Edisto News December 2015

Transcription

In this issue…
• Water back in the news
• New Town Council meets for first time
• Christmas Parade December 12
…and lots more
December 2015
FREE
The Newspaper of Edisto Island and Edisto Beach, South Carolina
from the
FREE
Vol. 10 No.12
EdistoNews
Water, water, everywhere…
Edisto Beach’s New
Town Council Meets
The Town of Edisto Beach installed it’s
two new town council members and the new
council met for the first time on Nov. 12, 2015.
Jane Darby was sworn in as mayor for
another four years by Judge Weeks, while
Jerome Kizer and Crawford Moore took the
oath of office and assumed their duties on
council for their four-year terms. Newcomers
Kizer and Moore had already been briefed on
the agenda, so work commenced immediately
on town business.
First, Council thanked Billy Callahan for
rescuing a port-a-let during the storm. The
COUNCIL (continued on page 6)
Christmas Parade
The Edisto Beach Water and Sewer Committee
members have been meeting to review new
proposals for replacing the water lines, water
pumps and installing a reverse osmosis system
for the Town. Members of the committee are
Bob Sandifer, Charlie Kerekes, Bob Renner,
David Whitten and Jody Kleckley. At the Nov.
20 meeting, only three of the members attended
barely making a quorum which would allow the
meeting to proceed. The meeting was set as a first
look of a new proposal submitted by Thomas and
Hutton and other engineering firms that would
ultimately bring the Town’s water into compliance
with DHEC and EPA standards for Fluoride and
Sodium content. The Town is regularly out of
compliance with their standards.
The proposals, of which there were eight,
ranged in cost from an updated cost of $9,600,000
for the original proposed system that was defeated
in a referendum, to $6,592,000 for a system using
some of the existing equipment that the Town
already has. Of all of the models that were shown,
two offered the best performance-to-cost ratio.
One concern is the present wells and their
ability to produce enough water to feed the RO
plant. The #3 well at the Lions Club is a small well
(90 gallons per minute) that presently needs be
upgraded. There is also the possibility that less
water would be used if the homes on Edisto Beach
WATER (continued on page 2)
The Edisto Beach Christmas Parade will be on
Saturday, Dec. 12 from 2 p.m. until 3:30 p.m., or
until the last float passes. Please park on the side
streets, but stay off of the lawns and be mindful of
blocking access to people’s driveways.
PARADE (continued on page 8)
Page 2
The Edisto News
December 2015
Au Contraire Event and Design specializes in Event
Coordination for weddings, festivals and fundraisers,
as well as handmade party and event items.
Amanda Kelsey
843-478-0156
Specializing in the areas listed below and more:
Day of & Full-Service Wedding Coordination
Fundraisers & Festivals
Birthday Parties
Celebratory Showers
Handmade party favors, chalkboards, jewelry and more!
[email protected]
WATER (continued from page 1)
were to abandon their whole house RO
systems. However if there were good water,
the townspeople may use more. It is quite a
conundrum for the heavy thinkers to ponder.
The proposals
Proposal 4C would require a new well at
Town Hall and take water from existing wells at
the south end of the beach and process it at an
RO plant to be built on the two vacant lots the
Town presently owns across from Town Hall.
This would require a new water line from well #6
(495 gallons per minute), well #1 (250 gallons per
minute), well #2 (135 gallons per minute), and
well #3, the Lions Club well, to Town Hall. The
raw water would be processed and the wastewater
would be pumped out into the ocean underneath
Palmetto Blvd. The new RO plant would process
more water than needed on normal days and
would store the overage a holding tank under the
RO plant and in the 100,000-gallon water tower
at Town Hall and in the 200,000-gallon tank out
on Palmetto Road. The water tank and pumps on
Palmetto Road would need to be updated and the
installation of booster pumps would be required
that could pump water into the tank and then
reverse direction and pump the water back out
when it was needed. The present wells at that site
would be mothballed so that in the event of an
emergency, they could be used again. This system
would help during the holidays when the beach is
crowded and water use is the highest.
Proposal 5B is the same except it would use
an underground storage and recovery system at
the State Park where the processed water would
be pumped underground and stored in a well,
and then pumped out when needed. This would
replace the holding tank under the RO plant and
offer more water holding capacity. The cost of
the holding tank is approximately $210,000, the
cost of the Aquifer Storage and Recovery System
(ARS) would cost $755,000. This technique is
comparatively costlier and requires a specialized
technique; also, test wells would have to be drilled
to insure that it would hold the water consistently
and it not become contaminated with the existing
groundwater.
In the end, the Water and Sewer Committee
is sending a proposal to Town Council with
item 5B that has new wells and upgrades and
includes the underground storage well. They
also added the treated water storage that would
go underneath the RO plant. The total for all of
this is $7,000,000. As for incrementally doing
the upgrade, the committee seemed to think
the only part that could be delayed would be the
underground storage well at the State Park. With
no money to pay for the system, the town would
have to issue bonds or get a loan for the
WATER (continued on page 7)
The Edisto News
December 2015
Page 3
Obituaries
Services for Mrs. Nancie
Johnson Green were held
on Friday, Nov. 20, 2015. The
funeral service was held at 10
a.m. at the Edisto Island United
Methodist Church, 8193 Palmetto
Rd., Edisto Island, SC 29438. A
reception followed in the church’s
fellowship hall. A graveside
service was held at 3:30 p.m. at
Bamberg Memorial Gardens,
14836 Heritage Hwy., Bamberg,
SC 29003. Following the service, a
reception was held at the home of
Mr. and Mrs. Spann Brabham, 3122
Railroad Ave., Bamberg, SC 29003.
In addition to the funeral
services, the family hosted a
drop-in to celebrate her life
on Wednesday, Nov. 18, 2015 from
5 p.m.–8 p.m. in the conference
room at The Plantation Course at
Edisto, located inside Wyndham
Ocean Ridge. In lieu of flowers in her memory,
we kindly request donations be
made to the Edisto Island United
Methodist Church Building Fund,
P.O. Box 485, Edisto Island, SC
29438. Donations will benefit the
church that she and Harold helped
build with their own hands. 
Buying or Selling on Edisto you can count on our sales team at
Edisto Realty to assist you every step of the way with all your real
estate needs. Our real estate professionals are committed to provide
you with the best service. Stop by our office on the Boulevard and
check out the what's new on the market or let us know if we can
provide you with a free market analysis on your existing property.
Hollace Savage
Johnny Black
Matthew Kizer
Chris Walters
Pete Anderson
843-607-0198
843-708-2174
843-709-4671
843-708-8501
843-729-4774
Traveling to Teach
Sanders/Hornsby engaged
Mr. John B. Sanders of Edisto Island and Ms. Kathleen Sanders of Bay
Shore, N.Y. announce the engagement of their daughter, Marie Carolina,
to Lovick Newton Hornsby III, son of Mr. and Mrs. Newton and Susan
Hornsby of Edisto Beach. The bride, a graduate Elon University and of the
Graduate School of The College of Charleston, is a teacher in Charleston
County School District. The groom, a graduate of the College of Charleston,
is the owner of Bay Creek Builders, LLC. A June 2016 wedding is planned. 
We should all be aware of these
young people, Caroline (Salter) and
Cole Smith, who were nourished
by our community and have now
committed themselves for two years
as teachers on Vanuatu, a small
archipelago in the South Pacific.
There are two precious young
people grew up here in our Edisto
community. They dated all during
high school and then college,
married, and began their respective
careers. After three years, they
decided to join the Peace Corps, in
order to “give back” and to have an
adventure together. 
The Edisto News focuses on news and events of interest to the South Carolina Lowcountry, Edisto Island, Edisto Beach, Colleton and Charleston counties. Submission of editorial material
does not guarantee publication, however every effort will be made to publish all submissions. Editorial submissions will be published as space and time are available. Letters to The Edisto News
must include a name and address to be published. Please include a phone number in case of a question (the phone number will not be published.) The Edisto News cannot guarantee the return
of materials submitted for publication and will not be responsible should such items be lost, erased or misplaced. News releases, story ideas, requests and digital photos or graphics should be
sent to [email protected] or mailed to PO Box 267, Edisto Island, SC 29438. Advertisements, logos, photos for ads, etc. should be sent to [email protected]. In all cases, e-mail
attachments are the best method of submission and Microsoft Word as an attachment is the preferred program. (If you embed photographs in a document, also send copies as separate email
attachments.) Mailed or faxed letters and news releases should be in upper and lower case. Do not submit information in all caps or memo style. While handwritten material is accepted, it must be
legible. Typed or e-mailed submissions are preferred. Print photos, black and white or color, are accepted at any size. Digital photographs must be a minimum of 200 ppi at the 6" x 4" size.
Articles may be edited for content, grammar, spelling and length. The Edisto News follows the Associated Press Stylebook when editing submissions. Letters to The Edisto News, and
certain unsolicited articles, are published as submitted, without editing or corrections. 
Page 4
The Edisto News
December 2015
Letters to The Edisto News
Editor
My wife and I have owned our condominium
in Ocean Ridge for about eight years. We’ve lived
full-time as a resident of Edisto Beach for three
years. My wife is from Walterboro and I am a
veteran of the United States Navy from Colorado.
I love South Carolina and the slower pace of living
that it brings. My wife calls me a South Carolinian
transplant, since I’ve made it my home for 30+
years, and that’s how long I’ve been coming to
Edisto Beach. Since I’ve been a full-time resident at
Edisto Beach I’ve been very interested in the town
Council and attending town Council meetings.
It was at one of these meetings, immediately
following the special election, after the sorrowful
passing of Mayor Berley Lions, that I had learned
the first piece of business that the newly elected
mayor Jane Darby conducted was to introduce a
resolution for the increase in Council pay by 100%.
I didn’t think that was in the best interest of the
The town or it’s good citizens When I asked the
council, at a subsequent Council meeting, why
they thought they needed a 100% pay increase, I
was told by Councilwoman Patti Smyre that “she
could not afford to take her husband to a $60 per
person event on a teachers retirement.” When I
asked Mayor Darby if any cost analysis was done
to figure out just how much out-of-pocket expense
was being spent by councilmembers, she replied
“quite frankly Mr. Smith, we just looked at our
bank accounts.” I personally do not think that is a
justification for any pay increase, let alone a 100%
increase. As a property owner at Edisto Beach, do
yourself a favor and attend meetings, or at least
request meeting minutes for your review. You are
doing yourself a disservice if you do not. Don’t
always trust what you here. Be an educated voter,
not just a follower.
Doug Smith
Note: Letters to The Edisto News are printed as submitted, neither altered nor corrected, with
formatting changes only.
Edisto bEach statE park’s
FaLL sUrViVaL sEriEs
caLL 843-869-4430 to rEGistEr
LiMitEd aVaiLabiLitY. MUst prE-rEGistEr.
schEdULE oF coUrsEs
All classes at 1:00PM
sEptEMbEr 26:
Edible Plants and Fungi
octobEr 17:
Hunting and Trapping
NoVEMbEr 7:
Wilderness Navigation
dEcEMbEr 12:
Alcohol Fuel Stoves
($5 materials cost)
Susan Listens
THE EDISTO NEWS
Keeping everyone informed!
First Tuesday of every month
Ask your questions and get your answers then and there.
Refreshments served.
Lions stay busy
keeping it clean
Nine members of the Edisto
Island Lions Club collected ten
bags of trash along Hwy. 174 on
Saturday, November 14, 2015. The
South Carolina Department of
Transportation approved the Lions
Club as a partner in The Adopt-AHighway Program in May, 2015.
The designated section of our
island’s main highway is the two
miles between Oyster Factory
and Peters Point roads. Anyone
interested in participating in this
worthwhile endeavor is encouraged
to contact project chairman Dave
Blauch or any Edisto Island Lions
Club member. 
The Edisto News
December 2015
Page 5
Cub Scouts
“L.E.A.R.N.” about
horse rescue
Local Edisto Cub Scout Parker
Black, participated in a campout
at the L.E.A.R.N. Horse Rescue
in Meggett, S.C. on Oct. 17, 2015.
While there, he and other cub
scouts participated in a service
project where they cleaned and
helped beautify the grounds.
After the service project was
completed, the kids got to ride
in a pony cart and also ride a
horse. One of the highlights of
the campout was an American
flag retirement ceremony. Parker
and his fellow Cub Scouts learned
the proper way to dispose of
tattered American flags. It was
a very respectful, patriotic and
solemn ceremony.
