Fox 24 and Berkeley Electric Cooperatives are honoring our very own Seabrooker, Bob Mason, as a “Hero of the Lowcountry” for his volunteerism as DR. GEZZER at our local hospitals. Bob will be presented with this well deserved award on Fox 24 newscasts today, October 26, 2017, at 12:30 pm and 11:00 pm.
-Submitted by Tidelines Editors
Amy Myers is another one of those wonderful Seabrookers who gives of her time and talent to help those in need. I call them ordinary people doing extraordinary things.
Amy runs WaterProof, Inc., an organization that teaches kindergarten and first-grade students at Mt. Zion and Edith L. Frierson Schools how to swim. She runs the program in the spring and fall of each year using the Boy Scout Camp Ho Non Wah located in Wadmalaw, which has a great pool. Each session includes 10 days of swimming from 9 am to 12 noon. There are 70 students that are taught how to swim. Continue reading “WaterProof the Children”
For those of us who have lived in more northern areas, October marks the beginning of “leaf peeping” season. For Seabrookers, October is important for a different reason, for it marks the end of turtle season. This year it also marks the end of the tenure of a remarkable woman who has been described previously as “the voice of the turtles.” After 24 years of service, Beautsie Zahrn is retiring from her official role with the Turtle Patrol.
On October 3, more than 90 people filled Live Oak Hall at the Lake House to honor Beautsie with a potluck supper. 
Mayor Ron Ciancio presented Beautsie with an official proclamation from the Town of Seabrook Island declaring October 3, 2017, as “Beautsie Zahrn Day.” Then a heartfelt tribute was delivered to Beautsie detailing her 24 years of dedicated service to the turtles.
Take a moment to look back over the years and to learn about Beautsie as we acknowledge her outstanding contribution not only to the turtles but also to the legacy of Seabrook Island. Since moving to Seabrook in 1993, Beautsie Zahrn has been committed to the care of the turtles who nest on our shores each year between May and October. She was one of seven people in the first patrol who walked the beach daily in the 1990s, long before the current well-organized and well-defined Turtle Patrol was formed. Turtle Patrol has grown from those seven hardy folks who patrolled the beach every single day, to the more than 150 volunteers today who are scheduled to work specific days and perform specific tasks. Continue reading “Meet Beautsie Zahrn, Turtle Mama”
The Post and Courier announced recently that Seabrooker Dick Wildermann won the April Golden Pen for his Letter to the Editor. The Post and Courier said, “his letter decried the revived plan to begin exploration and drilling for oil and natural gas off the Atlantic coast.”
See a copy of Dick’s letter here.
-Tidelines Editor
On Thursday, June 22, 2017, there will be a gathering of various civil rights leaders who got together many years ago to assist people in getting registered to vote. The gathering starts at 7:00 pm and will be held at Church of our Saviour.
In the summer of 1965, the Southern Christian Leadership Conference put together a community organization called SCOPE, which stood for Summer Community Organization and Political Education. The Voting Rights Act of 1965 spurred SCOPE. Thousands of volunteers turned out to help the project and some of those leaders will be on hand on June 22 to share their experiences with you.
Speakers will include Seabrook’s own John Reynolds, a Seabrook resident and author of the book The Fight for Freedom. Other speakers include Jo Freeman, who worked on voter registration in Newberry County, SC; Lanny Kaufer, who registered voters in rural Sussex County, VA; Richard Smiley, who worked on registration in Dawson, GA; and Barbara Williams Emerson, who worked on voter registration in a variety of Southern states, as well as Washington, D.C, and Chicago, IL.
All are invited to attend. There is no charge for admission.
-Barbara Burgess, Tidelines Writer
Stan graduated from Ohio State University College of Dentistry in 1967 and served two years of active duty at Parris Island, SC from 1967 to 1969 as a Navy Dental Officer. He then returned to Ohio to private practice and married his wife, Carol. They have three daughters and eight grandchildren.
The historic district of Lake City, South Carolina, will be transformed into a living art gallery from April 21-29. Local businesses, restaurants, boutiques, warehouses, parks and more will display over 400 works of art by talented artists from the Southeast.
Photographs by Seabrook Island artists Ted Henderer, Kathleen Pompe, Patricia Schaefer and Stanford Ullner will be featured in this nine-day competition. A panel of art professionals will award over $100,000 in prizes and People’s Choice Awards will be selected by attendee votes. Continue reading “Seabrook Artists Compete in Artfields Competition 2017”
Most of you know Tim McBride, a fellow Seabrooker who also works at Harris Teeter in Freshfields. He is the son of Bob and Jan McBride.
Tim McBride, the “Man About Town,” has always been a huge fan of country singer Toby Keith. For Christmas last year, his sister Kelly gave him tickets to attend a Toby Keith concert in Tampa Bay on March 9.
Tim flew down last week for the event with 3 different Toby Keith t-shirts, a “Big Dog Daddy” ball cap and his tambourine.
The day of the concert, Kelly’s significant other, Kyle, arranged for Tim, Kelly and Kyle to get some Meet and Greet passes. During the event, Tim had his tambourine and was obviously very excited about meeting Toby Keith. According to Tim’s sister, when the photographer asked Tim to raise the tambourine in the air, Tim did it with gusto. At that point Toby Keith said “Hey, let’s get that guy on stage.”
Once up there, Tim was really pumped and sang “Red Solo Cup” and “Should’ve Been a Cowboy,” right along with Toby Keith, all the while enthusiastically playing his tambourine. He then remained onstage dancing as well as performing a tambourine solo. He became known to the audience as Toby’s “my little tambourine man.”
Tim is now officially a real “rock star” and will never forget his moments of fame. Special thanks to Toby Keith, who is a real hero.
