You are cordially invited to attend the Pawleys Island Kiwanis Club Meet and Greet on Thursday, May 23rd, from 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM. This event will be a fantastic opportunity for you to learn more about what the Kiwanis Club does for our community and to connect with like-minded individuals who share a passion for making a difference.

Date: Thursday, May 23rd

Time: 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM

Location: Quigleys Next Door Pawleys Island

During the event, you'll have the chance to discover the various projects and initiatives undertaken by our Kiwanis Club to support the local community. Whether it's through organizing events, fundraising, or volunteering, we are dedicated to making a positive impact on the lives of those around us.

Additionally, this meet and greet will provide a relaxed and friendly environment for you to mingle with current members and fellow guests. You'll have the opportunity to forge new connections, exchange ideas, and explore potential collaboration opportunities.

Please RSVP by May 22nd

For more information, Zach Morris at 843-999-6558.

Hooves, Hats & Hearts Celebrates The Derby and Benefits Barnabus Horse Foundation

Hosted by Winslow Law

Join us for an afternoon filled with Derby-inspired games, contests, drinks, snacks and more!

Saturday, May 4th, 4:00pm

Admission is FREE. Bring cash for games, contests and fundraising for a great cause!

Dress in your best Kentucky Derby attire!

Let’s Share & Care

Benefitting St. James Health and Wellness

Winslow Law invites you to join them for a gathering to share a delicious meal together while also supporting a great cause!  Winslow asks that you bring a dish to share and a donation and or canned goods to show you care for our community and partners at St. James Health and Wellness.  All canned goods and donations will go towards our “Give ‘em the Bird” event, where Winslow will be providing 25 families with their Thanksgiving meal on November 18th.   Everyone is invited!

The 5th Annual Tour de Plantersville is a nonprofit cycling and cultural fundraising event that supports The Village Group’s mission to build a more sustainable community through college and career readiness (www.thevillagegroup.org). The Village Group is a 17-year strong 501c3 that hosts programs for hundreds of Georgetown County youth each year.

The Tour de Plantersville offers metric century 62-mile, 25-mile, and 12-mile ride options through the natural setting of Plantersville South Carolina. The ride is perfect for avid cyclists training for their next race or families wanting to share a healthy adventure together. Event start times vary based on the miles.

For more information, go to tourdeplantersville.com . Or visit the Facebook page at https://www.facebook.com/p/Tour-de-Plantersville-100069313325737/

Event Registration will be offered at The Hammock Coast Office at 28 Wall Street in Pawleys Island Thursday, October 26th from 1 – 6 p.m. and Friday, October 27th from 10 a.m. – 3 p.m.

Interested in Volunteering? Contact

Maranda Johns, Development Officer of The Village Group

Email: developmentofficer@thevillagegroup.org

Mobile: 843 591 3113

Office: 843 240 0534

The workshop will begin with an introduction to SEO and an overview of how search engines work and the different ranking factors that are taken into account. Attendees will learn about on-page optimization, including keyword research, meta tags, header tags, and best practices for creating high-quality content that will rank well in search results. The workshop will also cover technical SEO, including improving website code and structure for better search engine visibility, and off-page SEO, including building backlinks and using social media to boost visibility.

For more information and to register, CLICK HERE.

The event is limited to 15 people. Register Now!

Meet your State Delegation members for breakfast and a moderated Q&A. This is a great opportunity to hear from our representatives in the S.C. General Assembly and discuss important issues facing our community. They will also give us a preview of what to expect during the upcoming legislative session.

This event is hosted by the Georgetown County Chamber with presenting sponsorship by the Coastal Carolinas Association of REALTORS (CCAR).

Delegation members who have confirmed are Senator Stephen Goldfinch, Senator Ronnie Sabb, Representative Carl Anderson, and Representative Lee Hewitt. 

Make your reservation early. This event sells out fast! Register online or call the Chamber at 843.546.8436.

Come and help us celebrate the season with Winslow Law!

PILBA Members and their families welcome. Open to the public.

Bring a gift under $20 for the Christmas Gift Exchange!

Santa will be in attendance for photos and Christmas wishes!

Main Dish and beverages will be served - bring a dish to share!

We are partnering with All4Paws to help with their shelter needs!

You are invited to bring a donation for this non-profit organization. CLICK HERE to find their wish list needs.

Hosted by Pawleys Tap & Pour and benefiting SOS Care

Join us for an afternoon of family, friends, community and Mac-N-Cheese! The area's best restaurants and amateurs will complete for the title. Area artists and craft vendors will also be in attendance, all making for a great festival to kick off November. A panel of judges will judge each mac-n-cheese dish, as well as the community will vote for People’s Choice and Kid’s Choice winners.

