BEAUTIFUL FLOWERS. New contributing photographer Rob Byko of Sullivan’s Island recently spent some time in the western North Carolina mountains and snapped a boatload of photos of spring wildflowers, like this picture above. Check out his great photos below in this issue’s photo essay. Thanks, Rob!
IN THIS EDITIONFOCUS, Cantral: S.C., Charleston County need environmental leadership
COMMENTARY, Brack: Lack of gun reform in U.S. is downright embarrassing
IN THE SPOTLIGHT: Charleston Gaillard Center
PHOTO ESSAY: Spring in the mountains
GOOD NEWS: Interstate 526 extension up for debate this week
FEEDBACK: On a lesson from Coach Swinney, Nerf candidates
MYSTERY PHOTO: Not for climbing purposes
S.C. ENCYCLOPEDIA: Mepkin Abbey
CALENDAR: DigSouth to attract 2,000+ to area in April
FOCUSFOCUS: South Carolina, Charleston County need environmental leadership
By Laura Cantral | Trash. Trash has always been a problem, and now that problem is getting even bigger all over the world. Global and local circumstances now mandate that we get creative on how we reckon with waste, including in our own backyard.
The New York Times recently reported that recycling efforts across the country are collapsing. For cities and towns, costs to run their recycling programs have skyrocketed after a crash in the global market. Communities used to make money selling cardboard, bottles, and glass, but now they get little or nothing for the material. At times, they even have to pay processors to take it away.
Cantral
Small towns in Florida have canceled entire curbside pick-up programs. Philadelphia now burns about half of its recyclables, while city residents grow more concerned about air quality. Every plastic bottle dropped in a blue bin at the Memphis airport is thrown away. And in Charleston County, a month of recycling now sits under a tarp at the Bees Ferry Landfill.
“There’s no place to send it,” Charleston County Councilman Vic Rawl told a local TV station.
Last month, the county chose not to extend its contract with Horry County and truck recyclables north. An existing facility located on the peninsula is outdated and ill-equipped to manage our pace and volume. Plans to build a more modern facility are on-hold.
So, a covered pile of about 3,000 tons of recycled paper, glass, aluminum and plastic sits and awaits its fate. If pieces of it get wet, they’ll be buried at the landfill just like trash.
We need leadership. Charleston County should be transparent about the future of its recycling program and plans to build a new facility, and it should move quickly to address the mountain of recyclables that are piling up at Bees Ferry. And we can all recommit to reducing the amount of waste we produce individually.
Established recycling programs have done much to keep plastic bottles, aluminum, and glass out of the environment, but they haven’t addressed single-use plastics — plastics that are typically used once and tossed like bags, straws, and Styrofoam. Single-use plastics are not easily recycled and are often scattered throughout the environment, impacting waterways and wildlife.
But local communities along our coast have stepped up and done that themselves by putting in place bans on single-use plastics. That’s one of the strongest indicators I’ve observed so far about how important our work is in South Carolina. In fact, last night, Charleston County finalized its own single-use plastics ban for unincorporated parts of our community.
Senate to take up big bill with local impacts
Still, efforts to deny local progress and community-driven solutions are facing strong opposition. On Wednesday, several senators again considered a bill that would unravel existing bans and prevent future local action on plastic pollution. The executive director of a national special interests group representing big plastic manufacturers traveled from Washington to attend the hearing and snubbed local bans as ineffective and “emotions based.”
Mayors and council members from Folly Beach, Isle of Palms, Mount Pleasant, Charleston, Arcadia Lakes and Beaufort County gathered together at the Statehouse. They rejected this dismissal and advocated passionately for their constitutional right to govern close to home. With pride, these leaders discussed civic and business engagement and enthusiasm, and cited scientific evidence of the plastics threat. They spoke about the need to protect what’s so important to all of us: a clean, healthy, and safe environment.
For the health of our local waterways, wildlife, community health, and vibrant tourism sectors, we stand with them. I know you do, too. If you want to join these local leaders in speaking up this week, please call or email your state Senator and oppose Senate Bill 394 now.
