt Griffie, C. L.

Pvt Hair, C.L.

Pvt Haynes, M. H.

Pvt Hibbertnomezqui, J. E.

Pvt Hipps, N. B.

Pvt Hunterwilliamson, A. A

Pvt Ingersoll, J. N.

PFC Jaraczewski, B. R.

Pvt Jenkins, J. D.

Pvt Jonhson, R. C.

Pvt Kirkpartick, S. D.

PFC Kostera, A. B

PFC Mater, C. J. *

PFC Mendoza, F. R. *

PFC Moore, J. B.

PFC Morales, Y. A.

Pvt Morton, Z. D.

Pvt Ofcansky, S. T.

PFC Osmer, T. J.

Pvt Peng, S. M.

Pvt Prowant, L. A.

Pvt Quintana, J. A.

PFC Renfrow, N. K.

PFC Ruizdesomocurcio, G. A.

PFC Sanchez, J. A.

PFC Scott, D. A.

PFC Sills, C. S.

Pvt Skinner, P. J.

Pvt Sloan, J. T.

LCpl Tantillo, N. A.

Pvt Weil, J. C.

Pvt Williams, E. L.

PFC Wooten, C. R.

Pvt Zertcucherodridues, E.

PLATOON 1085

Senior Drill Instructor Sgt C. R. Masters

Pvt Aguila, A. L.

Pvt Akridge II, S. M.

Pvt Akuoko, A. K.

PFC Alegria, K. A.*

Pvt Algarin, G. E.

Pvt Almodovarmelendez, L. H.

Pvt Auletto, M. A.

Pvt Ault, C. L.

Pvt Binns, D. E.

Pvt Boggs, L. J.

Pvt Calazan, G. J.

Pvt Capuano, A. A.

Pvt Cruz, O. E.

PFC Edwards, P.*

Pvt Elhaj, K.

Pvt Figueroa, L. J.

Pvt Fredericksen, A. D.

Pvt Froedge, L. W.

Pvt Grady, A. P.

Pvt Graveratte, A. E.

Pvt Guyer, R. J.

PFC Handy Jr, C. D.

Pvt Hussein, A. H. Pvt Kim, M.

Pvt Kling, J. T.

Pvt Lee, J. T.

Pvt Lester, H. A. Pvt Lewis, N. P.

Pvt Lister, T. S. PFC Loyola, M.

Pvt Martinez, J. D. Pvt Masotta, T. A. Pvt McKnight, O. C.

Pvt McMillian, C. A.

Pvt Moran, V. P. Pvt Moriarty, A. P.

PFC Mun, J. *

Pvt O’Neill, L. M.

Pvt Pace, M. J.

Pvt Palmer Jr, B. W.

Pvt Piccerelli, C. V.

Pvt Pierrot, J. D.

Pvt Plummer, J. B. PFC Rai, P.

PFC Randall, G. G.*

Pvt Salassi, D. R.

Pvt Salcaxotescobar, J. A.

Pvt Sallee, T. A.

Pvt Simon Jr, E. A.

Pvt Sirks, N. P.

Pvt Suquilema, B. J.

Pvt Surielespinal, K. PFC Sylvester Jr, E. D.

Pvt Torregrosapadilla, E. A.

Pvt Waldron, H. C.

Pvt Xie, Z.

Pvt Yohannis, N. T.

PLATOON 1085

Senior Drill Instructor

SSgt D. G. Wintermyer

Pvt Allen, C. D.

PFC Alvarez, J. A. *

PFC Alzateamaya, S.

Pvt Arambulacortez, M. M. PFC Austin, J. B.

PFC Bellewalker, E. I.*

Pvt Bennett, J. E.

Pvt Braxton, D. M. Pvt Choeyang, T. Pvt Daley, G. E.

