Locals Also Take Up Tree Trimming

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In this issue…
•Locals become arborists out of necessity
•Crab zoea bound for extinction?
•Chamber and Council get an F on tourism
August 2013
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Locals Also Take Up Tree Trimming
Several locals have taken the
drastic action to trim trees and bushes
around the beach and island. There
was quite an uproar when SCE&G
trimmed the tress along Highway 174
this spring but the South Carolina
Department of Transportation has
failed to trim limbs so that drivers
can see to turn into traffic. A SCDOT
spokesperson said that visibility
trimming is an ongoing process that
generally takes several years before
they return to an area.
“We get to them as we can, and
hope that it’s only about a year
before we return, but realistically it’s
the squeaky-wheel process.”
SCE&G made headlines with
TREES (continued on page 2)
A George Jones
Birthday
Some locals will be celebrating
with song on Thursday, Sept. 12 on
what would have been singer George
Jones’s 83rd birthday. Among them,
our own George Dossett who hasn’t
missed many of Jones’s concerts that
have come to the area.
POSSUM (continued on page 18)
Can the Blue Crab Survive Modern Times?
By Dr. J. D. Whitaker
Mopeds…are
they safe?
Mopeds are defined by South
Carolina laws as motorbikes
that go no faster than 30 miles
per hour. Since the economy
crashed and gasoline prices
rose, many have turned to
mopeds as a cheaper mode to
get around Edisto Beach. Most
of the popular ones can get 100
to 120 miles per gallon. They are
generally a safe and reliable way
SAFE? (continued on page 5)
South Carolina’s blue crab,
which supports a $5-million-dollar
commercial fishery, can be one of
the most difficult species to manage.
The state’s blue crab population is
vulnerable to water pollution, winter
freezes, habitat destruction, tropical
storms, and fishing pressure.
First blue king crab zoea larvae on
day of hatching. Courtesy of Brad
Stevens.
Crab zoea
This is a baby crab
“meroplankton” which means an
organism that only spends part
of its life cycle in the plankton
(as opposed to holoplankton
which spend their entire life in
the plankton). The larvae of many
bottom-dwelling invertebrates
like crabs, starfish, mussels, clams,
and lobsters all begin as larvae in
the plankton before they settle on
the bottom and become the more
familiar adult creatures.
Now, S.C. Sea Grant scientists
Michael Childress, a Clemson
University biologist, and Elizabeth
Wenner, a marine scientist at
the S.C. Department of Natural
Resources, are developing an
innovative computer model to help
manage the blue crab fishery in
South Carolina.
“We’re testing ‘what if’ scenarios
to determine the impact of changes in
water quality and fishing pressure on
blue crab populations,” says Childress.
“How sensitive are blue crabs to
changes in temperature, salinity,
oxygen levels, or fishing pressure?”
Using a traditional fisherypopulation model, managers can
track the number of a particular
fish species living in an ecosystem,
what size those fish are, and then
with this information they make
predictions on allowable catches to
sustain the fishery.
One limitation of the traditional
model is that it usually assumes that
a species occupies a single habitat.
Blue crabs, however, have multiple
life stages in various habitats from
salt-marsh creeks to open ocean
waters during their lifetimes.
CRABS (continued on page 6)
Page 2 The Edisto News
August 2013
Welcome to Edisto Beach
We are pleased that you have chosen to visit Edisto Beach. We are a familyoriented beach community as well as a sanctuary for birds, wildlife and flora.
We are committed to protecting our environment while providing for your
safety. Please help us to achieve our goal of ensuring that you have a happy
and memorable vacation by observing these regulations.
Governed by Town Ordinance
• A noise ordinance is in effect from 10 p.m. to 7 a.m.
• Riding or parking any motorized vehicles on the bike paths or lanes are
prohibited.
• Motorized vehicles of any kind, including motorized watercraft and all
vehicle trailers, are not permitted on the beach.
• Sailboats cannot be stored on sand dunes or grassy areas of the dunes.
• Dogs must be on a leash on the beach from May 1 through Oct. 31. Dogs
must be within verbal command of owner, on a leash or in a secure area
within the town limits.
• Outside lights on the ocean side and underneath homes should be turned
off at dusk during Loggerhead Sea Turtle nesting from May 1 through
Oct. 31. Stiff fines could be imposed.
• Glass is prohibited on the beach. Use aluminum or plastic containers.
• Fireworks and open burning are not permitted in the town limits.
• Unlawful to climb upon, sit upon, occupy or damage any groins on the
beach.
TREES (continued from page 1)
their trimming along Highway 174
when they cleared growth to protect
the power lines. They actually
held public meetings to reassure
that the trimming would be done
in accordance with arborist best
practices. Nevertheless, some of the
trimming looks like the danger has
only been re-directed.
This image prompted a local
resident to exclaim, “One trimmed
tree…power line looks safe…
how about us on 174? Is this the
Governed by Town Ordinance, State Law and/or Federal Law
• Bicycle riders must use the bicycle path lanes where provided.
• Bicycle riders are required to have lights and reflectors for night riding.
• Park with the flow of traffic on streets and right-of-ways.
• Golf carts: must have a permit sticker from SCDOT, and driver possesses
a valid driver’s license, and operate on secondary street or street within
two miles of residence during daylight hours only. Alcoholic beverages
are prohibited in or on a golf cart. Golf carts may only cross a primary
highway (Palmetto Boulevard).
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Section 56–3–115
The owner of a vehicle commonly known as a golf cart, if he has a valid
driver’s license, may obtain a permit from the South Carolina Department
of Public Safety upon the payment of a fee of five dollars, proof of ownership,
and proof of financial responsibility which permits him to:
1.Operate a golf cart on a secondary highway or street within two miles of
his residence during daylight hours only.
2.Cross a primary highway or street while traveling along a secondary
highway or street within two miles of his residence during daylight
hours only.
The driver of the golf cart must have a valid drivers license, the golf cart
must be insured and have a permit from the South Carolina Department of
Public Safety to operate. Also, the golf cart can only cross over Highway 174
(Palmetto Boulevard).
• A salt water fishing license is required when fishing from a boat or from
shore.
• No watercraft may operate in excess of idle speed within 50 feet of a
moored or anchored vessel, wharf, dock, bulkhead, pier, or person in the
water or within 100 feet of the Atlantic Ocean coastline.
• Sea oats should remain untouched or undamaged.
• Turtle nest and possible tracts are identified with markers and must not be
disturbed.
• It is unlawful to endanger or threaten any kind of wildlife in any manner.
• Posted speed limits are: 35 mph on Palmetto Boulevard and 30 mph on
Jungle Road, Myrtle Street and paved side streets. Speed limits are 25 mph
on unpaved streets.
Please note: Practice personal water safety since no lifeguards are on the beach.
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August 2013
Page 3
Chamber and Council Are Failing Edisto Beach Businesses
In recent months, Edisto Beach’s presence at
the nine South Carolina Welcome Centers around
the state has been nonexistent. Calls to the centers
have confirmed that there have been no guides or
brochures provided by the Edisto Beach Chamber
of Commerce.
The Edisto News produced and distributed
30,000 booklets in 2009 and 2010, but after a
dispute with the Chamber board, abandoned the
project. Now Edisto is represented at the South
Carolina Welcome Centers only by brochures from
the Edisto Island Serpentarium and about a dozen
from the Highway 174 Scenic Byway program.
This failure to promote Edisto Beach tourism
was addressed at a meeting of the Edisto Beach
Town Council. The mayor deferred the question
to Dan Carter, the executive director of the Edisto
Beach Chamber of Commerce, who stated that
the responsibility for providing the brochures
had been relinquished to the company which
printed the brochures for the Chamber Board of
Directors. He had no further information about
any distribution to the welcome centers.
A conversation with Gwen Hendley, manager
of the I-95 South Center and who is responsible
for promoting the centers, said she has requested
brochures, but has only received some from
local businesses who had produced their own.
Other staff members said they had not seen any
Edisto guides for months even though they had
repeatedly called for them.
The application for Chamber membership
states that membership benefits include
“Membership Directory – Gain recognition
and exposure by being listed in this directory.
It is available at Town Hall, mailed in all our
tourist and relocation packets, in 12 SC Welcome
Centers, 4 Charleston Area Visitors Centers and
other area Visitors Centers and is listed on our
website.”
This is definitely not the case. The Edisto Beach
Chamber of Commerce Board has dropped the
ball on this aspect of their mission statement with
no regard to their legal and moral responsibility.
The Town of Edisto Beach has failed to oversee
the expenditure of A-TAX money that, by law,
must be used specifically to promote tourism
from 50 miles away.
However the Council has given $50,000 to the
police department to read your license plates!
No exposure for Edisto Beach
The racks at a South Carolina Welcome Center (Welcome Center I-95,
seen above June 2013 and Welcome Center I-95, seen right July 2013) are
conspicuously missing any literature promoting Edisto Beach. How much
of the $15 billion generated in South Carolina from tourism is Edisto Beach
losing out on?
Meanwhile, the welcome sign has still not been replaced (top, right) and
the Chamber’s welcome sign (center, right) is falling apart. 
August 2013
Letters to the Edisto News
Dear Edisto, I have been handicapped for a about
10 years due to my diagnosis of Multiple
Sclerosis. I park in a handicapped spot because
I am handicapped. I’ve seen many people
on Edisto and visitors to Edisto parking in
handicapped spots without a Handicapped
Plackard or License Tag. I’ve witnessed adults
parking in a handicapped spot and sitting
there while they send a child or teenager into
the Piggly Wiggly. This is very frustrating
and it really upsets me. Recently there was
a situation where someone had parked their
broken down truck across several handicapped
spots in the parking lot where Buck’s Pizza
and Edisto Treasures & Consignments are
located. I was informed by the police officer
that there was nothing they could do about it,
because the owner of the property puts those
spots as a courtesy and it is private property.
I would like for anyone who does park in
handicapped spots and is not handicaped,
know that these spots are for the convenience
of handicapped people. For whatever reason
they are handicapped, it is extremely
important that these people be able to park in
these spots. They are not for the use of able
bodied individuals. People, please think about
the handicapped individual not being able to
use the spot, because you are using it.
Tina Browder-Johnston
Note: Letters to the Edisto News are printed as submitted, neither altered nor corrected,
with formatting changes only.
Edisto Beach receives Municipal Achievement Award
The Town of Edisto Beach received a
Municipal Achievement Award for improvements
to its public beach access points. Officials were
presented with the award during the Municipal
Association of South Carolina’s 73rd Annual
Meeting on July 20. The town won in the 1-1,000
population category. Thirty-three cities and towns
submitted their projects and initiatives.
The improvements to Edisto Beach’s 38
public beach access points began in 1994, when
officials committed to renovating two per year.
The project’s goals were to provide beachgoers
safer and more convenient access to the beach
and to make the town eligible for state funds
that are awarded only to municipalities that
meet standards set forth by the Beachfront
Management Act of 1991.
Each public access is a road terminus that was
deeded to the town in 1975. During the 18-year
project, officials collaborated with many groups
in the community—nonprofits, businesses and
resident committees—to upgrade the access
points to meet state standards.
Each access point had its own characteristics,
but almost all of them were being encroached
upon by private property. Officials worked
with property owners to delineate boundaries.
Another concern officials addressed was the
health of the nearby dune system. Where
appropriate, the town constructed dune
walkovers to protect critical areas.
Funding came from a combination of grants
and local taxes. Plans for each access point
evolved over time, and although each one received
upgrades, no two are alike. Better parking and
reflective signage accommodate Edisto Beach’s
day-trippers. New rope fencing, as well as trash
and dog waste receptacles, protects the coastal
ecosystem. The town installed safety stations
to educate visitors about seaside dangers like
riptides. Volunteers constructed bike racks and
beach-viewing benches.
“Getting to the beach in the Town of Edisto
Beach is easier and more enjoyable thanks to the
town and its residents who had a long-term vision
and saw it through to the end,” said Miriam Hair,
executive director for the Municipal Association.
Achievement Award winning entries represent
innovative projects undertaken by Municipal
Association member cities and towns. More
information and a video about the project are
available on the Association’s website.
The Municipal Association of South Carolina
initiated the Achievement Awards in 1987
to recognize and encourage innovations and
excellence in local government. 