SOS Care is a non-profit disability provider who answers the call when a family is navigating an autism diagnosis or other intellectual disability. For more information visit SOSCareSC.org.

Ribbon Cutting / Open House: Winslow Law (formerly Goldfinch Winslow) AND Anderson Insurance Associates of Pawleys. Join us for a Ribbon Cutting and Open House for 2 great local businesses! Winslow Law (formerly Goldfinch Winslow) is celebrating a New Name and Anderson Insurance Associates of Pawleys is celebrating a New Location inside the Winslow Law building! Check out this beautiful facility with Co-Sharing Office and Conference Space available for lease.

IT'S GOING TO BE A PARTY!!! Free and Open to the Public.

The Frances P. Bunnelle Foundation is committed to improving the quality of life for all Georgetown County residents. It is our belief that building a thriving, successful community leads to a better life for all.

Join them on April 27 at 5:30pm at The Howard Center as we share the vision for our future diversity, equity and inclusion work that is designed to find solutions that are transformative, affirming and elevate possibilities for our community.

To attend, please RSVP to Terri Lottchea, tlottchea@bunnelle.org or 843-237-1222.

Renown national speaker, Loretta Wilkins will be talking about gut health! This is a topic everyone should hear about! Diseases start in the gut and in the mouth.

Join Juice Plus+ for a fun event of wellness, smoothies, energy bits, Kombucha and Vegan Charcuterie!

Make plans to attend the Pawleys Christmas Festival at the Island Shops, 10659 Ocean Hwy, Pawleys Island! Saturday, November 20, 2pm – 5pm! Family friendly community event! Santa & Mrs. Claus, Photo Opportunities, Christmas Cookie decorating, Letters to Santa, Ornament Craft & More.

Plus, appearances by Litchfield Dance Arts, WIS Gator Calypso Steel Drum Band and Waccamaw High School Choir!

 Come join the fun and kick-off the Christmas season together!

Who: Island Shops

What: American Red Cross Blood Drive

Where: Parking area behind the Island Shops

When: Wednesday, September 29th, 11 am - 4pm

Get a Red Cross T-shirt while supplies last.

CLICK HERE to set up your donation time. Sponsor code: islandshops

The book launch will be at the Moveable Feast on Tuesday, Aug. 17  (11 AM-1 PM) at The Village House in Litchfield Beach. A review copy of the book is available upon request to the CLASS LLC.

CLASS Publishing is pleased to announce the release of Faux Finished, a cozy mystery by Dawn Dixon, winner of Malice Domestic’s William F. Deeck Grant for Unpublished Writers. She’s written for local, regional and national publications for more than 20 years and worked as a communications specialist and financial editor in corporate America.

Faux Finished is her first novel. In it, decorative painter Bridget O’Brien is working late at the Magnolia Blossom Country Club when she hears noises in the dark deserted clubhouse. Investigating, she stumbles over a body in the men’s locker room. A business woman in Chapel Hill, N.C., Bridget’s neglected her family as she dealt with personal demons. But when her estranged teenage daughter confesses to the murder, Bridget finally gets her priorities. She charges into a wacky, reckless investigation to clear her daughter’s name. But is the child really innocent? Dodging police, Bridget blitzes through clues and suspects, managing to stay on the right side of the law … just. Despite family secrets frustrating her efforts, and bonding and redemption with loved ones almost out of reach, Bridget targets the killer amid the March Madness of a UNC-Duke basketball game. The teams battle. The crowd erupts. Is Bridget in over her head?

“Faux Finished delivers what makes a cozy mystery fun: interesting characters to spend time with, a peek behind the scenes of a decorative painter’s life, loads of true Southern zaniness during a college basketball season, and a puzzle worth solving,” writes author Cathy Pickens, winner of St. Martin’s Malice Domestic Award for Best Traditional Mystery.

Dixon claims Charlotte, N.C., as home, and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill as her own personal utopia, although she’s residing in South Carolina’s Lowcountry for the time being. Visit her website at www.DawnDixon.net.

The book will be featured at a Moveable Feast on Tuesday, Aug. 17, 11 AM-1 PM at The Village House in Litchfield.  Tickets are $30 per person and include a presentation by the author followed by lunch catered by the Divine Group of Murrells Inlet.

Reservations may be made by calling 843.235.9600 or online at www.ClassAtPawleys.com. Books will be available at the event ($20) for signing, or in advance from Litchfield Books or the publisher at www.ClassAtPawleys.com.

