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As the sun sets, the crowd dances to Deas-Guyz at the 2017 Beaufort Shrimp Festival. Photo by SK Signs & Designs.
Beaufort’s Shrimp Festival celebrates the mighty crustacean By Mindy Lucas
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or a quarter of a century, the Shrimp Festival has served up delicious, mouth-watering morsels cooked in a variety of ways that would have made Forrest Gump’s pal, Bubba, proud. In fact, the festival was started right after the famous film was released in 1994, as way to celebrate both the movie – which featured many scenes filmed right here in Beaufort – and the small but mighty crustacean that put Lowcountry cuisine on the map. Now the Shrimp Festival is back with two days of food, live music and fun. About 10,000 people are expected to attend the event which will serve up a whopping 3,500 pounds of shrimp. The festival will take place on Friday, Oct. 4 and Saturday, Oct. 5 at the Henry C. Chambers Waterfront Park in downtown Beaufort. New this year – fresh, South Carolina wild-caught “Grab and Go” shrimp will be available for purchase right off shrimp boats along the park’s seawall. “So you can go home and create all those great recipes the restaurants created at your own house,” said Blakely Williams, president and CEO of the Beau-
A little boy named Flynn reacts to winning the Shrimp Peeling Contest in the 3-6 age group at the 2017 Beaufort Shrimp Festival. Photo by SK Signs & Designs.
Ryan McCarthy, right, of Downtown Catering Company, answers questions on the phone while he cooks up shrimp for shrimp tacos. At left are Jack Gardner and Nicolette Haley filing taco shells during the 2018 Shrimp Festival at the Henry C. Chambers Waterfront Park. Photo by Bob Sofaly.
fort Chamber of Commerce. The festival will run from 6 to 10 p.m. on Friday, Oct. 4, featuring a concert headlined by Deas Guyz, and again from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Saturday, Oct. 5. The event will also include a craft market featuring local and handmade wares open from noon to sunset on Friday, and 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Saturday. The “Run Forrest Run” 5k Bridge Run/Walk will kickoff at 8 a.m. on Saturday. Motorists should expect the bridge to be closed from 8 to 9:30
Saturday morning. Both days of the festival will feature tastings from a number of area restaurants and vendors. Prizes will be awarded for “best recipe” and “most creative recipe” so don’t forget to vote for your favorites. Williams said one of the things people love about the event is the time of year. “October is a great time of year to welcome fall tourists back to town and it’s also the kickoff for our restaurants and our lodging and hotel partners
WANT TO GO What: 25th Beaufort Shrimp Festival When: 6-10 p.m. Friday and 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Saturday Where: Henry C. Chambers Waterfront Park Cost: Admission is free. Food will be sold separately.
who love the cuisine and waterfront,” she said. “It’s going to be a lot of what we all know and love about the Shrimp Festival.” Admission to the event is free. Food will be sold separately.
By Mike McCombs On her 11th trip to South Carolina as a Democratic presidential candidate, Kamala Harris will finally visit Beaufort County. On Saturday, Oct. 5, the junior U.S. Senator from California will host a town hall meeting at 5 p.m. at USC Beaufort’s Center for the Performing Arts. Doors will open at 4:30 p.m. Prior to her election as Senator to replace the retiring Kamala Barbara Boxer in Harris 2017, Harris was the District attorney for San Francisco from 2004 to 2011 and the attorney general for the state of California from 2011 to 2017. A graduate of Howard University, double majoring in political science and economics, she earned her law degree from the University of California’s Hastings College of the Law in San Francisco. As a senator, Harris has been in favor of single-payer healthcare, the legalization of marijuana, sanctuary cities, the DREAM Act, opposition to the death penalty, higher taxes for the wealthy and lower taxes for the working and middle classes. Harris has been vocal in recent days in her belief that President Donald Trump’s Twitter account should be suspended as he suggested his impeachment could result in a civil war and sought to reveal the identity of a whistle blower who has made the allegations against the president that have resulted in an impeachment inquiry by the House of Representatives.. “The words of a president matter,” Harris tweeted Tuesday morning. “Trump has again shown he is irresponsible and endangering others with his tweets. He should lose the privilege to be on Twitter.” “The president's tweets and his behavior about this are just further evidence of the fact that he uses his power in a way that is designed to beat people down instead of lift people up," Harris said on CNN. "If you look at what he's been tweeting today directed at the whistle blower, I frankly think that based on this and all we've seen before, including attacking members of Congress, that his Twitter account should be suspended." Harris has shown her support for impeachment, as well. “Donald Trump has shown us he is lawless, and last week he gave
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Third family displaced in string of ‘devastating’ house fires in Burton By Mindy Lucas A third family has been displaced in less than two weeks in what officials are calling a string of devastating house fires in the Burton area. “Why this is so devastating is you have three fires that have left three families displaced, two probably permanently, two involving four children each, and all three involving injuries,” said Captain Dan Byrne with the Burton Fire District. In the latest incident, firefighters with the district and MCAS Beaufort Fire Depart-
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ment responded to an early morning fire on Shanklin Road on Sunday, Sept. 29. Arriving on the scene just after 6 a.m., firefighters found smoke and flames coming from a single story home. A man trapped in the home was rescued from a front window of the house by deputies with the Beaufort County Sheriff’s Department who had arrived just before. A second man living at the residence is believed to have been out of the home at the time of the incident, Byrne said. Firefighters entered the
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home while it was still on fire to search for any other victims but found none. One of the men was taken the hospital with medical issues. Fire crews quickly gained control of the blaze, which took over an hour to fully extinguish, due to some challenges, Byrne said. The fire had burned through the roof and spread to its insulation. In addition, the home’s power line had broken away causing electricity to charge and preventing firefighters from ac-
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