"Adults are obsolete children."-- Dr. Seuss


West End, Depot Road, and Hermitage Road Area Residents 
and Other Interested Parties:

On Tuesday, September 8, the Beaufort City Council will have the first reading of an ordinance allowing trail-related uses and artisan workshops in the Limited Industrial zoning district as conditional uses. The meeting begins at 7:00 PM and will be held in Council Chambers, Beaufort City Hall, 1911 Boundary Street. 


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Billy Keyserling





Events in and around Beaufort



Eagles Fly High In Beaufort

Through years of active Scouting, Tayor Gown and Breland Cooler earned Boy Scouts of America, Troop 1, Beaufort
 Eagle Honors

Basement Bob is already in town.  And you see them everywhere.

The team raising funding for the comedy "Basement Bob", a film to be produced in Beaufort,  has moved to town. The are raising money in a unique way to Hollywood. Meanwhile they are supporting the Beaufort Film Society's ramp up for next year's Beaufort International Film Festival.  






To learn more go to
http://basementbobthemovie.com/

 

If you Open Your Eyes You Can Always Find Something New To Learn About our Hometown!

In his colorful and spell binding lectures, Beaufort's beloved and renowned historian, Dr. Lawrence Rowland, often puts forth the case that much of what has taken place in U.S. History has its roots in Beaufort. 

Like a chorus when Larry asks, "Now where did this start" his attentive audiences shout out "In Beaufort!"

The more I learn about my hometown's rich history, the more I am buying into Dr. Rowland's proposition. 

Just this past week, I learned a few lessons.

I learned about the -- way before it's time and way out of the box --  ministry of Reverend Ike whose name I heard since I was a young man but about whom I knew little until this week when I was preparing to speak at the 53rd Anniversary Celebration of the first church he built on Duke Street.

Also, I was asked to present a key to the City at the Church's celebration to Dr. Amelia Boynton Robinson, a 104 year old civil rights veteran. Dr. Boynton Robinson is from Selma, Alabama but has roots in the Beaufort area.  I had never heard of Dr. Boynton Robinson though I unknowingly saw her portrayed in the film "Selma" a few months ago. 

And finally, this week there was a lengthy article pointing out that the period of Reconstruction began in Beaufort.  This subject has been an interest of mine since I was a junior in high school and I have been hoping the importance of the era would be recognized.

In the following three stories, I am sharing what I recently learned.
 


 
Reverend Ike
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Reverend Ike
Born      Frederick J. Eikerenkoetter II
June 1, 1935
Ridgeland, South Carolina
Died      July 28, 2009 (aged 74)
Los Angeles, California
Nationality         American
Spouse(s)           Eula M. Dent
Website              http://www.scienceoflivingonline.com/
 
Frederick J. Eikerenkoetter II, better known as Reverend Ike (June 1, 1935 - July 28, 2009[1]) was an American minister and electronic evangelist based in New York City. He was known for the slogan "You can't lose with the stuff I use!"[2] His preaching is considered a form of prosperity theology.

Frederick J. Eikerenkoetter II was born in Ridgeland, South Carolina to parents from the Netherlands Antilles, and was of African American and Indo (Dutch-Indonesian) descent. He began his career as a teenage preacher and became assistant pastor at Bible Way Church in Ridgeland, South Carolina. After serving a stint in the Air Force as a Chaplain Service Specialist (a non-commissioned officer assigned to assist commissioned Air Force chaplains), he founded, successively, the United Church of Jesus Christ for All People in Beaufort, South Carolina, the United Christian Evangelistic Association in Boston, Massachusetts, his main corporate entity, and the Christ Community United Church in New York City.[citation needed]


 On your left is the Church where Reverad Ike began in Beaufort. 
As his following grew, the Church to the right is the one he built.  
Both are on Duke Street.


 



The Palace Cathedral is now know as the United Palace. It is used as a live music venue as well as a church and is still owned by the United Church Evangelistic Association.






