Author: Charleston Daily

Charleston Daily is a concept in community. Its mission is to promote, assist, and celebrate in everything Charleston, South Carolina. By partnering with businesses, community leaders, volunteers and events, we are spreading the love that is Charleston. As this city continues to grow and prosper, we want to help spread the message to all about how wonderful this community is. Charleston is about the people, community, water, land, history, heritage and the true southern warmth it brings with each and every day.

Summerville & Goose Creek, SC

Congratulations to the Joint Base Charleston Airman Leadership School Class of 23-A Graduates

December 21, 2022 by 0 Comments
Read More

JB Charleston’s Airman Leadership School Graduates Class of 23-A

By Airman 1st Class Caleb Parker – Joint Base Charleston Public Affairs JOINT BASE CHARLESTON, S.C. – Congratulations to the Airman Leadership School Class of 23-A graduates.

The John L. Levitow Award:

SrA Sydney Mcdougal, 15 AS

Academic Achievement Award:

SrA Harrison Winchell, 1 CTCS

Commandant Award:

SrA Abigail Fernandez, 437 APS

Distinguished Graduate Award:

SrA Kristin Brandenburg, 437 MXS

SrA Aleea Barreras, 14 AS

SrA Kody Barrett, 14 AS

SrA Lake Benjamin, 437 OGS

SrA Sergio Sanchez-Penate, 437 MXS

SrA Trey Cook, 437 MXO

SrA Jeremy Stroud, 437 AMXS

SrA David Altman, 437 AMXS

SrA Michael Cox, 437 AMXS

SrA Isabella Pierro,437 OSS

SrA Dexter Brown, 560 RHS

SrA Victoria Young, 94 MSG

SrA Keenan Washington, 315 AMXS

SrA Zachery Sweeney, 38 APS

SrA Samantha Caughman, 38 APS

SrA Carl Murphy, 81 APS

SrA Amanda Brown, 143 OSS

SrA Alexis Olson, 114 MX OPS

SrA Daniel Hernandez, 1 CTCS

SrA Amanda Miller, 628 FSS

SrA Stephanie Groszek, 628 SFS

SrA Zachariah Abdul Aziz, 628 SFS

SrA Chelsea Craddock, 28 SFS

SrA Tae Kwon Hector, 628 LRS

SrA Megan Vann, 628 LRS

MN3 Stephen Swann, NWS Charleston

YN2 Zachary Seligson, Joint Base Charleston

IT2 Cole Reber, Joint Base Charleston

Source link

Lowcountry

Goose Creek, SC Domino’s gets a new Chevy Bolt EV

December 20, 2022 by 0 Comments
Read More

The Goose Creek Domino’s is one of the newest recipients of the newly rolled out Electric Vehicle fleet of cars being rolled out by Domino’s nationwide.

Domino’s recently unveiled 800 Chevy Bolt EVs across the nation and Goose Creek was one of the locations chosen.

Thank you, Kerri Hayman, Franchise Owner for Charleston, SC, and Augusta, GA for this share.

The vehicle looks great!

Lowcountry

Learn about Septima Clark, the “Mother of the Movement” – Johns Island’s Native Daughter

December 19, 2022 by 0 Comments
Read More

A pioneer in grassroots citizenship education, Septima Clark was called the “Mother of the Movement” and the epitome of a “community teacher, intuitive fighter for human rights and leader of her unlettered and disillusioned people” (McFadden, “Septima Clark,” 85; King, July 1962). 

The daughter of a laundrywoman and a former slave, Clark was born 3 May 1898 in Charleston, South Carolina. In 1916 she graduated from secondary school and, after passing her teacher’s exam, taught at a black school on Johns Island, just outside of Charleston. For more than 30 years, she taught throughout South Carolina, including 18 years in Columbia and 9 in Charleston. 

Clark pursued her education during summer breaks. In 1937 Clark studied under W. E. B. Du Bois at Atlanta University before eventually earning her BA (1942) from Benedict College in Columbia, and her MA (1946) from Virginia’s Hampton Institute. Clark also worked with the YWCA and participated in a class action lawsuit filed by the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) that led to pay equity for black and white teachers in South Carolina. In 1956 South Carolina passed a statute that prohibited city and state employees from belonging to civil rights organizations. After 40 years of teaching, Clark’s employment contract was not renewed when she refused to resign from the NAACP. 

