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Those old enough to remember The Pohlman is the face for the city in West A-Team when it made it’s prime time run Ashley and is present at almost every meeting will undoubtedly remember the catchphrase regarding the future of the region, offering his from the group’s leader Hannibal, who would insight and expertise. always say “I love it when a plan comes From the private sector, fewer people together.” No doubt a plan is essential when have had their fingerprints on the shaping of building anything and West Ashley has West Ashley in recent years than architect its own A-Team in a group of architects, Dinos Liolio. While his office is technically politicians, city planners, and community on James Island, just on the other side of the NOW OPEN leaders who are helping plan for a better Wappoo Cut, Liolio, who was raised in West EVERY DAY future for West Ashley. Ashley and graduated from St. Andrew’s High TIL 9PM! The West Ashley Revitalization School, has been working hard to make West Committee (WARC) comes to mind. Headed by Ashley better. city councilman Peter Shahid, the appointed In addition to high profile regional OUR BURGERS ARE GROUND committee of local citizens is working to build projects such as the Charleston International IN HOUSE DAILY, MADE WITH NATURAL, long-term economic stability of West Ashley Airport and the Old City Jail, Liolio’s firm is 100% HORMONE & ANTIBIOTIC FREE, by revitalizing the unique character of West behind some of West Ashley’s most notable GRASS-FED FREE RANGE BEEF Ashley and supporting values that assure it buildings, such as the Louis Waring Jr. Senior & WILD GAME. will be a great place to live, work, play, invest, Center, Charles Towne Landing’s Founders and do business. Hall, and the City of Charleston Fire Station Last March, WARC released their Plan #11, which is currently under construction 843-764-9403 West Ashley report, which will play a pivotal near the site of the Sofa Super Store Fire. role in shaping the future of West Ashley's The structure will be a stunning firehouse 2875 Ashley River Rd. streets, neighborhoods, and public spaces. as well as a functioning memorial to the nine www.BigBillysBurgerJoint.com The Plan sets broad policies and identify firefighters who lost their lives there. specific actions aimed to enhance quality of In addition to his architectural projects, life and protect the area’s historic, cultural Liolio has been a driving force behind the West and natural environment Ashley-James Island Business Association In addition to the WARC members, West (WAJIBA). A founder and past president, Ashley Project Coordinator for the City of Liolio still remains active with the group, Assisted Living Memory Care. Charleston Eric Pohlman was brought in back which offers networking for local businesses & in 2018 because of his experience in urban and informational programs to the greater The Palmettos is a place where residents can live independently design, architecture, and urban planning. community every month. in a beautiful, secure, and caring environment, free from the daily burdens. Generations Serving Generations for 48 Years. 2020 THE WESTIES The Promoters
There are some folks out there who eat, more about what they’re working on. In the drink, and breath West Ashley. And while meantime, they’ve helped give a voice to our many of them put their money where their part of town through community projects, mouths are, what’s also just is important are like clean-ups, public planning discussions, the mouths themselves. Because they are political forums, and a robust community on the unofficial mouthpieces for West Ashley social media that advocates for West Ashley. and without them we just might not have a For the last decade, local business seat at the table. Despite being more than owner Geoffrey Richardson has been 75,000 strong, West Ashley was historically the cheerleader for the Avondale Business the stepchild of the city. Now we’re the cool A Proud Affiliate Of NHC Healthcare. District. An area, which helped ignite the kid on the block. In part because of the work revitalization fire in West Ashley through its the Only Facility in West Ashley Able of our unofficial public relations team. organic renovation of a part of town that to Offer the NHC Continuum of Care. A huge part of that team are the folks serves as the welcome mat to West Ashley behind West Ashley United. Co-founders from downtown. Richardson, who owns Lava Teresa Tidestrom and Carlton Swift worked Salon in Avondale, along with his wife, also 1900 Ashley Crossing Drive hard to build a non-profit (not a Facebook began the chART outdoor art initiative. chART page!) that’s doing real work in changing literally changed the look of Avondale, turning Charleston - 843-852-0505 the culture and landscape of West Ashley. ugly old walls into canvases for local artists. www.thepalmettoscharleston.com Stay tuned in the coming months to hear
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Richard C. Davis is the king of beginnings. Originally begun in West pioneers, currently, in West Ashley. He Ashley back in 2006 as a minyan (smaller has spent and invested tens of millions worship space closer to homes where of dollars buying up Citadel Mall in a orthodox wouldn’t have to walk as far), bold gamble to do what no one else in the new synagogue has repurposed America has yet to do: revive a faded the old Jewish Community Center (JCC) mall. and brought a new place to worship in And he continues to invest more West Ashley for years to come. With Have You Been To money, snapping up national chain stores the help and guidance of Rabbi Michael ? and their footprints at the mall, in hopes Davies and congregation president & of creating a multi-purpose facility that David Rosenberg, West Ashley’s Jewish Spa will bring together housing, shopping, community can now worship in a recreation, and transportation. beautiful new synagogue next door to the Cosmotique Salon If he can pull it off, it will literally be equally impressive, modern Addlestone alchemy: taking crap and spinning it into Hebrew Academy, which opened a few - Charleen London gold. That mall was a dead husk with a years prior. COME CHECK OUT worse future when he moved in. Since When Bon Secours St. Francis - Lauren Tommarello he’s gotten in, he’s landed the offices Hospital opened its West Ashley doors OUR TALENT! and studios of a former Hollywood Pennie Peralta was Chief Nursing WE NEVER DISAPPOINT! - Joey Grimm production company, Danny McBride’s Officer. In the beginning, only 50 out Rough House. of 141 patient beds were active. In the And more significantly, he’s gotten first ten years, emergency services MUSC to open an ambulatory hospital expanded three times and the hospital 1411 Ashley River Rd facility there, providing cash to cover the now operates at full capacity in all areas. www.cosmotique.biz bills while he lands another big buy-in. Since 2006 they have added 63 additional Sure, it may not pan out as everything beds, added radiology services, opened he hopes (e.g.: don’t set your hopes on operating rooms, and the free-standing a monorail) and some may be concerned West Ashley Cancer Center. Peralta’s it will welcome buildings taller than they team rallied around her and sought like. advanced degrees, did research, learned But whatever comes will be a damn and added technology, improved patient sight/site better than a bulldozed mall. outcomes, and set the bar higher each EVERYONE IS A John Hagerty and Susan Simons year, earning recognition from Truven’s had some of that same vision-thing as Top 100 Hospitals five times, the Blue Davis when they bought and recast a Cross Blue Shield Center of Distinction, ROCKSTAR AT former elementary school at the corner CMS 5 stars, Leap Frog Grade A, and of Sycamore and Magnolia roads into the list goes on. The hospital recently The Schoolhouse. welcomed surveyors for their third Nearly every night, there is some Magnet survey which will place them sort of event in the public space of the within 2 percent of all hospitals in the BARKS building, with small business packing it U.S. Peralta is now Vice President of during the day. Genius. Nursing, Senior Nurse Executive for the And congregations like Dor Tikvah Roper St. Francis Healthcare system ‘N (Generation of Hope) prove that bigger BUBBLES things can still start out of small Receive $100 Off When You Upgrade To Miele.
