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Home Run The Movie: a story of redemption and hope at Grace Church
By Tim Callahan
Editor/Publisher
Two days before pitching in the high school
state championship, the 18-year-old had his first
drinks at a graduation party.
On paper, he could not lose the game. He was
5-0, had a 0.19 ERA and had already no-hit the
team he was going to face, the first of back-toback no-hitters he threw that spring. He was also
named the Vermont Legion pitcher of the year
the past summer, beating out a guy who would
go on to play six years in the major leagues.
And, he had an incredible inner drive, with an
inner mantra that rang in his head every time he
walked out to the mound. “I’m going to win. I’m
going to win. I’m going to win.”
As he walked onto the field championship
Saturday, he was shocked to hear what was
automatically running through his mind: “I’m
going to lose. I’m going to lose. I’m going to
lose.”
He lost the game and soon lost control of his
drinking. Two years later, he was booted out of
college for his drunken “pranks.” He gave up on
baseball.
There is not a day that goes by that that guy
doesn’t regret throwing it all away.
I was that guy.
Thankfully, I found Alcoholics Anonymous
while still young – 27 – but too late for baseball.
I slowly rebuilt a life, through the grace of God
and the fellowship of Alcoholics Anonymous,
the church and Celebrate Recovery. I am now 56.
However, no movie was made of my story
because, well, I didn’t recover in time to salvage
baseball and make it to the Big Show.
But, maybe, just maybe, alcoholic Cory Brand
can recover in time to save his major league
career.
You have to watch “Home Run The Movie” to
find out. Scheduled to be shown free at Grace
Church Waccamaw on Jan. 25 at 7 p.m., the
movie is about the fictional Cory but includes
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Gullah exhibit and lecture series at Brookgreen Gardens in Litchfield
The Brookgreen Gardens Creative Education
Department has scheduled programs that will
educate visitors and students about the influence
of Gullah Geechee culture to the rice heritage of
the Lowcountry community and America. “Sojun tu Gullah Geechee,” or “Sojourn to Gullah
Geechee,” a traveling exhibit from the Geechee
Kunda Center, Riceboro, Ga., will be housed in
Learning Lab One of the Lowcountry Center
Complex, from January 13 through March 16.
The exhibit showcases the Gullah Geechee Rice
Culture with storyboards, photographs, artifacts,
tools, relics, and implements, and is free with
garden admission from noon to 4:30 p.m. daily.
“Rice production in Georgetown County and
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throughout the Gullah Geechee Cultural Heritage
Corridor greatly shaped and influenced American culture through the technological skills,
lifestyles, and culture of Gullah Geechee people
and their enslaved West African ancestors,” said
Ronald Daise, vice president for creative education. “This exhibit artfully will allow visitors to
engage in a historical journey. Hopefully, it will
leave viewers informed and inspired.” Daise also
is former chairman of the Gullah Geechee Cultural Heritage Corridor Commission. The exhibit
will be seen by third graders of Georgetown and
Horry Counties, who visit during Brookgreen’s
annual Gullah Gullah Days field trip event on
February 3-7 and 10-14.
Exhibit components include information about
the language, spiritual life, enslavement, and resilience of Gullah Geechee people.
“Viewers will leave with an understanding of
the African presence in America and the growth
and perpetuation of Africanisms in our country,”
said Jim Bacote of the Geechee Kunda Center
. “To me, the enslavement tools are the most
meaningful artifacts. They’re a sobering reminder of Gullah Geechee people as a ‘stolen people.’
Our ancestors had community life, culture, arts,
and religion before and after captivity for the enrichment of America. The exhibit documents our
technological skills, ingenuity, and endurance.”
Complementing the exhibit is “The Reign
of Rice Lecture Series” on one Saturday per
month from January to May. “The lecture series
is designed to educate about the complexity of
Gullah Geechee heritage through the production of rice,” Daise said. Guests will learn about
freshwater tidal rice production in West Africa ,
rice-related food ways, as well the artistic, sociological and archeological ramifications of rice
culture. Featured presenters and topics are:
January 18: Edda Fields-Black , Ph.D., author,
researcher, “The Work of Our Hands: Mangrove
Rice Production in Coastal Guinea .”
February 15: Jessica Harris, Ph.D., Queens College / CUNY, cookbook author and culinary historian, “ Carolina ‘s Gold: The Rice AND The
People.” March 15, Louis Nelson , Ph.D., University of Virginia , “ Carolina Gold.”
For more information, consult its web site at
www.brookgreen.org or call 843-235-6000.)
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Guest column: the night when the lights went out
By Heather McKeown
Well, it ain’t over till the fat lady sings. Where’s
a large, musical diva when you really need one?
Not in Vermont, after the ice storm of ought
thirteen, that’s for sure. The electricity is what
I want to talk about in this story. Or, in many
cases, the lack of it. A lot of the state was shorted
out, off the grid, out of light and heat, stoves and,
ironically, fridges were on the fritz.
Christmas celebrations were postponed or
totally missed. Full flights into Burlington were
canceled and the planes coming in when the
atmosphere improved couldn’t very well ask
passengers to double up and share one seat per
couple to make up for the cancellations. So, tons
of people couldn’t get home at all.
No matter where you were - be it on the phone
or Facebook or digging out your driveway,
you heard how horrible it was to have such
a catastrophic weather occurrence before the
yuletide. Yet, more than complaining, I heard
laughter, offers of help, people inviting those
without power into their homes for showers,
food or shelter and gratitude.
