The Pink House is Where the Heart is
Pink House Neighborhood Resource Center receives $38,000 grant to foster community enrichment from Staff Reports The Seventh Day Baptist Community Development Education Service Outreach Ministries, operating under the moniker Pink House Neighborhood Resource Center,...
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A Lifetime of Service Remembered
When Marilla Powell graduated in 1939 from St. Francis Xavier Infirmary Training School for Nurses, she didn’t have orderlies or a cleaning crew to help her take care of patients. “We did everything,” Powell said. Much has changed since Powell’s career as a nurse but...
Badges of Honor, Citizenship
Co-Den Leader Terance Wood led six members from West Ashley’s Webelos Den #7 in a trash pick-up day at Drayton Hall Elementary School this month that bagged as much as 10 pounds of trash. The six Webelos were doing more than showing pride in their community — they...
An Attitude of Optimism
The Optimist Club of West Ashley recently honored seven local students for their strong community involvement and service. The club has been honoring local youth through the national Youth Appreciation program for more than 50 years, as well as hosting annual...
Sticking It to Hunger
This Saturday and Sunday, in celebration of its fifth anniversary in West Ashley, Charleston Community Acupuncture is offering free acupuncture in exchange for a small donation of five or more non-perishable food items that will be donated to the Lowcountry Food Bank...
Photo by Major
“Photo by Major” is stamped on 8x10 glossy photographs preserved in the archives at Ashley River Baptist Church. In October of 1949, the Reverend Robert Wesley Major accepted the position of Pastor at the Ashley River Baptist Church. Reverend Major was called to the...
West Ashley's (un)official Tree
Johns Island may have the Angel Oak. Athens, Ga., may have the “Tree That Owns Itself.” The General Sherman sequoia and drive-through redwoods can call California home. Bahrain’s Tree of Life may be the original site of the Garden of Eden. And, sure, the Avenue of...
MADE IN WEST ASHLEYBirds of a Feather Sew Together
Dealing with your in-laws is something that most people dread. But not sisters-in-law Yana and Jennifer Wieckowski. The two West Ashley residents have combined decades of sewing experience, attention to detail, and creativity in design to form Hemming Birds Boutique,...
MADE IN WEST ASHLEYOne Lucky Shucker
Started in 2013, The Lucky Shucker was founded by friends Will Altman and Josh Silverman who met through their involvement with the financial advocacy group Slow Money. Both were interested in locally developed, sustainable products, and recognized in each other a...
MADE IN WEST ASHLEYHar(d)wood Carves Her Own Path
West Ashley wood-turner Ashley Harwood was told in college at Carnegie Mellon University to give up the art of glassblowing, that she was too smart for an endeavor deemed by the art scene as too “crafty.” But that’s not what turned her to turning wood. Her dad wanted...
The Changing Face of Maryville & Ashleyville
More and more peninsular problems are finding a home in West Ashley — impacts of bars, flooding, parking, traffic, and now tricky redevelopment. Downtown, gentrification has often tainted the redevelopment of neighborhoods, as it did in Radcliffeborough the West Side,...