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It’s easy to start at the top, Mayor fulfilling their part of the project, which John Tecklenburg, who faced a tough could lead to better traffic conditions on General Election as the incumbent with this side of the river ... or Armageddon, multiple, vote-splitting candidates on the depending on who you ask. Win the best Zero turn money can buy! ballot. But Rawl should be credited for He nearly got the needed 51-percent getting what could be the biggest project Come test drive a Spartan today! mark needed to avoid a runoff, and soundly in West Ashley going again. Whether it and roundly defeated downtown City ever happens, like Armageddon, remains Councilman Mike Seekings in the second to be seen. inning, extending his percentage lead from County Councilman Brantley Moody the first inning. gets a tip of the hat for getting the county Tecklenburg’s win further cements on board with money for a new bike and West Ashley’s political power base over pedestrian bridge from West Ashley and the well-heeled peninsula. onto the peninsula. Tecklenburg lives here, represents On the Federal level, Democratic here, and wins here. Congressman Joe Cunningham went from Although they’re no longer on council, West Ashley all the way to the Capital over the last decade, fomer councilmen building in 2018. And while his vote to Bill Moody and Aubry Alexander, along impeach President Trump ruffled some with current councilman Keith Waring are feathers of his Republican constituents, the trio who fought tirelessly to make sure Cunningham has remained steadfast to that West Ashley was always represented his campaign promise of “Country Over on City Hall’s agenda, even when it wasn’t Party” voting against his own party on the popular thing to do. several measures and helping fight for Charleston County councilman Victor South Carolina District 1 in the Nation’s Rawl deserves a big shout-out, too. As this Capital. He’s lead the charge against West Ashley politician was who really got offshore drilling along the South Carolina the I-526-completion effort back on track. coast and is working to help lower out-of- He may no longer be chairman of his body, pocket prescription drug costs. but now the state is back on board with
2020 THE WESTIES The Preservationists
A lot of time real estate and historic and retired Naval officer Robert Heinlein preservation don’t go hand-in-hand. once said, “A generation which ignores But Charlie Smith of CSA Real Estate history has no past and no future.” Another proves that wrong. The local businessman author who is making sure that we don’t is on the frontline of helping preserve forget our history is Donna Jacobs. The the unique and often forgotten history of Byrnes Downs resident has written two Charleston, and West Ashley in particular. books on West Ashley and is has a feature Last month he walked along the marsh in each issue of the West Of Free Press front in Ashleyville with members of the called West Ashley Flashback. Jacobs is community and U.S. Congressman Joe constantly collecting stories and photos Cunningham pointing out historically- and scrapbooks from the days when West significant sites that are being threatened Ashley was known as St. Andrew’s Parish. by development. This is nothing new for These stories might otherwise be lost and Smith, a walking history textbook for West Jacobs has taken it upon herself to be Ashley, who once stood in front of a the unofficial West Ashley historian by bulldozer as it was tearing down a the old preserving these stories for generations vegetable stand on the corner of Wappoo to come in her books and newspaper Road and Savannah Highway. columns. Noted author, aeronautical engineer,
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It used to be that if you wanted to off the peninsula, there is now a great site FURNITURE see live performances in West Ashley, not located in a church with full technical you had to head downtown. No longer capabilities, parking, and seating. And as the number of actors, artists, and there’s a chance that strip could improve performance spaces that have popped even more if the city goes through with up has also grown on this side of the river. an idea to erect an arts center at the HOME DECOR The trio of Danny McBride, Jody confluence of Old Towne Road and Sam Hill, and David Gordon Green (Vice Rittenberg Boulevard. Principals, Eastbound and Down, The West Ashley has been a hub for Righteous Gemstones) moved a huge local stand-up comedy over the last APPAREL & part of their Hollywood production decade, with stand-up comedy shows company, Rough House Pictures to the popping up everywhere from the Tin ACCESSORIES Lowcountry and even turned the old Roof, Ms. Rose’s Fine Foods, Charles Sears building at the Citadel Mall into a Towne Fermentory, and the Charleston fictional mega-church that is the center Sports Pub. But thanks to local stand- of HBO’s The Righteous Gemstones. up and comedy booker Keith Dee, the If you’re redecorating, While maybe not yet on par with Captains Quarter on Savannah Highway Wilmington, N.C.’s movie-making has now become a venue for a weekly inheriting, or de-cluttering heyday, HBO re-signed “Gemstones” standup show featuring local, regional, for a second season, so more work and national talent. Dee’s Creekside your space, and opportunities for local actors and Comedy Series was even voted as the concierge consignment artisans. Huzzah! best reason to go to West Ashley by HBO isn’t the only show in the mall another local publication. Now the is for you! right now. Last year, the Cultural Arts peninsula has to come to West Ashley Center of Charleston also found a new every Saturday for professional comedy. home in the Citadel Mall. From a full Another local performance group season of musical theater productions to that has been gaining steam in West exemplary theatre arts education classes, Ashley and beyond is the story-telling ! Cultural Arts Center Charleston is an artful collective known as Truth Is. Founded We do the packing space for everyone in the community. by Karen Black, once a month Gala Seasoned theatre professionals Kirk Desserts along Savannah Highway Sprinkles and Scott Pfeiffer co-founded gets packed full of folks eager to tell ! the center and are bringing in professional and listen to true stories that range We do the moving talent for their productions along with from hilarious to heart-wrenching. helping young actors and actresses While there is usually a core group ! reach their potential. of storytellers, anyone is welcme to We do the selling Venerable Charleston Stage opened register if they have a story to tell and an impressive satellite theatre space, the guts to do it in front of an audience. ! The Pearl, off Old Towne Road where The Best of Truth Is was featured as You Make the Money smaller productions and other theater part of Piccolo Spoleto last year. groups can produce shows. If Spoleto USA ever gets serious about expanding Concierge Consignors receive on-site appraisals, referrals, and SOLUTIONS.