As for myself, I hadn’t been breaking ice with
a garden pick for more than half an hour before
Jim Burns ran his garbage truck over that ice
wall that was separating my car from the road.
I hadn’t been shoveling for more than half an
hour before a local farm lad passed by, backed
up and moved every ton of snow and ice from
my driveway to the side of the yard. During that
hour of exertion, Jason Combs and his brother-
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in-law showed up with chainsaws and chopped
up what two huge maple trees had let fall.
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Those two young fathers worked for about six
hours without a break and, when it got too dark
to continue, Jason came in and apologized for
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going home before every twig was cleared. This
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was two days before Christmas!
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On Christmas morning, the van started.
However, my four wheels were frozen solid into
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Editorial/Opinion: maybe next year we will be Christmas central again
until we got onto 95. The minute we got on the
interstate it turned into a stop and go lucky to go
25 mph parking lot.
Now, in addition to the GPS guidance system,
our car has been retrofitted with a passenger side
glove compartment pseudo brake, a passenger
side air steering wheel and a passenger side
car sign language guidance system as well
as a passenger side voice guidance system. I
knew we were stopping for the night in Saint
Augustine Fla., which was right off 95, but I
wanted to use the guidance system to tell me
the mileage and projected arrival time going 25
mph so as we were going stop and go I began
to fiddle with the phone mapping system and
the car guidance system. This activated the
passenger side guidance system and Joan started
slamming on the glove compartment brake and
making complex hand gestures designed to ward
off any possible collision caused by my lack of
attention to traffic while making vain attempts
to activate the guidance systems that had all of
a sudden become indecipherable to me. She also
began giving me invaluable advice like: “fooling
around with that stuff isn’t going to get us there
any faster.” Word to the wise woman, try to avoid
treating a grown man like a child especially when
he is acting like one. Joan intuitively sensed this
and before I rear ended someone while trying to
get my phone to tell me when we would arrive
at our destination, if we stayed parked on the
Georgia, South Carolina border, she snatched the
phone from my hand with the speed of a Ninja
and put in the pocket on the door on her side
of the car. This was all done with good humor
but by our first stop for gas Joan took over the
driving and got us through the stop and go that
lasted all the way to St. Augustine.
Once we got into the motel, we took off to
historic Old St. Augustine and a Bar-B-Q place
I had looked up on the Internet. I was driving
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Happy
2014
to
everyone.
It’s a new year
and another chance
to make and keep,
or not, resolutions
about the coming
year. I am resolving
to figure out how to
grow old gracefully.
I have confronted many challenges in my life
but becoming a senior citizen, when I am still
30-years old to myself, is one of the toughest.
Joan and I, as parents, have always been
Christmas central, but with our children grown,
with children of their own, there are so many
different agendas, this year we found ourselves
with just the two of us for the holiday.
So, with all of the solemnity this sea change
deserved we decided that this could only mean
one thing: “Road Trip.” We booked a room in an
inn right in the middle of Old Town Key West
for the week of Christmas, hopped in our car and
took off on our big adventure.
First, I had to get the technology in order. Our
car has a navigation and guidance system and my
phone has a map and guidance system. Before
leaving, I thoroughly familiarized myself with
both of them so, as captain of the ship, I would
be prepared to navigate the perils of an 800-mile
trip to the southernmost tip of the United States.
I knew how to get to I-95 via Hwy. 17 to
Beaufort, so I didn’t bother with navigation
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Professional Rehabilitation Services celebrates its 10 year anniversary
By Dr. Brian P. Kinmartin
PT, DPT, MTC, SCT, OCS, CWcHP
Advertorial
In January 2004, founder of Professional Rehabilitation Services Brian P. Kinmartin, PT, DPT,
MTC, STC, OCS CWcHP, set out on a mission
to improve the access and service level of outpatient physical therapy services throughout
Georgetown and Horry counties. Professional
Rehabilitation Service’s original office is located in Pawley’s Island, and over the last 10
years has grown to include two additional business partners and practicing therapists, Richard
A. Owens, MPT, OCS, Cert. SMT, CWcHP, and
Richard A. Defalco, DPT, OCS, CSCS, CWcHP,
as well as three additional offices in Murrells
Inlet, Surfside Beach and Myrtle Beach. All of
our offices are privately owned and operated by
physical therapists. We are the highest trained
practitioners in the area, with specialty certifications in manual therapy, vestibular therapy,
orthopedics, sports medicine, and workers compensation. We provide work related assessments
including functional capacity evaluations, and
perform state of the art treatments including dry
needling for pain and soft tissue dysfunction.
We are committed to providing a holistic approach to treatment to our patients in order to
promote health and wellness in an atmosphere
that strives for excellence, integrity, and quality
of service. We strive to offer a patient experience
like no other, from the moment you are greeted
by our front office, to the point you reach your
goals and are discharged by the physical therapist. Our goal is to assist our patients in reliev-
ing pain, promoting strength and movement, and
returning our patients to their maximum level
of physical function. We pride ourselves on getting results, even for the most difficult problems.
When you visit PRS you will quickly recognize
the quality of care and expertise that GETS RESULTS. Our philosophy of individualized and
personal care allows us to provide the highest
quality of service to all of our patients. It is not
enough simply to provide physical therapy services. We believe the best physical therapists are
the ones who are driven to continually improve
their knowledge and skills.