Pvt Diazgoris, J. Pvt Eaton, R. E. Pvt Enriquez, D. A. PFC Garibaypacora, A. G * Pvt Gonzalesaraque, D. A. Pvt Grochowski, A. Pvt Helwig, A. M. PFC Hernandez, L. A. PFC Howard, J. S. * Pvt Howell, T. F. Pvt Htoo, R. M. Pvt Inthisane, K. L. Pvt Johnson, G. S. Pvt Lemmeyer, N. M. PFC Limbu, M. Pvt Linden, B. A. Pvt Lopezramirez, M. E. Pvt Lousteau, H. G. Pvt Mahoney, S. C. Pvt Malach, T. M. PFC Manikas, M. A. Pvt Mapatac, J. L. Pvt Marzluf, M. P. Pvt Matijas, W. J. Pvt Meddings, C. A. PFC Miller, A. R. PFC Miller, B. E. Pvt Moore, N. P. Pvt Morales, J. Pvt Murciarivera, W. E. PFC Paw, H. M. Pvt Pereyra, C. I. Pvt Pett, L. T. PFC Pollitt, C. J. PFC Pugh, H. R. Pvt Quintanaluiggi, A. E. Pvt Rayburn, G. R. Pvt Reese, A. A. Pvt Resendiz, J. K. Pvt Rodriguezzapata, E. D. Pvt Rust, C. R. Pvt Santiago, L. D. Pvt Sheats, J. L. Pvt Smith, N. J. Pvt Spink, C. J. PFC Stevens, R. B. * PFC Suazo, E. J. PFC Tenjhay, B. PFC Thompson, N. D. PFC Traylor II, W. R. Pvt Watson, H. S. Pvt Williams, K. S. Pvt Wilson, C. R. Pvt Wood, D. E. PFC Zinn, E. A.

PLATOON 4052

Senior Drill Instructor SSgt G. J. Villagomez PFC Allen, Angel B. Pvt Alvarezflores, Jamaire PFC Ashworth, Storm M. PFC Ayyash, Anya N. PFC Beagle, Mikaela R.* PFC Booker, Tracheyl D. PFC Bosquez, Michaela R. Pvt Burling, Kaitlyn E. Pvt Carothers, Aspen A. Pvt Cendejasacosta, Margarita A. Pvt Cortesmenjivar, Paula PFC Cortezano, Gabriellagrace C. PFC Darche, Tatiana C. PFC Delafuente, Lauren P. PFC Felixverdugo, Jaqueline

Pvt Frye, Clara M.

Pvt Fuentes, Victoria I.

Pvt Gualtiere, Amelia V. PFC Harmoning, Grace K. Pvt Hermann, Maleah N.

Pvt Ingram, Nevaeh A.

Pvt Julceus, Zanviosha C.

Pvt Kanaatov, Sophia PFC Kautz, Kayle L. PFC Lewis, Marissa M.

PFC Lopezguerra, Brithany D.

Pvt Lopezmartinez, Rosalba

PFC Marines, Alethea C.

Pvt Mendozajimenez, Francisca Y.

PFC Menoscalayala, Jasmine T.

Pvt Morris, Irish R.

Pvt Nguyen, Uyen L.

Pvt Olin, Kimberly A.

PFC Ortizgonzalez, Briana R.

PFC Payne, Tairah L.*

Pvt Perezgallardo, Jannet

Pvt Perezsolano, Kimberly S.

Pvt Piedrarobles, Ashlihan K.

Pvt Porter, Jadamarie, K.

Pvt Podkamennaya, Elina P.

Pvt Proffitt, Brylee B.

PFC Ray, Shakala L.*

PFC Riosserrano, Benedith R.

Pvt Rodriguezgonzalez, Amy A.

LCpl Sackett, Anna J.*

PFC Serling, Abigail A.

PFC Stewart, Celasia D.

Pvt Strohm, Hailey P.

PFC Thomason, Melanie

Pvt Valverde, Jocelyn

Pvt Ward, Teeaira R.

PFC Warren, Julie M.

Pvt Wattenberg, Hannah T.

Pvt Williams, Sirena M.

PFC Wood, Victoria G. PFC Wulffen, Arianna Pvt Wyatt, Alyssa C.

PLATOON 4053

Senior Drill Instructor SSgt T. S. Burns

PFC Adams, Sureyah A.

PFC Amaya, Hazzel N.

Pvt Baezventura, Michelle

PFC Barajasescamilla, Jaqueline

PFC Barone, Maddie L.

PFC Bower, Emilie A.

