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JULY 18, 2011 -- Growing up as an overweight adolescent, I always was the big kid!
About eight years ago, I woke up one morning and decided I was done being out of shape. I joined a local gym and entered a weight loss competition. I won at the local level, at the regional level, and then on to the nationals. I won the whole thing with my final numbers being 130 pound s lost and a 20-inch drop in my waist in nine months! I always had a passion for swimming and loved to cycle during my weight loss journey; however, I always struggled with my running. My trainer encouraged me to try a triathlon to push me further. I did my first triathlon and became instantly addicted! I have been racing Novice and Clydesdale for six seasons now and won my first race last spring while continuing my top ten placements. In an effort to grow my running strength, I completed my first half-marathon in December. I started the group Chucktown Triathletes to help grow the sport of triathlon and to encourage fitness along with socialization in Charleston. We have scheduled training sessions in all three sports. In just 1.5 years, we now have almost 200 members and are growing every day. With all
of these great athletes at my disposal I decided to start Tri4TheKids,
a nonprofit to raise money for great charities in the area, through sporting
events. My first event will be our Folly to Cali Ride For The Kids, in
honor of Louie's Kids, the local charity on the front lines of the fight
against childhood obesity, something so near and dear to my heart! The
ride details are as follows ...
This fun-filled ride will start at the Tides Beach Resort in Folly Beach at 8 a.m. on Aug. 6 and will proceed 25 miles across Charleston ending at California Dreaming restaurant. At the start of the race, all riders will receive a playing card. Along our route we will have four more stops and each rider will receive another playing card. At the finish some outstanding prizes from our sponsors will be awarded to the best hand, including a beach vacation, new running shoes and a one-year gym membership. This is an all-levels-welcome event. An after ride celebration will be held at California Dreaming with food, drinks and live music. Please encourage friends and family to join in the post race festivities. Proceeds from the ride will go to Louie's Kids and its fight against childhood obesity. Further donations will be accepted the day of the ride and at time of registration. Please visit www.LouiesKids.org for further info on this charity.
Wadmalaw Scout camp offers fun, brings back memories By ANDY BRACK, publisher JULY 18, 2011 -- A visit last week to a Wadmalaw Island camp run by the Boy Scouts' Coastal Carolina Council was a trip down memory lane.
Thirty five years ago as a 15-year-old, I served as a counselor at a brother camp in the north Georgia mountains. That entailed sleeping in a tent for six weeks (on a cot with a wooden pallet floor), highly- structured days that began and ended with bugle sounds, sweating with mosquitoes, and teaching campers about knots, cooking, camping and First Aid. It's much the same today at Camp Ho Non Wah along the Bohicket River just over 20 miles southwest of downtown Charleston. Campers (and counselors) still sweat in the heat, crowd their way into the dining hall for family-style meals and enjoy outdoor activities -- everything from long hikes and shooting sports to boating and all sorts of aquatics.
Camp Ho Non Way, which translates to "land between the waters," handles about 350 Scouts and leaders a week -- and had its largest week in 40 years earlier this summer with 380 guests. Its facilities are outstanding -- eight individual campsites, fixed camping huts, activity shelters, a half-size Olympic pool, boat docks for fishing and boating, a non-denominational outdoor chapel overlooking the Fickling Creek marsh, a nature center and a trading post. There's even an office where Scouts can learn how to be Ham radio operators. It is a remarkable place, observed Scout Executive Legare Clement, a hometown Eagle Scout from Troop 50 at St. Philip's Episcopal Church. "I can remember coming out here as a kid and thinking it was way out in the country," he recalled. Eleven-year-old Nick Fanchette of Walterboro's Troop 648 said he was having a blast during his first visit to Camp Ho Non Wah as a Boy Scout. The Tenderfoot, who spent the week working on merit badges for First Aid, nature, cooking and swimming, said he most enjoyed "the freedom to be able to roam around."
