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Effort addresses community concerns about trash on the West Ashley Greenway/Bikeway
CHARLESTON, S.C. — In an effort to address citizen concerns about trash on the West Ashley Greenway and Bikeway, the Charleston Parks Conservancy is launching a volunteer litter cleanup program. In April, the Conservancy will kick off Cleanup in the Parks.
Beginning in April, the Conservancy will give away 100 cleanup kits with bags, gloves, safety vests and trash pickers. Volunteers can keep the cleanup kits and use them to remove trash from any local park or public greenspace.
The Conservancy also is partnering with like-minded organizations to host community cleanup events along the West Ashley Greenway and Bikeway. The kickoff cleanup will be on Earth Day, Thursday, April 22 from 5:30-7:30 p.m. In addition, Charleston Waterkeeper will host a morning cleanup along the West Ashley Bikeway hosted from 9-11. Keep Charleston Beautiful will host its own cleanup on the Greenway from 5:30-7:30 p.m. An additional cleanup event is also scheduled for Saturday, May 22.
Located west of the Ashley River and spanning a combined more than 10 miles, the West Ashley Greenway and Bikeway winds through tunnels of trees, residential neighborhoods and across marshlands. This linear park is widely used for walking, running or biking. The trail meets at the cross section of Savannah Highway and Wappoo Road.
“We are always listening to the community and seeking input on how we can improve Charleston’s parks and greenspaces. After conducting a community survey about the West Ashley Greenway and Bikeway, it was clear that litter is a big concern,” said Rachel Barry, volunteer manager for the Conservancy. “We are excited to give the community an opportunity to join us in cleaning up the trails and making them more enjoyable for everyone.”
The Charleston Parks Conservancy is a nonprofit organization dedicated to inspiring the people of Charleston to connect with their parks and create stunning public places and a strong community. The Conservancy opens doors to individuals and organizations in Charleston wanting to engage with their parks and green spaces in a kaleidoscope of positive ways. With the help of its Park Angels, the Conservancy improves, enhances, and invigorates these spaces, making Charleston even better, stronger, and more successful. For more information about or to support the Charleston Parks Conservancy, visitwww.charlestonparksconservancy.org.
It’s happening! Tideland Brewing is finally opening its doors to the public!
Join us at our location on Dorchester Road in North Charleston (formerly known as Holy City Brewing) on Saturday, March 27th from 11 a.m. to 11 p.m.
There will be a variety of our beers on tap that are sure to please all types of tastes! And don’t forget to come hungry! Our NEW kitchen will be open!
Can’t wait to show you all what we’ve been brewin’ these past few months
Eleven81 Partners with YEScarolina to Benefit Summer Entrepreneurship Camps in Charleston, SC
$1 of each featured Kitchen Karma item at Eleven81 will be donated to YEScarolina through April.
CHARLESTON, SC – Now through April 30th, Eleven81 in the Market at Oakland in Mount Pleasant has partnered with YEScarolina to raise money through the restaurant’s Kitchen Karma program.
YEScarolina is a local nonprofit organization that empowers students in South Carolina to create businesses, grow wealth and impact economic development in their community through their entrepreneurship programs.
Proceeds from this partnership will benefit YEScarolina’s upcoming summer programs and Lowcountry Summer Pitch Contest for participating student entrepreneurs in Charleston.
The Kitchen Karma program began at the Eleven81’s owners’ first restaurant concept, SOL Southwest Kitchen & Tequila Bar. The restaurants partner with a local charity organization to donate $1 from every featured Kitchen Karma item sold throughout the program’s duration.
The featured items benefiting YEScarolina on Eleven81’s menu are the Jumbo Bavarian Pretzel and Cooper River Golden Ale Draft Beer. $1 of each purchased through April 30th, 2021 will be donated to YEScarolina.
FEATURED ITEMS
Jumbo Bavarian Pretzel
Cooper River Golden Ale Draft Beer
As entrepreneurs themselves, Eleven81 owners Joe Sciortino, Andy Palmer, and David Clark believe in YEScarolina’s mission and know the impact it can have.
“Small businesses and the entrepreneurs that lead them are the heart of our community”, explains David Clark. “We’re very excited about partnering with YEScarolina, an organization that teaches our young people how to be leaders through entrepreneurship right here in our own backyard in Mount Pleasant.”
Since its inception, the owners of Eleven81 have donated over $60,000 to nonprofit organizations here in Charleston through the Kitchen Karma program.
