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The Henrys: business owners making a big splash in a little pond
By Tim Callahan
Brian Henry is not a dreamer. He is a doer.
His focus is not three years or five years down
the pike, but right here, right now, doing what is
right in front of him. Long-term plans don’t exist. And why should they? Do they usually work
out?
A Louisiana man who married an Atlanta girl,
Brian did not envision living in Pawleys Island
and owning the Sea View Inn when he went to
LSU and majored in electrical engineering back
in the late 1980’s.
First, he found out he didn’t like electrical engineering like he thought he would. Then, he
found out he liked the business end of things
a lot better. He took a job with Andersen Consulting after graduation and moved to Atlanta,
where he worked with people his age and wrote
computer software to provide business solutions.
After five years there, he went to work for CocaCola in Atlanta, managing and improving the
customer service side of the call center and then
moving into the marketing side.
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He also met the other half of his life and this
story, his wife, Sassy, who was a small business
owner in flowers and antiques. They married in
1997. Sassy soon got to do what she loves to do,
working with food and training under the head
chef for an executive investment firm. (This
would prove to be a very good thing for the Henry’s in the not so distant future.)
Feeling an entrepreneurial pull, Brian down
sized and worked for a smaller company for a
while and began the inevitable thinking process
of: “I bet I could do something in business myself.”
That something turned out to be the Sea View
Inn, where Brian convinced the former owner,
Page Oberlin, that she would never find a couple
with business, customer service and food backgrounds quite like theirs.
Oberlin and the Henrys agreed to an eight-year
manage/lease/purchase plan, with the Henrys
Brian Henry
making an appreciable down payment from most
of their savings from Brian’s work at AC and “Money was very tight the first few years,” Brian said. “We didn’t have any family money and
Cocoa-Cola. The Henrys moved here in 2002.
Continued on page 12
Merger brings together two well-known and respected families
By Tim Callahan
Doc Lachicotte made
his daughter Lou get a
real estate license as a
college freshman.
It’s a good thing she
did as she is now broker-in-charge of the
real estate company
her father started 21 years ago. The Lachicotte
Company currently has 53 independent agents
and maintains offices in Pawleys Island and
Myrtle Beach.
Lou came on board full-time in 2008 and has
led a merger this year with Vintage Estates Realty, which had offices across the street from Lachicotte’s Pawleys Island office, on Hwy. 17 in
Pawleys Island at the traffic light for the North
Causeway and Waverly Road. She had a background in mortgage lending, ministry work and
real estate. When her family needed her, Lou
was there for them. She first headed up operations before becoming broker-in-charge.
Vintage was started in 2008 by Chuck Cooper
Jr., a top producing realtor, and his brother Gary
who led the family health care businesses. “An
exclusive affiliate of Christie’s Real Estate, Vintage did very well on its own, but the merger
will make them even better”, said Don Thomas,
Vintage’s sales manager and broker-in-charge.
Thomas has been in real estate in the area since
1993, and has been a consistent performer and
top producer for various local and nationally affiliated real estate companies with an emphasis
on residential, resort properties.
Thomas said the merger combines Lachicotte’s
name, history, reputation and great rental program, with a high-end realty company that is
global in scope as an affiliate of Christie’s International Real Estate, one of only 148 such offices in the world. (The office has beautiful color
brochures for homes in New York, Argentina,
France…and Pawleys Island.)
So the official merger moniker is: “The Lachicotte Company, an exclusive affiliate of Christie’s International Real Estate.” Throw in the
logo of a lion, which Vintage used, and you get
the picture.
No one was hired or fired in the merger, he said.
Chuck Cooper, who is one of the top commercial
sales agents along the Grand Strand, heads-up
the commercial division for Lachicotte, Thomas
said. Just adding the Myrtle Beach office a year
ago, expands The Lachicotte Company’s reach
and fuels their primary goal: to be the No. 1 real
estate company on the Grand Strand.
They currently have $162 million in listings,
Lachicotte said.
Three agents are Murrells Inlet residents: Nancy Siau, Margie O’Connor and Abe Wilson.
Providing excellent service and building relationships is the company’s philosophy, Lachicotte said.
“And being ethical and honest, and working
hard,” Thomas added.
The Pawley’s office is humungous (8,000
square feet) and has two stories, three conference
rooms, a separate rental office and maintenance
department, a big training room, flex space, and,
of course, plenty of offices. The office is also
less Pawleys Island shabby now, having undergone an extensive renovation, as Christie’s appreciates a certain image for its affiliates.
But, that doesn’t mean The Lachicotte Company only works with high end clientele. They are
full service: Residential and commercial sales,
vacation and long-term rentals and property
management.
Thomas is a New Jersey native who married
a South Carolina girl and moved here in 1986.
That SC girl is now Appellate Court Judge Paula
Thomas.
Lou’s family has literally been in the area for
centuries. Her father was instrumental in the
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Trading cowboys and doctors for paradise
By Tim Callahan
The Tedrows were unhappy in the land of
“Ph.D’s and cowboys,” which was Bartlesville,
Okla., home of Oklahoma Wesleyan University.
They took a vacation to Hawaii and started listing the top 10 places they would like to live. As
they had family in this area, and had visited here
as kids, Pawleys Island made the list.
“We visited again and threw demographics out
the window,” David Tedrow said. “There is a
comfort zone here.”
The Tedrows have lived here comfortably for
10 years as owners of Asbury Fine Jewelers.