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This group of residents and projects are many West Ashley communities like these ensuring that West Ashley will be known for linear parks-in-waiting. something other than good place to buy a car City and County councilman should — any brand of car. have their hands shook for spending on the Everyone knows that green, public spaces aforementioned new parks. A hand should add mightily to the livability of a community. also be extended to Kevin Walsh over at St. This was a lesson former Mayor Joseph P. Andrew’s Parks and Playgrounds, who with Riley Jr. taught us and as a parting gift to West County Councilman Brantley Moody is looking Ashley, he helped lay the groundwork for many to turn a former blighted commercial strip at future parks. the corner of Ashley River and Parsonage Over the last decade, West Ashley’s parks roads into a passive, traffic-calming park. options have exploded. And if you live in Charleston, you should While it’s not complete, the former WPAL be congratulated, too. Because you’ve bought site was purchased to become a “put-in” into the importance of greenspaces and keep park on the Stono River; Higgins Pier was voting for greenspace tax collection, so we completed; a new county park will soon open don’t become an endless strip of shopping along Old Towne Road. Enhancement plans for centers and frontage roads (read: Mount the West Ashley Greenway and Bikeway have Pleasant). ST ANDREW’S PARKS begun, with more in the offing, like the Bender After listening to resident’s plea for a West Street park-to-be in Ashleyville. Ashley Farmer’s Market, the City of Charleston’s The number of hands being laid on all these Office of Cultural Affairs now offers now offers & PLAYGROUND transformations is impressive. Harry Lesesne one at Ackerman Park, which also has a skate over at the Charleston Parks Conservancy, park and may also see a facelift in the near keeps the Riley greenspace perspective rolling future. On Wednesdays throughout most of the from his office looking over the community year, Charleston Farmers Market Coordinator garden near Avondale. Harrison Champman assembles an impressive The conservancy’s plan to increase collection of local farmers, bakers, dessert- options along the “’Ways” makes perfect, if makers, artisans, performers, and others that NOW not expensive sense — nothing interconnects bring hosts of shoppers to the park. 2020 THE WESTIES The Parents
For the second time, groups of committed C.E. Williams. HIRING parents have forced/shamed the Charleston The idea was to deal with racial, County School District into doing the right economic, and academic inequalities between We offer a fun & friendly workplace & some benefits! thing for West Ashley. the two middle schools Camp Counselors, Two years ago, members of the CCSD The duo had been attending constituent School Board and its officials had to eat a meetings and were surprised how quickly the plate of crow at the public unveiling of the plan was introduced, sloppily discussed, and AVAILABLE JOBS: brand new Stono Park Elementary. Originally, then passed. So, they raised several stinks, the public voted to raze and rebuild the school, and last month the district relented, saying but the district wanted to spend the money they would erect trailers at the soon-to-open Fishing Camp Counselors, Tennis Camp Counselors, elsewhere, rumored to be a better football CEWMS site next to the high school. field in Mt. Pleasant. Dubose-Morris says a detached School Building Maintenance Tech, Group Fitness So, the district had ignored the vote of Board rushed it through as part of a bigger the people and decided it would just renovate. plan to create a separate (read: even more Instructors, Kit’s Fitness/Nursery Attendant Well, a group of West Ashley women led by white) K-12 charter system in West Ashley, Meredith Demetre and others galvanized which she adamantly opposes. Concession Workers and Birthday! support and forced the district to rebuild the Dubose-Morris has been backing and school. It took some time, but the new school tracking with interest a bill currently in the Party Ambassadors opened last year. state Senate that would change School Board This year, West Ashley parents led by elections so that seats would be directly Frank Beylotte and Ragan Dubose-Morris elected by the part of town they represent, tilted at the windmills at 75 Calhoun when the versus the current countywide system. district initially announced its plan to split all If that goes through, then West Ashley For more information or to apply, please visit middle schoolers in this part of town between parents will have not only flexed their muscle www.standrewsparks.com West Ashley Middle and the new campus of on county officials, but state legislators, too. 16 KEEPING THE WESTIES WEST ASHLEY The Park-ers BUG FREE STOP Mosquitoes SINCE 1975! in their tracks! Call Today to Schedule your Monthly Mosquito Control! Available during the spring & summer months! We also offer Mosquito Control for Outdoor Events! COMMERCIAL & RESIDENTIAL Pests • Termites • Vapor Barriers Ventilation Work • Formosan Termite Coverage Wood Infestation Reports (CL-100’s) • Mosquito Control for outdoor events Soil Treatments • Monthly mosquito control during mosquito season 843-766-8298 www.ledfordspestcontrol.com
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est Ashley High competed in playoffs in a bracket-style tournament they feel is correct. Showing they have the students worked together and the the South Carolina High School consisting of two semi-final matches thought through each case fully and rapport they built over the course of the WEthics Bowl at Wofford recently followed by one final match. logically while they interact respectfully year.” and came in first place! They competed Each year the High School Ethics with their opponents demonstrates a The team competed against the against 18 teams from 12 schools Bowl releases a case set of 15 ethical grasp of the material. winner of Georgia’s Ethics Bowl in a across the State including Chapman scenarios such as student loan debt, “Honestly, win or lose, the process virtual playoff last week and lost in the High, Spartanburg High, and Palmetto confronting someone whose behavior is the most rewarding part,” said Junge. final round. While disappointed they did Scholars Academy; this was the second is morally problematic, etc. for teams time West Ashley High participated in to study. West Ashley High’s team met such a competition. once a week from September through The team was started three years January to be ready for competition. ago by Science teacher John Junge Teams are judged on the clarity of their because of his love of the discussions presentations as well as the depth and and debates he liked to hold with his breadth of their thinking on each case. students. After several students More than winning, being a part of inquired about starting a team, Junge a group like the Philosophy Club helps Ethically Correct realized there was a mutual interest and students expand their viewpoints and the Philosophy Club was born. be willing to listen to differing opinions. West Ashley High Philosophy Club According to the University of “I’ve learned how to see other North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s website, people’s point of view rather than just takes 1st place at Ethics Bowl regional ethics bowls “are competitive my own opinion,” said junior Copeland by Donnie Newton | Contributing Writer yet collaborative events in which Johnson, one of the students who students discuss real-life ethical issues. helped start the team three years ago. This event teaches and promotes ethical One of our very few rules is seek first to awareness, critical thinking, civil understand. This is so we can hear the discourse, civic engagement, and an other viewpoints and ask questions to “When we first started in September not advance to Nationals, the team is appreciation for multiple points of view.” clarify meaning. Once we see the other the students didn’t really know one already thinking about next year. A typical Ethics Bowl is an all- side, we can criticize or introduce new another very well. Having regular “We are currently looking to recruit day competition consisting of a series points.” conversations about these complex members for a team for next year,” of hour-long matches. The morning An ethics bowl differs from a issues, and learning how to disagree said Johnson. “We are going back to competition is a qualifying round where debate competition in one significant in respectful and constructive ways, is having Socrates Café which are open schools compete in three matches way – students are not given differing a very intimate act — you really learn discussions about questions that we against randomly selected opponents. points of view they have to defend but a lot about someone’s character. So, I have so we can generate interest and The top four teams then move on to the rather speak up for whichever viewpoint think what I’m most proud of is how well find new members.”
