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COVID-19 spreading in state, county Beaufort County’s mask ordinance closes gaps By Mike McCombs Last week was another big week for COVID-19 in South Carolina and in Beaufort County. On average, in Beaufort County, there were 52.4 new cases each day in the week ending Monday, July 6. For the state, that number was 1,604.1 Both of those Record numbers are up high from the previ- New S.C. ous seven-day cases reach period, when a record high on there were an July 4. See average of 38.9 last week's and 1,263.6 new numbers on cases daily in page A4. Beaufort County and the state of South Carolina, respectively. Those are increases of 35 and 27 percent, respectively, as well. Saturday, July 4 saw the state set a new record with 1,836 new cases. Beaufort County set its own high-water mark on Tuesday, June 30, with 71. And the positive test rate on Friday, July 3 was a record 20.7 percent.
Hannah VanDam, a lifeguard at Hunting Island State Park, watches as a pair of F-16s from Shaw Air Force Base in Sumter cruise by on the Fourth of July at the beach Saturday. Also participating was a vintage P-51 Mustang and a big C-127 cargo jet, all part of the Salute From the Shore which began near Myrtle Beach and made its way down past Hunting Island.
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Beachgoers celebrate Independence Day at Hunting Island State Park
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Macay Stuart, of Bluffton, was spending a family day observing the Fourth of July at Hunting Island State Park. Here he flies his kite near the live guard station flying an American flag.
Mini American flags could be seen all around Hunting Island State Park. The flags were given away free, courtesy of Explore Beaufort.
Naval Hospital’s new commanding officer wants to make sure health facility remains a ‘high reliability’ organization
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Mason Wilkerson, left, of Bluffton, gets a history lesson from his uncle, Austin Carmack of Tishomingo, Miss., on the Fourth of July at Hunting Island State Park.
Batz a man on a mission
By Mindy Lucas aptain Raymond Batz is on a mission. As the new commanding officer for both the Naval Hospital Beaufort and the 127-acre installation itself – a unique double command – Batz wants to make sure
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As of Monday, July 6 S.C. Confirmed cases: 46,247 S.C. Confirmed deaths: 819 Beaufort County cases: 1,510 Beaufort County deaths: 23 Last week’s 7-day avg. new cases, state: 1604.1 Previous week’s 7-day avg. new cases, state: 1,263.6 Last week’s 7-day average new cases, county: 52.43 Previous week’s 7-day average new cases, county: 38.9
patients and their families are in good hands at the health facility. To do this requires a threeprong focus, he said: always caring, which is the hospital’s motto, a drive toward high reliability as an organization and being balanced for dynamic change. That may sound like so much military speak but as Batz explained in an in-person interview recently, it’s all meant to make sure the health facility is operating as a “high reliability” organization at all times. “High reliability means we’re doing the best we can to ensure that we’re going through each day
deliberately, and, from a healthcare perspective if we have a focus, it’s a zero-harm focus,” he said. Batz took over command of Naval Hospital Beaufort from the previous CO, Capt. Rob Jackson who retired in May. Having recently served as Deputy Commanding Officer at Tripler Army Medical Center in O’ahu, Hawaii, Batz comes to the Beaufort facility in a time of recent transition. In just the last six months, the hospital made the federally mandated transition to Navy Medicine Readiness and Training Command Beaufort, which means, like many
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military health facilities across the country, it realigned its services. For Naval Hospital Beaufort, that means switching from care that includes hospitalizations to providing only outpatient care. However the health facility, which supports both Parris Island and the Marine Corps Air Station Beaufort as well, will continue to provide overnight stays for recruits when needed. Batz said the health facility will continue to ensure that recruits become Marines in a way that’s healthy while getting them ready to
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people to give, and to understand challenges. Thank you, thank you! AMIkids Beaufort is governed by a local group of volunteers. The program helps young men separate a troubled past from a brighter future. For more information or to make online donations or pledges to continue helping our local mission, visit www.amikidsbeaufort.org. – John Harris, Chairman, AMIkids Beaufort Board of Trustees
The Downtown Beaufort Merchant’s Association’s First FriDAY went off without a hitch July 3 but with a much smaller crowd than usual. Here a couple of women make their way down Bay Street on Friday. Random shoppers said they thought the crowd was smaller and most cited concerns over Covid-19 and face masks. Tabitha Winters, a frequent visitor to Beaufort, was the winner of the monthly cash giveaway, which was split 50/50 with Wounded Warriors. Photo by Bob Sofaly.
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July 9 – City of Beaufort’s Design Review Board, 2 p.m., watch via Zoom or on the city’s Facebook page July 13 – Beaufort County Council’s Natural Resources Committee, 2 p.m., watch on The County Channel, the county’s Facebook page or at www.beaufortcountysc.gov July 13 – Beaufort County Council’s Finance Committee, 3 p.m., watch on The County Channel, the county’s Facebook page or at www.beaufortcountysc.gov July 13 – Beaufort County
Council Caucus meeting, 5 p.m., watch on The County Channel, the county’s Facebook page or at www.beaufortcountysc.gov June 13 – Beaufort County Council Regular Session, 6 p.m., watch on The County Channel, the county’s Facebook page or at www.beaufortcountysc.gov July 14 – Beaufort City Council, Work Session, 5 p.m., Regular Meeting, 7 p.m., watch via Zoom or on the city’s Facebook page July 14 – Beaufort County School District Board Meeting, 6 – 8 p.m., watch on The County
Channel or via Zoom July 15 – Daufuskie Island Fire District, 1 p.m. watch for information at www.beaufortcountysc. gov or call (843) 758-2116 July 15 – Beaufort County Transportation Committee, 4 p.m., watch for information on www.beaufortcountysc.gov July 15 – Beaufort County Alcohol and Drug Abuse Board, 4 - 5:30 p.m., watch for information on www.beaufortcountysc.gov or call (843) 255-6000 *Meetings are updated as of press time and do not reflect any last minute cancellations.
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LADY’S ISLAND ou didn’t. The open house scheduled for July 8 at Whitehall Park was canceled because of concerns about that darn old virus. The open house was a follow-up sponsored by the Friends of Whitehall Park, the county and the Beaufort County Open Land Trust after the developer Sam Levin withdrew his latest subdivision plan from the Beaufort-Port Royal Metropolitan Planning Commission citing “misinformation” in the community about the project at the foot of the Woods Memorial Bridge. Might have had something to do with the Sea Island Corridor Coalition calling it Levin’s “Magical Mystery Tour.”
