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GOOD NEWS: Bee Expo set for Oct. 30 at downtown library

Staff reports | Learn about the importance of honey bees in our daily lives, and find out things you can do at home to help out these busy little pollinators at the Main Library’s Bee Expo from 2 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. on Oct. 30. Visit the Main Library Auditorium for the Expo, and then stay for a screening of the Ellen Page-narrated Vanishing of the Bees documentary. Also inside: Andra Watkins’s book launch, absentee voting, David Hay, Jim Elliott and Philip Simmons.

by Charleston Currents · 10/24/2016 · Comments are Disabled · Good news, News briefs

FOCUS: How to join the region’s annual Day of Caring on Nov. 18

By Amanda Netsch, Trident United Way | Every fall, Trident United Way hosts its annual Day of Caring. It’s a community service day where thousands of volunteers from local businesses, civic groups and associations, in tandem with their colleagues and bosses, roll up their sleeves and get to work serving hundreds of nonprofit agencies and public schools.

Volunteers can be seen building, planting, cleaning, painting, reading and so much more. The impact volunteers make on the community through this one day is well over $400,000 in value of service hours alone (using the Corporation for National & Community Service 2014 volunteer rate) – but the impact does not stop there.

by Charleston Currents · 10/17/2016 · Comments are Disabled · Focus, Good news

GOOD NEWS: Oct. 29 literacy fair to offer GED, ESL info

Staff reports | You might be surprised to learn that 81,000 Charleston-area adults don’t have their GED, or General Education Diploma that equates to a high school diploma. In fact, according to the Trident Literacy Association, one in seven adults in Berkeley, Charleston and Dorchester counties can’t read this sentence.

To make a dent in illiteracy, the association is holding its first annual Adult Literacy Fair. It will be held 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Oct. 29 at the organization’s headquarters, 5416 Rivers Ave., North Charleston. Y

by Charleston Currents · 10/17/2016 · Comments are Disabled · Good news, News briefs

City offers hurricane recovery update

The City of Charleston today offered this update about what’s going on around the city as it recovers from Hurricane Matthew:

Issued Oct. 10, 2016 | Each department within the City of Charleston remains hard at work on storm recovery efforts.

Mayor Tecklenburg and the Emergency Management Team held a press conference this afternoon to discuss the recovery. Watch the video of the press conference on Facebook here.

Report Damage

To help in the city’s preliminary damage assessment effort, citizens are asked to report any damage to www.charleston-sc.gov/report-damage or call the City of Charleston Citizen Information Line at 843-973-7219. This information will be used to evaluate which areas of the city were most affected by the storm.

Click for more detailed information by department

by Charleston Currents · 10/11/2016 · Comments are Disabled · Good news

FOCUS: Beware of electronic scams after Hurricane Matthew

State of S.C. news release | People affected by Hurricane Matthew should be aware of potential scams that could come in the form of emails, phone calls, text messages, and others. Scams of this kind are often times used against individuals in areas that have recently been affected by natural disasters such as Hurricane Matthew.

by Charleston Currents · 10/09/2016 · Comments are Disabled · Focus, Good news

Naval Hospital Charleston in 1948. U.S. Navy photo.

GOOD NEWS: Charleston Naval Hospital District named to endangered list

Staff reports | The National Trust for Historic Preservation has named the Charleston Naval Hospital District in North Charleston to its 2016 list of Americas 11 Most Endangered Historic Places.

The annual list spotlights important examples of the nation’s architectural and cultural heritage that are at risk of destruction or irreparable damage. More than 260 sites have been on the list over its 29-year history, and in that time, only a handful of listed sites have been lost.

by Charleston Currents · 10/09/2016 · Comments are Disabled · Good news, News briefs

FOCUS: Colour of Music Festival returns Oct. 19-23 with opera’s debut

By Lee Pringle, special to Charleston Currents | The 2016 Colour of Music Festival embarks upon an ambitious and stunning array of international classical musical motifs solidifying its place as the largest black classical music organization ever organized as it continues to draw inspiration from the grandfather of black classical music, Le Chevalier de Saint-Georges.

Few classical music enthusiasts are aware of the tremendous contributions of this African-French composer whose opera and classical masterpieces equaled or far exceeded those of his 18th century contemporaries. Although his compositions are highly recognized overseas, they gather little notice in the United States.

Today despite thousands of celebrated and prodigiously talented classical composers and performers of African descent throughout the world, their opportunities to grace concert stages of major American orchestras are rare to non-existent. The Colour of Music Festival is reversing this trend.

by Charleston Currents · 10/03/2016 · Comments are Disabled · Focus, Good news

GOOD NEWS: Chase After a Cure donates $100,000 to MUSC

Staff reports | Chase After a Cure presented a check for $100,000 to pediatric oncologist Dr. Jacqueline Kraveka and her team at the Medical University of South Carolina Children’s Hospital on Sept. 26. Each September during Childhood Cancer Awareness Month, the local organization presents MUSC with a check for money raised over the course of the last year to support pediatric cancer research.

by Charleston Currents · 10/03/2016 · Comments are Disabled · Good news, News briefs

FOCUS: Register to vote by Oct. 8

Staff reports | As the mother of all debates is set for tonight between Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton and Republican nominee Donald Trump, you won’t be able to have your say at the polls Nov. 8 unless your registered to vote. The deadline to register in South Carolina is Oct. 8.

* Read the story to find out if you’re registered and, if not, how to get registered.

You might want to click the first link, especially if you haven’t voted in the last few elections, to make sure you haven’t been purged from voter rolls due to inactivity. [We suggest you check anyway, especially if you’ve moved in the last few years.]

According to the most recent information from the S.C. Election Commission, some 3,081,428 South Carolinians are registered to vote. In Charleston County, 274,547 people are registered to vote, the second largest number by county in the state.

by Charleston Currents · 09/26/2016 · Comments are Disabled · Focus, Good news

GOOD NEWS: Top student app-developers will split $10,000 in prizes

Staff reports | Some $10,000 in awards and scholarships are available to area students from middle school to graduate school in the Charleston Defense Contractors Association’s 6th annual Mobile App Competition. Applications and associated videos are due by midnight Nov. 21, 2016. More on the application process. Also in this brief: Update on flood maps, Anna Wypych’s first show and Autumn on the Ashley.

by Andy Brack · 09/26/2016 · Comments are Disabled · Good news, News briefs