January 2013
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January 2013: Editor's Note
Hallelujah! It’s over. I’m not an uptight person by nature. I roll with the punches and see most things with a whole lot of perspective. One thing, however, does stress me out every year: CH2’s Bachelor/Bachelorette contest. Every insecurity I have manifests itself in the planning…
Get Fit 2013: Healthy Beginnings
The Truth About Weight Loss It’s resolution time again! If this is the year you have vowed to get serious about your health, getting your weight under control is one of the best ways to begin. It’s no secret that America is fast becoming the fattest…
Get Fit 2013: Where Do You Rank in the 10 General Skills of Fitness?
In a society filling more and more with desk jobs, immediate gratification at the mere click of a mouse, 500 channels on the television, video games and nutritional and obesity concerns that are widely considered to be of epidemic proportions, physical fitness is something more…
Get Fit 2013: Dance in Pop Culture
And it was with those six words that teenage girls everywhere were figuring out a way to merengue with bad boy Johnny Castle. But long before our mid-eighties obsession with mid-sixties dancing, we were testing our first extra-curricular activity in pink tights and tutu—that obligatory…
Get Fit 2013: Need to Lose Weight?
How HCG can Transform Your Life There’s no secret, losing weight is difficult. The Boston Medical Center indicates that 45 million Americans diet each year; two-thirds of adults in the United States are obese or overweight. Finding a diet program that works for you will help…
Get Fit 2013: Pilates: A Powerhouse Primer
Pilates bodies In the past 10 years, the word Pilates has become synonymous with finely toned abs and beautiful Hollywood bodies. Sort of like soy lattes and seaweed smoothies, it sounds good, but what’s it all about? Pilates is an innovative system of core-centered exercises that elongate…
Get Fit 2013: Fit Chics
New to Hilton Head and motherhood, Laura Fromdahl was in the mommy doldrums waiting in the carpool line at Sea Pines Montessori when another mom approached the driver’s side of her grocery getter car and asked, “Do you want to join a group of us…
Jan 2013: Mayors
Our Acton Agenda Ahead The Hilton Head Island Town Council recently spent three days planning our strategic future for the coming year and more ahead. Our workshop goal was to establish a plan to accomplish priorities you will find below. We do this to avoid the…
Jan 2013: Behind The Gates
Our Behind the Gates series has, not surprisingly, profiled a fair number of golf communities, most of them conceived and built during a period when golf participation was booming and the private golf community model was at its most viable due to demographic trends. The…
Pat Blake of Salon Salon
As a Catholic school girl in the 1960s, Pat Blake said she thought her Shirley Temple hair made her different. She didn’t fit in with her classmates. In her mind, everyone had long, straight hair like Cher. Hers was different; it was curly. On rainy…
Faces DaySpa
Wisdom may come with age, but unfortunately, so do fine lines, wrinkles and sagging skin. As our faces begin to go south, an array of cosmetic procedures are available to perk things back up, including injections, fillers and surgical facelifts. But for those who would…
Bachelorette of the Year: Ruthi Collins
“Ok, but I am doing this on one condition … it benefits you.” Truer words have never been spoken, or perhaps in this case muttered under her breath with an undercurrent of what-have-I-just-agreed-to-attitude. Ruthi Collins had to say something to stop her friend’s giggles as…
Whitley Deputy
The pursuit of perfection is both a blessing and a curse for soul-drenched musician Whitley Deputy, whose sizable talent is matched by his reputation as a strong-minded guy who speaks up when things aren’t sounding right to him, onstage or off. And the leader, vocalist…
Jan 2013: Tips from a Pro
The question I am asked most frequently is how to hit the ball farther. There have been many theories over the years on how to increase distance: longer backswings, more leg drive, more wrist hinge, etc. Yet all of these are effects, not causes. If…
Charity Corner: Room At the Inn
Twelve years ago, I was 50 pounds heavier and thrilled! I was expecting my first baby and I could not have been happier. My sisters and mother all lived far away, and money was not plentiful. Because traveling home for a baby shower was out…
Our Town: UnCork the Festival
The 2013 Hilton Head Island Wine & Food Festival, presented by The Westin Hilton Head Island Resort & Spa is gearing up for the 28th Annual event which will be held March 4-9, 2013. One of the pre-festival events is Uncork the Festival, taking place…
Our Town: River of Words
River of Words is not a new program; it’s not even new to Hilton Head Island Middle School. The game changer this year is that every single seventh grade student at Hilton Head Island Middle is involved. By inviting all students to participate in the…
Jan 2013: A Series of Fortunate Events
Politicians in Training SERVPRO of Beaufort County recently presented a check to Bluffton High School’s Youth Government Class to help the class travel to Columbia, SC where they will participate in a statewide Model Legislature and Court Conference. Alzheimer’s is Scary On Friday, October 26th, Salon Karma opened…
Jan 2013: A Line in the Sand-
C2’s Bachelor/Bachelorette Contests Good clean fun or superficial and exploitive? FRANK DUNNE JR. Congratulations to C2 for raising about 14 grand for Island Rec Center with the bachelorette party. As always, when Maggie and crew do something, they get it right. I have a beef with this…
C2 Goes Duck Hunting
On a chilly morning in December, C2’s photographer Mark Staff awoke at 2am to join Clark Fons and Chris Marra for a Lowcountry duck hunt on Bear Island, WMA (Wildlife Management Area). The 2013 waterfowl season in South Carolina is currently open and runs…
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January 2013: Editor's Note
Hallelujah! It’s over. I’m not an uptight person by nature. I roll with the punches and see most things with a whole lot of perspective. One thing, however, does stress me out every year: CH2’s Bachelor/Bachelorette contest. Every insecurity I have manifests itself in the planning…
Get Fit 2013: Healthy Beginnings
The Truth About Weight Loss It’s resolution time again! If this is the year you have vowed to get serious about your health, getting your weight under control is one of the best ways to begin. It’s no secret that America is fast becoming the fattest…
Get Fit 2013: Where Do You Rank in the 10 General Skills of Fitness?
