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Giving Back
Habitat dedicates new home
Dorchester Habitat for Humanity, in partnership with Charleston Southern University and Summerville Medical Center, dedicated the first of three homes in the urban renewal effort called Project Phoenix. The first home is for Summerville resident Nathan Gibbs, whose dilapidated house on North Hickory Street in Summerville was demolished to make room for his new home. In exchange, Gibbs donated the two lots next door for two other homes.
Golf tournament benefits Ronald McDonald House
The fourth annual Electronic Merchant Systems Ronald McDonald House Golf Tournament was held at The Daniel Island Country Club. Last year’s event raised $51,000 for the Ronald McDonald House of Charleston. Pictured left to right: Barbara Bond, Karla Taylor, Charles Koci.
Bakker fund awards grant for arts therapy program
The Bakker Family Fund awarded a grant to the South Carolina Youth Advocate Program to fund an arts therapy program for foster children under the agency’s care. The Artistic and Cultural Expression Program will allow children served by SCYAP to participate in a visual and/or performing arts program/therapy. The Bakker Family Fund provides grants to a broad range of nonprofit agencies that serve individuals in need in Berkeley, Charleston and Dorchester counties.
House representatives present donation to charity
House Speaker Bobby Harrell, Rep. Chip Limehouse and Rep. Wallace Scarborough presented Camp Happy Days with a $1,000 donation from a charity bowling tournament. Camp Happy Days is a weeklong summer camp for children with cancer and their families. Last year, the House Ways and Means Committee and the Labor, Commerce and Industry Committee competed in a bowling tournament to benefit charity. In the end, the committees decided to call the close game a draw and split the prize money so the charities would be the true winners.
Teacher helps donate car to student in need
Charleston Southern University’s chief information officer Rusty Burns, with the help of Integrity Motors and Limelight Financial, donated a 1992 Ford Taurus to CSU freshman Jatonya Simmons. Simmons was having problems attending class, keeping up with homework and helping to provide for her ill great-grandmother after her old car’s engine failed. The donated car, Bruns said, will help the promising freshman stay on top of her schoolwork and her job. Pictured, Simmons and Bruns.
Kiwanis Club gives dictionaries to home-schooled students
The Kiwanis Club of Knightsville presented dictionaries to the homeschoolers’ SHEEP program (Summerville Home Education Enrichment Partners) who meet at Old Fort Baptist Church in Summerville. Pictured: (back row) David Valmus, Catie O’Neal, William Rabb, Amber Kriewaldt and Angie Valmus; (second row) Amy King, director of SHEEP; DJ Dingler, Sarah Graham, Terrah Kriewaldt and James King; (front row) Gail Hughes, Auston Kriewaldt, Abby Cardenas, Joshua Graham and Barbara Crosby.
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