The Professional Rehabilitation Services difference includes that all physical therapy examinations and treatments are provided by licensed
physical therapists and physical therapy assistants. No aides or technicians are involved in patient care at all.
Our therapists have extensive education, clinical
training and experience beyond that of most others. They have specialty credentials and practice
with the latest evidence-based standards of care.
The focus on specialization within our practice
mission is highly unique to the practice of physical therapy. In a changing heath care environment where most companies are cutting back
on the continuing education resources of their
practitioners, we are not. Our company continues to believe that investing in the education of
the staff and practitioners continues to improve
the service level, clinical outcomes and patient
experience. The physical therapists at each one
of our locations are BOARD CERTIFIED in orthopedics, a credential that is achieved by less
than ten percent of physical therapists nationwide, and less than five percent in the state of
South Carolina.
So, whether you suffer from new or old pain,
have pre-operative or post-operative needs, or
just have an injury from head to toe, from all
ages and activity levels, you can rest assured that
PRS will treat you with the care and expertise
you deserve.
Our therapists also have specialty training and
credentials in manual therapy, sports therapy,
strength and conditioning, vestibular therapy,
and dry needling. In an age where insurance dollars per person are becoming less and less it is
important that you seek the most highly credentialed, highly trained health care professionals
possible, so that you get the best possible care
and attain the best possible outcome. That is
what we do at Professional Rehabilitation Services, and that is why we continue to grow.
Federal law mandates that individuals have the
right to choose their physical therapy provider.
Having the option to choose your provider allows the consumer to play an active role in seeking out the best providers of care and treatment
in your geographic region. At PRS, we encourage patients to visit one of our locations and meet
the Physical Therapist who will be directing
your care. You will be able to gauge what your
treatment plan will entail, as well as establish a
relationship with the facility and therapist. We
offer a free 15-minute consultation that will address any questions you may have. You can then
proceed with confidence that you selected the
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The Outpatient Physical Therapy Specialists
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Celebrating our 10 Year Anniversary
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Located within the SC Pain &
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We specialize in treating
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Pawleys Island
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FOUR CONVENIENT LOCATIONS
Murrells Inlet
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Murrells Inlet, SC 29576
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Surfside Beach
3076 Dick Pond Rd (Hwy. 544)
Myrtle Beach, SC 29588
843-831-0163
Myrtle Beach
1301 48th Ave N, Suite D
(Intersection of Hwy. 17 Bypass & 48th Ave. N.)
Myrtle Beach, SC 29577
843-839-1300
Dr. Brian P. Kinmartin, PT, DPT, MTC, OCS, STC, CWcHP. • Richard A. Owens, Jr., PT, MS, OCS, Cert. SMT, CWcHP. • Dr. Richard DeFalco, DPT, OCS, CSCS, CWcHP.
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Moveable Feast schedule of events
Since 1998, this popular series of literary luncheons, each featuring an established or debuting author, is held every Friday (and some special days)
from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. at a variety of Waccamaw Neck restaurants.
Founded and managed by CLASS, The Moveable Feast showcases authors selected by Litchfield Books. Books may be purchased from them
in advance or at the Feast (10% discount). After each Moveable Feast (2
p.m.), the author adjourns to the bookstore to sign for those unable to attend the luncheon.
Paid reservations for the Moveable Feast are requested by the Wednesday
prior to the event. Most Feasts are $25. Reservations may be made onsite
at Art Works inside the Chocolate & Coffee House at the Litchfield Exchange, online at www.ClassAtPawleys.com, or by phone, 843-235-9600.
Jan. 15 ~ Karen White (“Return to Tradd Street”) at Pawleys Plantation.
Facing her future as a single mother, psychic realtor Melanie Middleton is
determined to be strong and leave her past with writer Jack Trenholm behind her. But history has a tendency of catching up with Melanie, whether
she likes it or not. She is only going through the motions of living since
refusing Jack’s marriage proposal. Despite an insistence that she can raise
their child alone, Melanie is completely unprepared for motherhood, and
she struggles to complete renovations on her house on Tradd Street before
the baby arrives.
Jan. 17 ~ Paul Grimshaw (“Travelers of the Gray Dawn”) at Carefree
Catering. What if the South had won the American Civil War? What might
America, and even the rest of the world, look like if this nation-splitting
war between the states had ended differently? In this action-adventure,
time-travel, alternative history thriller, you’ll see what might have been
had the South been successful. When three modern-day Civil War re-enactors accidentally travel through time and space, a cascade of events transpires so that 2013 does not resemble the 2013 that they, and the reader,
know. Freelance journalist Paul Grimshaw has written a captivating, compelling story filled with likable characters, intriguing plot twists, and a
re-envisioning of a world that might have been.
Jan. 24 ~ James Lowell Underwood (“Deadly Censorship: Murder, Honor
and Freedom of the Press”) at Pine Lakes Country Club. on Jan.15, 1903,
South Carolina Lieutenant Governor James H. Tillman shot and killed
Narciso G. Gonzales, editor of South Carolina’s most powerful newspaper, The State. Blaming Gonzales’s stinging editorials for his loss in the
1902 gubernatorial race, Tillman shot Gonzales to avenge the defeat and
redeem his “honor,” and his reputation as a man who took bold, masculine
action in the face of an insult. Underwood investigates the epic murder trial of Tillman to test whether biting editorials were a legitimate exercise of
freedom of the press or an abuse that justified killing when camouflaged as
self-defense. A specialist on constitutional law, Underwood has written the
definitive examination of the court proceedings, the state’s complicated
homicide laws, and the violent cult of personal honor that had undergirded
South Carolina society since the colonial era.