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21 MARCH 2020 while the Cheer Squad performed the routine they did at this year’s ACC Championship. Other groups such as the WAHS Archery Team set up in the Small Gym while the WAHS NJROTC Air Rifle Team set up in their Future Wildcats Get a Taste of WAHS classroom in order to give families a hands on approach to their respective programs. Annual event gives local elementary and middle schoolers a chance Students were able to pick up a bow and arrow or pick up a rifle and see what it would to see what high school is all about be like to be a member of each team. by Donnie Newton | Contributing Writer This year, a number of business partners were invited to set up booths at the event According to author Mitch Albom, it as a way of promoting themselves and as is important to “devote yourself to your a way for the high school to say thank you community around you and to devote yourself for all of their support. Businesses like to creating something that gives you purpose Live for Wellness Chiropractic Center and and meaning.” On February 21st, West the SC Federal Credit Union were among Ashley High worked to better its community those present. With the event taking place by teaching those around them more about at dinnertime, food trucks such as Rolled the high school experience or rather what Quesadillas, Smoky Oak Taproom, and Kona one might experience when they attend the Ice also joined in the festivities. school. Prospective students and their families WAHS hosted A Taste of West Ashley, an were able to stop by a Math and a World annual campus-wide event, which showcases Language classroom to meet two teachers many of its academic departments, Career and participate in a quick activity in that & Technology Education (CTE) programs, department’s content area. They also went athletic teams, Fine Arts groups, and clubs Among the different booths set up by CTE programs was one by the Mechatronics teacher, Nick Holmes. This was a popular booth as students got hands on experience driving the robots Holmes’ students have built down the CTE hallway and were able to tour our through a variety of activities, interactive Nail Technology classroom, sample treats from booths, and performances. Students who to understand that we have the same and greet station. the Culinary Arts lab, and visit the Marketing attend local elementary and middle schools, opportunities as SOA or James Island and we Stopping by the auditorium afforded program’s student-run school store, the Cat along with their families, were invited to see are right in their own back yard.” visitors the opportunity to watch many of Shack, among other special areas. what attending West Ashley High School Academic departments and a number of the high school’s performance groups. The “This event truly represents what West would be like through these different groups. CTE programs set up booths in the cafeteria performances were divided into two 30 Ashley High School is all about,” said Newton. More than 500 people attended this where visitors could come by and learn more minutes sections. The Drama Studio, Chorus, “It is a place where students can come and year’s event with visitors coming from about that specific area of study. Families and Cheer Squad made up one section while learn about almost anything. This school is schools like Drayton Hall, C.E. Williams, were able to play with a robot designed by the Pawettes, Band, and Strings made up the one of the most diverse schools in Charleston and Orange Grove, among others. “We are a Mechatronics student, learn about course other. Examples of their performances include County; not only race and gender but in terms working hard to get our school, its students, offerings in the English Department, or take members of the The Drama Studio putting on of the programs, athletic opportunities, Fine and our amazing faculty out there into the pictures with members of different athletic the number, “Gaston”, from their upcoming Arts groups, and clubs that are offered to all community,” said Public Relations Director teams like baseball and football at the meet spring musical Disney’s Beauty and the Beast who attend.” Donnie Newton. “It is important for everyone
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here has been a noticeable leap in of the mid-’90s, it was special, perhaps mention double-digit nominations). wide-ranging impact and spirit of musical star power for the seventh annual even startling, to see. “I know [having the same band] camaraderie, it would be American TCharleston Bluegrass Festival held Now helming the Del McCoury helped with my success. It keeps your Legacies. A wonderfully fulfilling cross- Friday, March 20 and Saturday, March Band, with sons Ronnie and Rob, the sound constant,” says McCoury. “We section of traditional bluegrass and the 21 at The Woodlands Nature Preserve, ensemble did and continues to represent really enjoy what we’re doing.” Dixieland pomp of New Orleans, the located at 4279 Ashley River Road. This in a larger, growing musical community While this is their first time at the album typified the Del McCoury Band’s is the third year the festival has been a peerless torchbearer for the entire Charleston Bluegrass Festsival, the Del evolution from bluegrass vanguard to an held in West Ashley and like previous sweep and scope of bluegrass history. McCoury Band has played the wildly American treasure. years, there are campaign opportunities. Those many years, not to mention a However, the biggest change this year good-natured willingness to stay alert is the amount of big name bluegrass to the latest sounds and opportunities acts that have been added to the bill, around him, earned McCoury a whole including Greensky Bluegrass, the new generation of fans, including some Yonder Mountain String Band, the Sam in unlikely places. Bush Band, Town Mountain, Ghost Light, “I’m just doing what’s natural,” the Larry Keel Experience, and the Del says McCoury. “When young musicians West Ashley’s McCoury Band. ask me what they should do I always tell Even among this impressive list them, ‘You do whatever’s inside of you. of the genre’s finest artists, 81-year-old Do what you do best.’” Del McCoury stands alone. From the No surprise that contemporary, nascent sound of bluegrass that charmed bluegrass-bred stars sang his praises; hardscrabble hillbilly honkytonks, rural marquee names like Vince Gill and schoolhouse stages, and the crowning Alison Krauss (who first met McCoury Grass is Blue glory of the Grand Ole Opry to the at a bluegrass festival when she subbed 7th annual Bluegrass Festival returns to the present-day culture-buzz of viral videos for his missing fiddler). Yet, here too and digital streams, McCoury is the living was rocker Steve Earle recording and Woodlands Nature Preserve with some of the link. Audiences where he plays often touring with the group. Here was jam number in the tens of thousands. band legend Phish jamming onstage biggest names in the business Emerging from humble beginnings in with the boys. Here was the band on York County, PA. 81 years ago, McCoury TV, or headlining rock clubs and college from Staff Reports was not the likeliest of candidates for campuses; the can’t-miss appearances legendary status. As a teen, he was at country and jazz festivals. captivated by the banjo playing of one of “We don’t have a setlist,” says its masters, Earl Scruggs, and decided McCoury. “We try and work in the new popular Bonnaroo Music Festival and “All music is related. Bill Monroe he’d be a banjo picker, too. The Baltimore/ songs, but a lot of times it’s just requests curated and expanded McCoury’s went to New Orleans and listened to jazz Washington, D.C. bar scene of the early from the audience. It’s more interesting annual namesake festival DelFest. One players. Earl Scruggs — some of the tunes 1960s was lively and rough. McCoury for the band, for me, and for the audience of the premier string-band events in he recorded were from New Orleans. caught a break. More than a break, really. because nobody knows what’s coming the country, the multi-day, multi-stage It all fits together if you’re willing to be It was an opportunity of a lifetime; joining next.” DelFest showcases the new lions of the open-minded,” says McCoury. “What I Bill Monroe’s Blue Grass Boys in early Almost unimaginable, McCoury’s genre such as Greensky Bluegrass, The like in a record is variety of moods, of 1963. Considered the Father of Bluegrass, sixth decades in a half-century of Infamous Stringdusters, and Old Crow tempos. I consider myself traditional at Monroe transformed McCoury, moving bluegrass bliss brings new triumphs, new Medicine Show, and legends like Ricky heart, but I don’t have any boundaries. him from the banjo to guitar, anointing collaborations, and new music. With but Skaggs, Sam Bush, and Bobby Osborne, I’m just a guy that likes to sing and play him lead singer, and providing him with a single change in membership in 27 plus a diversity of artists like Phish music. Whatever strikes me to do I’ll do a priceless trove of bluegrass tutelage years The Del McCoury Band shows frontman Trey Anastasio and blues- it. Without wrecking things.” direct from the source. unprecedented stability as well as rock veterans Gov’t Mule to Americana Countless hours of recording garners the respect and admiration of the darlings The Wood Brothers and The 7th annual Charleston Bluegrass sessions and miles of tireless touring industry for its unmistakable work: nine Rhiannon Giddens. Festival will be held March 20-21 at dotted the decades. Del carried on, and IBMA Entertainer of the Year trophies; in And, when Sony Music came calling, The Woodlands Nature Preserve, located carried with him the hallowed traditions 2003, McCoury was awarded membership post-Hurricane Katrina, proposing a at 4279 Ashley River Road. For more of the form and its dedicated following. in the cast of the legendary Grand Ole collaboration with New Orleans’ revered information and for tickets, visit The passing years became certificates Opry; the band’s first Best Bluegrass Preservation Hall Jazz Band, McCoury www.charlestonbluegrassfestival.com. of authenticity. So, in the sea of grunge Album Grammy award, in 2005, followed answered. If there was ever a collection and R&B that dominated the music scene by a second Grammy win in 2014, (not to of recordings confirming McCoury’s
24 A & E The Del McCoury Band is one of the big names that will play the seventh annual Charleston Bluegrass Festival this month.