CLASS Publishing is pleased to announce the release of Overcoming, the inspiring and informative memoir by Robert N. Jenkins, Sr., one of 13 children born to a rural McClellanville couple. Jenkins overcame poverty and prejudice to become a member of the Air Force rifle corps, the fourth African American graduate of The Citadel, a graduate of the University of South Carolina’s law school, a distinguished attorney providing legal defense for those without means, and ultimately a family court judge meting out justice with fairness and compassion.

Through the Jim Crow South of the 50s and 60s and an inequitable education system, despite The Great Society’s efforts to balance the scales, Jenkins persevered through hard work, determination, a commitment to learning, and an abiding faith, all of which disallowed “excuses” – for himself, his children, his co-workers, and his clients.

His decades-long friendship with Congressman James E. Clyburn, Majority Whip of the U.S. Congress, is honored in the Foreword when Clyburn pens, “Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. once intoned that, ‘Anyone can be great because anyone can serve ... You only need a heart full of grace. A soul generated by love.’ The great Civil Rights leader could have been talking about Robert Jenkins.”

Filled with photos and personal remembrances, Overcoming is an inspirational reflection on a life well lived. The book will be launched at a Moveable Feast on Friday, July 2, 11 AM-1 PM at the McClellanville Town Hall, 405 Pinckney Street.  Space is limited, reservations are required. Tickets are $30 per person and include a presentation by the author followed by lunch catered by Joe’s Catering Service/Buckshot’s Restaurant.

Reservations may be made by calling 843.235.9600 or online at https://classatpawleys.com/class.php. Books will be available at the event ($20) for signing, or in advance from the Village Museum in McClellanville (www.VillageMuseum.com) or the publisher, www.ClassAtPawleys.com.

Alice Ravenel Huger Smith (1876-1958), a leader of the Charleston Renaissance, immortalized the beauty and history of the Carolina Lowcountry and helped propel the region into an important destination for cultural tourism. A lifelong Charleston resident, she helped spark the city’s historic preservation movement, depicted the waning days of rice planting, and captured the mystical spirit of the Lowcountry in luminous watercolors. This beautifully illustrated volume is a personal account of the artist’s life and work by Georgetown County Library System Director Dwight McInvaill that draws on unpublished papers, letters, and interviews. It includes over 200 paintings, prints, sketches, and photographs, many shared for the first time. The most comprehensive book ever made of Alice’s work, it is both an important contribution to Southern art scholarship and a gorgeous addition to the bookshelves of art lovers. Published by Evening Post Books in collaboration with the Middleton Place Foundation which book proceeds benefit.

For reservations, 843.235.9600 or visit www.ClassAtPawleys.com.

Thrilling escapes. Daring river crossings. An American general stranded alone, evading British patrols. A British general burning clean his psychological despair while the flames of his furious army scorch the countryside, roads and byways jammed with fleeing refugees, cataclysmic war erupting in the Carolinas. A neck-and-neck chase to Virginia’s Dan River with the fate of the American South hanging in the balance. One of the most important and implausible American military victories of all time. Though today it is a little-known footnote of the American Revolution, the “Race to the Dan” featured all of these exploits, and more, making it one of the most compelling chapters of our nation’s birth. Yet no book by a nationally distributed publisher has ever focused exclusively on this campaign until now.

For reservations, 843.235.9600 or visit www.ClassAtPawleys.com.

Two childhood friends discover that love – and family – can be found in unconventional ways in this timely, moving novel from the USA TODAY bestselling author of the beautifully Southern, evocative Peachtree Bluff series. Recently separated Amelia Buxton, a dedicated journalist, never expected that uncovering the biggest story of her career would become deeply personal. But when she discovers that a cluster of embryos belonging to her childhood friend Parker and his late wife Greer have been deemed “abandoned,” she’s put in the unenviable position of telling Parker – and dredging up old wounds in the process. Parker has been unable to move forward since the loss of his beloved wife three years ago. He has all but forgotten about the frozen embryos, but once Amelia reveals her discovery, he knows that if he ever wants to get a part of Greer back, he’ll need to accept his fate as a single father and find a surrogate. Each dealing with their own private griefs, Parker and Amelia slowly begin to find solace in one another as they navigate an uncertain future against the backdrop of the pristine waters of their childhood home, Buxton Beach. The journey of self-discovery leads them to an unforgettable and life-changing lesson: Family – the one you’re born into and the one you choose – is always closer than you think. A fresh and unforgettable exploration of love, friendship, and the unbreakable ties that bind.

$48 including book. For reservations, 843.235.9600 or visit www.ClassAtPawleys.com.

