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The local newspaper for Murrells Inlet and Garden City Beach
JUNE VOL. 1 NO. 5
W W W. M U R R E L L S I N L E T M E S S E N G E R . C O M
Attention visitors and vacationers!
Murrells Inlet is the place to be.
Savor the abundance of freshly prepared
seafood in the state’s “Seafood Capital” restaurants serving mouth-watering delicacies.
Award-winning chefs create culinary masterpieces with the bountiful seafood harvested
off the shores of Murrells Inlet.
Pirates and legends
Centuries ago, pirates quietly plied the inlet waterways to hide out and bury treasure.
Among them was the notorious Blackbeard,
who left behind a shipmate to guard casks
of rum on an inlet island. When Blackbeard
returned to the island much later, bones and
empty bottles greeted him... and the legend of
Drunken Jack Island was born.
Explore the creeks and marsh
Explore the waters on salt marsh ecology
tours. Feel the ocean spray on a half-day or
full-day fishing charter from the inlet marinas. Catch your dinner! Adventure lies ahead
with the parasail, jet ski, kayak, canoe and banana boat rentals offered at the inlet marinas
and shops. Stroll along the 1250-foot Marshwalk that skirts the creek, and enjoy the quiet
solitude of nature. Observe the beauty of the
inlet’s oldest inhabitants - egrets, herons, waterfowl, fish and crabs. Don’t forget your
camera!
Pick up your own treasure at one of the inlet’s antique shops. Stroll a pristine pleasure,
Brookgreen Gardens, one of the world’s preeminent outdoor sculpture gardens. The flora
of these former rice plantations are breathtaking. Huntington Beach State Park’s quiet care
of the environment won a statewide stewardship award. See nature amid natural settings.
Courageous student
overcomes adversity
By Tim Callahan
Editor/Publisher
Donnie O’Dell’s drug addicted mom left him.
His grandfather, who helped raise him, died during Donnie’s sophomore year. Donnie never
knew his father until this year, his senior year at
St. James High School.
Donnie did not resort to drugs and he did not
drop out. He did not wallow in self-pity.
Nor, did he just scrape by.
O’Dell was honored last week with the Taylor
McKinney Courage Award, given to a student
for overcoming adversity to graduate from high
school. He also was the Sharks’ REEL Kid (Recognizing Extraordinary Examples of Leadership). One student was named from each school
in the Horry County School district.
The phenomenal student-athlete is headed to
Methodist University, a co-ed liberal arts and
science college, on an academic scholarship.
He has also been recruited to play football. Not
a real big boy at 5’10” and 170 pounds, Donnie will probably be the team’s long snapper for
punts. He also wants to play outside linebacker.
The young man, who put on the Special Olympics as a senior project with 17 high schools participating, wants to major in special education or
sports administration.
Special Olympians and special education students bring Donnie joy.
“They lighten up my day,” he said. “When I
walk into the room, I j ust can’t help but smile.”
He said that working with the disabled puts his
past into perspective.
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St. James High School’s Donnie O’Dell
Barber runs clean
business for 25 years
By Tim Callahan
Jerry runs a clean business in a community he
loves.
His clientele is not dirty. He does not get dirty
doing it. There is no drinking and no smoking.
The job is not physically demanding, something
very important to a 65-year-old. And, it allows
him time to build homes and take care of his own
home in Wachesaw Plantation.
For all those reasons, “it is a clean business,”
Jerry said.
Jerry is Jerry Donahue, owner of Donahue’s
Barber Shop and the building that also houses
a Lutheran insurance company and Alston Hair
Studio. His shop, which he built in 1986, is off
Business 17 in Murrells Inlet.
He built his own home, 4,400 square feet of it,
and has just built a beautiful home behind the
barber shop at 517 Gibson Avenue. He likes to
build, sell, then use the profit to build again, he
said.
“I’m a work-a-holic,” said the man whose barber shop opens at 6:30 a.m., Monday-Friday.
He has been cutting hair for 38 years, he said,
and has one local customer, Alan Vereen, who
has seen him since 1978, Alan Vereen.
With a father who worked in a cotton mill, all
Jerry’s construction work, including doing his
own electrical wiring, has been on-the-job training. However, it was a neighbor in Lancaster,
S.C., who helped get his barbering career started.
“I was doing electrical work and my neighbor
and his dad talked me into going to school to cut
hair,” he said. “They also trained me.”
Two drinking buddies brought Donahue to
Murrells Inlet he said, cracking a big grin. “I’m
serious,” he said. “I kept visiting these friends in
Surfside and then I met my wife of 31 years and
I moved here.”
