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An Economic Plan For True Integration in Dist. 20 Schools

School Closing Forums Over, Anger Remains By Barney Blakeney Rev. Lewis: “Race is a Factor” David Mack Jr.- “Equity Not Part of Agenda” Charleston County School District officials last week concluded community meetings to present proposals for redesigning and restructuring schools that include closing some schools. Those meetings were characterized by vehement opposition and record attendance. The administration says some schools must close, but constituents “say not their school”. Some local school officials shared their perspectives. Rev. Theodore Lewis served as a member of the county school board 19982002. He said some closings may be a reality that must be accepted, especially if considered from a purely financial perspective. But the financial bind the district finds itself in presently may have been

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avoided had officials acted more prudently in the past. In North Charleston Constituent District 4 where about half the one dozen school closures are proposed, Lewis said the district should have considered closures and/or consolidations more than a decade ago after the closing of the Charleston Naval Base. He noted several schools along Dorchester Road - the Hunley Park, Lambs, Goodwin, Brentwood and Burns facilities as exam-

The re-design plan for our schools has been on my mind since the Charleston County School District (or CCSD) first announced it early this fall. I attended last Wednesday’s meeting at Burke High’s Auditorium on the matter. Hundreds in the community attended to hear the plan first hand.

S c h o o l Superintendent Dr. Nancy McGinley outlined the three possible plans, which include the closings of lesser populated James Simons, Fraser, and Charleston Progressive. Vacancy at Charleston Progressive would be brief, because CCSD is considering moving Buist Academy there. Our Fraser children, the plan states,

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Targeting ILA Part of National Union-Busting Tactics?

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By Barney Blakeney International L o n g s h o r e m e n Association Local 1422 is one of the area’s most powerful and successful labor unions. Its approximately 800 members are predomi-

David Mack, Jr.

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Arthur Lawrence

would have to go to the new Sanders-Clyde school currently being built. Another plan is that the Charleston Charter for Math and Science would move from the Rivers campus to the old Archer Building. Murmurs of disapproval echoed throughout the auditorium at the thought of our children having to leave their neighborhood schools and re-locate to another campus. This is a practice this community has experiSee pg 2

Our Schools: A Time For Planning, A Time for Action short-term and long-term outcomes for our children and our community. Because of my position in the district and other very significant role in life as a Minister, I have had the opportunity to really listen to the heartfelt concerns of many, witness the levels of passion had by so many

By Dr. Brenda Nelson On the Issue of School Redesign …….. Throughout the past weeks, I have engaged in dialogue with many around the CCSD School Redesign Initiative, the rationale for this initiative, along with the anticipated

Dr. Brenda Nelson

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One Solitary Life He was born in an obscure village The child of a peasant woman He grew up in another obscure village Where he worked in a carpenter shop Until he was thirty He never wrote a book He never held an office He never went to college He never visited a big city He never travelled more than two hundred miles From the place where he was born He did none of the things Usually associated with greatness He had no credentials but himself He was only thirty three His friends ran away One of them denied him He was turned over to his enemies And went through the mockery of a trial He was nailed to a cross between two thieves While dying, his executioners gambled for his clothing The only property he had on earth When he was dead He was laid in a borrowed grave Through the pity of a friend Nineteen centuries have come and gone And today Jesus is the central figure of the human race And the leader of mankind's progress All the armies that have ever marched All the navies that have ever sailed All the parliaments that have ever sat All the kings that ever reigned put together Have not affected the life of mankind on earth As powerfully as that one solitary life Dr. James Allan Franci

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President-elect Obama by Associated Press NEW YORK - Presidentelect Barack Obama has won another contest: He's been named Time magazine's "Person of the Year" for 2008. The magazine has named Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson, French President Nicolas Sarkozy, Gov. Sarah Palin and Chinese director Zhang Yimou as runners-up. Last year's winner was Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin. Previous individual winners have included Bono, President George W. Bush and Amazon.com CEO and founder Jeff Bezos.

Vick Could Be Out of Prison by Inauguration Day By: Associated Press NORFOLK, Va. - Former NFL star Michael Vick could be out of federal prison and in a Virginia halfway house by Jan. 20, one of his attorneys told a federal bankruptcy judge Tuesday. Vick is serving a 23-month prison term in Leavenworth, Kan., for bankrolling a dogfighting conspiracy and is scheduled to be released from federal custody around July 20. Last month, Vick also pleaded guilty to a state dogfighting charge, avoiding more prison time. The case's resolution also cleared the way for his early release from prison and possible transition into a halfway house.

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Georgia Judge Jails Muslim Woman Over Head Scarf By: Dionne Walker, Associated Press ATLANTA - A Muslim woman arrested for refusing to take off her head scarf at a courthouse security checkpoint said Wednesday that she felt her human and civil rights were violated. A judge ordered Lisa Valentine, 40, to serve 10 days in jail for contempt of court, said police in Douglasville, a city of about 20,000 people on Atlanta's west suburban outskirts. Valentine violated a court policy that prohibits people from wearing any headgear in court, police said after they arrested her Tuesday. Kelley Jackson, a spokeswoman for Georgia Attorney General Thurbert Baker, said state law doesn't permit or prohibit head scarfs. "It's at the discretion of the judge and the sheriffs and is up to the security officers in the court house to enforce their decision," she said. Valentine, who recently moved to Georgia from New Haven, Conn., said the incident reminded her

of stories she'd heard of the civil rights-era South. "I just felt stripped of my civil, my human rights," she said Wednesday from her home. She said she was unexpectedly released after the Washington-based

Lisa Valentine Council on AmericanIslamic Relations urged federal authorities to investigate the incident as well as others in Georgia. The group cited a report that the same judge removed a woman and her 14-year-old daughter from the courtroom last week because they were wearing Muslim head scarves. Jail officials declined to say why she was freed and municipal Court Judge Keith Rollins said that "it would not be appropriate" for him to comment on the See pg 2

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2-December 24, 2008 School Closing ------------------------------------------cont. from pg 1 ples. The fact that all the schools proposed for closure have predominantly African American student enrollments is a problem, Lewis said. A problem some opponents to the administration’s proposals say validate the perception of a racist agenda. Lewis agrees race is playing a factor in the administration’s proposals, but in the sense that previous administrations neglected predominantly Black schools thus creating failing school. Parents seeking better educational opportunities for their children pulled their children out of those schools creating many schools with low enrollments. “Allowing schools to deteriorate was not healthy for the district and now all of that’s come back to bite the district in a big way,” Lewis said. Retired educator David Mack Jr. said for decades the district’s leadership and administration has forwarded a segregationist agenda and proliferated widespread remediation among the district’s predominantly Black student population. The district’s present financial woes are due, in part, because of spending to maintain a segregated system of magnet and charter schools, he said. “It’s more than just buildings,” Mack said, and providing quality education to all students will require more than closing schools. “Equity is not a part of the agenda,” he said. County school board Chairwoman Toya Hampton Green said she feels the administration has heard the public and significant revisions to its proposals will be made. “We’ve got to incorporate what we heard and what we received on the written surveys,” she said. The district’s decisions will be based more on money than race, she said, but there are perceptions and a history out there must be recognized. Some of that history and those perceptions were perpetuated by an often changing administration and county board, she added. While the board expects the administration’s final recommendations Jan. 26, Green said the decision-making process likely will take more time.

Targeting ILA---------------------------------------------cont. from pg 1 nantly Black and hold prominent status in the community. As the backbone of Charleston’s port system ILA members provide the labor that fuels much of the local economy. Now entrenched in a struggle with the container shipping company Maersk Line, ILA members are facing union busting efforts reminescent of similar initiatives being used to undermine United Auto Workers union members, say some local labor organizers. The Maersk Line, representing a substantial amount of the port’s container business, is threatening to move all its business to other ports unless the ILA makes concessions. The ILA is refusing to make those concessions. Should Maersk leave the Charleston port a local economy already reeling from recession could be hit even harder. Maersk says the ILA would be responsible. But there are those who say the ILA is being cast as culprits as part of a larger goal to keep the cost of labor in Charleston and South Carolina as cheap as

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possible. William ‘Bill’ Saunders played a pivotal role in negotiations between striking hospital workers and Medical College and Charleston County hospital administrators in 1969. He said the ILA is being painted as “the boogey man” although its members are the only entities involved being asked to make sacrifices. South Carolina recruits business to the state promoting cheap labor that can be exploited, Saunders said. The ILA/Maersk controversy is a manifestation of that overall philosophy, he said. Mary Moultrie was among those striking hospital workers in 1969. She’s now president of 1199Charleston National Union of Hospital and Health Care Employees AFSCEM, AFL-CIO. She also feels the ILA/Maersk controversy is an effort to erode union strength. “But those men are strong and they believe in their union. I think they will be successful,” she said. Despite the benefits of collective bargaining unions offer employees, workers in South Carolina remain slow to organize, Mrs. Moultrie says. “People get caught up and are afraid to stand up in fear of being fired. It saddens me to see so many young people afraid to take a stand. I understand they may feel they have so much to lose - cars, homes and other things - they don’t realize they’ve lost everything when they lose their dignity,” she said. Darryl Heyward, former president of the Amalgamated Transit Union Local 610, said he’s certain the ILA’s leadership is making decisions to support their membership. While refusing to comment on the ILA/Maersk controversy specifically, Heyward offered that some companies may be using the recessive economy to attack union organizations. Heyward pointed to the financial bailout of Detroit auto makers saying that controversy also targets union workers as the catalyst for financial crisis.