Parker concluded the Popcorn
fundraising season on Oct. 24,
2015. He and his family want
to say a heartfelt thank you to
the Edisto community. Without
your support, this season would
not have been the success that it
was. Also, a huge thank you to
Edisto True Value! The True Value
family have allowed Parker to sell
popcorn in front of their location
for two years now. Thank you all
so much!
The final totals and rankings
of where the Cub Scouts placed
in the fundraiser haven’t been
announced yet. The results will not
be announced until January. We
will publish Parker’s results at that
time. 
DECEMBER BARGAINS
of the
MONTH
®
SAVE 20% or more
9
YOUR CHOICE
99
16-Pk. AA or AAA Coppertop
Alkaline Batteries Duralock Power Preserve™
technology allows the batteries to stay fresh in the package for 10 years. E 137 963, 962 B12 While supplies last.
12-Pk. AA or AAA Quantum
Alkaline Batteries Hi-Density Core™ technology
provides unbeatable long-lasting power.
E 187 581, 582 B12 While supplies last.
1399
SAVE 35% or more
2-Pk., 90W Halogen Floodlights
1,790 lumens of light. 1.4 years rated life.
Perfect for indoor or outdoor use.
E 150 911 B3 While supplies last.
29
SAVE 35% or more
99 34-Pc. Socket Set
Includes 72-tooth, 3/8-in.
drive ratchet, 1/4-in., 3/8-in. drive, 6-point sockets
in standard and metric sizes. Shatter-resistant case.
Lifetime warranty. R 202 751 2 While supplies last.
120, 121
Edisto True Value
827 Oyster Park Drive
(Behind Enterprise Bank)
Phone (843) 869-4420
Sale ends 12/31/2015
©2015 True Value® Company. All rights reserved.
Find
the Shipping
right products
project
and TrueValue.com
expert advice at True
Value®.
FREE
to for
ouryour
store
on your
orders.
Page 6
The Edisto News
December 2015
COUNCIL
(continued from page 1)
unit had been washed away and was on the loose.
Council performed the second and final
reading for the implementation of the Provisions
of Fairness in Lodging Act. This new ordinance,
which is intended to assure that private
homeowners (Airbnb renters and others) who rent
their homes, pay all applicable taxes including
the town’s accommodation tax. After the final
reading, the ordinance was passed.
Council then approved $10,000 from the
Hospitality Fund for Coastal Science Engineering
to survey sand inventory after recent storms. This
survey is necessary to qualify for funding for
beach re-nourishment.
Other business went through without much
fanfare. Pete Anderson was recognized for his
eight years of dedication in serving on Town
Council. Pete reminded everyone that his “rePete” campaign worked very well.
Council only had four members since earlier
this year, when the death of Mayor Burley Lyons
made it necessary that a special election be held
for the office of mayor. Councilwoman Jane Darby
was elected to fill out Mayor Lyons’ term. 
free
RETRO CLIPART
The Edisto News is made possible by our
advertisers. Without their support there would not
be a local newspaper.
Please thank them and ask other businesses to
help in keeping us all informed and entertained.
http://www.ClipartOf.com/
The Edisto News
WATER (continued from page 2)
work. Town Council will have to
decide the issue sometime in the
future.
In the March 3, 2015 minutes of
the Water and Sewer Committee,
David Whitten asked Town
Administrator Iris Hill if Council
would ask for the approval from
the voters via referendum as the
project progressed. Administrator
Hill said she had not heard
anyone recommend going back
to the voters. There will be a poll
feature on the new Town website
that could be utilized. That could
incorporate input from nonresident property owners as well as
resident, voting property owners.
The decision was, if the project
was done incrementally, the people
who are paying the increase in the
water rates will not be impacted
all at one time, but over a period
of time. There was a question
among the committee if the project
was phased in incrementally,
would water quality be at an
acceptable level before the project
is completed. There will not be a
clear answer. Ultimately, Council
will decide if quality is the most
pressing issue, or infrastructure
is the piece of the project that is
How to Remove Fouride from Water
Despite the fact that many
technologically advanced
countries have stopped or banned
the use of fluoride in water, the
U.S. and Canada continue to
promote water fluoridation.
Fluoride (in the form of sodium
fluoride, fluorosilicic acid, or
sodium fluorosilicate) is added to
many municipal water systems.
Yet according to a growing number
of scientific studies, fluoride is a
health risk at any level. In January
2011, Health and Human Services
and the Environmental Protection
Agency announced their intent to
review the maximum allowable
amount of fluoride in drinking
water. This was based on recent
data that indicates allowable levels
may be contributing to dental
fluorosis,* skeletal fluorosis and
other symptoms. A shocking 41
percent of adolescents 12–15 years
old in fluoridated communities
now have dental fluorosis!
*Dental fluorosis is a defect in
the enamel of the teeth caused
by too much fluoride. Affected
teeth show discoloration, ranging
from white spots to brown and
black stains. Teeth with fluorosis
are more porous. In severe cases,
the porosity results in extensive
pitting, chipping, fracturing, and
decay of the teeth.
Most fluoride that is added to
municipal water is an unnatural form
of fluoride that contains sodium. It
is over 80 times more toxic than
naturally-occurring calcium fluoride.
The Material Data Safety Sheet
(MSDS) for sodium fluoride shows
the lethal dose (LD-50) that will kill
50 percent of a population of rats is
52 mg/kg. (That’s why it is used as
rat poison.) The LD-50 for calcium
fluoride is 4250 mg/kg. — less toxic
than table salt.
The fluoride ion (F-) is extremely
reactive and strongly attracted to
calcium. Its preference for calcium
FLUORIDE (continued on page 13)
December 2015
funded first. Once the matrix is
established with costs for each one
of the project phases to achieve
an overall result, then Council
Page 7
will decide how to proceed.
Administrator Hill expressed her
confidence in the four firms that
came to the pre-submittal meeting,
stating that she was looking
forward to innovative, out-of-thebox ideas from them.
Administrator Hill said a
completion timeline had not been
established yet. Bob Sandifer
suggested reminding Council of the
pros and cons of the incremental
process. Administrator Hill
asked if the Committee would
like to send her their concerns to
compile and present to Council
if incremental implementation is
pursued. Charlie Kerekes said that
he thought Council had already
been made aware of the issues and
had chosen the incremental route
anyway. Administrator Hill said
that she didn’t think it would hurt
to remind them.
The unofficial timeline is two to
three years for the infrastructure to
be updated and about two years for
construction of the RO plant. RO
water could be available in four to
five years. More to come. 
Page 8
The Edisto News
December 2015
PARADE (continued from page 1)
In recent years, there have been
up to 30 entries and with good
weather forecast there may be
even more. As always, there will
be candy thrown from the parade
participants so watch out for the
little ones running out to fill their
pockets with goodies. To register
your entry into the parade, call
the Edisto Island Chamber of
Commerce at 843-869-3867. There is
no fee and it’s a lot of fun.
Last year’s winners were:
Street Parade
Clubs, Organizations, Schools
Category:
• 1st Place – Edisto Womens’
Club
• 2nd Place (Tie) – Edisto Belles
and Edisto Art Guild
Business Entries:
• 1st Place – Atwood Vacations
• 2nd Place (Tie) – True Value
Hardware and Apex Pest
Control
Cars, Carts, Scooters, Motorcycle
Entries:
• 1st Place – Convertibles of
Edisto
• 2nd Place – SC Gold Wing
Riders Association
Immediately following the street
parade there will be the annual
lighting of the Christmas tree by
Mayor Jane Darby at the Horizon.
Following that, the Coffee Shop
on Edisto at Edisto Watersports
will host an outdoor oyster roast
with live music by David Crawford.
Tickets are $25 each or $40 per
couple for all-you-can-eat oysters.
Beer and wine will be available for
sale, no coolers will be allowed.
Boat Parade
Last year, the first place winner,
and crowd favorite, was Pressley’s
(The boat parade had only one boat!!)
There is no information about a boat
parade at the time of publication,
however the folks at Edisto
Watersports are considering one.
Contact them at 843-869-0663. 
The Edisto News
King’s Daughters
brings the Center for
Birds of Prey
to Jane Edwards
A red tailed hawk, an eagle owl,
and Stephen Schabel, Director of
Education at the Center for Birds
of Prey, visited Jane Edwards
Elementary School in the cafeteria
On November 19. The elementary
students and 40 members of King’s
Daughters watched, learned,
and ducked as Stephen educated
everyone about birds of prey. Under
Stephen’s direction each bird flew
across the room just inches from
everyone’s heads. A few students
and adults even had the bird’s
feathers touch the top of their heads
while most felt a slight breeze as the
birds flew over.
The demonstration was
sponsored by King’s Daughters. The
Center for Birds of Prey is located in
Awendaw where one can see many
more birds of prey and attend daily
demonstrations. 
December 2015
Public Safety Day
The Edisto Island Lions Club
hosted our community’s first Public
Safety Day on Saturday, Nov. 6,
2015. Lions Mike Kelly and Archie
Livingston presented the idea to the
Lions Club board last spring, and
were given the go-ahead to approach
the Edisto Beach Volunteer Fire
Department and the Town’s public
safety officials about developing this
program.
Mike, also a member of the
Volunteer Fire Department,
spearheaded the event, garnering
support from that department and
the Town’s officials.
The First Public Safety Day was
deemed a success, and plans are
already under way to make this an
annual event. 
Edisto Island Tide Predictions – December 2015
Tue Dec 1
5:14 a.m. 0.5 ‘
11:35 a.m. 6.2 ‘
5:48 p.m. 0.7 ‘
Wed Dec 2
12:13 a.m. 5.5 ‘
6:05 a.m. 0.9 ‘
12:25 p.m. 5.9 ‘
Sunrise
6:38 p.m. 0.9 ‘
Sunset
7:04 a.m.
5:15 p.m.
7:05 a.m.
5:15 p.m.
Thu Dec 3
1:05 a.m. 5.4 ‘
7:01 a.m. 1.1 ‘
1:15 p.m. 5.6 ‘
7:31 p.m. 1.0 ‘
7:06 a.m.
5:15 p.m.
Fri Dec 4
1:56 a.m. 5.4 ‘
8:01 a.m. 1.2 ‘
2:04 p.m. 5.5 ‘
8:24 p.m. 1.0 ‘
7:07 a.m.
5:15 p.m.
Sat Dec 5
2:46 a.m. 5.4 ‘
8:59 a.m. 1.2 ‘
2:55 p.m. 5.4 ‘
9:15 p.m. 0.9 ‘
7:07 a.m.
5:15 p.m.
Sun Dec 6
3:37 a.m. 5.6 ‘
9:53 a.m. 1.0 ‘
3:46 p.m. 5.4 ‘
10:02 p.m. 0.7 ‘
7:08 a.m.
5:15 p.m.
Mon Dec 7
4:27 a.m. 5.8 ‘
10:42 a.m. 0.8 ‘
4:36 p.m. 5.5 ‘
10:47 p.m. 0.5 ‘
7:09 a.m.
5:15 p.m.
Tue Dec 8
5:15 a.m. 6.0 ‘
11:29 a.m. 0.6 ‘
5:24 p.m. 5.6 ‘
11:31 p.m. 0.3 ‘
7:10 a.m.
5:15 p.m.
Wed Dec 9
5:59 a.m. 6.3 ‘
12:14 p.m. 0.4 ‘
6:09 p.m. 5.7 ‘
7:11 a.m.
5:15 p.m.
Thu Dec 10
12:14 a.m. 0.1 ‘
6:40 a.m. 6.5 ‘
12:58 p.m. 0.2 ‘
6:50 p.m. 5.8 ‘
12:57 a.m. -0.0 ‘
7:18 a.m. 6.6 ‘
1:40 p.m. 0.1 ‘
7:30 p.m. 5.9 ‘
Fri Dec 11
Last Quarter
New Moon
7:11 a.m.
5:15 p.m.
7:12 a.m.
5:16 p.m.
5:16 p.m.
Sat Dec 12
1:40 a.m. -0.1 ‘
7:56 a.m. 6.7 ‘
2:22 p.m. -0.0 ‘
8:10 p.m. 5.9 ‘
7:13 a.m.
Sun Dec 13
2:22 a.m. -0.2 ‘
8:36 a.m. 6.7 ‘
3:04 p.m. -0.1 ‘
8:52 p.m. 5.9 ‘
7:13 a.m.
5:16 p.m.