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SAFE? (continued from page 1)
to get around, however, some venture out onto the
Island. Most mopeds that are on Edisto Island are
heading for the post office.
Mopeds are also an alternative for those
who have lost their car-driving privileges,
because of DUIs, the inability to buy insurance
or because they have multiple traffic violations.
The number of moped licenses issued has
doubled in the past five years, according to the
S.C. Department of Motor Vehicles. However,
the increase in popularity has also been
the reason for a rise in accidents. Deaths of
moped riders and drivers have also increased.
Between 2011 and 2012, the number of
fatalities involving mopeds rose by 54 percent,
reports the S.C. Department Highway Safety.
Moreover, more than 600 moped riders are
injured in South Carolina each year. Those
statistics are prompting an effort by state
lawmakers and law-enforcement agencies to
reconsider the laws pertinent to moped safety.
A bill in the S.C. General Assembly will to
define mopeds as “moving motor vehicles.”
That new classification would mean moped
drivers will have to have insurance coverage
and can also be cited for driving under the
influence. At present, those drunken moped
drivers (and riding lawnmower drivers) are
sometimes charged with public drunkenness.
August 2013
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Moped riders are currently exempt from state
DUI laws. The bill passed the House, and the
Senate is considering a version. On the safety
front, the S.C. Department of Highway Safety
is launching a new public campaign. The
$200,000 marketing effort aimed at the other
roadway users which includes mopeds, bicycles,
motorcycles and pedestrians.
“The data is driving our effort,” said Phil
Riley, director of the Office of Highway Safety
and Justice. The S.C. Highway Patrol has created
a handbook for law-enforcement agencies
describing laws that apply to moped drivers.
Mopeds are barred from interstates and other
high-speed roads, but they are allowed on streets
with speed limits as high as 45 mph. Moped
drivers must have a moped license, but the
requirements are not as stringent as those for
car drivers. The only requirements for a license
are to be at least 14 years old, pass a 25-question
test and pay $25 at the Department of Motor
Vehicles office.
The S.C. Highway Patrol reports that most
crashes involving mopeds occur after dark. To
try to reduce moped fatalities, troopers will
encourage riders to wear reflective clothing.
Another bill has been filed in the legislature that
would require moped riders to wear reflective
material. John Pallitta, whose 19-year-old
daughter Amanda died last year in a night time
moped accident, said he no longer believes it is
safe to travel by moped on high-speed roads.
Amanda Pallitta was riding on the back of her
new moped on S.C. 46, just outside of Hardeeville,
when a car rear-ended it at 9:30 p.m. June 9. The
hit-and-run driver has never been found. Since
his daughter’s death, he said he and his wife have
noticed how difficult it is to see moped riders
while driving. Riley said the new marketing effort
will encourage trucks and cars to look out for
mopeds. “Drivers can ride up on a moped going
slower than they are and might not realize it
until it’s too late,” Riley said. “There needs to be
more awareness that mopeds also share the road.”
Florida requires other low speed vehicles to have a
flashing light front and back on the moped bike or
motorcycle. 
August 2013
CRABS (continued from page 1)
“During various life stages,” Childress
says, “the blue crab can grow at different rates,
experience predation at different rates, and can
be subject to different kinds of mortality from
changes in its environment.”
“When blue crabs are juveniles, for example,”
Wenner says, “they are particularly vulnerable in
tidal creek nursery areas to heavy predation from
mature blue crabs and fish.”
Childress and Wenner’s computer model
will attempt to address complex interactions
between various habitats and life stages of the
blue crab. It will follow simulated individual blue
crabs through time as they occupy habitats and
encounter changing environmental conditions in
the Ashley River near Charleston. In this way, the
model simulates the dynamics of the entire blue
crab population in the river.
The model can be used to quantify the benefits
of various management techniques on blue crab
populations. Eventually, Childress and Wenner
will expand the model to include other regions of
the South Carolina coast, and the program will
be made available for public use through a Webbased, user-controlled interface.
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Recent Studies
The 2005 Blue Crab Coastal Resource Report
update, published by the S.C. Department of
Natural Resources, indicates the population is
recovering from the decline during the drought
of 2001.
The Coastal Resource Reports informs the
general public of the status of popular recreational
species and represent cumulative efforts of
S.C. Department of Natural Resources’ (DNR)
biologists’ research, surveying, and sampling
analysis over the course of the year.
“South Carolina’s blue crab stocks appear to
be in better shape than a few years ago; during
and shortly after the 1998-2002 drought,” said
Larry DeLancey, DNR biologist. “Severe drought
conditions throughout the Southeast caused a
shift in salinity regimes and the distribution
of crabs. Crab numbers were low then, and the
crabs went further upriver than normal, creating
crowded conditions near the legal fishing line for
commercial crabbers competing for the valuable
crustacean.”
In South Carolina, blue crabs predominantly
are harvested both recreationally and
commercially with crab traps, also referred to
as pots. The commercial fishery comprises one
of the industry’s primarily targeted species,
representing around 10 percent of the total value
of all commercial landings. Historically, average
annual landings within the commercial industry
have been around 6 million pounds per year since
1979. The 2005 report notes that landings were
just over 4 million, which is below the long-term
average, but similar to landings trends since 2002.
The decline is in part due to the reduction in
market price during the fall season.
In 2004–2005, around 33,000 crab pots were
licensed in South Carolina, a slight decease from
the previous year’s assessment. A Commercial
Saltwater Fishing License, Vessel Decal and Gear
License are required to set more than two traps or
pots since the regulatory inception in 1997.
Recreational crabbing does not require a
Saltwater Recreational Fishing License for
setting less than two pots. A study conducted
in 2005 among licensed anglers indicates that
28 percent of those surveyed participated in
recreational crabbing.
“The catches have improved since 2003, and
according to the 2005 DNR fall potting survey,
there have been notably better results,” DeLancey
said. “Low market prices, however, remain a
problem for the commercial crabbing industry,
more so than the supply of crabs.”
During the year, around 67,000 pounds of
softshell crabs, or peeler crabs, were landed,
exceeding the figures from the previous three
years. The landings increase was minimal
compared to the increase in total value for the
softshell crab fishery, which was among the
highest noted since 1979.
Overall, the blue crab population appears
to have recovered from the low levels observed
during the prolonged drought several years ago,
as DeLancey noted. This recovery in population,
however, still falls short of the long-term average
as indicated by DNR fishery independent
sampling data.
Dr. Elizabeth Wenner, DNR senior marine
scientist and coordinator of the crustacean
monitoring survey for the state, said: “Blue
crab population abundance can fluctuate from
year-to-year or over a period of several years.
Such fluctuations occur because physical,
chemical, and biological factors can strongly
influence the number that survive.” Blue crab
populations are known to be cyclic, according
to Wenner, meaning that five-year and longer
cycles have been identified. Wenner also found
no change in the basic life history of the blue
crab as a result of the drought. The crabs move
in response to saline conditions of the water.
DNR surveys indicate that numbers of mature
females who spawn the larvae of the next
generation of blue crab are at a good level for
maintaining the population.
Proposed legislation represents a response
to public concern over the blue crab population
status. Among the proposed legislative changes
are: limiting new license sales until the total
number of crab pots has been lowered to a
target number, a one-bushel per person per day
recreational limit, a separate peeler pot license,
and an experimental trotline fishery in designated
areas during potential future droughts.
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August 2013
Page 7
distinguished by the bright orange tips on their
claws. Males typically grow larger than females,
sometimes reaching seven or eight inches in
point-to-point width. Some males have been
reported to grow to about ten inches.
Life Cycle of the Blue Crab
Blue Crabs
Despite its fearsome appearance and aggressive
nature, the blue crab is greatly cherished in the
South Carolina lowcountry. Many gourmets
prefer the blue crab’s sweet meat over all other
locally-caught seafood. This interesting animal is
often sought by recreational fishermen and it also
supports a considerable commercial fishery.
The blue crab requires both inshore brackish
waters and high salinity ocean waters to
complete its life cycle. They are common from
Massachusetts to Texas and a few have been
reported as far north as Nova Scotia and as far
south as Uruguay. The Chesapeake Bay, North
Carolina and Louisiana support the largest blue
crab fisheries.
Although other small swimming crabs in
this family (Portunidae) occur locally, only the
blue crab is of any commercial or recreational
importance in South Carolina. The blue crab’s
scientific name, Callinectes sapidus, translates to
“savory beautiful swimmer.”
Swimming is accomplished by skulling
the oar-like fifth pair of legs, the swimming
legs. These paddles usually rotate at 20 to
40 revolutions per minute, but they quickly
disappear into a blur as the animal darts away.
Walking is accomplished with the three pair
of thin walking legs. Blue crabs almost always
walk sideways clearing a path with their sharp
lateral spines. The blue crab’s most prominent
features are the large and powerful claws which
are used for food gathering, defense, digging and
sexual displays. If not handled properly, blue
crabs can inflict severe injury. Male crabs can be
distinguished from females by the shape of the
abdomen. The male has a T-shaped abdomen
which is held tightly against the body until
maturity when it becomes somewhat free. The
immature female has a triangle-shaped abdomen
which is tightly sealed against the body. The
mature female’s abdomen becomes rounded and
can be easily pulled away from the body after the
final molt.
Large males, often called “Jimmies” by
fishermen, usually have brilliant blue claws
and legs. The mature females or “sooks” can be
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Whaley’s has its tenth anniversary
This month, on Aug. 25, Whaley’s Restaurant
and Bar will be celebrating its 10th anniversary.
Owner Van Maxwell and Manager Lytle
Pritchard have worked hard to restore the old
store, yet maintain the ambience of the old
Edisto hangout. And they have been rewarded
with countless accolades in national papers and
magazines — Coastal Living and Southern Living
just to mention a few.
Originally founded by World War II hero
Marion Whaley Senior, South Point Services was
an island landmark for over 40 years. Ask any
local to tell you his favorite story about the place
and prepare to be entertained for a while. For
Maxwell, his memory is being bitten by a dog in
the parking lot. The store and the garage were the
hangout place for many of the townspeople as
Whaley’s is even today in the winter months.
In 2001, Maxwell began his adventure with a
lesson in small town affairs and dealing with town
officials. The building had been opened in several
different forms after Mr. Whaley’s retirement,
none of them successful. The building, while not
in great shape, was not the problem. The different
restrictions by different agencies at that time
conflicted and created delays and frustrations.
On Aug. 25, 2003, the doors finally opened
for the first time. A few ventured in. Most of
the first customers were town employees and
close friends. They stood around and wished the
new proprietor success in his new endeavor —
standing because there were no chairs. The next
day they returned with a mixed bag of bar stools
that each had scrounged up for various locations.
They placed them in front of the bar that Dale
Hall had built. Those chairs remained for years
and were replaced only as they wore out. Most
of the furnishings are from other restaurants or
have been donated. This year the stools were all
replaced and the booths recovered. Friends of the
Whaley family and Edisto Beach visitors, who
have patronized the place for generations, have
donated the pictures on the walls.
George Tumbleston started working with
Maxwell in 200_, helping with the bookkeeping
and serving as the daytime bartender. Tumbleston
is called the “oldest bartender in the state” but he
says that’s what others say about him. They also
claim he is grumpy, but those of us that know Mr.
George recognize that he is a very plainspoken,
honest man who never sugar coats his opinions.
Lytle Pritchard started with Whaley’s as a
doorman after he ran up a bar tab that he couldn’t
pay. He graduated to bartender but quickly proved
his value as a manager since his bartending
talents were limited. While not as diplomatic as
Tumbleston, he still manages to keep the place
on a tried-and-true track which has made the
restaurant a success.
Maxwell still creates the great recipes and sauces
with a passion few restaurant owners carry. His food
is renowned for its blending of unusual flavors.
“We would like to thank all of those who have
contributed to our success and the eclectic style of
our restaurant,” says Maxwell.
We wish him great success and thank him for
employing over 30 people and giving well over
100 different Edistonians a chance at their first
job.
Happy birthday Whaley’s! 
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Police Documents on License Plate Scanners Reveal Mass Tracking
By Catherine Crump,
Staff Attorney, ACLU Speech,
Privacy and Technology
Automatic license plate readers are the most
widespread location tracking technology you’ve
probably never heard of. Mounted on patrol cars or
stationary objects like bridges, they snap photos of
every passing car, recording their plate numbers,
times, and locations. At first the captured plate
data was used just to check against lists of cars law
enforcement hoped to locate for various reasons (to
act on arrest warrants, find stolen cars, etc.). But
increasingly, all of this data is being fed into massive
databases that contain the location information of
many millions of innocent Americans stretching
back for months or even years.