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Georgia Judge -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------cont. from pg 1 case. Last year, a judge in Valdosta in southern Georgia barred a Muslim woman from entering a courtroom because she would not remove her head scarf. There have been sim-

ilar cases in other states, including Michigan, where a Muslim woman in Detroit filed a federal lawsuit in February 2007 after a judge dismissed her small-claims court case when she refused to remove a head and face veil.

Valentine's husband, Omar Hall, said his wife was accompanying her nephew to a traffic citation hearing when officials stopped her at the metal detector and told her she would not be allowed in the courtroom with the head scarf, known as a hijab.

Associated Press writer Kate Brumback in Atlanta contributed to this report.

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Our Schools---------------------------------------------cont. from pg 1

An Economic -------------------------------------------cont. from pg 1

around the issue of school closures in their community, and through this process make many observations.

enced before, and it is tiresome. A lot of people got the chance to give their two cents on the School District’s financial dilemma. The overall sentiment was that there must be another way than to close our neighborhood schools. I have thought about this quite a bit, and have come up with a plan that will help the School District in two goals it says it wants to reach: saving money and creating diversity in District 20 (an issue that brought about the School District’s School Choice plan earlier this year), keeping all but one of our neighborhood schools open. By way of this article, I ask CCSD to do the following: merge the student populations of Buist and Charleston Progressive on Chas. Progressive’s campuscall it Buist @Charleston Progressive; And, merge students of West Ashley’s Montessori School with James Simons’ students on Simons’ campus. The Charleston Charter for Math and Science – a new school that has a diverse student population- should remain where they are, too. I think it would be premature to move a new school to another , smaller location-give it a chance to succeed. The Rhett campus can be the new home of Charleston Development Academy, which is bursting at the seams and could use a bigger facility to grow and continue to prosper. James Simons, Memminger, Charleston Development Academy can each house students from grades K thru 8. Their students can then attend Burke High School or Charleston Charter for Math and Science. I’m sure you all know the demographics of each school mentioned above. It is simple: combine the small population of predominantly Black schools with the consistent numbers of predominantly White schools. That way, we are saving money and creating a host of integrated schools in District 20, something unseen along the peninsula since the 1970s. Because we must do something, it would be great to implement a plan that would create true diversity in our school district. And such cultural diversity would likely improve the well-being of all children: they would learn about each other and work together and create a positive learning environment. This recipe would make successful schools throughout downtown Charleston, who will barely feel the hit of budget cuts the School District must address. And the issue of Black and White would no longer be one, at least in District 20. I have also thought of how to improve the circumstances for our children attending school on Murray Hill campus. For the readers who do not already know, this is a disciplinary school for students who have been expelled from their neighborhood schools-essentially, children at risk of failing or dropping out altogether. I propose that, from 8am to 12 noon each school day, the children of Murray Hill are taught core curriculum courses. From noon to dismissal, have these children learn vocational skills, skills that will make them qualified for employment and therefore productive citizens. Have local business owners volunteer their time to teach our children basic job skills and participate in an apprenticeship program. This would end the misperception that Murray Hill is a no mans land for our children. And the implementation of vocational training would provide an excellent opportunity for our children there to become hard-working taxpayers, not thugs. My plan continues with the probable sale of Fraser’s campus to a post-secondary school like Trident Technical College. Next, I suggest that CCSD vacates its offices at 75 Calhoun Street and move to a school campus. That would give them the opportunity to rent or lease that office space in a key downtown business district. And, they could sell Buist’s campus: all of these things would likely generate great revenue for CCSD, which faces a budget shortfall of around $20 million in the next year. And I hope that CCSD places a moratorium on building any new facilities until this budget crisis is over. It seems ridiculous to build new schools when faced with the dilemma of closing existing ones. If the parents of these schools oppose the redesign plans, or any of the above, they have the option to go Charter. That way they are in fully in charge of their children’s futures. Regardless, all parents must be active in their children’s futures. The large audience attendance at last Wednesday’s meeting was promising. I truly hope our parents, and overall our community will continue to be interested in our schools’ futures. Attend school meetings! Attend the Constituent School Board meetings! Attend the Charleston County School Board meetings, which votes on the re-design plan this January. Let’s disprove the misperception of downtown parents: that we are all poor and/or on welfare and therefore don’t pay taxes. Does that sound absurd? After reading the comments of articles on predominantly Black school districts like District 20 on www.charleston.net, I see that misperception exists. For those who don’t believe this, I implore you to go to that website and read them for yourselves. It is quite an eye-opener. Let us maintain the momentum of opposition to the plan to close our historic neighborhood schools. If we are absent from School Board meetings, we are giving the impression that we are passionate about our children’s future for only a fleeting moment, and that the School Board can do whatever they want. A local paper reported Sunday that some of the nine County School Board members, after hearing what folks had to say at the recent community meetings, are considering measures less drastic than the closing of so many schools. We must continue to let the entire School Board know that we expect them to come up with less severe measures, for the sake of our children. We must hold the Board members’ feet to the fire. We must speak out in the upcoming School Board meetings (the next County School Board meeting is Monday, January 12th at 5:15pm. Arrive early to sign up to speak) and continue to voice our dissent to the abrupt closing of our schools, and demand they come up with a better way to address the money issue. If you agree with the plan I suggest, let CCSD officials know. If you have an even better one to save money and our schools, present it to the School Board. They say they want us all to be a part of the process: take them up on their offer. Fellow Charlestonians, we need to pack the Board Room at 75 Calhoun on January 12. The Board will likely vote on the future of our schools the second time they meet in the new year, on Monday, January 26. We must be there. We must let the County School Board know we care about our children and our schools. My hope for the New Year is that we become more involved and vocal in what goes on in our schools, for now and in the long run. Remember, there is success in numbers. With that, I hope to see you at the next meeting!

As I have had reflected on the last few weeks of public engagement meetings, the following scripture has resonated with me, a most familiar one: “My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge: because thou hast rejected knowledge.” (Hosea 4:6) For so many years in this community, the Charleston County School District has been characterized as an organization that has been inaccessible, unresponsive, lacking in transparency, and not a partner with this community. The district has had the reputation, like other large bureaucracies, of excluding their constituents in the planning and implementation of decisions that impact communities. For this School Redesign Initiative, the Superintendent and her staff, with the support of our Board of Trustees, spent weeks developing a plan for public engagement to ensure that the community, inclusive of students, parents, staff, and leaders would have the opportunity to provide input and recommendations around the proposal. The primary goals of the engagement process were to provide opportunities for the potentially impacted communities to dialogue with their neighbors and staff regarding the options presented, to share information from the community to the district regarding the strengths or weaknesses of the proposal, and information gathering for both partners – the district and the community. The intent was, as Pastor Mary Stoney so eloquently expressed in her opening remarks for the District 9 (John’s Island and Wadmalaw Island areas) public engagement meeting, a time to “reason together”. The public engagement meetings – which were immediately revised in response to the community needs and feedback - were the district’s attempt to ensure an open and honest dialogue with the community regarding “our truths and realities”, and the dissemination of information so that constituents would be able to make well informed decisions. Please know that I do understand that for many, this is an emotional issue. As a native Charlestonian, born and raised in downtown Charleston, I do understand and have witnessed the numbers of school closings that the Peninsula and the rural areas of our community have experienced especially for our traditionally African-American schools, or when the student population becomes a majority of African-American children. I often reflect on the era when there were four high schools on the peninsula, a number of parochial schools, and private schools. Thus, on the Peninsula in the 70’s there was choice, and not only was there choice but we had in our downtown schools a level of diversity that has been basically nonexistent since that decade. I attended Charleston High School, where there was indeed racial and socio-economic diversity, and even within your predominately African-