We’ve already proven that individual actions, by you and your community, can combine and spur a movement for environmental progress in South Carolina. Let’s keep it up. We can take on new challenges and conservation opportunities together.
Laura Cantral is executive director of the Coastal Conservation League.
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BRACK: Lack of gun reform in U.S. is downright embarrassing
Mourners in Christchurch, New Zealand. Via Wikipedia.
By Andy Brack, editor and publisher | It took New Zealand less than a week to ban assault-style rifles following a deadly slaughter at two mosques. As a comparison, South Carolina and Congress have been doing nothing but dilly-dallying for almost four years since Charleston’s own horrific massacre.
It’s downright embarrassing that we are so hogtied with inaction.
It’s way past time to close the so-called Charleston loophole brought into the limelight in 2015 after South Carolina’s Dylann Roof shot 12 worshippers at Emanuel AME Church in Charleston, killing nine. Roof was able to purchase a gun because a background check took longer than three days. Closing the loophole would require a background check to be completed before the sale of a gun.
This is plain common sense. And tightening a loophole should be much less difficult than banning some weapons completely as New Zealand did.
Yet we fiddle. And more guns get sold to people who shouldn’t have them. According to Time magazine, “4,170 guns were sold to people with criminal records, mental illnesses and other circumstances which should have prevented them from being able to buy a firearm.” Why did they get them: The loophole.
What’s more infuriating about the whole mess is blame for inaction can be placed squarely on lawmakers – the 170 South Carolina legislators who could do something here or the 535 members of Congress who could deal with it nationally.
A new Winthrop Poll shows overwhelming bipartisan support among South Carolinians for closing the loophole so that people can’t get guns until background checks are finished. Some 80 percent of 1,007 adults, including 80 percent of Republicans, said they favored closing the loophole, the poll said.
“Everyone – Republicans, Democrats, or otherwise – seems to have no problem with ensuring that those checks are fully completed,” said Winthrop pollster Scott Huffmon. “Such a measure ensures law-abiding citizens can still buy guns while there is an extra check on people like the Charleston murderer, who I won’t name, getting a firearm.”
Wake up, South Carolina! Wake up, America! Contact your state legislator, congressman and senator and tell them to stop fooling around and, at a minimum, to close the loophole to make our state and nation safer.
Legal abortion still has support
The new Winthrop Poll also sheds light in how South Carolinians view legal abortion.
About this phase of every legislative session, it’s typical for social issues to flare. GOP House members consistently seem to wait until they approve a budget before throwing red meat to their base by going after social issues like abortion. This year in South Carolina and in other legislatures, there’s a new twist on the old abortion debate – a push for a “personhood” bill to establish life at fertilization of an embryo and would ban all abortions.
The Winthrop Poll shows 73 percent of South Carolinians, including 67 percent of Republicans, believe a woman should be able legally to get an abortion if her doctor says the pregnancy is a threat to her health or if the fetus is not viable. Seven in 10 South Carolinians also believe a woman should be able to get an abortion for a pregnancy caused by rape or incest. Four in 10 think abortions should be available for unplanned pregnancies or if a woman doesn’t believe she is ready or able to care for a child.
“This data shows that South Carolinians are not fans of abortion, but recognize certain circumstances when legal abortion may be appropriate,” Huffmon said. “These attitudes cut against so-called ‘personhood’ bills which would outlaw all abortion and even several kinds of birth control.”
The Winthrop Poll also showed:
Trump. More South Carolinians (49 percent) disapproved of how President Donald Trump is handling his job than those who do (42 percent). Some 82 percent of Republicans backed Trump.
Lawmakers. Only 16 percent of respondents approved of how Congress is handling its job. But four in 10 South Carolinians approved of the S.C. legislature’s job performance.
