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This holiday season you can send friends and family a little bit of
Charleston by visiting ShopCharleston–http://www.shopcharleston.net - site no longer exists.
On this site you'll find everything from She Crab Soup to Steven Jordan
Artwork, Sweetgrass Baskets to Spoleto Merchandise. Choose from a
variety of gift baskets, home decor, and jewelry. Unique Charleston
gifts are just a click away ... at http://www.shopcharleston.net - site no longer exists
In This Issue
- Happy Shopping from the Shop SCIway!
- New and Notable South Carolina Web Sites
- SC State Government Launches Improved Web Site
- How to Add Your Web Site to SCIWAY's Search Engine
- New SCIway Advertisers
- Take a Learning Holiday at the Beach
- Upcoming Festivals and Events
- Voyage of the Month: Orca Visits the Georgetown Lighthouse
There's a great new place to shop for holiday gifts this season, and you
don't have to drive in any traffic to get there. You don't have to
park. There are no crowds. There are no lines. And at the end of the
day, not only will you have found some really special presents, you
won't have to lug them back home to wrap.
Shop SCIway (http://www.sciway.net/shop/)
is an online
marketplace full of local flavor and fun. In this collection of over 30
South Carolina owned and operated stores, you can find anything from
sweetgrass baskets ... to Pawley's Island hammocks ... to ball caps and
sweatshirts for your favorite USC and Citadel fans.
And Shop SCIway doesn't sell just South Carolina-related
products. It's also a great place to get camping gear, t-shirts, photo
mugs, sportswear, golf equipment, art, and books. It has an incredible
collection of food baskets too, overflowing with such delicacies as
saltwater taffy, shrimp and grits, benne seed wafers, fried green
tomatoes, pralines, and hoppin' johns.
So instead of lacing up those running shoes, wrap up in your robe. Fix
a hot cup of cider and throw on some Christmas tunes. With Shop SCIway (http://www.sciway.net/shop/)
, it's easy to find
a present you'll be proud of.
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- Harvest Hope Food Bank - provides food for the hungry in central SC
- http://www.harvesthope.org
- James Island Charter High School "Pride of the Island" Band
- http://www.jichsband.com
- Lexington County, SC - two good sites!
- http://www.lex-co.com - county government
- http://www.lexingtonsc.org - chamber of commerce
- Lowcountry Foodbank
- http://www.lowcountryfoodbank.org
- Private, Resort, and Golf Communities - we are rich in contrasts
- http://www.sciway.net/reloc/private.html
- School District of Greenville County - Best in Southeast by 2005!
- http://www.greenville.k12.sc.us
- South Carolina Business Hall of Fame - 60+ biographies
- http://www.myetv.org/television/productions/legacy/ - page no longer exists
- South Carolina Literacy Resource Center
- http://www.sclrc.org - page no longer exists
- South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control - new
- http://www.scdhec.gov
- South Carolina State Employees Association
- http://www.scsea.com
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On Monday of this week, Governor Jim Hodges launched a new Web site that
is going to save South Carolinians time and make it easier for us to do
business with state government. This new site is called MySCGov, and
you can find it at http://myscgov.com (or http://myscgov.org or http://myscgov.org - site no longer exists). Site is now called SC.gov (http://www.sc.gov/).
MySCGov provides new information and online services, and it is
organized in a way that makes it easier to find useful resources than it
was at its predecessor (http://www.state.sc.us). One of the most
welcome additions to the site is a fast, comprehensive search engine
licensed from AltaVista.
MySCGov was designed by the State Budget and Control Board's Office of
Information Resources (http://www.state.sc.us/oir/), and it is managed
by Jim MacDougall.
In the months ahead SCIWAY News will focus on some of the most useful
and interesting resources and services available through MySCGov.
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In the last few weeks we have made significant improvements to SCIWAY's
search engine. If you haven't used it recently, you'll find that it's
fast and produces extremely relevant results. Just click the search
button on the navy blue menu bar at the top of every SCIway page and
give it a try.
The reason SCIWAY's search results are so on target is that our search
database has been developed and progressively refined by people who live
in South Carolina, not by computer software "robots" or "spiders" that
often produce results so complete that they aren't useful.
Now for the first time you can add your business, organization, or
government agency Web site to SCIWAY's search engine ... and we will
guarantee that a direct link to your site will appear at the top of the
search results when SCIWAY visitors look for you.
To see how this works, go to SCIWAY's home page (http://www.sciway.net)
and search for Carolina Home Realty, Hutto Wood Products, Columbia Kiwanis
Club, or South Carolina Legal Services Programs.