They had a store in a mall in Bartlesville but are
much happier off Hwy. 17 in Pawleys Island.
David Tedrow is a gemologist from way back
– 1974 was when he graduated with a degree in
gemology. But, he said, he took a break and “followed his beautiful wife into higher education
and stayed there a while,” becoming an administrator at Virginia Tech and Eastern Kentucky
University. Then he worked in his family’s business before he had a chance “to do whatever he
wanted with his life,” he said.
His passion was still jewelry, so while his wife
went to law school in Tulsa, he ran a silver store
in Bartlesville, which eventually brought them
here.
The name Asbury Jewelers is taken from Mary’s
great grandfather, William Asbury Whitaker.
“Somehow Tedrow doesn’t have the same ring
to it,” David said, laughing.
“I was not true to myself when I was in the oth-
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(David Tedrow, owner of Asbury Fine Jewelers)
er fields,” Tedrow said. It is not as if he doesn’t
use his higher education training, he said, as he
is a counselor/friend/confidante to many customers. “The motivating factor, what keeps us
going, is a genuine relationship with our friends,
our customers. You wouldn’t believe the number
of weddings and funerals we attend.”
His business is not stuck on one price point, he
said, and the selection is all over the board, including Bellari, Rahaminov and Tacori.
“The jewelry must be made well,” Tedrow said,
“and meet my quality control. I’m a jeweler.”
He said he has “traditional styles and fashion
forward.”
“I’ll be here until I die,” David said. “I live in a
resort. What could be better than that?”
(Asbury Fine Jewelers, www.asburyjewelers.
com 843-237-8363, 11326 Ocean Hwy., Unit 3,
Pawleys Island.)
“And God is able to make all grace abound to you, so that in
all things at all times, having all you need, you will abound in
every good work." (2 Corinthians 9:8 NIV)
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was designed to break through large waves that
were common in the Great Lakes.
On the first leg of the trip, they found out first
hand why this was important, since the breaking swells of the Great Lakes sent whitewater
across the bow and decks on the first day of the
trip. They slept in the pilothouse the first night
with a Coleman heater to keep them warm, only
to wake up the next morning thoroughly damp
from condensation on the inside of the steel hull.
The River Princess was the first boat to pass
through the Oswego Canal for the season (it was
shut down in winter due to ice floes) and made
news in the local paper. From Oswego, N.Y.,
the River Princess traveled across upstate New
York to Troy, N.Y., where they turned south into
the Hudson River and made their way into New
York Harbor.
During the two week trip to Murrells Inlet at 10
knots (nautical miles per hour), the crew sailed
though the Atlantic Ocean into Newport News,
Va., and then traveled the Atlantic Intracoastal
Waterway (AIWW) south to her new home port
of Murrells Inlet, where she was christened the
Island Queen II.
During the course of the following twelve years,
the Island Queen made two daily plantation
tours, and evening dinner cruises to Bucksport,
during the season. The Island Queen took a route
down the Waccamaw River, going into Butler
and Schooner Creek, up the Pee Dee River, then
back to the marina through Thoroughfare Creek.
This tour provided visitors a glimpse of the ricefields, river swamps, and plantation homes for
the price of $5 per passenger in 1968, which
(The Island Queen II, built in Erie, came into
service in 1974, replacing the Island Queen.)
went up to $12 by 1986. The Island Queen navigated our waters under the command of Captains
Andy Martin, Tommy Legette (from Calabash,
NC) John Lentine, Leo Gardner, and Alex Sing,
Jr. These captains were ably assisted by Cruise
Guides, who were there to tell the tales and legends of the local history and our flora and fauna.
These cruise guides have included Kathy Hamby, Sarah Conkfield, Elizabeth “Betty” Bunting,
and Karen Thatcher. The last two, Betty and
Karen, were responsible for writing, illustrating
and publishing a book about the tour called “Out
of Wacca Wache” in 1978.
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Wacca Wache Marina was built beside the
bluffs at Wachesaw Plantation, where visitors
to Murrells Inlet have arrived by boat for hundreds of years, including Indians, early settlers,
barges, sloops, steamships, mailboats, and now,
transient pleasure craft.
The river’s history in the settlement of our community is similar to all of the surrounding plantations, since canoes, skiffs, and schooners alike
were the earliest forms of transportation to this
isolated (for hundreds of years) place.
After Wacca Wache Marina started operations,
Lawrence LaBruce ran the marina and gave river
tours to visitors on the Island Queen, a 41-foot
wood mail boat built in the late 1930’s. When
he sold the marina to Walter Willard in 1967, the
Island Queen continued in service, eventually
being replaced in April of 1974 with a modern
65-foot steel cruising boat built in Erie, Pa.
The Island Queen II started off as the River
Princess in Erie, and Walter Willard, his son
Harris, and his son-in-law Andy Martin traveled
to Erie to navigate the long trip home through
the Great Lakes, the New York canals and down
the East Coast to Murrells Inlet. Andy Martin
had studied and received his captain’s license
from the Coast Guard specifically for this boat
so they could bring it back themselves. It was a
voyage of firsts for this crew; since this was the
furthest they had ever travelled from home (the
route home by water was over 1300 miles). Walter had the ship builder raise the pilothouse two
feet before they picked the boat up to ensure they
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Dr. Craig Cohen
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By Tim Callahan
“He’s a card, isn’t he?” asked an observer while watching the Tasmanian Devil that is chiropractor Craig Cohen.