ABOUT ELEVEN81
Eleven81 is a locally owned and operated neighborhood restaurant + sports bar in Mount Pleasant, SC. Featuring elevated American fare, freshly juiced cocktails, indoor and outdoor dining in a casual, family-friendly environment, Eleven81 is a place for neighbors to catch the game, grab a drink, celebrate with family and friends and eat, drink, and gather.
Eleven81 – 1181 Oakland Market Road, Mount Pleasant, SC 29464
$40,000 in Grant Funding Will Expand Small Business Programs as Spring Business Academy Cohorts Commence
Lowcountry Local First (LLF), a nonprofit focused on economic development centered around local ownership, today announced Bank of America has provided funding to help sustain LLF’s efforts to cultivate an economy anchored in local ownership and foster a better environment for creating and sustaining local businesses. As part of its commitment to economic opportunity, Bank of America will provide LLF with $40,000 in grant funding to support and expand its entrepreneurial work, including the Good Business and Good Enterprises Initiatives.
The keystone of the Good Enterprises Initiative is the Community Business Academy (CBA), which kicked off its spring cohorts in late February.“We had an ambitious set of goals for our Community Business Academy and its growth from day one when we launched in 2019,” says Program Director, Raquel Padgett. “The support of Bank of America ensures we reach those goals, including increasing the number of students we can serve each semester, and hiring new instructors to maintain a high-quality experience throughout.”Even in a virtual environment, LLF’s initiatives continue to benefit area entrepreneurs who leverage program resources to grow and develop their small businesses. LLF’s Good Enterprises Initiative is a catalyst for reshaping the region’s entrepreneurial ecosystem into one that provides equitable opportunity for business ownership. This includes the CBA, a 12-week program offering business planning and management training.
With the ongoing support of organizations like Bank of America, LLF has been able to meet its growth plan to expand the CBA to include three cohorts, one of which will be instructed in Spanish for the first time by two CBA graduates who are reinvesting in the LLF program based on its positive impact on their businesses. The 2021 Spanish course kicked off in February, and the English courses began in March.
“The knowledge and information I gained from the program was truly invaluable,” says Tiffany Young, owner of Dazzling Desserts, and a Fall 2020 CBA graduate. “You learn how to manage a successful business, including things like record-keeping, sales projections, pricing strategies, marketing, and more. The hands-on training through the Business Simulation game we play throughout helps you understand exactly what it’s like to run a business.”
LLF’s Good Business Initiative further catalyzes businesses’ growth by fostering sustainable entrepreneurship and business development with wraparound services like collaborative workspace availability, triple-bottom-line summits and an Expertise Exchange program. The Expertise Exchange program connects small business owners with industry professionals to advise on resources that are key to small business viability, such as communications, real estate, financial planning and access to capital.
Bank of America supports the Good Business initiative by connecting program participants to financial solutions that fit their business goals and advisors who offer small businesses financial expertise.“The team at Lowcountry Local First genuinely cares about the entrepreneurs in the Good Enterprises and Good Business programs. Their work is really helping businesses succeed,” says Bank of America Small Business Banker, Garrett Reuber. “At Bank of America, we are proud of our longstanding partnership with Lowcountry Local First and the impact they are making in the small business community.”
CHARLESTON, SC — HALOS, an organization whose mission is to provide support and advocacy to abused and neglected children and their kinship caregivers, has collaborated with the SC Department of Social Services (DSS) to create the first-ever statewide online resource for South Carolina’s kinship families.
KinshipSC.org seeks to promote the safety, permanency, and well-being of children that live in kinship care. The website offers community, state, and national resources for caregivers including connecting website visitors to legal assistance, housing support, and financial assistance.
Kinship care is a temporary or permanent arrangement in which a relative or any non-relative adult who has a long-standing relationship or bond with the child and/or family has taken over the full-time, substitute care of a child whose parents are unable or unwilling to do so. Currently, more than 69,000 children in South Carolina live with a kinship caregiver, many of them grandparents. Caregivers often take children into care during a crisis or with little notice so it is critical they have the support they need to meet the child’s physical, social and emotional needs.
“We are excited to launch this new website, a first in South Carolina!” said Kim Clifton, HALOS Executive Director. “HALOS has worked with caregivers in the Charleston area and regularly receives calls from organizations and caregivers across the state looking for assistance. With the COVID-19 pandemic, more and more caregivers are turning to virtual help and this is one more way to reach families where they are.”