To see a clip of the concert, click on this link https://youtu.be/JFEXt18T9jI
–Tidelines Editors
Submitted by
Kelly Butorac
Seabrook never fails to surprise me. We live in such a beautiful spot we wonder how we got so lucky. As we watch the poor souls who are traipsing all over Greece, Turkey, Germany, France and other parts of Europe to find a home for themselves, we know we are especially blessed to be right where we are.
We not only have a great location, we have some very special neighbors as well. I met three of our Seabrook neighbors recently at the Lake House. They are Jody Garvey, Maraide Sullivan and Patti Tully. All three are part of the Ladies Bible Study Group that meets every Monday, from 1:30 to 3:30pm in the Live Oak Room at the Lake House.
Every meeting starts with a short social time, followed by an opening prayer of an ecumenical nature. They then watch a short video, of some thirty to forty minutes, on some topic of spiritual significance. Everything is biblically based or on a spiritual life topic that warrants discussion. Every video comes with a workbook, and every meeting has facilitators who break the group up into smaller parts so they can discuss the topic the film has emphasized. Subjects frequently revolve around issues of trust and forgiveness. There is a closing prayer to finish off the day.
There are approximately twenty five members of the Ladies Bible Study Group who attend regularly. They have been in existence for eight years. Ninety per cent of the group comes from Seabrook, with others joining from Kiawah and Kiawah River Estates. They do not consider themselves a group that is around to do good deeds, however they usually do take on a Christmas project. This year their Christmas efforts centered on finding warm coats for the winter. They partnered with the Salvation Army in West Ashley as one of them had known Major Thomas Richmond of the Salvation Army and he was very anxious to help them with their project. The Salvation Army Office is on 2135 Ashley River Road. Major Richmond said there are lots of homeless people in West Ashley and the coats would go in three to four days.
Acting together as a group, the Ladies Bible Study group managed to come up with fifty winter coats. They accomplished all this by calling their various friends. They called all of the Tennis Captains leaning especially heavily on the tennis players who have become known for their generosity. The Group insisted that the coats be given away, not sold.
This is a very unusual group by any definition. They don’t fit easily into the standard of many groups on Seabrook as theirs is a spiritual mission and they are all devoted to it. For more information contact Jody Garvey at garveyjody@gmail.com or Patti Tully at patetiitully@gmail.com.
They left me with this thought: “The Bible is God’s Love Story to us”. What a beautiful story they are creating.
Submitted by
Barbara Burgess, Tidelines Staff Writer
Seabrook Island Photography Club Featured Photographer, Patricia Schaefer-
I grew up in a large family in rural Minnesota. Upon graduation, I traveled to Europe where I met Page. I moved to South Carolina and there we married and raised our two children. My professional career was spent as a pediatric occupational therapist working in the public school system.
Photography became my passion when I moved to Seabrook Island and was inspired by its immense beauty. I soon published two photography books, Dolphin Strand Feeding and Dolphins from A to Z. Those accomplishments led to a featured article in the SC Wildlife magazine and garnered me credits in a 2013 National Geographic documentary film, “Secret Life of Predators”.
My work was featured on the cover of Neighbors magazine, in Charleston and Island magazines, on educational signs both in Georgia and South Carolina, and most recently in a Japanese children’s book. I have received awards including those from First Federal People’s Choice, Piccolo Spoleto Juried Art Exhibition, Charleston Artist Guild, Wells Gallery, SCW/Hampton Wildlife Fund, BEC calendar contest, and the Charleston Center for Photography.
Continue reading “Seabrook Island Photgraphy Club Featured Photographer, Patricia Schaefer”
Have you ever wondered what it is like to run your very own restaurant? How do you 
come up with the right supplies to stock your shelves and larder to accommodate everyone’s needs? Is there any fun in the job or is it just one problem after another to occupy your time. Do you ever get any time for yourself?
Nancy Keeney has been experiencing both the joys and the problems having your own restaurant presents. She runs the Mexican restaurant located right outside the Seabrook Island gate called San Lucas. She lived in Atlanta, but now resides in Seabrook at Marsh Walk, along with her three children .
Nancy didn’t exactly plan on being the owner of San Lucas. She came to Charleston with a friend to look at Arriba, the Mexican restaurant in Bohicket Marina that has since closed. The friend was to be a partner in the restaurant, but he backed out roughly five weeks before the restaurant opened. What was she to do? She had put time and money into redecorating the restaurant. Was she just to let that money go, or should she follow through on her own. She had never run a restaurant in her life.
Three days before the opening, she heard an explosion in the kitchen. The coke machine compressor had erupted, spewing liquid all over the recently cleaned kitchen. On opening day, everything that could go wrong did. The icemaker stopped working, then the power quit. All of her systems crashed and the menu was too heavy on options.
Nancy says the first six weeks represented a steep learning curve for her. Hiring good staff and having a first rate cook are the key ingredients in keeping things going. Getting good staff way out here on these islands is not always easy. People with experience can usually get better jobs in Charleston, but Nancy has learned how to train wait staff quickly and well to get them up to snuff as to the customers needs.
Nancy also wonders if the location of her restaurant could, by any chance, be haunted. Yes, haunted. She describes an evening when she clearly heard footsteps on the floor above the restaurant, and even the sound of children’ running on the stairs. When she saw the tenant the next day, she told him she had heard him above, and he said he hadn’t been in the place for several months.
All problems considered, Nancy says her favorite time of day is the morning when she comes in at around 9AM. The sun is streaming into the restaurant, the new chef is starting the day’s cooking and the early morning smells of food are lovely. The guacamole is made fresh everyday, as is the salsa, which is made from farm fresh tomatoes. A hot freshly brewed cup of coffee sets her up for the day’s events, which she always hopes will bring new and exciting adventures.
-Barbara Burgess, Tidelines Writer