Mon Dec 14
3:06 a.m. -0.2 ‘
9:18 a.m. 6.6 ‘
3:47 p.m. -0.2 ‘
9:38 p.m. 5.9 ‘
7:14 a.m.
5:16 p.m.
10:06 a.m. 6.5 ‘ 4:32 p.m. -0.2 ‘ 10:30 p.m. 5.9 ‘
7:15 a.m.
5:17 p.m.
Tue Dec 15
3:51 a.m. -0.1 ‘
Page 9
Wed Dec 16
4:40 a.m. -0.0 ‘ 10:59 a.m. 6.4 ‘
5:21 p.m. -0.1 ‘
Thu Dec 17
5:34 a.m. 0.2 ‘
11:56 a.m. 6.2 ‘
6:14 p.m. -0.1 ‘
11:27 p.m. 5.9 ‘
7:15 a.m.
5:17 p.m.
7:16 a.m.
5:17 p.m.
Fri Dec 18
12:26 a.m. 6.0 ‘
6:35 a.m. 0.3 ‘
12:54 p.m. 6.1 ‘
7:13 p.m. -0.1 ‘
7:17 a.m.
5:18 p.m.
Sat Dec 19
1:26 a.m. 6.1 ‘
7:44 a.m. 0.4 ‘
1:54 p.m. 6.0 ‘
8:16 p.m. -0.3 ‘
7:17 a.m.
5:18 p.m.
Sun Dec 20
2:27 a.m. 6.3 ‘
8:53 a.m. 0.3 ‘
2:56 p.m. 5.9 ‘
9:17 p.m. -0.5 ‘
7:18 a.m.
5:19 p.m.
Mon Dec 21
3:28 a.m. 6.5 ‘
9:58 a.m. 0.1 ‘
3:57 p.m. 5.9 ‘
10:16 p.m. -0.7 ‘
7:18 a.m.
5:19 p.m.
11:12 p.m. -0.9 ‘
7:19 a.m.
5:20 p.m.
7:19 a.m.
5:20 p.m.
First Quarter
Tue Dec 22
4:29 a.m. 6.8 ‘ 10:59 a.m. -0.2 ‘ 4:58 p.m. 6.0 ‘
Wed Dec 23
5:27 a.m. 7.0 ‘
11:55 a.m. -0.4 ‘
5:55 p.m. 6.1 ‘
Thu Dec 24
12:05 a.m. -1.1 ‘
6:20 a.m. 7.1 ‘
12:48 p.m. -0.6 ‘
6:47 p.m. 6.1 ‘
Fri Dec 25
12:57 a.m. -1.1 ‘
7:10 a.m. 7.1 ‘
1:37 p.m. -0.6 ‘
7:36 p.m. 6.1 ‘
Sat Dec 26
1:46 a.m. -1.0 ‘
7:56 a.m. 7.0 ‘
2:23 p.m. -0.6 ‘
8:23 p.m. 6.0 ‘
7:20 a.m.
5:22 p.m.
Sun Dec 27
2:32 a.m. -0.9 ‘
8:41 a.m. 6.8 ‘
3:06 p.m. -0.4 ‘
9:09 p.m. 5.8 ‘
7:21 a.m.
5:22 p.m.
First Tuesday of every month.
Full Moon
7:20 a.m.
5:21 p.m.
7:20 a.m.
5:21 p.m.
Susan Listens
Mon Dec 28
3:16 a.m. -0.6 ‘
9:25 a.m. 6.5 ‘
3:47 p.m. -0.2 ‘
9:56 p.m. 5.6 ‘
7:21 a.m.
5:23 p.m.
Ask your questions and get your answers then and there.
Tue Dec 29
3:59 a.m. -0.2 ‘
10:10 a.m. 6.2 ‘
4:27 p.m. 0.0 ‘
10:43 p.m. 5.4 ‘
7:22 a.m.
5:24 p.m.
Wed Dec 30
4:41 a.m. 0.1 ‘
10:56 a.m. 5.9 ‘
5:06 p.m. 0.3 ‘
11:31 p.m. 5.2 ‘
7:22 a.m.
5:24 p.m.
Refreshments will be served.
Thu Dec 31
5:25 a.m. 0.5 ‘
11:43 a.m. 5.6 ‘
5:47 p.m. 0.5 ‘
7:22 a.m.
5:25 p.m.
Town Hall, 6 p.m.
Page 10
The Edisto News
December 2015
Lowe’s and Keep America Beautiful giving back to Edisto
is free everywhere!
www.EdistoNews.com
News • Photos • Polls • Respond To News
Advertising Specials
Get it on the go!
Edisto Island is a small, family island with
approximately 1,200 homes. The island’s population
swells to thousands more in the peak season with
the return of tourists and second-home owners.
Plus, there are campers at the 1,255 acres of Edisto
State Park and day trippers from Charleston to
Botany Bay Wildlife Preserve who arrive via scenic
Highway 174. So, we were so please when Keep
America Beautiful (KAB) and Lowe’s bestowed a
$20,000 Community Grant for the improvement of
the vista when arriving at Edisto Beach.
But that’s not all that Lowe’s did. Jason Hall,
manager of the West Ashley Lowe’s #655, and
store employee Katelin, along with the Lowe’s
Heroes volunteers, showed that they believe that
giving back is more than just writing a check.
They showed that it’s also about donating time
and expertise. Edisto Island witnessed firsthand
Lowe’s commitment to giving back to the
community. Working with the Town of Edisto
Beach to improve the causeway, they delivered
materials, provided expertise, and equally
important, donated their time. They not only
made possible the improvement of the causeway,
but they also upgraded a high traffic area at Bay
Creek Park by installing pavers. Through the
Keep America Beautiful/Lowe’s grant, the Edisto
Beach community was positively impacted.
It’s amazing how much can be accomplished in
just a few days with teams of dedicated people to
accomplish multiple tasks while still performing
their duties to their family and jobs. Thank you
all for improving our community. 
The Edisto News
December 2015
Page 11
Ship’s Store
843-869-9226
Hours
Monday - Sunday | 4pm-10pm
Outdoor Dining & Entertainment
during peak season
We Cater Too!
Please ask us for details
w w w.pre ssl e ys att he mar i na . com
Live Entertainment on the Deck
843-631-5055
Bait & Tackle
Marine Supplies
Shirts & Hats
Souveniers
Drinks & Beer
Snacks & Ice
Charters
843-631-5065
Sunset Cruises
Dolphin Tours
Custom Trips
Inshore Fishing
Kayaking
w w w.t hemar inaeb.com
Page 12
Annual Oyster Roast
at Sand Creek Farm
has record attendance
A bright and sunny day, fresh oysters,
fantastic music and a picturesque location
that could accommodate the record crowd
turned out to be the perfect recipe to bring
out many of Edisto’s finest for a great cause.
Over 500 people came from near and far to
enjoy the company of friends while helping
to raise funds for the Edisto Island Open
Land Trust on Sunday, Nov. 15.
The true success is due to the generosity
of Mark and Tucker Crawford, the hosts;
Jamie Westendorff of Charleston Outdoor
Catering; the music by Edisto Gumbo; all
the amazing volunteers and especially the
event sponsor, The Huffines Company.
The Edisto News
December 2015
The Edisto News
FLUORIDE (continued from page 7)
overrides its attraction to other ions. In nature,
fluoride is most often bound to calcium. When
fluoride is added to water in the sodium form,
it is only a matter of time before the sodium is
exchanged for calcium. When sodium fluoride
is ingested, it rapidly robs the body of calcium.
In fact, sodium fluoride poisoning results
when calcium is stolen from the blood. The
anecdote (calcium) makes enough calcium
available so that it does not have to be stolen from
the body.
According to the National Academy of
Sciences, fluoride is not an essential nutrient and
no amount of fluoride is necessary in the human
body. The human body does not need fluoride for
any physiological process and no human disease
will result from a “deficiency” of fluoride. Because
it has no physiological function, when fluoride
cannot be immediately excreted (via kidneys)
it is taken to parts of the body where it can be
sequestered. It is attracted first to calcified areas
(teeth, bones, and pineal gland) and also ends up
in nerve and connective tissues.
The truth about fluoride
The use of fluoride in drinking water is the
result of a huge campaign to dispose of unnatural
forms of fluoride. These are waste products from
aluminum, steel, cement, phosphate, and nuclear
weapons manufacturing. The truth is, fluoride
is a proven neurotoxin; it causes birth defects,
impairs the immune system, causes muscular
weakness, gastrointestinal symptoms, and
bone and joint symptoms; it suppresses thyroid
function, and it causes permanent disfiguration of
teeth. Fluoride is also a cumulative poison. While
small amounts taken on a daily basis may not be
noticeable, the long term effects will definitely
affect a person’s quality of life as it builds up in
the body. Few healthcare practitioners are trained
to recognize the effects—until it is too late. And
what is worse is the fact that the fluoride added
to water also often carries other toxic materials
which may include lead, mercury, arsenic, and
cadmium.
December 2015
It is not within in the scope of this article to
discuss the negative effects of fluoride. If you
are interested, there are numerous books on the
subject and there is an abundance of information
on the Internet.
How do I get the fluoride out of my water?
Once you are aware of the negative impact of
fluoride on your health—and especially if you
live in an area where the water is fluoridated—
you will have to decide what to do about it. To
complicate matters, fluoride is absorbed through
the skin, and by inhalation. Showering and
bathing in fluoridated water is also a problem.
Fluoride is actually more dangerous when
absorbed through the skin and/or lungs because
it enters the bloodstream more easily, bypassing
the gut where it binds with minerals from food.
When it is not feasible to remove the fluoride from
your entire water supply, limiting time in the
shower or bath and reducing the temperature of
the water helps minimize the amount of fluoride
absorbed.
“Most fluoride that is added to
municipal water is an unnatural
form of fluoride that contains
sodium. It is over 80 times more
toxic than naturally-occurring
calcium fluoride.”
To top it all off, fluoride is difficult to remove
from water. Most water filter sales literature
avoids the subject. When buying a water filter,
you may be comforted by reading that the system
you are purchasing removes 95–99 percent of
contaminants, but if it does not specifically state
that it removes fluoride, you can bet it doesn’t.
Fluoride is a very small ion (atomic number 9).
It cannot be “filtered” out of water. At this time,
fluoride removal is limited to four main methods
discussed below.
Page 13
1 . Distillation
Distillation is capable of removing just about
anything (except volatile compounds) from
water. If you have a distiller, you can remove
fluoride. The obvious drawback to distillation is
that the process is time and energy consumptive.
Distillation also leaves the resulting water empty
and lifeless. If you use distilled water you need to
add minerals (salts) back to the water. You should
also consider structuring and energetically
enhancing distilled water (returning the life force)
using any of the methods in Chapters 11 and 12
of Dancing with Water.
2. Reverse Osmosis
Reverse osmosis (RO) represents a reverse of
normal osmotic processes. It relies on pressure
and a semi-permeable membrane to remove
contaminants from water. RO can remove
between 90–95 percent of fluoride (depending
on the efficiency of the system and depending
on how well the system is maintained).
Contaminants are trapped by the RO membrane
and flushed away in the waste water. The process
requires between two and four gallons of water
to produce one gallon of RO water (depending
on the quality of the water and the efficiency of
the RO unit). Source water with an abundance of
contaminants (including hard water) can reduce
the efficiency of an RO system and it can shorten
the life of the membrane.
Similar to distillation, RO has a good track
record for removing almost everything from
water. Quality RO systems include pre-filters
to remove VOCs (volatile organic compounds),
heavy metals, hard water minerals, and other
contaminants that reduce the life of RO
membranes. And similar to distillation, RO leaves
water empty and lifeless. The addition of salts and
the re-introduction of life force are necessary to
bring RO water back to energetic compatibility
with the human body.
3. Activated alumina
Fluoride is strongly attracted to activated
FLUORIDE (continued on page 14)
Page 14
FLUORIDE (continued from page 13)
alumina (corundum/aluminum oxide) which has a
large surface area with a huge array of tunnel-like
pores. For this reason, activated alumina is the
most commonly used fluoride removal media today.
When used properly, it can remove up to 98 percent
of the fluoride in water while also removing arsenic.
The challenges with activated alumina are many.
First of all, since the process works by ion exchange,
the water must remain in contact with the media
for an extended period of time—long enough for
the fluoride to be adsorbed by the media. When the
flow rate is faster than .25 gallon/minute, there is not
enough time to adsorb all the fluoride in the water.
