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HEY, NEIGHBOR!
AUGUST 2, 2019

Here's what's up in the city, courtesy of Business & Neighborhood Services.

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Special Note to Neighborhood Presidents: Please send this flyer to all your neighbors this weekend. We hope to see you all there! - Su Griffin, Neighborhood Services Manager

City of Charleston Updates

City Weekly Public Meeting Schedule

Volunteers Needed for First Day Festival

Car Seat Checkpoint Sign Up

Dedication of Earl Drayton Way

Youth Fall Sports Registration Extended to Midnight Sunday

(Paid) Soccer Referees Needed Downtown

Broadway Bound Summer Camp

Men's Flag Football Registration

Shop for 1st Day Festival Donations this Tax-Free Weekend!

Fall Volleyball Clinic on Daniel Island

Volunteer for the Homeless to Hope WCSC Live 5 News Telethon August 19

“Operation Move-out” began at 8 AM on Wednesday and will run through 5 PM on Monday. Tenants are asked to place trash items at the curb by 7 AM for same-day pickup. Crews will operate daily, with the exception of Sunday. The annual initiative was developed to manage the removal of trash and discarded household goods as college renters move out of rental properties downtown.

Mayor Tecklenburg stopped by The Citadel to visit with a group of 8th-12th grade girls who were selected to participate in the National Security Agency and National Science Foundation funded five-day cybersecurity camp. GenCyber Citadel – Girls who Smash Codes: Cybersecurity Interdisciplinary Training Camp, is the only GenCyber camp in South Carolina and drew more than 160 applicants. It covers topics like network security, secure coding, cryptography, and cyber-crime and ethics. Local Microsoft employees were brought in to speak on a career panel as part of the city’s Digital Alliance MOU with Microsoft.

Do you have cross country experience and would like to help out in your community? We have a lot of talented cross country participants in our fall program and we need YOUR help! We are looking for a volunteer cross country coach to assist our recreation staff at practices and meets. If interested, please contact Rachel Marchant.

Registration for Unified Swimming is open! Unified Swimming will take place on Wednesdays starting September 25 with a developmental session at 6:30 pm and an advanced session at 7:15 pm. The location will be at W.L. Stephens Pool. For registration assistance, or if you're interested in assisting as a developmental swim coach, please contact Nicole Herrera.

CFD Weekly Safety Tip

Community Events & Updates

The Local Entrepreneur Acceleration Program aims to support diversity in small business ownership across SC by providing minority & women entrepreneurs with development support, technical skills, and the chance to compete for a $10,000 award. Find out more here!

Race in Charleston's Criminal Justice System

Disaster Preparedness Workshop for Businesses

Legal Aspects For The Small Business

Rally to Protect Our Coasts

Charleston Water System Accepting Applications for Inaugural Citizens Academy

Tax Workshop for Small Businesses

Local nonprofit Going Places is creating a “Low Country Hero Calendar” + is looking for participants (police, firefighters, EMTs, all military branches, doctors, + nurses). All proceeds will benefit Going Places. Interested participants can sign up here.

Eastside Garden Club's "Yard o' Month" for August

Call her the Mayor of Blake Street! 30 years ago, Mary Edwards bought a vacant 1858 house that had been damaged by fire. Today, the home has been transformed. So has Blake Street itself, and no one has had a bigger hand in that than the Mayor of Blake Street. Mary’s front-drive and porch are awash in brilliant orange canna lilies, Boston ferns and more.

Her back garden is chockablock with cacti and banana trees that she gives away to friends. Across the street, she and her part-time gardener, Wiggy Vanderhorst, maintain a headstone to World War I veteran Henry Smalls, covered in a cascade of beautiful flowers. “It is just an honor, period,” she says. “There are a lot of veterans in the community.”

She also picks up litter every morning. “That is the way we were raised,” says Mary, who at 70 is thin, cheerful and elegant in her straw hat. “Keep things clean, close the gate, take care of your neighbors. Mary grew up on Reid Street and spent 30 years as a counselor at Trident Tech. Please email to nominate your neighbors from Mary to Stuart Streets.

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