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I know each one as a part of my collection Mentors what I had to go through to make it. A Conversation with and I probably ate the oyster in it, too. My high school art teacher was an What makes your paintings different? inspiration to all arts. He taught us to see Why Does Art Matter I have painted the same landscape for and to draw and to relate. Art is being altruistic on a planetary 30 years. The landscape itself gives level. We get there through art. We try Gale Ray something different. I wake there in the Art changing experience to appreciate and be kind to each other. morning after having been in the dark all I was studying art and Spanish. While in It is important not just to appreciate night. I look straight at the long horizon Mexico, I met a weaver who taught me a sunset that’s been captured but get Artist actively painting, retired in complete silence. An enormous power to weave in Spanish based on Mexican together and appreciate our differences overtakes the dark. Incredible color’s red, traditions and a 2-harness loom. But It and similarities. weaver and faux finish painter grey, purple engulf the sky and reflect on wasn’t until 1988 that I went to Savannah the water in mirror image. It is over in less College of Art & Design (SCAD) to How are you beautiful Describe your work than an hour. Because of that experience, officially study fiber arts. My image of myself is that my parents I capture passages and pathways, both I started painting. made me right: size, weight, skin, hair, manmade and in nature by painting Superpower eyes, strong, compassionate, helpful, landscapes and sculpting and making Were you an artsy kid Meditation empathetic That’s how they made me, I paintings of shells. Somebody was always making something cannot perfect it so I’ll just go with it.
in my house when I was a kid. Best art story: Current project I was dying and bleaching a piece in the Susan Irish is the founder and owner of Making pottery based on shells that I Favorite tool bathtub when I was overcome by the Fabulon - Center for Art and Education. opened with my own hands. I started Trowel. I spent many years a faux finisher. fumes. My son has had that piece it in his Each month she inrterviews a different taking a pottery class for the sense of Once did 22 rooms in one house. house for almost 30 years. He won’t part local artist. community. The shells are specific shells. with it because he likes to tell the story of
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ot too long ago, much of West Ashley location opened in South Carolina in the foods bar, a Starbucks, ExpressLane Online happen. However, the vacancy in South bordered on being designated a “food South Windermere Shopping Center in 1997 Shopping, and a drive-thru Pharmacy. Windermere left by Earth Fare’s closing Ndesert,” according to federal officials. where it became the anchor store to the In other grocery store news, Harris does pose interesting potential for a store A big swath of 29407 and 29414 was oldest shopping center in the state. Teeter also announced last week that it like Trader Joe’s, with South Windermere’s underserved with fresh food and access to After serving West Ashley for nearly was ceasing being open 24-hours at all it’s proximity to West Ashley, James Island, grocery stores. a quarter of a century, the loss of Earth Then Harris Teeter opened on Fare was devastating to many who shopped Savannah Highway. Then another one on there regularly. “I feel like there’s been Sam Rittenberg Boulevard. And as of last a death in the family or something,” said month, a brand new Harris Teeter opened Marie Barkley as she slowly pushed her on the West Ashley Circle, giving that part buggy through the nearly empty aisles of town a much needed grocery shopping late last month, picking over what little option outside of Wal-Mart. However, the merchandise was left on the shelves after A Tale of biggest item in West Ashley’s grocery a couple weeks of increasing discounts as buggy — or at least the one that has had the the store liquidated. biggest impact — remains to be the Whole But when the grocery gods close one Foods on Savannah Highway. door, they open another. Has it made traffic worse? A little. On Wednesday, Feb. 19, less than a Has it increased property values in nearby week before Earth Fare closed its doors neighborhoods? Probably. Did it kill the for good, a new Harris Teeter opened at Two Stores Doscher’s IGA next door? Not yet. But it did 3865 West Ashley Circle, off of Bees Ferry seem to have a pretty devastating impact Road at the entrance of the Grand Oaks South Windermere Earth Fare says good-bye on organic food rival Earth Fare, which subdivision. shuttered its doors on Tuesday, Feb. 25. “Harris Teeter is thrilled to introduce while Harris Teeter says hello to West Ashley Circle Ironically, a grocery store devoted to eating the Charleston community to their brand healthy officially closed on Fat Tuesday. new Harris Teeter,” said Danna Robinson, by Lorne Chambers | Editor The news that Earth Fare was filing communication manager for the grocery for Chapter 11 bankruptcy and effectively store chain. “Our shoppers will experience closing all 50 were closing came to a shock the same world class service they have Charleston stores, including the Savannah and the peninsula. Unlike Earth Fare, to many shoppers and employees, many come to know and expect from their Harris Highway location that was previously which vied for the same space in the of whom reportedly heard the news at the Teeter.” 24-hours. All stores will now be open from marketplace with Whole Foods, which is same time as the general public. Opening day it was hard to find a 6 a.m. until midnight seven days a week. now owned by Amazon (and the richest According to its filing with the District parking space at the Harris Teeter as Last month, an online petition began person on the planet), Trader Joe’s seems of Delaware United States Bankruptcy hundreds of West Ashley residents wanted circulating on change.org petitioning to to compliment rather than compete with Court, Earth Fare owes $63 million in bank to check it out and see what new grocery bring a Trader Joe’s to West Ashley. It Whole Foods. The two national chains loans. A potential buyer for the company store had to offer. The new store has many has long been rumored that the popular have harmoniously coexisted East of the fell through and that was the last straw unique features, including hand-made grocery chain will open a location West Cooper and many are hoping that it could for the super market chain, which began in lobster rolls, a trail mix bar, in-store smoked of the Ashley, but to date there has not happen on this side of town too. Asheville, NC back in the 1970s. The second salmon, Asian hot foods bar, American hot been any evidence that it is going to
Within a few days of announcing it was closing, the shelves at Earth Fare in South Windermere were bare. A stark contrast to those across town at the new Harris Teeter. 30 DINING The new Harris Teeter on the West Ashley Circle boasts an impressive seafood section.