Another difficulty with activated alumina is that the
media becomes saturated with fluoride. Depending
on the amount of media in the system (how large
the filter is) and on the amount of fluoride in the
water, systems using activated alumina either need
to be recharged or replaced often. The last difficulty
with activated alumina is that aluminum is released
into the treated water. This effectively trades one
problem for another. Some systems address this;
others do not.
The Edisto News
December 2015
fluoride from the whole home. Many consisder
them the answer to the fluoride problem. They
are not. The drawback to this type of system is an
environmental problem. Caustic chemicals are
required to backwash (sodium hydroxide) and to
recharge (sulphuric acid) the media—chemicals
that end up in the waste water. And when these
“tanks” are eventually replaced, they end up in
a landfill, loaded with fluoride, arsenic, lead,
mercury and cadmuim.
magnesium plays a protective role by countering
and reducing the toxic effects of F-.” (Cerklewski
F L. Influence of dietary magnesium on fluoride
bioavailability in the rat. American Institute of
Nutrition 117 (3) 456-500, 1987)
Most people are magnesium deficient – and not
just slightly. Blatantly ignored in modern medicine,
magnesium deficiency is rampant, responsible
(at least in part) for the increased incidence of
heart disease, stroke, diabetes, asthma, arthritis,
high blood pressure, chronic fatigue syndrome,
attention deficit and many other conditions too
numerous to list. Magnesium has been referred to
as the “master mineral” because of its involvement
in over 300 enzyme systems including protein
synthesis, muscle and nerve function, blood
glucose control, and blood pressure regulation.
Magnesium is required for energy production and
for the synthesis of DNA. It also plays a role in the
active transport of calcium and potassium across
cell membranes, a process that is important to
nerve impulse conduction, muscle contraction, and
normal heart rhythm.
BC-Carbon
Activated alumina
There are many point-of-use filters that claim
to remove fluoride using activated alumina. The
problem with most of these systems is that they
only work for a short period of time (usually far
less than claimed) before they become saturated.
The other difficulty is that point-of-use systems do
not slow the flow rate enough to provide adequate
time for adsorption. Recent testing of a variety
of these filters revealed that few functioned as
claimed for more than a few weeks. Unless the
activated alumina can be cleaned and recharged
or replaced regularly, and unless the flow rate is
slow enough to allow time for adsorption, activated
alumina may not be what you are looking for.
There are some “tank” type fluoride removal
systems that are capable of working for many
years with a backwashing and recharging cycle
and an occasional topping off of the media.
These systems are often used to remove
4. BC-Carbon
Bone-Char (BC) Carbon has been used for
centuries to remove naturally-occurring fluoride
from water. It works similar to the way bones in
the human body attract fluoride. Bone contains a
porous matrix that is rich in surface ions. These
can be readily replaced by fluoride and by some
of the other contaminants that arrive along with
fluoride (heavy metals). Bone char effectively
removes a number of contaminants.
When used alone, BC-Carbon can remove up
to 90 percent of the fluoride in water. The efficiency
of bone char can be improved by adding pre-filters
that remove heavy metals and other contaminants
before exposure to the BC-carbon. Bone char
works best at a slightly acidic pH and may not work
as well with hard water. This medium is being
successfully incorporated in many systems where
cartridges can be replaced as the media becomes
saturated. But this method is also not without
problems. Obviously, bone char is an organic
medium. Medical grade bone char is important to
ensure that the bone char itself is clean. How to remove fluoride from your body
Magnesium follows a similar absorption
path as fluoride. According to a study by the
American Institute of Nutrition, a diet low in
magnesium results in a higher concentration of
fluoride in the bones – and likely elsewhere. The
study concluded: “In summary, it can be stated
that in intoxication with fluorine compounds,
Unlike many other nutrients that are better
supplied in food, water can be an excellent
source of magnesium. Approximately 50 percent
of the magnesium contained in mineral water
is absorbed. This is greater than the amount
absorbed from food. The ‘magnesium-in-water’
effect was identified years ago as beneficial
for those on a low magnesium diet. Supplying
magnesium in water may be helpful in releasing
toxic levels of fluoride accumulated through
years of drinking fluoridated water. It may
also have numerous other benefits. Read the
article on making magnesium bicarbonate
water, www.dancingwithwater.com/articles/
magnesium-bicarbonate-water-the-importance-ofbicarbonates-and-magnesium/
The ultimate solution to the fluoride problem
is to stop fluoridation. You may visit the Fluoride
Action Network — www.fluoridealert.org/ to
find out how you can make a difference in your
community. 
The Edisto News
December 2015
Page 15
Desalination
New plant tests U.S. appetite for
seawater desalination
By ELLIOT SPAGAT
Associated Press
CARLSBAD, Calif. (AP) — There’s far
more riding on the Americas’ largest seawater
desalination plant than the 50 million gallons of
drinking water it will produce for the San Diego
area each day.
The plant, which opens this year, will help
determine the future of seawater desalination
in the U.S. The billion-dollar project is only the
nation’s second major seawater plant. The first
U.S. foray in Tampa Bay is widely considered a
flop.
“You have to be able to say we did it there, it
worked there,” said Peter Beland, North America
editor for Global Water Intelligence, which tracks
the industry.
Supporters consider seawater desalination a
partial answer to drought in the U.S. Opponents
say high costs and threats to marine life
leave better alternatives, like recycling and
conservation.
Huge by U.S. standards, Carlsbad barely cracks
the International Desalination Association’s list
of 50 largest seawater plants, which are mostly in
the Middle East. Its Israeli designer modeled it on
one in Tel Aviv that produces nearly three times
the water.
Tampa, which has half the capacity of
Carlsbad, opened in 2007, a decade after it
went to bid. Along the way, a key investor
declared bankruptcy, its replacement failed to
secure financing and the plant repeatedly failed
performance tests.
San Diego County Water Authority officials
vowed to “Tampa-proof” their effort, tapping
experienced builders and getting developer
Poseidon Resources LLC to shoulder much of
the risk. In return, the Boston-based company
will get a 9.66 percent return on investment, even
more if it hits certain targets.
The plant uses a well-proven technology called
reverse osmosis, which uses powerful pumps to
shoot ocean water through 2,000 white fiberglass
tubes to capture salts. First, silt and other solids
are removed to prevent membranes from clogging
— a task that hobbled the Tampa plant. Treated
water is pumped uphill on a new 10-mile pipeline
to San Diego’s existing grid.
“Each element, each building block of the plant
is something that has worked before elsewhere,”
said Avshalom Felber, chief executive of IDE
Technologies, the plant designer. “That wasn’t the
case in Tampa.”
San Diego began considering desalination
in the early 1990s when drought exposed
dependence on water brought hundreds
of miles from Northern California and
the Colorado River. It picked Carlsbad, a
prosperous suburb of 110,000 people, because it
could draw water from a power plant next door
that uses up to 600 million gallons from the
ocean daily to cool turbines.
Under a 30-year agreement, the regional
agency will pay up to $2,367 an acre-foot, more
than double what it will pay to import water next
year from the Metropolitan Water District of
Southern California. (An acre-foot supplies two
typical households for a year.)
The San Diego agency says the plant will
provide about 8 percent of the region’s drinking
water and raise the average monthly household
bill about $5. Bob Yamada, its water resources
director, said desalination “is not going to be a
silver bullet that solves all of our problems” but
has better positioned the region for drought.
Poseidon is pursuing an identical-size plant in
Huntington Beach, positioning the Los Angeles
suburb as California’s next battleground.
In May, the State Water Resources Control
Board adopted rules that may give developers
pause. The state will prefer projects that tap the
ocean under sand - often with angled pipes which Poseidon says would be cost-prohibitive
in Huntington Beach. The rules also limit salt
concentrations of water that is discharged back to
the ocean.
Even before the rules, developers considered
California a tough market. Poseidon worked six
years to win regulatory approvals and survived
vigorous legal challenges from environmental
groups.
“I see extremely big difficulties in California,”
said Carlos Cosin, chief executive of Abengoa
Water, a unit of Spain’s Abengoa SA and a
major plant builder. He considers regulatory
frameworks in other parts of the U.S. and the
world more favorable.
Coastal power plants in California are also
ending or sharply reducing use of ocean water
under new regulations to protect marine life,
preventing desalination plants from piggybacking
on their infrastructure, as Carlsbad will initially.
Some new power plants are instead using air to
cool turbines.
“Carlsbad was the horse that got out of the
barn before we closed the doors but it’s not going
to happen again,” said Joe Geever, a consultant
to Surfrider Foundation, which unsuccessfully
sued Poseidon.
Felicia Marcus, chairwoman of the state
water board, said Carlsbad proves that large
desalination plants can be built in California but
is noncommittal on whether others will follow.
She said Carlsbad is “quasi-grandfathered” under
the new rules.
Carlsbad is already off to a better start than
Tampa: Initially expected to open next year, it is
well ahead of schedule.
“It’s hard being a pioneer,” said Ken Weinberg,
who helped lead the San Diego agency’s
desalination drive until retiring this year. “They
always say it’s great to be second.” 
Page 16
The Edisto News
December 2015
December 2015
Sunday
29
Monday
30
Tuesday
1
.
Susan Listens
Town Hall–6 p.m.
Methodist Church
Clothes Closet
10–1 and 3–6
6
7
Edisto Community
Chorus Christmas
Concert
Edisto Beach Baptist
Church
6–7 p.m.
8
Wednesday
2
Susan Listens
Town Hall–6 p.m.
■
Town Council
Work Session
Town Hall
10 a.m.
Arts & Crafts Market
Bay Creek Park
9 a.m.–5 p.m.
■
Holiday Bags
Coffee Shop at Edisto
11 a.m.–2 p.m.
Hanukkah
begins at sunset
13
14
15
16
Methodist Church
Clothes Closet
10–1 and 3–6
■
ZBA Meeting
Town Hall – 5 p.m.
20
21
Methodist Church
Clothes Closet
10–1 and 3–6
3
Bay Creek Park
9 a.m.–5 p.m.
■
TIDE Committee
Town Hall
10 a.m.
■
Pallet Creations
11 a.m.–2 p.m.
9
Methodist Church
Clothes Closet
10–1 and 3–6
Thursday
23
Planning Commission
Meeting
Town Hall
5 p.m.
Bay Creek Park
9 a.m.–5 p.m.
■
Pallet Creations
10 a.m.–12 noon
4
Trivia Night
5 p.m.–7 p.m.
10
11
17
Trivia Night
5 p.m.–7 p.m.
24
Town Hall Closed
28
29
Fall Survival Series
Edisto Beach State Park
1 p.m.
■
Christmas Parade
Palmetto Boulevard
2 p.m.
Boat Parade
Big Bay Creek
5 p.m.
18
19
25
26
Edislo Java
Free Coffee Friday
7–9 a.m.
■
Live Music
Cotton Blue Band
5 p.m.–7 p.m.
Tailgate Party
Noon–until
Town Hall Closed
Kwanzaa
Christmas
30
Methodist Church
Clothes Closet
10–1 and 3–6
Dissection!
Shark – All ages ($5)
Edisto Beach State Park
1 p.m.
Call 843-869-4430
to pre-register
■
Edisto United Annual
Cocktail Party
Bay Creek Park
5–9 p.m.
12
Edislo Java
Free Coffee Friday
7–9 a.m.
■
Sip ‘n Shop
4 p.m.–7 p.m.
Winter Solstice
27
Saturday
5
Edislo Java
Free Coffee Friday
7–9 a.m.
■
Live Music
Cotton Blue Band
5 p.m.–7 p.m.
King’s Daughters
Christmas Luncheon 11 a.m.
■
Trivia Night
5 p.m.–7 p.m.
■
Town Council Meeting
Town Hall
6 p.m.
Copper Bangle
Bracelets
11 a.m.–2 p.m.
■
Planning Commission
Work Session
Town Hall – 4 p.m.
22
Friday
31
1
begins
2
Town Hall Closed
Bay Creek Park
9 a.m.–5 p.m.
New Year’s Day
3
4
5
Methodist Church
Clothes Closet
10–1 and 3–6
.
Susan Listens
Town Hall–6 p.m.
6
7
8
Bay Creek Park
9 a.m.–5 p.m.
9
Edislo Java
Free Coffee Friday
7–9 a.m.
Orthodox
Christmas
E-mail your calendar events to: [email protected]
LEGEND:
Federal Holidays
Holidays
Government
Special events
Regular events
Live music
The Edisto News
December 2015
TIO
Edisto Beach State Park presents
, a 3 part series
where we’ll explore the inner workings of squid, frogs, and
sharks! Through hands-on dissections, we will investigate
their anatomy and discover how these animals breathe,
pump blood, and digest their food. In addition, we’ll find out
how our own body systems are both similar and different!
