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Giving Back
Tree experts clean Habitat for Humanity lot
Bartlett Tree Experts recently cleared a Habitat for Humanity lot in North Charleston for a Collegiate Challenge build. The new home is for Anita Antionette and her daughter, Sharree.
Summerville businessman helps Habitat for Humanity
For the past five years, Steve Hill of Summerville Homes has hosted an annual golf tournament at Miler Country Club to benefit Dorchester Habitat for Humanity. This year the golf tournament raised $15,000. Pictured, Hill (left) presents a check to Erin Byrd, Dorchester Habitat’s development and communication manager.
IT company contributes to tsunami relief
Atlas Technologies Inc., a Charleston-based company focused on the development and integration of information technology systems, contributed $4,660 to the tsunami relief effort on behalf of the company and its 58 employees.
Company uses skills, tools for landscape makeover
Sunbelt Rentals’ Charleston-area stores provided a free landscape makeover at the home of Penelope West in Mount Pleasant. After the West home burned in a January 2004 fire, the United Methodist Relief Center in Mount Pleasant provided the West family with a new home through its Houses on the Move program, in which donated homes are recycled back into the community to serve low-income families in distress or provide opportunities for first-time homebuyers. “It’s very rewarding for us to take our training out into the community and do work that really makes a difference,” says Steve DeMonbreun, Sunbelt equipment training manager.
Mortgage association hands out scholarships
The Mortgage Lenders Association of Greater Charleston honored recipients of its 2005 Wilma Adams Scholarship at an annual luncheon. Recipients were Daniel Lacy, a business administration major at the College of Charleston; Ricardo Gonzalez, a student at the College of Charleston majoring in economics and political science; and Ami Ziff, a business administration major at the College of Charleston.
Golfers aid child abuse victims
The Dee Norton Lowcountry Children’s Center Inc. sponsored its eighth annual “Fore the Kids” Golf Marathon at Snee Farm Country Club. The event raises money for services for child abuse victims and their families. Participants at this event were challenged to play 100 holes and to solicit pledges for each hole played. This year the center recruited 24 golfers who raised more than $76,000 in pledges.
Rotary Club presents scholarships
The Rotary Club of Daniel Island awarded three students at Hanahan High School scholarships to attend college: Kai Elington, who will attend the College of Charleston; Jo-Quetta Wright, who will attend the University of South Carolina-Upstate; and Tabitha Elington, who will attend Lander University.
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