American schools Burke High School and Charles A. Brown High School, though the racial diversity was lacking, there was socio-economic diversity. Many of the children of the staff and faculty attended these schools, along with children of other middle income African-American families on the Peninsula. As the population trends changed, students began to have other options, and as other transitions occurred throughout the community, there were consolidations and school closures. We all realize that change is difficult, but it is inevitable. We also know that change requires a departure from the old – that which has been, to embracing the new. As we prepare to complete this phase of the public engagement process and prepare for the next steps, I would ask that our parents, leaders of the faithbased community, elected officials, and community members, engage in a time of “soul searching” and think about the following: (a) What is truly best for our children – what can we do to provide them with the world class education that they so deserve? (b) What do we need to do to ensure that our children on the Peninsula or on the islands are able to compete with children in other areas of this district – i.e. Mt. Pleasant, West Ashley, and magnet schools? (c) Is it really acceptable in and by this community that we have students graduating from some of our high schools as honor students but having to enroll into developmental programs during their freshman year in college? Even as I think about many of our educators, now deceased, such as my late aunt – Mrs. Martelle Waites-Robinson, CoFounder of the Charleston Progressive Academy; Mrs. Ermine Ellington, former Principal of E. B. Ellington Elementary School, who I had the wonderful pleasure to know; and my deceased mother – Mrs. Rosetta J. Nelson, a life-long educator, who started her teaching career in McClellanville schools and later taught at Jane Edwards School on Edisto Island; I am very confident about what their responses would be to the aforementioned questions. I know that across this community, regardless of age, gender, or race, we are all very knowledgeable about the current economic climate of our state and nation, and we are all most aware that the state of our economy is not expected to change in the very near future. As Representative Wendell Gaillard so explicitly cited during the Tuesday, December 16 meeting at Burke High School regarding the economy – “this is the reality”. We have witnessed the full range of emotions. The blame has been placed on so many, we have given individuals the opportunity to verbalize their opposition to the options presented, and we have provided all with the chance to offer other viable options. However, there comes a time for planning, and a time for action. If we’re thinking about what’s best for our children, it is time to act. As a community, we can not continue to “go around this mountain.” (Dr. Nelson is the Director for Community Outreach with CCSD Staff)

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Obama, His Family to Arrive in Washington by Train

By: Associated Press WASHINGTON President-elect Barack Obama will kick off his inaugural celebration on Jan. 17 - the weekend before his swearing in as the country's 44th president - by traveling on a train to the nation's capital. Obama is retracing the journey of his political idol, Abraham Lincoln, who also rode to his swearing-in on a train from Philadelphia, making stops along the way. Obama and his family will start their daylong journey with an event in Philadelphia before boarding the train and picking up Vice President-elect Joe Biden and his family in Wilmington, Del. The president-elect and his group then will make a stop in Baltimore before making their way to Washington. Obama will take office Jan. 20. "We hope to include as many Americans as possible who wish to participate, but can't be in Washington," Emmett Beliveau, the executive director of the Presidential Inaugural Committee, said in a statement. "These events will allow us to do that while honoring the rich history and tradition of previous inaugural journeys." Baltimore Mayor Sheila Dixon said Monday that Obama would give a speech there, and officials expect up to 150,000 people to attend. No location has been selected, but options include M&T Bank Stadium, home to the Baltimore Ravens. A triumphant address before a massive crowd would offer an extreme contrast to Lincoln's expe-

riences in Baltimore in February 1861, when he was smuggled under cover of darkness from one train station to another to avoid a feared assassination attempt. At the time, the maneuver was denounced in newspaper accounts as cowardly, said Courtney B. Wilson, executive director of the B&O Railroad Museum. To some extent, Lincoln's caution was validated two months later, when Union troops traveling between the two stations clashed with Confederate sympathizers in the "Baltimore Riots," which became known as the first blood-

shed of the Civil War. Obama aides said Philadelphia and Baltimore were chosen because of the roles they played at pivotal moments in U.S. history and because they fit in with the inauguration's theme, "Renewing America's Promise." The committee has said the theme was chosen to underscore Obama's "commitment to restoring opportunity and possibility for all and re-establishing America's standing as a beacon of hope around the world."

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4-December 24, 2008

The Radical Right Rides Again by Jim French

Schools - The Limit of our Endurance The thing that bothers me most about what’s happening in inner-city Black schools, the Sea Islands, Berkeley and Dorchester counties is the question of what goes on behind those grave eyes set in the dark-skinned head? What goes on in the minds of the children themselves -- the grown-ups who have testified emotionally with their guttural veracity voicing dissent about how the young lives of our children are being shaped by dogmas of the past and the “racism as usual” attitude of some on the Charleston County School Board. The presentation by the county board was, as most of those in attendance at Burke, Lincoln or St. Johns High School, understood with deep clarity that it was a rigged replay when a federal judge, Sol Blatt, ruled that schools here were integrated, ignoring the fact that it was a lie. Before the ruling, whites feared that the court would demand busing as was done in other cities, so they moved to quickly avoid their children being bused to some Black facility by closing down Simonton, Albermarle, and Wallace Middle Schools. The rascals are at it again! For whatever we have ever meant to ourselves and to each other, we must, at this moment in our history, demonstrate for an increasingly racist Republic of Charleston County to see, the limits of our endurance. One thought of caution: Forget about being afraid. We have but to look around us to see that we have everything to gain and nothing to lose. The future of our young hangs in the balance. For me the degrading atmosphere that Black students must encounter each day are symbolic of the sickness gripping the county school system. The pains and pangs has taken a heavy toll on our children. The mark it has left on many of them is the mark of the outsider, the underachiever, the throw-away waiting to occupy space in the the county jail, because who gives a damn! Children need to feel they are wanted and accepted. They like to wear the badges of belonging. Instead of that they have been made to feel unwanted, unequal and unused. Feeling inferior and unworthy, many of them seen hanging out in these mean-streets, have turned often in frustration against themselves and their friends. When you claim to close traditional schools based on budgetary concerns, we will be denying them the life chances of identity that ought to be open to all. By putting on them the mark of Cain’s victims we have committed the ultimate crime in democracy, which is the crime against children. The Charleston County School Board, in their misguided efforts to turn the school clock backward, have forced a choice on this community and its Black citizens. They are getting a surprise. They are now discovering that if the choice is between closing our Black-populated schools, and having our children boarding buses before the rooster crows, forget it. It hasn’t been that long ago for those who remember, that the Black leadership joined with parents and closed down the system for lack of students in the classroom; it could happen again. In the meantime, in an effort to thwart this possibility, and for the first time in many years, I have felt the joy of redemption, being able to put on paper that Blacks here are coming out of their complacency and showing a real concern for our children. In a moment of melancholy, I can remember the days when Herbert U. Fielding, McKinley Washington, Robert R. Woods, Arthur Christopher and Daniel Richardson, joined with others to denounce the sordid conditions of Black schools, so the struggle continues. Without question Black students from Lincoln High to St. Johns High are paying a heavy toll in mental anguish both for the way their parents are fighting to save their schools and their ability to maintain a sense of community. I have talked with three students at St. Johns following the emotional venting and they feel lost, caught between an earlier security they no longer can be sure of and the prospect of being forced to attent the Wal-mart-type West Ashley High which was designed for this moment in history, while we were not paying attention. Why did I say that? It was no accident when the plans for the West Ashley High School were nurtured. While we were planning the crab cracks or a cruise to Cancun, white folks were planning for the school closures we’re now witnessing. Take note that when Cainhoy High was closed and parents complained about having to send their children on long bus rides each school day, no one in authority came to hear their pleas. Will anyone among the leadership be there when students from Edisto, Baptist Hill, St. Johns High School, make that long trek to West Ashley? A student at Lincoln High School raised a basic question we tend to ignore: “Why must we close our school and go to Wando High? Why not those students come to our school? Why must we close our schools just to attend mostly-white schools in the same district? Why?” With this proposal to close, redesign or change the direction of Black Schools in the inner-city, the Sea Islands and beyond, I’m reminded that when the Nazi’s compelled the Jews to wear the Star of David on their arms as a “badge of inferiority,” they were not ashamed of the Star of David, but it nevertheless left a scar on them because it singled them out for a denial of the rights of human beings. Personally, I have never opted to follow the mandate of the 1954 Supreme Court decision to integrate our schools, preferring choice instead. For we are now aware that whites, as part of their culture and upbringing, simply are not going to attend majority-Black schools, even if the curriculum was designed by educators from Harvard, Yale or the University of South Carolina. Ain’t gonna happen. If the county school board professes to cite budget considerations, or the lack of it, as the real reason, other than raw racism, for closing schools in Black communities, they understand little about Black people, including Blacks on the board and paid staff members. Black parents in Charleston County are not asking for the right to maintain schools in their respective communities, but it is akin to their Christian beliefs that church and school is the bedrock foundation of their lives, messing with either is froth with discontent. Blacks are not asking for the right to associate, in the sense of social equality; we only want equality before the law. The whites can refuse to invite us to their country clubs, refuse to dine with us at Kiawah, refuse to admit that a stray son can love a Black woman. They can refuse whatever is in the province of a private person to refuse, but they cannot deny us the public right s due as citizens of the community. For without this equal access to equal opportunity, such as maintaining schools in Black communities, no child can develop his potentials or have a chance to grow and fulfill himself as a person of human worth, and forced aboard cattle-like buses just to save money, while destroying communities and its people. There need no mass demonstrations, as many are calling for, provided two things happen. One is that we must keep the moral issue clear --- a moral issue I have tried to describe when I have talked of the scar inside the consciousness of our Black students. The second is that our leaders should exert the leadership that is now being shown at the weeklong forums concluded. Where there is no leadership on an issue as morally clear as the proper education of our children as this one, the heart of a child perishes. We will not allow that to happen! Mercy.