Saturdays at 1:00PM
October 24th
Squid – Ages 8+ ($5)
November 14th
Frog – Ages 10+ ($8)
December 5th
Shark – All Ages ($5)
Must pre-register. Call 843-869-4430 to make reservations. Space is limited.
1
9
4
8
5
8
1
9
6
6
4
9
3
6
9
3
8
1
5
4
4
8
8
7
9
2
9
6
5
9
5
Susan
Listens
2
first Tuesday of every month.
Ask your questions and get your answers
then and there.
Refreshments will be served.
Town Hall, 6 p.m.
Page 17
Mobile 843-566-2525
Office 843-869-3939
143 Jungle Road
Edisto Beach, S.C. 29438
[email protected]
www.DiscoverEdistoBeach.com
Licensed in SC & GA
Page 18
The Edisto News
December 2015
Sesame Street moves to pay TV
is free everywhere!
www.EdistoNews.com
Get it on the go!
Edisto Pro Wash
Creating A Cleaner Image
TM
P r e s s u r e Wa s h i n g
Homes . Business . Marine
Jon Kizer/Owner
843-830-8667 . 843-869-3939
3rd Generation Edistonian
l o c a l l y ow n e d & o p e r a t e d
FREE estima tes
Licensed . Bonded . Insured
Sesame Street’s move raises the question of
what public broadcasting’s place is in a massively
multi-channel streaming universe.
Twitter and other social-news outlets were
filled with images of Big Bird and Oscar the
Grouch on Thursday, and mashups that blended
Sesame Street characters with those from Game
of Thrones and True Detective. Why? Because
news leaked out that the company behind the
classic kids’ TV show has signed a deal with HBO
to broadcast the next five seasons of Sesame Street
exclusively on the subscription-only service.
For many critics, this deal seemed to
symbolize the decline of publicly-supported
broadcasting in a massively multi-channel
universe. And the fact that it involves one of
the world’s most beloved pieces of children’s
programming made the news of the HBO
arrangement even more painful for some.
MIT researcher Chris Peterson said the deal
damages “one of the last few truly good things
in the world.”
“The show is a perfect example of the kind of
thing that many of us feel instinctively ought to
be some sort of public trust,” wrote Washington
Post blogger Alyssa Rosenberg. The Parents
Television Council criticized the deal because
“In order to watch original episodes of the most
iconic children’s program in television history,
parents are now forced to fork over about $180
per year and subscribe to the most sexually
explicit, most graphically violent television
network in America.”
Some argue that Sesame Street is only doing
what it has to do in order to survive.
They point out that the show will
still be available on PBS for free,
although the episodes shown
on the public broadcaster
will be delayed by nine
months. And many
note that children — especially young ones —
aren’t typically that concerned with the timeliness
of the shows they watch, so there probably aren’t
going to be howls of outrage from Sesame Street
fans that someone else is getting early access.
That time delay still rankles for many,
however, because it means that a program which
was specifically designed to help educate poor
children will be unavailable to those children,
until after it has already been watched by children
of more wealthy families who can afford HBO
subscriptions. “I get why Sesame Street did the
HBO deal, but it makes me sad we’re privatizing
a national treasure originally aimed at educating
poor kids,” comedian Brian Gaar said on Twitter.
From HBO’s perspective, nabbing Sesame
Street is a key part of the broadcaster’s plan to
appeal to younger viewers. The competition for
streaming-video audiences has been heating
up, as services like Hulu and Netflix continue
to beef up their offerings, and both have made
inroads into the child market (Hulu has a deal
with Nickelodeon and Netflix owns shows like
“Reading Rainbow”). Although Sesame Street
is far from the hot new thing, it has a fairly
dependable audience.
All of this jockeying for power is just part of a
much broader transformation of the TV universe,
with streaming services like Netflix becoming far
more dominant as the traditional cable bundle
collapses, and new providers taking over the from
traditional giants.
Where and how public media fits into this
new landscape isn’t exactly clear. Although PBS
was sanguine about the Sesame Street deal, the
loss of such a landmark show has to hit
hard, especially for an entity that
like many public broadcasters
is struggling to stay
afloat. National Public
Radio faces similar
challenges: Some
of its popular
shows are losing
listeners, and
SESAME
(continued on
page 21)
The Edisto News
December 2015
Page 19
“Home of the Ugly Fish” – Whaley’s is a fixture of Edisto Beach.
Coastal Living magazine says Whaley's is
“one of South Carolina's Best Seafood Dives.”
Hours
Lunch 11:30 a.m.– 2:30 p.m. (Mon. – Sat.)
Dinner 5 p.m. – 9 p.m. everyday
Bar Open 11:30 a.m. – until (Mon. – Sat.)
Bar Opens 1 p.m. (Sun., no lunch)
Hours will change during the off season.
Please call for hours during the months of Dec., Jan., Feb., Mar.
Don't want to eat out? Order takeout from Whaley's Restaurant and Bar,
while on Edisto, by calling 843-869-2161. We'll have your order ready
pronto, so you can enjoy your meal back at your rental or on the beach.
And don't forget when your ready to socialize whether it's dining, dancing,
or just hanging out with friends, Whaley's is the place to go!!
This old filling station serves to-die-for fresh, local shrimp on cheesy grits.
Other divine offerings include crab cakes, pan-seared mahi mahi,
Big Ugly Burgers, and Sushi Nachos.
No trip to Edisto is complete without a trip to Whaley’s.
2801 Myrtle St.
843-869-2161
www.whaleyseb.com
Like us on Facebook
Boy struck and killed saving sister
ROCK HILL, S.C. — An
11-year-old South Carolina boy
pushed his younger sister out of the
way of a car before it struck and
killed him, the children’s mother
told local media Tuesday.
La’Darious Wylie and his sister
Sha’Vonta, 7, were waiting at a bus
stop in Chester, S.C. on October
27, The Herald reports. As the car
approached, La’Darious pushed
his sister to safety, and when she
got up off the ground, the car had
driven off. “He knew to look out for her,” his
mother, Elizaberth McCrorey, told
the newspaper.
The boy died the next day. His
mother said she donated his organs
so other children might survive
injuries or illness.
Police say the driver, 57-year-old
Michelle Johnson, never called for
help.
She was charged with felony hit
and run resulting in death, which
carries up to 25 years in prison.
Johnson posted $25,000 bond
Friday, and did not explain her
actions in court. 
Eddie stowe says:
Never connect more than one extension
cord together; instead use a single cord
that is long enough
to reach the outlet
without stretching.
Page 20
The Edisto News
Hometown Boy Has Spoken Again
Be the first on Edisto to get Sam Lybrand’s brand new hard-hitting book
entitled God Save America - American Standards Of Behavior. Amazon has
it on sale right now. Contact them today.
This book deals with the widespread moral decay that is going on in
America today and some practical solutions. America can have a bright
future but we must select the right kind of people to lead us in the future.
You will like this book.
December 2015
Yogi-isms
Yogi Berra died on Sept. 22 of
this year. As much as being known
as a baseball Hall of Famer, he’s also
well known for his malapropisms
and often unintentional witticisms.
These are but a few:
1. When you come to a fork in
the road, take it.
2. You can observe a lot by just
watching.
3. It ain’t over till it’s over
4. It’s like déjà vu all over again.
5. No one goes there nowadays,
it’s too crowded.
6. Baseball is ninety percent
mental and the other half is
physical.
7.A nickel ain’t worth a dime
anymore.
8. Always go to other people’s
funerals, otherwise they won’t
come to yours.
9. We made too many wrong
mistakes.
10. Congratulations. I knew the
record would stand until it was
broken.
11. You better cut the pizza in four
pieces because I’m not hungry
enough to eat six.
12. You wouldn’t have won if we’d
beaten you.
13. I usually take a two-hour nap
from one to four.
14. Never answer an anonymous
letter.
15. Slump? I ain’t in no slump… I
just ain’t hitting.
16. How can you think and hit at
the same time?
17.The future ain’t what it used
to be.
18. I tell the kids, somebody’s gotta
win, somebody’s gotta lose. Just
don’t fight about it. Just try to
get better.
19. It gets late early out here.
20. If the people don’t want to
come out to the ballpark,
nobody’s going to stop them.
21. We have deep depth.
22. Pair up in threes.
23. Why buy good luggage, you
only use it when you travel.
24. You’ve got to be very careful if
you don’t know where you are
going, because you might not
get there.
25. All pitchers are liars or
crybabies.
26. Even Napoleon had his
Watergate.
27.Bill Dickey is learning me his
experience.
28. He hits from both sides of the
plate. He’s amphibious.
29. It was impossible to get a
conversation going, everybody
was talking too much.
30. I can see how he (Sandy
Koufax) won twentyfive games. What I don’t
understand is how he lost five.
31. I don’t know (if they were men
or women fans running naked
across the field). They had bags
over their heads.
32. I’m a lucky guy and I’m happy
to be with the Yankees. And
I want to thank everyone for
making this night necessary.
33. 33. I’m not going to buy my
kids an encyclopedia. Let them
walk to school like I did.
34. In baseball, you don’t know
nothing.
35. I never blame myself when I’m
not hitting. I just blame the
bat and if it keeps up, I change
bats. After all, if I know it isn’t
my fault that I’m not hitting,
how can I get mad at myself?
36. I never said most of the things
I said.
37.It ain’t the heat, it’s the
humility.
38. If you ask me anything I don’t
know, I’m not going to answer.
39. I wish everybody had the drive
he (Joe DiMaggio) had. He
never did anything wrong on
the field. I’d never seen him
dive for a ball, everything was
a chest-high catch, and he
never walked off the field.
40. So I’m ugly. I never saw anyone
hit with his face.
41. Take it with a grin of salt.
42. (On the 1973 Mets) We were
overwhelming underdogs.
43. The towels were so thick there I
could hardly close my suitcase.
YOGI (continued on page 23)
The Edisto News
SESAME (continued from page 18)
for a variety of reasons it has yet to
capitalize on the growing interest in
podcasts.
For Sesame Street in particular,
the shift toward streaming has
meant a sharp decline in DVD sales,
one of the key sources of revenue for
the program (which only got about
10 percent of its funding from PBS).
In 2014, Sesame Workshop lost $11
million, and its operating revenues
were down by close to 14 percent.
That trend meant it essentially
had no choice but to do the deal
with HBO, according to Sesame
Workshop CEO Jeff Dunn.
“The losses just kept getting
bigger. It was like, ‘If we don’t find
another way to replace this revenue
stream, then we either have to shut
the show down or…’” said Dunn.
In some ways, public media
entities like NPR and PBS seem
to fit perfectly with the ondemand market, where users
and fans support the things they
want to, rather than buying cable
bundles. In fact, the public-media
model is very similar to the idea
of “crowdfunding” popularized
by startups like Kickstarter and
Indiegogo.
With so many competing media
sources, however, there’s a chance
that public broadcasters could get
lost amid the noise, and/or have
their flagship programs taken
away by more well-funded entities
like HBO as subscription streams
take over from mainstream TV
programming. That seems to be
what’s at the heart of much of the
Sesame Street backlash. And the
ultimate solution to that problem is
far from obvious.
Listeners to NPR stations are
aging faster than the overall radio
audience and listening less to the
network’s most popular radio
programs, according to new data
shared by the network.
Though NPR is seeing some
listening gains on digital platforms,
particularly with podcasts, its
broadcast audience has dropped.
Average–quarter-hour (AQH)
listening during morning drive
time has dropped 11 percent in the
past five years, and afternoon drive
audience has declined 6 percent. The
only age bracket that has increased
listening to NPR stations is the 65plus audience.
NPR’s oldest listeners are “kind
of saving us at the moment,” said
Jeff Hansen, PD at KUOW in
Seattle, at a meeting of news and
talk station programmers Sept.
30 at the Public Radio Program
Directors conference in Pittsburgh.
But relying on an older audience
to sustain NPR stations is only a
“temporary solution,” he added.
“The question then becomes, what
can we do as stations now to bolster
that radio listening?”
Public radio programmers and
others at the meeting suggested
a variety of options, including
attention to broadcast, management,
marketing and digital strategies.
Ultimately, Hansen said, “the
radio audience is still funding most
of what we do.”
