Month: February 2020

Women Build Registration Opens

Join us for a building shift! Volunteer your time and help us build a home for a local family. The $35 registration includes our Women Build t-shirt, snacks, and lunch. Sign up for as many half- or full-day shifts as you like.

We need all skill levels. If you have a smile and can hold a hammer, we need your help. Our friendly staff will be on-site to show you how to use every tool you’re comfortable with.

Not comfortable with a hammer? We also need help in our hospitality tent to register participants, pass out snacks and water, keep an eye out for people who may need encouragement, and mention anything that needs attention to one of our staff. If interested, select Hospitality when you register for your desired shift(s) and we will get back to you.

Bring your friends. We welcome individuals and groups and Women Build is a great team-building experience.

Habitat partner families contribute. This year’s homeowner is still to be determined but we plan to have them join us on the build site during the week of Women Build! Partner families must complete a home-ownership course as well as sweat equity hours toward the completion of their new home! They then pay off their zero-interest mortgage over 30 years at an affordable rate, contributing valuable funds towards building further Habitat homes.

This is our 21st year! Women Build volunteers from all walks of life have come together to build stronger, safer communities in the Lowcountry through this amazing annual event. During this week, women make a difference by helping build a decent and affordable home for a family that needs a hand up, not a handout.

Can you sponsor Women Build? Contribute much needed financial support as a sponsor. Receive recognition in our Women Build publicity and on our hugely popular t-shirts!

🔨 To register, click here.  Questions? Contact Jacob Elsey, jacob@seaislandhabitat.org or (843) 768-0998 x 112.

–Tidelines Editors

Register for Friday’s SIB Shorebird Steward Training

Birders

Come to the Seabrook Island Birders Steward Program Training session on Friday February 28 at 3:00 pm at the Oyster Catcher Community Center, followed by a Happy Hour at 5:30 pm. Let us know you are interested by completing this simple form.

Why?

To help birds at risk: Seabrook Island sits at a critical junction for a number of shorebird species! During the spring, birds like Piping Plovers and Red Knots need our beaches to pack on weight in preparation for migration. Birds fitted with transmitters have proven that some Red Knots, as part of their 9.300 mile trip from South American to its breeding ground, leave Seabrook Island and fly non-stop to the Hudson Bay in northern Canada over 1,200 miles away. Other birds like Least Tern and Wilson’s Plover use the beach area for nesting and food.

To honor Seabrook’s promise to the US Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) and the SC Department of Natural Resources (SCDNR). The USFWS and SCDNR allowed our town to relocate the inlet in part because we agreed to protect the birds that needed sustenance from our beaches.

The Purpose

To educate: Many people do not appreciate how important our sanctuary is. The stewards program asks you to be a volunteer to help educate people about the importance of our tiny piece of the world to the shorebirds that visit. This is not an enforcement effort, but an educational effort.

Your Commitment

The Seabrook Island Birders Shorebird Stewards Program asks you to volunteer for two-hour shifts, signing up for as many or as few as your schedule allows. You will use an online sign up to pick and choose the times you want to give. Ideally, at least two people will be working together for each shift. Please honor your commitment to the times you choose. Be friendly and open. Encourage people to approach you with questions but limit your answers to the depth of their curiosity.

The Seabrook Island Birders Stewards Program’s Commitment to You

Prior to accepting a commitment of your time, we, in cooperation with Audubon South Carolina, will train you. You will learn key ways to interact with the public. We will provide educational material to enhance your understanding of the birds and you will have a professional spotting scope provided by SCDNR to show folks these miraculous birds. You can use these tools to help educate our friends and neighbors as to how to interact with the birds while on the beach. You will also be provided a station containing a chair, an umbrella, some signs for people to read, and some information to share. You will be kept informed as to what birds are currently on the Island and, if known, where they are from.

Learn more

Come to the next Seabrook Island Birders Steward Program Training session on Friday February 28 at 3:00 pm at the Oyster Catcher Community Center. If you wish to join as a steward or just want more information, click here to complete a simple form.

SIB Red Knot April 2019
Red Knots in spring plumage on North Beach at Seabrook Island – Ed Konrad

-Submitted by SIB

Seabrookers Are Reading…

Here is the latest installment from our readers who want to share the joy of reading.

The Splendid and the Vile
by Erik Larson
Larson delivers a fresh and compelling portrait of Winston Churchill and London during the Blitz. On Winston Churchill’s first day as prime minister, Hitler invaded Holland and Belgium. Poland and Czechoslovakia had already fallen, and the Dunkirk evacuation was just two weeks away. For the next twelve months, Hitler would wage a relentless bombing campaign, killing 45,000 Britons. It was up to Churchill to hold the country together and persuade President Franklin Roosevelt that Britain was a worthy ally-and willing to fight to the end. (2020, 585 pgs; Nonfiction)

The Rise and Fall of the House of Windsor
by A.N. Wilson
1992 was the year the roof fell in on the storybook existence of the British royal family, the Windsors, and Queen Elizabeth referred to it as the “annus horribilis.” The British press could barely keep up with the succession of scandals that undermined popular support of the monarchy. Readers with an interest in history will be fascinated by Wilson’s tracing of the misery of the Windsors to the quarrels and eccentricities of elder generations, and perhaps to an even more ancient family curse. (1993, 211 pgs; Nonfiction)

Summer of ’69
by Elin Hilderbrand
Four siblings experience the drama, intrigue, and upheaval of a summer when everything changed in Hilderbrand’s first historical novel set in Nantucket not far from Martha’s Vineyard. (2019, 425 pgs; Fiction)

We look forward to hearing about the books you or your book club recommend.