By. Ron Walters NNPA Columnist Think about it. A group of southern, right wing, Republican senators have stopped the U. S. Senate from approving a package of financial assistance to the big three auto companies who employ directly over 150,000 workers, but affects 3 million including the suppliers, dealers and etc. This kind of cold blooded action on their part strikes me as just the kind of narrowly conservative, mean-spirited and reckless decision making that the nation voted against in electing Barack Obama. The issue was that in the Senate negotiations over the $14 billion package for Chrysler, Ford and General Motors, Republicans, led by Senator Bob Corker of Tennessee, developed a four point plan wherein three of the four major concessions were to be made by auto workers. It directed the United Auto Workers to agree that their wages would be brought in line with those of Nissan and Volkswagen; take half of their $23 billion Voluntary Benefit Association fund in stock options; and to eliminate payments to workers receiving nearly full salaries up to four years after retirement. Some of these proposals had previously been made by the corporate auto heads, so Corker was doing their bidding as well. The UAW that had already given up billions of dollars to the auto industries to keep them solvent, said no. Nevertheless, Corker and his party had lots of political interests here. Ron Gettlefinger, head of the UAW, charged Corker with trying to break the union and bring it into line with non-union auto makers in his own state. Second, the UAW was also a target because of its role as a strong constituency of the Democratic party. Then, in Tennessee, Nissan and Volkswagen have plants and the latter’s headquarters is in Nashville and another Republican leader, Senator Richard Shelby of Alabama, has argued that the companies should face bankruptcy. He has foreign auto makers in his state such as Toyota, Honda, Mercedes-Benz and Hyundai that he may be defending. To come clean, I drive a Toyota because of its reputation for dependability, but I am also aware of the strides American manufacturers have made with respect to quality. In fact, what constitutes an “American car” today is questionable because of the substantial integration of auto parts from foreign countries into American cars. American cars cost about $2,000 more to make, largely because of factors such as heath care, retirement, and dealership structure, but the governments of foreign auto makers absorb most of these costs. However, American elected officials who follow the pure capitalist model while other countries support their industries in a globalized world, contribute to the reason why we are losing out in a number of industries. The big exception is agriculture where government subsidizes corporate farmers. But no one demanded that corporations which received some of the $700 billion in funds to cut the salaries of their workers, or return benefits. What these southern senators seem to be saying is that they don’t care whether there is a viable American auto industry. The auto industry helped African-Americans to escape the oppression of the Southern oligarchy and by unionization, to earn a decent living that could support their families for the first time. And because of the historical resentment by the oligarchy for this fact, they have waged an unrelenting and brutal war against the unionization of agricultural labor in the South that would help liberate labor in that region. Under the peonage system, for a good part of the 20th century, whites paid black laborers little, very often nothing and were resistant to government social services or corporate wages that competed with wages in their region. A low wages economy has unified Republican corporate leaders and Southern barons. I still have this image in my mind of House Republican leaders marching lock-step to Impeach Bill Clinton for a minor offense, while his favorable ratings in surveys of the American people was at 85%, clearly suggesting they did not want Impeachment to occur. But the radical Right didn’t care because their narrow ideology was more important. No doubt, when Barack Obama recalled many of these kind of events, it created the rationale for his statement that America should “turn the page.” Dr. Ron Walters is the Distinguished Leadership Scholar, Director of the African American Leadership Center and Professor of Government and Politics at the University of Maryland College Park. His latest book is: The Price of Racial Reconciliation (University of Michigan Press)

"You can be up to your boobies in white satin, with gardenias in your hair and no sugar cane for miles, but you can still be working on a plantation." -- Billie Holiday (1915-1959)

Who Asked Me? by Beverly Gadson-Birch

‘Twas The Night Before Christmas ‘Twas the night before Christmas and all through the house, mamma was stirring up a fruitcake under the watchful eye of a mouse. The stockings were hung by the chimney with care in hopes that St. Nicholas would soon be there. Five little children all snuggled up in one bed, with visions of cell phones and I-Pods dancing around in their heads. I in my worn out flannel gown and Poppa in his long John had just settled in for a cat nap; When suddenly I heard a loud banging on the tin I jumped out of bed to see who was breaking in.. I peeped out the window and cut out the light and boy was I started by such a robust sight. It was a Flag-A-Cab driver trying to collect his fare from a big man in red clothes with eight tiny reindeers. With his mean lean, up the sidewalk he came As he whistled and called each reindeer by name: “Yo Dasher! Yo Dancer! Prancer and Vixen! Yo Comet! Yo Cupid! Yo, Donner and Blitzen! To the top of the steps To the top of the wall! Now dash away! Dash away all!” Not recognizing the man in red, I jumped back in bed. Call 911, Poppa said. Then, up to the roof they flew with the sleigh full of toys good little girls and boys led by Rudolph with his red nose.. Hurriedly, I arose Grabbed a stick and my clothes, as St. Nick came sliding down my chimney with a thump. Poppa jumped up to see what was the matter and there stood Santa after such a loud clatter. He was covered with soot from his head to his toe; And I thought I heard him swore next year I’ll use the front door. His eyes were like sparkles; His cheeks red like roses. His nose like a cherry and his laughter quite merry. His stomach filled with left out goodies exposed his big pot belly. Although he was plump, charming and astute, I thought jolly ole Santa was darn right cute. He filled all the stockings and dropped off the gifts And before leaving he checked over his list. He bowed his head and said a prayer Lord, bless this country; save our teenage boys and may each child receive a Christmas toy. He prayed for the lonely, homeless unemployed and all the rest. Then he climbed back on his sleigh and gave out a whistle Yo Donder and Blitzen! And Rudolph, y’all listening! As he flew out of sight, He yelled out real loud Merry Christmas to all and to y’all a good night.. Merry Christmas and a joyous New Year!

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OH, WHAT A DREAM!

As I See It

Hakim Abdul-Ali

Are you thankful?