In addition to the website, KinshipSC.org has launched a toll-free number for caregivers looking to connect with services and programs. Staffed by HALOS, caregivers can reach a live person that can provide information and answer questions during regular business hours (Monday – Friday from 8:30am -5:30 pm) at 1-854-444-3716.
“Kinship caregivers play a very vital role in the child well-being system, said DSS Director Michael Leach. “Every day we work with family members who have stepped up, whether temporary or permanent, to be lifesaving support for a child or youth they love. This website will allow us to ensure South Carolina’s caregivers have the support they need to care for our state’s children.”
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About HALOS
HALOS was the first organization to provide comprehensive services to kinship families in South Carolina. For every 1 child placed in foster care, 19 children are placed with grandparents, relatives or family friends outside of the formal child welfare system. HALOS is here to provide these kinship caregivers the support they need to help the children in their care thrive. To learn more, visit www.charlestonhalos.org.
We are so proud to announce that on March 14, the wonderful WCBD on-air personality Carolyn Murray has launched her new podcast “Let’s Talk”
Details
The vision of the podcast is to help people tell their stories without being restricted to a 1-minute news report. I’m so excited to finally be able to enjoy conversations with you and to listen to you talk.
On the first episode of ‘Let’s Talk’ you will hear Kristin Graziano, the first woman elected sheriff of the Charleston County Sheriff’s Office. She talks about her sister being kidnapped, living in housing projects, and apologizing for racial profiling at the CCSO. It’s an eye-opening interview.
And because this has been a difficult time for us, I’m hopeful that we’ll have fun too! ‘Let’s Talk’ will bring a bit of light and laughter into your day. Like the episode with Glennie Davis who has worked at the Medical University of South Carolina for 48 years. She has some stories to tell!
‘Let’s Talk’ on Spotify and wherever you get your podcasts beginning Sunday, March 14th
Charleston, S.C. – Suzie Webster launches a new book, Holy City Heartbreak. The story takes place in Charleston, S.C. and is the 4th in a series all set in the city. This story follows two brothers, Austin and Noah in their pursuit of the same girl, former model, Lily Waters.
More About Holy City Heartbreak
Austin is damaged by his time in Afghanistan and Noah has loved Lily his entire life but her heart is drawn to Austin. Learn how the three navigate these difficult feelings all while enjoying the beautiful backdrop Charleston offers.
More about Lowcountry Liasons
The South has never been steamier as Luke, Charlie and their group of friends pursue their dreams by day and awaken their passions at night in the beautiful scenic city of Charleston, South Carolina. Each book is a stand-alone romance about two of these friends, but the supporting players continue to pop up and add to the good times throughout the series.
About Suzie
Why did Suzie Webster start writing romance novels at age forty-nine? To Inspire women to realize that they are the owners of their life and it is possible at any age to turn their story into a journey filled with laughter, steamy romance and adventure just like their favorite book. Throughout her many careers from Northern Virginia to Charleston, Suzie has always loved mentoring and supporting other women who are trying to live the life they want and deserve. She has loved writing since childhood and weaving stories is another way to share the message that love always wins. She is supported in her own journey by her very patient and tolerant husband Drew, who is always the inspiration for her sexy leading men and her three daughters, Ryleigh, Katie and Reese, who never fail to keep her on her toes and put her in her place. When she’s not traveling (her favorite hobby), she can be found curled up with a good book and a tasty cocktail, preferably tequila.
State Request Approved by Federal Partners will Allow Additional Nursing Home Visitation
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
COLUMBIA, S.C. — South Carolina has received federal approval to update visitation guidelines for nursing homes and community residential care facilities, announced the South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control (DHEC) and Governor Henry McMaster. These updated guidelines require facilities to use DHEC’s percent positive by county data to help determine their visitation status. This update will result in more facilities who were previously restricting visitation based solely on a county’s percent positive rate greater than 10 percent allowing in-person, indoor visitation.
As of today, any facility that meets the following standards must allow in-person, indoor visitation:
• a less than or equal to 10 percent positivity rate in the county in which the facility is located, using DHEC’s data, and • no COVID-19 cases among staff and/or residents in the past 14 days, and • maintained CMS’ core principles of COVID-19 infection prevention
Prior to the change in guidelines, 177 facilities were not allowing visitation. Of those, 43 facilities specifically cited county percentage positive as the reason and are in one of the 40 counties that now have a percentage positive of 10 percent or less should be able to open to visitation if they otherwise meet the criteria above.