Jan. 31 ~ Tommy Hays (“What I Came To Tell You”) at Caffe Piccolo.
Since his mother died earlier this year, Grover Johnston (named after a
character in Thomas Wolfe’s “Look Homeward Angel” has watched his
family fall to pieces as his father throws himself into his work rather than
dealing with the pain. Left to care for his younger sister, Sudie, Grover
finds solace in creating intricate weavings out of the natural materials
found in the bamboo forest behind his North Carolina home, a pursuit that
his father sees only as a waste of time. An Okra Pick of the Season, Hays’
new novel is for readers ages 9 to 90.
Right to Life Rally in Washington, D.C.
St. Michael’s Right to Life Committee will sponsor a bus to the Washington, D.C. Right to Life rally from Jan. 21 – 23, departing from St.
Michael’s Catholic Church in Garden City, S.C. The cost is $240/per person (single occupancy) or $280/per couple (double occupancy). It includes
transportation, two nights lodging and two breakfasts. Rally events include
the opening mass at the National Shrine of the Basilica of the Immaculate
Conception, and (time permitting) tours of the Franciscan Monastery and
the Blessed John Paul II Shrine.
Reservation and a $100 deposit are required by Dec. 9. Contact Terry
Borkes for more details: (843) 650-8828 or t.borkes13@gmail.com.
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Community Briefs and Events Calendar
Low Country Herb Society
The Low Country Herb Society will meet on
Tues., Jan. 14 at 10 a.m. at Grace Community
Church on Hwy. 17 in Pawleys Island, across
from Litchfield Resort.
Low Country Herb Society member Andrea
McCoy will be presenting a program on herbal
teas. The program will cover the history of teas
over the centuries as well as information on the
uses of herbal teas and suggested herbal blends.
The society’s monthly meeting format includes
herbal ideas, herbal informational segments
by members, herb of the month, short cooking
demo, and herbal tips.
Membership in the Low Country Herb Society
is open to all throughout the area who have an
interest in the cultivation and uses of herbs. No
experience necessary! LCHS meets from September through May, but not all meetings are at
Grace Church. For more information, check out
our website lcherbsociety.info. You can also like
us on Facebook at Low Country Herb Society.
Grand Strand Camellia Society
The Grand Strand Camellia Society in association with the American Camellia Society and
the Mid-Carolina Camellia Society will sponsor
their 10th annual Camellia Show on January 11
and 12, 2014. This is promising to be quite an
event and one that the community and surrounding areas will be able to view, enjoy and - by so
doing - will add to the culture of camellias in our
community. As in the past, exhibitors from all
over the Southeast will be attending and showing their camellias. All local camellia growers
are cordially invited to exhibit their blooms.
There is also a special category and award for
local blooms.
This year’s show is scheduled for January 11
and 12, 2014 from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. at the Tara
Conference Center in the Litchfield Beach and
Golf Resort, 14276 Ocean Hwy, Litchfield
Beach, SC. Admission to the show is free.
For further details, please contact Mack McKinnon at 843-995-1256, or visit www.atlanticcoastcamelliasociety.org/gscs.html
cal emergencies and babysitting ethics. A $35
fee includes materials and a book bag. Class is
from 10 a.m. – 5 p.m. Class size is limited and
pre-registration is required. Call 692-4444 to
register and for more information.
Merchant Marines meeting
We invite veterans of the Merchant Marines and
all other services to our meeting on Fri., Jan. 17,
2014 at the Veteran’s Café. The Café is in their
new location in the Plaza at the back gate, the
intersection of Bypass 17 and Route 707 – right
behind the CVS drug store. We meet at 12 p.m.
for lunch and fellowship. The meeting is called
to order at 1 p.m.
New Beginnings food ministry totals For further information, please call John
Santa surprised everyone in December and dis- Schmidt at 843-651-8046 or check the web site
tributed over 70 gift bags to our littlest guests. www.usmmsc.com
Total number of households served in December
was 199, and total number of individuals was Friends of the Waccamaw Library
669.
The Friends of the Waccamaw Library will
New Beginnings is a monthly food distribution kickoff a new season of its monthly First Thursministry of the Church of the Resurrection in day programs beginning on Jan. 9. All programs
Surfside.
begin at 7 p.m., and are free and include refreshments.
The 2014 schedule through May is as follows:
The Grand Strand Regional Medical Center will • Feb. 6 — Tibby Plants, president of the S.C.
offer a Safe Sitter Babysitting class for children Writers Workshop will be on stage to discuss
ages 11-13 on Mon., January 20 (school holiday) writing and how to get published. Authors will
at HealthFinders in the Coastal Grand Mall. The read from some of their published works.
seven-hour class teaches childcare techniques, • March 8 — Cap’n Rod of Georgetown will be
behavior management skills, responses to medi- on hand to talk about local history including that
Safe sitter class
Celebrating our
Diamond Anniversary!
One Family - 65 Years!
Generation after Generation brings their families to Lee's
Restaurant & Lounge
On the Water...