Known popularly as "Reverend Ike," his ministry reached its peak in the mid 1970s, when his weekly radio sermons were carried by hundreds of stations across the United States.[3] He was famous for his "Blessing Plan" - radio listeners sent him money and in return he blessed them. He said doing this would make radio listeners who did it more prosperous. In the 1990s, he was active on the Internet and had a syndicated television program.[citation needed]

Eikerenkoetter bought the Loew's 175th Street Theatre movie palace in the Washington Heights neighborhood for over half a million dollars, renamed it the "Palace Cathedral" - although colloquially it was known as "Reverend Ike's Prayer Tower" - and had it fully restored. Restorations included the seven-story high, twin chamber Robert Morton organ.[4] The "Miracle Star of Faith," visible from the George Washington Bridge, tops the building's cupola. He was also the "chancellor" of the United Church Schools, including the Science of Living Institute and Seminary (which awarded him, his wife, and his son Doctor of the Science of Living degrees); the Business of Living Institute (home of Thinkonomics); and other educational projects.

Other activities
Ike made a guest appearance on Hank Williams, Jr.'s single "Mind Your Own Business", a Number One country music hit in December 1986. This song is Reverend Ike's only chart single.[5]

Family and death
Ike and his wife, Eula M. Dent, had one son, Xavier Frederick Eikerenkoetter. Reverend Ike died in Los Angeles at age 74 on July 28, 2009, after having not fully recovered from a stroke in 2007. His son took over the church.[6]
In popular culture

John Lennon used a phrase he heard from Reverend Ike while channel surfing one night as the inspiration to write his song "Whatever Gets You Thru the Night".

In the September 29, 1976 episode of the CBS sitcom Good Times entitled "The Big Move", when the Reverend comes over to the Evans' apartment to pay his respects after the funeral of James, he begins to brag about his sermon he preached at the funeral with his wife and Willona. He begins to quote his sermon. His wife then says to him "I liked it better when the Reverend Ike turned it Friday night".

If you are interested in learning more about this unusual man and his mind thinking approach,  Google Reverend Ike.  Warning:  I must have spent three hours listening to his preaching and learning about his philosophy. 



 Dr Amelia Boynton Robinson

I was invited to present a key to the City to Dr. Amelia Boynton Robinson, a renowned civil rights 
activist from Selma, Alabama with roots in Beaufort. She recently turned 104 years young. 
 
Because of her Beaufort connection, she sent a message through the church that she would like a key to the city.
 
Little did I know until the day before the event that Dr Robinson would pass three days before I was to present the key. 

Nevertheless there was a memorial service for Dr Robinson and I presented the key to the Church whose representative will deliver the key to her family in Alabama next week.

Amelia Platts Boynton Robinson (August 18, 1911 - August 26, 2015) was an American activist who was a leader of the American Civil Rights Movement in Selma, Alabama[1] and a key figure in the 1965 Selma to Montgomery marches. She was awarded the Martin Luther King, Jr., Freedom Medal in 1990.[2] In 2014, actress Lorraine Toussaint played Robinson in the Ava DuVernay film Selma.



"If in 1703, more than 42 percent of New York City households held slaves, 
often as domestic servants and laborers and the last slaves were freed in 1827, why is it that 
when I interpret slavery in northern states I often get push back?"
Joseph McGill, Director, Slave dwelling Project




Taking Another Look at the Reconstruction Era
By JENNIFER SCHUESSLERAUG. 24, 2015, The New York Times
 
BEAUFORT, S.C. - Growing up in Kingstree, S.C., in the 1960s, Michael Allen never knew the town had elected a black mayor in the years after the Civil War. There was no monument dedicated to the man's memory. He was never mentioned in school.
 
"I had to become an adult to learn that history," said Mr. Allen, a community partnership specialist with the National Park Service. "It was never presented to me."
 
In more than three decades with the park service, Mr. Allen, 54, has helped revise historical interpretations at sites like Fort Sumter, where the first shots of the Civil War were fired, and arrange new historical markers noting neglected African-American figures, like that mayor, throughout South Carolina.
 
Now, he's the on-the-ground coordinator for what may be an even more ambitious project: improving public understanding of the complex, poorly understood and still hotly contested period known as Reconstruction.
 
Room for Debate: How Should Americans Remember the Post-Civil War Period?MAY 26, 2015
The park service has played an important role in shaping, and reshaping, popular historical awareness. During the past two decades it has overhauled its Civil War sites, incorporating material on slavery into exhibits that had long been criticized by scholars for avoiding discussion of the root causes of the conflict.
 
The vessel Smalls sailed from Charleston Harbor to Union forces. Credit Library of Congress
But its 408 properties nationwide still do not include a single site dedicated to the postwar struggle to build a racially equal democracy.
 