By the time of her firing in 1956, Clark had already begun to conduct workshops during her summer vacations at the Highlander Folk School in Monteagle, Tennessee, a grassroots education center dedicated to social justice. Rosa Parks participated in one of Clark’s workshops just months before she helped launch the Montgomery bus boycott. After losing her teaching position, Myles Horton hired Clark full-time as Highlander’s director of workshops. Believing that literacy and political empowerment are inextricably linked, Clark taught people basic literacy skills, their rights and duties as U.S. citizens, and how to fill out voter registration forms. 

When the state of Tennessee forced Highlander to close in 1961, the Southern Christian Leadership Conference(SCLC) established the Citizenship Education Program (CEP), modeled on Clark’s citizenship workshops. Clark became SCLC’s director of education and teaching, conducting teacher training and developing curricula. King appreciated Clark’s “expert direction” of the CEP, which he called “the bulwark of SCLC’s program department” (King, 11 August 1965). Although Clark found that most men at SCLC “didn’t respect women too much,” she thought that King “really felt that black women had a place in the movement” (Clark, 25 July 1976; McFadden, “Septima Clark,” 93). 

After retiring from SCLC in 1970, Clark conducted workshops for the American Field Service. In 1975 she was elected to the Charleston, South Carolina, School Board. The following year, the governor of South Carolina reinstated her teacher’s pension after declaring that she had been unjustly terminated in 1956. She was given a Living Legacy Award by President Jimmy Carter in 1979 and published her second memoir, Ready from Within, in 1986.

Source Link

North Charleston, SC

8 Affordable Apartments coming to Liberty Hill, the oldest community in North Charleston, SC

December 19, 2022 by 5 Comments
Read More

The Lecque Legacy lives on.

The Lecque Family is one of the four founding families of Liberty Hill. Founded in 1871 by 4 freedmen, Liberty Hill is the oldest community in North Charleston. As the City of North Charleston continues to grow, the Lecques are doing their part to ensure that long-time residents of Liberty Hill can continue to live affordably in their neighborhood.

Metanoia is proud to be partners with the Lecque Family to construct Golden Dream Townhomes, consisting of 8 affordable apartments in Liberty Hill. Bringing this project to life advances neighborhood goals to establish quality housing and generate economic development.

So many neighborhood partners were supportive contributors in making this dream a reality!


Photo Credit: Sirena White-Singleton

Lowcountry

United Airlines orders 100 Dreamliners with an option for 100 more

December 19, 2022 by 0 Comments
Read More

United Airlines has ordered 100 new Boeing 787 Dreamliners in a contract with an option to add 100 more — the largest widebody aircraft order by a U.S. carrier in commercial aviation history, according to the company.

This order will bring United Airlines total aircraft to roughly 700 new narrow and widebody passenger aircraft by 2032 to support its global fleet.

“Boeing is our largest exporter (with) high-tech manufacturing jobs — the very kinds of jobs we are working hard to repatriate to the United States,” said Scott Kirby, chief executive officer at United Airlines.

Approximately 100 planes in the widebody order are expected to replace older Boeing 767 and Boeing 777 aircraft, with all 767 aircraft removed from the United fleet by 2030. United also exercised options to purchase 44 Boeing 737 MAX aircraft for delivery between 2024 and 2026. It ordered 56 more MAX aircraft for delivery between 2027 and 2028.

United expects to take delivery of the new widebody planes between 2024 and 2032 and can choose among the 787-8, -9 or -10 models, providing flexibility to support a wide range of routes.

Boeing’s Dreamliner program is based in North Charleston, which is one of two final assembly locations for the 787-8, -9 and -10.

Executives said the order will support United Airlines’ move in expanding its global fleet and adding more international flights, in line with the company’s United Next plan.

In the last two years, United added 13 new international destinations, 40 new international routes and extra trips to 10 existing international routes.

The Boeing 787 Dreamliner promises a premium flight experience. More than 90% of the United Airlines international widebody planes already feature the United Polaris business class seat and big seats that turn into beds along with luxury blankets and pillows.

The new planes will be more fuel efficient with an expected 25% decrease in carbon emissions per seat for the new planes compared to the older planes they are expected to replace. Kirby noted that supply chain issues have improved in the last six months, giving executives confidence that the Dreamliners will be delivered on or close to schedule.

“While the supply chain is challenged at both Boeing and Airbus — and we’re already a little bit behind on aircraft deliveries this year — we’re going to take delivery of an awful lot of airplanes in the next few years, even if some of them get pushed to the right a little bit,” said Kirby. “We’ve already taken into account some expected delays.”

