Hilton Head Monthly Magazine Voice of the Lowcountry 
PALMETTO ELECTRIC ANNOUNCES BRIGHT IDEAS GRANTS WINNERS
Palmetto Electric Cooperative and Palmetto Electric Trust awarded $44,133 in Bright Ideas grants to 49 teachers in southern Beaufort, Jasper and Hampton counties in 2022. Earlier this year, teachers submitted 85 proposals for innovative classroom projects.
1. Hilton Head Island names Director of Cultural Affairs
Natalie Harvey has joined the town of Hilton Head Island as its new Director of Cultural Affairs. She will develop a plan for enhancement of the entertainment, arts, culture, and heritage assets of the island. Harvey brings 25 years of experience to the position, spending those years at the Coastal Discovery Museum, where she held positions as vice president of history, vice president of programs, and most recently, vice president of collections and interpretation.
CHRISTMAS VILLAGE IS A WHIMSICAL FAMILY TRADITION
Montreal, December 1954. Edward (Ernie) Monahan, to the delight of his children, places a few tiny reindeer and other miniature Christmas figurines into an empty fireplace.
FORMER PR DIRECTOR DAVID PEARSON HAS SOME ‘WACKY’ TALES TO TELL
David Pearson helped bring Sea Pines to prominence as its first director of public relations and advertising.
HILTON HEAD SHORE NOTES SING SONGS FULL OF HOLIDAY JOY
Ella Fitzgerald once quipped, “The only thing better than singing is more singing.”
Humans have a deeply embedded, natural fear of apex predators in their environment. So, when it comes to the ocean, it’s no surprise that sharks haunt the human imagination.
Thanks in part to Peter Benchley’s best-selling novel “Jaws” and the blockbuster Steven Spielberg movie it spawned, fears about sharks went into overdrive in the mid-1970s with devastating consequences for shark species and their ocean environment.
1. HILTON HEAD HIRES COMMUNITY CODE ENFORCEMENT OFFICER
Mack Brown Jr. has joined the Town of Hilton Head as a community code enforcement officer. Brown will enforce the town’s municipal code and land management ordinance related to environmental, public safety, health, sanitation and other general regulations. Prior to joining the town, he served as a lieutenant for the South Carolina Department of Corrections in Ridgeland.
PROVIDENCE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH PROMOTES DIVERSE FAMILY OF FAITH
BY AMY COYNE BREDESON
The Rev. Dr. William Ward of Providence Presbyterian Church wants his church to be a multigenerational, multicultural family of faith. He has already accomplished that through his diversified staff.
