Charleston Currents – 2015

FOCUS: Two groups seek to increase youth mentoring

By Nicole LaChance | Two Charleston-area organizations are expanding their existing partnership in hopes of increasing the long-term success of local youth and boosting the region’s economic future.

Be a Mentor, an in-school mentoring program that works to ensure that every child in the Lowcountry has a caring adult in their lives, and Charleston Young Professionals (CYP), Charleston’s premier organization for young professionals, aim to involve 10 percent of CYP members in mentoring by the end of the year.

by Charleston Currents · 07/06/2015 · Comments are Disabled · Focus, Good news

BRACK: Fear must not win in South Carolina

By Andy Brack | In the midst of the pall cast over the state following the Charleston church massacre, you might have missed last week’s Miss South Carolina pageant.

Ten days after the shootings that left nine dead and shocked the world, the show went on in Township Auditorium in Columbia. What came out of it highlights the stuff South Carolina is really made of.

by Andy Brack · 07/06/2015 · Comments are Disabled · Andy Brack, Views

MYSTERY: Kind of creepy looking

We’re betting this image won’t be too tough for many long-time Charlestonians, but then again, who knows? Fourth correct answer of the location of this photo gets a pair of RiverDogs tickets. Send your entry — plus your name and hometown — to editor@charlestoncurrents.com. Photo by Michael Kaynard, Kaynard Photography.

by Michael Kaynard · 07/06/2015 · Comments are Disabled · Mystery Photo, Photos

HISTORY: Gov. Cole Blease

S.C. Encyclopedia | A state governor and U.S. senator, Coleman Livingston Blease was born near Newberry on Oct. 8, 1868, the son of Henry Horatio Blease and Mary Ann Livingston. From 1884 to 1886, Blease attended Newberry College, and he earned a bachelor of laws degree from Georgetown University in 1889. He was admitted to the South Carolina Bar that same year. In 1890, Blease married Lillie B. Summers, who died in 1914. In 1939, he married Caroline Floyd, but the couple separated a year later. Both marriages were childless.

by Special to Charleston Currents · 07/06/2015 · Comments are Disabled · History

July 6, full issue: On mentoring, fear, Medicare

IN THIS ISSUE
PHOTO: America’s flag
FOCUS: Increasing youth mentoring
BRACK: Fear must not win in S.C.
IN THE SPOTLIGHT: Kaynard Photography
SENIORS: What Medicaid covers and what it doesn’t
PALMETTO POEM: “Officials Are Optimistic,” by Gilbert Allen
GOOD NEWS: A Community United event, more
FEEDBACK: Send us your letters
CALENDAR: Redux event, Ansari reading, more
REVIEW: Death by Darjeeling, by Laura Childs
MYSTERY: Kind of creepy looking
S.C. ENCYCLOPEDIA: Gov. Cole Blease

by Charleston Currents · 07/06/2015 · Comments are Disabled · Full issue

POEM: “Officials Are Optimistic He Has Been Killed”

Palmetto Poem, by Gilbert Allen: Driving, I barely hear—because
on Route 291,
beside the Greenville cemetery,
this afternoon’s big wind

by Palmetto Poem · 07/06/2015 · Comments are Disabled · Features, Palmetto Poem

SENIORS: What does Medicare pay for?

By Mary Ross McQuage | At least once a week as I am providing guidance and referrals to families making plans for their elderly loved ones, I have to break the news that Medicare is not going to pay for their long-term care needs, either in a nursing home or at home. Many people assume that Medicare is going to cover all of their needs as they age. The typical response to finding out this is not true is, “Well, what exactly DOES Medicare pay for?”

by Charleston Currents · 07/06/2015 · Comments are Disabled · Seniors, Views