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just about everybody. And that includes school kids, who might initially have enjoyed a longer-than-usual “spring break,” but according to reports (OK, from the parents) are ready to go back. School officials did a Herculean job of keeping the students on tract with their studies, with some districts doing better than others. According to a report last month from the state Department of Education, Beaufort County school
Let’s face it, the last four months of quarantine have tough for just about everybody. And that includes school kids, who might initially have enjoyed a longer-thanusual “spring break,” but according to reports (OK, from the parents) are ready to go back.
Anyway, Levin promised to be back with his plans for the MPC review. And citizens concerned about what the project will look like, will too. Speaking about missing BEAUFORT – Let’s face it, the last four months of quarantine have tough for
system had the seventh highest number of students who couldn’t be accounted for. The report found 452 kindergarten through 12th-graders unaccounted, out of the approximate 22,000 enrolled in Beaufort County public schools. That’s about the same percentage of unaccounted
students statewide where approximately 16,000 students slipped through the cracks. Those same officials are spending the summer trying to figure out what next, just like the rest of us.
Also missing BEAUFORT – The city has lost another tourist attraction with the move last month of the Santa Elena History Center on Bay Street. The center and its historic displays, opened in 2015 by the Santa Elena Foundation, moved south last month, combining forces with the Coastal Discovery Museum on Hilton Head Island. The county owns the 19th-century building which was used as a federal courthouse from 1994 to 2012 and before that, the county courthouse. There’s been talk of some county offices being moved into the structure, but for now, the property owners – being we, the taxpayers –, are soliciting proposals for future use of the historic structure. At least there’s still the Beaufort Museum on Craven Street to visit. Not missing BEAUFORT – As The Island News reporter Mindy Lucas pointed out last week, the Metropolitan Planning Commission will be getting a presentation on flight activity from MCAS representatives later this month. The Commissioners
asked for the presentation in response to complaints from citizens about the jet noise, particularly during evening hours. MCAS officials attribute the increased noise to realignment of the major runway for repairs, expected to be completed by the end of the year. But citizens, who are criticized for THEIR criticism of “the sound of freedom,” are concerned about the knowledge that the air station is scheduled to receive even more F-35’s in the future. As Lucas reported, the facility is home now to 29 of the fighter jets and expected to house up to 88 by the mid-2020s. In 2009, when local governments were being asked for their official input on the Department of Defense’s plans to locate the new strike fighter jets at Beaufort or Cherry Point, N.C., the City Council had a bit of hesitation before endorsing the plan. But when the Council questioned the impact, it quickly drew the ire of the economic development community which stressed the financial impact of the project. The City Council gave their endorsement and MCAS got the jets.
as well as their municipal counterparts, have been looking at increasingly dismal numbers and listening to warnings from various consultants for the past decade. According to Zillow, which may be as good a source as any, the median home price in Beaufort County is $328,000 while the median rent is $1,700. It was a year ago that county and municipal councils of Beaufort and Jasper passed resolutions to work together to at least hire a consultant to help start a regional housing trust fund. The goal is to establish a plan for collecting money, along with grants, etc. to help build cheaper housing or help folks who need help renting. Eric Greenway, county planning director who’s been busy trying to direct development on isolated Bay Point Island, told the County Council’s Natural Resources Committee on Monday the advertising for someone to take the lead on the housing trust hasn’t been successful – only one person was interested and he/she didn’t qualify. But he assured the committee, “we’re focused on getting the job done.”
Also still missing, affordable housing BEAUFORT COUNTY – Affordable housing has been a major problem in Beaufort County for years, and it sure isn’t getting any easier. Beaufort County officials,
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Coastal Kingdom nominated for EMMY From staff reports The County Channel's award-winning nature series Coastal Kingdom is nominated for a 2020 Southeastern EMMY Award in the category of Best TV Host/Moderator/ Play by Play. Coastal Kingdom is hosted by naturalist and educator Tony Mills and is a production partnership between The County Channel and The LowCountry Institute on Spring Island. This is the third time Coastal Kingdom has been nominated for Best TV Host. The series won the award in 2018. To date, the Coastal Kingdom team has received seven Southeastern EMMY nominations. The final EMMY winners for 2020 will be announced later this year. Southeastern EMMY Awards are a division of the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences. Watch all programming for The County Channel live on Comcast Ch. 2, Hargray Chs. 9 and 113, and Spectrum Ch. 1304. Viewers can also watch programming live and on-demand at The County Channel’s website at www. beaufortcountysc.gov.
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By Bob Sofaly Sheila Miley, a certified public accountant with Robinson Grant & Co., says time is running out. Miley said the income tax deadline extension (from April 15 to July 15) was granted during the Covid-19 outbreak, but that extension is quickly running out. “We are not seeing clients because of Covid concerns,” she said. “Right now we are just pushing the work through to make the July 15 deadline.” However, taxpayers can still request, if needed, a final extension well into the fall. “Individuals can apply for an extension until Oct. 15. Businesses need to have their taxes submitted by Sept. 15,” she said. “After that there are no more extensions.” Miley said it’s important to note that July 15 is still the tax deadline and one has to
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ported in all of June. According to both DHEC and the Beaufort County Coroner’s Office, there have been 23 total COVID-19 related deaths in the county since the pandemic began. The two entities compile their information differently. Hospitalizations climbing As of Monday, there are 1,260 hospitalized across the state for COVID-19. There were 1,032 hospitalized as of the end of the previous week. Beaufort County passes mask ordinance Beaufort County Council met for a special-called meeting Wednesday, July 1, and approved an emergency ordinance outlining face mask requirements for unincorporated areas of the County. The ordinance, which went into effect at 11:59 p.m. Friday, July 3, requires people to wear a face covering and practice social-distancing while inside commercial and public buildings in unincorporated Beaufort County, whenever possible. The exceptions to this are for those in child care facilities, schools, churches and gyms where social-distancing policies are already in place; patrons who are actively eating food or consuming beverages; anyone receiving medical treatment; and those who are actively swimming in indoor pools. The ordinance also requires employees of restaurants, retail establishments, grocery stores, salons and pharmacies, to wear face coverings whenever they are within six feet of the general public or in proximity to each other. The County’s face mask or-
Sheila Miley, a certified public accountant with Robinson Grant & Co., works on some of the 150 tax returns she is working on to be filed before the July 15th deadline. Photo by Bob Sofaly. submit a request to the Internal Revenue Service and the S.C. Department of Revenue
for the final extension. “After that, there isn’t anything else.” Repeated violations of the county’s ordinance at any business or establishment that is not exempt from the requirements are declared a nuisance and, as such, the County may seek a restraining order, preliminary injunction, permanent injunction, or suspension or revocation of the County-issued business license. To view the county’s complete ordinance, visit https:// bit.ly/3f9UFS7.