The order is expected to lead to increased hiring at United Airlines. The Chicago-based company hired 15,000 people in 2022 and is on track to add another 15,000 next year.

The airline hired about 2,400 pilots and plans to add more than 2,500 pilots in 2023, with a goal to add 10,000 pilots in the next decade. United will hire more than 18,000 new flight attendants in the coming years with more than 4,000 expected to join the team in 2023.

More details about the United Airlines-Boeing announcement will be available later today following a media tour of Boeing South Carolina.

Contact Jenny Peterson at 843-849-3145.

Source Link

Lowcountry

Which Carolina Is Better? North Carolina Vs South Carolina

December 18, 2022 by 0 Comments
Read More

About this video:

If the Carolinas were a single US State, it would be the nation’s 5th largest (only smaller than California, Texas, Florida, and New York). Of course, North and South Carolina isn’t a single state, I mean they were for a short time, but that was centuries ago.

North Carolina is the bigger state today, it has more people and businesses and it’s a top 10 US state by population. South Carolina is charming though, it has better natural attractions too, and with cities like Myrtle Beach, you shouldn’t be surprised to learn that South Carolina is the 7th most visited state in the US. In this video

I compare and contrast the states of North and South Carolina, breaking down which state is better and which state has a brighter future. Of course, I also take the time to explain why we have two Carolinas in the first place, as the Carolina rivalry is as old as the United States.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WpFQz9zJU8g
Lowcountry

The Philip Simmons Memorial Garden – Charleston, SC – New video by SouthCarolinaETV

December 18, 2022 by 0 Comments
Read More

The Philip Simmons Memorial Garden or “Heart Garden” at the St. John’s Reformed Episcopal Church in Charleston, SC was a collaboration sponsored by the Spoleto Festival to celebrate two of South Carolina’s internationally known artisans: blacksmith Philip Simmons and topiary artist Pearl Fryar.

This was Philip Simmons’s church, and the grounds are surrounded by his decorative ironworks including this peaceful garden that is full of topiaries created by Pearl Fryar.

The Garden Club of Charleston now maintains this garden and has recently enlisted the expertise of property artist Mike Gibson, who worked with Pearl and who also brings in his unique style, to provide workshops for their members that demonstrate different pruning techniques ideal for these topiaries.

In this video, Clemson Extension Agent and host of “Making It Grow” Amanda McNulty talks with Philip Simmons Foundation member Rossie Colter about Philip, Pearl, and the history of the garden and then Amanda talks with Mike Gibson on the day of one of the workshops.

Lowcountry

Redwood Materials selects Charleston, SC for production site – This $3.5B investment will create 1500 jobs

December 16, 2022 by 0 Comments
Read More

Site near Charleston, South Carolina, will host lithium-ion battery materials campus, including a recycling operation.

Nevada-based Redwood Materials has announced the selection of a site near Charleston, South Carolina, as the future home of a 600-acre campus dedicated to the production and recycling of battery materials for electric vehicles (EVs) and other applications.

“At Camp Hall in Berkeley County [South Carolina], Redwood will recycle, refine and manufacture anode and cathode components on more than 600 acres, creating more than 1,500 jobs and investing $3.5 billion in the local community,” the company says.

Redwood has been entering alliances with several battery producers and manufacturers in the past two years to position itself as a provider of battery-grade lithium, cobalt, nickel and copper. Among the companies with which Redwood has announced agreements are Toyota, Ford, Volkswagen, Volvo and Panasonic.

The South Carolina campus, if it reaches its initial planned capacity, will be able to produce 100-gigawatt hours (GWh) of cathode and anode metals per year, “enough to power more than 1 million EVs,” according to Redwood. “However, this site also provides us the opportunity to expand our operations to potentially several hundred GWh annually to meet future demand,” adds the company.

The firm says it plans to break ground on its new campus in the first quarter of 2023 and have its first recycling process running by the end of next year.

Redwood characterizes South Carolina as having provided a home to the automotive industry for nearly three decades, now hosting more than 500 automotive companies and 72,000 industry workers. Germany-based BMW has been a leading automotive player in the state, and announced it will build an EV production plant in the state this October.

Although Redwood prominently mentions its recycling capabilities in its announcement, the firm indicates it also will be processing virgin materials at its new facility. “With increasing demand for lithium-ion batteries, the ability to import raw materials, which we will also be able to refine on this site, presents a significant advantage,” the company says.