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33 MARCH 2020 COMMUNITY featured in the subsequent publication from home two doors down and come to Mrs. Till organized both a Christmas West Ashley (Arcadia Publishing, 2012). visit his friend. Everyone gave up trying to show and a Commencement Program for The question prompted an email with the keep him at home and just let him be with her kindergarteners. The theme for the subsequent phone call providing some fun his friend at the kindergarten. 1954 Commencement Program of The stories. The story begins with a paved driveway and how this unique residential feature was the catalyst for Mrs. Wallace Till to start her kindergarten. The story is told that, she and her husband had the only paved driveway in their section of Avondale. She would happily allow the neighborhood Buzzing Around children to play with their bikes, scooters, By bs onna aco wagons and other “wheeled” toys in the driveway. A comment was made that she In the ongoing discussion about the name should go into the kindergarten business we use for our section of Charleston, Cele as all the kids were already always playing insisted that “West of the Ashley” was at her house. Soon Mrs. Till was formally the proper term, not “West Ashley.” West of the Ashley holding kindergarten for 4 and 5 year olds in Many still insist on St Andrew’s Parish. her living room. The 1950-51 City Directory Revisiting the second oldest subdivision West of the Ashley The discussion continues on this subject. lists the Tills at 23 Riverdale. The Kearse’s moved into Avondale in id you attend Mrs. Till’s kindergarten 1952 and Cele attended kindergarten when The kindergarten must have been quite Avondale Kindergarten was “In a Magic on Riverdale in Avondale? was one of she was 4 and 5 years of age. Barney, Cele’s successful, as the Tills built a new room Garden”. Cele (Cecilia) and her classmate Dthe questions posed in the January brother, attended for 3 years beginning at off the back of their home just for the Susan Benson danced the part of the Bees. 2020 West Ashley Flashback. 3 years of age; Barney was the exception kindergarten and Mrs. Till regained the Ten years ago Cele (nee-Kearse) to Mrs. Till’s rule of only accepting 4 and 5 use of her living room for company. In West Ashley stories? Contact local Montgomery had teased me with a little year olds. Barney’s best friend, who was 4, addition, a sandbox and playground toys author and historian Donna Jacobs at information when we sat for an interview lived behind Mrs. Till’s in the neighborhood were added over time. Cele recalls that the [email protected]. with her long-term friend Anna (nee- of Westwood. Barney would “escape” kindergarten was opened into the 1970s. Wireman) McAllister. Both ladies were
All the Bees, Scarecrows, Vegetables, Flowers, Raindrops, Crows, and Brownies, with the Sunshine, Farmer, Fairy, Bunny, Mistress Mary in the magic garden created at Rivers High Commencement Program of The Avondale Kindergarten. Charles Vincent Dawson’s name is circled, maybe because it was his program. He is School from Mrs. Till’s 1954 Kindergarten Class. (Photo- the son of the pharmacist who worked at the Avondale Pharmacy during this time. (Program image courtesy of Cele Kearse Montgomery) graph courtesy of Cele Kearse Montgomery) 34 COMMUNITY Cele Kearse Montgomery practices being a bumblebee in the yard in Avondale. (Photograph courtesy of Cele Kearse Montgomery)
35 MARCH 2020 Run with the Wild Ones “Where the Wild Things Run” 5K Run and Walk returns to Caw Caw Interpretive Center on March 7 from Staff Reports
rab your running shoes, and get race, an awards ceremony will take place, ready to run wild at Caw Caw! including highly anticipated prizes from GThe Charleston County Park and race sponsors. The 5K run and walk is for Recreation Commission (CCPRC) hosts ages 10 and up; ages 10-15 will need to be its popular annual Where the Wild Things accompanied by an adult chaperone. Such Run 5K run and walk on Saturday, March chaperones do not require registration 7 at Caw Caw Interpretive Center in or participation in the race. Dogs and Ravenel. Registration is open now. bicycles are not allowed at Caw Caw. Caw Caw Interpretive Center Caw Caw Interpretive Center is a features an abundance of wildlife. 654-acre site in Ravenel that is rich in Runners and walkers will experience natural, cultural and historical resources. breathtaking views as they run through It contains areas managed for wildlife Caw Caw’s scenic trails. Participants may including waterfowl, songbirds, otters, also encounter “a wild thing or two” deer and more, as well as favored habitats while running through the nature and for rare wildlife such as American interpretive center. Alligators, Swallow-tailed Kites, Bald The race begins at Caw Caw Eagles, and others. The scenic park Interpretive Center at 8:30 a.m. on March features more than seven miles of 7. Adults and kids alike are encouraged to trails with trailside exhibits, elevated Online registration for Where the Wild Things Run is open now through March 5. Registration take advantage of family-friendly yoga and boardwalks through wetlands, historic fees are $32. If spaces are still available, late registration will be held on March 7 from 7 - 8 readings from Maurice Sendak’s book, rice fields, remnants of a former tea farm, a.m., with an increased fee. Register for the Where the Wild Things Run 5K Run and Walk “Where the Wild Things Are.” After the and wildlife habitats. online at CharlestonCountyParks.com/WTWTR or call 843-795-4386. The race is made possible by The Foot Store, Shrine Water, and your Charleston County Parks.
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Ashley River Baptist Church Cornerstone Church Of Charleston Kingdom Hall Of Jehovah’s St Andrews Parish United Methodist 1101 Savannah Hwy 766-5521 431 Magnolia Road 556-3174 Witnesses Church 3302 Bonanza Road 769-4112 3225 Ashley River Road 766-1080 The Ashley Vineyard Community Crosstowne Christian Church St. Joseph Church 1945 Bees Ferry Road 852-0284 Kingdom Vision Christian Center St Andrews Pentacostal Holiness Catholic Church Town & Country Inn Savannah Hwy 874 Orleans Road 573-2397 Church in the diocese of charleston 810-0970 Emanuel A M E Church 9 Tovey Road 556-1690 1057 5th Ave 571-0826 Legacy Church Bible Way Baptist Church 1945 Bees Ferry Road 766-1787 St Andrews Presbyterian Church 2019 Savage Road 766-8711 Fellowship Society 712 Wappoo Road 766-4262 Triduum 1035 Jenkins Rd 763-7644 Lowcountry Christian Community Blessed Sacrament Church Church St. Francis Episcopal Church Mass 5 Saint Teresa Dr 556-0801 First Assembly of God- Charleston 2430 Ashley River Road 763-0724 3075 Bees Ferry