“Yes, he is.”
What else could one say?
Part doctor, part comedian, part counselor, part friend, part nurse, Cohen is ALL about improving the health of his patients. And, he does it
quickly and efficiently.
To help him do his job even better, he said, he has teamed up with
two nurse practitioners and a massage therapist and is one year away
from being certified as a registered nurse himself. He has been earning
his stripes, so to speak, in the emergency room at the hospital the past
year and a half.
Cohen is the owner of Inlet Physical Medicine off Inlet Square Drive.
His business name change, from Carolina Family Spine and Health,
says it all. Combining chiropractic services and medical services in the
same building is what makes his practice unique, he said.
“It’s an integrated practice,” he said. “Chiropractic, medical, and rehab. The patients we couldn’t help before we can now help.”
Cohen was a biochemistry major at Salisbury University (Md.), and
then attended chiropractic school in Marietta, Ga. After working with
doctors in Atlanta and Charlotte, he decided to start his own practice in
2008 in the Murrells Inlet area, where his family had moved to about
a decade before.
He is married and his wife, Corrie, helps out at the practice. They
have a daughter. He won’t tell you where he is from, he joked, because
that would tell which side of the Mason-Dixon line he comes from.
Craig’s interest in chiropractic care came from his own childhood, a
time filled with ear infections, asthma and chronic pain. Doctors and
meds didn’t seem to help so his uncle suggested a chiropractor. Skeptical, his family tried one and Craig was miraculously able to chuck his
inhaler. He ended up playing football at Elon.
But, doctors and meds can help people where chiropractic care doesn’t
and vice-versa, Cohen said, which is what he is trying to do with his
rejuvenated practice. “Patients can get better faster,” he said.
One patient, Steve Smith, 63, of Garden City, said he has been going
to a chiropractor for 15 years. Smith worked for the departments of
defense and homeland security, he said, before moving down here two
years ago.
“I never went to one,” he said, “but I had serious back problems and
was headed to surgery. A neighbor went to a chiropractor, so I tried it.
I could barely walk.” Smith was saying this as he was standing and
riding an elliptical trainer with a weighted head rest on his head.
Cohen said he is also proud to offer patients food and chemical sensitivity screening, and the ability to treat peripheral neuropathy, a condition that affects millions and comes with symptoms like burning feet,
electric shocks, pins and needles, pain and numbness. The treatment
is safe and effective, Cohen said, and highly effective for most people
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“That is not everything we do,” he said. “These are just the highlights.”
The real highlight was watching him work the rooms.
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• Your income — You can expect to receive
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investment accounts you may have. You’ll need
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• Your withdrawal rate — If your investments
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annual withdrawals from your portfolio. Your
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• Your portfolio reliance rate — Related to
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reliance rate — how much you rely on your portfolio to provide income. For instance, if you will
need $50,000 per year in retirement, and $30,000
will come from your portfolio, your reliance rate
will be 60% ($30,000 divided by $50,000). Your
reliance rate will help determine how sensitive
your strategy might be to outside events, such as
market fluctuations.
While you need to be familiar with these expected elements of your retirement, you also
must be prepared for the unexpected aspects,
such as these:
• Living longer than you expect — How long
you can expect to live is somewhat of a mystery.
If you were to live longer than you anticipate,
would you be financially prepared? To help make
sure your money lasts throughout your lifetime,
you may need to consider investments that can
provide you with a lifetime income stream. And
your longevity will obviously also affect your
annual portfolio withdrawal rate.
• Inflation — At an average inflation rate of
three percent, your cost of living will double in
about 24 years. That’s why, even in retirement,
you will need some growth oriented investments, such as quality stocks to ensure you can
maintain your desired retirement lifestyle. But if
the unexpected happens, and inflation takes off
at a much higher than average level, you may
need to consider a greater amount of investments
that offer the potential for rising income.
• Health care — Even after you’re on Medicare, which won’t cover everything, you need to
prepare for the unexpected, such as a lengthy illness or the need for some type of long-term care.
You may also wish to “self-insure” to a certain
extent by setting aside funds in a liquid, stable
account.
By positioning your investment portfolio for
both the expected and the unexpected, you can
go a long way toward enjoying the retirement
lifestyle you seek. So plan ahead — and make
the necessary adjustments as time goes by.
(This article was written by Edward Jones for
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Community Events Calendar
Litchfield ballet benefit
Wines of the World wine tasting to benefit the
Litchfield Ballet Foundation will be held, Fri.,
June 8, 5:30 p.m - 8:30 p.m. at the Litchfield
Dance Arts Academy, 97 Otis Drive in Pawleys
Island. There will be tastings of 24 wines, hors
d’oeuvres, music by guitarist/singer Don Thomas and violinists Daniella and Stephanie Royer,
and dance by LDAA students and faculty. Tickets are $30 per person. Call 843-237-7465 for
tickets or pick them up at the door.
7th annual Makai Luau
The 7th Annual Makai Luau, a Grand Strand
tradition, will be held June 9 at the Hot Fish
Club, off Hwy. 17 Bus., in Murrells Inlet. The
ticket only benefit begins at 6 p.m. on the lawn
and will feature live music, a fire and hula show
from Chief Kamu, a traditional luau buffet, beer
and wine beverages, as well as the wildly popular Surfers Punch.
There will be prizes for the “Ugliest Hawaiian
Shirt” contest, a “Best Lei” contest, and more.