Pvt Cabrera, Chelsea

PFC Canedos, Trinity L.* PFC Carey, Hannah M. PFC Chavez, Stacie

PFC Contreras, Duana C. PFC Correa, Jocelynne Y. PFC Covelladacosta, Kaylee C. Pvt Cruz, Luz A.

Pvt Cruzcatalan, Thamara Q. PFC Delao, Camilia D. PFC Dorrian, Larisa V. Pvt Escoto, Caroline A.

PFC Estrada, Jasmine M. PFC Flores, Damarys E. Pvt Floresbenitez, Shakyra

Pvt Ford, Mattie L.

PFC Franco, Angela C. PFC Gonzalez, Alyssa K.

PFC Greenwood, Annie L.

Pvt Harris, Zion C.

PFC Hassel, Miriam L.

PFC Herrejon, Ashlesy A.

Pvt Holder, Sierra A.

Pvt Hyginus, Liveth

PFC Ioane, Christina L. *

Pvt Lenardson, Megan J.

Pvt Luna, Esmeralda

Pvt Marin, Paula L.

Pvt Mario, Gabriellejean A.

Pvt Martinez, Andrea

Pvt Martinez, Rafaela E.

Pvt Mendoza, Alexis T.

PFC Murray, Tsaiann

PFC Monreal, Camila J.

Pvt Nunezgomez, Bernice

Pvt Nwosu, Obioma D.

Pvt Panfilolira, Jenifer Y.

Pvt Paskey, Eryn L.

Pvt Pelli, Vivian G.

Pvt Reyesramirez, Ericka

Pvt Riddlechan, Hailey J.

PFC Rios, Elliana J. *

PFC Rodriguez, Michelle

Pvt Sanchezgonzalez, Sandra L.

Pvt Stephens, Jazmyne A.

Pvt Sumler, Laney M.

PFC Trinker, Gabrielle F.

Pvt Wallace, Katrina L.

PFC Yanik, Ashlyn M.

Pvt Yoakum, Amber C.

Pvt Zamoranopelaez, Lindsay

*

USNCC President visits Parris Island as Parade Reviewing Official

By Chief Petty Officer Alexander Gamble U.S. Naval Community College

PARRIS ISLAND — U.S.

Naval Community College's president visited Marine Corps Recruit Depot Parris Island on Nov. 3.

President Randi R. Cosen tino, Ed.D., served as the pa rade reviewing official for the graduation ceremony of the 391 Marines of Papa Compa ny, 4th Recruit Training Bat talion.

“This was a great oppor tunity to see one of the two commands where Marines are made,” said Cosentino. "The training and education

our services provide to de velop our warfighters is the critical advantage we main tain over our adversaries and competitors."

During the visit, Cosentino observed the motivational run and family day ceremo ny on Thursday, Nov. 3, and observed morning colors and the graduation ceremony on Friday, Nov. 4. She also met with the commanding gener al, Brig. Gen. Walker M. Field, and his senior enlisted lead er, Sgt. Maj. Edwin A. Mota, during her visit.

“Our Marines go through an intense and effective training process to prepare for their career in the Ma

rine Corps," said USNCC’s senior enlisted leader, Sgt. Maj. Michael Hensley, who has served one tour as a drill instructor and one tour at Weapons Field Training Battalion at MCRD Parris Island. "The skills they learn going through this training and their following training at MOS school prepare them to be successful in an educa tional environment like US NCC."

The United States Naval Community College is the of ficial community college for the Navy, Marine Corps, and Coast Guard. For more infor mation about USNCC, visit www.usncc.edu

Civilian Health and Medical Program of the Department of Veterans Affairs

CHAMPVA is a valuable benefit for eligible veterans and veteran family members (survivors and caregivers).

Every veteran with disabili ties, every surviving spouse of or child of a veteran with disabilities and every sur viving spouse or child of a veteran who has died needs to know about CHAMPVA benefits and how to apply for those benefits.

If a veteran or survivor does not qualify for TRI CARE (the Department of Defense’s health care program for active-duty and retired service members and their families), they may be able to get health insurance through CHAMPVA.

The CHAMPVA benefits

With CHAMPVA, veter ans and their beneficiaries will be covered for services and supplies when the VA determines they are med ically necessary and were received from an authorized provider. When providers are performing services within the scope of their license or certification, the VA consid ers them to be authorized.