Automatic license plate readers are the most
widespread location tracking technology you’ve
probably never heard of. Mounted on patrol cars or
stationary objects like bridges, they snap photos of
every passing car, recording their plate numbers,
times, and locations. At first the captured plate
data was used just to check against lists of cars law
enforcement hoped to locate for various reasons (to
act on arrest warrants, find stolen cars, etc.). But
increasingly, all of this data is being fed into massive
databases that contain the location information of
many millions of innocent Americans stretching
back for months or even years.
This is what we have found after analyzing
more than 26,000 pages of documents from police
departments in cities and towns across the country,
obtained through freedom of information requests
by ACLU affiliates in 38 states and Washington,
D.C. As it becomes increasingly clear that ours
is an era of mass surveillance facilitated by ever
cheaper and more powerful computing technology
(think about the NSA’s call logging program), it
is critical we learn how this technology is being
used. License plate readers are just one example
of a disturbing phenomenon: the government
is increasingly using new technology to collect
information about all of us, all the time, and to
store it forever — providing a complete record of
our lives for it to access at will.
Today, we are releasing all of the documents we
have received (accessible through this interactive
map and this issue page) and are publishing a report,
“You Are Being Tracked,” which explains what these
documents say about license plate readers: what they
are capable of, how they are being used, and what
privacy harms they can cause if protections aren’t
put in place. We’re also offering more than a dozen
recommendations we think local police departments
and state legislatures should follow when they pass
laws about this technology. 
August 2013
Ticks borne diseases prevalent in SC Lowcountry
By Becky Risher
I want this information to get to all residents
and visitors to Edisto Island and really all folks
in the SC lowcountry region. I am a resident on
Peters Point Road. My father bought land there
when I was 9. I have been roaming the acreage for
all these years minus the years spent in overseas
locations in the Air Force. However, when I visited
mother, we always spent time at the Island. I have
been eaten up by ticks my entire life there. Due to
the fact there has never been any information out
there to warn us of tick diseases I never gave it a
second though. What I have found out a very hard
way is that tick disease is actually very prevalent
here despite what you might hear otherwise. My
illness in June should make everyone on Edisto
listen up and take precautions. I spent most of
May at my place. I was cutting grass, clearing
the area of winter leaves. I have a tractor and I
bush hog a lot. I did this for two straight weeks.
A friend came to visit from Georgia to do some
fishing with me and do some tourist things in
Charleston. After 3 days in Charleston at my other
home, we returned to Edisto. That night I became
ill feeling and ran a high fever. I took fever meds
and took to my bed. I became restless, nauseated
and could not sleep at all. I developed a raging
headache. I had never felt like this before in my
life. What I had did not feel like flu or virus. I felt
ill the next day. Later in the day I told my friend
we need to get back to Charleston, something is
wrong with me and I think it’s serious. By then
my entire body ached and I had had severe chills
with the fever. Ibuprophen and Tylenol lowered the
fever only slightly. By then I was peaking 103-104
temperatures. I could not eat. I was dehydrated. I
thought I could weather this but at 1 a.m. I asked
my friend to drive me to the ER. I was treated
with IV fluids, nausea meds and morphine. Labs
were taken but not for tick disease. After several
hours there I was sent home with a diagnosis of
unknown. That afternoon I was back in the ER. I
received the same treatment. I had told so far two
doctors that I had been eaten up by ticks on Edisto
Island a couple weeks before. Both said “we don’t
have tick disease here.”
I received the same medical treatments in the
ER as the night before. I was sent home again. A few
hours later I felt so ill that I felt truly that I would die
and I meant it. I no sooner got home each time my
fever went back up to 103. My head was raging and
I could not walk without assistance. My eyes were
glassy. I returned to the ER. Another doctor, same
treatments. Again I told him I had been bitten by
ticks and one had a red circle around it. Again, “we
don’t have tick disease here.” I demanded to see my
own Internist. As luck would have it he was in the
hospital making rounds. He came to ER, checked
me over and I began to have trouble breathing. My
oxygen went below 80 fast. To make a long story
short, I went into pulmonary failure fast. My own
doctor suspected tick disease but that takes a few
days to prove. I was admitted to CICU and 4 doctors
were called in. I was placed on a lot of antibiotics to
cover any bases. A Pulmonary, Infectious Disease,
and a Surgeon were there. My lungs, and outside
my lungs filled with fluid. I was told they would
have to insert a tube to drain my lungs. My organs
were barely visualized on ultrasound so a CT Scan
was done. After this was done a port was surgically
placed in me to handle all the meds and fluids.
I had no veins by then. A regime of 4 antibiotics
were infused. I glanced up and 7 bags of “stuff” was
pouring into me. I was very aware of the work being
done on me and just watched. I was aware of being
near death and afraid I would die, and at that time
had no idea from what and neither did the doctors.
For about 48 hours off and on I had hallucinations.
I later found out I also had meningitis. A few days
later I improved enough to leave ICU. I remained
on all antibiotics until about the 5th day when my
doctor told me the blood work showed I did have
Rocky Mt Spotted Fever from a tick. Two of the
four antibiotics were removed. Over the next days I
remained so weak I could not sit up in bed even with
assistance. My intestines were in horrible shape. I
had no appetite. I finally began to feel well enough
to get out of bed and try to walk and eat some. I
entered the hospital on 12 June and left 20 June.
Over the next two weeks I spent most of my time
in bed at home before I finally began to get more
energy and my appetite improved. I live alone so I
had a friend take me to Costco and to pick up easy
to fix food at home.
I am well now and life is more back to normal.
I still tire easily and am told that will not go away
for awhile. What I want everyone to realize is that
none of this had to happen to me, and does not
have to happen to anyone. We need to keep our
yards and immediate property we use the most,
treated for ticks. We need to spray ourselves and
our clothing with Deet anytime we are out there.
We all need to know the signs we may have a
tick born illness. Fever, faigue, often headache
and nausea. Keep track of tick bites. Make a note
of the date you were bitten. If you become ill
shortly after, tell your doctor you were exposed
and demand a tick borne blood analysis if he is
resistant to doing it. Tell them about my case on
Edisto. If I had known, if I had taken precautions
on my place, if I used tick sprays on myself, If I had
known there was prevalent tick disease here I’d
have not become so ill. Information is powerful.
Go to the browser of your choice and review all
the tick diseases. Tell others about this. As it turns
out the last labs done on me showed clearly I had
Rocky Mt Spotted Fever, Lyme and Ehrlicia. That
was one loaded tick. Keep an eye on your dogs.
My greyhound got Ehrlicia so bad he almost died.
Some vets do not think to test for this when a dog
gets ill. My dog’s condition was so bad it was in
his bone marrow and speen by the time he was
tested. I simply had no idea about tick disease here.
Something important I want everyone to know.
The Infectious Disease doctors here have tried to
get Public Health to post alerts, to educate and get
this information out there. They are resistant. Far
too many physicians refuse to accept how bad tick
disease is here and too many are uneducated about
it and what to ask or look for. So too many of them
pass symptoms off as viral then it’s too late. I know
of some individuals on Edisto this happened to
and they now live with Lyme Disease symptoms
due to not being treated early. Even if you or your
doctor do not know for sure if you have it, it is
best to err on the side of caution. It is imperative
that you take a round of Doxycyline for tick
disease early while you wait for the blood studies
to confirm or deny. This is why all of us must be
persistant with doctors, and demand tests for it
if we become ill feeling. I retired as a 30-year Air
Force veteran in 2008. I spent more time in combat
zones and around disease than I care to remember.
However, the difference was we knew about the
insects and diseases there. We were educated on it.
We took precautions, took medications and used
insecticides.
The irony is that I made it back from so many
combat area deployments alive, yet a tick on Edisto
Island armed with an AR15, loaded with Rocky Mt
Spotted Fever, Lyme and Ehrlicia almost took me
out. Be aware and take precautions. 
Editor’s note: Certain unsolicited articles to the
Edisto News are printed as submitted, neither
altered nor corrected, with formatting changes only.
The Edisto News
August 2013
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Mating and Spawning
Mating generally occurs in brackish water
from February to November with peaks in March
to July and in October and November. Females
mate only during the final molt when they are in
the soft shell condition, but males are believed to
mate several times.
Researchers have determined that blue crabs
release chemical signals called pheromones which
attract their mates. Two to three days prior to
mating, the male will “cradle carry” the soonto-shed female after a rather elaborate courtship
ritual. These crabs are called “doublers.” The
male is usually one to two inches larger than its
mate. The male protects the soft female when she
is vulnerable to predators. After mating, he will
continue to carry her until her shell hardens.
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After mating, females migrate to higher
salinity water in the lower reaches of the estuary
or in the ocean. Spawning occurs in near shore
ocean water about one or two months after
mating in spring or summer. Females that mate in
fall or winter usually spawn the following spring.
Females produce up to two million eggs,
but only about one egg per million will survive
to become an adult. Eggs are carried under
the abdomen until they hatch. The egg mass
is bright orange at first and becomes darker as
the embryos mature and consume the egg yolk.
Females carrying an egg mass are called “sponge
crabs,” and are protected by law in South
Carolina. If captured, they must be returned
to the water immediately. Sponge crabs usually
first appear in early April and are common until
August or September.
Eggs hatch after about two weeks into zoea
larvae which are 1/100-inch long. During the next
month there are six or more larval stages before
reaching the megalopal stage. The megalopae,
which is about 1/10-inch wide, begin to migrate
into the nutrient-rich estuarine waters. Very
soon after settling in the saltmarsh creeks, the
megalopae transform into the “first crab” stage.
Crabs hatched in April or May become two
to three inches wide by November and five
inches or larger by August the following year.
Crabs hatched in early fall will be only inch in
width by winter. After one year, these crabs will
be only three to four inches wide and will not
mature until the following spring. A few crabs
may live for three years but most live for less
than a year. South Carolina law requires that
captured crabs less than five inches in width be
returned to the water.
Growth and Molting
Blue crabs, like all arthropods, must
periodically shed their hard exoskeleton in order
to grow. The smallest crabs shed every three to
five days, juvenile crabs every 10 to 14 days and
those three inches and larger every 20 to 50 days.
Experienced crabbers can quickly spot crabs
about to molt. Five to ten days before molting, a
narrow white line appears just within the thin
margin of the last two joints of the swimming
legs. A few days before shedding, the peeler crab’s
narrow white lines give way to a red line, and fine
white wrinkles appear on the blue skin between
the wrist and upper arm. The actual molting lasts
for only a few minutes as the crab pushes out the
rear of the old shell.
The resulting soft crab, which is limp and
wrinkled, will swell to normal shape and usually
increase in size by 25 to 35 percent. If disturbed,
the vulnerable soft shell crab can swim and
walk but prefers seclusion. After a few hours, the
crab’s shell becomes parchment-like and is fully
hardened within two or three days.
During the spring, usually early April, there
is a “run” of peeler crabs that lasts for about two
weeks. At this time fishermen will target the
female crabs that are molting into mature crabs
after the winter dormancy. These crabs can be
caught in “peeler pots” which are crab traps in
which one or two large males are used as bait to
attract the females which are ready to mate. The
peeler crabs are held for a short time in shedding
tanks until the molt. After molting, the soft shell
crabs are removed from the water and refrigerated
for sale.
Abundance and Predators
Factors controlling year-to-year variation in
blue crab stocks exert their influence early in the
life cycle. Water circulation patterns controlled
by prevailing winds, can either carry the larvae
shoreward or sweep them away. Thus, recruitment
(addition of new individuals) of megalopae and
small crabs may be largely controlled by the
coastal water currents and the weather. Young
crabs within the estuaries are vulnerable to
drought, flood, or unseasonable temperatures.
A relationship seems to exist between river
discharge and survival of small crabs. Small crabs
survive best during years of relatively high fresh
water runoff which increases nutrient input and
decreases salinity. However, too much rainfall can
also flush the small crabs from the marsh.
