HOLIDAY HEROES SEEKS DONATIONS, VOLUNTEERS

Operation Holiday Heroes is gearing up to help needy residents of the Lowcountry with toys and food this holiday season.

This is a countywide collaboration of the Salvation Army, Beaufort County Department of Social Services, Bluffton Self Help, Deep Well, Beaufort Regional Chamber of Commerce, Toys for Tots, the Beaufort Gazette/Island Packet and United Way of the Lowcountry.
Its mission is to ensure that every child and family in need has toys and food for the holidays.

To contribute money, send a check made payable to Operation Holiday Heroes to United Way of the Lowcountry, P.O. Box 202, Beaufort, SC 29901.

Donations of toys or money can also be dropped off at the United Way office at 2266 Boundary St. in Beaufort, 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday.

Volunteers are also needed, especially Spanish-speaking volunteers. To volunteer, call the Salvation Army at 524-3727.

To make donations of canned goods and nonperishable food, contact the Salvation Army at 524-3727, Bluffton Self Help at 757-8000 or Deep Well at 785-2849.

For more information about registering for Operation Holiday Heroes, call the Salvation Army at 524-3727.

BMH SLATES SERIES ON ECONOMIC STRESS

Beaufort Memorial Hospital Mental Health Services will offer “Avoiding Recession Depression,” a three-part series to address the real mental health effects of recent economic events, and how to cope with them.

The free community program will be at 5:30 p.m. Thursdays, November 6, 13 and 20, in the Keyserling Cancer Center conference room at 1680 Ribaut Road, Port Royal.

For more information about mental health services at Beaufort Memorial Hospital visit www.bmhsc.org or call 522-5269. To reach the confidential Mental Health Hotline call toll-free (800) 922-7844.

SCV MEETING NOV. 3; NEW MEMBERS INDUCTED

The Beaufort County Sons of Confederate Veterans (SCV) will hold its monthly meeting at 7:30 p.m. Monday, Nov. 3, at the Harmony Masonic Lodge on Depot Road.

Guest speaker Chris Clayton of Hilton Head, a retired GE executive and former program director for Low Country Civil War Round Table, will be speaking on the second battle of Franklin, Tenn., fought on Nov. 30, 1864.

The meeting is open to the public and guests and those interested in learning more about the SCV are encouraged to attend.

For more information, call Commander Claude McElveen at 683-6468.

New members of the Gen. Richard H. Anderson Camp of the Sons of Confederate Veterans were inducted at the October meeting.

New members include Claude E. McLeod and Andrew C. Pearson.

McLeod, a native Seabrook farmer and real estate developer, is a descendant of Pvt. Henry Walter Parham of Co. E, 19th Battalion, South Carolina Cavalry.

Pearson, associate rector at the Parish Church of St. Helena, is a descendant of Pvt. Levi Cornwall, Co. B, 49th Virginia Infantry regiment.

James “Buddy” Campbell was awarded the War Service Medal for his service as an Army officer during the Vietnam War.

Campbell is a descendant of 1st Sgt. John Alvin Jones, Co. B, 9th Regiment, Georgia Infantry.

The Heritage Society of Beaufort (HSOB) will hold its annual BBQ and silent auction for members and friends at 5:30 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 6, at the home of President Bill Culp, 2208 Bay Street.

HSOB is an umbrella organization supporting six National Heritage Groups currently meeting in Beaufort: Sons of the American Revolution (SAR); Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR); Colonial Dames XVIIth Century (CD); Daughters of American Colonists (DAC); Sons of Confederate Veterans (SCV); and United Daughters of the Confederacy (UDC).

For more information or reservations, call Treasurer Kent Wold at 522-3530.

ENVIRONMENTAL AWARD NOMINATIONS SOUGHT

Nominations will be accepted through Dec. 15 for an award to recognize South Carolinians who are doing extraordinary work for the natural environment.

Guidelines and nomination forms for the S.C. Environmental Awareness Award are available at dnr.state.sc.us/awards/environmental.html or call Priscilla Wendt at (843) 953-9305 or e-mail wendtp@dnr.sc.gov

The S.C. General Assembly established the S.C. Environmental Awareness Award, now in its 17th year, during the 1992 legislative session to recognize outstanding contributions made toward the protection, conservation and improvement of South Carolina’s natural resources.

Each year the public is invited to submit nominations that are then reviewed by an awards committee, which includes representatives from the state’s environmental and natural resource agencies.

In judging nominees, the committee considers excellence in innovation, leadership and accomplishments that influence positive changes affecting the natural environment.

Members of the awards committee represent the S.C. Department of Natural Resources, S.C. Department of Health and Environmental Control, S.C. Forestry Commission and S.C. Sea Grant Consortium.

COLUMNIST LECTURES AT USCB

Nationally syndicated columnist Maggie Gallagher will be featured at a lecture series at the University of South Carolina Beaufort sponsored by the Ralph McInerny Center for Thomistic Studies.

The center is a non-profit educational group.

Gallagher will speak on “Does Marriage Have a Future?” from 7:30 to 9 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 12.

Educator and author Ralph McInerny will speak on “How Do Ordinary People Know Moral Principles?” from 7:30 to 9 p.m. Friday, Nov. 14.
Tickets are $20. For information, call Christopher Wolfe at (414) 217-7746 or e-mail christopher.wolfe@mu.edu

HISTORICAL SOCIETY MEEETING NOV. 13

The Beaufort County Historical Society will meet at 11:30 a.m. Thursday, Nov. 13, at the First Presbyterian Church at Church and Newcastle streets.

A light lunch will be served at 11:30 for an $8 donation.

Harold Cooler will be the guest speaker. Cooler wrote “Chicora Chronicle: Explore the South Carolina Lowcountry of the 1920’s – 1940’s through the eyes of a native son.”

He is a retired architect from Charlotte, N.C., where he practiced for 50 years.

Cooler was born in Coosawhatchie, attended Jasper County public schools and graduated from Clemson College in 1943. He served in World War II with the 1698th Engineer Combat Battalion, Ninth Army, in both the European theater and the occupation army in Japan with the First Cavalry Division.

For more information about the Beaufort County Historical Society, call Iva Welton at 671-4865 or e-mail Ivasouth@aol.com