“Additionally, this site will be served by rail access, adding to the fast and efficient logistics this state and site offers,” Redwood continues. “When paired with the benefits of the recent Inflation Reduction Act, this strategic location also allows us the opportunity to invest more heavily at home while potentially exporting components in the future, allowing the United States to become a global leader in this manufacturing capability.”

In its announcement, Redwood refers to an emerging “Battery Belt” corridor it describes as running from Michigan to Georgia, where “hundreds of GWh per year of battery cell production capacity will be built and start operating between now and 2030.” Other states in that “belt” with a facility planned include North Carolina, Ohio and Tennessee.

The firm continues, “Unless metals like lithium and nickel are produced and refined and remain in country for domestic anode and cathode manufacturing at scale, these American battery cell facilities will have to continually source the majority of their components [from overseas], predominantly from Asia. This will send most (50 to 75 percent) of the economic value and job creation overseas.”

Redwood describes itself as combining recycling, refining and remanufacturing to produce and return battery materials to U.S. battery cell manufacturers. “We take in end-of-life batteries, break them down to their basic metals (like nickel, copper, cobalt and lithium) and then rebuild those metals into cathode and anode products.”

Source Link

Lowcountry

ARK of Summerville Ugly Sweater 5K raised over $7000 for local families dealing with Alzheimer’s

December 15, 2022 by 0 Comments
Read More

SUMMERVILLE, S.C. – The ARK, Alzheimer’s Family Support Services, recently hosted its fifth annual Ugly Sweater 5K Dash presented by Summerville Elks Lodge, 2719 on Dec. 3, 2022, in historic downtown Summerville. The annual event attracted 145 runners and walkers from all over the state, raising over $7,000 for The ARK of SC’s programs to assist local families living with Alzheimer’s and related dementia. All race proceeds fund programs such as memory screenings, resource fairs, educational workshops, and support groups in Berkeley, Charleston, Colleton, Dorchester, and Orangeburg counties plus respite centers in Harleyville and Summerville

“It is becoming increasingly important to raise awareness for our services and the prevalence of Alzheimer’s and related dementia in our area. There is a growing need for our programs,” said Peg Lahmeyer, executive director of The ARK. “The AARP recently announced that about 41 million family caregivers provided 16 hours a week or 34 billion hours of care with an estimated economic impact of $470 billion. In other words, caregivers are leaving paying jobs to take care of their loved ones. We are here to offer respite, support, and education.”

Congratulations to the top performing finishers in their respective categories. Awards were given to Hannah Moldenhauer with a time of 18:26, Jenna Godwin with 21:20, and Kendall Griffith with 23:46. Sawyer Speights came in first in his category with 19:58, next was Bruce Christensen with 20:00, and Kyle Lehrke with 20:25.

Learn more about The ARK of SC atwww.TheARKofSC.org. 

ABOUT THE ARK, ALZHEIMER’S FAMILY SUPPORT SERVICES

Based in Summerville, The ARK is a local nonsectarian nonprofit outreach program providing hope and relief to families living with Alzheimer’s Disease or a Related Dementia (ADRD). Support services include social respite care, support groups, education, caregiver consultations, resource referrals and community development. For more information, call 843-471-1360 or visit thearkofsc.org.

Lowcountry

Isle of Palms based McConnell Real Estate Partners and the McConnell Foundation donate $100,000 to pediatric cancer research

December 15, 2022 by 0 Comments
Read More


The team behind McConnell Real Estate Partners and The McConnell Foundation are proud to donate just shy of $100,000 to pediatric cancer research here in the Lowcountry. Jen and Josh McConnell, owners of the Isle of Palms-based real estate agency, have been dedicated to raising funds for pediatric cancer research at MUSC where their son Bodhi was treated when he survived a Stage 3 Neuroblastoma diagnosis at just five months old.

A portion of every commission at their real estate agency goes towards the fight for a cure, with the agency totaling $65,000 this year and $34,000 at their first annual gala for the Foundation back in June. 

Bodhi’s doctor, Dr. Jacqueline Kraveka, heads the only research laboratory in South Carolina dedicated to pediatric cancer.

“We can’t overstate the impact the Children’s Hospital, Dr. Kraveka and all those who carried research forward prior to our experience had on us,” says the McConnells. “We thank God and we thank them at every opportunity. We are forever grateful, and will forever work to further the cause.”

If interested in learning more about The McConnell Foundation, head to themcconnellfoundation.com.