His wife was Miss Georgetown in 1963, he
said. “She’s beautiful. You would think she is so
much younger than she is. I’m not just saying
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Launch your “summertime” investment strategy
Now that summer is officially here, you may
be looking forward to vacations, barbecues, ballgames and other events of the season. But even
while you’re engaged in these activities, you
can’t forget about other aspects of your life —
such as your plans to achieve your long-term financial goals. However, your summer activities
can actually provide you with some valuable lessons on managing your investment strategy.
Here are a few possibilities:
Plan your trip. If you’re taking a long road trip
this summer, you’ll need to choose your vehicle,
map out your route, determine how far you want
to go each day and be quite certain of your destination. And, essentially, the same is true for your
investment strategy. You need to choose the right
investment vehicles, familiarize yourself with
your ultimate goals (such as a comfortable retirement) and chart your progress along the way.
Try to avoid getting burned. If you’re going to
spend a lot of time outdoors this summer, you
may need to apply some sunscreen. But you don’t
have to be exposed to the sun to get “burned” —
it can happen in the investment world, too. However, you can help prevent this from happening.
How? By building a diversified portfolio. If most
of your money is tied up in just one type of investment, and that asset class falls victim to a
downturn, your portfolio could take big hit. But
while some investments are moving down, other
may be moving up, so it makes sense to spread
your money among a range of vehicles appro-
priate for your risk tolerance, investment goals
and time horizon. Of course, diversification, by
itself, cannot guarantee a profit or protect against
loss, but it can help reduce the effects of volatility on your portfolio.
Keep yourself “hydrated.” When you’re outside on hot days, you can lose a lot of fluids, so
you need to drink plenty of liquids to remain
hydrated. As an investor, you also need a reasonable amount of liquidity. In the severe market downturn of 2008 and early 2009, many investors found they had insufficient amounts of
the type of liquid investments — cash and cash
equivalents — that held up better than other,
more aggressive vehicles. Furthermore, if you
are relatively illiquid, you may have to dip into
your longer-term investments to pay for shortterm emergency needs. Try to always keep an
adequate level of liquidity in your holdings.
Dress for the season. As you go about your
summer activities, you won’t always wear the
same clothes. On hot days, you might want to
wear shorts, but on cool, rainy days, you might
need heavier items or even a raincoat. And as you
go through life, you may need to adjust your investment approach depending on your individual
financial “season.” For example, early in your
career, you might be able to afford to invest more
aggressively, as you’ll have more opportunities
to recover from the inevitable short-term downturns. As you close in on retirement, though, you
may need to take a more conservative approach
so that you can lower your investment risk when
you need to access your money.
So there you have them — some ideas for
“summertime investing.” Use them wisely, and
they may be of value to you long after summer
is over.
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7th annual future Sharks summer camps
Each week of camp is directed by varsity coaches and assisted by varsity
and jv athletes. Camps begin promptly at 9 a.m. and end each day at noon.
Please be on time arriving and picking up your child.
Make sure your child is appropriately dressed for his/her specific camp
(T-shirts, shorts, socks, shoes, cleats, shin guards, glove, racket, etc.)
Each camper receives a T-shirt and a daily snack. Parent day is Friday
starting at 11 a.m. Join us to see your child perform and for our weekly
awards. You may send in your check and paperwork or sign up each Monday morning right inside the front door of the high school starting at 8:30
a.m. each week. Each camp is $50 per week except for Art– which is
$60. You may pay cash or write a check made payable to: Shark Booster
Club. There is a $10 discount for each additional child in the same family.
Please fill out the registration portion completely so we have contact info
in case of an emergency. Your Children are “Future Sharks” and we look
forward to a great summer!
JUNE 14
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Ages 5-11 (First 40)
TENNIS (NEW)
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Summer Schedule
JUNE 28
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JULY 5
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JULY 12
DANCE
SOCCER
JULY 19
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WRESTLING
Send form to: Coach Billy Hurston, c/o St. James High School, 10800
Hwy. 707, Murrells Inlet, SC 29576. Boys and Girls-Ages 5-12, $50 per
week except for Art!
Editor’s notes
Beach Blast is a Blast
One of many events this summer the Myrtle Beach Area Chamber of
Commerce will sponsor, the Beach Blast on May 22 featured two of the
biggest names in contemporary
Christian music: Toby Mac and
Kutless.
The food was good and not too
expensive. The crowd was big,
but cordial, and there was still
room to move around. The only
negative I heard was the price.