Predators claim large numbers of young crabs,
and crab populations may vary from year to year
according to the abundance of predators. Blue
crabs are subject to predation throughout their
life cycle and are particularly susceptible when
they are soft during the molting process. As
larvae, they are vulnerable to fishes, jellyfish and
other planktivores. The megalopae and juvenile
crabs are consumed by various fishes and birds, as
well as other blue crabs.
Eating Habits
Blue crabs eat a variety of foods, including
fishes, oysters, clams, snails, shrimp, worms
and other crabs. At high tide, crabs may swim
into the salt marsh to pluck snails from the tall
grass. At times, they burrow into the bottom
with only their eye stalks visible, lying in wait
for an unsuspecting fish. Crabbers typically bait
their pots with oily fishes which seem to work
better than other baits. Presumably, the crabs
home in on the oil or odor being released. Studies
have shown that blue crabs can follow a current
upstream by cris-crossing the stream bed. Crabs
are opportunistic feeders, meaning they will eat
what is most available regardless of their size, the
season or the area they inhabit.
Fishing Gears
The most common type of commercial fishing
gear is the crab pot which is a cubical wire trap
with two or four entrance funnels. The pot has two
chambers, a lower chamber which has the entrance
funnels and the bait well and an upper chamber
that is separated from the lower chamber by a
wire partition that has two holes. The blue crab’s
natural reaction to confinement is to swim upward.
In doing so, they move into the upper chamber,
thereby reducing their chances for escape. The
crab pot was first introduced in Chesapeake Bay
in about 1936, but was not widely used in South
Carolina until the late 1950’s. Crabs are also caught
and sold as part of the bycatch of shrimp trawlers
and after the shrimp trawling season is closed,
usually in January, trawling for crabs with large
mesh trawls is permitted until March 31.
Recreational blue crab fishermen employ
several fishing gears and methods. South Carolina
law allows individuals to fish two crab pots
without a license if they are properly marked with
floats bearing the owner’s name. Fishing more
than two pots requires a commercial crabbing
license. Whether fishing from a dock or boat,
recreational crab pots should have a marked float
and enough line to prevent the float from being
submerged at high tide. Recreational crabbers
should also be careful not to leave a pot in an
area that would expose the pot and crabs at low
tide. Pots should be checked daily and catches
can often be doubled if the pots are checked twice
per day. To remove crabs, pull the wire apart
and shake the crabs into a tub or bucket. Some
stubborn crabs may have to be dislodged with a
stick. Remember that crabs can pinch, so be very
careful about putting your hand in a pot.
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Drop nets and collapsible traps, usually baited
with herring, can be fished from docks and
bridges. Another effective recreational method
called “dipping” requires a long-handled dip net,
several yards of string and bait. The bait, usually a
chicken neck or fish head, is tied to the string and
thrown into the water away from the bank. Once
a tug is felt, the crabber pulls the bait and crab
close enough to be quickly dipped from the water
and placed into a waiting bucket. The beginner
should be cautious when handling a blue crab since
the pinch of the powerful claws can be extremely
painful. (The inexperienced crabber should
probably wear thick gloves). Always approach from
the rear when picking up a crab. An experienced
crabber can quickly grab the base of one of its
swimming legs while holding the claws down with
some object. Should a crab get a hold on a finger, it
is usually best not to pull it off. First, try letting it
hang; many times the crab will release and drop.
If the crab will not release, use the free hand to
immobilize the other claw and slowly bend the
offending claw backward until the crab releases it.
Crabs can be caught during all twelve months,
but become inactive in winter when water
temperature falls below 50-55 degrees F. As
temperatures rise in March and April, catch rates
increase rapidly. The best time of year to harvest
large, heavy crabs is usually from October to
December. Mature females are typically near the
ocean, but large males are most common in the
rivers and creeks.
Crabbing Techniques
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maintained live in a refrigerator or in a cooler
with a small amount of ice.
Crabs should never be put into a container
of water as they will die quickly from lack of
oxygen. Crabs that have been dead for a while
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A large double boiler is ideal for
cooking blue crabs because it allows
crabs to be steamed and not boiled.
When using a double boiler, wait
until the water boils in the lower
pot, then place the crabs in the
upper pot. If cooking with a single
large pot, crabs may be stacked to
the top and a few inches of water
added to the bottom. Or, the crabs
may be completely covered with
water. In either case, seasonings
may be sprinkled on the crabs or
into the water. Some cooks prefer
to mix seasonings with cool water
in another pot. After cooking,
the crabs are moved to the cool,
seasoned water and allowed to soak
up the seasonings. This prevents
over cooking and allows the crabs to
become spicier. Cooking generally
takes 20 to 30 minutes producing
a well-cooked crab with an orange
color and meat that has a firm white
texture. Another common practice
is to clean live crabs prior to cooking
by removing the top shell, abdomen,
gills and internal organs. Crabs can
be chilled to reduce the handling
danger, but with experience, a crabber
can learn to hold the claws with one
hand while removing the back with the
other. This method of cooking allows
the seasoned water better access to the
meat and reduces the mess associated
with eating whole, cooked crabs.
Occasionally small black spots
can be found in crab meat. This
condition, called buckshot or pepper,
is the result of tiny parasites that are
relatively common in blue crabs.
These parasites are not harmful
if eaten by humans, but heavy
infestations can impair the quality of
the meat.
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Saltwater Fishing Conservation &
Ethics
Although most people once
considered ocean resources to be
unlimited, recent rapid declines in
the populations of many commercial
and recreational species have
demonstrated the opposite.
Numerous types of saltwater
game fish now are being over
harvested and other species will
face a similar fate unless all anglers
practice wise conservation and adopt
an ethical approach to fishing.
Size and catch limits, seasons and
gear restrictions should be adhered
to strictly. These regulations change
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from time to time as managers learn
more about fish life histories and
how to provide angling opportunities
without depleting stocks.
The challenge of catching, not
killing fish provides anglers with the
excitement and the reward of fishing.
Undersized fish or fish over the limit
should be released to ensure the future
of fish populations. The number of
saltwater finfish tagged and released
annually in South Carolina has
increased significantly in recent years
as more and more fishermen take up
this practice that provides information
on growth and movement of fish as
well as conserving resources.
Saltwater fishermen can further
contribute to conservation by
purchasing a Marine Recreational
Fisheries Stamp (Adobe PDF)
which is required to fish from a
private boat or gather shellfish in
South Carolina’s saltwaters. Funds
generated by the sale of stamps
must be spent on programs that
directly benefit saltwater fish,
shellfish and fishermen. Help
ensure the outdoor enjoyment
of future generations by strictly
adhering to all rules, regulations,
seasons, catch limits and size
limits, and through the catch and
release of saltwater game fish. 
Jennie Gowan Art Show Award winners
By Kathlyn Fritz,
President of Edisto Art Guild
A large crowd of Edisto Art
Guild members and guests braved
rain and threatening storms to
attend the opening reception
of the annual Jennie Gowan
juried art show at the Edisto
island Museum Monday, June 17.
Nationally known artist Steven
Jordan judged the show. After
enjoying wine and finger food
outside on the museum lawn,
members and guests moved inside
to hear Steven Jordan discuss
the work of each participating
artist. This is an annual event for
members—to have a distinguished
judge comment on the artwork,
interact with the artists, and offer
positive analysis. Twenty-six artists
were represented in the show,
which featured 70 works including
acrylics, oil paintings, watercolors,
wood carving, encaustics, clay arts,
photography, and monoprints.
The following entries were
awarded ribbons by Mr. Jordan: Best
of Show: Nancy Fishback for The
World is My Cookie Jar, a ceramic
and mixed media piece; Two Merit
Awards: Gail Greer for High Tide,
an encaustic, and Sue Zoltewicz for
Through Filtered Light, a photograph.
There were five Honorable Mention
awards: Bonnie Lee for Brown Shrimp
(monoprint), Mary Douglass for Sun
(clay art), Don Hartman for Star
Wood (wood carving), Susan Roberts
for Snail at Full Moon (photograph),
and Roy Smoak for Turkey Tail
Feather (wood carving, acrylic).
The juried show ended June 30,
but most of the pieces remain at the
museum as the annual Edisto Art
Guild Exhibit until after Labor Day.
Most of the pieces are for sale and
some of the Art Guild members are
providing new works for the exhibit
throughout the summer.
The Edisto Island museum is
open in the summer Tuesday–
Saturday from 12 to 5 p.m. 
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A History of Harvesting the Blue Crab
When you dig into a plate of crab claws at your
favorite restaurant, you are eating the blue crab
Callinectes sapidus.
As early as prehistoric times, blue crabs
were harvested for subsistence living. Evidence
suggests Native Americans used spears to gig blue
crabs in shallow water and may also have used
simple traps. During colonial times, some settlers
survived only because of their ability to catch blue
crabs. As early as 1850, records exist that indicate
a market for soft-shelled crabs on the east coast of
America.
In 1870 L. Cooper Dize patented the first
toothless dredge for taking peelers or soft-shelled
blue crabs. During this period, fishermen wading
with scoop nets or seines harvested hard-shelled
crabs. Gulf crab fishermen would wade out at
night with a long-handled dip net and a lantern,
towing a skiff or burlap sack to hold their catch.
Some fishermen would use a drop net — a
metal frame covered with netting with bait
attached in the middle.
This device would be lowered to the bottom to
attract crabs to the bait. You can often see some
recreational crab fishermen still using this today.
1883 – soft shell crabs 1¢ each; 10¢ per
dz.; hard crabs 1¢ dz; 10¢ per bushel
The 1870s saw the evolution of the commercial
crabbing industry. Railroads permitted rapid
shipping of hard crabs away from the coast. The
McMenamin Company of Hampton canned the
first crab meat, and wooden rowboats with fishing
trotlines replaced seines and scoop nets as a means
of catching crabs. A trotline is a long main line
with short lines, called snoods, baited and spaced
approximately two feet apart. Upon setting the
line, the fisherman would pull his skiff downwind
along the line and dip out feeding crabs. With the
availability in the early 1900s of motor boats, the
use of the snoods was eliminated and the bait tied
directly to the main line.
While trotlines remained the standard
harvesting method in the Gulf into the 1950s,
Benjamin F. Lewis patented the first crab trap as
early as 1926. With minimal modifications, this
trap resembled those currently in use. Traps are
currently constructed of vinyl-covered hexagonal
mesh, box-shaped with several funnel shaped
entrances that force crabs to turn sideways to
enter. The narrowness of the end of the funnel
prevents them from exiting easily. Blue crabs are
enticed to enter the trap by the presence of bait,
typically pogy.
Currently 98–99 percent of all crabs caught
come from crab traps, with the remaining 1–2
percent caught in shrimp trawls.
Even today, the crabbing industry continues to
change.
Crabbing has long been a part of the human
culture. As the human population has grown, the
industry has changed to become more efficient.
This efficiency, while a boon to crab fishermen,
must always be balanced by the need to sustain a
viable blue crab population.
Management of the crab industry is a must for
sustaining blue crab harvest.
ALOE Volunteer Help Needed!
The price of crabs:
• 1883 soft shell crabs 1¢ each; 10¢ per dz.; hard
crabs 1¢ dz; 10¢ per bushel
• 1918 soft shell crabs 30¢–80¢ per dz.; hard crabs
$1–$6 per barrel
• 2002 soft shell crabs $2–$3 each, $24 per dz.,
hard crabs $8.50 per dz.
Ranging from Nova Scotia to Argentina,
the blue crab relies heavily on estuaries to
complete its life cycle. This fresh/salty mix of
water in estuaries creates an environment high
in nutrients and extremely suitable for growth of
many marine species. Estuarine marsh and grass
beds provide extensive areas for blue crabs to hide
from predators and remain safe during molting.
A molting crab is one that has shed its external
skeleton and is soft to the touch. Male crabs molt
throughout their life. A female crab will molt
several times but, at sexual maturity, she will have
a final molt. Through pheromones in the water,
a male can sense a female is about to shed. He
will actively pursue her and will cradle her as she
begins to molt. While she is soft, he will transfer
a packet of spermatophores to her and continue
to carry her until she hardens. This is the female’s
only mating, although she may have multiple
spawnings from this single encounter.
Development from zoeal to first crab stage
takes approximately 40 to 70 days. With luck,
food, and shelter available in the estuary, a blue
crab will molt until it reaches sexual maturity,
usually within one year. 
