We love the Mount Pleasant Christmas parade, probably because putting together our Mount Pleasant Magazine float brings the spirit of the season to the forefront of our minds. I’m sure you’ve heard the saying “stop and smell the roses.” Well, if you want to be immersed in the joy and excitement of the holiday season, take a break from the hustle and bustle, build a float and … [Read more...]
Can You Avoid the Cold and Flu Season?
Colds and flus have become synonymous with the holiday season. Once the kids are back in school, noses start to sniffle and throats begin to tickle. Getting sick is unavoidable, or is it? In a sea of crumpled Kleenexes and cough-drop wrappers, is there hope for a germ-free season? Some local experts gave their best advice on prevention, vaccinations and … [Read more...]
Welcome to Medicare!
Consider it a birthday present. Once you turn 65 (actually up to three months before and after that milestone), you can enroll in Medicare, a federal government program that provides health care coverage for people 65 and over. For many who have lived either underinsured or uninsured, being eligible for Medicare is a welcome benefit to older age. But there are many things … [Read more...]
Mark Sanford Targets the Debt and the Deficit
Mark Sanford has been a two-term governor of South Carolina, twice represented the state’s 1st District in the U.S. House for six consecutive years — 12 total — and taught politics at the University of Chicago for a semester. Now he’s running for the highest office in the land. Well, sort of. “I’m not delusional about my prospects,” said Sanford in mid-September, as he … [Read more...]
Meet Congressman Joe Cunningham
It’s not unusual to run into someone I know when I’m back in Charleston, but when the man who had been following his toddler through the refrigerated aisle at Harris Teeter picked up the boy and waved at me, it took me a second to place him. The only other time we’d met, I was the one trying to keep up with him as we walked from his office to the floor of the U.S. House of … [Read more...]
The Roaring ’20s: Life in the Lowcountry 100 Years Ago
The Roaring ‘20s. The phrase suggests flappers, frolic and frivolity. But, the prosperity that much of the country experienced was not replicated here. Most local residents struggled in a stagnant economy. Droves of men left to find work in cities up North. Tourism became the hope for economic growth. In 1923, Charleston’s Mayor Thomas Stoney dubbed Charleston “America’s … [Read more...]
New Location, Expanded Showroom; Aiden Fabrics
With family roots in the textile business stretching back over 40 years in North Carolina and Greenville, South Carolina, Allison and Jonathan Flanary opened their Mount Pleasant retail fabric business in 2014, when they purchased The Fabric Emporium and launched Aiden Fabrics, named after their son. The couple added a daughter, Sadie, to their family in 2015. Jonathan’s … [Read more...]
A Reflection of Our Community: MUSC Shawn Jenkins Children’s Hospital
You have to look down to enjoy the design on the hallway walls of the brand-new, soon-to-be-open, Medical University of South Carolina Shawn Jenkins Children’s Hospital. Why? Because the artwork is at the eye level of a child, of course. And the aquariums that welcome hungry visitors to the cafeteria on the seventh floor are managed in partnership with the South Carolina … [Read more...]
The Face Behind the Donation: A Very Proud Shawn Jenkins
He’ll tell you he’s a volunteer. And by the way he walks around the lobby and hallways of the new Shawn Jenkins Children’s Hospital, greeting the nurses, construction workers and other staff members, you wouldn’t think anything different. He stopped and spoke to almost everyone we passed along the tour of this brand new 11-story children’s hospital, complimenting … [Read more...]
A Certified Organic Brand: I Heart CBD
If you haven’t heard by now, I Heart CBD wants to be the first to educate you about how CBD products provide healing and wellness and come from cannabis. In other words, CBD helps you feel good. It’s the medical compound of the cannabis plant, not the THC properties (the ones that make you feel psychoactive). CBD products have been beneficial for people with a variety of … [Read more...]