All proceeds from the event will fund projects of
the Grand Strand Chapter of the Surfrider Foundation, a grassroots, non-profit, environmental
organization that works to protect our oceans,
waves, and beaches.
Tickets are on sale at area surf shops, through
a local Surfrider member, or by visiting Surfrider’s website www.surfridergrandstrand.org.
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Community Events Calendar
Stormfest 2012
Come to the Inlet Square Mall on June 9, from 9
a.m. - 2 p.m., to learn about stormy weather from
local meteorologists at Stormfest 2012. Bring
the kids for some educational fun, a tornado treasure hunt, face painting contests, discount bowling, free giveaways and more. Call 651-6990 for
more information or visit www.inletsquaremall.
com
Journalist’s novel book signing
Free monthly food distribution
The New Beginnings ministry monthly free
food distribution will be held on June 16, from
11 a.m. - 1 p.m. at the Church of the Resurrection, 8901 Hwy. 17 Bypass, Surfside Beach. Free
lunch served, social services assistance provided
and a play area is available for children. Hablamos Español.
Tee off for the Inlet
Murrells inlet 2020 invites everyone to kick off
their summer with a fun-filled day of golf, reMy Sister’s Books is
freshments and great food at its 14th annual golf
hosting a book signing
tournament fundraiser, sponsored by A&I Fire &
for author Jon Buchan
Water Restoration on Sat., June 23, at Blackmoor
on Sat., June 9, from
in Murrells Inlet.
noon-2 p.m., at 13057
Blackmoor Golf Club, Gary Player’s only Grand
Ocean Hwy, Pawleys
Strand signature course, is built on the historic
Island.
Longwood Plantation, which parallels the WacBuchan is an awardcamaw River.
winning first amendTournament space is limited, and has already
ment attorney and
started to fill up. An early sell-out is expected,
former
newspaper
so be sure to register early. It is Captain’s Choice
journalist who grew up
and the shotgun start is at 1 p.m.
in Mullins, and spent
Entry fees are $110 per player or $400 per
most of his career in
Charlotte. He will be signing “Code of the foursome, which includes green fees, golf cart,
Forest,” his first novel, which tells the story of a on-course beverages and snacks, a goodie bag
small-town newspaper publisher who exposes a and a buffet dinner. All golfers are invited to the
political bribery scheme. For more information Dead Dog Saloon immediately following golf
about the event, call 843.235.9618; to learn more for awards and a buffet dinner of roast chicken,
about the novel, visit www.jogglingboardpress. BBQ brisket with dipping sauce, pasta salad,
com
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cole slaw and baked beans, with tea or keg beer.
Prizes valued at $700 will be awarded for the
top three winning teams. Golfers can put their
skills to the test in three great hole-in-one contests. Hole-in-one prizes include: a brand new
Chevy Equinox SUV, sponsored by Coastal
Chevrolet Cadillac; a choice of a new BMW or
Mercedes, sponsored by Myrtle Beach Automotive; and a luxurious Rolex watch, sponsored by
Christopher’s Fine Jewelry. Additional prizes
will be given out for winners of the longest putt
and longest drive contests. Plus, all players will
have opportunities to win fabulous giveaways
for dining, attractions, golf, shows and more.
Proceeds from the Tournament benefit Murrells
Inlet 2020, a non-profit community revitalization
organization dedicated to its mission of making
Murrells Inlet a nice place to live, work and visit.
Tournament registration fees are tax-deductible
as permitted by current IRS regulations.
Contact Murrells Inlet 2020, 843-357-2007
or email info@murrellsinletsc.com, or visit
the events page at www.murrellsinletsc.com to
download a registration form for more information.
Silver haired legislature submits
resolutions to General Assembly
The Waccamaw Caucus of the SC Silver Haired
Legislature has developed and submitted five
resolutions for consideration by the organization’s state office in Columbia.
The resolutions request the General Assembly
enact and the governor sign legislation to: Require group health insurance and group health
benefit plans to cover assistive hearing devices
for senior citizens.
Prohibit any state agency or service provider
from requiring a “Facebook” password before
receiving assistance or service.
Provide funding for the Office of Senior and
Long Term Care Services to ensure that every
county can provide needed respite and in-home
services.
Provide at least $5 million for in-home and
community-based services, with an increase in
accord with the Southeast cost of living index
each year.
Require certification for financial planners by
an independent accredited school such as Bryn
Mawr. Require financial planners to disclose to
their clients whether or not they work on commission.
The resolutions will be referred to the respective Silver Haired Legislature committees at the
July meetings in Columbia, along with resolutions submitted by other caucuses throughout the
State. The resolutions that are approved by the
committees, a maximum of 18, will be discussed
and debated at the Silver Haired Legislature’s
annual three-day session in September at the
state house. The resolutions will be ranked and
submitted to the General Assembly.
The Waccamaw Caucus expresses their appre-
ciation to those citizens and organizations that
provided input in developing the resolutions.
Thank you.
For information about the Silver Haired Legislature, please go to SCSilverHairedLeg.org
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Editorial/Opinion: first Mother’s Day without my mom
By Debbie Callahan
Today is Mother’s Day 2012 – my first ever
without my mom. June 1 will be the first anniversary of her dying to this world.
I miss my mom. Not counting God, she was
the longest relationship I ever had or will have.