For 54-year-old Gary Mocarski of Murrells Inlet, leader for Troop 396, Camp Ho Non Wah is the best camp offered by the scouting organization. "You don't get this many aquatics at any other Scout camp," said Mocarski, former head of the state Fire Marshals Association. "I block out my vacation time to come here." Because of the array of waterfront offerings, Clement observed, "This is going to be a destination camp in the future," adding that scouts come from Pennsylvania to Florida to spend a week at the 180-acre camp in rural Charleston County. Camp Director James Barton, who said the 60 members of the staff served 1,568 campers over the summer, has a countdown already set for the start of a winter week of camp just after Christmas. That's how much he loves the place. As do hundreds of boys every year. Camp Ho Non Wah is an unheralded Lowcountry gem. If you don't have your kids or grandchildren in scouting (there are options for girls too), you should check it out. Why? Because if they have a chance to enjoy this camp, they'll remember it for the rest of their lives.
To Charleston
Currents:
Congress people get free medical. For life, what's more! How could they even consider in good faith to the people they represent, cutting someone else's? It's getting hard enough, as it is, to find a doctor who will even take insurance anymore, let alone Medicare." I totally agree with David, and wondered what Currents readers would think about sending this to our two Senators and our Representatives? It is time for the people we elect to represent us to stand up and protect us. Remind YOUR reps that they should put their money where their mouth is and take a cut the way we are forced to do. See how many of them would do it. Could we ask ALL Senators and Congressmen to do this? You tell me. 2012 is getting closer-perhaps they should remember that. Here is the contact information for our Senators and Reps:
The public spiritedness of our underwriters allows us to bring Charleston Currents to you at no cost. In this issue, we turn the spotlight on Charleston Green Commercial, a full-service commercial property management company that pays attention to detail, provides exceptional personal service and is committed to adding value to buildings. Offering professional property management, consulting and other services, the company strives to improve clients' bottom lines with superior service, accessibility, reliability and a wealth of knowledge of the Charleston real estate market. By blending use of proven contractors and contacts with environmentally-conscious practices, the company helps clients stay on the leading edge of commercial real estate practices. More.
The city of Charleston will receive a $100,000 Our Town grant from the National Endowment for the Arts, one of only 51 grants awarded nationwide.
Gaillard Center Arts Precinct will be a parallel investment to the renovation of the Gaillard Center; the Arts Precinct design project envisions new open-air public performance spaces and artistic infrastructure, demonstrating how the arts advance livability and strengthen communities by giving expression to shared civic values and cultural identity. The City's Civic Design Center will lead the Arts Precinct project and its inclusive design process to create a vibrant cultural focal point that celebrates artistic engagement and advances excellence in the art of place-making and urban design. "The city of Charleston believes investing in the public realm with artistic infrastructure strengthens the creative spirit of individuals and the community, and demonstrates how the arts give expression to shared civic values and cultural identity," Charleston Mayor Joseph P. Riley Jr. said. "Charleston's urban fabric holds many lessons of excellence in city-making; the Gaillard Center Arts Precinct Project will augment those lessons, demonstrating through process and product how cities can transform their public realm into vibrant places that celebrate artistic engagement." Lecture on Battle of Manassas set for Thursday Did you know a South Carolinian is remembered as the "Hero of Manassas?" Or that a South Carolinian gave Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson his famous name?
The cost is $5, and includes materials compliments of Manassas National Battlefield Park. RSVP to 843-722-9350. Sea turtle gets emergency images made
"Barrington," a loggerhead turtle from the Charleston Aquarium, received an examination and MRI last week from the Charleston Veterinary Referral Center. Dr. Jason King, a veterinary neurologist/neurosurgeon at the center, was concerned about a brain infection causing decreased mental awareness and the inability for "Barrington" to keep his head above water. Charleston Veterinary Referral Center and Dr. King donated their services to the aquarium. Charleston Veterinary Referral Center, a specialty referral, emergency and critical care veterinary hospital, opened in March. More information can be found at www.CharlestonVRC.com. RiverDogs close out July with seven-game series at home The dog
days of August are approaching, but the Charleston RiverDogs are ready
to send the month of July out in style with a seven-game home stand. From
July 20-26, the Class-A affiliate of the New York Yankees welcomes the
Lexington Legends and West Virginia Power to Joseph P. Riley Jr. Park.