"It's the biggest gap in the park service by far," said Robert Sutton, the service's chief historian, adding that too many Americans still regard Reconstruction as "a disaster" best left forgotten.
 
To fill that gap, the service has hired two historians to conduct its first comprehensive survey of "nationally significant" sites connected with Reconstruction - the first step toward possible designation of a new site by Congress.
 
The initiative was announced in May. Since then, the massacre of nine African-Americans at a church in Charleston, S.C., in the midst of continuing debates over the Black Lives Matter campaign, has only underlined the enduring relevance of an era that saw both the dramatic expansion of rights for African-Americans and their violent rollback.
 
"We have just finished commemorating the 150th anniversary of the Civil War, and now some people have jumped to various civil rights anniversaries," Mr. Allen said. "But how do you make that jump without dealing with what came in between?"
 
Historians have traditionally defined Reconstruction as lasting from 1865 until 1877, when most federal troops had withdrawn from the South and white supremacist Democrats gained control of state governments. The park service, echoing scholarly recalibrations, is taking a broader view, looking at sites dating from 1861, when slaves began fleeing to Union encampments, until 1898, when Jim Crow laws were fully in place.
 
The high-water years of Reconstruction included passage of the 13th, 14th and 15th Amendments, which granted equal citizenship and voting rights to 4 million formerly enslaved African-Americans, as well as the creation, for both blacks and whites, of the first statewide public school systems in the South, the first significant public hospitals, new labor policies and other transformations.
 
 "It was an amazing period in the history of American democracy," said Kate Masur, a professor at Northwestern University who is one of the authors of the report for the park service. "It's when you really see these ideas about equality and human rights that America had put on the table being understood in a new way."
 
That wasn't always the view among historians. In keeping with the hunger for national reconciliation, early-20th-century scholars depicted Reconstruction as a time of corrupt "carpetbag rule." The view was driven deep into popular culture with help from films like "Gone With the Wind" and "The Birth of a Nation," with its scenes of noble Ku Klux Klansmen helping "redeem" the South from incompetent black politicians and their Northern manipulators.
 
In recent decades, historians, most notably Eric Foner, have discredited such stereotypes, painting a more inspiring picture of a hopeful if difficult era. But that work has been slow to seep into the public consciousness.
 
"There may not be any field of history where the gap between what historians know and what people believe is as vast," said Gregory P. Downs, Ms. Masur's co-author, who recently moved from the City University of New York to University of California, Davis. (He and Ms. Masur have also edited a park service collection of essays on Reconstruction by leading historians, to be distributed in all its shops starting in September.)
 
The park service is looking at sites across the country. But if there's a logical place to center an uplifting story of Reconstruction, many say, it's the area around Beaufort, a picturesque city of 13,000 that sits between several popular tourist destinations: Charleston and Hilton Head Island in South Carolina and Savannah, Ga. (The team toured the area in May.)
 
It was here that Union forces took control in November 1861, setting the stage for what the historian Willie Lee Rose called the "rehearsal for Reconstruction." On vast sea island plantations whose owners had fled, soldiers worked with missionaries, teachers and former slaves to create a workable society.
 
New churches and schools, like the Penn School on St. Helena Island, sprung up. At Mitchelville, founded on Hilton Head in 1862, about 3,500 freed people built houses, worked for wages, established mandatory education and elected a government.
 
Beaufort was also home to Robert Smalls, an enslaved ship's pilot who in 1862 sailed a Confederate vessel out of Charleston Harbor to join the Northern fight. After the war, he bought his former master's house and won election to the state Legislature and to Congress.
 
"If you ask any historian, they're going to say there's more in Beaufort than anywhere else that is tangible and can be documented," said Billy Keyserling, that city's mayor, who is trying to create a "Reconstruction hub" downtown.
 
Beaufort was also the scene of what may turn out to be a dress rehearsal for future battles. In December 2000, in the last days of the Clinton administration, Bruce Babbitt, then the interior secretary, visited the area as part of a personal push to create a park service site dedicated to Reconstruction.
 
A bill allocating preliminary financing passed the United States Senate in 2003 but died in the House after opposition by the Sons of Confederate Veterans, who denounced Reconstruction as a period that "victimized many South Carolinians."
 