That’s the way it is. So, after procrastinating for
a year for fear of experiencing even more pain,
it’s time I share how God answered prayers
throughout her illness and death.
Three years prior to all this, my husband was
sitting with my dad at a Christmas party/family
reunion and my dad said to him that he wished
he and my mom would love each other the way
they used to. Eight children, a hard working middle class family, along with alcoholism and all
the effects of that, pulled at our family and took
a toll on their marriage.
In March of 2011, I knew it was getting close
with my mom. I prayed for God to work out the
right time for me to go back home to Pittsburgh
to spend time with her and help my siblings care
for her. It was a hard call to make. I didn’t know
if I would be going for a funeral and - hoping
that wasn’t the case. Lord, I’m wasn’t ready for
that yet - I just wanted an opportunity to care for
her.
I spent a little over a week and it was the most
rewarding experience I had. I cooked for her,
helped bathe her, helped clean the house, slept
on the couch by her hospital bed and talked
with her – we even shared some good laughs. I
wouldn’t trade that for anything.
The first night I was there, at bedtime, my dad
walked in to the living room where the hospital
bed was and kissed my mom goodnight – and
she responded. I can’t tell you the last time I
had seen that happen. And it continued night after night – telling her he loved her. God had answered my dad’s prayer – and ours. It confirmed
to me that nothing is impossible with God and it
is okay to pray BIG.
The week went fast and I had to leave. I knew
it may be the last that I would spend that kind
of time with my mom here on earth. It was so
hard to leave that way. My next prayer to God
was that I would be able to go home again before
she died. When I was there, we thought it would
be days but the hospice nurse said, maybe, two
months. So, I left there with a prayer in my heart
that God’s timing would be perfect, reminding
myself that I need to trust that it always is. I
verbally then prayed with my husband that God
would let me know when it would be time to go
back. He did.
Just two months later, I flew in on a Friday, had
a great day with her on Saturday, and Sunday
she slipped in to a semi- coma. I remember trying to feed her her last meal and she put her lips
together and turned away from me – I suspect
she was ready. A day after the semi-coma, she
slipped into a coma – it happened that way with
my grandma – her mom – so I knew this was it.
My mom had lung cancer and I heard the horror
stories. (Oh God, I prayed, please don’t let it be
like that.) It wasn’t – at least not what I could
see - but I believe she wasn’t suffering the way
I thought she might. I was so grateful for yet another answer to prayer. That night I got on my
knees and out loud asked God to please allow
her to leave peacefully. I didn’t want to see her
suffer. I also had asked God if I could walk her
home.
You see, growing up my mom had a bad experience with the priest where I went to church and
had stopped going. I was brought up believing
that we have to be good enough to go to heaven.
Through reading the Bible, I came to know that
I could never be good enough, but Jesus was and
he willingly took my place and paid my debt. He
became my Savior because I believed only He
could be and I asked Him to - but I didn’t know
where my mom stood.
(Two summers ago, I called to talk with my sister – she wasn’t there so I had a conversation
with my mom. I knew immediately that God had
planned it that way because she brought up that
she was planning some things for her funeral. I
felt prompted to ask her how she felt about dying, what she believed happened, after and if she
knew where she was going and why. She said,
“Heaven, because God forgives sins and that’s
why Jesus died.”
God knew that she was on my heart and orchestrated that conversation. I asked her again
months before she died if she asked Jesus to be
her Savior and she said she did. I also found out
that a hospice volunteer had prayed with her
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Guest column: benefits of trees are too numerous to count
By Rick Baumann
We have friends with leaves who need our help.
Some bear fruit or nuts to nourish us – and some
just awe us with their beauty or comfort us in
their shade. What is unfortunate with their plight
is that the Almighty decided to create them without voices. If He had given them that ability, they
certainly would be crying out for help.
All across the globe, they are suffering. North
America’s ancient alpine bristlecone forests are
falling victim to a voracious beetle and an Asian
fungus. In Texas, a prolonged drought killed
more than five million urban shade trees last
year and an additional half billion trees in parks
and forests. In the Amazon, two severe droughts
have killed billions more.
There are parasites and fungi problems here in
the Lowcountry as well. But our biggest problems are that we have both taken trees for granted and severely underestimated their importance
as we continue to “develop” our area.
There are several wonderful neighborhoods
which have been developed with landmark trees
taken into consideration – and they have made a
real effort to reforest the canopy lost after building. Then there are those which have been developed to squeeze the most quick profit out of the
land as possible, while leaving almost treeless
high density neighborhoods in their post development wake. But this is the plight of our capitalist free society.
The political arguments may go on forever, but
the fact is that folks own landscapes to enjoy
them as they see fit, or to make a living off them.
Even though trees are so much more beautiful,
and so much more significant, than anything
we can contribute, with our human skills, to the
landscape, the human aspects of land ownership
must be considered.
Farmers use their human skills to alter the earth
and make it bountiful for all of us. Foresters manage forests to harvest wood for buildings, furniture, firewood and more. Home builders and
developers specifically purchase land to profit
from the development of it. If they did not, our
property values would be even lower than they
are today in this wonderful economy.
On the other hand, mature trees add ten to twenty percent to a property’s value – among so many
other benefits that we seldom consider:
“A mature tree can often have an appraisal value of between $1,000 and $10,000.” – Council
of Tree and Landscape Appraisers.
“In one study, 83% of realtors believe that mature trees have a ‘strong or moderate impact’ on
the salability of homes listed for under $150,000.