Never Too Old To Learn There are many instances in a person’s imitative life when occurrences become clearer than they were earlier at their initial happenings. It’s like the age-old adage that one’s “Never Too Old To Learn” anything new. I believe in that sapient philosophy very much. I don’t know how you feel about that methodology, but I think that it’s a pretty universally held belief that you’re “Never Too Old To Learn” something new about life’s unforeseen events. These lessons that seem to come from out of the blue are jewels to the mind-sets of the spiritually inclined to validate that knowledge comes in many different contours and structures. In discussing this topic with you today I’d like to think that you’ll relate to this issue with sensitivity and objectivity because truth is a reality that comes in many different formats. If this is the case then you’re already in the mode of understanding that you’re “Never Too Old To Learn” something more of life’s mysterious dynamics and its ever unfolding manifestations. Living is the absolute schoolroom. Life’s a trial that’s full of unexpected twists and turns that can set a “hue-man’s” heart astray with a single slip of the unbridled tongue or an unintended misinterpreted action. I’m not ashamed to tell you that I’ve been there and done that a time or two in my life far too often to mention. I have to be frank with you because I’m “Never Too Old To Learn” that it takes two to do the Tango, but only one person to be a fool. Does that sound familiar as you process the true educational intent of spiritual self-development that goes along with learning about the ups and downs of life’s revolving diurnal episodes? Life in my God Alone-fearing mind-set is the university that we all attend on a daily basis everyday of our collective lives and we, hopefully, should gain a semblance of positive insight from it. Some of the lessons are blissful and others are, well, let’s say, just plain painful as pure hell. I hope that you will forgive me for being straightforward, but I’m just trying to be real for this “class” that we’re engaged in at this moment. It’s about learning and in order to be that way we have to discern the valuable lessons that come our way in deciphering the hidden signs from life’s sorted trials that (should) aid us in processing truth from fiction. Being a work in progress myself, and a confessed continuing student of universal knowledge, I have to tell you that living among hypocrites, liars, sneaks and deceivers is a hurting educational experience. But you can learn from them too. It’s all a part of living in its fullest dimensions of higher schooling and we all are “Never Too Old To Learn” something about the scope of life’s intricate process of teaching us more about some things and issues than we needed to know before we started any present day’s activities. Life is the best teacher without equal. From newly found personal love discoveries to untapped findings of and about the innate “hue-man” self to betrayals of so-called friends and loved ones we are all creatures of irrefutable habits. Knowing and understanding this critical point helps even the laziest of undisciplined students process what is meant by being “Never Too Old To Learn” something about the untold mysteries of life. “Going to school” every moment transcends the common limits of “hue-man” comprehension when fools don’t know that life is more than an aimless walk through the daily trials, ordeals and hurdles. It’s about struggle simply put. Listen very closely. Sometimes, we need to check ourselves when we think we know so much about everything in life when, in reality, we (may) know nothing in particular at all about the real issues of life. Have you ever been there? Think about that for a stone, cold moment in your present life’s daily past recollections, memories and episodes and recount what lessons you’ve learned that helped you become a better “hue-man” being and student of the universe, if you can and will. (It’s okay to be honest with yourself in the isolation of a private thought.) In doing so, please also eradicate the negativities that may persist and creep into your mind from time-to-time which may hinder your own progress in total self-development. It can be a tedious task for the uninitiated who take life’s lessons for a joke or a game. I used to be that way until the power teachings of God Alone’s signs came into my life. It helped me become a more serious student of understanding that life’s trials, ordeals and pitfalls are the names of the Most High Alone’s courses in making me a better student of wisdom and love. Please understand where I’m coming from today as a student matriculating in the university of life’s episodes. I have to give praise and thanks to God Alone for being in attendance in of all the trials, ordeals and afflictions that have entered into my daily schoolroom of life’s episodes because I’m “Never Too Old To Learn” that everything comes from God Alone to make me a better “hue-man.”. I’d like to think that you know that too as you process each divulged breath of life as a committed student in life because God Alone is your Supreme Creator and Instructor. The mind-set of the student of that knowledge, who praises and thanks God Alone, knowing he or she is “Never Too Old To Learn” that God Alone’s tests, in all their formats, are mere “special education” courses for the students of universal knowledge, is always ready to face the next moment with expectations that everything is going to be alright in the life’s “University of Hard Knocks.” Are you fully registered today for your daily semester “special education” courses from God Alone that places you in the University of Hard Knocks and understanding with advance standing? If not, please get busy and do so, because life is what it is, and the patterns of success in this life are woven in being positive and keeping the faith in and under all circumstances. That’s a must for the daily seeker of truth and understanding in facing and enduring the unexpected inquisitions of and from life’s constant schoolroom of tests. These are tough times that our households, community, nation and the rest of the world are facing. So we should always remember, especially as spiritually advanced enrolled “special education” students seeking wisdom and help from God Alone, that “only the strong of faith will survive.” To know, understand and study this as an aware “special education” student of today’s spiritual enlightenment is a blessing unto itself for those individuals who are “Never Too Old to Learn.” Are you feeling blessed right about now? While you ponder your reply to that question, I must sincerely inform you that I’m feeling blessed as an enrolled student, because I know that I’m “Never Too Old To Learn” more things about and from life’s episodes. I hope that you feel the same way also, and I hope to see you in class (somewhere) as we learn more about the “blessings” from the Most High Alone’s teachings as we experience the wonders of going to the University of Hard Knocks. Remember that knowledge is powerful, but only if you use it. Be a student of faith and also remember that you, nor I, should never forget that we’re “Never Too Old To Learn” from God Alone’s ‘special education” courses of and from life. Keep studying, and that’s, “As I See It.”.

Like an unchecked cancer, hate corrodes the personality and eats away its vital unity. Hate destroys a man's sense of values and his objectivity. It causes him to describe the beautiful as ugly and the ugly as beautiful, and to confuse the true with the false and the false with the true. Martin Luther King, Jr

Black Friday, Cyber Monday and Door Buster Specials–we must be in the middle of the Holiday Season. The Madison Avenue advertising juggernaut is in full force, with supposedly red hot deals, super buys and incredible savings. Our wants are being transformed into needs. At the same time, we as consumers are being coerced to spend, spend and spend more, even if we don't have the money. Closer to home, our 401(k) statement is bleak, one of our friends has been laid off and it has finally been determined that the country is in a recession---since December 2007! By many accounts, we are in the midst of one of the toughest economic downturns in recent history. The expectations of the holiday season are in stark contrast to the outlook for the current and near term economy. For most of us, these are conflicting and challenging times. So what, if anything, is there to be thankful for? Being Thankful I recently asked my son and two of his friends, all in their mid-20s, to take five minutes and individually write down what they are thankful for. Keep in mind this is the hip-hop generation, raised on iPods, Nikes, rap, XBoxes, Wiis, HD-TV, etc. Below is just a sample of what they wrote: What am I thankful for: life. God.

• I am thankful for • I am thankful for

• I am thankful for my family. • I am thankful for my friends. • I am thankful for my job. • I am thankful for the women in my life. • I am thankful for my car. Each of the young men read the top three items from their list, and all of their responses were centered on their faith, family or relationships. Too often we take for granted the many blessings we experience on a daily basis--life, health, relationships, freedom and the list goes on. We are brainwashed into feeling inadequate because we don’t have trendy clothes, the fancy car, a big screen TV or whatever is professed to equate with the American

dream. In fact, to too many people outside of this country, we are living the American dream. Related Content: July incomes drop by largest amount in 3 yearsToyota making U.S. m a n u f a c t u r i n g changesTCB: Consumer outlook up more than expected in AugustRural economy still in slumpLocal Black businesses make Black Enterprise 100 listDream of gas tax holiday expires Related to:Our Businessthankful Are you Thankful? What are you thankful for? Right now, take five minutes to write down your list. Ask your family, friends or close relatives to write down their lists. Share and discuss your lists with each other. What’s common in your lists? What would you have added after hearing theirs? How do you feel about your family’s situation, and what can you do to move it forward? Looking Forward Next year is forecast, by many economists, to be a tough economic environment. However, America is a resilient, resourceful and adaptive country. It was born by revolution, survived a civil war and two world wars. Many of the economic mechanism put in place during the Depression of the 1930s, such as the Federal Reserve Bank, Federal Deposit Insurance and unemployment insurance have and will continue to serve the country well during tough economic times.

The Spirit of a man named Martin Luther King, Jr., has prevailed, and we can now say one of the dreams of Dr. King has come full circle. From the time I was introduced to this man I called the Dreamer, I knew he was a spirit that would never die. He lives within the soul of most people, black and white, because we knew he was sent by a Higher Authority. I remember Dr. King’s “I Have a Dream” speech as if it were yesterday. It’s embedded in my heart since the day he made that awesome speech. We have come a long way, but this is just the beginning. I see this as a new era for more change to come. On January 20, 2009 as we celebrate a new president and the Dreamer’s Dream, that of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., we sing “We Shall Overcome,” and it will be sweet music to my ears sung in a different light. President-Elect Barack Obama started his campaign for Change with the same vision as Dr. King. I then knew we had someone that was a real candidate for the Change we all hoped for. He inspired folks from the time he entered the race. He was the Change we had all yearned for, black and white all united. On Tuesday, January 20, 2009, when Barack Obama becomes President of the United States, I will reflect back to the days of Omega Newman; Jim French; Fred Dawson; Esau Jenkins; my dad, a civil rights advocate in his own way; and others who actually lived through this movement. My dad

escaped Jim Crow back in Montgomery, Alabama in the early forties. He told stories of how he escaped from the Klan and how he survived. He was a lifetime member of the NAACP, and made sure his children followed the same pattern. Working with the NAACP was his way of trying to make a difference. I spoke on conference call to my sisters, and we reminisced about the things that happened to us in our lifetime growing up. Two of us went to an all black school, and two went to integrated schools. My dad would take us Downtown to the movies and as we sat on the bus, he would tell us “Do not move unless I tell you to,” because the bus driver would try to remove you to seat the white folks. I feared him more than I did any white bus driver. This was even before the Civil Rights Act of 1964. One sister told us of her experience working for Olin Mills Photography on Mount Pleasant Street at the time and how she would go to the lunch counter but could not sit to eat her lunch. So she would ride the elevator up and down until she had finished her lunch. We just laughed. Wow, how far we’ve come and yet so far to go. With all said and done, this has been an aspiring time for all Americans, and my hope is that we start to come together, one people, all united in this United States of America. Commentary by Samuella W. Holmes

I am optimistic about the future for two reasons. First, I feel that my son and his friends are representative of our future. The basic American values are there, and although I may not always agree with their music, dress or tattoos, etc., they will assume their roles and responsibilities as needed in the future. Secondly, we have a new national leadership and a commitment to change the direction of our country. I am thankful to be an American and God Bless the USA. Michael G. Shinn, CFP, Registered Representative and Investment Adviser Representative of and securities offered through Financial Network Investment Corporation, member SIPC

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greater for whites than for blacks, the new report says. The rate of diagnoses in blacks was about 19 percent higher than it was for whites in 2005, the most recent year for which statistics are available. The death rate difference was even more pronounced. Among blacks, there were about 25 deaths per 100,000 people, compared to 17 per 100,000 in whites - a 48 percent difference. The two groups' death rates were similar until the 1980s when colon cancer began to kill blacks at a higher rate than whites. Researchers say it's not clear why black mortality jumped in the 1980s, but it started a gap that continued to widen even after the black rate began to fall again. Colon cancer deaths can be prevented by early diagnosis through screening and quality care. The screening rate for whites is 50 percent compared to just 40 percent for blacks. The screening rate for Hispanics is an even-lower 32 percent, but the death rate for Hispanics - fewer than 13 per 100,000 - is lower than it is for whites. That paradox is not unique to colon cancer: Poorly