Toby, Kutless, the Afters, KJ52 and evangelist David Nasser
were all entertaining and informative.
I would definitely recommend
the Chamber bring the event back next year. My kudos to the MBACC
and Ground Zero, a Christian outreach to teenagers, who co-sponsored the
blast.
Grace Church: great teaching and music
Grace Church Waccamaw, located next to the Litchfield Exchange, is a
great church for those visiting or living in the Pawleys/Litchfield/Murrells
Inlet area.
How do I know this? I go there.
The church has arguably the best teacher of Scripture I have heard in 25
years of being a Christian, and the music is awesome, led by Shane and
Warren, who used to open for a well known Christian singer, Laura Storie.
And, assistant pastor Gary Weider has a heart of gold.
Check us out.
Island Floors & Rugs, Ltd. celebrates 25 years
My friend Brewster Buck’s business, Island Floors and Rugs, Ltd., is celebrating its 25th year in business. Congrats Brewster! The store is located
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Community Events Calendar
Captain’s choice golf tournament
There’s still time to enter the most exciting captain’s choice golf tournament held on the Grand
Strand. Murrells Inlet 2020’s 12th annual fundraising golf tournament will be played at the
Heritage Club in Pawleys Island on Sun., June
13.
The tournament will begin with a shotgun start
at 1:30 p.m. Through the generosity of Myrtle
Beach Automotive and Myrtle Beach Chevrolet, two holes will feature hole-in-one prizes of a
Mercedes Benz GLK350 SUV and a 2010 Cadillac CTS.
A tax deductible donation of $100 per player
includes golf, cart fees, dinner, beverages, prizes
and much more. Visit www.murrellsinletsc.com
events’ page for more information, or call 843357-2007 for entry forms, sponsorship opportunities, or more information.
(Murrells Inlet 2020 is a nonprofit, community
revitalization group established in 1997 with an
original 10-year plan of making the historic fishing village a more enjoyable place to live, work
and do business. The number one goal of the
group is preservation of the creek and the traditions surrounding it. Since its inception, Murrells
Inlet 2020 has won national and state awards for
its service to the community. Murrells Inlet 2020
relies exclusively on donations and fundraising
for its ongoing operations. Donations are taxdeductible. Call Jennifer Averette, MI2020 executive director, 843-357-2007).
Paddle north inlet
Join the Reserve and Surf the Earth staff for a
naturalist-guided tour through the creeks of the
north inlet. This program includes instruction in
basic kayaking, a natural history overview, and
educational highlights of the north inlet ecosystem. Fee includes kayak, paddle, personal floatation device, and water. Bring snack, camera,
binoculars, and wear sturdy shoes. Times for all
trips are 8:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m., weather permitting. Cost: $50/person; limited to 6; please call
to register. Ongoing through summer. Contact:
Hobcaw Barony Discovery Center, 843-5464623, or visit www.northinlet.sc.edu
Plays by Simon, Miller, local playwright
in MICT’s 2010-2011 lineup
Local playwright Lew Holton is in good company in Murrells Inlet Community Theatre’s
2010-2011 season line-up.
His comedy, “The Early Miracle,” is flanked
by Neil Simon’s “Lost in Yonkers” and Arthur
Miller’s “The Price” – award-winning plays by
legendary playwrights.
The season will open with “Lost in Yonkers,”
winner of the 1991 Pulitzer Prize for Drama,
Drama Desk Award for Best New Play, and Tony
Award for Best Play.
Set in 1942, the play pries open a Yonkers,
N.Y., household where two young brothers live
with their tyrannical grandmother and luckless
aunt. Other characters are a hoodlum uncle, sick-
ly aunt and the boys’ father, a traveling salesman
struggling to pay off his late wife’s medical bills.
The play will run Oct. 22-24 and 29-31. Doris
Hudson will direct.
Written in 2002, “The Early Miracle” was work
shopped by the Charter Theatre at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in Washington,
D.C., where it premiered in 2004. Set in a trailer
park in a fictional South Carolina town, it was
designed as a tour-de-force for three actors portraying a whirlwind of characters, said Holton,
who teaches part-time at Coastal Carolina University. The comedy will run Jan. 21-23, 28-30
and Feb. 4-6. The director will be announced.
Miller’s “The Price,” winner of the 1968 Tony
Award for Best Play, will close out MICT’s 13th
season. The drama takes place in a furniturefilled attic, where two estranged brothers – a
successful surgeon and a police sergeant – spar
over the sale of their parents’ belongings. Joining the fray, which ultimately reveals the reason
the brothers parted ways, is an ebullient antique
appraiser and the sergeant’s discontented wife.