The memory of that fight is fresh on both sides. "If the park service is talking about opening a site to celebrate Reconstruction, we're going to have a hard time with that," said Jeff Antley, a Sons of Confederate Veterans member from Charleston who helped organize the group's Civil War 150th commemorations, including a controversial "secession ball."
 
"What was done to the South was horrible," he said.
 
Mr. Allen, who brokered a conversation between the Sons and the N.A.A.C.P. during the dispute over the secession ball, said that the removal of the Confederate battle flag from the state capitol had created "a new climate."
 
But Representative James E. Clyburn, a Democrat who represents part of Beaufort County in Congress, said a park service site, while "long overdue," could meet "some resistance, maybe some significant resistance."
 
"I don't think it's been poorly understood," Mr. Clyburn, a former high school history teacher, said of Reconstruction. "I think it's been intentionally misrepresented."
 
Some institutions in South Carolina are already working to change the picture. The Woodrow Wilson Family Home in Columbia, which reopened last year as a "museum of Reconstruction," uses Wilson, who lived in the house between 1871 and 1874, to highlight the period's positive achievements and the "political terrorism," as the exhibition puts it that helped roll them back.
 
"It's not like we hit people over the head and tell them, 'Everything you've heard about Reconstruction is wrong,' " said Fielding Freed, director of house museums for Historic Columbia. "But as people move through, you can see them thinking."
 
Still, the period is a powerful negative charge for many white Southerners, including some who find inspiration in the tale of African-Americans moving to freedom.
 
Leading a reporter around the mostly unexcavated Mitchellville site, Randy Dolyniuk, president of the Mitchellville Preservation Project, called the town "an incredible American story that hasn't been told," but noted, "I personally don't like Reconstruction."
 
"In some cases, the Southern white was persecuted," Mr. Dolyniuk said. "I'm not a historian, but I think we could've done it better."
 
Mr. Downs, the historian, said that such sentiments underscored both the importance, and the difficulty, of presenting a better public story.
 
"It took a lot of time and effort to establish the myths of Reconstruction," he said. "It's going to take a lot of time and effort to tear down those myths."


Americans support local food markets to
 
feel part of something bigger than themselves


extracted from AMERICAN SOCIOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION

CHICAGO -- More Americans than ever before are supporting their local food markets, and it's not just because they believe the food is fresher and tastes better.
 
According to a new University of Iowa (UI) study, people are shopping at farmers markets and joining food co-ops in record numbers because they enjoy knowing who grows their food. These so-called "locavores" are also driven to eat locally grown produce and locally raised meat because their commitment to do so makes them feel a part of something greater than themselves -- a community that shares their passion for a healthy lifestyle and a sustainable environment.
 
For these enthusiasts, supporting the local food movement is a sort of civic duty, an act to preserve their local economy against the threats of globalization and big-box stores.
 
"It's not just about the economical exchange; it's a relational and ideological exchange as well," said Ion Vasi, an associate professor with a joint appointment in the Department of Sociology and Tippie College of Business at the UI and the lead author of the study.
 
Vasi said the local food market is what sociologists call a "moralized market," that is a market in which people combine economic activities with their social values. Among their findings, the UI researchers discovered local food markets were more likely to develop in areas where residents had a strong commitment to civic participation, health, and the environment.
 
"It's about valuing the relationship with the farmers and people who produce the food and believing that how they produce the food aligns with your personal values," said Vasi, who will present the research at the 110th Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association (ASA).
 
As part of their study, Vasi and his co-authors examined the development of local food markets by looking at the number of farmers markets, food co-ops, community-supported agriculture providers, and local food restaurants in cities across the United States. The researchers also conducted 40 interviews with consumers and producers in different local food markets in Iowa and New York.
 
From a historical perspective, the recent growth of local food markets is rather surprising.
 
In 1971, Jane Pyle predicted farmers markets were "doomed by a changing society" in an article penned for The Geographical Review. At the time, there were about 340 farmers markets left in the United States and many were "populated by resellers, not farmers, and were on the verge of collapse," Pyle wrote.
 
However, according to the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), national direct-to-consumer food sales increased three-fold between 1992 and 2007, growing twice as fast as total agricultural sales. The number of farmers markets listed in the USDA National Farmers Markets increased from 3,706 in 2004 to 8,268 in 2014. Plus, Vasi and his co-authors found the number of Internet searches for farmers markets almost tripled during that same 10-year period and the number of newspaper articles that mentioned farmers markets almost quadrupled.
 
