Parker’s recently donated $10,000 to the Lowcountry Autism Foundation, supporting the nonprofit organization’s Art Therapy Program in full for the year through the company’s Fueling the Community charitable giving program. 

On Dragonboat Race Day, dozens of communities, businesses, civic organizations and clubs form teams to race 42-foot dragonboats in front of the seawall at Henry Chambers Waterfront Park in downtown Beaufort. It's all happening Saturday, June 22, and it’s for a great cause – supporting DragonBoat Beaufort’s cancer survivor mission: “Through the physical competition of dragonboat racing and the strength of camaraderie, DragonBoat Beaufort aims to provide cancer survivors with a total sense of wellness. Additionally, our OUTREACH program supports individual cancer patients who live, work or are treated in Beaufort County with needs they cannot afford or for which they lack coverage.”

By Margaret Evans, Editor

Lowcountry Weekly has an excellent garden column produced by a rotating team of master gardeners who write as well as they grow things. Do not mistake this for that, nor me for one of them. That column and those writers are entirely out of my league.

     A collection of artist John Gale Kenney’s work, entitled “Coastal Kaleidoscope: A Colorful Expression of Life in the Low Country” will be featured at the Beaufort Art Association (BAA) from June 30 through Sept. 1. An opening reception will be held at the Gallery at 913 Bay Street in Beaufort on Friday, July 5, from 5 to 8 pm. Light refreshments will be served. There will also be on exhibit the work of 65 other local artists, who are members of the Gallery. The public is invited.