Road., Holy Spirit S C H E D U L E 2957 Savannah Hwy 766-2902 Worship Sundays at 8:30am Calvary Lutheran Church Lutheran Church Of The Redeemer 1400 Manor Blvd 766-3113 First Christian Church 714 Riverdale Dr 571-6655 St Joseph Catholic Church HOLY THURSDAY (Disciples of Christ) 1695 Wallenberg Blvd 556-4611 April 9 | 7 P.M. Carolina Bay 1293 Orange Grove Road 571-5710 Mount Carmel United Methodist Mass of the Lord’s Supper 2927 Savannah Hwy 766-9647 Church St Mark United Methodist First Baptist Church Of St Andrews 1391 Pooshee Dr 641-0707 413 Geddes Ave 766-5239 & Charleston Atlantic Presbytery Parish 712 Wappoo Rd 766-4262 GOOD FRIDAY 2421 Ashley River Road 766-4219 913 Wappoo Road 571-1133 Mt Sinai Holiness Church April 10 | 12 NOON 1216 5TH AVE 766-8076 St Mark United Methodist Church The Passion of the Lord Charleston Baptist Church Good Shepherd Lutheran Church 413 Geddes Ave 571-7495 13 San Miguel Road 556-4673 2518 Savannah Hwy 814-7221 Newspring Church & 2093 Executive Hall Rd 766-7747 St Peters Church Charleston Bible Church Gospel Mission Apostolic Church 2062 Savage Road 571-7905 BLESSING OF THE 534 Arlington Dr. 556-1443 1030 Main St 571-5953 Northbridge Baptist Church EASTER 1160 Sam Rittenberg Blvd 571-1660 St Phillip AME Church FOOD & BASKETS Charleston Full Gospel Ministry Grace On The Ashley 2861 Ashley River Road 556-8083 SATURDAY, April 11 | 11 A.M. 513 Arlington Dr 769-8339 2014 Bees Ferry Rd 556-6802 Old St Andrews Episcopal 2604 Ashley River Road 766-1541 St Timothy’s Anglican Church & Charlestowne Methodist SMC Grace United Methodist Church 1900 Parsonage Road 763-8873 1405 Miles Dr 766-9405 1601 Sam Rittenberg Blvd 766-1621 Open Door Christian Church EASTER 874 Orleans Road 225-4642 Synagogue Emanu-El VIGIL MASS Charleston Presbyterian Church Graham AME Church 5 Windsor Drive 571-3264 HOLY SATURDAY 1405 Miles Dr. 437-8219 1124 Wappoo Road 766-0084 Palmetto Community Church April 11 | 8 P.M. 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In celebration of ing the Web. Dive into the World Bricks 4 Kids, StoryTree Theater, bration. Tell us what you read today Women’s History Month, identify Wide Web with Google Chrome! Little Nature Lovers, Busy Bees and receive a treat. Monday, March the famous lady and win a sweet Monday, March 9 from 12-2pm. To Ballet, Monthly Art Workshops. 2 from 3-5:30pm. West Ashley treat. All month. Hurd/ St. Andrews register, call 843-805-6885. Hurd/ St. Contact Bees Landing Recreation Library, 45 Windermere Blvd., (843) Library, 1735 Woodmere Dr., (843) Andrews Library, 1735 Woodmere Center for more info. 1580 Ashley 766-6635 766-2546 Dr., (843) 766-2546 Gardens Blvd. (843) 402-4571. www. West Ashley charleston-sc.gov Saturday Movie: Watch “Mary Wings of Fire FanWing Fan Fest. Web Essentials Series: Staying Poppins Returns”. Rated PG. Satur- The dragons are ready to meet Safe Online. Learn about the most Celebrate Woman’s History Month day, March 21 at 2pm. West Ashley their destiny! Join Barnes & Noble common online threats, and find with a Jigsaw Puzzle. Thru March, Library, 45 Windermere Blvd., (843) for a scavenger hunt, activities, COMMUNITYCOMMUNITYCOMMUNITY out how to stay protected. Monday, all day. West Ashley Library, 45 766-6635 giveaways, and more at this special March 20 from 12-2pm. Hurd/ St. Windermere Blvd., (843) 766-6635 celebration for the newest book in WORSHIP DIRECTORY Andrews Library, 1735 Woodmere STAR therapy dogs. Read aloud to a the beloved Wings of Fire: Legends Dr., (843) 766-2546 Friday Flick Party: “Toy Story furry friend. Saturday, March 14 at series. Saturday, March 7 at 2pm. 4”. Create your own Forky and 10:30am. Hurd/ St. Andrews Library, Barnes and Noble, 1812 Sam Ritten- CALENDARCALENDARCALENDAR ARTS, CRAFTS, MUSIC enjoy a themed snack and watch 1735 Woodmere Dr., (843) 766-2546 berg Blvd., (843) 556-6561 Disney-Pixar’s “Toy Story 4”. Bring Art Classes: Instruction in Oils for your favorite hand-held toy to join STEM Saturday: Brain Blox Build YA Book Club featuring “A Good all levels; morning and evening the fun. Friday, March 20 at 3:30pm. (ages 4+). Brain Blox are small solid Girl’s Guide to Murder” by Holly classes and workshops. The Studio, Hurd/ St. Andrews Library, 1735 wood planks that require balance Jackson. Friday, March 13 at 7pm. 2408 Ashley River Rd. Unit N (843) Woodmere Dr., (843) 766-2546 and friction to build. Saturday, Barnes and Noble, 1812 Sam Ritten- 766-5664. March 28 from 10am-12pm. Hurd/ berg Blvd., (843) 556-6561 Geronimo Stilton Mystery Party St. Andrews Library, 1735 Wood- Board Games. Come play games (ages 5-11). Use the clues to solve mere Dr., (843) 766-2546 SPORTS & RECREATION with the library. Saturday, March 7 a mystery and then enjoy a cheese ADULT 19 from 11am-12pm. West Ashley at 10:30am; Tuesday, March 24 at tasting. Friday, March 27 at 3pm. Storytime and Activities. Saturdays Bees Landing Recreation Center. Library, 45 Windermere Blvd., (843) 6pm. Hurd/ St. Andrews Library, Hurd/ St. Andrews Library, 1735 at 11am. Barnes and Noble, 1812 Offers a variety of classes for chil- 766-6635 Woodmere Dr., (843) 766-2546 Sam Rittenberg Blvd., (843) 556-6561 AARP Tax Assistance. Receive 1735 Woodmere Dr., (843) 766-2546 dren including: Busy Bees Ballet, free income tax preparation Bricks 4 Kids, StoryTree Theater, Resume Writing Workshop. Learn Green Thumb. Find out what’s Teens Celebrate Pre-Pi Day. For and electronic assistance from Charlie Cart: Cooking Healthy. Join parents night out, family Zumba, how to write a great resume during currently in bloom, and make a every book that you check out you American Association of Retired the library in a fun and tasty culinary and monthly art workshops. Bees a workshop that features instruc- seasonal decoration with the Tri- will receive a slip, which allows you Persons. Current picture ID and adventure, and learn about Charlie Landing Recreation Center. 1580 tional videos from Lynda.com. angle-County Clemson Gardeners. to throw a pie in the face of one of Social Security card are required, Cart cooking programs at the library. Ashley Gardens Blvd. (843) 402-4571. Friday, March 13 from 3:30-4:30pm. Tuesday, March 17 at 4pm. Hurd/ St. the library’s staff. Friday, March 13 and social security cards of any Tuesday, March 3 at 4pm. www.charleston-sc.gov. Hurd/ St. Andrews Library, 1735 Andrews Library, 1735 Woodmere from 3-5pm. West Ashley Library, 45 dependents. Fridays throughout Woodmere Dr., (843) 766-2546 Dr., (843) 766-2546 Windermere Blvd., (843) 766-6635 March from 10am-1pm. Hurd/ St. DIY Suncatchers. Celebrate the Family Zumba. Mondays 10am. Andrews Library, 1735 Woodmere start of spring by making a sun- Cost: $5 per child with parent/ car- SC Thrive Tax Assistance. Receive Kids Care: James Island Ocean Act- Teens Celebrate Woman’s History Dr., (843) 766-2546 catcher using recycled materials. egiver for ages 1-4. Bees Landing free income tax preparation and Saturday, March 21 at 10:30am. KIDvists. Learn what you may do to Month. Tell us about a woman Recreation Center. 