So, what's behind this need to know who grows your food and to believe in how it's produced?
 
It was the onslaught of big-box stores and globalization forces that reignited "buy local" campaigns across the country in the 1990s, said the UI researchers.
 
"A growing number of communities have attempted to gain control of their own economies by encouraging civic engagement that supports investing in locally owned businesses instead of outside companies," states the study.
 
Sara Rynes, a professor of Management & Organizations in the UI's Tippie College of Business, and co-author of the study, said the researchers also found that local food markets (i.e., farmers markets, food co-ops, etc.) were more likely to be located in cities and counties with higher education levels, higher income levels, and more institutions of higher education.
 
"Sociologists and political scientists have argued that higher income allows people to make consumption decisions based on values in addition to matters of price," Rynes said. "Education is likely to facilitate knowledge about such things as links between the way products are produced and their environmental and health impacts. And universities sometimes get involved in helping local farmers and individuals who are struggling to make a living."
 
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Beaufort Out Front Again.  As Dr. Lawrence Rowland Says, "Everything in American History Began in Beaufort.  He is right on this one . . . and most others


Taking Another Look at the Reconstruction Era

By JENNIFER SCHUESSLER. AUG. 24, 2015. NY Times














Neighborhood Outreach Centers Open and Running in Beaufort

Several months ago, I wrote about the Neighborhood Outreach Connection. With two successful 
programs south of The Broad River, Neighborhood Outreach Connection was going to partner with the Beaufort County School System to open two such centers in the City of Beaufort. Before that could be done, the organization needed to raise funds to meet a generous match proposal from a local donor.  
I asked for your help and some of you responded. Our readers responded significantly to complete 
the match. Since then a federal grant was awarded which guaranteed the two years necessary 
funding to get the program off the ground.

 
Over the Summer NOC opened two programs in Beaufort, 
one at a building donated by the Beaufort Housing Authority 
at Marsh Point and the other an apartment donated by the 
management of Park View Apartments. 

Thanks to the Beaufort County School district, the generous 
donors and the NOC, the program is off and running.  I expect 
good things to happen as the record at the south of the Broad 
is outstanding in its efforts to help students catch up by working
with tutors and mentors in the afternoons, on weekends and over the summer. 
 
 
 
NOC's After-school Program started off in Beaufort last May and then ran an inaugural NOC Summer Virtual Learning Program (SVLP) at both Parkview and Marsh Pointe community Learning Centers.  Approximately twenty young students came every day this summer to study in CompassLearning® activities and literacy skills building.  
 
Reports indicated that "The Neighborhood Outreach Connection students participating in the Summer Virtual Learning 
Program performed exceedingly well by having consistently higher scores and completion rates."
 
This week, NOC started its 2015-2016 After-school Program with registrations of approximately forty plus K-5 
grade students. The program runs Monday through Thursday for ninety minutes each afternoon.  Students are provided 
with homework assistance, CompassLearning® exercises, and literacy skill building. The Learning Centers provide laptops 
and internet access, and all learning services are free to the students' families. 
 
Both Centers are staffed with certified Beaufort Elementary School teachers who not only provide individualized 
customization of the students' curriculum and activities but also bring a high level of enthusiasm and creativity to the 
NOC After-school classrooms. NOC partners closely with the Beaufort County School District and the two entities 
consistently share data of the students' progress and accomplishments.  
 
Beaufort Elementary School Principal Holland adds: "We're so pleased at the support we get from NOC and
 the help they give to our students and families.  They focus heavily on tutoring, and helping with homework and 
improving literacy skills, so our students are better able to master state standards and experience success in school.  
For families to get this level of academic support after school hours - and right in their home communities - is just wonderful."
 
NOC's program places a special emphasis on rewarding the students for attendance and performance through incentive 
programs, which the students embrace wholeheartedly.  For example, the perfect attendance for the summer session award 
allowed the winners to select brand new bicycles and accessories at the end of the summer session as an award for their 
attendance and diligence.  The winners photos are seen below, and for one of the students it was their first bicycle. 
 