Show dates are March 25-27 and April 1-3. The
director will be announced.
Prices are $10 for individual tickets and $24
for season tickets (three plays). Group rates are
available for 15 or more people when purchased
in advance. Season ticket order forms are available on the MICT Website: www.mictheatre.
com. Single tickets will go on sale in August.
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Community Events Calendar
For more information, call (843) 651-4152.
The trio of plays was announced Wed., May 12,
at MICT’s annual meeting at the Murrells Inlet
Community Center. The troupe also announced
plans for a staged reading of a new work by local playwright Joyce Armor. The event will take
place at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, June 3. Admission
is free, but reservations are requested by calling
(843) 651-4152.
Other business included the election of six
people to join the 11-member board of directors. New members Mike Bivona, Mary Palmer,
Karen Sauls and Barbara Smullen were elected,
along with incumbents Bea Boyle and David
Mooney.
A nonprofit theater, MICT was founded in 1998.
New members, participants and volunteers are
welcome. The troupe’s headquarters is the Murrells Inlet Community Center, 4450 Murrells
Inlet Road. In addition to presenting three fulllength plays each year, MICT also hosts a Readers Theatre, Season Kickoff, workshops and
other events.
the progress on the Waccamaw Neck Bikeway
with new maps and new T-shirts, plus chocolate
bicycles and Wholly Cow ice cream from the
Chocolate & Coffee House.
A good time will be had by the whole family!
Tickets are $5 each to be traded for tees (three
tickets), chocolates (one ticket) and ice cream
(one ticket) on site.
Or stop by Grand Strand Bicycles in the Murrells Inlet Piggly Wiggly Shopping Center and
get your T-shirt early so you can wear it to the
dance. All proceeds will benefit the Kings River
Road stretch of the bike path. Questions, info,
call 235-9600.
Patriotic art and more at Brookgreen
A number of the artworks at Brookgreen Gardens have patriotic themes or were designed
originally as American war memorials. These
iconic images represent freedom, strength, victory, and loss as shown through the eyes of talented sculptors.
An exhibit celebrating these themes is open in
the Rainey Sculpture Pavilion at Brookgreen
Gardens, May 8 -July 25. It displays models of
Bike the Neck!
On Sat., June 19, from 3 p.m. - 5 p.m. the Li- several well known monuments including: the
tchfield Exchange will host an ice cream social Marine Corps Memorial by Felix de Weldon;
and square dance to benefit Bike the Neck. Let the U.S. Navy Memorial by Stanley Bleifeld; the
professional square dance caller George Nash Korean War Veterans Memorial by Frank Gaycall you through an allemande left your partner, lord; and the Vietnam Women’s Memorial by
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The exhibit is free with garden admission.
In addition, Brookgreen’s “Red, White, and Blue
Salute to Veterans,” an event held each Memorial
Day Weekend, honors those who served by placing American flags at patriotic sculptures and
sculptors in the gardens. A handout provided in
the gallery lists the artists in the Brookgreen collection that served in the military and any war
memorials that they created.
In this exhibit, we celebrate the men and women
in uniform, past and present, always remembering that freedom is not free.
On June 5, starting at 4 p.m. at Brookgreen
Gardens, more than 40 painters, potters, jewelry
makers, glass blowers, and authors will gather to
discuss, display, and sell their work during the
“Artists Under the Arcade” Festival. Original
paintings, hand-made jewelry, sweet-grass baskets, sculpture, photography, wooden bowls, and
pottery will be on exhibit and available for sale.
Julie McLaughlin - Author of the Mr. Gator series; Jeffcoat Pottery; Jef Sturm – Painter; Meg
Carter- Sea Glass Jewelry; Scott Penegar- Sculptor; and Mark Hilliard – Nature Photographer;
and Sweetgrass Baskets by Ivie are just a few of
the artists who will exhibit. A complete list of artists and authors for “Artists under the Arcade” is
available online.
Brookgreen Gardens, a National Historic Landmark and non-profit organization, is located on
U.S. 17 between Myrtle Beach and Pawleys Island, S.C., and is open to the public daily.
For more information, visit the website at www.
brookgreen.org or call 843-235-6000.
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Community Events Calendar
Boat parade and fireworks
There is nothing more patriotic than seeing a
line of decorated boats cruising down the creek
for the Murrells Inlet July 4th boat parade.