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ESTATES’ CREDITOR’S NOTICES All persons having claims against the following estates are required to deliver or mail their claims to the Personal Representative indicated below and also file subject claims on Form #371PC with Irv Condon, Probate Judge of Charleston County, 84 Broad Street, Charleston, S.C. 29401, before the expiration of 8 months after the date of the first publication of this Notice to Creditors, or else thereafter such claims shall be and are forever barred. Estate of:

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HAVE A MERRY CHRISTMAS AND HAPPY NEW YEAR ESTATES’ CREDITOR’S NOTICES All persons having claims against the following estates are required to deliver or mail their claims to the Personal Representative indicated below and also file subject claims on Form #371PC with Irv Condon, Probate Judge of Charleston County, 84 Broad Street, Charleston, S.C. 29401 before the expiration of 8 months after the date of the first publication on his Notice to Creditors or else thereafter such claims shall be and are forever barred. Estate of: DOD: Pers. Rep:

MOLLIE T. SMITH 2008-ES-10-1004 8/22/07 MICHAEL L. SMITH 1852 CHESSHIRE DR. CHARLESTON, SC

29412 ESTATE of: DOD: Pers. Rep:

BERNIE E. POWELL 2008-ES-10-1011 10/15/06 ARTHURINE RIVERS 117 BELLPOINT LN.DANIEL ISLAND, SC 29492

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WACHOVIA BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, AS TRUSTEE OF THE SECURITY NATIONAL MORTGAGE LOAN TRUST 2005-1, Plaintiff, v. ANNABELLE S. FRAZIER AND IF SHE IS DEAD, HIS HEIRS, PERSONAL REPRESENTATIVES, SUCCESSORS, ASSIGNS, SPOUSES AND CREDITORS, AND ALL OTHERS CLAIMING ANY RIGHT, TITLE OR INTEREST IN THE REAL ESTATE KNOWN AS 12 ENDO DRIVE, C H A R L E S T O N , SOUTH CAROLINA,FIRST FEDERAL SAVINGS AND LOAN ASSOCIATION OF CHARLESTON AND CITY OF CHARLESTON HOUSING AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT, Defendants. IN THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS Case No. 2008-CP-10-4804 (NON-JURY MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE)

STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA IN THE FAMILY COURT OF THE NINTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT COUNTY OF CHARLESTON CASE NO.: 2008-DR-10-3533 LAURA ANN JOHNSON & WHITFIELD JOHNSON Plaintiffs, v. CONSUELLA GILLIARD, Defendant. IN THE INTEREST OF: DEVONTRY MARQUIS GILLIARD, a minor child under the age of Eleven (11). TO THE DEFENDANTS ABOVE NAMED:

REQUEST FOR QUALIFICATIONS FOR PROFESSIONAL SERVICES ARCHITECTURAL AND ENGINEERING SERVICES The Housing Authority of the City of Charleston 550 Meeting Street Charleston, South Carolina 29403 The Housing Authority of the City of Charleston (CHA) will receive qualifying documentation from Architect and Engineer firms interested in Indefinite Delivery/Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contracts to provide engineering and architectural services at various CHA locations. Term will be for twenty-four base months from award and up to two renewal options of twenty-four months each. Multiple IDIQ contracts may be awarded. The selected firms will be required to provide professional services to support the design and construction of new facilities as well as extensive renovations of single and multi-family residences. Engineering requirements includes electrical, mechanical, structural, and civil applications. The Housing Authority of the City of Charleston administers private and federal funds for various comprehensive grant programs that come under the jurisdiction of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. An agency selection committee will evaluate each submittal on the basis of (a) qualifications and expertise of personnel, (b) ability to meet time and budget requirements, (c) experience on similar projects, and (d) current and projected workload of the firms. Interested firms are invited to submit 4 copies of a Standard Form 330, Architect-Engineer Qualifications, Part I & II not later than 2:00 p.m. local time on January 8, 2009. Qualifications should be submitted to: Mr. W. Keith Brown, Purchasing/Contracts Manager 550 Meeting Street, Room 114 Charleston, South Carolina 29403 Late responses will not be accepted. This contract is Federally assisted; therefore, contracts for work under this bid will obligate the contractor and subcontractors not to discriminate in employment practices as mandated by the Davis-Bacon Act and Section 3 of the Housing and Urban Development Act of 1968. The Housing Authority reserves the right to wave irregularities and to reject any and all proposals. Donald J. Cameron President and Chief Executive Officer

YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED AND REQUIRED to Answer the Complaint in this action, a copy of which is herewith served upon you, and to serve a copy of your Answer thereto on the subscriber, Charlie L. Whirl, Esquire, at his office, 2112 Commander Road, North Charleston, South Carolina 29405, within thirty (30) days after the date of service upon you, exclusive of the day of such service; and if you fail to Answer the Complaint within the time aforesaid, the Plaintiff in this action will apply to the Court for the relief demanded in the Complaint and judgment by default may be entered against you. YOU ARE HEREBY GIVEN NOTICE FURTHER that if you fail to appear and defend and filed to answer the Complaint as required by this Summons within thirty (30) days after the service hereof, exclusive of the day of such service, judgment by default will be entered against you or the relief demanded in the Complaint. PLEASE TAKE NOTICE: The Summons and Complaint in the above-entitled action were filed in the Office of the Clerk of Court of Charleston County Family Court, Charleston, South Carolina on September 26, 2008. The Final Hearing date for the Adoption is scheduled for December 19, 2008 at 9:30 a.m. on the second floor, 100 Broad Street, Charleston County Judicial Center, Family Court, Charleston, South Carolina. CHARLIE L. WHIRL 2112 Commander Rd. Charleston, SC 29405 (843) 566-9705-Office Attorney for Plaintiffs

AMENDED SUMMONS DEFICIENCY DEMANDED TO THE DEFENDANTS ABOVE NAMED: YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED and required to appear and defend by answering the Amended Complaint in this action, of which a copy is herewith served upon you, and to serve a copy of your Answer to the Amended Complaint upon the subscriber at his address, Larry D. Cohen, LLC, Attorney at Law, P.O. Box 30547, Charleston, South Carolina 29417, within thirty (30) days after the service hereof, exclusive of the day of such service; except that the United States of America, if named, shall have sixty (60) days to answer after the service hereof, exclusive of the day of such service; and if you fail to Answer the Amended Complaint within the time specified above, or otherwise appear and defend, the Plaintiff in this action will apply to the Court for the relief demanded in the Amended Complaint, and judgment by default will be rendered against you for the relief demanded in the Amended Complaint. R E S P E C T F U L LY SUBMITTED, Larry D. Cohen, LLC Attorney at Law P.O. Box 30547 Charleston, South Carolina 29417

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APPOINTING GUARDIAN AD LITEM NISI TO: THE DEFENDANTS HEREIN, NAMES AND ADDRESSES UNKNOWN, INCLUDING ANY THEREOF WHO MAY BE MINORS, IMPRISONED PERSONS, INCOMPETENT PERSONS, UNDER OTHER LEGAL DISABILITY OR IN THE MILITARY SERVICE, IF ANY, WHETHER RESIDENTS OR NON-RESIDENTS OF SOUTH CAROLINA AND TO THE NATURAL, GENERAL, TESTAMENTARY GUARDIAN OR COMMITTEE, OR OTHERWISE, AND TO THE PERSON WITH WHOM THEY MAY RESIDE, IF ANY THERE BE: PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that a Motion for an order appointing Mason D. Salisbury, Esquire, as Guardian ad Litem Nisi, for all persons whomsoever herein collectively designated as Richard Roe or John Doe, defendants herein, names and addresses unknown, including any thereof who may be minors, imprisoned persons, incompetent persons, in the military service or under other legal disability, whether residents or non-residents of South Carolina, was filed in the Office of the Clerk of Court for Charleston County. YOU WILL FURTHER TAKE NOTICE that unless the said minors or persons under other legal disability, if any, or someone in their behalf or in behalf of any of them, shall within thirty (30) days after service of notice of this order upon them by publication, exclusive of the day

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of such service, procure to be appointed for them, or either of them, a Guardian ad Litem to represent them for the purposes of this action, the appointment of said Guardian ad Litem Nisi shall be made absolute. Larry D. Cohen Larry D. Cohen, LLC P.O. Box 30547 Charleston, SC 29417 Tel. (843) 225-4445 Fax (843) 225-2009 Attorney for the Plaintiff September 19, 2008 Charleston, South Carolina

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REQUEST FOR QUALIFICATIONS Solicitation Number: 08R039B Worker’s Compensation Consultant The City of Charleston is accepting Request for qualifications for Worker’s Compensation Consultant for the City of Charleston. The City will receive bids until January 22, 2009 @ 11:00 a.m. at 288 Meeting Street, Suite 310 Charleston, SC. The solicitation will be available upon request and may be obtained by submitting a written request to: Robin D. Barrett, CPPB by fax (843720-3872), by phone (843-724-7312) or mailing to the above address. You may also obtain a copy of the solicitation by going to our website: www.charlestoncity.info and then click on the Bidline link.