The NOC makes a special effort to engage the parents and caregivers by hosting a series of evening open houses and o
rientation sessions which allow the students to demonstrate their learning skills to their families. The parents are 
enthusiastic about having their children participate as evidenced by their comments:
 
 Tanisha (mother of NOC Parkview student):  "When I first heard of the NOC I was amazed to hear that there was 
a program like this to help the children of Beaufort County to be successful.  This program provides my son with 
the services that any parent should have their child participate in.  He enjoys coming here to the center each day and 
meeting new friends, and especially likes learning from the great teachers."
 
Melissa (mother of Marsh Pointe student):  "Since coming to the NOC, my daughter has picked up so much, s
he reads a lot more than she did before the NOC and now really enjoys reading. She also really has advanced 
in her computer skills which are so important.  She really liked the summer program because it kept her busy and 
involved in learning when school was off." 
 
Any questions regarding the NOC in Beaufort can be sent to John Leadem who manages the two Learning Centers in town.  
He can be contacted at johnl@noc-sc.org

 



September 11th is just around the corner, 
coordinated every year since it's inception by Donnie Beer, 
this is an important annual event.

On the 11th day of September at 8:30 am  there will be a program at the Henry C. Chambers 
Waterfront Park commemorating the 14th anniversary of the attack on America.   
This event is to remember and honor the 2,985 people that died that day in the 
destruction of the New York Twin Towers, the attempt to destroy The Pentagon, and the 
loss of US Flight 93 and all of the first responders that were killed trying to save them.
 
Please join us at the Park to Celebrate and Commemorate the lives of heros.  




Get Ready for an Exciting 30th Anniversary Season of the 
Beaufort Symphony Orchestra



Whitehall is a proposed planned 76 lot Traditional Neighborhood urban infill 
residential development. Located on the Beaufort River in Downtown Beaufort 
it should offer a very inviting and public passive waterfront park just across the 
bridge from the Downtown Waterfront Park. 
 
Note that this is but a conceptual image, but it fits within the City's Civic Master Plan. 
For the project to include the proposed city owned four acre public park, the project 
will have to be clearly vetted and any city or county investment must be based on 
the funding being paid through a reliable income stream without using general fund 
or current capital projects dollars. The developer has requested public participation to 
build the park from Beaufort CIty Council and Beaufort County Council.  
 
Stay tuned for public presentations and public hearings before any action will be taken.

Please share with me any thoughts on this subject so that city council can have the 
benefit of your thoughts.





Hot, Hot, Hot

Posted: 21 Aug 2015 09:02 AM PDT
by S.C. Small Business Chamber of Commerce

When you received your electric bill for the month of July, you saw how hot that month was 
and it cost you big time.

Now scientists have confirmed that July was the hottest month the world has ever had, at 
least since we've been keeping record from the late 1800s. And the prediction is 
that 2015 will be the hottest 12-months in recorded history.

You paid the price in a higher electric bill.

California is paying the price of a drought made worse by global warming, up to 25% 
worse according to scientists.

Whales are dying in record numbers along the coast of Alaska and scientists speculate 
the cause might be toxic algae blooms resulting from warmer waters.

And scientists, 99.9% of them, agree that this undeniable global warming is largely 
the result of human-induced climate change.

This is only the beginning of our human and economic problems. Those fires out west, 
they'll eventually burn out or the rains will come. But climate change will within the next 25-50 
years give South Carolina a daily problem that won't go away-coastal tidal inundation from 
rising seas.

Since 2013 the South Carolina Small Business Chamber of Commerce has been educating 
coastal small businesses about the threat to our vibrant tourism economy from sea level rise 
(www.SCBARS.org).   We've been also asking our coastal cities to start planning for resilience 
against higher sea levels that threaten their local economies.

A community-based City of Beaufort/Port Royal Sea Level Rise Task Force has been making 
great progress in developing resiliency recommendations for scenarios up to a 3-foot rise in sea level.

However, Climate Central's Surging Seas platform that this task force has been using clearly 
shows that if sea levels go above 3-feet, resiliency efforts will literally be swamped and 
economic disaster will ensue. This isn't true just for the Beaufort/Port Royal area, it will be 
the same impact in communities up the South Carolina coast.

The answer is clearly this. Our coastal communities must plan for resilience to rising seas. 
But we also must attack climate change by cutting our carbon emissions to stop sea levels from 
rising above the point of resilience.

We can do both but we must start now.

UnConflicted is the small business advocacy blog of Frank Knapp, Jr., President & CEO of the 
South Carolina Small Business Chamber of Commerce. Visit our website to join, subscribe 
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