THE LAST WEEK Monday, July 6 New S.C. Cases: 1,505 S.C. deaths: 6 New Beaufort Co. Cases: 53 Beaufort Co. deaths: 1 Percent Positive: 18.8 Sunday, July 5 New S.C. Cases: 1,463 S.C. deaths: 8 New Beaufort Co. Cases: 49 Beaufort Co. deaths: 0 Percent Positive: 16.6 Saturday, July 4 New S.C. Cases: 1,836* S.C. deaths: 19 New Beaufort Co. Cases: 37 Beaufort Co. deaths: 1 Percent Positive: 19.7 *Record High Friday, July 3 New S.C. Cases: 1,558 S.C. deaths: 10 New Beaufort Co. Cases: 54 Beaufort Co. deaths: 1 Percent Positive: 20.7* *Record High Thursday, July 2 New S.C. Cases: 1,629 S.C. deaths: 19 New Beaufort Co. Cases: 43 Beaufort Co. deaths: 1 Percent Positive: 16.9 Wednesday, July 1 New S.C. Cases: 1,497 S.C. deaths: 24* New Beaufort Co. Cases: 61 Beaufort Co. deaths: 0 Percent Positive: 19.1 *Record High Tuesday, June 30 New S.C. Cases: 1,741 S.C. deaths: 17 New Beaufort Co. Cases: 70* Beaufort Co. deaths: 0 Percent Positive: 19.0 *Record High
First schools and now football Two weeks ago, State Education Superintendent Molly Spearman said that if things didn’t improve, there was no way kids would go back to school this fall. This past week, Governor Henry McMaster made the prospects of a high school or college football season sound ominous. “If we continue to see this kind of danger going across our state, we will have no choice but to keep these restrictions on crowds and gatherings in place,” McMaster said. during a press briefing Wednesday. “That means this fall will not be like other falls. We will not be able to have college football, would not be able to have high school football.”
dinance will remain in effect through Aug. 31 unless Council terminates or extends it. The passage brought Beaufort County in line with the City of Beaufort, Town of Hilton Head, Town of Bluffton and Town of Port Royal had already passed face mask ordinances of their own.
Blame it on South Carolina On the Sunday, July 5 edition of Meet The Press, New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy said positive coronavirus cases there were tied to citizens vacationing in Myrtle Beach. According to television reports, Murphy said his state is seeing a spike in cases in people coming back from places like "Myrtle Beach, as well as in Florida and other hot spots." Mike McCombs is the editor of The Island News and can be reached at TheIslandNews@gmail.com.
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s someone with hearing loss, I certainly miss the ability to read lips and facial expressions now that we are all wearing masks. As an audiologist, I hear the frustration from my patients every day. Even people with normal hearing are having more difficulty communicating with one another. Masks don’t just cover our lips and our smiles, they actually muffle speech sounds. A recent study published in the Hearing Review Journal found that masks reduce speech sounds from 20007000 Hz spoken by the wearer by 3 to 4 dB for a simple medical mask and close to 12 dB for the N95 masks. That means that speech sounds like “s,” “f,” “th,” “sh,” and “k” are less audible, and that can make for a good deal of confusion in conversation. So, what can we do to help facilitate communication throughout this pandemic? For people with normal hearing, especially for health care providers and people
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working with the public: 1. Please be patient when someone asks for repetition. Treat them the way you would want to be treated. 2. Make sure the person you wish to speak with knows that you are starting a conversation with them. Politely get their attention and look them in the eye before speaking. This is especially true when opening a new register. People with hearing loss often get left behind when a new line is opened while everyone who can hear the cashier cuts ahead of them. 3. Instead of shouting, rephrase your comment. Sometimes, it is just one
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word that is causing confusion, so use different words to overcome that obstacle. Turn on captioning on your smartphone. Your voice will be captioned, and you can hold your phone out for the other person to read what you are saying. Google translate and other captioning apps can be used. Businesses and providers can set-up a tablet or computer monitor with a free online service that captions live speech in real-time. Web-captioner is a free online service that works fairly well. Reduce ambient noise. Businesses may want to turn off the music or TV’s playing in the background. Face people directly and avoid looking down or off to the side when speaking. Consider wearing a mask with a clear window in front of the mouth so people can read your lips.
9. Go ahead and use your hands to gesture when speaking. It may not be what we were taught in public speaking classes, but it is effective for getting the point across. For people with hearing loss: 1. Let people know that you have a hearing loss. Most people will try to make a better effort to communicate if they know you are having trouble hearing them. 2. Turn on captioning on your smartphone and hold it out to pick up the speaker’s voice. (See suggestions above) 3. Phrase your questions for “yes” or “no”
answers. This will make it easier for you to get a straight answer without having to sort through a long string of inaudible words. 4. If you cannot get captioning on your phone, bring a small notepad and pencil as a last resort. 5. If your hearing aids keep flopping off due to the ear loops on masks, you can secure those ear loops with another piece of string to pull them away from your ears. If tight enough, you can even wear the straps without touching your hearing aids while keeping your mask securely
in place. It also makes it easier to pull the mask down around your neck once you leave a public setting. If anything good has come of this mask-wearing experience from a hearing standpoint, it is that people who don’t suffer from hearing loss are now becoming more aware of how even a slight hearing impairment can impact our everyday lives. I hope it will make people pause before they say, “never mind” to someone who cannot hear well. And I hope this experience will make us all better communicators. Monica Wiser, M.A. CCC-A, and two of her siblings have worn hearing aids since childhood. In 1994, she graduated from California State University Northridge at the top of her class and was designated as the Outstanding Graduate Student in the Communicative Disorders Department at San Diego State University in 1996. She has been advocating for better hearing care for more than 20 years and owns a private practice on Lady’s Island, Beaufort Audiology & Hearing Care.
Risk of Methanol Contamination in Certain Hand Sanitizers Beaufort Inn holding Healthcare contest
FDA is warning consumers and health care providers that the agency has seen a sharp increase in hand sanitizer products that are labeled to contain ethanol (also known as ethyl alcohol) but that have tested positive for methanol contamination. Methanol, or wood alcohol, is a substance that can be toxic when absorbed through the skin or ingested and can be life-threatening when ingested. The agency is aware of adults and children ingesting hand sanitizer products contaminated with methanol that has led to recent adverse events including blindness, hospitalizations and death. Methanol is not an acceptable active ingredient for hand sanitizers and must not be used due to its toxic effects. FDA’s investigation of methanol in certain hand sanitizers is ongoing. The agency will provide additional information as it becomes available. Consumers who have been exposed to hand sanitizer containing methanol and are experiencing symptoms should seek immediate treatment for potential reversal of toxic effects of methanol poisoning. Substantial methanol exposure can result in nausea, vomiting, headache, blurred vision, permanent blindness, seizures, coma, permanent damage to the nervous system or death. Although all persons using these products on their hands are at risk for methanol poisoning, young children who accidently ingest these products and adolescents and adults who drink these products as an alcohol (ethanol) substitute, are most at risk.