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STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA IN THE FAMILY COURT OF THE NINTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT COUNTY OF CHARLESTON CASE NO.: 2008-DR-10-3534 CYNTHIA DENISE LLOYD, Plaintiff, v. RANEISHA MITCHELL, Defendant. IN THE INTEREST OF: XAVIAR DAVEON LLOYD, a minor child under the age of Eleven (11). TO THE DEFENDANTS ABOVE NAMED:

CP0516C1 Avondale Streetscape Project City of Charleston Request for Qualifications The City of Charleston is requesting statements of qualifications from Contractors to perform construction of streetscape improvements in the Avondale area (Hwy 17, West Ashley) of the City: The City intends to pre-qualify Contractors who have completed and submitted the Qualification Questionnaire and AIA Document A305 - Contractor Qualification Statement, are deemed to be qualified by the City and will be allowed to bid on this project. Contractors interested in submitting their qualifications shall obtain a Qualification Package from The LandPlan Group South, ATTN: Linda Moebes, 854 Lowcountry Blvd., Suite 101, Mount Pleasant, SC 29464. Telephone 843-216-1612. Contractors who demonstrate the financial ability to perform the work will be judged on the following factors ranked in order of importance: Previous experience with projects of a similar nature and size; past performance with regards to quality and execution of projects with the City of Charleston; schedule and cost control; qualifications of office and field personnel; safety program; current backlog and project procedures. Only the most highly qualified, financially capable contractors will be qualified. This project will require 100% Performance and Payment bonds.

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STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA COUNTY OF CHARLESTON BETTY MYERS, Plaintiff,

YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED AND REQUIRED to Answer the Complaint in this action, a copy of which is herewith served upon you, and to serve a copy of your Answer thereto on the subscriber, Charlie L. Whirl, Esquire, at his office, 2112 Commander Road, North Charleston, South Carolina 29405, within thirty (30) days after the date of service upon you, exclusive of the day of such service; and if you fail to Answer the Complaint within the time aforesaid, the Plaintiff in this action will apply to the Court for the relief demanded in the Complaint and judgment by default may be entered against you. YOU ARE HEREBY GIVEN NOTICE FURTHER that if you fail to appear and defend and filed to answer the Complaint as required by this Summons within thirty (30) days after the service hereof, exclusive of the day of such service, judgment by default will be entered against you or the relief demanded in the Complaint. PLEASE TAKE NOTICE: The Summons and Complaint in the above-entitled action were filed in the Office of the Clerk of Court, Charleston County Family Court, Charleston, South Carolina on September 26, 2008. The Final Hearing date for the Adoption is scheduled for December 19, 2008 at 9:30 a.m. on the second floor, 100 Broad Street, Charleston County Judicial Center, Family Court, Charleston, South Carolina.

Deadline for submission of Qualifications is 2.00pm Friday January 9th, 2009. Please submit the forms in a sealed envelope along with the project title “Avondale Streetscape Project CP0516C1”to: Mr. Ross Eastwood, Project Manager, City of Charleston, 823 Meeting Street Road, Charleston, SC 29403. 843-579-7552 [email protected]. Construction costs for this project are expected to be in the range of $550,000 – $600,000. The City reserves the right to reject all qualification packages if the City deems it to be in their best interests. Qualification Packages will not be returned.

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CHARLIE L. WHIRL 2112 Commander Rd. Charleston, SC 29405 (843) 566-9705-Office Attorney for Plaintiff

ZONING CHARLESTON COUNTY PUBLIC HEARING CHARLESTON COUNTY COUNCIL WILL HOLD A PUBLIC HEARING ON THE FOLLOWING ZONING CHANGE CASES AT 6:00 P.M, JANUARY 13, 2009 IN COUNCIL CHAMBERS AT THE LONNIE HAMILTON, III PUBLIC SERVICES BUILDING, 4045 BRIDGE VIEW DRIVE, NORTH CHARLESTON, SOUTH CAROLINA: Case: 3476-C Area: 1426 Alma Street, St. Andrews Parcel Identification: 351-06-00-087 Acres: 0.33 Request to change from Single Family Residential (R-4) District to Community Transition (CT) District Case: 3479-C Area: 130 Main Road, St. Andrews Parcel Identification: 285-07-00-012 Acres: 4.2 Request to change from Planned Development (PD) 106 to Planned Development (PD) 106A If you require further information, please contact the Charleston County Planning Department (843) 202-7200. LENGTHY PRESENTATIONS SHOULD BE SUBMITTED IN WRITING PRIOR TO THE MEETING. Beverly T. Craven Clerk of Council ESTATES’ CREDITOR’S NOTICES All persons having claims against the following estates are required to deliver or mail their claims to the Personal Representative indicated below and also file subject claims on Form #371PC with Irv Condon, Probate Judge of Charleston County, 84 Broad Street, Charleston, S.C. 29401, before the expiration of 8 months after the date of the first publication of this Notice to Creditors, or else thereafter such claims shall be and are forever barred. Estate of:

KING DAVID GRAHAM 2008-ES-10-1456 DOD: 09/04/08 Pers. Rep: EDNA K. GRAHAM 2144 MIDLAND PARK RD., NORTH CHARLESTON, SC 29406 Atty: EDUARDO K. CURRY, ESQ. PO BOX 42270, NORTH CHARLESTON, SC 29423 *************************************************************************

STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA COUNTY OF CHARLESTON George Herbert Roper, Kurline White, Gracie Roper Grant, and Carolyn Gibbs, Plaintiffs, The Estate of Isiah Roper, The Estate of Maggie Roper, The Estate of Sadie Roper, The Estate of Hutchinson Roper, The Estate Idella Roper, The Estate of Melvin Roper, The Estate of James Roper, The Estate of Alla Mae Roper, The Estate of Emily Roper Gibbs, The Estate of Arthur Gibbs, Arthur Gibbs, Jr., Henry Gibbs, Ronald Lee Gibbs, Bernard Gibbs, George Herbert Roper, Kurline Roper White, Gracie Roper Grant, The Estate of Herman Roper, Margaret Roper, J Doe adults and M Roe infants, insane persons, incompetents being fictious names designating a class of persons known or unknown who may be heirs, distributees, devisees, legatees, widow, widower, assignees executor, administrators, creditors, successor, issue and alieness of the Estate of Isiah Roper and Maggie Roper, and all other persons known or unknown claiming any right, title, Estate, interest in or lien upon the real property described in the complaint, adverse to the Plaintiff’s ownership, or any claim on Plaintiff’s title, Defendants. _______________________ IN THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS NINTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT CASE NO.: 07-CP-10-4227 SUMMONS AS A NOTICE OF THE COMPLAINT TO THE ABOVE NAMED DEFENDANTS: YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED and required to answer the Complaint in this action, a copy of which is herewith served upon you, and to serve a copy of your Answer to the said Complaint on the Plaintiff, or on Plaintiff’s attorney, Brian G. Burke, at his office, 113 Wappoo Creek Drive, Charleston, South Carolina 29412, within thirty (30) days after service hereof, exclusive of the day of such service, and if you fail to answer the Complaint within the time aforesaid, the Plaintiff in this action will apply to Court for the relief demanded in the Complaint and a judgment by default may be rendered against you. PLEASE TAKE FURTHER NOTICE that the Summons and Complaint in this action were filed on June 17, 2008, at the Charleston County Courthouse, 100 Broad Street, Charleston, South Carolina.