‘It’s a different world’
In addition to the overall
AQH drop during morning drive,
Morning Edition has seen a 20
percent drop among listeners under
55 since 2010, according to Gwynne
Villota, a senior research manager at
NPR, who shared the Nielsen data at
the PRPD meeting.
“This is an important metric,”
said Villota. “. . . It is tied to a lot of
revenue at [NPR’s] level and at [the
station] level.”
The gap between older and
SESAME (continued on page 25)
December 2015
Page 21
Master-tech
Complete Auto Repair & Transmission Specialist
Have a Safe and Happy Holidays!
He’s gonna need
to call
Master Tech
after that!
Nationwide Warranty Offered • Fleet Work • Excellent Customer Service
Scanner Diagnostics • Locally Owned and Operated Since 2007
Brook Smith, Owner | 843-539-1600 | 1954 Cottageville Hwy.
Edisto Beach Police charge
Summerville man with stalking
The Edisto Beach Police
Department has charged
a Summerville man with
Stalking. Christopher Henry
Garrick (DOB 12/10/1978)
of 113 East Walnut Cir.,
Summerville, SC, was charged
after repeatedly contacting
the victim, in person and
by electronic means. The
victim, who had a previous
relationship with Garrick, has
reported several incidents to
law enforcement. Garrick has
been advised on at least two
occasions to stop contacting the
victim. Garrick also has a “no
contact” order from the court
system as a condition of a bond
in one of the incidents.
According to Chief George
Brothers, Garrick has been
stalking the victim since late
summer.
Brothers stated, “This
is a clear case of a former
boyfriend refusing to let go of a
relationship. Garrick had placed
the victim in fear of her safety.
This is exactly why these laws
were written.”
Garrick was arrested and
detained at the Colleton County
Detention Center awaiting a
bond hearing. 
Page 22
The Edisto News
December 2015
December 2015 Volunteer Calendar
a.m. shift = 9:00 am-1:00 pm; p.m. shift = 1:00 pm-5:00 pm. Gate
closes at 5:30
Sun
Mon
Tue
Wed
Thu
1
2
CLOSED
CLOSED
DEER GUN DEER GUN
HUNT
HUNT
6
K am Bob M
K pm John M
B am Sue
B pm
Massie, Amy
13
14
15
K am Mary
Sue
K pm John M
B am Sue
B
pm_______
K am Charlie
K pm Carolyn?
B am Ben
B pm Jerwers
CLOSED
20
21
CLOSED
ARCHERY
DEER
HUNT
22
CLOSED
ARCHERY
DEER
HUNT
K am Bob M
K pm John M
B am Sue
B pm
Massie, Amy
27
K am Bob M
K pm John M
B am Sue
B
pm_______
Girls fall in love with
what they hear.
Boys fall in love with
what they see.
That’s why girls wear makeup
and boys lie.
7
8
9
CLOSED
CLOSED
CLOSED
DEER GUN DEER GUN DEER GUN
HUNT
HUNT
HUNT
28
K am Charlie
K pm Carolyn?
B am Ben
B pm _______
CLOSED
29
16
Fri
3
K am Doug W
K pm Mary
Sue
B am Jim B
B pm Pam M
10
K am Doug W
K pm Mary
Sue
B am
________
B pm Pam M
17
Sat
4
K am
Mary/Susan
K pm Ed/Girls
B am Jim W
B pm Kitsie,
Roger
11
K am
Mary/Susan
K pm Ed/Girls
B am Jim W
B pm Kitsie,
Roger
18
5
K am Doug G
K pm Doug W
B am Nona,
MK
B pm
Andersons
12
K am Doug G
K pm Doug W
B am Nona,
MK
B
pm________
K am Doug W
K pm Bob M
B am Jim B
B pm Pam M
K am
Mary/Susan
K pm Ed/Girls
B am Jim W
B pm Kitsie,
Roger
CLOSED
YOUTH
DOVE
HUNT
23
CLOSED
ARCHERY
DEER
HUNT
24
CLOSED
ARCHERY
DEER
HUNT
25
CLOSED
ARCHERY
DEER
HUNT
Merry
Christmas
26
CLOSED
ARCHERY
DEER
HUNT
30
K am Bill S
K pm Sarajune
B am Bob M
B pm Charlie
B
31
K am Doug W
K pm Mary
Sue
B am Jim B
B pm Pam M
Classified Ads
For Sale
Selling cage-free fresh eggs. Indigo Hill
Road (across from the Trinity Church.)
Pick-up only. Terri Hardeman. 869-3304
is free everywhere!
www.EdistoNews.com
Get it on the go!
Armoire – solid heart pine, no veneers.
80”H x 44”W x 22”D — $375.
843-696-1331
19
K am Bill S
K pm Sarajune
B am Bob M
B pm Charlie
B
Grandfather clock – Emperor model
#425. Cherry, moon dial, lyre pendulum,
beveled glass. Perfect condition — $500.
843-696-1331
The Edisto News
December 2015
Page 23
After the Christmas parade, there will be a barbecue fund raiser for Jose Licona.
Starts at 3:00, $10 per plate, proceeds go to the family.
Good food, Good friends, Good fun . . .
and the best views on Edisto!
Coffee Shop Now Open!
7 a.m.– 11 a.m., Closed Mondays
Dinner
5 p.m. – 9 p.m.
Happy Hour
5 p.m. – 7 p.m., Tuesdays–Fridays
Live music Fridays & Saturdays!
Staying at Wyndham? Get 10% off!
Ask the waitstaff for details
Now Open For Lunch!
11 a.m. – 2 p.m.
102 Palmetto Blvd.
Edisto Beach, SC
YOGI (continued from page 20)
44. Little League baseball is a very
good thing because it keeps the
parents off the streets.
SCE&G
Hollywood Business Office
45. Mickey Mantle was a very good
golfer, but we weren’t allowed
to play golf during the season;
only at spring training.
New hours of operation:
Tuesdays and Thursdays only
8 a.m.–1 p.m.
Closed for lunch
2 p.m.–5 p.m.
46. You don’t have to swing hard to
hit a home run. If you got the
timing, it’ll go.
47.I’m lucky. Usually you’re dead
to get your own museum, but
I’m still alive to see mine.
48. If I didn’t make it in baseball,
I won’t have made it workin’. I
didn’t like to work.
49. If the world were perfect, it
wouldn’t be.
50. A lot of guys go, ‘Hey, Yog, say
a Yogi-ism.’ I tell ’em, ‘I don’t
know any.’ They want me to
make one up. I don’t make ’em
up. I don’t even know when I
say it. They’re the truth. And it
is the truth. I don’t know. 
Ladies Night at Edisto True Value Hardware. Pictured (Left to Right):
Waylon Cain, Alan Langley, Connie Green, Jamie and Haley Collins,
Brenda Hester, Katie Black, Rechard Mitchell, Robert Harrell
Not Pictured: Emily Johnston, Crawford Moore
AnimalLoversOfEdisto.com
[email protected]
or 843-869-3869
Mail to: 8112 Palmetto Rd., Edisto Island, SC 29483
501c3 Tax Exempt.
Page 24
The Edisto News
December 2015
Do Words Kill? Is Political Rhetoric Inciting Christians to Violence?
“In the beginning was the Word,” according to
the Bible. God’s words created the universe; He
spoke us into being. Words created our world
- literally. Words have power — to uplift or to
tear down — to inspire or to incite — to heal or
to hurt — to create or destroy. Words define our
reality — for better or for worse.
In the aftermath of the recent shooting at
Planned Parenthood in Colorado Springs, it’s
time we examine the role of words in our politics
and in our society. Those who defensively insist
that their vicious verbal attacks on Planned
Parenthood have nothing to do with a single
gunman’s massacre of innocent citizens are
fooling themselves.
We all understand the power of words.
Words shape our perception of the world; words
trigger emotions; words wound; words have
consequences. Those who write books and blogs
understand the power of words; those who work
in advertising and sales know the power of words;
those in the media are savvy about the power of
words; and political leaders know all-too-well the
power of words.
Words call us to action: to buy things, to vote a
certain way, to hate those who are different from
us, to eat certain foods and wear specific brands
of clothes ... and yes, to kill.
America was established by words — the
Declaration of Independence. Our rights and
responsibilities are secured by words — the
Constitution. Words commemorate significant
events in history — the Gettysburg Address.
Words capture the hopes and dreams of a people
- MLK’s “I Have a Dream” speech. We memorize
those words; we recite those words; we refer to
those words; we call on those words to define who
we are and what we stand for as a nation.
Those who pooh-pooh the lethal power of
words are forgetting (or ignoring) the horrific
results of deadly orators such as Hitler and
Mussolini. History is replete with examples of
political leaders who used their words to incite
hatred, start wars, and lead their people to
commit genocide.
Jesus was not the only spiritual leader who
taught us the power of words. Five hundred years
before Jesus was born, Buddha cautioned his
followers:
“Be careful of your thoughts, for your thoughts
become your words.
Be careful of your words, for your words become
your actions.
Be careful of your actions, for your actions
become your habits.
Be careful of your habits, for your habits
become your character.
Be careful of your character, for your character
becomes your destiny.”
Buddha wasn’t just talking about politicians
and pundits — he was talking about all of us. One
of Buddha’s guidelines on the Eight-fold Path is
the concept of Right Speech, the first principle of
ethical conduct. Buddha pointed out that “words
can break or save lives, make enemies or friends,
start war or create peace. He explained the
elements of right speech:
1. to abstain from false speech, especially
not to tell deliberate lies and not to speak
deceitfully,
2. to abstain from slanderous speech and not to
use words maliciously against others,
3. to abstain from harsh words that offend or
hurt others, and
4. to abstain from idle chatter that lacks
purpose or depth.”
Is Donald Trump guilty of verbal violence? Are
Carly Fiorina, Ted Cruz, and Ben Carson
WORDS (continued on page 27)
Churches of Edisto
8060 Botany Bay Rd.
843-869-3715
Sunday School 9 a.m.
Prayer Meeting 6:30 p.m.
Church Service 10 a.m.
Bible Study 7 p.m.
Rev. Arnold Gordon
Bethlehem RMUE Church
8017 Point of Pines Rd.
843-577-5521
Sunday School 9:30 a.m.
Worship Service 10:30 a.m.
Rev. Wesley A. Moore Sr.
Calvary A.M.E Church
8318 Pine Landing Rd.
843-869-3672
Worship Service 11 a.m.
Rev. N. Brown
2438 Highway 174
843-869-9202
Bible Study 9 a.m.
Worship 10 a.m.
Bible Study
Thursdays 6:30 p.m.
414 Jungle Rd.
843-869-2662
Rev. Rob Heath
3319 Palmetto Rd.
843-869-3456
Adult Bible Study 8:45 a.m.
Rev. Scott Efird
1890 Hwy. 174
843-869-2300
Rev. Portee III
1644 Hwy. 174
Historic Sanctuary
843-869-2037
Rev. John Fisher, Vicar
945 Hwy. 174
843-869-1961
Rev. Hunter
Steamboat Landing Rd.
843-869-1138
Rev. Harrison Jenkins
Pine Landing Rd.
843-869-0990
Rev. Marion Gadsden
New First Missionary Baptist Church
1644 Hwy. 174
843-869-2432
Worship Service 9:45 a.m.
Rev. Albert (Chick) Morrison
Presbyterian Church on Edisto Island
2164 Hwy. 174
843-869-2326
Rev. Ashley Sanders
St. Frederick and St. Stephen Catholic Church
544 Hwy. 174
843-869-0124
Saturday Mass 5 p.m.
Sunday Mass 11:45 a.m.
Rev. Mark Good
Trinity Episcopal Church
1589 Hwy. 174
843-869-3568
Traditional Service 8 a.m.
Casual Service 9:15 a.m.
Choir Service 11:15 a.m.
Rev. Weyman (Wey) Camp
Hwy. 174
843-753-2273
Rev. Wiggins
Allen A.M.E Church
Church of Christ of Edisto Island
Edisto Beach Baptist Church
Edisto Island United Methodist Church
Edisto Presbyterian Church USA
Episcopal Church on Edisto
Greater Bethel A.M.E Church
Greater Galilee Church
Mount Olive Baptist Church
Zion Reformed Episcopal Church
The Edisto News
SESAME (continued from page 21)
younger listeners of NPR stations is widening.
Stations are losing listeners 12–44 years of age.
NPR projects that by 2020, its stations’ audience
of 44 year olds and younger will be around 30
percent, half that demographic’s audience share
in 1985.