For more
information and to order tickets to any RiverDogs game, call the Riley
Park Box Office at 843-577-DOGS or log on to www.riverdogs.com.
Human relations activist Alice Buck Norwood Spearman Wright was born in Marion on March 12, 1902, the first child of the banker Samuel Wilkins Norwood and Albertine Buck, granddaughter of one of South Carolina's largest slave owners. After attending Marion private and public schools, Alice earned a bachelor of arts degree in history and literature from Converse College in 1923. Participation in student activities of the Young Women's Christian Association channeled her liberal Baptist religious beliefs into social service. Wright taught school in South Carolina before moving to New York City in 1926. After earning a master's degree in religious education from Columbia Teachers' College and taking courses at the YWCA National Training School and Union Theological Seminary, she worked for the Germantown, Penn., YWCA. In 1930 she began a three-year journey around the world, attending conferences in England, the Soviet Union, India, and China and studying Asian culture in Japan. She also taught school in the Philippines and China. Through her contacts with cultured people of different races, she developed a cosmopolitan outlook. Returning home, Wright became the first South Carolina woman appointed to administer a county relief program, in Marion. She set up relief during the 1934 strike of the United Textile Workers of America. Though she openly expressed sympathy for the strikers, her family's prominence prevented her from being fired. Promoted to district supervisor of eight counties, Wright later directed the rural rehabilitation survey. Eventually she served as state supervisor of education for federal programs in adult and worker education. In November 1936 Wright married Eugene H. Spearman and moved to his Newberry farm. They had one son. A partner in marriage, she helped her husband write his campaign speeches for the position of county supervisor. Drawn to civil rights, Wright in 1943 helped to organize the South Carolina Division of the Southern Regional Council. Needing a paying job in 1951, she became executive director of the South Carolina Federation of Women's Clubs and associate editor of Clubwoman magazine. Then, in October 1954, she was chosen executive director of the South Carolina Council on Human Relations, the new name of this SRC affiliate. Holding her position until 1967, she worked to build a biracial community committed to racial justice. Wright's strategy was to encourage open discussion of the U.S. Supreme Court's 1954 Brown v. Board of Education decision. But she found that most whites, particularly clubwomen, closed their minds to desegregation during the state's massive resistance period. By 1963, however, the South Carolina Council and its Student Council on Human Relations helped prepare campus opinion for peaceful desegregation at Clemson College and the University of South Carolina. Under her direction the council participated in a Voter Education Project, encouraged compliance with the 1964 Civil Rights Act, and developed programs targeting illiteracy, lack of job skills, and rural and urban poverty. An appointee to the South Carolina Advisory Committee to the U.S. Civil Rights Commission, Wright in 1964 was awarded an honorary doctorate in humanities by Morris College in Sumter. Wright showed that an upper-middle-class white woman could break free from the traditional feminine role and racial prejudices of her society. In 1970 she married the attorney and former Southern Regional Council president Marion A. Wright (Eugene Spearman had died in 1962). The North Carolina Civil Liberties Union bestowed the Frank P. Graham Award on Alice Spearman Wright in 1973. She died in Columbia on March 12, 1989.
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"Our problems are man-made, therefore they may be solved by man. And man can be as big as he wants. No problem of human destiny is beyond human beings."