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become Marines. It’s a transition that he is familiar with having helped to take Tripler Army Medical Center through a similar transition, though it was a larger market in terms of health care services. The lessons he learned in O’ahu, he said, will help as Naval Hospital Beaufort as it continues adapting to the transition. “The next time I talk with
Consumers are reminded and urged to wash their hands often with soap and water for at least 20 seconds, especially after going to the bathroom; before eating; and after coughing, sneezing, or blowing one’s nose. If soap and water are not readily available, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recommend consumers use an alcohol-based hand sanitizer that contains at least 60 percent ethanol (also referred to as ethyl alcohol). Quality issues with hand sanitizers are: • The dangers of drinking any hand sanitizer under any conditions. While hand sanitizers with possible methanol contamination are more life-threatening than those that are not contaminated, FDA urges consumers not to drink any of these products. • Certain hand sanitizers that may not contain a sufficient amount of ethyl alcohol or isopropyl alcohol. • Hand sanitizers that are sold or offered for sale with false and misleading, unproven claims that they can prevent the spread of viruses such as COVID-19, including claims that they can provide prolonged protection (e.g., for up to 24-hours). • Products that are fraudulently marketed as “FDA-approved” since there are no hand sanitizers approved by FDA. • Products packaged to appear as drinks, candy or liquor bottles, as well as products marketed as
you, we may be talking about how the (healthcare) market is going to grow in the Lowcountry,” he said. If there are challenges with the transition, it is continuing to provide quality medical care for the more than 29,000 beneficiaries that make up the health facilities total population served – something Batz said the healthcare facility is committed to doing. “The big thing to work through here is to make sure we’re keeping faith we’re our responsibility to take care of the active duty and their
drinks or cocktails because their appearance could result in accidental ingestion or encourage ingestion. Children are particularly at risk with these products since ingesting only a small amount of hand sanitizer may be lethal in a young child. The following outlines the most current information on hand sanitizer labels for consumers to use to identify a product that has been tested by FDA and found to contain methanol, that is being recalled by the manufacturer or distributor, that is purportedly made at the same facility as products in which FDA has tested and
confirmed methanol contamination and/or that has been identified through the agency’s registration and listing database. • Grupo Insoma, S.A.P.I de CV (Mexico) Hand sanitizer Gel Unscented 70% Alcohol • Transliquid Technologies (Mexico) Mystic Shield Protection hand sanitizer • Soluciones Cosmeticas SA de CV (Mexico) Bersih Hand Sanitizer Gel Fragrance Free • Soluciones Cosmeticas SA de CV Antiseptic Alcohol 70% Topical Solution hand • Eskbiochem SA de CV (Mexico)
All-Clean Hand Sanitizer Esk Biochem Hand Sanitizer Lavar 70 Gel Hand Sanitizer The Good Gel Antibacterial Gel Hand Sanitizer CleanCare NoGerm Advanced Hand Sanitizer 80% Alcohol CleanCare NoGerm Advanced Hand Sanitizer 75% Alcohol CleanCare NoGerm Advanced Hand Sanitizer 80% Alcohol Saniderm Advanced Hand Sanitizer Content current as of: 07/06/2020
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families here in the Lowcountry,” he said. Developing expertise in medicine and leadership Though he was born in Fairbanks, Alaska, Batz actually thinks of Western Pennsylvania as home since he completed his middle school through high school years there, and attended Grove City College, in Grove City, Pa. He went on to attend Kirksville College of Osteopathic Medicine, in Kirksville, Mo., for medical school and was commissioned as a medical
corps officer upon graduating. Batz once thought he would go into family medicine and had even served as a family physician on a deployment in the Philippines, but he soon gravitated toward operational medicine, or medicine in a deployed setting. A unique residency in aerospace medicine focusing on operational medicine gave him the opportunity to get the training he needed to become the senior medical officer (SMO) on an aircraft carrier. It was a job he very much enjoyed, he said. “At that point in my career,
I thought that was the pinnacle of operational medicine,” he said reminiscing. “And it may still be. When you’re the SMO on an aircraft carrier, you’re sometimes 2,000 miles away over an ocean from the nearest other medical facility.” Batz went on to be deployed multiple times serving onboard the USS Kitty Hawk. He then parlayed his training as an aerospace medicine specialist into an opportunity to work for NASA, another organization with a high reliability ethos.
From staff reports The Beaufort Inn, a 48room Boutique Hotel in Historic Downtown Beaufort, has teamed up with area businesses to award six Carolina Healthcare Heroes with a relaxing retreat in Beaufort. Included in each vacation giveaway is a two-night stay at The Beaufort Inn, a $50 gift certificate to Bang’s Salon & Spa, a $25 gift certificate for breakfast or lunch at Blackstone’s, a $100 gift certificate to Saltus River Grill for dinner and a carriage tour for two provided by Southern Rose Buggy Tours. “We always strive to see the good in situations and in times like these, we are so thankful for the men and women in the healthcare industry who continue to provide education and service to our communities,” The Beaufort Inn General Manager Kate Parkerson said in a release. Any healthcare worker in North Carolina or South Carolina can be eligible to win. Nominations are to be submitted on The Beaufort Inn’s website on or before August 11, and six random winners will be chosen by The Beaufort Inn. The website to submit nominations is www.beaufortinn. com/Carolina-healthcare-heroes. Winners will be able to redeem their vacation within one year from the time the winner is announced. Certain terms and conditions apply. For additional information, please visit www.beaufortinn.com/Carolina-healthcare-heroes. “The best practices of aerospace medicine dovetail perfectly into … becoming a high reliability organization,” he said. Now, in perhaps is greatest leadership role yet, Batz is finding these experiences will serve him well as he takes command at Naval Hospital Beaufort. Going forward his goals are fairly simple. “The key concept is daily to work to improve communication, teamwork and readiness,” he said. “That’s been a goal of mine since Kitty Hawk.” JULY 9–15, 2020
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BA has plan in place to return to school
By Mike McCombs There’s no guarantee that things will work out as hoped, but Beaufort Academy, nonetheless, has a plan. And that’s a solid starting point. The private school on Lady’s Island in late June released “Envisioning A New Normal – A Plan For A Responsible Re-Opening At Beaufort Academy. The nine-page document lays out a framework for students to safely – or as safely as possible – return to school this fall in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic. Head of School Dan Durbin feels like his team did a good job, given all of the variables. “We had to ask ourselves, ‘How do we make this thing work for Dan our kids and Durbin make this the safest environment we can provide?’” Durbin said. BA’s plan was put together by a team of 12 with representation from administrators, teachers and parents. Durbin said the team actually did sur-
veys about particular aspects with families and teachers. “How can we make people feel comfortable, with a plan,” he said “… We’re listening to folks.” According to the document itself, the team drew “from the best available science and public health guidance as well as the expertise of educators. Although we expect the plan to evolve and adapt over time, we are committed to providing the most responsible and safe reopening possible.” Two kinds of students One of the aspects of BA’s blueprint is the realization from the start that some families will not be ready for their kids to return to the classroom in the current environment. The school will have a voluntary at-home option that must be requested by the parents or student, allowing the student to participate in classes streamed online. “The hardest part will be teachers getting used to the fact that they will be doing live instruction and still have kids coming in on an Internet platform,” Durbin said. “Teachers
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7 Beaufort County students earn Nu Delta Omega scholarships
Each year, the Nu Delta Omega chapter of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc., awards scholarships to graduating seniors from Beaufort and Jasper County public schools who will be attending a four-year College/University. The 2020 Nu Delta Omega Scholarship recipients are: • Savannah Bush – May River High School • Lawren Caldwell – Whale Branch Early College High School • Payten Grubbs – Beaufort High School • Kaitlyn Holland – Hilton Head Island High School
• Liz Iglesias – May River High School • Jamyah Moore – Whale Branch Early Collehe High School • Sophia Sherman – Beaufort High School Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc. is built on Sisterhood, Scholarship, and Service to All Humankind and the Nu Delta Omega chapter strives to uphold those principles. May the 2020 scholarship recipients enjoy their college experience and achieve their educational goals. Nu Delta Omega chapter of Alpha Kappa Alpha, Inc. has served the Beaufort and Jasper counties since it was chartered in 1980. Visit the chapter’s website (www. nudeltaomega.com) or the sorority’s international website (www.aka1908.com) for more information.