-versusPEGGY MOSLEY, Auditor for Charleston County and successor in Office to John C. Mehrtens and Henry Tecklenberg; D. MICHAEL HUGGINS, Assessor for Charleston County and successor in Office to John R. Lindsey; Andrew C. Smith, Treasurer for Charleston County and successor in Office to William J. Leonard, J. Riddick and William O. Thomas, Jr., and MORT FARRIS, Delinquent Tax Collector for Charleston County and successor in Office to Joseph M. Poulnot, Sheriff and the former Delinquent Tax Collector for Charleston County; JOHN DOE, adults, and RICHARD ROE, infants, insane persons and incompetents, being fictitious names, designating as a class any person who may be an heir, distribute, devisee, legatee, widow, widower, assignee, administrator, executor, personal representative, creditor, successor, issue and alienee of Samuel Bash, Julia Myers and Charles Case, deceased; and Thelma Myers, Richard Cash, Lemark Cash a/k/a Lamar Cash, Mary Lee Singleton and Charlie Cash, Defendants. IN THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS NINTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT CASE NUMBER: 06-CP-10-2043 NOTICE NISI PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that there has been filed in the Office of the Clerk of Court for Charleston County, State of South Carolina, an Order appointing for you as Guardian Ad Litem, KELVIN M. HUGER, whose business address is 27 Gamecok Avenue, Charleston, South Carolina, 29407, which appointment shall become absolute upon the expiration of thirty (30) days after the last day of publication of a copy of the Summons and Lis Pendens herein unless you or someone on your behalf, on or before the last mentioned date, shall produce someone to be appointed as Guardian Ad Litem to represent you in this action. DANIEL E. MARTIN, JR. Attorney for Plaintiff 61 Morris Street Charleston, S.C. 29403 (843) 723-1686 CHARLESTON, SOUTH CAROLINA June 6, 2006. AMENDED NOTICE YOU ARE HEREBY NOTIFIED that the Civil Action Cover Sheets Amended Lis Pendens, Amended Summons and Amended Notice, Complaint, Petitions for Appointment of Guardian Ad Litem, Order for Appointment of Guardian Ad Litem, Notice Nisi, Affidavit of Publication, Order of Publication, and Notice of Intention to Refer to Master-in-Equity for Final Determination were filed with the Clerk of Court for Charleston County on November 12, 2008. The purpose of this action is to clear the title to the subject of real estate property. DANIEL E. MARTIN, JR. Attorney for Plaintiff 61 Morris Street Charleston, S.C. 29403 (843) 723-1686 CHARLESTON, SOUTH CAROLINA November 12, 2008. AMENDED SUMMONS

Martin Law Firm s/Brian G. Burke_____ Brian G. Burke Martin Law Firm 113 Wappoo Creek Drive Charleston, SC 29412 843-762-2121 843-762-2333 fax Charleston, South Carolina

TO: THE DEFENDANTS ABOVE NAMED: YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED and required to answer the Complaint in this action, a copy of which is herewith served upon you, and to serve a copy of your Answer on the Plaintiff or her attorney, Daniel E. Martin, Jr., at his office, No. 61 Morris Street,

Charleston, South Carolina, within thirty (30) days after the service hereof, exclusive of the day of such service, and if you fail to answer the Complaint within time aforesaid, the Plaintiff in this action will apply to the Court for relief demanded in the Complaint and a judgment by default shall be rendered against you. YOU WILL ALSO TAKE NOTICE that should you fail to Answer the foregoing Summons and Complaint, the Plaintiff will move for a general Order of Reference in this case to the Master-in-Equity or Special Referee for this County; which Order shall, pursuant to Rule 53(e) of the South Carolina Rules of Civil Procedure, specifically provide that the said Master-in-Equity or Special Referee is authorized and empowered to enter a Final Judgment in this case. PLEASE TAKE FURTHER NOTICE that the Amended Lis Pendens, Amended Summons and Amended Complaint in this action were filed on November _____, 2008, at the Charleston County Courthouse, 100 Broad Street, Charleston, South Carolina 29401. Dated at Charleston, South Carolina, this 10 day of November, 2008. DANIEL E. MARTIN, JR., ESQUIRE 61 MORRIS STREET CHARLESTON, S.C. 294131830 (843) 723-1686 ATTORNEY FOR THE PLAINTIFF Charleston, South Carolina November 10, 2008. AMENDED LIS PENDENS TO THE DEFENDANTS ABOV NAMED: NOTICE IS HEREBY given that an action has been commenced and is now pending in the Court of Common Pleas for Charleston County, pursuant: the provisions of Title 12, Chapter 49, South Carolina Code of Laws for 1976, as amended, as to the Plaintiff’s First Cause of Action for the entry of judgment declaring the tax sale of the subject was valid. the provisions of Title 15, Chapters 53 and 67, South Carolina Code of Laws for 1976, as amended, with respect to the Second Cause of action for the purpose of obtaining the judgment of this Court declaring that the Plaintiff is the owner of the parcels of land described herein, the contents of which are being fully incorporated herein and made apart hereof, with fee simple title thereto, free and clear of any adverse claims of each and every one of the Defendants who are joined in the above entitled action, and to declare that each and every one of them to be forever barred from asserting or claiming any right, title and interest therein or thereto, and pursuant to the provisions of Title _____, Chapter ____, South Carolina Code Code of Law for 1976, as amended for the purpose of obtaining the judgment of the Court declaring that the Defendants Thelma Myers, Richard Cash, Lemark Cash a/k/a Lamar Cash, Mary Lee Singleton and Charlie Cash be ejected from Parcels “A”, “B”, “C”, and “D” that are described herein, and the contents thereof are being incorporated herein by reference. THE BELOW DESCRIBED parcel of real estate was at the time of the filing of this Lis Pendens, and at the time of the commencement of this action, situated, lying and being in the County of Charleston, State of South Carolina, and is more particularly described as follows: (PARCEL –A) ALL that certain piece, part and parcel of land, situate, lying and being in Santee Parish No. 1, in the County of Charleston, State of South Carolina, measuring an containing 0.69 acre, more or less, and being bounded on the Northern side by U.S. Highway 17 North; on the Eastern side by a parcel of land assigned Charleston County TMS #712-00-00-121; on the Southern side by a parcel of land assigned Charleston County TMS #71200-00-110; and on the Western side by a fifty feet wide road right of way. This being a parcel of land conveyed in a deed of Mary W. Witherspoon to Betty Myers, dated June 24. 2005 and recorded on August 11, 2005, in Book X-548, at Page

189, in the Charleston County R.M.C. Office. TMS #712-00-00-109 (PARCEL-B) ALL that certain piece, part and parcel of land, situate, lying and being in Santee Parish No. 1, in the County of Charleston, State of South Carolina, measuring an containing 0.72 acre, more or less, and being bounded on the Northern side by a parcel of land assigned Charleston County TMS #712-00-00-109; on the Eastern side by a parcel of land assigned Charleston County TMS #712-00-00-121; on the Southern side by a parcel of land assigned Charleston County TMS #71200-00-151; and on the Western side by a fifty feet wide road right of way. This being a parcel of land conveyed in a deed of Mary W. Witherspoon to Betty Myers, dated June 24, 2005 and recorded on August 11, 2005, in Book X-548, at Page 189, in the Charleston County R.M.C. Office TMS #712-00-00-110 (PARCEL-C) ALL that certain piece, part and parcel of land, situate, lying and being in Santee Parish No. 1, in the County of Charleston, State of South Carolina, measuring and containing 1.12 acre, more or less, and being bounded on the Northern by a parcel of land assigned Charleston County TMS #712-00-00-121; on the Eastern side by a parcel of land assigned Charleston County TMS #712-00-00-111; on the Southern side by a parcel of land assigned Charleston County TMS #71200-00-11; and on the Western side partially by a fifty feet wide road right of way and a parcel of land assigned Charleston County TMS #712-00-00-111. This being a parcel of land conveyed in a deed of Mary W. Witherspoon to Betty Myers, dated June 24, 2005 and recorded on August 11, 2005, in Book X-548, at Page 196, in the Charleston County R.M.C. Office TMS #712-00-00-151 (PARCEL-D) ALL that certain piece, part and parcel of land, situate, lying and being in Santee Parish No. 1, in the County of Charleston, State of South Carolina, measuring and containing 9.03 acre, more or less, and being bounded on the Northern side by a parcel of land assigned Charleston County TMS #712-00-00-151 and a fifty feet wide road of way; on the Eastern side by a portion of a parcel of land assigned Charleston County TMS #712-00-00-121; on the Southern side by the marshes of an extending to the Intercoastal Waterway; and a parcel of land assigned Charleston County TMS #71200-00-122; and on the Western side by the parcel of land assigned Charleston County TMS #712-00-00-_____and TMS #712-00-00-122. This being a parcel of land conveyed by Mary W. Witherspoon to Betty Myers, in a deed dated June 24, 2005 and recorded on August 11, 2005, in Book X-458, at Page 196, in the Charleston County R.M.C. Office TMS #712-00-00-111 (PARCEL-E) ALL that certain piece, part and parcel of land, situate, lying and being in Santee Parish No. 1, in the County of Charleston, State of South Carolina, measuring and containing 0.69 acre, more or less, and being bounded on the Northern side by lands of __________; on the Eastern side by a parcel of land now or formerly owned by the Estate of March Washington; on the Southern side by lands now or formerly of Jerry L. Middleton, and on the Western side by the parcel of land now or formerly owned by the Estate of Mose and Stephney McNeal. This being a parcel of land conveyed in a deed Mary W, Witherspoon to the Grantee Betty Myers, dated June 24, 2005 and recorded on August 11, 2005, in Book X-548, at Page 189, in the Charleston County R.M.C. Office. TMS #712-00-00-180 DANIEL E. MARTIN, JR., ESQUIRE 61 MORRIS STREET POST OFFICE BOX 21830 CHARLESTON, S.C. 294031830 (843) 723-1686 ATTORNEY FOR THE PLAINTIFF Charleston, South Carolina November 10, 2008.

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