1580 Ashley electronic filing assistance from SC help protect our ocean and beaches who has made a special impact on Barnes & Noble Book Club fea- Hurd/ St. Andrews Library, 1735 Gardens Blvd. (843) 402-4571. www. Thrive volunteers. Friday, March and create a craft to take home. your life and receive a treat. From turing “American Dirt” by Jeanine Woodmere Dr., (843) 766-2546 charleston-sc.gov. 6, 13, 20, & 27 from 12-3pm. West Saturday, March 28 at 10:30am. Monday, March 9-Friday, March Cummins. Tuesday, March 10 at Ashley Library, 45 Windermere West Ashley Library, 45 Windermere 20, all day. West Ashley Library, 45 7pm. Barnes and Noble, 1812 Sam Edible Car Contest: STEM & HSTA. St. Andrew’s Family Fitness Plus of- Blvd., (843) 766-6635 Blvd., (843) 766-6635 Windermere Blvd., (843) 766-6635 Rittenberg Blvd., (843) 556-6561 Teens create a car made entirely of fers a variety of activities for adults food. Wednesday, March 4 at 3pm. and children. See website for more Second Saturday Writing Critique LEGO Saturday. The library supplies Teen’s Crossword Puzzles. Cele- Creating and Organizing Files. Hurd/ St. Andrews Library, 1735 info: www.standrewsparks.info. St. Group. New members are. Always the Legos and you supply the im- brate Women’s History Month with Discover how to save and organize Woodmere Dr., (843) 766-2546 Andrew’s Family Fitness Plus, 1642 welcome at this monthly critique- agination. Saturday, March 14 from a crossword puzzle and receive your computer files. Monday, March Sam Rittenberg Blvd., (843) 763-3850 only group for committed writers. 10am-5pm. West Ashley Library, 45 a treat. Monday, March 9-Friday, 2 from 12- 2pm. Hurd/ St. Andrews Mommy & Me Learn Violin (ages Saturday, March 14 from 3-5:45pm. Windermere Blvd., (843) 766-6635 March 20, all day. West Ashley Library, 1735 Woodmere Dr., (843) 3-6 with an adult). Learn the basics Hurd/ St. Andrews Library, 1735 Library, 45 Windermere Blvd., (843) OUTDOOR 766-2546 of playing the violin on a box violin. Woodmere Dr., (843) 766-2546 Parent’s Night Out. Drop the kids 766-6635 Instrument not required. Saturday, Caw Caw Interpretive Center offers off and enjoy a much needed night Forgotten Farewells: An Evening March 7, 14, 21, & 28 from 1-1:30pm. a variety of outdoor adventures. Tech Help: Book-a-Librarian. Call off! Ages 5-12 are welcome to enjoy TeenSpot Pizza and Pages. Enjoy with Mo Rocca’s “Mobituaries”. West Ashley Library, 45 Windermere 5200 Savannah Hwy. (843) 762-8015. the Reference Desk to make an a night of fun and activities. First a pizza party and talk about books. Join this discussion of Mo Rocca’s Blvd., (843) 766-6635 www.ccprc.com appointment with a librarian for a Friday of every month from 5-9pm. This month’s genre focus: Realistic book and podcast of the same name 30-minute, face-to-face session: Bees Landing Recreation Center. Fiction. Wednesday, March 25 at “Mobituaries”. Thursday, March Soap and Candle Making Work- 843-766-2546 ext. 6318. Hurd/ St. 1580 Ashley Gardens Blvd. (843) 402- 3pm. Hurd/ St. Andrews Library, SENIOR 19 at 5:30pm. Hurd/ St. Andrews shops. Call for details. Pluff Mud Andrews Library, 1735 Woodmere 4571. www.charleston-sc.gov. 1735 Woodmere Dr., (843) 766-2546 Library, 1735 Woodmere Dr., (843) Mercantile, 2408 Ashley River Rd. Dr., (843) 766-2546 Waring Senior Center. The brand 766-2546 (843) 872-6022 Preschool Storytime. (Ages 3-6 Tot N Trot Toddler Time Every Tuesday new West Ashley Senior Center Web Essentials Series: Exploring years old w/ adult). Focus on school & Thursday from 10am-12pm. $2/child. offers a variety of fitness classes Great Decisions Discussion Series. Teens Draw and Paint. Express Email and Contacts. Practice send- readiness and discover books, Bees Landing Recreation Center. 1580 including yoga, Tai Chi, synergy, Join America’s largest discussion yourself with markers, colored ing and receiving messages adding songs, rhymes, and movement ac- Ashley Gardens Blvd. (843) 402-4571. dancing, and strength training, for series that fosters civic conversa- pencils, and more. Thursday, March file attachments, organizing folders, tivities while building language and www.charleston-sc.gov all levels, and art classes. Available tion about world affairs. Thursdays 26 from 3-5pm. West Ashley Library, and creating contacts. To register literacy skills. Tuesdays thru March for both members and non-mem- at 2pm. March 5: U.S. Relations with 45 Windermere Blvd., (843) 766-6635 call 843-805-6885. Monday, March at 11:30am. Hurd/ St. Andrews Tumble Tots Basic floor exercises bers. www.lowcountryseniorcenter. the Northern Triangle; March 12: 23 from 12-2pm. Hurd/ St. Andrews Library, 1735 Woodmere Dr., (843) to build strength, confidence, flexi- com for more info. Waring Senior China’s Road into Latin America; FAMILY FRIENDLY Library, 1735 Woodmere Dr., (843) 766-2546 bility, and friendships. Mondays 11- Center, 2001 Henry Tecklenberg Dr. The Philippines and the U.S.; March 766-2546 11:45am. Pre-registration required. (843) 606-7877 26: Artificial Intelligence and Data. After School Programs. See website Read Across America. Join the Bees Landing Recreation Center. Hurd/ St. Andrews Library, 1735 for more info: www.standrewsparks. Web Essentials Series: Finding library to celebrate Dr. Seuss’ birth- 1580 Ashley Gardens Blvd. (843) 402- Senior Trips. One trip per month. Woodmere Dr., (843) 766-2546 info/after-school-program. St. Popular Sites and Apps. Monday, day. Listen to some of your favorite 4571. www.charleston-sc.gov Contact Bees Landing Recreation Andrews Parks & Playground. 1095 March 16 from 12-2pm. Hurd/ St. Dr. Seuss stories, and play with Center for more info. 1580 Ashley Not Fiction Book Discussion. Join Playground Rd. (843) 763-4360 Andrews Library, 1735 Woodmere giant bubbles. Monday, March 2 at Weekly Storytime. Children’s Gardens Blvd. (843) 402-4571. www. the library for a discussion of “She Dr., (843) 766-2546 10:30am. Hurd/ St. Andrews Library, story time and an activity in the charleston-sc.gov Said: Breaking the Sexual Har- Baby & Me Storytime. Sundays at 1735 Woodmere Dr., (843) 766-2546 children’s area. All ages. Thursdays assment Story That Helped Ignite 11am. Barnes and Noble, 1812 Sam at 10:30AM. Barnes and Noble, 1812 a Movement” by Jodi Kantor and Rittenberg Blvd., (843) 556-6561 Sam Rittenberg Blvd., (843) 556-6561 Megan Twohey. Thursday, March
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