will have to be aware there are kids at home and encourage them to include themselves.” Like many parts of BA’s plan, the dynamics of classes may change as teachers and students work to make combining live and streamed classes more compatible. “Our teachers need to be ready to include our streaming kids at the same time,” Durbin said. “We were looking for not just guidelines, but suggestions to make both work at the same time.” Then there are the logistics of live streaming for 26 classrooms. “How do we film all those classes?” Durbin asked. “Do we have enough bandwidth?” These are questions Durbin says the school believes they have answered in general. But there are details to be worked out.
Keeping it healthy … and affordable As for the kids physically in school, the chief concern is safety. Essentially, the efforts of the school on that front are broken into several categories: Sanitation, hygiene, mon-
itoring, daily practices, after school activities, athletics and lab precautions. BA’s plan addresses them all in detail – from taking students’ temperatures twice daily to hand sanitizers and masks to changing classes outside the building versus using the hallways. But the solutions presented the school with more problems. “We’re still working on where will our kids eat lunch and how to order it,” Durbin said. “We’ll only be able to deal with businesses that have individually wrapped things.” Durbin said many students ate lunch from off campus, like pizza. Now those foods must be individually wrapped. And they had to address providing students with water while water fountains are unavailable. And Durbin said the school had to address how it would clean restrooms between each class. Some concerns were financial. Plastic shields separating students, while sitting at their desks, was going to cost the
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To see Beaufort Academy’s complete plan to re-open this fall, visit https://bit. ly/2ZHIUMl.
school thousands of dollars. “For every desk, that gets expensive,” Durbin said. The school needed sprayers – backpack and machines that could spray classrooms at night. It needed the actual disinfectant. Hand sanitizer. What do those things cost? What do they cost over six to nine months? Does the school need to repeat all its procedures on the gym, as well? “A bigger school district will have money for (these things),” Durbin said. “We’re having to look at how we ration out our money.” Their best efforts All in all, Durbin says his team feels like it has done a good job addressing what they can. “There is an advantage to being a smaller school, being able to work through smaller classes,” he said. “It really is an advantage to be able
to make plans. But the kinds of things that we’re doing is based on our situation. They may not work in another situation.” Durbin says what worries him are the things he can’t control, like the governor. “The biggest concerns are about things we don’t have say-so on,” Durbin said. “It doesn’t matter what we were planning, if the Governor says no, we have no say-so.” Otherwise, Durbin feels like the school has done the best it could do. “From a conceptual standpoint, we asked ourselves in every situation, ‘what is the best thing to do?” he said. “And we had to ask, ‘Practially, how do we make that happen?’” If the coronavirus or the Governor or a hurricane throws BA a curveball, Durbin said his team will be ready. “We will be prepared if … well, we’re going to be prepared no matter what,” Durbin said. Mike McCombs is the editor of The Island News and can be reached at TheIslandNews@gmail.com.
Beaufort High’s Marshall a trendsetter Educator is among state’s first Financial Literacy Master Teachers
From staff reports A Beaufort High School teacher is one of the first educators statewide to qualify as a South Carolina Financial Literacy Master Teacher. Erika Marshall, who teaches business classes at Beaufort High, is one of only 36 teachers statewide in the first cohort of master teachers. State Treasurer Curtis Loftis said the new statewide initiative is designed to increase the number of teachers incorporating personal finance education into their classrooms. “We congratulate these wonderful educators for their commitment to promoting fi-
nancial literacy,” Loftis said in a release. “They share a passion that is important to conveying these vital life skills to students in their classrooms and to fellow teachers as they lead p ro fe s s i o nal development workshops. We Erika applaud their Marshall efforts, especially given the challenges of the current school year, and we look forward to seeing their continued growth and progress in the years to come.” Sponsored by Future Scholar, South Carolina’s 529 College Savings Plan, and in partnership with SC Economics, the Financial Literacy Master Teacher Program provides financial incentives to K-12 teachers who are experts
We congratulate these wonderful educators for their commitment to promoting financial literacy ... and we look forward to seeing their continued growth and progress in the years to come.” in financial literacy and want to teach professional development workshops for other educators in their districts. Participating teachers will have access to specialized training and financial literacy curriculum resources that will better enable them to promote financial literacy education in K-12 schools. Applicants must complete specific professional development classes and must create and teach professional development training. They then
must pass the W!SE Personal Finance Certification Test for Educators. W!SE is a nationally recognized credential certifying that educators demonstrate the proficiency required to teach personal finance. The state master teacher program recently completed accepting applications for its next group of teachers and will begin registration for a third cohort in January 2021. To learn more, visit www.scflmt.org.
