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Your Weekly News & Updates
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Hello! It's another beautiful week in Beaufort! Here are stories, announcements and events in and around Beaufort! Note the new format will direct you to my website blog or the news source to read more. Thank you for reading.
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Too Beautiful to call "Frogmore Stew"
This past week the Beaufort County Association of Realtors held a competition between the Realtors Association, The Town of Port Royal, Beaufort County Council, the Legislative Delegation led by Sen Tom Davis and the City of Beaufort.
The City tied the Realtors but look at what our team created! By the way, I was charged with schmoozing the tasters while our team including David Coleman, Clay Scoggins and ringer Jason Dangerfield made this masterpiece. |
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Mayor Billy Keyserling to Attend National Summit on Increasing Threat of Coastal Flooding/ Sea Level Rise
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact: Billy Keyserling, Mayor, (843) 592-0400, billyk@islc.net
In Beaufort, SC, coastal flooding/sea level rise poses growing threat to businesses, citizens and tourism.
Beaufort, SC (10/22/15) - Mayor Billy Keyserling will join a bipartisan group of more than 30 mayors and local officials to raise awareness that coastal flooding/sea level rise demands more attention from leaders at all levels of government. He is part of a delegation of elected local leaders from coastal states attending the Rising Tides Summit in New Hampshire on October 23-25, to express concern over the rapidly increasing impacts of coastal flooding/sea level rise and ensure that national leaders are more responsive to the issue.
With more than 123 million Americans living in coastal shoreline counties, sea level rise has become a national concern. Coastal flooding is causing increasingly costly impacts on businesses, infrastructure, private property along America's shorelines, and affecting tourism. Here in Beaufort we see the impacts every day with more to come.
"This is a problem we can and need to address. We need to get people's attention so that they will understand the threat of inundation of water and the opportunities to plan to fend it off. In the long run, we will need federal funding to help with this. But the work of a group of citizens over the past six or more works draws a road map to areas of concern that can one day be addressed...
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It's Time to Invest the Accommodations Tax Dollars
BK - While the newspaper was not at our city council work session on Tuesday night to report on our meeting, we had an interesting conversation with the committee that recommends how the City Council invests accommodations tax dollars. In the past, most of the money collected from the "bed tax" has been passed onto the City's Designated Marketing Organization (DMO) and organizations that market our city outside of a 50 mile radius as is required by state law. However, the current city budget relies on some of the funds to pay for tourist related city expenses like additional law enforcement in the downtown, the tourism coordinator who oversees carriages companies, a portion of the maintenance of the Spanish Moss Trail, a contribution to renovation of USCB's Center for the Arts which is the only facility of its kind available to the public in Northern Beaufort County. And after seeing the positive results of security cameras in other towns and cities, we asked for $71,000 for security cameras that will be staged in the downtown area. The committee did not recommend funding most of what the city requested though all is allowable under state law. READ MORE HERE |
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Fabulous Photo
by Beaufort Photographer
Delk Haigler
with ArtWorks Director
Kim Sullivan
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Charleston 9 Commemoration in Beaufort
The Community Comes Again Comes Together! Sorry I have a conflict and will not be ablate be there. BK The Second Interfaith Service of 2015 is this Sunday, October 25 at 6:00pm. Multiple faith leaders in our community will come together to host a Unity Service in commemoration of the Charleston 9 massacre. It is an act of courage and hope to bring people of our community together in unity and harmony. The program will include various expressions of worship such as music, readings, prayers, greetings and meditation. Refreshments will be served after service by hosts from several faith groups. Everyone is welcome to join. WHO: Unified Interfaith Community Coalition of Greater Beaufort WHAT: Second Interfaith/Interracial Unity Service WHEN: 6 p.m. Sunday, October 25, 2015 WHERE: Grace Chapel AME Church, 502 Charles Street, Beaufort |
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Youth and Leadership
Last Friday I had one of the most interesting days in a while when I accompanied the 36 Young Leaders of Beaufort on our visit to Riverview Charter School where they joined their peers in packaging forty thousand nutritious meals which will be shipped to hungry children in overseas. BK
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Pave the Way
One of the major challenges of our Redevelopment Commission is attracting more diverse job opportunities to allow those who live here, those who come to study and those who want to stay in our very special hometown. This have for years been a huge challenge to county and municipal leaders in Beaufort County.
Aiken has tried to do so and what they are doing is worth looking at, even though we differ because Aiken has an established industrial base which we do not have. BK
Editorial: Pave way to attract, keep younger talent The candidates for Aiken's mayor turned their attention to the community's young people during a forum sponsored by USC Aiken on Wednesday, outlining ways to keep them in the community as they enter the job market. Both Rick Osbon, a Republican, and Lessie Price, a Democrat, talked about connecting the ability to attract younger people, particularly young professionals, with the ability to attract businesses, develop a strong workforce and foster a more durable economy. It's positive that both candidates see this goal as being a positive leap for the city. Having a vision for keeping our resources here should be a concern for the next mayor, as well as the entire City Council and other City officials. |
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Fabulous Photo by Beaufort Photographer
Delk Haigler
with Arts Council Director
Kim Sullivan
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First Meeting for Eating Disorders Anonymous
Announcement from Eating Disorders Anonymous Are you struggling with an eating disorder? Do you have an unhealthy relationship with food? Are you struggling with a poor body image? If so, there is weekly help for those struggling with and recovering from an eating disorder. An Eating Disorders Anonymous group will hold its first weekly meeting on: Monday, Oct. 26, from 5:30-6:30 p.m. in the St. Monica Room at St. Peter's Catholic Church (located at 70 Lady's Island Dr., Beaufort, SC 29907.) Please attend to take a step closer to a healthier and happier life.
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Lowcountry Wind Symphony Marks One Year Anniversary
LWS Announces Season Concert ScheduleOn October of 2015, the Lowcountry Wind Symphony will celebrate its first anniversary, under the baton of Music Director, Donald F. Jemella. This has been an exciting year, with the organization growing fast, and now numbering some fifty members. READ MORE HERE
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Yet Another SC Coastal Community Opposes Offshore Exploration and Drilling
South Carolina's Coastal Communities Unite in Opposition to Offshore Drilling and Seismic Airgun Blasting Briarcliffe Acres Becomes 23rd SC Community to Call on Gov. Haley and Pres. Obama to Stop Seismic Airgun Blasting and/or Offshore Drilling BRIARCLIFFE ACRES, SC - Today, Briarcliffe Acres became the latest community in South Carolina to come out against offshore drilling off the state's coast, an area that has been closed to such activities for more than three decades. Briarcliffe Acres town council unanimously passed a resolution opposing offshore drilling and seismic blasting. In total, 23 municipalities in South Carolina have formally opposed seismic airgun blasting and/or offshore drilling, representing 100% percent of coastal cities and towns in the state. READ MORE HERE |
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Update on Economic Development from Redevelopment Commission
Last week RED Chair, Councilman Stephen Murray and I taped for WHHI a thirty minute update on redevelopment and economic development that will be broadcast over the next could of weeks. If you are interested in the show, WATCH IT HERE. I learned something about our collective vision of where we are heading and think you might too!
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Fall Festival of Houses and Gardens
Tour the beautiful 200-year old homes of Beaufort during this weekend's Fall Festival of Houses and Gardens beginning Friday. |
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