The following covered services include ambulance service, ambulatory surgery, durable medical equipment (DME), family planning and maternity, inpatient services, mental health services, out patient services, pharmacy (prescription medicines), skilled nursing care, trans plants, and hospice.

When you’re signed up for CHAMPVA, you’ll get a copy of the 89-page VA CHAMPVA Program Guide. This guide will tell you more about covered and non-cov

ered services and supplies.

Veterans and their benefi ciaries should carefully read the information in the guide. Veterans and their bene ficiaries should download and carefully read the guide at https://bit.ly/3UG910Q They should also read the VA CHAMPVA Fact Sheets at http://bit.ly/3UG9q3m

How to apply for CHAMPVA benefits

Veterans and eligible family members can apply for CHAMPVA benefits by submitting:

1. Application For CHAMPVA benefits, VA Form 10-0d, found at http://bit.ly/3Eh 8VaS Be sure to sign and date your applica tion. If your Veteran is applying for you as a spouse, be sure to also include the date of the marriage on the application.

2. Other Health Insur ance (OHI) Certifica tion, VA Form 107959C, found at http:// bit.ly/3hqTmnI

3. Documents related to your Medicare status. If you qualify for Medi care for any reason, you’ll need to submit a copy of your Medicare card. If you are 65 years old or older and don’t qualify for Medicare,

you will need to send the VA documentation from the Social Securi ty Administration that confirms you do NOT qualify for Medicare benefits under any one’s Social Security number. To speed up the processing of your application, you should also send copies (not originals) of these op tional documents:

4. VBA Disability Rating Decision. The page from the VBA rating decision showing your veteran is permanently and totally disabled (or the death rating if you’re a survivor)

5. DD214. Your Veteran’s DD214 (Certificate of Release or Discharge from Active Duty)—or, if the Veteran was a World War II or Korean War Veteran, the Report of Separation. If you do not have a copy of the necessary form, you can request it by submitting a Standard Form 180, Request Pertaining to Military Records, from the National Archives. The URL for the National Archives is http://bit. ly/3UFgLQN. Recent military service and medical records are not online. However, most veterans and their next of kin can obtain free copies of their DD Form 214 (Report of Separation) and the fol lowing military service records either online, by mail, or by FAX.

6. Dependent Children Documentation. Doc

uments related to any dependent children you are including in your application. Those documents should include: (a.) A copy of each child’s birth certificate or adoption papers and (b.) School certification of full-time enrollment for children ages 18-23. Applicants should download and read the VA’s Fact Sheet titled School Enrollment Certifica tion Requirements for CHAMPVA Benefits, which is found at https://bit.ly/3SS4U0C

7. Remarried Surviving Spouse Documen tation. If you are a surviving spouse who remarried but is once again single, also send to the VA a copy of the legal document that ended your marriage. This may be a divorce decree, death certif icate, or annulment decree.

Mail your application to: VHA Office of Community Care, CHAMPVA Eligibility, P.O. Box 469028, Denver, CO 80246-9028, or FAX it to 303331-7809

How long will it take to hear back about my application?

If you send the VBA all required and optional documents and if your application is complete, it should take about six weeks after the VBA receives your application package until you get your CHAMPVA ID card and related materials. If you send the VBA only the required documents, it may

take two to eight months since we’ll need to confirm your information with other federal agencies.

Answers to frequently asked questions about CHAMPVA

Veterans and their family members should read the 10 Frequently Asked Questions About CHAMPVA, which are found at http://bit.ly/3f HYlAg

How to file a CHAMPVA claim

Veterans and eligible ben eficiaries can find out how to file a CHAMPVA Claim at http://bit.ly/3UFhIbP. The VA encourages beneficiaries to have their provider(s) file claims directly with CHAMPVA. Providers are more likely to submit all the information necessary for CHAMPVA to process claims.

CHAMPVA In-House (Within the VA) Treatment Initiative (CITI)

The CHAMPVA In-house Treatment Initiative (CITI) is a voluntary program that allows treatment of benefi ciaries of the Civilian Health and Medical Program of the Department of Veteran Affairs (CHAMPVA) at Veterans Affairs medical centers (VAMCs) that have elected to participate in CITI. To find out if your local VA Medical Center or

clinic participates in CITI, you should contact the VA Medical Center or Commu nity Based Outpatient Clinic directly. CITI is designed to provide CHAMPVA benefi ciaries with access to care in a VA facility after the facility meets the needs of their Vet eran population. In some ar eas, veterans’ needs already utilize the full capacity of the VA medical facility.