Pour It Forward, 5 p.m. to 8 p.m., July 20, The Square Onion Too, 411 Coleman Blvd. Each year, more than 3,500 wild animals are displaced from their natural habitat in the Lowcountry and taken to a local animal refuge, Keeper of the Wild. The cost of caring for these animals is rising, and this local nonprofit organization has been selected as the beneficiary of the July installment of Pour It Forward wine tasting. A $10 donation is requested. With that donation, patrons will enjoy a wine tasting, healthy snacks, music and more. Summerville Third Thursday: 5 p.m. to 8 p.m., July 21, historic downtown Summerville. Includes Summerville's Got Talent contest finale, First Federal Bank's game of hide and seek with Filbert their mascot, the town's Cultural Arts Alliance's new Quilt Show in the Town Municipal building, a sidewalk sale from town merchants, and food sales. Contact Summerville DREAM for more information (843) 821-7260. (NEW) Craft Beer Dinner: 7 p.m., July 21, at Queen Anne's Revenge on Daniel Island. A special five-course dinner prepared by Chef Brent Quiggle, paired with some of the newest craft Brews by Ed Westbrook of Westbrook Brewery. $35 per person. Space is limited, call 843-216-6868 for reservations. (NEW) Young Zowie's Bucket List: 8 p.m., July 21, at Market Street Saloon Smokehouse and Grill in North Charleston. Zowie Kile, age 7, is suffering from her fourth relapse of AML Leukemia, and she is too weak for treatment. The Charleston community is coming together for a benefit concert. There will be a donation at the door of $5 for Zowie. Two great bands, Southern Bred and Greg Austin, will perform until midnight. Go online to read her story and see photos of Zowie. Entrepreneur Money Management: 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., July 23, Charleston Metro Chamber of Commerce, 4500 Leeds Ave., North Charleston. BizBuilderSC, which offers statewide entrepreneur and small business training, is offering a class called "Money Matters, the NxLevel® Guide to Money Management." Tuition is $75. More information or to register, or contact Laura Williams at 843-805-3102. (NEW) Kitten Fever: noon to 4 p.m., July 23-24, in front of Old Navy, Mount Pleasant Towne Centre Mall. Pet Helpers is holding a kitten rescue event. Rescue one kitten for $75 or two for $125. Also, on July 30, from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m., Pet Helpers is holding an Adoption Fest at its Animal Helpers ReTAIL Store, 1601 Savannah Highway. CALENDAR: ONGOING AND SOON Family Fun Weekends: Saturdays and Sundays, July and August. South Carolina residents who want to enjoy a "staycation" can take advantage of reduced admissions at Magnolia Plantation and Gardens. Weekend admission to the gardens and a nature train ride will be $40 for each vehicle carrying up to five passengers. Free snow cones and popcorn will be served at the Peacock Café. For more information, call 571-1266 FOLLOW US ON TWITTER
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"I
realize that the financial circumstances our government, our world, our
peoples are in right now are very dangerous and so solutions must be found.
It occurred to me that with Social Security, if we recipients are going
to have to take a 'cut,' then wouldn't it be fair if all Senators, Congressmen
and Congresswomen, Vice President, President and government employees
also take a commensurate cut in their salaries? I think the list of those
who might take on the stress of it, like the rest of us, could get a bit
longer without even ruffling the feathers of the bankers and hedge fund
owners. If we, as a people, are going to learn to downsize for the sake
of stability, shouldn't we all participate? Isn't the danger that we now
face in this world of ours, everybody's danger? Shouldn't we be looking
to assist each other, all of us?
The
$100,000 will support the transformation of the open space in front of
the anticipated Gaillard Center into an Arts Precinct, bringing the arts
into the public realm and creating a civic destination for artistic activity.
Historian
Michael Coker will give a Civil War Sesquicentennial Lecture on South
Carolinians and the Battle of Manassas on Thursday at 11 a.m. at the Power
Magazine, 79 Cumberland St. 
The
home stand slate includes:
It's
a Southern tradition that our women don't perspire (let alone sweat!),
they glow. But let's face it, when it feels like it's 115 degrees, it's
hard to remember to glisten. Charleston's humidity only makes it worse.
So remember these tips from the Centers for Disease Control and Charleston
Currents:
Revolutionary
War focus tours: 4 p.m., July 19 and 26, Heyward-Washington
House, 87 Church St. The Charleston Museum's Heyward-Washington House
will offer special Revolutionary War focus tours every Tuesday in July.
Reservations are not required. Admission is $10/adult and $5/child (free
for Charleston Museum members). For more information, Call 722-2996 ext.
235. Please note: the July Revolutionary War Focus Tours are not available
to tour groups during this time slot.