Along the Beautiful Murrells Inlet Marshwalk
Since 1948
Thank you for a great year in 2013 from Dexter &
Kelly Lee Dorman & staff of Lee's Inlet Kitchen
We are reopening in February
We look forward to serving you in 2014
4460 Hwy 17 Bus. Murrells Inlet
651-2881
Closed for the Season (Reopening in February)
www.LeesInletKitchen.com
843.651.2044
4031 Hwy 17, Business
Murrells Inlet, SC 29576
www.drunkenjacks.com
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of Shell Island. Also, the audience will meet the
“Turtle Lady,” who will talk about the upcoming
loggerhead sea turtle nesting season.
• April 10 — A local historian will be on hand
to offer some insight into the history of our area.
• May 1 — Mike Bivona and Pat Doherty of the
Murrells Inlet Community Theater will discuss
theater life and new theater space at the Murrells
Inlet Community Center.
Annual ‘Taste of the Inlet’
MI 2020 board changes
“The Murrells Inlet 2020 board of directors
warmly welcomes back former board chair
Whitney Hills, who has joined the MI2020 Advisory Council,” said Sue Sledz, executive director
of MI 2020. Whitney will serve as Chair of the
newly-formed Governance Committee.
The board elected Sandra Bundy to join the executive committee as MI2020 vice chair/treasurer. James Jordan was elected chair of the finance
committee. Cricket Alcorn will serve as chair of
the development and PR/marketing committee,
and Stephen G. Williams was elected chair of the
program committee.
The MI2020 board of directors and advisory
council members control the affairs and activities of the non-profit organization. They serve
on one or more board committees, such as governance, finance, development and PR/marketing and program, and also actively participate in
fundraising programs.
MI2020 depends heavily on its volunteer leaders who so generously give their time and expertise and are so deeply committed to the group’s
mission of promoting the inlet and preserving
the creek.
The annual “Taste of the Inlet” will be held
January 26, from 6:15 p.m. to 9 p.m. at the Inlet
Square Mall.
Tickets will go on sale Mon., Jan. 13.
Savor the flavors from area restaurants and
chefs who will be showcasing their signature
dishes, as they serve up a delicious feast of hors
d’oeuvres, tapas and heavy appetizers.
Event admission tickets cost $8 in advance ($12
at the door). Beverage and taste tickets will be
priced separately, and sold at the event. Food
and dessert tastes will range $2 - $4. Beverages
will include beer, wine and soft drinks.
Be sure to purchase your tickets early so you
don’t miss out on an evening of dining with the
best restaurants on the beach!
Proceeds will benefit Murrells Inlet 2020, a
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ganization, dedicated to making the inlet a nice Author Jeanette Larson remembers her stepmother, whom she fondly refers to as their angel,
place to live, work and visit.
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into more and more memories and soon Larson
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her siblings when they needed her the most.
In this memoir, instead of focusing on their
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to highlight the overflowing love and genuine
care their stepmother gave her and her siblings;
the very gestures that influenced and shaped their
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Editorial/Opinion
If you’ve broken your New Year’s resolution, good for you
By Tim Callahan
If you have not broken your New Year’s resolution already, good for you.
If you have broken your resolution, good for
you.
Because whether it’s now or later you will most
likely break your promise to yourself, and that
failure may lead you to try something different
to reach your goal.
Something like the 12 steps.
I don’t know about you, but I do not have the
willpower to change. I feel powerless. Believe it
or not that is a good place to be. Admitting your
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– is the first step to having a chance to keep your
resolution. Admitting your life is unmanageable
is another part of the first step in the recovery
process.
Scripture validates the first step when it states,
“I know that nothing good lives in me, that is in
my sinful nature. For I have the desire to do what
is good but I cannot carry it out.” (Romans 7:18)
You have proven time and time again that under
your own power you cannot keep your resolution. Please consider trying the next 11 steps and
understand they are biblical.
The next step – Step 2 – in recovery from hurts,
hang-ups and habits is coming to believe a power greater than yourself can restore you to sanity.
“For it is God who works in you to will and to
act according to his good purpose.” (Phil. 2:13)
Seeing as you cannot do this on your own, you
can make a decision to turn your live and will
over to the care of God, who does have the power to help you change. That is Step 3. The corresponding Scripture is: “Therefore I urge you
brothers, in view of God’s mercy, to offer your
bodies as living sacrifices, holy and pleasing to
God – this is your act of spiritual worship.
The summary of Steps 1-3 is: “I can’t; God
can.”
To continue to meet your resolution, it is suggested to do the remaining steps – in order.
Without going through them in their entirety,
they came be summed up as: listing your wrongs
(Lam. 3:40), telling God and another person
those wrongs (James 5:16), humbly asking God
to remove these defects of character [sins] (1 Jn.
1:9), making a list of those you have wronged
and making amends to them all (Luke 6:31,
Matt. 5:23-24), continuing to take a daily inventory and when you are wrong admit it (1Cor.
10:12), seeking through prayer and meditation
to improve your relationship with God, to know
His will, and have the power to carry it out (Col.
3:16), and carrying this message to fellow sufferers/addicts (Gal. 6:1, Matt. 28:16).
Seems like a lot to do, doesn’t it? Well, I guess it
is. But, let me ask you, how long have your been
in your addiction? Doesn’t working the steps and
attending a support group once or twice a week,
pale in comparison to the hundreds or thousands
of hours you have spent in your addiction?
Resolutions are easy to make, but almost impossible to meet. True for human willpower, but
“nothing is impossible with God.” (Luke 1:37)
What do you have to lose?
