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The Alzheimer's Association SC Chapter
and EIMAS present
"Maintain Your Brain Seminar"
July 7, 2009
starting at 10 a.m. and going to 2:30
Fran Emerson, Area Program Director "Fight the Disease, not Each Other"
Lunch served at 12
1 p.m. Johnsie Currin, M.Ed Family Caregiver Advocate
RSVP Lula Grant at 843-869-0279

 

Bell Buoy Committee - Town of Edisto Beach

The Bell Buoy Park Committee of Edisto is looking for old photographs
of the beach, the shrimp boats or other interesting pictures that can
be copied and used in the park’s  Seacoast
Environmental/Heritage Display.
If you have such and
would be willing to let the Committee copy and return them to you,
please contact Cheryl Van Metre 843-869-3192

 

OCRM Proposes new baseline and setbacks
for Edisto Beach

Public Comment and Meeting Information: Proposed Revisions to the Beachfront Baseline and 40-year Setback Line for Morris Island, Botany Bay Island, Pockoy Island, Edingsville beach and Edisto Beach; 6:00 p.m. on May 21, 2009 at DHEC-OCRM in Charleston.

Morris Island (05/01/09)

Botany Bay Island (05/01/09)

Pockoy Island (05/01/09)

Edingsville Beach(05/01/09)

Edisto Beach (05/01/09)

details click on link above or go to:
 


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EIOLT receives $224,000 to preserve 62.4 Acres formerly
part of Sunnyside Plantation

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Notice: SC DNR has announced that Botany Bay Wildlife Management
Area will be closed on Tuesdays for Essential Maintenance beginning June 2.

Botany Bay closed on Tuesdays Sign Provide by EIPA

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Sea Turtles Need You...Volunteer!

Edisto Island Coast Guard Auxiliary Hosts Course

The Edisto Island Coast Guard Auxiliary will be offering the US Coast Guard/Boat USA sponsored
“America’s Boating Course” on 1 July 2009. Classes will be held at the Edisto
Beach State Park Interpretive Center located adjacent to Live Oak Landing off Palmetto Road.

Classes will run from 9:00am to 5:00pm. Fees are $35 and include book and certificate.
  This course is a great opportunity for new boaters to become acquainted with safe boating practices and
current “rules of the road” and for seasoned boaters to get ready for the season. In addition, this course
is recognized as an approved safety course required for persons under 16 years of age to operate a
boat powered  by 15 hp or more.

 Take advantage of a great opportunity to get prepared for the boating season. If your children and
  grandchildren are old enough to take a boat out on their own, they need to take this class! 

For more information contact Be Moore at 843-869-9749, e-mail:   bemoore7@bellsouth.net 
or Randy Hunter, e-mail randy.hunter@charter.net.     

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Recent articles of interest:

Volunteers to Help With Maintenance

Banner Year for Conservation
Feature Story in the Post and Courier
posted March 8, 2009

Walter Edgar's Journal on SCETV Radio featured
Mary Alice Monroe, local author and resident
Her thoughts on the Edisto Museum, the work of the
Edisto Island Open Land Trust's work and the SC low
country are worth listening to. The link below will take you there.

Walter Edgar's Journal - Mary Alice Monroe Interview
posted 2/25/09

PRESERVE CONSERVATION BANK
The Post and Courier Edistorial

added 2/23/09

Dana Beach Addresses DHEC Reform

Charleston County Passes Comprehensive Plan
Important new Edisto Protections

added 11/22/08

Changes Erode Beach Protection
The State Newspaper added 11/22/08

Protected Forever: the ACE Basin
added 11/10/2008


In these difficult economic times
The Edisto Island Preservation Alliance would like to
encourage everyone to remember the less fortunate.

The Edisto Food Bank
is a cooperative effort of the island's faith
community hosted by the Presbyterian Church on
Edisto Island. Currently they help over 50 families,
many of them elderly, and
all of whom desperately need our support.

There are several ways to help:
1) Donate your Greenbax Stamps
or stop by any Piggly Wiggly store, they can transfer your stamps for you!

2) Donate cash by sending your check to Edisto Food Bank,
c/o Presbyterian Church on Edisto Island, P.O. Box 86, Edisto Island, SC 29438

3) Donate personal items or staples like toothpaste, dish soap,
shampoo, or laundry detergent. These items can be dropped off
at the Presbyterian Church on Edisto Island.

4) volunteer to deliver food packages

For more information e mail Bess Watson

For Edisto to be a wonderful place to live and visit
it needs to be wonderful for everyone. Please help!


Founding Organizations

The Edisto Island Preservation Alliance was created by nine
island organizations to work together to preserve Edisto's unique non-commercial, undeveloped, rural agricultural character.

We discuss issues important to the community, work toward consensus, and when necessary take positions and or action as an organization. Our positions and actions do not necessarily reflect the positions of any single organization other than EIPA.

You can reach the founding organizations or learn more about them at:

Edisto Island Community Association
Edisto Island Community Association
Edisto Island Open Land Trust
www.edisto.org
Edisto Island Historic Preservation Society
www.edistomuseum.org
Town of Edisto Beach
www.edistochamber.com/town.php
Edisto Beach Property Owners' Association
EBPOA
www.ebpoa.org
The Friends of Edisto Beach
Friends of Edisto Beach
Edisto Island Chamber of Commerce
www.edistochamber.com
The Fire Ants
The Fire Ants
Edisto Pride
EdistoPride
www.edisto.org/events.htm


EIPA is incorporated within the state of SC as a not-for-profit organization. We have applied to the IRS for federal 501-c-3 status and are awaiting their decision.
We have our own Board of Directors and bylaws. We speak for EIPA's members and on behalf of the people of Edisto Island. The individual organizations that founded us do not control our actions and are not responsible for those actions.

Visit our business members
click here for EIPA's business members

From our beginning the South Carolina Department of Natural
Resources has extended a helping hand to EIPA through their NERR program (National Estuarine Research Reserve). They provided advice and staff assistance in getting EIPA organized, up and running. We gratefully acknowledge that help.


Learn more about DNR and NERR at:
www.dnr.sc.gov
or
www.dnr.sc.gov/marine/NERR/index.html

The South Carolina Dept. of Natural Resources does not influence
our decisions or actions and is not responsible for our positions.

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