Animal Lovers of
Edisto K-9 Rescue
(ALOE) is looking
for volunteers for
immediate help with
feeding and walking
rescue dogs.
Especially helpful
would be Tuesday
and/or Wednesday
mornings any
time convenient to the volunteer. We are
currently in jeopardy for covering these slots.
If, however, afternoons are the only time you
have available, one of our current afternoon
volunteers may agree to swap times. Usual
length of duration needed for these duties is
approximately one hour.
Location of ALOE’s kennels is off Oyster
Factory Road.
ALOE continues to serve our community
through rescue of our Island’s canine
population with the objective of providing
spay/neutering and vaccinations and placing
all healthy dogs and puppies in forever
homes. Volunteers have found it a rewarding
and satisfying experience. Please join us in
this humane endeavor.
Call Margaret at 869 3869 or email
[email protected] for more
information.
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George Jones was born on Sept.
12, 1931, in Saratoga, Texas, into a
very poor family. So poor, in fact,
that he sang on the streets as a child.
Jones began recording country
music in the 1950s. His first hit was
Why Baby Why, which he recorded
in 1955. He joined the Grand Ole
Opry in 1957, and continued to
write hit songs into the 1980s. He
died on April 26, 2013, at age 81.
Early Life
Remembered as one of country
music’s all-time greatest stars,
George Glenn Jones was born in
Saratoga, Texas, on September 12,
1931, and grew up poor in East
Texas. He was one of eight children,
though his older sister, Ethel, died
before he was born. His father was
an alcoholic who would sometimes
get violent.
“We were our daddy’s loved ones
when he was sober, his prisoners
when he was drunk,” Jones later
wrote in his autobiography, I Lived
to Tell It All.
Jones and his family shared a
love of music, often singing hymns
together. They also enjoyed listening
to the radio, tuning into programs
from the Grand Ole Opry. A music
lover from the start, Jones taught
himself to play guitar. He began
performing in the streets and dive
bars of Beaumont, Texas, in his early
teens.
Musical Start
George Jones started out
singing on the radio with a
friend, working at a station in
Jasper, Texas, and then headed
back to Beaumont. In 1950, he got
married to Dorothy Bonvillion.
The couple had a daughter, Susan,
before splitting up a year later.
The break-up, according to some
reports, was caused by Jones’s
explosive temper and excessive
drinking. After the divorce, Jones
joined the U.S. Marines and
served during the Korean War,
but never went overseas.
In 1953, Jones landed a deal
with Starday Records. The label’s
co-owner, Pappy Daily, became
his producer and his manager — a
partnership that would last for
years. Jones also tried his hand at
another type of partnership around
that time. In 1954, he married
Shirley Ann Corley. The couple had
two sons, Jeffrey and Brian. After
a few failed singles, Jones made
the country charts with the uptempo number on heartbreak, Why
Baby Why, in 1955. More hits soon
followed with What Am I Worth,
You Gotta Be My Baby and Just One
More. In 1959, Jones had his first
No. 1 hit with the comical song
White Lightning.
In the early 1960s, Jones
established himself as one of
country music’s top crooners. He
sang many songs of heartbreak,
including 1960’s Window Up
Above and 1961’s Tender Years. The
balladeer reached the top of the
charts in 1962 with She Thinks I Still
Care,” one of his trademark tunes.
A year later, he teamed up with
Melba Montgomery for the first of
several recordings. Their biggest hit
together was We Must Have Been
Out of Minds. Showing his lighter
side, Jones recorded The Race Is On.
Jones worked with Gene Pitney
on another duet project in the mid1960s, but his greatest collaborative
work came together toward the
end of the decade, when he met
and fell in love with fellow country
star Tammy Wynette. Following
his divorce from his second wife,
Shirley, in 1968, Jones and Wynette
wed in 1969. Not long after, they
began making music together.
Breaking ties with Pappy Daily,
Jones began working with Billy
Sherrill, one of Wynette’s producers.
Sherrill added a certain polish to
Jones’s sound.
Behind the scenes, Jones battled
with drug and alcohol abuse. He
and Wynette had a tense, combative
relationship, but they projected
an image of being country music’s
reigning king and queen. They
scored several hits with their duets,
notably The Ceremony and We Can
Make It, the latter of which proved
to be a bit of misnomer, as Wynette
filed for divorce shortly after the
song’s release. The couple tried to
reconcile, recording We’re Gonna
Hold On, but while the song made
it to the top of the country charts,
Jones and Wynette continued to
struggle. They had a daughter,
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Tamala Georgette, in 1970, but their relationship
continued to spiral downward thereafter.
Jones’s heartache seemed to seep out of his 1974
solo hit, The Grand Tour, a gut-wrenching ballad
about the end of a marriage. He and Wynette
divorced the following year. Oddly enough, Jones and
Wynette continued to work together, recording hits
like 1976’s Golden Ring.
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Troubled Times
By the mid-1970s, Jones was falling apart both
physically and emotionally, as the years of drinking
and abusing cocaine had begun to take its toll. He
became unreliable and unpredictable, disappearing
without any notice and failing to show up for
recording sessions and concerts. With all of the
cocaine use, Jones dropped a substantial amount of
weight, becoming a mere shadow of his former self.
Despite these dark times, Jones managed to
make some interesting music. He recorded a
popular duet with James Taylor, Bartender’s Blues,
in 1978. He then landed back on the top of the
charts with 1980’s He Stopped Loving Her Today,
from the album I Am What I Am, Jones’s biggest
seller to date. In 1982, Jones teamed up with
another country legend, Merle Haggard, for A
Taste of Yesterday’s Wine.
In 1983, Jones began to abandon his selfdestructive ways. He married Nancy Sepulvada that
year, and later said that her love helped him want to
straighten up his act. He had some successful duets
around this time, among them Hallelujah, I Love You
So with Brenda Lee and Size Seven Round (Made of
Gold) with Lacy Dalton. As a solo artist, he enjoyed
several popular singles from his 1985 album Who’s
Gonna Fill Their Shoes, including its title track. His
last solo Top 10 country hit came in 1989 with I’m a
One Woman Man.
Later Years
While he remained a darling of country music
critics, George Jones seemed to be pushed off the
radio in the 1990s by a new generation of stars. This
new wave of country artists, including Garth Brooks,
Tim McGraw and Shania Twain, produced a slicker,
pop-influenced sound. Jones may not have been
generating hit singles, but he continued to produce
some strong-selling albums in the ‘90s. In 1995, he
reunited with Wynette for One. Around this time,
Jones gave readers an inside glimpse into all of his
troubles and triumphs with his autobiography, I Lived
to Tell It All, published in 1996.
In 1999, Jones broke into the country album
chart’s Top 10 list with The Cold Hard Truth. That
same year, it appeared that he had relapsed after
getting into a serious car accident while intoxicated.
He later claimed that the incident straightened him
out for good.
More recently, Jones reunited with Merle Haggard
for 2006’s Kickin’ Out the Footlights...Again. He
became the subject of a tribute album, God’s Country:
George Jones and Friends, that same year. Vince
Gill, Tanya Tucker and Pam Tillis were among the
artists covering some of Jones’s biggest hits, and Jones
himself contributed a track to the recording. In 2008,
he put out Burn Your Playhouse Down, a collection of
previously unreleased duets with Dolly Parton, Keith
Richards and Marty Stuart, among others.
In his later years, Jones continued to maintain
a rigorous tour schedule, playing numerous dates
across the country. After winning induction into the
Country Music Hall of Fame in 1992, he received the
National Medal of the Arts in 2002. A decade later,
in 2012, he garnered one of the greatest honors of his
career: a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award. Death and Legacy
George Jones died on April 26, 2013, at the age
of 81, at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in
Nashville, Tenn., after reportedly being hospitalized
with irregular blood pressure and a fever.
With a career spanning more than 50 years,
Jones is regarded as a country music icon, one of the
genre’s all-time greatest stars. His clear, strong voice
and his ability to convey so many emotions won over
thousands of fans, as well as the envy of his peers. As
fellow country star Waylon Jennings once said, “If we
could sound the way we wanted, we’d all sound like
George Jones.” 

George Jones. [Internet]. 2013. The Biography Channel
website. Available from: http://www.biography.com/
people/george-jones-9357182
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The Location: Picture yourself relaxing with a cool beverage, surrounded by views of
the N. Edisto River, live oaks draped with Spanish moss, pinewoods and farm fields,
enjoying great entertainment on the big stage.
The Food: Scrumptious Lowcountry delights await you — award-winning barbeque,
fried shrimp, fish tacos, grass-fed burgers and much more.
So, don’t wait. Tickets are limited, and they are selling fast, so buy yours today! And
don’t forget the net proceeds from your tickets and other purchases will help support
the Edisto Island Preservation Alliance’s, including stewardship of the Edisto Island
National Scenic Byway. And the generosity of our sponsors also supports EIPA’s preservation efforts. Our 2013
Festival Presenting Sponsor, The Huffines Company, is a long-time EIPA supporter.
Other 2013 Edisto Island Bluegrass Festival sponsors include Prudential Kapp/
Lyons - the 2013 Festival Accommodations Sponsor; Atwood Vacations / Real Estate;
Palmetto Brewing; Terry Hoff Construction; Barr, Unger & McIntosh; Indigo Farm;
Evada-Bug; and Spot on Graphix. Special thanks go to Skidmore Creative Services for
the festival website and Facebook pages and to Caroline Matheny Designs for all the
festival graphic arts design.
We hope to see you there!
Marian Brailsford, Chair
Edisto Island Bluegrass Festival
[email protected]
www.edistoislandbluegrass.com
www.facebook.com/TheEdistoIslandBluegrassFestival
Is there any food that better
conveys summer than barbecue?
After all, no cuisine is more
easygoing, begging to be eaten
with a wipe-your-hands-on-yourshorts brio—and nothing tastes
as good when the heat of July
sweeps in. And while we’re all for
cooking in the backyard, a quest
for America’s best barbecue makes
a heck of a good excuse to get
out and explore our country’s little
towns and back-road byways.
Compare those succulent spareribs
from Leon’s in Chicago with the
whole-hog barbecue in North
Carolina’s Skylight Inn, while
planning a trip to Memphis for
barbecue spaghetti (you read that
right). Here are our picks for some
of the best, representing smokepit passions from coast to coast.
It’ll make you glad to be American.
1. Edisto Island, South Carolina
About an hour southwest
of Charleston, Edisto Island
seems barely connected to
the mainland. Lying among a
series of tangled waterways,
it has no traffic lights, and
beachside residents are
required to turn off all outdoor
lamps and to be quiet after
dark so sea turtles can come
ashore and lay their eggs
in peace. The buffet line at
Po’ Pig’s Bo-B-Q (named for
proprietor Robert Bobo Lee) is
also proudly primitive, harking
back to the old Carolina
ritual of a pig pickin’—where
everything is laid out, “from
the beard to the tail” (barbe
à queue). All of the meat is
cut and pulled from slowsmoked hogs, and you’ll find
dark meat, light meat, pork
cracklin’s made from the skin,
even pig innard hash to ladle
over white rice. Decorate the
pork with any of four different
barbecue sauces—including
a uniquely South Carolinian
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
9.
10.
11.
12.
mustard sauce—and side it
with a panoply of true-South
vegetables such as turnip
greens and squash casserole,
plus hush puppies. True to
classic pig pickin’ hours,
Po’ Pig’s is open only on
weekends.
Hitching Post - Casmalia, Calif.
Harold’s - Atlanta, Ga.
McClard’s - Hot Springs, Ark.
Cozy Corner - Memphis, Tenn.
Leon’s - Chicago, Ill.
LC’s Bar-B-Q - Kansas City,
Mo.
Plataforma Churrascaria New York City, N.Y.
Moonlite Bar-B-Q Owensboro, Ky.
Louie Mueller’s - Taylor, Texas
Skylight Inn - Ayden, N.C.
Payne’s - Memphis, Tenn.
JANE & MICHAEL STERN
ROADFOOD AUTHORS /
TRAVELING FOOD CRITICS
Jane and Michael Stern write
the monthly column “Two For The
Road” for Gourmet Magazine,
an ongoing, cross-country guide
dedicated to ferreting out the
best in American food. The Sterns’
relentless quest takes them all over
the country — checking out the
offbeat and often going off the
beaten path to places as varied as
Mom’s Cafe at the crossroads in
Salina, Utah, to the foremost knish
palaces of New York.