In a society filling more and more with desk jobs, immediate gratification at the mere click of a mouse, 500 channels on the television, video games and nutritional and obesity concerns that are widely considered to be of epidemic proportions, physical fitness is something more…
Get Fit 2013: Dance in Pop Culture
And it was with those six words that teenage girls everywhere were figuring out a way to merengue with bad boy Johnny Castle. But long before our mid-eighties obsession with mid-sixties dancing, we were testing our first extra-curricular activity in pink tights and tutu—that obligatory…
Get Fit 2013: Need to Lose Weight?
How HCG can Transform Your Life There’s no secret, losing weight is difficult. The Boston Medical Center indicates that 45 million Americans diet each year; two-thirds of adults in the United States are obese or overweight. Finding a diet program that works for you will help…
Get Fit 2013: Pilates: A Powerhouse Primer
Pilates bodies In the past 10 years, the word Pilates has become synonymous with finely toned abs and beautiful Hollywood bodies. Sort of like soy lattes and seaweed smoothies, it sounds good, but what’s it all about? Pilates is an innovative system of core-centered exercises that elongate…
Get Fit 2013: Fit Chics
New to Hilton Head and motherhood, Laura Fromdahl was in the mommy doldrums waiting in the carpool line at Sea Pines Montessori when another mom approached the driver’s side of her grocery getter car and asked, “Do you want to join a group of us…
Jan 2013: Mayors
Our Acton Agenda Ahead The Hilton Head Island Town Council recently spent three days planning our strategic future for the coming year and more ahead. Our workshop goal was to establish a plan to accomplish priorities you will find below. We do this to avoid the…
Jan 2013: Behind The Gates
Our Behind the Gates series has, not surprisingly, profiled a fair number of golf communities, most of them conceived and built during a period when golf participation was booming and the private golf community model was at its most viable due to demographic trends. The…
Pat Blake of Salon Salon
As a Catholic school girl in the 1960s, Pat Blake said she thought her Shirley Temple hair made her different. She didn’t fit in with her classmates. In her mind, everyone had long, straight hair like Cher. Hers was different; it was curly. On rainy…
Faces DaySpa
Wisdom may come with age, but unfortunately, so do fine lines, wrinkles and sagging skin. As our faces begin to go south, an array of cosmetic procedures are available to perk things back up, including injections, fillers and surgical facelifts. But for those who would…
Bachelorette of the Year: Ruthi Collins
“Ok, but I am doing this on one condition … it benefits you.” Truer words have never been spoken, or perhaps in this case muttered under her breath with an undercurrent of what-have-I-just-agreed-to-attitude. Ruthi Collins had to say something to stop her friend’s giggles as…
Whitley Deputy
The pursuit of perfection is both a blessing and a curse for soul-drenched musician Whitley Deputy, whose sizable talent is matched by his reputation as a strong-minded guy who speaks up when things aren’t sounding right to him, onstage or off. And the leader, vocalist…
Jan 2013: Tips from a Pro
The question I am asked most frequently is how to hit the ball farther. There have been many theories over the years on how to increase distance: longer backswings, more leg drive, more wrist hinge, etc. Yet all of these are effects, not causes. If…
Charity Corner: Room At the Inn
Twelve years ago, I was 50 pounds heavier and thrilled! I was expecting my first baby and I could not have been happier. My sisters and mother all lived far away, and money was not plentiful. Because traveling home for a baby shower was out…
Our Town: UnCork the Festival
The 2013 Hilton Head Island Wine & Food Festival, presented by The Westin Hilton Head Island Resort & Spa is gearing up for the 28th Annual event which will be held March 4-9, 2013. One of the pre-festival events is Uncork the Festival, taking place…
Our Town: River of Words
River of Words is not a new program; it’s not even new to Hilton Head Island Middle School. The game changer this year is that every single seventh grade student at Hilton Head Island Middle is involved. By inviting all students to participate in the…
Jan 2013: A Series of Fortunate Events
Politicians in Training SERVPRO of Beaufort County recently presented a check to Bluffton High School’s Youth Government Class to help the class travel to Columbia, SC where they will participate in a statewide Model Legislature and Court Conference. Alzheimer’s is Scary On Friday, October 26th, Salon Karma opened…
Jan 2013: A Line in the Sand-
C2’s Bachelor/Bachelorette Contests Good clean fun or superficial and exploitive? FRANK DUNNE JR. Congratulations to C2 for raising about 14 grand for Island Rec Center with the bachelorette party. As always, when Maggie and crew do something, they get it right. I have a beef with this…
C2 Goes Duck Hunting
On a chilly morning in December, C2’s photographer Mark Staff awoke at 2am to join Clark Fons and Chris Marra for a Lowcountry duck hunt on Bear Island, WMA (Wildlife Management Area). The 2013 waterfowl season in South Carolina is currently open and runs…
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