Give Him and the Steps a try.
(Some of the Scriptures and material above
come from from Celebrate Recovery and Alcoholics Anonymous. Please visit Celebrate Recovery at www.recovery.com or Alcoholics Anonymous at aa.org.)
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zoomed out onto the road, backed it back into
the driveway, put it in park, and got out.
“Thank you, so much! I’m Heather. What’s
your name?”
“Norm DeLorme.”
“Oh, your mom lives around the corner. Where
are you off to on this Christmas morning? I hope
I haven’t made you late.”
“Church.” Passing me my shovel, he pointed to
the way it had bent while smashing thick ice. “If
you take a hammer to it, you can straighten it
out.”
And he was gone. Bless his heart.
All the people above saved Christmas for me.
Each and every last one of them. I’m really
grateful, but there’s an entire fleet of men and
women who missed their Christmastime to help
thousand of us. They’re still on the roads, day
and night. They are the linemen of Vermont
Electric Coop.
I met one such marathon man in Dick Wright’s
Ford, as my weathered van was getting fixed
on the day after my wonderful Christmas. He
was a fellow much younger than I. A bit of gray
flecked his beard and hairline. He wore black
rimmed glasses. His voice was gruff and raspy.
Somehow, I started hearing little tidbits as he
spoke to another customer in the waiting area.
He obviously had a horrible cold.
“Had to go to the doctor. It’s a cold. I worked
five days, night and day. My own car’s pump
broke and I couldn’t wash my windshield so,
every time a car went by, they’d send a spray
of slush up onto my car. I had to get to work
though.”
“What do you do?”
“I’m a lineman.”
“For Vermont Electric?”
He nodded.
“I went to my relative’s house to borrow his car,
but they hadn’t started it to warm it up. It was
parked on the shady side of their house so, when
I cracked the ice on the windshield, it just came
off in huge sheets. Just as cold as my car because
I kept the windows open all the way to work so I
could see out. I’ve had to go to the doctor.”
He finished and I could tell he was sick.
Probably burning up with a fever, but just had
to take the time to get his car fixed. Poor guy...
so, so sick.
“You worked right through your Christmas,
didn’t you?”
He nodded slowly. “I had to work for five days
straight.”
“Have you get slept?”
“Not really. Not much.”
His eyes filled with tears. The man was in the
extreme far end of fatigue.
There are many good people helping those in
need around here, but those linemen, they’re not
getting any breaks at all. If you see one on them
in the north or the south, take him or her a cup of
Joe and some cookies or a big, juicy sandwich.
For their dessert, give ‘em a hug. Boy, do they
ever deserve it.
All in all, when I think back on Christmas 2013,
I’ll picture all the people just pitching in to get
neighbors and strangers back to rights. Another
thing that won’t escape my memory is the face
of that totally worn out, humble lineman. What’s
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Christmas spirit supposed to be, anyway, if it’s
not an opportunity to show kindness, share hope
and, thanks to the linemen, to keep the light on
for you?
I may not have heard the singing of an obese
woman to end this story, but I’m singing in my
own heart – and that’s enough.
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Maybe next year we will be Christmas central again...continued from page 3
again and truly a stranger in a strange land. It
was dark, I was unfamiliar with the territory and,
at one point, made a course correction which
accidently resulted in my cutting of a gentleman
on a motorcycle. Although we were traveling
about 15 mph at the time, the gentleman on the
motorcycle took exception to being cut off and
expressed his feelings in an unfortunate tirade
of profanity, comments about my parentage
and intelligence and suggestions about some
unpleasant things I should do to myself. Being
the consolatory gentleman I am, I rolled down
the window and shouted, “I’m sorry, I didn’t
see you.” I had stopped about 300 feet from the
stop light when I realized I had cut him off so
his reply was, “pull up to the light you (expletive
deleted) moron. At this point, my passenger seat
guidance system kicked in and said: “do what he
says, do what he says!”
Another word to the wise woman, in a situation
where an idiot and a potential idiot are having
a confrontation, advising the potential idiot to
submit to the idiot is more likely to incite the
potential idiot to become a total idiot. Better to
use reverse psychology and suggest the potential
idiot get out and teach idiot number one a lesson.
This would give the potential idiot a chance to
weigh the consequences of a confrontation and
result in a peaceful resolution.
I chose the middle path of a semi-idiot and
stopped long enough to display defiance but not
long enough to incite further idiocy. With that
situation diffused, we went another ½ mile in 45
minutes and in a fit of desperation I pulled into a
German restaurant and Joan and I were treated to
one of the best meals we can remember.
The remainder of the trip to Key West was
memorable for the beauty of the scenery, driving
on the highway connecting the Keys and the
ambiance of Key West. We ate, one night, at
Jimmy Buffett’s Margueritaville restaurant and
interestingly enough when our waiter asked us
where we were from he told us he was married
on the south end of Pawley’s Island and his
wedding cake came from Pawley’s Island
Bakery, my favorite local bakery. We didn’t see
many parrot heads in Key West. I think they must
have wasted all the way away in Margueritaville,
and been replaced by people with heavy New
York and New Jersey accents who were about as
tolerant of other drivers as the Saint Augustine
motorcycle gentleman.
Joan and I have our own businesses and breaks
are rare so our senior citizens bodies took
precedence over the 30-year-old brains and we
sat around the pool, did a little sightseeing, ate
a lot of really great food, and took part in the
spectacular sunset celebration in Mallory Square.
