Author: Margaret Evans

“Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and life to everything.” – Plato “I’m like, ‘There’s no way in the world you can play these notes.’  He was hitting Eric Clapton, he was hitting me, Stevie, Jimi Hendrix. I couldn’t even play a radio when I was seven or eight years old!  Players like him come along once in a lifetime.” – Buddy Guy, legendary bluesman, on guitar prodigy Quinn Sullivan

They are after your money! The Zonta Club of Beaufort, member of Zonta International which is celebrating its Centennial this year, has taken on the “Campaign of the Century.’  They are working to raise money to sponsor a service dog for a Woman Marine Veteran thru K9s for Warriors,  an organization which specializes in working with Vets with PTSD, Traumatic Brain Injury and Military Sexual Trauma.  Being a women’s service organization, this was the deciding factor in selecting this group over others.

Rotary Club of Beaufort President Dr. Robert F. Allen (far left) stands with representatives of three local organizations that were presented grants at the Club’s March 20thluncheon meeting. 

On March 18, 2019 the South Carolina Department of Parks, Recreation and Tourism awarded $75,000 to the Port Royal Sound Foundation to be used to enhance and expand their water quality programming. 

Parker’s, one of the nation’s leading foodservice and convenience store companies, recently donated $27,000 to Beaufort County Schools as part of the company’s Fueling the Community program, which donates one cent of every gallon of gas sold on the first Wednesday of each month to local schools.

The excitement is building as a new and unique festival is being rolled out in Beaufort –The Wellness Wave and Scavenger Hunt! Wellness Wave is a collaboration of USCB partnering with its neighbors, Beaufort Chiropractic, Free Spirit Yoga, Sanctuary Acupuncture, and Alchemical Healing. Motivated to bring more fun, wellness, and sense of community to our college students and to the Beaufort community, the collaborators will be turning the USCB campus into a hub of festivities, games and treats.

Beaufort History Museum, in partnership with the Beaufort Branch of Beaufort County Library, will present a lecture titled “History and Tales of the Beaufort County Sheriff’s Department and Coroner’s Office.”  The lecture is scheduled for 2 pm Tuesday, April 9, at the First Presbyterian Church Fellowship Hall located at the corner of North and Church Streets in Beaufort. Speakers will be Ed Allen, Beaufort County Coroner and Lieutenant Colonel Neil Baxley, Emergency Management Director of the Beaufort County Sherriff’s Office.