Leaders. Half of South Carolinians, including 74 percent of Republicans and 25 percent of Democrats, approved of GOP U.S. Sen. Lindsay Graham’s job performance. GOP U.S. Sen. Tim Scott got a 55 percent approval rating. Just over half approved of GOP Gov. Henry McMaster’s performance.
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SPOTLIGHT: Charleston Gaillard Center
Charleston Gaillard Center provides the Lowcountry with a world-class performance hall, elegant venue space and vibrant educational opportunities that inspire dynamic community throughout the area through the power of the performing arts. The Center’s vision is to enrich the diverse community of Charleston with artistic and cultural experiences that are accessible and unique, and to serve as an educational resource for generations to come.
Did you know that the Charleston Gaillard Center is a 501c3 non-profit that works with over 25,000 students each year from the tri-county area? Promoting education is one of the core values of the Charleston Gaillard Center and an integral part of our mission. By broadening the reach of arts-education in the Lowcountry the Gaillard Center encourages learning through the arts and serves as a powerful tool for student achievement and personal development while providing people of all ages with the opportunity to cultivate and grow their talents and appreciation for the arts. To learn more about our education initiative, click here: www.gaillardcenter.org/outreach.
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Spring in the mountains
Jack-In-The-Pulpit; Arisaema triphyllum.
By Rob Byko, contributing photographer | This collection reflects the diversity of species one can find while on a short walk in the woods.
All images were taken within a one-mile radius. Species included flox, white trillium, pink trillium, May apple, lady slipper, jack-in-the-pulpit, white trillium, bee balm and Turk’s camp lily.
See if you can figure out which picture goes with which name:
Local photographer Rob Byko is a Realtor with ERA Wilder Realty Inc. Learn more here.
GOOD NEWSInterstate 526 extension up for debate this week
Staff reports | Contributing editor Fred Palm of Edisto Island reminds us that the Due Diligence Subcommittee of the S.C. Joint Bond Review Committee will discuss an agreement to build the proposed I-526 extension and whether to lock in the state’s $420 million contribution.
“The first review addresses the capacity of Charleston County to carry the fiscal burden of paying for all the additional costs beyond the state’s capped contribution. Then it goes for the full board for approval to issue the state’s bonds for its part. The county’s decade-long build is just beginning.”
Palm, who has written about the issue several times in the past, said alternatives are smarter and more appropriate for several reasons:
Unnecessary tax burden. The current county-funded portion is a guesstimate of $310 million and may grow more. It would handcuff the county with a huge tax burden for years, he said.
Appropriate road. If a flyover road to Johns Island from U.S. Highway 17 doesn’t cut traffic, an appropriate, less-costly road is an option.
Flood controls. A lot of the $420 million could be used, instead, for real flood runoff controls to deal with large-scale flooding, he said. “It’s the Charleston delegation’s job to secure the funds for flood runoff control as this is the first line of defense that we lack. We need that team to go beyond ditches and unconnected lengths of pipe.” Flood control, he said, is what the county should be concentrating on.
Also in Good News:
Good work. Water Mission, a nonprofit Christian engineering organization, is delivering safe water to southeast Africa in response to the widespread flooding and devastation caused by Cyclone Idai. According to a press release, the organization is currently preparing disaster response shipments to provide critical supplies that will support the crisis response. This initiative will build on the safe water solutions that Water Mission installed after a series of dangerous floods in 2015, which also affected southern Malawi. At the time, Water Mission served more than 84,000 people through 15 safe water projects.
Civil rights exploration. To commemorate the 65th anniversary of the hallmark Supreme Court decision Brown vs. Board of Education, Millicent Brown and Caroll Y. Turpin will share their experiences as children who desegregated South Carolina’s public schools in the 1960s during a forum at the College of Charleston at 6 p.m. March 27. The free event will explore the history-making Supreme Court decision that ended segregation in American schools, the subsequent decade of court battles and protests, and the impact and legacies of desegregation. It will be held in Alumni Hall within Randolph Hall on the college’s campus.