Many northern Beaufort County students to get free or reduced lunch From staff reports Students at 10 northern Beaufort County Schools will be able to participate in the free and reduced-price breakfast and lunch program at no charge to them for the upcoming school year, according to a release from the Beaufort County School District. For the 2020-2021 school
duced-price meals in local educational agencies (LEAs) and schools with increased levels of low-income students. All students enrolled in the listed schools may participate in the breakfast and lunch program at no charge to them. Families will not have to fill out meal applications. The participating schools
are Beaufort Elementary, Lady’s Island Elementary, St. Helena Elementary, Shanklin Elementary, Whale Branch Elementary, Robert Smalls International Academy. Whale Branch Middle, Whale Branch Early College High School. Breakfast and lunch meals follow the United States Department of Agriculture
(USDA) guidelines for healthy school meals. Please encourage students to participate in the school meal programs. Contact the School Food Service Office – Daniel J. Kolat, 843-322-0806, daniel.kolat@ beaufort.k12.sc.us or P.O. Box 755, Beaufort, S.C., 29901 – for additional information. Parents or guardians that do
not want their child/children to participate in CEP may wish to discuss this matter with Daniel J. Kolat on an informal basis. Parents wishing to make a formal appeal may make a request in writing to Tonya Crosby, whose mailing address is 2900 Mink Point Blvd., Beaufort, S.C. 29902 for a hearing to appeal the decision.
Just what would old Ponce de Leon think?
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t is Saturday, early, and I’m in Port Royal. This morning we learn that our virus — RNA that allegedly prefers cold, brisk, February temperatures— is thriving in Myrtle Beach. Our blistering, kiln-like July is here but the coronavirus remains. I suppose we can chalk this up to mutation or, perhaps, to the fact that South Carolina has always welcomed pathogens of any persuasion. This morning we also learn that more statues — including Washington, Lincoln and Grant — have been toppled or spray-painted. All of which brings me round to St Augustine, Fla. For those of you who want to see what happens when a small, coastal city decides to sell itself and its history to the highest bidder I recommend a day trip down I-95. Three hours south of Beaufort there is a town with a Spanish fort, a historic district and a waterfront esplanade not unlike
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year, the School District is participating in the Community Eligibility Provision (CEP) of the Healthy, Hunger Free Kids Act of 2010, a section of the Richard B. Russell National School Lunch Act. The Community Eligibility Provision provides an alternative to household applications for free and re-
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our own. But St Augustine also has a wax museum, a Ripley’s Believe It or Not, a Fountain of Youth and hundreds of trolley-riding tourists who surge through this ancient tableau drinking beer and singing “YMCA.” In the middle of this mayhem there is a small, well-vegetated, cannon-accessorized park called Plaza de la Constitution. It comes with statutes celebrating the Spanish, the hotel-building Flaglers, and the Confederacy. The monument to the Confederate war dead is smallish — a list of 46 Floridians who somehow got themselves to Virginia and were thereafter
slaughtered at Bull Run and Fredericksburg. For many years, I would assume, this piece of stone was largely ignored — ignored until 2018 when the Town decided to add four brass tablets at the foot of the unimpressive stone obelisk. And so, we get: The public response to the display of Confederate monuments from the 1870s through the Civil Rights era and beyond remains deeply personal, emotional and divisive. Some view the memorial as a noble reminder of personal sacrifice, others interpret it as a painful reminder of the re-assertion of white supremacy.
One of these addendums, titled INTERPRET, continues: The obelisk honors local loved ones who gave their lives in service of the Confederate States. Yet in all these Confederate state constitutions, black people were
legally regarded as human property. This memorial is a reminder of the divisive legacies of the Civil War. In addition to the INTERPRET, there is FREEDOM that says:
President Abraham Lincoln Emancipation Proclamation decreed on January 1, 1963, all persons held as slaves within any State in rebellion against the United States shall be then, thenceforward and forever free, … the Proclamation’s first anniversary was celebrated in this Plaza where the Confederate Monument now stands. My wife and I stood in front of all four supplements, reading them in turn and out loud. Then we sat down on a nearby bench. “There could be more about Reconstruction and the Jim Crow era,” Susan said. “Yes, but it does mention a ‘painful reminder of the re-as-
sertion of white supremacy’”, I replied. As we sat our conversation turned to our courtship in Washington D.C. in the late 60’s, when our “dates” included Thomas Jefferson — we loved hiking over to his Rotunda and reading his thoughts carved into the marble.
Commerce between master and slave is despotism. Nothing is more certainly written in the book of fate than that these people are to be free. “And do you remember The Lincoln Memorial and his 2nd Inaugural Address?” I said. “I do remember,” Susan responded. Neither anticipated that the cause of the conflict might cease with or even before the conflict itself should cease. Each looked for an easier triumph and a result less fundamental and as-
tounding. Both read the same Bible and pray to the same God and each invokes His Aid against the other. It may seem strange that any men should dare ask a just God’s assistance in wringing their bread from the sweat of other men’s faces but let us judge not that we be not judged… Later that night (in St. Augustine) we moved on to Ponce De Leon who came ashore in April, 1513. We wondered, “What would old Ponce think of St. Augustine?” Postscript: On June 23, the Orlando Sentinel reported that St Augustine’s Town Council had voted to remove the Confederate Monument (and the contextual addendums) from Plaza De La Constitution. Scott Graber is a lawyer, novelist, veteran columnist and longtime resident of Port Royal. He can be reached at cscottgraber@gmail.com.
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Here’s some criminal justice reform SC needs
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he death of George Floyd in Minneapolis has sent a cry for criminal justice reform reverberating across the nation and into the halls of Congress, but the most important reforms will take place at state and local levels. Accordingly, I am pleased South Carolina House Speaker Jay Lucas has formed a study committee, which includes two of our delegation members – Shannon Erickson and Weston Newton – for criminal justice reform, examining all aspects of our system, and that the Senate is also working to introduce its own bill. I urge our state leaders to incorporate the following measures: 1. Equip every law enforcement officer with a body-worn camera. Every officer issued a gun should also be given a camera, along with training on its proper use. Prosecutors depend on evidence to make tough decisions, including charging decisions in officer-involved shootings. It should not be left to a passerby with a cellphone to gather what will almost certainly be pivotal evidence guiding these decisions. Body cameras can provide a beginning-to-end record of an event from the officer’s perspective, providing protection for both officers and the public and helping to instill public confidence in
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uring the recent massive protests rocking many of our cities, it was not unusual to hear someone say “We are all Black.” They usually meant this metaphorically, spiritually or philosophically. But, in fact, they are actually factually correct. Some three or so million years ago, humans evolved in sub-Saharan Africa; these Black humans evolved and lived for thousands of years only in the African continent. Over time, human bands of Black folks moved “out of Africa” into the rest of the world. All humans are thus traceable to these Black “founding fathers and mothers.” Genetic variability is greater within the “Black race” than it is between the Black and White tribes. How do we know this? Our DNA tells the story: Biologically, there are no black or white “races,” or any other kind of human “race.” Different “races” of humans, whether defined by skin color or by any other means, are a socially invented cultural construct, with
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law enforcement agencies. The state should provide full funding for this statutory mandate and include a criminal penalty for the willful destruction or editing of body-worn camera footage. 2. Law enforcement should make evidence in all cases immediately available to prosecutors. Officer-involved shootings and other high-profile cases pique the public’s rightful desire for a timely response from prosecutors. However, an effective and just response can only be made if a prosecutor has immediate access to all available evidence. In today’s cyber world, much of this evidence can be transmitted electronically within a matter of moments. The General Assembly should authorize solicitors to develop plans requiring law enforcement to electronically transmit all evidence immediately, whether that prosecutor be the circuit solicitor or the attorney general. 3. Pass an Unnecessary Use of Force statute. Forty-one states have Use of Force statutes — laws to
specify conditions under which law enforcement can use deadly force — but South Carolina does not. State prosecutors now must try to fit an unlawful deadly shooting into either a murder or manslaughter charge.