The VA [publishes a list of participating medical centers is published by the VA at https://bit.ly/3DRPyU6

The Ralph H. Johnson VA Medical Center is not on that published list. Read about CHAMPVA In-House Treatment Initiative (CITI) at the VA’s Fact Sheet found at https://bit.ly/3DTKgaC

The CHAMPVA Customer Call Center phone number is 800-733-8387.

The bottom line CHAMPVA provides eligible beneficiaries with high-quality healthcare cov erage, including services and supplies, at very competitive rates. Eligible veterans and their family members should not miss out on their hardearned VA benefits.

Larry Dandridge is a Vietnam War wounded warrior, disabled veteran, ex-Enlisted Infantryman, ex-Warrant Officer Pilot, and retired Lt. Colonel. He is a past Veterans Service Officer, a Patient Adviser at the RHJ VA Hospital, the Fisher House Charleston Good Will Ambassador, and the VP for Veteran Affairs for the local Army Association Chapter. Larry is the author of the award-winning book Blades of Thunder and a contributing freelance writer with the Island News. Contact him at LDandridge@earthlink.net or 843-276-7164.

LARRY DANDRIDGE

EDITOR’S NOTE This is the second of a two-part series of articles on the Civilian Health and Medical Program of the Department of Veterans Affairs (CHAMPVA).

U.S. Naval Community College's President Randi R. Cosentino, Ed.D., and command senior enlisted advisor, Sgt. Maj. Michael Hensley, render honors during the national anthem played at the family day ceremony at Marine Corps Recruit Depot Parris Island. Cosentino visited MCRD Parris Island as the parade reviewing official for the graduation ceremony of the 391 Marines of Papa Company, 4th Recruit Training Battalion.

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What if Jesus knew that he wasn’t God, but said so anyway?

In the Gospels, Jesus clearly claims to be divine. In the previous article, we examined the possibility that Jesus was insane or delusional. Another possibility is that Jesus did not actually believe this about himself. In other words, he was lying and intentionally deceiving his followers about his identity. Similar to the theory of insanity, such an explanation does not fit the evidence found in the Gospels.

Jesus was a man of truth and integrity. Even non-believers recognize that Jesus was a good man and one of the greatest teachers in history. His teachings have resounded through the centuries because of their truth, goodness, and profound insight into the human heart. He did not change his message to make himself more popular or acceptable. He taught the truth, even when it caused him persecution from the religious leaders of his day, and even when it caused his followers to leave him.

If Jesus was lying, he was actually an evil person.

He would be the worst identity thief of all time, falsely persuading others that he is God. He would be a con artist, living a lie and preying on the gullibility of his followers. He would actually be one of the worst teachers in history, because he led his followers away from the true God and presented himself as the way to have eternal life.

Such a lie could only end in his death. Israel was the last place someone would want to falsely claim to be God. Unlike their pagan neighbors, the Jewish people believed that there was only one God and that he was completely separate from his creation. They were not in any way expecting God to become a human being. To claim equality with God was the sin of blasphemy, punishable by death. It would have been much safer for Jesus to claim to be another human teacher sent by God, like Moses or Elijah, as had happened many times in Israel’s history.

A liar would have come clean at the end. People are willing to die when they believe something is true, but not for something they know to be a lie. If Jesus had been lying all along, he would have changed his story when he was arrested and faced with death by crucifixion. Instead, he clearly reaffirms his divine identity before the religious authorities. (Mark 14:62) As he dies on the Cross, he maintains his divine identity to his last breath.

Jesus truly believed himself to be God. As one reads the Gospels, seeing the beautiful way that Jesus lived and taught, it is very hard to conclude that he was a man living a lie. His ministry did not bring him money, power, or other worldly rewards, but only persecution and death on the Cross. The best explanation is that Jesus was truly the good and truthful person he seems to be. He was not a liar, but truly believed himself to be God.

Who Is Jesus?