On homes listed in excess of $250,000, this perception increases to 98%.” – Arbor National
Mortgage.
“Landscaping, especially with trees, can increase property value as much as 20%.” – Management Information Services/ICMA.
“There are up to two hundred million spaces
along our city streets where trees could be planted. This interprets to the potential to absorb 33
million tons of carbon dioxide every year, saving $4 billion in energy costs.” – The National
Wildlife Federation.
“Trees properly placed around buildings can reduce air conditioning costs by 30% and can save
20 to 50% in energy used for heating.” – USDA
Forest Service. “Trees can be a stimulus to economic development, attracting new business and
tourism. Commercial retail areas are more attractive to shoppers, apartments rent more quickly,
tenants stay longer, and space in a wooded setting is more valuable to sell or rent.” – The Arbor
Day Foundation.
“The planting of trees means improved water quality, resulting in less runoff and erosion.
This allows more recharging of the ground water
supply. Wooded areas prevent the transport of
sediment and chemicals into bodies of water.” –
USDA Forest Service.
Trees also release vast clouds of beneficial
chemicals. Some of these aerosols appear to
help regulate the climate – while others are antibacterial, anti-fungal and anti-viral. One of
these substances, taxane, has become a powerful
treatment for breast and other cancers. Aspirin’s
active ingredient comes from willow trees. The
benefits go on and on.
Did you know that a tree does not reach its most
productive age of carbon storage until it is 10
years old? But, the average tree only survives
eight years in an urban environment? So, with all
these things considered, why do trees get such a
bad shake in the scheme of things?
There is an old saying which goes “Everyone
loves trees except the one that gets in the way.”
There has been a whole lot of that going on,
since colonial times.
There is an old Cree Indian proverb which says
“Only when the last tree has died and the last
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The best things in life are free, the best people are neighbors who care
By Joe Scanlon
You can’t pick up a newspaper or turn on a TV
set, especially during an election year, without
reading - or hearing - about the sorry state of
the economy. I remember when the suggestion
of buying water in the grocery store would have
you branded as an idiot. Gas goes up and down
at around $4/gallon and not that long ago people
were shocked when gas topped 70 cents. Being
in the health care field, I see every day that the
cost of repairing damaged or worn out bodies,
or even treating the common cold, has become
astronomical.
It puts me in mind of an anthropology course I
took on various traditional health care techniques
that were practiced among non-industrialized
native populations. My favorite case study was
the Amazonian tradition of all the members of
a village regularly paying the shaman/medicine
man as long as they were well. When they became sick or injured, they stopped paying until
they were well again. It is an interesting concept
that the people invested in helping maintain your
health make a living when you remain healthy
and don’t get paid when you are sick. I wonder
what the AMA or the big insurance companies
would think of that.
Interestingly enough, we have something even
better than the Amazonian health care program
in the U.S. It is so effective and inexpensive
that it has spread around the world. I am talking about the various incarnations of the 12 step
self-help groups started by Bill Wilson in 1935.
Bill was a hopeless alcoholic, who had started
out as a successful business man but became, as
a result of his drinking, an unemployable wreck.
A former drinking buddy of his, Ebbie Thacher,
approached Bill and told him that he had found
“religion” and it had helped him stay sober. The
“religion” Thacher was talking about was the
steps of the Oxford Group, modeled after First
Century Christianity. The A.A. group’s very early
days were somewhat unsuccessful as the emphasis on religion offended a lot of self-respecting
drunks who had been preached at unendingly,
and with no success, by family and friends. As
the group evolved, it retained 12 steps and 12
traditions as its basis, and God as the solution,
but relied on each other and one alcoholic’s willingness to help another alcoholic get sober. The
traditions also took the pursuit of money, property and prestige out of the equation. With these
guiding principles, A.A. began to flourish.
Jimmy K. founded Narcotics Anonymous in the
1950’s and Overeaters, Gamblers Anonymous
and numerous other 12 step programs were soon
to follow. Also, every one of the 12 step groups
has a complimentary program for the family
members, who have to be somewhat crazier than
the addict to put up with them.
The total number of members of 12 step groups
and the total numbers of individuals lives whose
lives were saved by them numbers in the tens of
millions. And, nobody has ever made a nickel for
the help provided by 12 step groups.
The Center for Disease Control in Atlanta estimates the cost in lost productivity and treatment
for alcoholism tops a billion each year in the
U.S. The average cost of inpatient alcohol rehab
is around $27,000, and outpatient rehab counseling is around $3,000. With an estimated two million members worldwide and a conservative estimate of a 25 percent success rate, A.A. saves its
members in the vicinity of one billion dollars in
treatment cost, and society an incalculable savings in increased productivity and reduced crime
and accidents.
Sometimes, if I have a high risk patient and
need to refer them to a specialist, they might get
an appointment in a month, with a call back in
two weeks informing them that their insurance
doesn’t pay for the procedure, so they need to
bring a couple of thousand dollars to the visit. If
I have a man or a woman experiencing suicidal
despair because of the situation their drinking
has gotten them in, I can call one of my A.A.
contacts and they will pick them up at home,
take them to a meeting, sit with them if need
be, and stick with them every day for days in
a row until the suffering alcoholic can stand on
their own. And, all of this with no expectation of
thanks and, amazingly, the willingness to do it
all over again if the alcoholic gets drunk again.