Good idea: Library offers checkout-able hotspots. The Charleston County Public Library (CCPL) is working to help its community get digitally connected by providing mobile Wi-Fi hotspots, which are now available for checkout. Library cardholders can access one of these hotspots to connect their smartphone, tablet or laptop and get internet access to do homework, apply for jobs, communicate with friends and family, access the library’s digital collections and more.
How to keep up with 2020 news. If you’re a news junkie and want to keep up with the latest about what’s happening in the 2020 presidential election, particularly with relation to what’s happening in the early voting Palmetto State, visit 2020EarlyStateNews.com, a new sister publication. It’s free and published every business day. Sign up.
Solar bill pushes forward. Lindsay Street reports in our sister publication, Statehouse Report, that a bill to make solar power more accessible for residential and other rooftop systems is moving forward with only one major hurdle. Learn more about the proposed Energy Freedom Act in this story.
FEEDBACKSwinney gives good lesson on working together to achieve success
To the editor:
What could a football coach say to the General Assembly that makes me think about some of the criticisms of local government, especially of the City.
Clemson University football coach Dabo Swinney recently told legislators that there are many different personalities, different ideas in the General Assembly as there are on our National Championship Team. However, for the sake of our State, you must come together and work towards a common goal. Put aside all the differences and pursue the best outcome for the people of S.C.. That is the only way a national championship can occur.
We did just that and the outcome was worth all the sacrifices made by everyone.
When Joe Riley was elected, 12 members of City Council representing single-member districts were also elected for the first time in our history. They saw the demise, the divisions, and the crime and worked together to make it possible for my children to be able to stay in the City they grew up in. They worked to bring all people together, and they worked together to make our city safe. They did not constantly pit one district or area against the other.
I think it is sad when I hear councilmembers from other areas say downtown got too much attention—there are downtown residents who would agree. It is interesting that hotels continue to be built event though the mayor (John Tecklenburg) has proposed efforts to halt the insane expansion. However, to solve the problems of flooding, traffic and all the other issues in the suburbs will require money, and most importantly working together.
I do miss my old city, but most of all, I am missing the sense of cooperation and teamwork to solve problems we have today. It worked for Clemson football team, it can work for us.
— Jimmy Bailey, Charleston. [NOTE: Bailey is a former member of Charleston City Council and the S.C. General Assembly.]
Likes metaphor of “Nerf candidates” for White, Griffin
To the editor:
Thank you for providing the perfect metaphor for Griffin’s and White’s campaigns—as well exposing as their transparent motivations. More to the point, explicitly identifying the motivations of their puppet masters.
These motivations are transparent, but not in the laudable way citizens deserve transparency. It’s up to people like you to unveil what is really behind the gridlock and hypocrisy of City Council.
The good news is that [Harry] Griffin and [Gary] White (plus [Bill] Moody and [Keith] Waring, the aforesaid puppet masters) can now be called upon to explain the discrepancies between their vague campaign positions and their voting records. Concerned about inappropriate development, flooding and loss of affordable/workforce housing? So why have you obstructed numerous efforts to address these known problems?
Wish I were young and patient enough to go through a couple years of council minutes to prepare a long list of disingenuous, hypocritical votes and comments from this cabal. Would be great if some motivated college student would volunteer for this tedious task.
— Ginny Bush, Charleston
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MYSTERYNot for climbing purposes
These elephants are pink and gray, not red. So are they Republican? Where are they located? (Hint: Somewhere in South Carolina). Learn next week who sent in this mystery. Send your guess to mailto:editor@charlestoncurrents.com. And don’t forget to include your name and the town in which you live.
Our previous Mystery Photo
Our March 18 mystery, “Lovely spring streetscape,” was a snapshot of Church Street looking toward White Point Gardens, which was identified by several photo sleuths, including Bill Segars of Hartsville, George Graf of Palmyra, Va., and Kirk M. Zerangue of Mount Pleasant who get special extra credit for identifying one of the homes as 24 Church Street. Hats off to others who correctly identified the streetscape: Ed Gold and Jim McMahan, both of Charleston; Marnie Huger of Richmond, Va.; and Chris Brooks of Mount Pleasant.