“Too many South Carolinians have been prohibited from visiting their loved ones in long term care facilities because of overburdensome federal guidelines,” said Gov. Henry McMaster. “Prioritizing the physical health and safety of our most vulnerable citizens is critically important, but we must also protect their mental and emotional health. These updated guidelines represent important progress and will result in many facilities opening for visitation, but there’s more work to be done and we will continue pushing federal agencies to allow expanded visitation.”
Vaccinations of Long-term Care Residents and Staff As of today, 100 percent (193 out of 193) of the state’s nursing homes have had their first COVID-19 vaccination clinic completed and 86 percent (166 of 193) have had their second clinic completed, with additional clinics scheduled. A total of 98 percent (485 of 495) of the state’s community residential care facilities have had their first vaccination clinic completed and 86 percent (424 of 495) have had their second clinic completed, with additional clinics scheduled.
In total, more than 61,500 doses of COVID-19 vaccine have been given to our state’s roughly 40,000 long-term care facility residents, and more than 36,700 doses have been given to the approximately 40,000 workers who care for them.
“When COVID-19 first spread across the country, long-term care facilities were devastated as the virus took its toll on nursing home residents who were among the most vulnerable to the virus,” said Dr. Edward Simmer, DHEC Director. “In South Carolina, efforts had been underway to prepare long-term care facilities for the arrival of the virus, and DHEC has worked with facilities to help implement disease prevention protocols. Still, we lost many loved ones to this deadly virus. That’s why we prioritized nursing home residents among the first to be vaccinated, and after a massive statewide effort, nearly all long-term care facility residents in the state now have had the opportunity to get their life-saving shots.”
“Allowing visitation to the greatest degree possible consistent with safety for residents, staff, and visitors, is extremely important to residents’ mental and physical health and also for their families,” said Simmer. “The updated guidelines will help ensure as many residents as possible can have safe, in-person contact with family and friends.”
DHEC’s Percent Positive by County Data Until today, visitation guidelines for outdoor and indoor visitation at nursing homes and community residential care facilities (commonly referred to as assisted living facilities) have been based on percent positive data from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS). However, the data that CMS/U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) receives is based on several different data sources used to calculate percent positives. Today’s updated guidelines direct South Carolina’s long-term care facilities to instead use DHEC’s percent positive by county data.
DHEC uses the tests-over-tests method for calculating percent positive, which is the same method used by the CDC. Therefore, the state-generated percent positive data is appropriate to use for determining visitation.
The county positivity rate is based on an average of the past 14 days and the report is updated on the DHEC’s website weekly, on Thursdays at 1 p.m. Additional details about the updated guidelines requiring facilities to use DHEC’s percent positive by county data include:
• The county positivity rate must be greater than 10 percent in order for facilities to use this reason for not allowing indoor visitation. • These guidelines replace the previous use of CMS data to determine visitation status for purposes of indoor visitation. • As of the most recent data, 40 of 46 counties have positivity rates that are less than or equal to 10 percent. This means the current county positivity rate shouldn’t affect visitation except for the six counties (Allendale, Barnwell, Chesterfield, Lancaster, McCormick, and York) with rates higher than 10 percent. • Trends in county percent positivity rates can go up or down from one report to the next. This means, a facility’s visitation status could change from one week to the next, based on the data. • DHEC will continue to provide weekly updates on the current visitation status for all nursing home and congregate care residential facilities in the state, online here.
Facilities with limited visitation because their county’s percent positive rate exceeds 10 percent should still encourage safe indoor visitation during compassionate care situations. Compassionate care situations aren’t limited to end-of-life situations; other examples include when a resident’s physical or mental health is declining, if a resident is grieving the passing of a loved one, if a resident needs encouragement with eating or drinking, or when a new resident is struggling with transition. These examples are not a complete list and facilities should allow compassionate care visits on a case-by-case basis.
Facilities should also continue to allow outdoor visitation, virtual visits, and window visits consistent with DHEC’s guidelines. The public is strongly encouraged to contact the nursing home or assisted living facility to confirm their visitation status and policies and procedures prior to planning to visit a loved one.
For the latest information about nursing homes and extended care facilities impacted by COVID-19, including cases and deaths, visitation status, and county percent positivity rates, click here. For the latest COVID-19 information in South Carolina, click here.
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