There are several 12 step meetings every day of
the week – morning, noon and night - in Murrells
Inlet, Garden City, Pawley’s Island and Georgetown. The best things in life are free; and the best
people in life are our neighbors who look out for
their own.
(Joe Scanlon is the director of the Counseling
Center of Georgetown, 527-8118.)
75 percent of adults quite attached to local news
Nearly three quarters (72%) of adults are quite
attached to following local news and information, and local newspapers are by far the source
they rely on for much of the local information
they need. They are much more likely than others to say that if their local newspaper vanished,
it would have a major impact on their ability to
get the local information they want.
One-third of local news enthusiasts (32%) say it
would have a major impact on them if their local
newspaper no longer existed, compared with just
19% of those less interested in local news. Most
likely to report a major impact if their newspaper
disappeared are local news followers age 40 and
older (35%), though even among younger local
news followers 26% say losing the local paper
would have a major impact on them. In contrast,
just 19% of adults who do not follow local news
closely say they would feel a major impact and
fully half (51%) say they would feel no impact at
all from the loss of their local paper. Only 34%
of local news enthusiasts feel this way.
These local news and information consumers
stand out from other adults in several respects
related to community attachment, general interest in all types of news, use of sources for local
news and information, and the particular topics
of interest to them on the local scene.
These are among the main findings in a nationally representative phone survey of 2,251 adults
by the Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism and Internet & American
Life Project, produced in association with the
John S. and James L. Knight Foundation.
The survey was administered from January 1225, 2011 on landline and cell phones. It has an
overall margin of error of plus or minus 2 percentage points. While this seems to be positive
news for newspapers, in many cases the reliance
on newspapers is heaviest among older local
news enthusiasts, while younger local news followers rely more heavily on other sources.
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(The Murrells Inlet Messenger’s own Debbie
Callahan visits the HIS Radio booth at Beach
Blast on May 19 in Myrtle Beach. The day long
annual event featured many of the top contemporary Christian artists including: Third Day,
TobyMac, Jamie Grace, and Royal Tailor.)
Benefits of trees are too numerous to count...continued from page 9
river has been poisoned and the last fish has
been caught – will we realize that we cannot eat
money.”
Abraham Lincoln once said “Character is like
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The Henrys: business owners making a big splash in a little pond...continued from page 1
we were paying two mortgages as we tried to sell
our home in Atlanta.”
The Henrys now own the inn. But, first, something happened in 2006 that changed the course
of their lives - yet again.
Wanting to make more money and feeling another pull to do something more than just the
inn, Brian asked Sassy what she was passionate
about. Sassy said she was passionate about pimento cheese. Yup, cheese, the same concoction
she created and used to serve at Atlanta Braves
tailgating parties, and was currently serving at
the Sea View Inn every Wednesday night with
Low Country Boil.
With Brian’s business acumen and Sassy’s tasty
recipe, they started “Palmetto Cheese, Pimento
Cheese with Soul.” Three kinds are available:
original pimento cheese, bacon pimento cheese
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Six years later, Palmetto Cheese is in 3,500
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included the Henry’s success in its February 17
“Money” section; success mainly due to the viral
marketing grit and determination of Nathan Kirk
Design, a Socastee/Myrtle Beach firm. (Thanks
to Kirk and a great product, Palmetto Cheese is
already up to more than 23,000 likes on Facebook, which is a great way to survey the customer base, Brian said, as well as get insights
into his customers.)
“It all started with selling a few containers
through Independent Seafood in Georgetown,
and then the Food Lion in Pawleys let us put it
in as a local product,” Brian said. Things really
took off when they also picked up the Litchfield
Piggly Wiggly, he said. “We sold 500 a week
there during the peak season,” he said. “That’s
when we knew, ‘we’ve got something here.’”
Now the cheese is manufactured in Greenville
by Duke Sandwich Productions, who also do
some distribution, and is also distributed by a
contracted carrier.
The success of Palmetto Cheese has provided
the resources, Brian said, to help keep working
and enjoying the Sea View Inn, and to expand
into yet another business in June 2011, Get Carried Away Southern Takeout, located directly
across from Pawleys Wine & Spirits.
Low country boil in a bucket, casseroles, sides,
savory pies, dips and appetizers, sandwiches and
salad plates, stove top, breads and desserts are all
available at Get Carried Away, Brian said, from
10:30 a.m. to 7 p.m., everyday except Sunday.
Deliveries are also made for orders exceeding
$50.
Between their three businesses, two daughters
and community support activities, most people
think the Henrys don’t sleep, but actually they
sleep quite well, Brian said.
“We’ve got good people. I’m not stressed. I
trust people because we hired the right people.”
He said many employees were friends of the
Henrys before they hired them.
Brian smiles when asked again about longrange plans for the new business. “Who would
have believed this?” he said.
(For more information: Get Carried Away
Southern Takeout, 314-3493, www.getcarriedawaypi.com. The Sea View Inn, 237-4253, www.
seaviewinn.com. Palmetto Cheese, www.pimentocheese.com)
(Don Thomas and Lou Lachicotte display the sign of two local family owned businesses merging.)
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Georgetown Hospital System June calendar of events
WEEKLY HEALTH SCREENINGS: Tuesdays, mall area of Georgetown Memorial Hospital; Thursdays, Waccamaw Community Hospital
front lobby. Screenings Offered: finger stick lipid profiles with blood sugar for $20 (8-10 hour
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Labor & Delivery, Postpartum Unit and Nursery,
Waccamaw Community Hospital, 6 p.m.
