Month: November 2020

The November 2020 issue of Currents is now available.  Click here to read it or visit the SIPOA website and access it through the News dropdown menu. Once you access the November issue, you will notice the icons across the top that allow you to “Share,” “Download,” “Print,” or “Zoom.”

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The next monthly Brown & White Pickup is Friday, November 6, 2020.

Bulk items can be left curbside by 7:00 am. Place items including furniture, appliances, grills, lawn furniture, or other similar household items where you would normally leave your trash and recycling.

Hazardous waste such as old paint cans, electronics, batteries, fluorescent lights, and old yard or household chemicals can be taken to the Maintenance Area (adjacent to the Community Garden) that morning between 9 am and 2 pm.  Hazardous materials must be handed directly to the attendant on duty. The materials cannot be left on the ground. 

If you are planning to put bikes out on Brown & White Pickup day, Sarah Quinn is collecting them for the Bicycles for Humanity (B4H) Program. You can call her to pick them up. Her phone number is (843) 768-4407. Sarah has saved more than 1,800 bikes from the landfill! Recently, cadets from The Citadel partnered with Porter Gaud to prepare donated bikes for shipment. See the flyer about that here. Find out more about B4H here.

Before you put your used furniture or other items on the curb for Brown & White Pickup on Friday, consider recycling it with Sea Island Habitat for Humanity Restore. Contact the store at 843-559-4009 for more information.

Click here for the 2020 SIPOA Garbage, Recycling, Yard Debris Pickup Schedule.

–Tidelines Editors

Election Day is Tuesday, November 3, 2020, and if you have chosen to vote in person at The Lake House that day, there are a few things you need to know.

Coronavirus is still endemic in South Carolina, so the same restrictions will be present for the November election that were present for the August election. Masks will have to be worn and social distancing will be maintained. There may be long lines outside of  The Lake House as social distancing requirements will limit voters to no more than five inside The Lake House.

During the 2016 General Election, 1,214 Seabrookers came to The Lake House to vote. A significant number of Seabrookers voted absentee in the 2016 General Election. That is a rate of about 100 voters per hour. Since the 2016 election, the number of registered voters on Seabrook has increased by 15% to 2,277 registered voters. We are hopeful that the large number of absentee ballots that have been cast already will reduce the number of people actually voting in person on Tuesday.

According to scvotes.gov, the displaying of campaign material is not allowed within 200 feet of any entrance to a polling place on election day.  This law applies to any type of visual display of campaign material, including posters, pamphlets, brochures, signs, buttons, hats, t-shirts, etc.  Voters displaying campaign material who enter the 200-foot area will be asked to remove the material, cover the material, or otherwise cause the material not to be seen.

In addition to this campaign material and clothing restriction, it is unlawful for a person to distribute any type of campaign literature or place any political posters within 200 feet of any entrance to a polling place on election day. Click here to read more about this.

The Lake House will open for voting at 7:00 am and close at 7:00 pm.  Anyone in line at 7:00 pm will be able to vote.  There will be cones outside The Lake House to designate where to stand in line and marks on the ground to indicate the 6′ social distance requirement.

-Submitted by George Reinhart, Precinct Clerk