Among all radio stations, AQH for listeners
54 years old and younger dropped from spring
2012 to spring 2015. News and talk stations,
both commercial and noncommercial, saw AQH
decline in all age groups — most dramatically
among 45–54 year olds, for which AQH dropped
24 percent. NPR stations saw a 20 percent
decline in AQH in that age bracket.
Younger people “may well still be aging
into listening to us someplace, and that’s what
NPR One and lots of other initiatives are
about,” Villota said. “But I don’t think we can
count on them aging into radio listening any
longer. Lifestyle-wise, there are so many things
competing for our attention … It’s a different
world.”
On the upside, the 65+ audience increased
listening to NPR stations by 18 percent and NPR
newsmagazines by 22 percent.
Villota noted that some of the demographic
changes can be attributed to “a fundamental
shift in our country’s demographics,” she said.
“With the baby boomers moving out of that
bracket and into older ones, there is a little bit of
a vacuum that Gen X is simply not big enough to
fill. But it’s still an alarming trend, because we
do need to build these younger listeners so that
we have listeners in the future.”
What about digital?
Meanwhile, audience on digital platforms has
been growing for NPR and stations. NPR saw a
75 percent increase in podcast downloads from
January 2014 to January 2015. Station websites
saw a 61 percent increase in audience from 2013
to 2014, and NPR.org grew its audience nearly 35
percent.
But Villota acknowledged that tools are
lacking to track digital listening and “at this
point, we don’t think that digital listening is
making up for the lost broadcast listening,” she
said.
NPR stations’ streaming audience grew 39
percent from June 2013 to June 2015, reaching
34,816 active sessions, according to Triton
December 2015
Digital data shared during the session. But
Pandora’s audience that month was 50 times
that, and Spotify’s audience was nearly 25 times
larger.
While podcasts are seeing growth, they still
represent a small portion of listeners’ audio
habits, according to an Edison Research survey
presented at PRPD. A sample of people 18 years
old and up were surveyed about their audio
listening habits over a 24-hour period. The
average listener heard about four hours of audio,
listening to radio 57 percent of the time and
podcasts just 2 percent of the time.
The 17 percent surveyed who called
themselves frequent public radio listeners
listened to more radio but fewer podcasts.
Podcasts accounted for 4 percent of total audio
consumption among millennials.
Addressing the decline
Station program directors and others at the
PRPD meeting suggested possible approaches to
growing audience.
“The biggest thing you need to do with your
broadcast service is fix it,” said Steve Olson,
president and CEO of Audience Research
Analysis, who said he had studied audience
trends of several news/talk stations.
News stations often drive away core and
fringe audience during middays, in early
evening, and weekend afternoons and evenings,
Olson said. “[Stations] can gain anywhere from
10 to 25 percent of your AQH if you address
those spots that aren’t working,” he said.
“The second half of the equation . . . There’s
gotta be somebody at your station who is
ultimately responsible for your air sound so that
nothing goes on the air, that you have control
over, that doesn’t sound great,” Olson said.
While some stations have sought to produce
more local news, some meeting attendees
warned that the outcome must be high-quality.
More “bad local news” won’t fix declining
audiences, they said.
Public radio stations need to improve editing
and should train people to “have a more forceful
sense of what they want to say yes and no to,”
said Ben Calhoun, director of programming and
content at WBEZ in Chicago.
KPLU in Seattle is considering giving staff
more time to create original radio programming,
said Matt Martinez, director of content.
Martinez is considering cutting back on episodes
Page 25
of the station’s weekend show Sound Effect.
Producers of the weekly show are “making
lots of compromises,” Martinez said, airing
“pieces that they would have rather killed, pieces
that they thought should have gone through a
couple of more edits, and it was not-so-great
local radio.”
By cutting back on shows, Martinez said he
believes Sound Effect could get “to the point
where locally, we are producing great audio that
is indistinguishable from national content.”
Participants also discussed whether public
radio stations are providing the optimal mix of
local and national content on digital platforms.
Most station websites barely promote the
station’s connection to NPR, said researcher
John Sutton. “You can go to almost any station
these days and scroll down the website and you
will not find NPR on it, except in a tiny corner,”
he said.
Yet core listeners are listening mainly to NPR
programming. “No one’s moving the NPR part
of their brand into the digital space,” Sutton
said. “It’s not a hard thing to do.”
That prompted a response from Tim Eby,
GM at St. Louis Public Radio, who said he was
rethinking his station’s digital strategy. The
station has focused more on local digital content
to set itself apart from national and international
competitors online, he said. But “the expectation
from our audience on the broadcast channels is
that magic of local and national, and if we take
that away in the digital space, maybe we’re not
delivering the kind of magic we should,” Eby
said.
In a post on Medium Oct. 7, Eby also
suggested that “national producers and CPB
invest in a major research project on millennials
to understand how the public radio news
product can best reach and serve them in our
increasingly fragmented media environment.”
Public radio stations also need to get better
at developing talent, said consultant Graham
Griffith.
In addition to hiring for potential —
especially hiring “people who make you
uncomfortable,” he said — public radio stations
need to “keep as many of those people as
possible by continuing to provide new challenges
to them and make sure they’re constantly
stimulated by the work environment, not just by
the product they’re creating.” 
Page 26
The Edisto News
December 2015
Giving a Firearm as a Gift?
Some Reminders from NSSF
By Bill Brassard
The backing you need for the future you deserve!
knowledge that will help you open doors of your own.
300 Robertson Blvd.
Walterboro, SC 29488
(843) 549-2526
www.1stfederalofsc.com
428 Highway 174
Edisto Island, SC 29438
(843) 869-9734
The holidays are just around
the corner. As hunters, shooters,
collectors or just plain plinkers,
it’s a natural instinct to want to
share our enjoyment of firearms
with others. What better way to
do that than to make a gift of a
firearm to a family member, close
friend or relative?
The first thing to remember
if you’re thinking about giving
someone a gun is that … it’s
a gun! You already know that
ownership of a firearm brings with
it some serious legal and ethical
obligations that other consumer
products don’t. So let’s look at
some questions you may have
about giving a firearm as a gift.
The first question you have
to ask is whether the intended
recipient can legally own the
firearm where he or she lives.
More than 20,000 different gun
laws on the books, even the kinds
of firearms that law-abiding
citizens can own vary from place
to place; for example, juveniles
(under age 18) generally speaking
are precluded by law from
possessing a handgun. Check out
the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco,
Firearms and Explosives (ATF)
website for an overview of local
laws and, whatever you do, don’t
forget that you can never under
any circumstances transfer a
firearm to someone you know —
or have reasonable cause to believe
— legally can’t own one. That’s a
federal felony, so be careful.
There’s no federal law that
prohibits a gift of a firearm to
a relative or friend that lives in
your home state. Abramski v.
United States, a recent Supreme
Court decision involving a
“straw purchase” of a firearm
did not change the law regarding
firearms as gifts. The following
states (California, Colorado,
Connecticut, Delaware, New
York, Oregon, Rhode Island,
Washington State) and the
District of Columbia require you
to transfer a firearm through
a local firearms retailer so an
instant background check will
be performed to make sure the
recipient is not legally prohibited
from owning the gun. Maryland
and Pennsylvania require a
background check for private
party transfer of a handgun. There
are exceptions, so it’s important
to carefully check the law of your
state or ask your local firearms
retailer.
The ATF recommends that if
you want to give someone a new
firearm, rather than going to a
gun store, buying it on your own
and giving it to, say your father,
consider instead purchasing a gift
certificate from that retailer and
giving it to Dad as his present.
That way he’ll get the exact gun
he wants, and there’s no question
about who is “the actual buyer of
the firearm,” which is a question
any purchaser must certify on the
Federal Form 4473 at the time of
purchase.
You can only ship a handgun
by common carrier (but not U.S.
Mail) and a long gun by U.S. Mail
or common carrier to a federally
licensed retailer, but not to a nonlicensed individual in another
state. With all carriers, federal law
requires you to declare that your
package contains an unloaded
firearm. To be safe, always consult
your carrier in advance about its
regulations for shipping firearms.
What if you want to give “Old
Betsy,” your favorite old deer
rifle, to your son or daughter as
a college graduation gift? Again,
in most states, there’s no law that
says you can’t, but some states
require even inter-family transfers
to go through a licensed retailer.
Remember, you can never transfer
a firearm directly to another
person who is a resident of a
different state. In that case, you
must transfer the firearm through
a licensed retailer in the state
where the person receiving the gift
resides. Using a gift certificate
GUNS (continued on page 27)
The Edisto News
December 2015
WORDS (continued from page 24)
GUNS (continued from page 26)
from a firearms retailer near
where the recipient lives might be
a good solution. Pre-1898 antique
firearms are generally exempt
from the retailer requirement.
Be safe and check with your
retailer or local law enforcement
before you hand overyour prized
possession.
It’s often an emotional moment
when a treasured family heirloom is
passed down to the next generation.
These moments are part of what our
cherished enjoyment of firearms is
all about and represent that unique
bond that sportsmen have with their
fellow enthusiasts.
So enjoy the holidays and do it
right! 
guilty of contributing to a toxic
political culture? Is Bill O’Reilly
culpable for fanning the flames
of hate? Does Rachel Maddow
contribute to intolerance and anger
with her commentary? Does John
Oliver commit violence when he
ridicules public figures? Jesus and
Buddha would both tell us that
looking for someone to blame for
the Planned Parenthood massacre
will not bring answers — or healing.
The real question we need to ask
is: “How do my words contribute
to violence in the world? In what
ways do I participate in a social
and political culture of intolerance,
hate, and/or violence?” For as
long as we point fingers of blame
at one another, we fail to see
our own culpability. “And why
behold you the mote that is in your
brother’s eye, but consider not the
beam that is in your own?” the Bible
chastises us.
Every time we yell at someone
who cuts us off in traffic, we are
being verbally violent. Each time
we call someone an “idiot” or
Page 27
“moron,” we are guilty of wrong
speech. If in exasperation we blurt
out, “If you do that I’ll kill you!” to
our spouses, our words are an
attack. When we lose our tempers
and drop the F-bomb on someone
who angers us, that F-bomb
really is a bomb. It does damage.
Idle threats are not idle — they are
seeds we plant in our psychic and
cultural soil — seeds that take root
and later blossom into violent acts.
We reap as we sow.
If we want more civil discourse,
we must start with ourselves. If we
want less violence in our country, we
must stop committing violence with
our words. Change doesn’t start in
Washington — it starts with each
and every one of us, where we live
and work. Gandhi taught us, “We
must be the change we wish to see in
the world.” And the Christian hymn
echoes: “Let there be peace on earth
and let it begin with me.”
BJ Gallagher is a sociologist and
author of over 30 books, including “If
God Is Your Co-Pilot, Switch Seats”
(Hampton Roads). 
Page 28
The Edisto News
December 2015
Depression in old age: Fighting a
malady spurred by grief, pain,
disability
By GARY ROTSTEIN
Edisto Island’s
All Volunteer “No-Kill”
Canine Rescue
AnimalLoversOfEdisto.com
[email protected] or 843-869-3869
Mail to: 8112 Palmetto Rd., Edisto Island, SC 29483
501c3 Tax Exempt.
All donations are tax deductible
DECEMBER BARGAINS
of the
MONTH
®
SPECIAL PURCHASE
497
YOUR CHOICE
18-Gal. Red Storage Tote
Features molded handles for easy transport. Perfect for
storing holiday décor. W 204 527 B8 While supplies last.
60-Qt. Clear Storage Tote with Green Lid
Lid snaps firmly into place. W 204 528 B6 While supplies
last. Contents not included.
5
SAVE 40% or more
99 18-In. x 30-In. Gray Mat
Mildew-resistant. Holds up to 1-qt. of water.
Slide-resistant rubber backing.
W 321 372 B10 While supplies last. Boots not included.
7
SAVE 35% or more
99 10W LED Indoor Flood Light
650 lumens; dimmable. Lasts up to 22.8
years. Equivalent to a 65W incandescent
bulb. E 180 865 B4 While supplies last.
122
Edisto True Value
827 Oyster Park Drive
(Behind Enterprise Bank)
Phone (843) 869-4420
Sale ends 12/31/2015
©2015 True Value® Company. All rights reserved.
Find
the Shipping
right products
project
and TrueValue.com
expert advice at True
Value®.
FREE
to for
ouryour
store
on your
orders.
For Nancy King, the start of
depression was the death of her
husband when she was in her mid60s.