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S.C. ENCYCLOPEDIAHISTORY: Mepkin Abbey
S.C. Encyclopedia | Located on the Cooper River, Mepkin Abbey has a diverse history. In its early life the property served as the seven-thousand-acre rice plantation and family home of the eighteenth-century statesman Henry Laurens. Surviving traces of the plantation include a family cemetery and a large oak avenue.
In 1936 the noted publisher Henry Luce, who established both Time and Life magazines, purchased the property. While living at Mepkin, Luce and his wife, Claire Booth, hired the architect Edward Durell Stone to construct several buildings on the site, including a forester’s lodge, a laundry building, a pump house, and a farm manager’s house, made mostly of brick. Stone received his training at Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and spent his early career designing houses in the international style. The buildings at Mepkin reflect his modernist sensibility.
The Luces also hired the landscape architect Loutrel Briggs, designer of many important gardens in South Carolina, to create a formal composition of camellias and azaleas overlooking the Cooper River. In 1949 the property was donated to a religious community in keeping with Mrs. Luce’s wishes.
By the 1960s the property had become a monastery that housed the Trappist monks of the Cistercian Order. The monks of Mepkin Abbey began operating an egg farm, which was still functioning in the early twenty-first century, with several buildings on the property associated with that function. The site also includes an austere Cistercian church in the shape of a cross. In
its transition from a rice plantation to a monastery and egg farm, Mepkin Abbey reflects an unusual blending of tradition, modern aesthetics, and spiritual transcendence, making it one of the most unique places in South Carolina. [Editor’s note: The monks no longer have an egg farm. Instead, they now produce fresh and dried mushrooms. More info.]
— Excerpted from an entry Lindsey Gertz. See full discussion here. This entry may not have been updated since 2006. To read more about this or 2,000 other entries about South Carolina, check out The South Carolina Encyclopedia, published in 2006 by USC Press. (Information used by permission.)
ON THE CALENDARCALENDAR: DigSouth to attract 2,000+ to area in April
Staff reports | More than 2,000 tech and business leaders will blow into Charleston April 24 to April 26 for the DigSouth Tech Summit, an annual event that serves as the South’s essential tech, business and marketing experience. It offers 150 executive-level speakers from leading global brands, fast-growth startups and the media — plus top investors.
Over the last few years, the annual event has welcomed the world’s leading brands, including Oracle, Salesforce, Instagram, Facebook, Jet, Casper, BuzzFeed, IBM, Twitter, Re/Code, WSJ, The New York Times, Forbes, Adobe and many more plus the South’s hottest companies, including Blackbaud, Red Hat, Benefitfocus, CNN, Coca-Cola, BoomTown, Atlatl and more.
According to the organization’s website, DigSouth believes “the best way to promote innovation across the region is to invite global brands and experts to connect, collaborate and do business with leading brands and startups based in the South. It’s a global economy and we engage in the global conversation on innovation.”
- To learn more about this year’s event, click here.
Ahead on the calendar:
Events at the Gaillard. Check out these awesome coming events at the Charleston Gaillard Center, 95 Calhoun St., Charleston:
March 29 and 30, 7:30 p.m.: Mozart’s Requiem, performed by the Charleston Symphony Orchestra with the CSO Chorus.
April 11, 7:30 p.m.: Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo, a group of ballet enthusiasts for the purpose of presenting a playful, entertaining view of traditional, classical ballet in parody.
April 19 and 20, 7:30 p.m.: Russian Romantics. Beloved pianist Joyce Yang returns to Charleston to close out the symphony season with a night of Russian romantic music.
Colour of Music Festival: March 27 to March 30 at three locations in downtown Charleston. This year’s festival will showcase leading black classical artists from France, Britain, Colombia, and the Caribbean and highlighting the musical achievements of lesser known black female composers including Florence B. Price. Tickets are $15 to $45/ Click here to see schedule and learn more about ticketing.