All in all it was a wonderful trip with my favorite
person aka passenger seat guidance system. I had
the electronics squared away by the return trip so
the phone and car both knew the way home. This
time we let our 30-year-old brains tell us to make
it home in one go and by 9 p.m. that evening and
806 miles later we arrived.
The next morning I went to Pawley’s Island
Bakery, our weekend breakfast treat, and told the
owner the story about the waiter and the wedding
cake. He asked me how our trip was and I told
him we went to the beach, ate great food, lay
about and encountered some rude drivers.
He is from Connecticut. He said he did exactly
the same thing minus the rude drivers, and never
left home.
We had a wonderful time and it gave Joan and
me stories and a lot to laugh about, but maybe
next year we will go back to being Christmas
Central.
There is no place like home. Have a happy,
peaceful and productive new year.
(Joe Scanlon is the director of the Counseling
Center of Georgetown)
Mended Hearts support groups
Mended Hearts is a non-profit organization
dedicated to inspiring hope in heart disease patients and their families. This group, with over
300 chapters nationwide, offers peer-to-peer
support for those experiencing heart events.
Who? Those with heart disease and their families. Where & When? Choice of either or both
meetings.
Health Point Center for Health & Fitness, 12965
Ocean Highway (Hwy. 17), (Litchfield/Pawleys
Island. Fourth Tuesday of each month at noon.
Grand Strand Regional Medical Center, 809
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For more information contact Ruth Keilen –
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Encouraging, informing and inspiring stories
If you ever wanted to know anything about the South Strand of South
Carolina and its people, and what makes this place quaint, special and
unique, this is the book for you. However, anyone can benefit from the
wisdom of shared lives on the pages inside. “Murrells Inlet: Memories,
Memoirs and Miracles” has 70 stories about real people in real life situations from the pages of the Murrells Inlet Messenger, including:
·Young lady with autism searches to meet friends like her
·Student-athlete overcomes severe hardship, and finds missing dad
·Estranged siblings find forgiveness at their younger brother’s funeral
·Young man relearns to walk and talk after a horrific car accident
·Surviving cancer leads a woman to write a successful book
·Former golf prodigy and coach helps students to not make her mistakes
·Businessmen and women share struggles, and secrets to success
·Third generation businesses going strong in troubled times
Real people, real stories, that can touch and change your life
Tim Callahan is an author and the editor and
publisher of the Murrells Inlet Messenger, the local
newspaper for Murrells Inlet and Garden City Beach,
S.C. His books have been featured in articles by the
New York Times, Associated Press and USA Today.
Callahan won four out of the nine state writing awards
offered associate members in the South Carolina Press
Association 2010 awards contest for stories included
in this book. He has also won awards from the SCPA
for beat reporting (courts) and education, news and sports writing. He was
a Washington, D.C., correspondent for Christianity Today, and has a
master's degree in journalism. Callahan appeared in the pages of Sports
Illustrated as an athlete and coached pitchers for MLBI in Ireland. He
lives in Pawleys Island, S.C., with his wife, Debbie. Without her, there
would be no books or papers.
To order your copy, send a check for $14.99, plus $2.95 shipping and handling, to:
Murrells Inlet Messenger, P.O. Box 612, Murrells Inlet, SC 29576.
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Home Run The Movie at Grace Church...continued from page 1
his eventually attending Celebrate Recovery,
a real life biblically based 12 Step program
that was co-founded by Saddleback
Church
pastor Rick Warren in 1991. Warren is the
author of one of the best selling books of alltime, “The Purpose Driven Life.”
I have been a member of CR at Beach Church
in Myrtle Beach, S.C., for six years, and used
to co-lead CR at Grace Church Waccamaw in
Litchfield, S.C., with my wife, Debbie. I
have seen A.A. and CR change hundreds of
lives and bring hope and healing to the hurting.
According to CR’s Web site, 700,000 people at
more than 17,000 churches worldwide have used
the CR program.
The movie promotes an open message of
hope and healing; hope that was hidden in
the basement rooms of churches at Alcoholic
Anonymous meetings when I was younger;
hidden because society back then looked down
upon anyone “weak-willed” enough not to stop
drinking, drugging, sleeping around, gambling,
overeating, etc., on their own.
What I would have given if someone had
brought me this message when I was a teenager.
If it was in movie form, it might even have gotten
through my thick skull.
Heck, the movie would have been about me.
For more information on the movie, visit www.
homerunthemovie.com
For more information on Celebrate Recovery,
and to find one of the 28 CR program church
locations in the state of South Carolina, or
in any of the other 49 states, visit www.
celebraterecovery.com
Here is a blurb about the movie from its Web
site:
“A major league baseball player, Cory Brand
has it all; an unstoppable fastball, a lucrative
contract … and a past he wants to forget. But
when a DUI in his old hometown benches him,
Cory is forced to take a hard look at his life.
Sentenced to coaching the town’s little league
team and attending a local 12-step recovery
program, Cory must face the pain he tried to
ignore and the girl he wanted to forget. Of
course, the superstar doesn’t want — or need
— anyone’s help. He simply goes through the
motions, manipulating the small community and
the team that has begun to rely on him. But just
when he thinks he can coast through his sentence
and get back to the big leagues, Cory discovers
a secret that shakes him to the core. Suddenly,
Cory realizes he’s not the one in control … and
this revelation changes his life forever.”