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- Alfie's Compliments - Columbia - 10% off all basket orders through Dec 5
- http://www.alfies-baskets.com - site no longer exists
- Urban JungleWear - Manning - Apparel and more for fans of the "big cats"
- http://www.urbanjunglewear.com - site no longer exists
- VIP Image - Charleston - Pawleys Island, Hatteras Hammocks–and more!
- http://www.vipimage.com - site no longer exists
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Do you like to learn ... and meet new people ... and relax and have fun
in beautiful places? Well, Coastal Carolina University may have just
your ticket: a Learning Holiday at the Beach, February 4-9.
Designed for active adults, this six-day vacation package includes five
nights at the Litchfield Beach & Golf Resort, a full-service resort
located midway between Myrtle Beach and Georgetown (http://www.litchfieldbeach.com).
It also includes 14 meals ... more than 50 noncredit courses on topics
related to art, technology, history, health, business, and current
events ... afternoon excursions to Brookgreen Gardens
(http://www.brookgreen.org) and Ripley's Aquarium
(http://www.ripleysaquarium.com) ... and all taxes and gratuities.
Total cost: $499 per person, based on double-occupancy.
To learn more about Coastal's "Learning Holiday at the Beach," visit
http://www.coastal.edu/learn/gshol.htm - page no longer exists. For a free brochure or to
register, call Audrey Johnson at 843-349-2544.
Who knows ... could be a special Christmas present for you and someone
you like to camp out with.
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For the latest information on upcoming South Carolina events, please
see http://www.sciway.net/calendar.html.
- Holiday Festival of Lights - James Island - Nov 10-Jan 1
- A Christmas Celebration - Lexington County Choral Society - Dec 1-2
- Christmas Craft Show - Aiken - Dec 1-2
- The Nutcracker Suite - Columbia Youth Ballet - Dec 2
- Raid On Gramling Mills - Civil War reenactment - Dec 2-3
- The Lion in Winter - Columbia - SC Shakespeare Company - Dec 7-16
- Christmas in Hopelands - Aiken - Dec 9-26
- First Night Charleston - Charleston - Dec 31
- First Night Varnville - Varnville - Dec 31
- Learning Holiday at the Beach - Litchfield Beach - Feb 4-9
- Tidelands Birding Festival - Huntington Beach St Park - Feb 23-25
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Because many of South Carolina's most interesting structures are located
on islands or face rivers, few people ever see them. This is especially
true of our lighthouses and rice plantation homes and fields.
As a partial remedy, Orca and I have resolved to travel the state's
coastal and inland waterways and bring back pictures and information we
hope you'll find interesting.
Orca is an old friend of mine who has been cruising the sea islands
south of Charleston for 62 years.
On this particular day, Orca, my daughter Julia Anna, and I took some
special Georgetown friends–Marvin and Anne Marie Marozas and their
sons Michael and Jason–to see the Georgetown lighthouse. We left our
marina on the Sampit River Basin shortly before noon, and as you can see
from the map beneath Orca's picture, we headed south, then southeast to
the old light that still guides large ships entering Winyah Bay.
It was as beautiful a day as I can imagine. The October sky was deep
blue, the sun was bright, and the water was calm but sparkling in the
low fall sunshine. It also turned out to be an unusually uneventful day
(nothing bad happened), probably because Julia, Michael, and Jason did
most of the steering.
Orca seldom hurries, so it took more than an hour for us to reach the
lighthouse and drop anchor just off the beach which is its doorstep.
There the receding tide swung our stern seaward, and we relaxed and
enjoyed the feast the Marozas family had prepared ... the welcome chance
to renew our friendships ... and, of course, the seldom seen light.
This round, white tower stands near the southern tip of North Island.
The current light was built in 1812, renovated in 1867, and manned by
the Coast Guard until 1986. You can learn more about it from the
pictures and text below the map of our course. It's worth learning
about too, for it is the only historical lighthouse still operating in
South Carolina.
Toward the end of the afternoon, we retrieved our anchor and headed back
to Georgetown's historic district. Along the way we passed the still
visible smokestack of the USS Harvest Moon, the only Union flagship sunk
during the Civil War. Then we quietly watched a massive freighter plow
its way down Winyah Bay toward the ocean. This orange giant was riding
high in the water, for it had just deposited its cargo at the State
Ports Authority Docks on the Sandpit.
I slept well that night, thankful for one of the most beautiful and
enjoyable days of my life ... and looking forward to the next day's journey up the
Black River. Stay tuned!
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