CSO League’s 2019 Designer Showhouse: March 27 to April 28, 16 Rutledge Ave., Charleston. An elegant 1903 high-style Queen Anne Victorian house on Rutledge Avenue near Colonial Lake will be featured as the 42nd annual designer showhouse for the Charleston Symphony Orchestra League. Read more here in our March 18 story. The house, as well as a SCORE pop-up shop with specially-curated items, will be open 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., Monday through Saturday, and 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. on Sundays, except on Easter. Tickets at the door will be available beginning March 27 for $25 each.
The City Luminous exhibition: March 30 to May 5, City Gallery, 34 Prioleau Street, Joe Riley Waterfront Park, Charleston. The City of Charleston Office of Cultural Affairs will present The City Luminous: Architectures of Hope in an Age of Fear. Curated by the two College of Charleston professors, the exhibition assembles architectural installations and images designed to suggest a hopeful way forward for the world’s fractured communities.
Lowcountry Cajun Festival: Noon to 6 p.m., April 7, James Island County Park, James Island. The 28th annual festival returns with a full day of Zydeco music, authentic Cajun and Creole food, children’s activities and more! Charleston’s best Cajun restaurants, caterers and food trucks will cook up a variety of delicious foods. For a band line-up and more, visit: CharlestonCountyParks.com.
Books for Bier: 5:30 p.m. to 8 p.m., April 9, Bay Street Biergarten, 549 East Bay St., Charleston. Charleston Friends of the Library will celebrate National Library Week by partnering with Bay Street Biergarten to give adults a free beer when they donate a gently-used book (limited to one beer per adult). Kids who donate a children’s book will get a free root beer. More info.
Movie night in Allan Park: 6:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m., April 12, 365 Ashley Ave., Charleston. The Charleston Parks Conservancy will screen “Trolls” at Allan Park as a free family movie. Games and activities will ensue before the screening after dark. Food trucks will be on site. The event is sponsored by the Hampton Park Terrace Neighborhood Association. Register online for free tickets.
Charleston Outdoor Fest: April 13 to April 14, James Island County Park. The event features a multitude of outdoor recreation activities available for attendees to explore in a festival setting. Event attendees can try their hand at paddlesports like kayaking, canoeing, and stand up paddleboarding, in the calm waters of James Island County Park’s lake with boats and equipment available on site. More info.
Hat Ladies’ Easter Promenade: 11 a.m. April 20, corner of Broad and Meeting streets, Charleston. Join the Hat Ladies of Charleston for the elegant tradition of honoring the holiday season wearing beautiful hats during a stroll down Broad Street to East Bay Street and back. Free.
Early morning bird walks at Caw Caw: 8:30 a.m. every Wednesday and Saturday, Caw Caw Interpretive Center, Ravenel. You can learn about habitats and birds, butterflies and other organisms in this two-hour session. Registration not required, but participants are to be 15 and up. $10 per person or free to Gold Pass holders. More: http://www.CharlestonCountyParks.com.
AREA MARKETS
WEDNESDAYS. Starting April 24 at 3 p.m. and lasting each Wednesday through 7 p.m., a West Ashley Farmers Market will be held through Oct. 2 in Ackerman Park off Sycamore Avenue in West Ashley. More.
FRIDAYS/SATURDAYS: Night Market. Every Friday and Saturday from 6:30 p.m. to 10:30 p.m. for the rest of the year, you can shop with 108 vendors, including artists and craftsmen, at the night market on Market Street between East Bay and Church streets. It’s more than four blocks of local shopping and fun. Free.
SATURDAYS: Johns Island Farmers Market operates each Saturday from 9:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. year-round with more than 50 local farmers and vendors, food trucks, music and more. The market is located on the campus of Charleston Collegiate School, 2024 Academy Road, Johns Island.
SATURDAYS: The Charleston Farmers Market opens 8 a.m. April 13 in Marion Square and will remain open for six hours each Saturday through Nov. 30. More info.
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