The Sterns are the authors of
more than 20 books, including
Roadfood, Eat Your Way Across
the USA, and Chili Nation: The
Ultimate Chili Cookbook with
Recipes from Every State in the
Nation. They also run the web site
www.roadfood.com, featuring
over 1,000 of the greatest local
eateries along highways, in small
towns, and in city neighborhoods.
Witty, clever, and downright
delightful, they and their team of
foodies, travel the highways and
byways to explore the sleeves-up
food made by cooks, bakers,
pitmasters, and sandwich-makers
who are America’s true culinary
folk artists.
Millennials
By Rachel Held Evans, Special to CNN
(CNN) – At 32, I barely qualify as a millennial.
I wrote my first essay with a pen and paper, but
by the time I graduated from college, I owned a
cell phone and used Google as a verb.
I still remember the home phone numbers of my
old high school friends, but don’t ask me to recite my
husband’s without checking my contacts first.
I own mix tapes that include selections from
Nirvana and Pearl Jam, but I’ve never planned a
trip without Travelocity.
Despite having one foot in Generation X, I
tend to identify most strongly with the attitudes
and the ethos of the millennial generation, and
because of this, I’m often asked to speak to my
fellow evangelical leaders about why millennials
are leaving the church.
Armed with the latest surveys, along with
personal testimonies from friends and readers,
I explain how young adults perceive evangelical
Christianity to be too political, too exclusive,
old-fashioned, unconcerned with social
justice and hostile to lesbian, gay, bisexual and
transgender people.
I point to research that shows young
evangelicals often feel they have to choose
between their intellectual integrity and their
faith, between science and Christianity, between
compassion and holiness.
I talk about how the evangelical obsession
with sex can make Christian living seem like
little more than sticking to a list of rules, and
how millennials long for faith communities in
which they are safe asking tough questions and
wrestling with doubt.
August 2013
Invariably, after I’ve finished my presentation
and opened the floor to questions, a pastor raises
his hand and says, “So what you’re saying is we
need hipper worship bands. …”
And I proceed to bang my head against the
podium.
Time and again, the assumption among
Christian leaders, and evangelical leaders in
particular, is that the key to drawing twentysomethings back to church is simply to make a
few style updates — edgier music, more casual
services, a coffee shop in the fellowship hall, a
pastor who wears skinny jeans, an updated Web
site that includes online giving.
But here’s the thing: Having been advertised
to our whole lives, we millennials have highly
sensitive BS meters, and we’re not easily
impressed with consumerism or performances.
In fact, I would argue that church-asperformance is just one more thing driving us away
from the church, and evangelicalism in particular.
Many of us, myself included, are finding
ourselves increasingly drawn to high church
traditions — Catholicism, Eastern Orthodoxy, the
Episcopal Church, etc. — precisely because the
ancient forms of liturgy seem so unpretentious, so
unconcerned with being “cool,” and we find that
refreshingly authentic.
What millennials really want from the church
is not a change in style but a change in substance.
We want an end to the culture wars. We want
a truce between science and faith. We want to
be known for what we stand for, not what we are
against.
We want to ask questions that don’t have
predetermined answers.
We want churches that emphasize an allegiance
to the kingdom of God over an allegiance to a
single political party or a single nation.
We want our LGBT friends to feel truly
welcome in our faith communities.
We want to be challenged to live lives of
holiness, not only when it comes to sex, but also
when it comes to living simply, caring for the poor
and oppressed, pursuing reconciliation, engaging
in creation care and becoming peacemakers.
You can’t hand us a latte and then go about
business as usual and expect us to stick around.
We’re not leaving the church because we don’t
find the cool factor there; we’re leaving the church
because we don’t find Jesus there.
Like every generation before ours and every
generation after, deep down, we long for Jesus.
Now these trends are obviously true not only
for millennials but also for many folks from other
generations. Whenever I write about this topic, I
hear from forty-somethings and grandmothers,
Generation Xers and retirees, who send me
messages in all caps that read “ME TOO!” So I
don’t want to portray the divide as wider than it is.
But I would encourage church leaders eager
to win millennials back to sit down and really
talk with them about what they’re looking for
and what they would like to contribute to a faith
community.
Their answers might surprise you. 
Rachel Held Evans is the author of “Evolving
in Monkey Town” and “A Year of Biblical
Womanhood.” She blogs at rachelheldevans.com.
The views expressed in this column belong to
Rachel Held Evans.
The Churches of Edisto
8060 Botany Bay Road
869-3715
Sunday School 9 a.m.
Prayer Meeting 6:30 p.m.
Church Service 10 a.m.
Bible Study 7 p.m.
Rev. Arnold Good
Bethlehem RMUE Church
8017 Point of Pines Road
577-5521
Sunday School 9:30 a.m.
Worship Service 10:30 a.m.
Rev. Wesley A. Moore Sr.
Calvary AME Church
8318 Pine Landing Road
869-3672
Worship Service 11 a.m.
Rev. John Alston Jr.
414 Jungle Road
869-2662
Rev. Rob Heath
Allen AME Church
Edisto Beach Baptist Church
3319 Palmetto Road
869-3456
Adult Bible Study 8:45 a.m.
Rev. Scott Efird
Edisto Presbyterian Church USA
Edisto Island United Methodist Church
1890 Hwy. 174
869-2300
Rev. McKinley Washington Jr.
Episcopal Church on Edisto
1644 Hwy. 174
Greater Bethel AME Church
Greater Galilee Church
Mount Olive Baptist Church
945 Hwy. 174
869-1961
Rev. Alice Salters
Steamboat Landing Road
869-1138
Rev. Harrison Jenkins
Pine Landing Road
869-0990
Rev. Marion Gadsden
New First Missionary Baptist Church
1644 Hwy. 174
869-2432
Worship Service 9:45 a.m.
Rev. Albert (Chick) Morrison
Presbyterian Church on Edisto Island
2164 Hwy. 174
869-2326
Dr. Ted Dennis
St. Frederick and St. Stephen Catholic Church
544 Hwy. 174
869-0124
Saturday Mass 5 p.m.
Sunday Mass 11:45 a.m.
Rev. Antony Benjamine
1589 Hwy. 174
869-3568
Traditional w/organ 8 a.m.
Casual w/band 9 a.m.
Choir w/organ 11 a.m.
Rev. Weyman (Wey) Camp
Hwy. 174
753-2273
Rev. Moses Rollerson
Trinity Episcopal Church
Zion Reformed Episcopal Church
The Edisto News
August 2013
Page 23
Mosquito Spray Alert:
County to Spray Standing Water by Air Beginning Aug. 6
Charleston County Government’s
Mosquito Control Division will be
conducting spray operations by air
over the next several days to target
areas of standing water for mosquito
larvae. The public can expect to see
a low-flying helicopter and airplane
beginning Tuesday, Aug. 6 between
6 a.m. and 9 p.m.
Citizens should expect to see
aircraft treating for mosquito
larvae in standing water any
time there has been a significant
rain event or high tide from now
through November.
Charleston County treats
mosquito larvae in standing water,
which becomes breeding grounds,
from the air. Adult mosquitoes are
treated by ground spraying. Ground
spraying throughout the county
is ongoing this time of year. The
schedule for spraying on the ground
is available online at http://www.
charlestoncounty.org/departments/
PublicWorks/MosquitoProgram.
htm#schedules.
The public can help “fight the
bite” by eliminating mosquito egglaying sites around their homes in
order to help reduce the number of
mosquitoes in their neighborhoods.
The young mosquitoes, or larvae,
cannot live and become adult
mosquitoes without water. So the
key is to get rid of the containers
that hold water around homes,
yards, schools and businesses. The
public must help by flushing water
out of birdbaths and pet dishes with
a garden hose. Keep anything that
has potential to hold water, such
as toys, buckets, cans and bottles,
turned over and emptied.
“The first thing we need to know
is where mosquitoes breed and
how they live their life cycles,” said
Donna Odom, Charleston County
Mosquito Control Superintendent.
“Mosquitoes carry diseases
including West Nile Virus, Dengue
Fever, Malaria, Eastern Equine
Encephalitis and Heartworms. The
public has to be an integral part of
our fight against mosquito-borne
diseases. A great deal of requests
we respond to, we find that people
are actually breeding mosquitoes in
their own yard.”
Working together, Charleston
County Mosquito Control and the
citizens of Charleston County can
reduce the mosquito population so
that residents can continue to enjoy
outside activities and minimize the
occurrence of mosquito-carried
disease.
Bee Keepers, Organic Farmers,
and citizens with chemical
sensitivities, should contact
Charleston County Mosquito
Control at (843) 202-7880 to
be added to the County’s spray
notification list. Citizens are
reminded to vaccinate their horses
to protect them from mosquito
borne diseases, and provide
preventative heartworm treatment
for their pets.
Ways The Public Can Help Reduce
Mosquitoes:
• Every three days, flush birdbaths,
potted plant saucers and other
containers that hold water
• Keep yard clean and cut
• Remove items from yard that hold
water and are not needed outside
• Keep lawn and gardening
equipment indoors
• Fix leaky faucets
• Keep gutters clean
• Fill in tree holes with sand or
concrete
• Change pet water dishes regularly
• Chlorinate pools and clean the
pool and filters
• Add fish to ponds
Mosquito Facts:
• A mosquito’s life revolves around
water; a female mosquito lays her
eggs in water or in areas expected
to flood.
• Once they hatch, a larvae
mosquito must remain in water
until it emerges as an adult
approximately one to two weeks
later.
• Mosquitoes can become infected
with the West Nile Virus when
they feed on infected birds.
• Mosquitoes can transmit
heartworm disease from an
infected dog or cat to a healthy
dog or cat.
To Request Service Or Information
• To request service or to get
information on Charleston
County Mosquito Control
activities, call (843) 202-7880.
• Bee Keepers, Organic Farmers,
and citizens with chemical
sensitivities, should contact
Charleston County Mosquito
Control at (843) 202-7880 to
be added to the County’s spray
notification list.
• For information on educational
programs and presentations
available from Charleston County
Mosquito Control, call (843) 2027886.
• To see more information online,
visit the County’s Mosquito
Control Web page at http://
www.charlestoncounty.org/
Departments/PublicWorks/
MosquitoProgram.htm. 
August 2013
Tales From a Frequent
Visitor to Edisto
By Rachel Korpan Lee
So I’m sitting here, in my
parents’ yard, the tide up in the
creek, and the sun not yet high
in the sky. It’s still cool enough
to play outside in the dirt patch,
which is apparently good times,
if you’re a little boy. My older son
has found his grandfather’s pickax,
learned proper techniques and
safety measures, and is currently
digging a tremendous hole in the
ground. As a responsible parent,
I’m supervising from over here
in this lawn chair with this glass
of sweet tea. My toddler, who is
sitting in the dirt buck naked
(the potty-training isn’t going
as planned), keeps trying to eat
the dirt, in between screaming
at bugs. I can’t decide if this is
an improvement on his earlier
activity of proudly bringing
me handfuls of dirt, babbling
incoherently like it’s the most
important gift in the world, and
then throwing it at me.
Anyhow, I’m sitting here
marveling at these experiences
they don’t get to have back home,
and thinking about what a great
place Edisto is for my kids. Then
I realize that it’s not just MY kids,
but ALL kids, who have a blast
down here. Granted, they may not
have the exact same experiences
as mine—boat rides, swimming
in the creek, digging in the dirt—
but it’s a magical experience
nonetheless. Just driving down
Palmetto Boulevard in the
summer months reveals scads
of brightly bedecked children,
smeared in sun-tan lotion,
carrying any number of boogieboards, sandpails, shovels, and
kites, escorted by over-burdened
parents and grandparents. And
with few exceptions, those kids are
all smiling (at least, the ones on
the WAY to the beach).
Whether at the beach for a week,
or a day trip, or a visit with Nana,
or all of the above, these kids are
having a blast, forming memories
that will last a lifetime. I should
know; many years ago my family
started vacationing here on Edisto,
in the State Park cabins. I fondly
remember crabbing off the pier at
Scott Creek, playing on the cabin’s
screened porches, and buying
ice cream sandwiches from the
State Park Pavilion. Those happy
memories my family created were
what prompted my parents to retire
here, allowing their grandchildren
to experience Edisto.