Pre-registration required. Call 520-8490.
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June 11: OB TOUR – GEORGETOWN. Walking tour of Labor & Delivery, Postpartum Unit
and Nursery, Georgetown Hospital, 6 p.m. Preregistration required. Call 520-8490.
June 12: BREASTFEEDING CLASS - MURRELLS INLET. Taught by a certified lactation
consultant. Waccamaw Hospital, 6 p.m.-8 p.m.
Free; pre-registration required; call 520-8490.
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Education Center, Georgetown Memorial Hospital, from 6 p.m.-8 p.m. Free; pre-registration
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June 13 & 27: ALZHEIMER’S SUPPORT
GROUP - MURRELLS INLET. 10 a.m. Belin
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STROKE SUPPORT GROUP: Waccamaw
Community Hospital, 4th floor dining room, 3
p.m. Call 652-1875 for information.
June 13: I CAN COPE EDUCATION SERIES.
Waccamaw Community Hospital, 5:30 p.m.7:30 p.m. Program for people facing cancer.
Free; pre-registration required; call 652-1640.
June 14: SIBLING PREPARATION CLASS
– GEORGETOWN. Education Center, Georgetown Hospital campus, from 9 a.m.-10:30 a.m.
Free; pre-registration required, call 520-8490.
BREASTFEEDING CLASS – GEORGETOWN. Taught by a certified lactation consultant, Education Center located, Georgetown
Memorial Hospital, 11:30 p.m.-1:30 p.m. Free;
pre-registration required, call 520-8490.
PARKINSON’S SUPPORT GROUP:
7 p.m., Timber Lake Baptist Church, Rt.707. Information, 650-8756.
June 18 & 19: SafeSitter Two Day Program
– GEORGETOWN. Program prepares young
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must be 11-13 years of age to attend. Education
Center, Georgetown Memorial Hospital, from 8
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second day. Preregistration and pre-payment of
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June 18: HEART FAILURE EDUCATION
SUPPORT GROUP - MURRELLS INLET, Waccamaw Community Hospital, 2 East Conference
Room, 1 p.m.-2:30 p.m. Information, 652-1624.
June 20: AMPUTEE SUPPORT GROUP. Waccamaw Community Hospital, 4th floor dining
room, 1 p.m. Information, 652-1839.
June 25: BOSOM BUDDIES SUPPORT
GROUP. Wachesaw Conference Center, 4367
Riverwood Drive, Suite 160, Murrells Inlet, 6
p.m.-7 p.m. Call 843-237-8787.
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MURRELLS INLET. Waccamaw Community
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Conference Center, at 4367 Riverwood Drive, 6
p.m.-8 p.m. Adult CPR covered but emphasis is
on pediatric CPR. $10.00/couple; $5/individual.
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First Mother’s Day without my mom...continued from page 8
weeks before. So, I asked God if I could walk
her home - to her real home in Heaven - when
it was time.
The night before she died, we had all eight of
us siblings sleeping over, along with some of
her grandchildren. It was the first time since we
were all little that we did that and we acted like
the kids we once were. I slept in my mom’s bed
with her.
The next morning before 7 a.m., people started
going in different directions: my dad was in his
room; my two brothers went home to shower and
change; my other brother walked out to the back
yard; my sister went upstairs to get ready for
work; and my other sister went to help her; my
niece had to go home to get her kids off to school
so her husband could go to work...and so on.
Within minutes everyone had scattered and
within minutes my mom took her last breath and
I was the only one with her. With one breath she
left this world, with the next she entered the next.
I was so grateful to be with her, but I know that
I didn’t deserve it the way my other family members did. They were there all the time taking care
of her. I lived away. I didn’t deserve that the way
they did and don’t know why I was blessed to be
with her other than I asked God and He granted
my request. And He answered the other one that she would go peacefully.
I had hoped to be able to speak at the funeral
so we made arrangements with the director for
us siblings to all say something in honor of our
mom. I also wanted to play a song that God gave
me through the radio – one I hadn’t heard in a
long time but started replaying again. The director said it would be okay at the end, disappointing to me because most people leave by then.
Instead, he got everybody seated 45 minutes before and we were able to do what we had hoped
to do: pay tribute to our mom and share what
God had done through all of this!
I may not get everything I pray for, but I’ve
learned that God knows what I truly want and
need and, as a loving parent, it’s always His best.
Whether it’s expressed verbally or as I call it – a
prayer of the heart - God always answers. It may
be yes, it may be no, it may be maybe, or not
now, I can only trust that He will always be here
for me – after all He died so that I could always
be there forever with Him!
Let me share a chorus of the song that I played
– “This One’s With Me” by NewSong - “I was
dreaming about heaven, when I looked up the
gates were opened wide. In the distance I saw
Jesus – our eyes met and I began to cry. I felt so
very unworthy, I felt like running away, then as
I turned to go I heard someone say, ‘Father this
one’s with me, part of the family, one of the reasons I died on Calvary. Father, welcome him in.
I paid the price for him, Father, oh Father, this
one’s with me.’”
My mom would hear
Jesus say that because,
as I shared at the funeral home, my mom was
a “whosoever.”
John 3:16 says “For
God so loved the
world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that
‘whosoever’ believes in Him should not perish
but have everlasting life.”
I’m also a “whosoever” and I look forward to
our reunion!
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