  • Include your name (although it will not be published), the title and author of the book you are recommending and email this to Tidelines at seabrookislandblog@gmail.com. (You may be able to click on the email address to open a new message.)
  • For audiobooks, include the name of the narrator.
  • Tidelines editors will provide a blurb to tell a little about the book and add the book jacket image.
  • Publication is at the discretion of Tidelines editors.

–Tidelines Editors

CATR Seeks Volunteers for Kiawah Invitational Golf Tournament

CATR Seeks Volunteers For Kiawah Invitational Golf Tournament
March  19-22, 2020

Charleston Area Therapeutic Riding (CATR) has been chosen as the local beneficiary of the Liberty Mutual Invitational Golf Tournament on Kiawah and as such is seeking volunteer scorekeepers to work the tournament taking place on the Ocean Course and and Turtle Point and Osprey Point courses. Scorekeepers are needed to serve for at least one day between March 19 – 22, and will receive a complementary breakfast at 7:30 am, lunch vouchers and a thank you gift at the end of play at about 2:30 pm. As a tournament volunteer, you will part of an effort raising millions of dollars for charitable causes, including CATR! To volunteer, call the Kiawah event office at 843-768-5825 or contact CATR at info@catr-program.org

-Submitted by Norm Powers for CATR

SIAG Welcomes Stephanie Marzella – March 17

The Seabrook Island Artist Guild welcomes
Stephanie Marzella
Contemporary Realist
March 17 at The Lake House
2:00 – 4:00 pm

Stephanie Marzella has been a painter of landscape and still life since receiving her Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree from the Cleveland Institute of Art in 1984. She was born and raised outside of Cleveland, Ohio. Soon after receiving her BFA she moved to Rhode Island where she began to focus solely on landscape and quiet water. She now resides on Johns Island and has been painting the Low Country and discovering all it has to offer. The driving forces behind Stephanie’s work are her love of nature and interpretive use of color. Continue reading “SIAG Welcomes Stephanie Marzella – March 17”

How to Use the Peloton Bike

You’ve probably seen the TV commercials about the latest advancement in health equipment, the Peloton Bike, which offers streaming of instructors to encourage you on your Peloton health journey.

In the attached video Mark Durinsky shows us how to use the Peloton machine at the Lake House.  Click here. So, if you’ve always wanted to check out the Peloton Bike, come on over to the Lake House.

-Submitted by The Lake House

Save the Date – Chili Cook-off at Bohicket Marina

The Annual Chili Cook-Off is scheduled for Saturday, March 21, 2020, at Bohicket Marina.  It will take place from 1:00 – 4:00 pm.

All proceeds benefit children at Mt. Zion, Angel Oak, and Frierson Elementary and also Haut Gap Middle School. Meals are provided each Friday for their meals over the weekend. Come out and support this amazing cause!

The Chili Cook-off, along with The Gorski and Friends Challenge, benefits Backpack Buddies Seabrook Island and the Backpack Buddies Group of Kiawah Women’s Foundation.  To see our post about the challenge and how you can participate, click here.

–Tidelines Editors

(Photo credit:  pixabay.com)

Gibbes Museum Partners for Charleston County Public Libraries

Gibbes Museum of Art Partners with Charleston County Public Library
To Offer Free Admission for Local Families

In an effort to fulfill their mission to make art accessible to all, the Gibbes Museum of Art has launched a partnership with the Charleston County Public Library (CCPL) that will make 15 family-level memberships available for check out at all CCPL branches. The passes will be available for circulation starting Feb. 18 and will allow up to two adults and all children or grandchildren under the age of 18 free admission to the museum.

“This partnership embodies everything that we stand for,” says Angela Mack, executive director of the Gibbes Museum of Art. “It’s important to us that everyone has the ability to learn and discover art. We strive to enhance lives through art by enabling visitors of all ages, backgrounds and abilities to learn, to discover and to be inspired by the creative process.”

Continue reading “Gibbes Museum Partners for Charleston County Public Libraries”

Correction: Seabrook Island Town Council Meeting Agenda – February 25

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The Seabrook Island Town Council will meet February 25 at 2:30 pm at the Seabrook Island Town Hall, 2001 Seabrook Island Road.

Click here to review the agenda for the meeting.

Minutes of this meeting will be available after approval at the next Town Council meeting.

Comments or questions should be directed to the Town of Seabrook Island here.

–Submitted by Faye Allbritton, Town Clerk