4. Create a statewide database for police misconduct information and authorize prosecutor access. If arresting officers have misconduct issues affecting their credibility, prosecutors need to know that before moving a case forward for trial. Additionally, the court requires prosecutors to disclose police misconduct information to the defense. But we have no means by which to compel access to internal affairs investigations, criminal complaints or disciplinary actions against officers. Lawmakers should create a database of this information, mandate participation by all law enforcement agencies, and provide prosecutors access allowing us to meet our legal obligations. 5. Reduce incarceration by adequately funding treatment courts. Most people are now convinced of the usefulness of drug, mental health and veterans court programs which provide alternatives to incarceration for offenders whose addictions or mental health underlie their criminal
behavior. Requiring offenders to participate in treatment programs has proven effective in reducing recidivism at a fraction of the cost of incarceration. Yet the treatment element of these programs is so expensive, limited state funding has resulted in only the wealthiest counties participating by supplementing costs. Full funding by the General Assembly would allow each county to utilize treatment courts, thereby cutting inmate populations, saving state prison money, and, most importantly, helping those struggling with addiction to become productive citizens.
6. Provide for truth in sentencing. Unfortunately, the term “sentencing reform” has become synonymous with sentence reduction. The truth is some criminals struggle with antisocial behavior, while others embrace it. The latter are repeatedly arrested for myriad offenses, some violent, some nonviolent. Community safety requires that the most incorrigible offenders — about 20 percent of the criminal population — face penalties that are more stringent, not less so. Career criminals, whether convicted of a violent or nonviolent offense, should serve 85 percent of their sentence before they can be released, regardless of the length of their sentence. S.C.
Department of Corrections’ statistics show that prisoners serving 85 percent of their given punishment are the least likely of all prisoners to reoffend. The combination of adequately funded drug courts and truth in sentencing means fewer people go to prison, but those who do serve a sentence that reflects the judge’s intention and makes them less likely to re-offend.
7. Replace the state parole board with a re-entry board. In tandem with truth in sentencing, our state parole board should be re-purposed to help prisoners transition into society. The new board should oversee and coordinate programs during an inmate’s incarceration — such as counseling, education and vocational training, substance abuse treatment — to create a pathway to productive citizenship upon release. 8. Repeal South Carolina’s citizen arrest statute. This statute justifies vigilantism and can be used as a defense to murder. It should be repealed. 9. Require all officerinvolved shootings and in-custody deaths to be investigated by an independent agency. Only an independent investigation can give the public confidence that a decision in any given case is proper.
In reality, all of us are black DAVID TAUB
zero bio-zoological validity. White supremacists will surely deny that they share the same Black mother as the rest of humankind, including you know who, but it is a scientific reality. Get over it. Regrettably, racial xenophobia exists in many societies and countries, not just in America, and it has been so for tens of thousands of years of human history. Seems to me this idiocy has existed long enough for us to seriously dedicate ourselves to ending this socially created virus. During my lifetime, I have witnessed epistemological changes of how we refer to our kinsmen with black skin. There was “Negro” from the Latin word for the color black, nigreos; it didn’t take
much to get to “n….r,” – an ugliness that still lives with us. From there we got “colored,” which easily transitioned to “Black.” Of late, we have settled on the convention of “African-American.” If we truly wish to be “color blind,” we should either refer to everyone as “African,” or, in my view, drop “African” altogether as a moniker and stick to the simpler, but more inclusive, “American.” It is hard for a native Texan, born, raised and educated (?) in the Lone Star State to feel anything but bigger-than-life pride in all things Texas. Today, I feel only shame. A dozen county leaders of the Know Nothing Party of Texas, including Texas’s Agriculture Commissioner, recently claimed that George Floyd’s killing was a “staged event;” condemned Jewish billionaire George Soros for paying protesters to “start the race war” (we poor pitiful Jews – still being blamed for all the world’s problems); claimed that Floyd was a ‘brutal criminal’
who faked his asphyxiation; showed a bloody scene from a 1992 riot and announced that “this is why you don’t brake for ‘protesters.’” And just recently, the Lt. Governor says that Dr. Fauci “doesn’t know what he is talking about.” Oh, where did he get his medical training? Something very bad and evil has infected the proud State where I grew up. There is an important linkage between human evolution in Africa, and the major disjunction between Blacks and Whites to COVID-19 infection and death. Ignoring the dramatic effects of COVID-19 on our Black and brown kinsmen is yet another example of similar xenophobic thinking that melds nicely for POTUS in his deliberate pretention that the current “wolf at our door” doesn’t exist. After so many lies (almost 20,000 and counting), to believe POTUS requires that we believe in a fantasy world of “alternative facts” where POTUS himself resides. Only his most ardent
sycophants and toadies believe his lip-spittle, even of the utter nonsense that he has turned the COVID-19 pandemic to “ashes.” Huh? Perhaps he refers to the ashes of more than 130,000 Americans dead from the virus. Nah! In mid-June, POTUS spoke of COVID-19 with his senior policy advisor, the infamous Sean Hannity, that he did not “…even like to talk about that, because it's fading away. It's just going to fade away," Try telling that falsehood to the 130,000 plus who have died from his total mismanagement of COVID-19, the grieving relatives of those individuals, and the tens of thousands more that are likely to die before this year’s end. The Commander in Chief is AOL in his declared “war” on COVID-19. He has ignominiously abandoned the field of battle in disgrace. The enemy is COVID-19; you can be damned sure of that! It cares not what color your skin is, what your political views are, or what kind of car you drive.