The year’s theme is “2010: Freedom is In.”
Boat decoration contest entry forms will be
available at Garden City Realty, Dunes Realty,
Crazy Sister Marina or Booty’s. Entry cost is $5.
You only need to enter if you want to be judged
in the decoration contest. Anyone is welcome to
join in the parade at no charge. Spectators can
line the Marshwalk area for the best view of the
parade. Come early for a great viewing spot and
stick around to have dinner at any of the fine inlet restaurants after the parade.
Boat Parade begins at 1 p.m. at Garden City
point area, arriving around Marshwalk area
around 1:45-2 p.m. Call 843-357-2007 for info.
Also, for the first time ever, fireworks this year
will have a new staging area: off the end of Veterans Pier! Thousands of people line the shores
annually to enjoy the display.
Chamber membership event June 15-17
While most Chambers of Commerce struggle through their annual membership drive, the
Georgetown County Chamber of Commerce will
host a membership event that is like none other,
according to Chamber President Annette Fisher.
For two and a half days, approximately 200 volunteers will work against the clock and against
each other to sign up new chamber members and
create a greater community awareness of the important role of the Chamber of Commerce.
The event is organized by a group called “Your
Chamber Connection,” whose specialty is high
energy membership campaigns that allow volunteers to conduct out of the box membership fun
while building the membership base.
“It’s about business,” said event guru Jimmy Cusano. “The Chamber of Commerce is the business community. This brings everyone together
to build our chamber. It’s a membership-based
organization and most people don’t like membership drives. With a membership event they come
together in a competitive fun setting and tell the
chamber story. When others hear about everyRotary flounder tourney
thing the chamber does, all of a sudden you have
June 5 is flounder; June 4-5 is off shore. June 3 a great deal of enthusiasm for the chamber, and a
is off shore captains’ meeting; June 4 is flounder great deal of support.”
captains’ meeting. Registration occurs the Friday The Georgetown County Chamber of Commerce
before the tournament, 4 p.m.-7 p.m. at Crazy membership event will kick off on Tues., June 15
Sister Marina, 4123 Hwy. 17 Business in Mur- at HIA Coastal Conference Center in Pawleys Isrells Inlet. The tournament kicks off at 6 a.m. on land. A celebration at J.B. Beck Administration
Saturday from the marina. Proceeds benefit Mur- Building in Georgetown on Church Street will
rells Inlet Rotary Club’s charitable projects. For cap off the event at 5:31 p.m. on June 17.
registration information, call 325-1281.
For more information on how you can be in-
volved, call the Chamber at (843) 546-8436.
The event is sponsored by HIA Coastal Conference Center and Hampton Inn Marina.
Meetings
June 2: Murrells Inlet 2020, 3 p.m. Community
Center.
June 3: Community discussion on hurricanes
with two weather experts. Hosted by friends of
the Waccamaw Library. 7 p.m. Waccamaw Neck
Branch Library.
Staged reading by Murrells Inlet Community
Theatre, who perform Joyce Armor’s “The Circle People.” Community Center. Free.
June 5: Makai Luau: fire and hula show, luau
buffet; longboard giveaway. Proceeds benefit
the Surfrider Foundation. Hot Fish Club. $30 or
$55/couple. www.surfridergrandstrand.org
June 7: Garden City Beach Community Association. 6 p.m. Dunes Realty.
Waccamaw Democrats. Pawleys Isand Child
Care Center. 6 p.m.
June 4, 21: Paddle North Inlet
June 26: Harborwalk Festival Car Show in
Georgetown
Like the Messenger? Need a
second income or part-time job?
Sales Rep. Wanted. Call Tim, 344-3197
Prior sales experience and a love for the
Murrells Inlet community preferred.
Home of the $4.95 Meal Special
everyday open to close!!!!
Full Irish Menu every day open to close!!!!
Full Line of Irish Beers and Liquors!!!
Happy Hour 4-7pm Monday-Friday
$2.00 Domestic Bottles every Sunday
Come as a Stranger Leave as a Friend
Live Entertainment Thursday-Saturday • Play Cornhole everyday at O'Keefe's
Steel Tip Dart Boards • Pool Tournament every Wednesday (Great Prizes)
Major League Baseball Package watch all your favorite teams
Visit us on www.okeefespub.net for daily updates
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O'Keefe's Irish Pub is a Family Pub for all of our friends to have a good experience
in a friendly and safe enviornment
Open 7 days a week from 11am-2am
834 Inlet Square Dr . • Murrells Inlet, SC • 843-651-7211