An on-the-job back injury for
nursing aide Dee Miller caused her
chronic pain in her late 60s, sinking
her mood and erasing her desire to
get out of the house.
The deep blues arrived for
Richard Janecek later in life, as
medical conditions weakened the
workaholic and left him unable to
perform his usual physical activity.
Grief. Pain. Disability. They’re
among the primary causes of
depression at late age for adults.
Retirement, social isolation and
chronic insomnia are other factors
that trigger lower feelings among
some elderly than they experienced
when younger.
Fortunately for King, Miller and
Janecek, they have received help
as participants in studies at the
University of Pittsburgh’s Center
for Late Life Depression Prevention
and Treatment Research. It is one of
the few academic centers focused on
late-life depression nationally, with
the National Institute of Mental
Health recently awarding it a fiveyear grant totaling nearly $9 million
to bolster its efforts.
Charles Reynolds, a psychiatry
professor and director of the center,
said its focus has evolved from
treatment in the early years to
equal emphasis on prevention now.
Different studies search for methods
to identify symptoms early and
figure the right therapy, medication
and other means to keep them from
overwhelming individuals who have
become vulnerable to what can seem
like an inexplicable but paralyzing
inertia.
“There are peaks and valleys, but
no one told me the valleys would
be so deep,” said King, 82, who
credits the center with giving her
the coping skills to get over her
bereavement-related depression.
Victims experience low energy
and mood, lack of pleasure in
activities, sleep disturbances, loss of
appetite and other problems.
For Miller, a 68-year-old former
nursing aide, a back injury led to
problems at work, constant pain
and reduced motivation she didn’t
recognize as depression because
she’d never experienced it before.
She came to the center for help last
year and was revived by a program
of counseling, temporary drug
therapy and exercise.
“My body still aches, but I deal
with it,” she says now, noting that
lots of social interaction with other
residents of her senior housing
complex also helps.
Jordan Karp, an associate
professor of psychiatry and
anesthesiology who is heading one
of Pitt’s new prevention studies —
one specifically focused on people
troubled by pain — said about
one-fourth of older adults with
chronic pain have major depression.
Chronic lower back pain is worst of
all for them, he said.
When older adults are in pain,
they don’t sleep well. When they
don’t sleep well, they might not take
their medication properly. With all
of those out of sync, they’re more
likely to be depressed.
“We’re trying to break this cycle,”
which ties the pain and depression
together, Karp said. “You have to
treat them as linked conditions.”
Reynolds said depression is rarely
an isolated condition among the
elderly, but “amplifies the disabilities
that exist otherwise in old age.”
Thus, the rate of depression
among people over age 60 is
estimated to be between 20 and 30
percent in long-term care settings,
where patients or residents would
presumably have physical afflictions
limiting them. In the general
community, Reynolds said, no more
than 3 percent of people in the same
DEPRESSION (continued on page 29)
The Edisto News
December 2015
Page 29
Mortality rate among
middle-aged, white Americans rising
A decades-long
decline in the death
rate of middle-aged
white Americans has
reversed in recent
years, according to
a surprising new
analysis released
Monday.
The cause of the
reversal remains
unclear. Researchers
speculate it might
be the result of the
bad economy fueling
a rise in suicides,
plus overdoses from
prescription painkillers and illegal drugs like
heroin, and alcohol abuse.
“That could be just a volatile mix that could
set off something like this,” says Angus Deaton,
a professor of economics at Princeton University
who conducted the research with his wife, Anne
Case, another Princeton economist.
Deaton was awarded the 2015 Nobel Prize in
Economics for his work on poverty.
Overall, the U.S. mortality rate has been falling
by about 2 percent a year since the 1970s.
But the upsurge in suicides and drug overdoses
among middle-age whites, among other trends,
prompted Deaton and Case to look more closely
at this group. They analyzed data from CDC and
other sources, including other countries.
“Pretty quickly we started falling off our chairs
because of what we found,” says Deaton, whose
findings were published by the Proceedings of the
National Academy of Sciences.
The mortality rate among whites ages 45 to
54 had increased by a half-percent a year from
381.5 per 100,000 in 1999 to 415.4 in 2013, the
most recent year for which data are available, the
researchers found.
Even so, the mortality rate for middle-aged
African-Americans was higher: 581.9 per 100,000
in 2013. Hispanics fared better with a mortality
rate of 269.6 per 100,000 in the same year.
“There was this extraordinary turnaround”
among whites, Deaton says, likening the reversal
to a large ship suddenly changing directions.
Based on the findings, Deaton and Case
calculated that 488,500 Americans had died
during that period who would have been alive
if the trend hadn’t
reversed.
“We’ve been
talking about this
at various academic
meetings and you look
around the room and
peoples’ mouths are
just hanging open,”
Deaton says.
“This is a deeply
concerning trend,”
says Dr. Thomas
Frieden, who heads
the Centers for
Disease Control and
Prevention but wasn’t
involved in this research. “We shouldn’t see death
rates going up in any group in society.”
The Princeton researchers analyzed data from
other Western countries and didn’t see the same
trend.
“It’s particularly important that they don’t see
it in other countries,” says John Haaga, the acting
director of behavioral and social research at the
National Institute on Aging, which funded the
research. “So something’s clearly going wrong
with this age group in America.”
The trend appears to be being driven by
increased mortality among those with the least
amount of education.
“Those are the people who have really been
hammered by the long-term economic malaise,”
Deaton says. “Their wages in real terms have been
going down. So they get into middle age having
their expectations just not met at all.”
It remains unclear why the mortality rate
only increased among whites and not AfricanAmericans or Hispanics.
Deaton and others have a theory about the
difference for whites.
“One possible explanation is that for whites
their parents had done better economically and
they had been doing pretty well. Then all of a
sudden the financial floor dropped out from
underneath them,” says Jon Skinner, a professor
of economic and medicine at Dartmouth College
who co-authored a commentary accompanying
the article. “For African-American and
Hispanic households things had never been that
optimistic and so perhaps the shock wasn’t quite
as great.” 
DEPRESSION (continued from page 28)
age range are presumed to have depression.
Janecek said finding the right drug was
crucial in his case to recover from his low moods
resulting from physical ailments.
Cancer treatment, knee replacement and
other maladies left the former sheet metal
worker, now 78, unable to care for animals and
do other physical labor in the way he had been
accustomed.
“Richard was depressed because he couldn’t
accomplish as much at 78 as he had at 68 or 58,”
said his wife, Karen.
George Niederehe from NIMH called such
tales “the story of late life. … It’s rare to find
people age 75 and older (with depression) who
don’t have some other combination of illnesses
that complicate the picture.” 
Eddie Stowe says:
When hanging outdoor
lights, keep electrical
connectors off the
ground and away from
metal rain gutters.
Use insulated tape or
plastic clips instead of
nails or tacks to hold
them in place.
Page 30
Jane Edwards News
Jane Edwards Elementary School
(JEES) is an important element
of the Edisto Island community.
It is part of Charleston County
School District (CCSD) District 23.
Currently JEES has pre-K through
grade 5 and is the only operating
public school on Edisto. Some
of the latest events, news, and
volunteer needs at JEES will be
highlighted monthly.
Parent Involvement Day
Jane Edwards Elementary School
celebrated our 4th Annual Parent
Involvement Day on Nov. 19 by
hosting a delicious Thanksgiving
lunch. Parents, staff and students
were also encouraged to dress as
their favorite book character for
‘Character Day’ while either reading
that book to others or talking about
the book.
Animal Lovers Canine Rescue
The wonderful volunteers of
Animal Lovers Canine Rescue
The Edisto News
December 2015
responsibility school winner!
hosted a community service picnic
for students and their families on
Nov. 21 to discuss the importance
of giving back to others (including
animals!) and how to take care of
pets. Students and their families
were able to play with, walk, and
feed the adorable and loving
animals!
Birds of Prey
Birds of Prey from Awendaw,
S.C. put on an exciting show for
Jane Edwards students, faculty and
parents. They brought in a Red
Tailed Hawk and a Eurasian Eagle
Owl. Thank you Kings Daughters
for sponsoring this wonderful
program for our Jane Edwards
family!
as we did! A special Thank You
to the parents and community
members who came out to help that
day. We were able to revitalize the
garden by creating five new raised
beds with materials generously
donated by Clemson Extension. Everyone is thrilled to see our first
vegetable crops in the ground with
plants grown ourselves from seeds
in recycled cafeteria milk cartons!
Financial Literacy Seminar
There will be a FREE 6 week
financial literacy course Jan 12th
through Feb. 16 on Tuesdays from
5:30–7:30 at the Edisto Chamber
of Commerce. Register between
December 3–20 online at bit.ly/
JaneEdwardsRegister. Register
locally at First Federal Bank during
these dates between 8:30 and 5:00.
Topics will focus on improving
credit and getting out of debt!
Child care and refreshments will
be provided plus there will also be
door prizes!
Terrific Kids
The responsibility winners
for the month of October:
Jazell Pettaway (CD), Jayda Hill
(Kindergarten), Liliana Servilla (1st
Grade), Jazerah Fenley (2nd grade),
Wendy Perez Licona (3rd grade),
Lashonda Burnell (4th grade), Sierra
Moultrie (5th grade). The winning
students were honored during a
school luncheon with their parents/
guardians. Congratulations to
those students and congratulations
to Jayda Hill for being our overall
Red Ribbon Week
Students at Jane Edwards
celebrated Red Ribbon Week and
its theme: ‘Respect Yourself Be
Drug Free’ during the last week
of October. Students and staff
participated in various activities
including donating to the Red
Cross. Students dressed as twins
to represent teaming up against
drugs. School Nurse, Kathy Zemp
and second grader, Jazerah Fenley
dressed as twin nurses. Students and
staff raised $100 for this wonderful
organization — way to go Panthers!
Day of Caring
We had a blast in the garden on
Trident’s United Way Day of Caring.
Without the help of University
School of the Lowcountry, we
couldn’t have gotten as much done
Spotlight Student at Jane Edwards
This month Jane Edwards
recognizes Spotlight Student
Kamryn Graham. This third grader
has many qualities that make her a
stand out in her school. Nominated
as the epitome of respect from her
class, Kamryn is described by her
teacher, Mr. Rob Haithcock, as a
model student. Active in the after
school clubs of Google CIS First,
Cheerleading, Young Naturalist’s
JEES (continued on page 31)
The Edisto News
JEES
(continued from page 30)
and Tippi Toes Dance, Kamryn
finds the balance in both school and
in extracurricular activities. As a
part of the gifted and talented class,
SAIL, she has really demonstrated
her academic prowess! Keep an eye
on this go-getter; she has a bright
future ahead!
Trip to the Citadel and After
School Athletics
On Oct. 31 Jane Edwards
students joined groups from E.B.
Ellington and Minnie Hughes in
attending a college football game!
The Citadel donated tickets to
their game vs. Mercer. It was a
beautiful day and the Citadel was
a great host. Students were invited
onto the field before the game to
watch warm-ups, and interact
with the players and cheerleaders.
Thank you to Charleston County
Parks and Recreation for providing
transportation.
The after school athletics
and cheerleading programs at
Jane Edwards are providing an
opportunity for students to have
healthy exercise and learn skills in
basketball, baseball, running and
gymnastics. Many have noticed
the improvement in skills, but
more significantly the growth in
confidence and teamwork. Please
consider volunteering to help
these programs to continue. Please
contact Mrs. Estes at Melissa_
[email protected] or 843869-2124.
Contact: Mrs. Susan Miles,
Principal, at susan_miles@
charleston.k12.sc.us, 843-8692124 
December 2015
Page 31
Page 32
The Edisto News
495 Hwy 174 | 866.713.5214 | atwoodvacations.com
is free everywhere!
www.EdistoNews.com
News • Photos • Polls • Respond To News • Advertising Specials
Get it on the go!
Eddie Stowe says:
Always turn off holiday lights when
you leave the house unattended
or when going to bed.
December 2015

Edisto News December 2015

Transcription

Similar documents

Edisto Beach State Park

Edisto Island - Edisto Realty

2016 Auction Preview - Edisto Island Open Land Trust

Edisto Property - Edisto Real Estate

Auction Catalog June 20, 2014 - Edisto Island Open Land Trust

Edisto`s #1 Real Estate Company in closed transactions on Edisto

Encourage good oral care from toddlers through the teens To

Annual Meeting Minutes October 13, 2013

PSP PRINT - Edisto Beach Real Estate