And for those of you visiting
Edisto: Welcome! Welcome to
the place where memories are
made. If you’re here with extended
family (or have ever taken a
beach trip with family), I would
heartily recommend Kate Salley
Palmer’s The Pink House. This is
a delightfully heartfelt children’s
book about a stay at an Edisto Beach
house, and the fun things that kids
can do with “all of the aunts, all of
the uncles, all of the cousins, and
even Grandma”. Anyone who has
ever visited the beach with children
will be enthralled… and if you’re
able, mosey on down to Point Street,
where you’ll be able to see the actual
Pink House. It was the highlight of
this visit for my boys.
So this summer, as you’re driving
around Edisto, watch the faces of
the kids you see. They’re creating
cherished childhood memories,
to be examined and exclaimed
over in the years to come. Playing
in the sun, sand, and surf down
at the Sound. Biking down a
Spanish-moss-hung road at twilight,
listening to the crickets and
startling the deer. Waving flags at
a small-town Fourth of July parade.
Petting a sea urchin at the State Park
Interpretive Center. Edisto Island
will play an important role in the
summertime memories of those
children.
And if they’re very, very lucky,
they’ll grow up and have the chance
to bring THEIR kids back here, too.
Just like I did. 
The Edisto News
August 2013
Page 25
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Which way to happy?
Which way to happy?
Geographically speaking, it’s the
route to Hawaii, Maine or one of
the clusters of blissful cities in
California and Colorado.
The map above is based on
results from a study of geotagged
tweets published earlier this year
in PLoS ONE by researchers at
the University of Vermont. The
team scored more than 10,000
words on a positive-negative
scale and measured their
frequency in millions of tweets
across the country, deliberately
ignoring context to eliminate
experimental bias. What emerged
was significant regional variation
in happiness by this calculation,
which correlates with other
lifestyle measures such as gun
violence, obesity and Gallup’s
traditional wellbeing survey. A
sadness belt across the South
includes states that have high
levels of poverty and the shortest
life expectancies.
Geography is, of course, just
EDISTO
DAY AND NIGHT
one predictor of moods expressed
on Twitter. The researchers also
used their “hedometer” to look at
daily happiness averages over the
past few years — and the peaks
(holidays, especially Christmas)
and valleys (tragedies including
the Newtown shooting and Boston
Marathon bombing) are not
surprising.
Until there’s a hedometer
that can analyze tweets in every
language, we have to look at other
wellbeing measures to see how
happy the U.S. is compared to
other countries. According to
the Organisation for Economic
Co-operation and Development’s
Better Life Index, Switzerland
scores highest on life satisfaction
with the U.S. coming in behind
New Zealand, Australia, Mexico,
Canada, Israel and some Western
European countries. And a recent
Ipsos poll spells global good news:
more people describe themselves
as “happy” now than before the
financial crisis of 2008 began. 
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Garbage/Trash Schedule
The Town uses a contractor for residential curbside garbage collection.
Residents can call Suburban Disposal at (843) 873-4810. If problems
are not resolved, contact the administrative assistant.
Winter Collection (Last full week in October through last full week in
March)
Household Garbage Mondays
Yard Debris/Bulk Trash Tuesdays
Summer Collection (remainder of year)
Household GarbageMonday–Friday
Yard Debris/Bulk Trash Tuesdays
Convenience Station Hours:
Tuesday
8:30 a.m.–1 :30 p.m.
Thursday 1:30 p.m.–6:00 p.m.
Saturday 8:30 a.m.–5:30 p.m.
Recycling
Recyclables can be brought to the convenience station during
operating hours. Glass, plastic, paper, cardboard and aluminum cans
can be brought 24 hours a day to the recycling center at the Town of
Edisto Beach convenience station. Please do not mix garbage with
these recyclables as it contaminates the entire load and must be land
filled.
E-Waste is banned from the convenience station and in waste
receptacles. South Carolina Legislation changed and all e-waste is
banned from South Carolina Landfills.
If you’re a gardener, you’ve
probably found each season that
you have an excess of produce
that your family can’t possibly eat
before it goes bad. Or maybe you
are a local-vore that wants to make
the most out of your Farmer’s
Market. Either way home canning
your harvest will allow you to
cut down on waste and provide a
steady store of healthy food during
the off-seasons.
Sound good? Stop by your local
True Value hardware store for the
canning supplies and expert advice
you need to start canning right!
What is canning? Canning is
really one step beyond cooking. It is
a method that applies heat to food
in a closed glass home canning jar
to stop the natural spoilage that
would otherwise take place, and
removes air from the jar to create a
seal. There are two home canning
methods — Waterbath Canning and
Pressure Canning. The type of food
you want to preserve will determine
which method you will use for safe
and great tasting results. Waterbath
Canning is the best place to start for
beginners and it’s as easy as boiling
water!
Most fruits and vegetables are
fairly easy to can, but some produce
may require a different method
of canning. For tips on how to
can fruit and veggies, and to best
preserve what’s in your garden,
check out Ball’s Fresh Preserving
website at www.freshpreserving.
com. The site features detailed
steps on preserving almost any
kind of food along with some great
recipes and guides. The steps below
outline the basic steps for waterbath
canning.
Waterbath Canning
Supplies:
• Waterbath canner or large stock
pot with a canning rack in bottom
• Canning utensils such as funnel, jar
lifter, lid lifter, and headspace tool
• Several canning jars, lids, and bands
• Produce prepared according to
canning recipe
Step 1: Wash jars, lids, and bands
in hot soapy water. They will
need to be kept clean and warm
until you are ready to use them
(to minimize the risk of breakage
when filling with hot food) so
you can heat them in a pot of
simmering water or run them
through the dishwasher just before
use.
Step 2: Fill jars with HOT food
prepared according to canning
recipe. Leave the appropriate
headspace at the top of the jar
according to canning recipe.
Remove any air bubbles and wipe
any food off of the rim of the jar.
Position lids and screw band on
until “finger-tip tight”. Do not over
tighten lids - air must be able to
escape when jars are being canned!
Step 3: Place filled jars into canning
rack and lower into simmering
water ensuring that at least one
inch of water covers jars. Cover
with lid and heat to a steady boil.
Boil jars for time specified in recipe
(adjusting for altitude as needed).
Turn off heat and let jars stand in
water for five minutes. Remove jars
and allow them to cool on counter
for 12 hours. Once cooled, test lids
for seal (lid should NOT flex up and
down) and tighten bands. Store in
pantry for up to one year.
That’s it! Enjoy your garden’s
harvest all year round. For the rest
of your lawn and garden projects,
head to your local True Value
hardware store to get the tools,
products and expert advice you need
to start right. 
The Edisto News
August 2013
Page 27
Charleston County Park & Recreation Commission 2014 Special Event Calendar*
Public Contact: (843) 795-4386 / www.ccprc.com
• February 8 • Save the Light Half
Marathon Folly Beach Fishing Pier
• February 22 & 23 • SC Dressage and
Combined Training Show Mullet
Hall Equestrian Center
• February 28 • African American
Heritage Day North Charleston
Wannamaker County Park
• March 1 • Mullet Haul 5 and 10-mile
Run Mullet Hall Equestrian Center
• March 6 • Murder Mystery (Special
Needs Social Event) James Island
County Park
• March TBD • Palmetto Pump &
USA Climbing Competition James
Island County Park
• March 15 & 16 • Ashley Hall Horse
Show Mullet Hall Equestrian
Center
• March 16 • Customer Appreciation
Day Charleston County Parks
• March 22-23 • Pet Fest 2014 Mount
Pleasant Palmetto Islands County
Park
• April 6 • Lowcountry Cajun Festival James Island County Park
• April 11-13 • East Coast
Paddlesports & Outdoor Festival James Island County Park • April 12 • Tidelands Combined
Training Horse Show Mullet Hall
Equestrian Center
• April 14-18 • Spring Break Camps James Island County Park • April 26 • Shaggin’ on the Cooper Mount Pleasant Pier • April 26 • Where the Wild Things
Run 5K Caw Caw Interpretive
Center
• April 27 • Town of Mount Pleasant
Blessing of the Fleet Mount Pleasant
Pier
• May 3 • Charleston County
Waterparks Open Weekends Only Whirlin’ Waters, Splash Zone, Splash
Island
• May 3 • Kahuna on the Cooper
Fishing Tournament Mount
Pleasant Pier • May 14 • Dance Under the Stars
(Special Needs Social Event) Mount
Pleasant Pier • May 15 • Yappy Hour James Island
County Park
• May 15 • Bic Stand Up Paddleboard
One Design Challenge James Island
County Park
• May 17 • Shaggin’ on the Cooper
Mount Pleasant Pier
• May 17 • Summer Pier Kickoff
Tournament Folly Beach Fishing
Pier • May 18 • Charleston Sprint
Triathlon Series James Island
County Park
• May 22 • Run to Remember 5K Mount Pleasant Pier
• May 22 • Pups, Yups and Food
Trucks Mount Pleasant Palmetto
Islands County Park
• May TBD • Charleston County
Waterparks Open Daily Whirlin’
Waters, Splash Zone, Splash Island
• May 30 • Moonlight Mixer Folly
Beach Fishing Pier
• June-August • 2014 Summer Camps Charleston County Parks • June 7 • Pier Tournament - Cooper
River Challenge Mount Pleasant
Pier • June 7 • Summer Concert Series
“Reggae Nights” James Island
County Park • June 8 • Scouts Day at Whirlin’
Waters North Charleston
Wannamaker County Park
• June 14 • Pier Tournament Folly
Beach Fishing Pier • June 15 • Charleston Sprint
County Park
• June 19 • Yappy Hour James Island
County Park
• June 19 • Bic Stand Up Paddleboard
One Design Challenge James Island
County Park
• June 21 • Shaggin’ on the Cooper Mount Pleasant Pier
• June 26 • Pups, Yups and Food
Islands County Park
• June 27 • Moonlight Mixer Folly
Beach Fishing Pier
• June 28 • Summer Concert Series
County Park • July 4 • Uncle Sam Jam Mount
Pleasant Pier
• July 6 • Charleston Sprint Triathlon
Series James Island County Park
• July 9-19 • Bob Bell Charleston
Summer Classic Horse Show Mullet
Hall Equestrian Center
• July 12 • Summer Concert Series
County Park • July 12 • Pier Tournament Folly
Beach Fishing Pier • July 17 • Yappy Hour James Island
County Park
• July 19 • Shaggin’ on the Cooper Mount Pleasant Pier
• July 24 • Pups, Yups and Food
Islands County Park
• July 25 • Moonlight Mixer Folly
Beach Fishing Pier
• July 27 • Charleston Sprint Triathlon
Series James Island County Park
• August 2 • Summer Concert Series
County Park • August 8 • Moonlight Mixer Folly
Beach Fishing Pier
• August TBA • Skin Screenings at
Splash Zone James Island County
Park • August 10 • Charleston Sprint
County Park
• August 14 • Yappy Hour James
Island County Park
• August 14 • Bic Stand Up
Paddleboard One Design Challenge
James Island County Park
• August 16 • Shaggin’ on the Cooper Mount Pleasant Pier
• August 21 • Pups, Yups and Food
Islands County Park
• August 29 • Moonlight Mixer Folly
Beach Fishing Pier
• August 30 • Big Kahuna Fishing
Tournament Folly Beach Fishing
Pier • September 6 • Pier Tournament Cooper River Challenge Mount
Pleasant Pier • September 7 • Dog Day Afternoon Whirlin’ Waters Adventure
Waterpark
• September 13 • Shaggin’ on the
Cooper Mount Pleasant Pier
• September 18 • Yappy Hour James
Island County Park
• September 18 • Bic Stand Up
• September 19 • Moonlight Mixer
Folly Beach Fishing Pier
• September 21 • Carolina Green Fair James Island County Park • September 25 • Pups, Yups and Food
Islands County Park
• September 27 • Pier Tournament Folly Beach Fishing Pier • October 4 • Pier Tournament Cooper River Challenge Mount
Pleasant Pier • October 4 • Tidelands Combined
Training Show Mullet Hall
Equestrian Center
• October 5 • Latin American Festival North Charleston Wannamaker
County Park • October 11 • Lowcountry Trail Half
Marathon Mullet Hall Equestrian
Center
• October 16 • Yappy Hour James
Island County Park
• October 16 • Bic Stand Up
• October 23 • Pups, Yups and Food
Islands County Park
• October 24-26 • Carriage
Association of America Drive
Weekend Mullet Hall Equestrian
Center
• October 25 • rUNdead Charleston
Zombie Run Wannamaker County
Park
• November 1 • Harvest Festival Mullet Hall Equestrian Center • November 8 & 9 • SC Dressage and
Combined Training Horse Show
Mullet Hall Equestrian Center
• November 12 & 13 • Holiday Festival
of Lights Fun Run & Walk James
Island County Park • November 14 • Annual Holiday
Festival of Lights Opening
Ceremonies James Island County
Park
• November 14, 2014 – January 1, 2015
• Holiday Festival of Lights James
Island County Park
• December 6 • Tidelands Combined
Training Show Mullet Hall
Equestrian Center
• December 10 & 11 • Holiday
Hoedown (Special Needs Social
Event) Wannamaker County Park
• December • Winter Break Camps
James Island County Park and
Palmetto Islands County Park
• December 31 • Holiday Festival of
Lights Winter Carnival & Fireworks James Island County Park
*As of July 18, 2013. All dates are
tentative and subject to change 
So what does Edisto do at its parks?