(A version of this story appeared in an earlier
edition of the Murrells Inlet Messenger)
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Anniversary...from page 4
right place for your physical therapy needs. So
often a patients’ freedom of choice is taken away
without them even knowing it, being referred to
a facility that is associated with the referring provider/practice. This is an attempt to keep your
insurance dollars within their organization, but
not considering the patients needs, best interest, nor the type or quality of care that they are
receiving. Advocate for yourself and seek out
the most highly trained healthcare providers for
your needs!
The offices of PRS offer convenient hours from
7 a.m.-5:30 p.m. with walk-ins welcome. If you
find yourself in need of or being referred for
physical therapy, ask your physician to refer you
to PRS for the expert care you deserve.
To schedule an appointment or for more information on Professional Rehabilitation Services,
you can contact Brian P. Kinmartin PT, DPT,
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Richard A. DeFalco, DPT, OCS, CSCS, CWcHP, (843) 839-1300 in Myrtle Beach or (843)
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You can also visit our website at, www.prsrehabservices.com to learn more about PRS, the
physical therapists, and download a therapy
referral form to take to your physician. Keep
a look out for our next office opening in early
2014 as we continue to expand throughout Horry
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Health Insurance Marketplace information
Here’s a quick rundown of the most important
things to know about the Health Insurance Marketplace, sometimes known as the health insurance “exchange.
The new Health Insurance Marketplace helps
uninsured people find health coverage. When
you fill out the Marketplace application we’ll tell
you if you qualify for:
•Private health insurance plans. We’ll tell you
whether you qualify for lower costs based on
your household size and income. Plans cover essential health benefits, pre-existing conditions,
and preventive care. If you don’t qualify for lower costs, you can still use the Marketplace to buy
insurance at the standard price.
•Medicaid and the Children’s Health Insurance
Program (CHIP). These programs provide coverage to millions of families with limited income.
If it looks like you qualify, we’ll share information with your state agency and they’ll contact
you. Many, but not all, states are expanding Medicaid in 2014 to cover more people.
No matter what state you live in, you can use
the Marketplace. Some states operate their own
Marketplace. In some states, the Marketplace is
run by the Federal government. Find the Health
Insurance Marketplace in your state. Most people
must have health coverage in 2014 or pay a fee. If
you don’t have coverage in 2014, you’ll have to
pay a penalty of $95 per adult, $47.50 per child,
or 1% of your income (whichever is higher).
The fee increases every year. Some people may
qualify for an exemption to this fee. If you enroll
by March 31, 2014, you won’t have to pay the
fee for any month before your coverage began.
You’re considered covered if you have Medicare, Medicaid, CHIP, any job-based plan, any
plan you bought yourself, COBRA, retiree coverage, TRICARE, VA health coverage, or some
other kinds of health coverage.
If you’re eligible for job-based insurance, you
can consider switching to a Marketplace plan.
But you won’t qualify for lower costs based on
your income unless the job-based insurance is
unaffordable or doesn’t meet minimum requirements. You also may lose any contribution your
employer makes to your premiums.
If you have Medicare, you’re considered covered and don’t have to make any changes. You
can’t use the Marketplace to buy a supplemental
or dental plan.
Marketplace open enrollment ends March 31,
2014. If you enroll by December 23, 2013, coverage can begin as soon as Jan. 1, 2014.
Questions? Call 24 hours a day, 7 days a week:
1-800-318-2596 (TTY: 1-855-889-4325). Ready
to apply? Learn the four ways you can apply for
coverage.
Many health insurers have decided to give you
more time to pay your first month’s premium,
extending the deadline until Jan. 10, 2014. Not
all issuers are extending the payment deadline.
Grand Strand Regional Medical
Center support groups
The following support groups have scheduled
meetings in January. For more information,
please call 692-4444.
The ARC support group will meet on Mon., Jan.
20, at 5:30 p.m. at HealthFinders at the Coastal
Grand Mall.
The grief support group will meet on Tues., Jan.
21, at 1:30 p.m. at HealthFinders at the Coastal
Grand Mall. The thyroid cancer support group
will meet on Tues., Jan. 21 at 6 p.m. at HealthFinders at Coastal Grand Mall.
The cardiac defibrillator support group will
meet on Thurs., Jan. 23, at 6:30 p.m. at HealthFinders at the Coastal Grand Mall.
The diabetes support group will meet on Tues.,
Jan. 28, at 3 p.m. at HealthFinders at the Coastal
Grand Mall.
Grand Strand Regional Medical
Center sponsors health seminars
Grand Strand Regional Medical Center will
sponsor free seminars on body contouring, dementia, migraines, foot pain and wound care in
January. All seminars are held at HealthFinders
at the Coastal Grand Mall unless noted.
Dementia is the topic on January 16, 6 - 7 p.m.,
with neurologist Barbara Sarb, DO.
Neurologist Michael McCaffrey, MD, will discuss migraines on January 21, from 6 – 7 p.m.
Foot pain is the topic on January 22, from 6 – 7
p.m., with podiatrist Scott Hamilton, DPM.
Grand Strand Regional’s Advanced Wound
Center medical director, Dana Pournaras, MD,
will discuss chronic and non-healing wound
treatment on January 28, from 6 – 7 p.m.
Seminars are free and open to the public. Registration is requested at 692-4444.
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