South Carolina’s solicitors have studied and advocated some of these measures for years. As prosecutors, we see veterans held captive by the trauma that they experienced while fighting for our freedom, finally get the treatment they need through our Veteran’s Courts. We see drug addicts successfully complete our diversion programs to go on to lead productive lives. We see victims overcome the worst crimes imaginable. We see good officers place themselves in harm’s way for these victims and for our safety. But we also see the other side. We see priests that molest children. We see repeat offenders cycle out of prison only to hurt other people as soon as they are free. We see officers that instead of protecting people do just the opposite. We see hatred and we see evil. We see it in every neighborhood, every race and every occupation. Any reform needs to recognize all of this, not just some. Criminal justice reform must be comprehensive to have not only a positive impact, but to re-establish the public trust. These nine recommendations can start this process. Duffie Stone is the Solicitor for South Carolina’s 14th Circuit and President of the National District Attorneys Association.
Our country is suffering from a deep sickness of racial animus and intentional divisions, exacerbated by vile propagandistic lies from persons pretending to be leaders. Today, we are faced with an existential choice of transformative implications. It is time to rededicate ourselves to our true values that made America the envy of all the world. Silence is NOT golden; silence screams loudly that we are losing our soul to the dark side. We must scream back, loudly and passionately. But words are not enough, loud or otherwise. Only action has meaning. Do the right thing — VOTE! It is your duty as a citizen and it is the best way to jump-start desperately needed change to save the Republic. “Well, all I know is what I read in the newspapers.” – Will Rogers. David M. Taub was Mayor of Beaufort from 1990 through 1999 and served as a Beaufort County Magistrate from 2010 to 2015. You can reach him at david.m.taub42@gmail.com.
Reading comic strips is actually a lost art
hen I send birthday or greeting cards to friends and relatives, I usually cut out something from the newspaper and include it. Sometimes it is an article they might enjoy, but most of the time, it is a comic strip that I think they will find relevant (no money). When I send my engineer son a comic, it is usually Dilbert. Dilbert and his Human Relations officer have interesting conversations that many people in the corporate world would find funny. Like who is responsible for the department refrigerator
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highlighting daily life observations
and what is living in it. For young mothers, the two comic strips, “For Better or Worse” and “Baby Blues” are good. The little kids in “Baby Blues” are priceless. The comic strip “Pickles” is one that I only started
reading in the past few years. It is about an older couple. Suddenly their antics are hilarious. I have enjoyed reading the comics all my life and realized that I probably perfected my reading skills as a young child by reading them. There were numerous comics that caught my interest like, “Peanuts,” and “Marmaduke. Recently I sent a Father’s Day card to a young man with a picture of snakes and spiders on the front and inside it said, “To the perfect Dad who knows how to slay dragons.” In the card, I
placed a few comics that he and his wife would enjoy. The wife called me soon after they opened the card and told me how much they laughed over the card and comics. But that was not the only thing she said. “Lee, who gets newspapers now and cuts out actual comics? It’s the digital age!” They thought it was hysterical. I like this couple, so I did not feel offended. Evidently, reading comics from an actual newspaper is becoming a lost art. For me, there is such joy in sitting down with a newspaper. I love having a cup of
coffee, getting caught up on the local news, reading the comics, and doing puzzles. Through the years I have gotten in the habit of cutting out comics that I enjoy and throw them in a kitchen drawer. Inevitably, there is someone that will get one of the comics. Now I have decided to start putting them in a scrapbook. After all they are classic. Years from now, my grandchildren can open it and read those comics and see history. Because comic strips reflect what is going on in the world today and the
writers are quick even now to put humor in some of the social distancing challenges. Like Superman leaving earth because six feet was just not enough. So, if you get a card from me, do not expect any money. Maybe just a few comic strips from an actual newspaper. Lee Scott, award winning humor writer takes her “Walter Mitty” like persona and spins tales around everyday life. She enjoys boating, reading, and meeting people. Scott lives in Beaufort with her husband, JD, along with their dog Brandy. You can reach her at Lasshood@aol.com.
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Mystic Osprey hosting reception for Molesky
The Mystic Osprey Fine Art Gallery in Habersham Marketplace is hosting a gallery reception from 5 to 7 p.m. Friday, July 10 for artist David Molesky. Molesky is an internationally recognized fine artist based in New York City known for his landscapes and figurative works. His representational paintings of humans and environments have been featured in many museum exhibitions including the Baltimore Museum of Art, Maryland; Pasinger Fabrik, Germany; Casa Dell’Architettura, Italy; and Telemarksgaleriet, Norway. Molesky’s work often depicts animals or people in expansive natural settings. Recently, one of his paintings was acquired by a prominent New York collection that will be acquired by the MOMA. Molesky’s paintings are in the permanent collection of the Long Beach Museum of Art among other museum collections on both coasts and
in Europe and Asia. He is the recipient of artist residencies through the Morris Graves Foundation, California; Fine Art Base, California; and the Fundacja Nakielska, Poland. The gallery requests patience to allow guests to meet the artist and put guests' safety first with social distancing. Osprey will also have masks available for anyone who does not have one.
Ghostbusters, Deadpool highlight Drive-In schedule
Movies through Thursday, July 9 at the Highway 21 Drive-In include Ghostbusters (PG, 8:45 p.m.) and The Jungle Book (PG, 10:30 p.m.) on Screen 1 and My Spy (PG13, 8:45 p.m.) and Deadpool (R, 10:30 p.m.) on Screen 2. Gate opens at 6:30 p.m. Please observe social distancing requirements. Masks are required inside the concession stand. The Drive-In has added online ordering for food and tickets at https:// us.orderspoon.com/hwy-21drive-in.
NAWA hosting virtual art exhibition
From staff reports The South Carolina, Florida and Massachusetts Chapters of the National Association of Women Artists present ''Some Like It Hot,” the first combined Virtual Art Exhibit by members of three NAWA State Chapters. The exhibition runs through Aug. 25. The Meet the Artist reception will be uploaded to YouTube NAWAFL on Sunday, July 12 from 4 to 6 p.m. Exhibiting artists will be live recorded on Zoom.com. Go to: www.nawasc.org to enter the portal to the virtual exhibition "Some Like It Hot."
The first NAWA Chapter was founded in Florida in 1995, followed by the Massachusetts Chapter in 2013. The newest Chapter, South Carolina, was created in 2018. The NAWA Chapters extend the mission of our National organization by promoting highly visible juried exhibitions, and designing art education opportunities for its members as well as promoting women's art in their communities. NAWA Chapters encourage each new generation of women artists to strive for proper recognition for their vision, expertise and contributions
to the art world. Artists wishing to join any of the NAWA State Chapters must first be juried into the National Organization (NAWA). NAWA is a 501C3 not-for-profit tax-exempt or-
ganization. Visit www.nawasc.org; https://nawama.org; https:// nawafl.org. For more information, call Johns Island artist Joanna Biondolillo at 843-860-8617.
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