August 2013
Watchdog group ranks Nikki Haley high on worst governors list
A new list of the worst governors
in America has South Carolina’s
Nikki Haley as tenth worst, but her
office is quick to point out that the
list was put out by a liberal-leaning
group with a history of attacking
Republicans.
The list was compiled
and released by Citizens for
Responsibility and Ethics in
Washington, or CREW. It says
Georgia Gov. Nathan Deal is the
worst governor in America. North
Carolina’s Pat McCrory is twelfth
worst. Both are Republicans.
In fact, 16 of the 18 governors
on the list are Republicans, with
Kentucky’s Gov. Steven Beshear
and New York’s Andrew Cuomo
the only Democrats. Beshear ranks
seventh worst, Cuomo fourteenth.
Gov. Haley is listed as a “clown”, a
designation given to the governors
in the second group of six. The six
worst are called “ringmasters”, while
the third six are called “sideshows.”
According to the report, “Her
inclusion stems from:
1. an investigation into her
private-sector work while a
member of the state legislature;
2. pay-to-play appointments;
3. accepting free trips on the
private planes of donors,
appointees, and people with
business before the state;
4. flouting of transparency
standards;
5. misuse of federal funds; and
6. advocating for new voter
identification restrictions.”
The investigation into her
private-sector work is about
the House Ethics Committee’s
investigation into her income
reporting and other possible
ethics violations while she was
a member of the state House of
Representatives.
It is true that she was
investigated, but, as even the
report explains, the House Ethics
Committee cleared the governor.
The accusation of cronyism
includes the fact that 26 of the
59 people that she appointed to
state boards or commissions were
donors to her campaign, and
that she appointed a campaign
contributor to the USC Board of
Trustees to replace Darla Moore.
She also replaced six of the seven
members of the Department
of Health and Environmental
Control board. Four of the six were
campaign contributors. It’s also
true that she took free flights on
private planes provided by donors
and appointees.
The governor had listed the
values of those flights as the cost
of comparable commercial flights.
But in response, in November
2011, the State Ethics Commission
unanimously agreed to change the
way politicians value the cost of
a private flight. Now, politicians
must use the actual cost to operate
that private plane multiplied by
the hours of flight time. The report
also criticizes the governor for
not releasing emails between her
and her staff. In March 2012, she
worked with the state Department
of Archives and History and agreed
to start preserving emails with
historic value.
The report notes, though, that
press and watchdog groups worry
that the new policy still gives
the governor’s office too much
discretion about which records
to keep and which to keep and
which to destroy. Finally, the
report says Gov. Haley is guilty of
partisan politics for taking federal
money to study whether the state
should set up its own health
care exchange, then pressuring
members of the study panel to
reach the conclusion that the state
would not do it. But a federal
investigation found no misuse of
funds. Haley was also criticized
in the report for supporting the
state’s new Voter ID law.
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From www.citizensforethics.org
Nikki Haley – South Carolina
Gov. Haley has been toeing the ethical line since her days in the state
legislature, and brought the same pay-to-play politics to the governor’s
mansion.
For much of her term, Gov. Haley faced an ethics investigation and
lawsuit focused on her outside employment while serving as a state
representative. The complaint alleged the governor illegally lobbied
on behalf of her former employer. Gov. Haley also earned $40,000 in
consulting fees while serving in the legislature, which she did not disclose
until her campaign for governor. The state House Ethics Committee
ultimately cleared Gov. Haley of all charges.
According to a 2011 report, 26 of the 59 people Gov. Haley appointed to
state boards and commissions were donors to her campaign, contributing
$74,000 in total. Between November 2010 and October 2011, Gov. Haley
regularly accepted trips on private planes belonging to people with
potential business before the state, including an executive whose company
received $4.5 million in state funds.
Elected in 2010; eligible for re-election in 2014
• Investigated by the House Ethics Committee for allegations of illegal
lobbying while serving in the state legislature
• Appointed donors to state boards and commissions; accepted private
plane trips from people with business before the state. 
See the full report at http://www.citizensforethics.org/worst-governors-inamerica/entry/nikki-haley-south-carolina
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Digging into who CREW is
reveals that it was co-founded
by Norman Eisen, a law school
classmate of President Barack
Obama’s who worked on his
presidential campaign and later
in his administration. The current
executive director of CREW, cofounder Melanie Sloan, previously
worked for Democrats John
Conyers, Charles Schumer and Joe
Biden. That background on the
authors of the “Worst Governors”
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report led Gov. Haley’s spokesman,
Rob Godfrey, to say, “These are
recycled old charges, many of which
have been dismissed.
Nikki Haley led the successful
fight for on-the-record voting, so
laws are no longer made in secret in
our state, and she is leading the fight
for the toughest ethics reforms in
state history. Senate Democrats are
doing everything they can to block
those ethics reforms, but Governor
Haley will prevail for the good of
our state.” 
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August 2013
Photo ticketing of motorists
creates extreme costs and
nasty legal battles
In a Jan. 22 letter sent to both
the city of East Cleveland, Ohio,
and the company that operates East
Cleveland’s photo-enforcement
program, Postal Service attorney
Jennifer S. Breslin said the Post
Office should ignore two schoolzone speeding citations and five redlight infractions that postal trucks
received in December.
“In providing mail service across
the country, the Postal Service
attempts to work within local and
state laws and regulations, when
feasible,” wrote Breslin. “However,
as you are probably aware, the Postal
Service enjoys federal immunity
from state and local regulation.” She
continued: “The state and/or local
ordinances imposing penalties and
fines cannot be enforced as against
the Postal Service, and there is no
statutory basis for doing so.”
Red-Light Cameras Bankrupt City
Like many cities around the
country, San Bernardino, Calif.,
tried to make money via red-light
cameras. But it didn’t turn out so
well for this town.
In 2008, San Bernardino was
caught cheating: To write more
tickets, the city was using yellow
lights that were timed too short
for California law. When the city
restored the proper yellow-light
durations, the revenue from redlight violations sank—so much so
that San Bernardino was losing
money to ATS, the company it hired
to operate the camera system. In
2011, the city council voted to end
the contract before its 2014 term and
pay ATS what it thought would be a
$110,000 exit fee, but ATS claimed
it was owed $1.9 million. In March
2012, the city added three more
red-light cameras to try to make
enough money to pay back ATS,
even though by that time a San
Bernardino county court had ruled
that photo tickets were inadmissible
hearsay. In August 2012 the city
filed for bankruptcy, allowing it to
finally end its contract with ATS.
Facing Your Digital Accuser
When Tacoma, Wash., motorist
Kevin Schmadeka received a ticket
accusing him of running a red
light, courtesy of the Australian
company Redflex that installed
the system, he wanted to face his
accuser and challenge the ticket.
Just one problem: He was told he’d
have to pay $670 in travel expenses
to bring in a Redflex employee
from out of state. “When I was at
the clerk’s office inquiring about
chain-of-custody information, the
employee at the counter mentioned
that if I wanted to subpoena a
camera company representative
that there was a fee,” Schmadeka
told TheNewspaper.com. The judge
singled out the Sixth Amendment
right to face one’s accuser and
dismissed the charges against
Schmadeka.
When Driving and Parking Are the
Same Thing
Like a lot of states, Missouri
puts points on a person’s driver’s
license if that person is convicted
of a moving violation. But this rule
created a problem for Kansas City,
which wanted to rake in the bucks
by handing out red-light camera
tickets: It would have to prove who
was driving the car, which is a lot
harder than photographing a license
plate and fining the owner.
So the city turned to some
clever legal chicanery. According
to a recent change in the city code,
running a red light in Kansas City
is now treated as if the owner of
the vehicle parked illegally in the
middle of an intersection. “The
violation is not driving into the
intersection but owning a vehicle
that is found in the intersection
while the light is emitting a steady
red light,” a city memo said. The fact
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that this is a parking violation, not
a moving violation, means that K.C.
doesn’t have to bother with figuring
out who was driving.
A speed camera in Baltimore
cited Daniel Doty with a $40 fine
for driving 38 mph in a 25 mph
zone, though two photos issued with
the citation showed Doty’s car was
stopped and the brake lights were
on, and a video clip showed the car
was stationary, according to the
Baltimore Sun. The city has 83 speed
cameras and 81 red-light cameras,
and offered the Sun no explanation
of how the errors occurred.
Edmonton Cancels 141,729 Photo
Tickets
The province of Alberta, Canada
refunded more than $12 million for
141,729 photo tickets issued in 2009
and 2010 from 47 red-light camera
intersections in Edmonton because
it was unable to verify the accuracy
of the camera’s readings. Officials
at Edmonton Police Service said
there were at least 26 false readings
from the automated ticketing
machines—a fault discovered
when one ticket showed all cars
on a particular road in town were
traveling at 89 mph.
Pay Up or the Gas Line Gets It
To force drivers to pay tickets
from automated red-light and
speed cameras, Las Cruces, N.M.,
threatened in April 2012 to turn off
gas, water, sewer, and trash services
for those who don’t pay the $100
fines, which the city said total about
$2 million. Reconnection fees of $48
will be added to the prices of the
tickets.
Favoritism
Prescott Valley, Ariz., received
a complaint that the police officers
in charge of reviewing and issuing
tickets from photo-ticketing
machines had been dismissing
tickets issued to other officers’
family members. An auditor from
the photo-ticketing machine
company was asked to get copies
of violations by family members
of officers and found that photo
evidence was “being ‘rejected’ at the
first review or later in the process
within the police department,
The Edisto News
on incidents involving vehicles
registered to police employees. Both
the traffic lieutenant and sergeant
confirmed to the chief that they
customarily electronically “rejected”
incidents in SmartOps when they
involved a vehicle registered to a
Prescott Valley police officer in
which the police officer was not
driving.
Officers interviewed by auditor
John Wintersteen explained that
dismissing the tickets was okay
because they never would have
paid the tickets anyway: They said
they had a right to not reveal that
it was their family members, not
the officers themselves, who were
driving their cars at the time of the
violation, which is the right of every
registered vehicle owner in Arizona,
according to Wintersteen.
Why One City Ditched Its Cameras
The city council of Hayward,
Calif., recently decided to abandon
automated red-light ticketing. Why?
In part, the tickets weren’t effective:
Over four years, the ticket vendor
for Hayward sent out 14,536 tickets
worth more than $7 million, but
most of the tickets went to motorists
who were making right-hand turns
on red and judges threw out most of
these tickets.
But more important: “Rear-end
accidents increase significantly
because people come to a screeching
halt,” Hayward Police Chief Diane
Urban said to TheNewspaper.com.
“There’s no proven correlation
between red-light camera systems
and consistently decreasing
crashes.” Rear-end collisions
increased in most intersections
with red-light cameras, although
alternatives to cameras—such as
increasing the duration of yellow
lights by 0.2 to 0.3 seconds on some
intersections—have reduced both
crashes as well as the number of
automated tickets. 
Golf cart operators must have
a valid driver’s license.
No golf carts on
Palmetto Boulevard.
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