Now a retired pharmacist who graduated from Clemson University and The Medical University of South Carolina in Charleston, Brown’s historical fiction is based on an actual event that occurred in Williamsburg County, S.C., in the year 1870. Some names have been changed, and some events have been embellished and expanded upon. Overall, this is what happened leading up to a very tragic climax. It started out as a friendly competition between two former Confederate soldiers for the hand of a lovely young lady. Over time, the competition developed into a feud and progressed to the point where a challenge to a duel was issued. One of the young men was very intelligent and highly educated. The other was a simple farmer. The challenge led to the death of one of these young men. One was the writer’s great-grandfather. The writer was told this story over a half-century ago by his grandfather. He feels that the story must be told so that others may learn what arrogance, obstinence, and vanity can lead to. A gripping opus that tells of a county’s history that inspired a story of great camaraderie, love, and hope.

For reservations, 843.235.9600 or visit www.ClassAtPawleys.com.

For 13 years, Cindy Hedrick and soulmate Skip Yeager (owners of Sweetie’s on Front Street in Georgetown) operated an exotic animal sanctuary on acreage outside Georgetown. The story of how the SC Coastal Animal Rescue & Education Sanctuary came to be, was instrumental in the healthy and happy lives of scores of exotics, farm animals, and non-releasable wildlife, and ultimately had to be dismantled is both inspiring and heartbreaking. While aimed to raise awareness and compassion in middle school children for the creatures that share their world, Cindy’s natural approach to telling the tales of just a few of the characters the sanctuary rescued is a lesson in memoir writing and a tearful/joyful read for animal lovers of all ages.

For reservations, 843.235.9600 or visit www.ClassAtPawleys.com.

Island Shops at Downtown Pawleys and the American Red Cross are asking for the community’s help to meet a critical need for blood.

The two groups are hosting a blood drive Wednesday, March 31st at the Island Shops at Downtown Pawleys, located 10659 Ocean Hwy, Pawleys Island. People can donate blood from noon to 5 p.m.  

"Winter weather and COVID-19 have dramatically decreased donor turnout at many blood drives. Donations are critically needed for thousands of patients to receive necessary, life-saving treatments."

To make an appointment, visit the "Find a Drive" section on the American Red Cross' website (www.redcrossblood.org) and use the sponsor code "islandshops" to see available times and schedule an appointment.

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The Red Cross is following Food and Drug Administration (FDA) blood donation eligibility guidance for those who have received a COVID-19 vaccination.

Those who have gotten a COVID-19 vaccination will need to provide the manufacturer name when donating and/or bring the COVID-19 vaccine card or printout given upon vaccination, according to the release. Anyone with further questions is asked to call 1-800-RED-CROSS (1-800-733-2767).

The Red Cross is following Food and Drug Administration (FDA) blood donation eligibility guidance for those who have received a COVID-19 vaccination.

Those who have gotten a COVID-19 vaccination will need to provide the manufacturer name when donating and/or bring the COVID-19 vaccine card or printout given upon vaccination, according to the release. Anyone with further questions is asked to call 1-800-RED-CROSS (1-800-733-2767).

Island Shops at Downtown Pawleys, 10659 Ocean Hwy, Pawleys Island, SC

Email: islandshopspi@gmail.com | Phone: 843.318.2979

In anticipation of increased bicycle and pedestrian activity on Waverly Road (approved by the county for the next paving project to widen the bike path) and with acknowledgment of how long these projects take, we are returning the “Adopt-a-Path” efforts to pick up litter, trim overhanging vines, and clear the sidewalk of vegetation overgrowth. Volunteers should wear sturdy footgear (it’s mucky out there), long pants and sleeves (protection against kudzu thorns and poison ivy), bring gloves and gripper prongs (if you have ‘em). A few gas blowers and weedwhackers are always welcome! We’ll meet in the parking lot at Teach My People. Trash bags and safety vests provided. Contact Linda Ketron at linda@classatpawleys.com or 843.235.9600 if you can join us.

Subtitled "The Clandestine Mission that Killed Abraham Lincoln," Holbrook's debut is a gripping tale of the plot to assassinate the President, and the role played by Nettie Slater, often referred to as the missing link in the Lincoln conspiracy. Mrs. Slater was a mysterious figure who disappeared after the war ended.

For reservations, 843.235.9600 or visit www.ClassAtPawleys.com.

Identity Theft & Internet Security: Safeguarding your Assets, MARCH 24TH, 2021 | 12:00 PM EST

Brought to you by CSG Capital Partners of Janney Montgomery Scott LLC

FEATURING:

RETIRED FBI SPECIAL AGENT JEFF LANZA

Jeff Lanza is a retired FBI agent, author and an expert in identity theft prevention and cyber security.

Sponsored by Nationwide

Please RSVP by March 22nd and let them know that PILBA Member Eric Fromm, Financial Advisor.

CLICK HERE to Register.