League of Women Voters reminds community of need to prepare for upcoming election
Be sure to vote!
This Nov. 2, the League of Women Voters Beaufort Area asks all registered voters to vote and encourage other members of their families and communities to do the same.
All Beaufort County voters have two important referendums to vote on.
Port Royal voters have four candidates to choose from for two town council positions.
#GetVoteReady by visiting our Vote411.org website, to see what’s on your ballot, view and compare answers to candidate questions, double check your polling place, and print or get a copy of your personal Vote411 Voter Guide.
If you are working, will be out of town, are disabled, or 65 or older, you can bring your ID and vote absentee in-person Monday through Friday from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. at 16 John Galt Road, Beaufort. The last day to vote in-person absentee is Monday, Nov. 1, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.
If mailing or dropping off your absentee ballot to the Board of Elections, it must be received no later than 7 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 2.
The League of Women Voters Beaufort Area is a nonpartisan political organization that encourages the informed and active participation of citizens in government.
Jane Caffrey, president, League of Women Voters Beaufort Area, Saint Helena Island
Save Hilton Head Island
Hilton Head’s major issues can be summarized by saying that Hilton Head has been victimized by its own success.
It’s also caught half-way in between being a resort destination and a retirement community with resort destination winning, and go cart tracks arriving a la Myrtle Beach.
Solution: there isn’t one.
As retired residents and their homes age out, and future retirees decide that Hilton Head has become Myrtle Beach South, Hilton Head is gradually becoming a place where families vacation, but will never live.
Sad but true, Hilton Head is going down the tubes, and nothing can be done about it unless it returns to its quietly disappearing retirement and golfing community roots. Maybe a really big hurricane will wipe the island out and let nature begin the rebuilding process of returning Hilton Head to the idyllic island retreat it once was not so many years ago.
Roger Elmore, Beaufort
Hilton Head speedway?
Welcome to the “Daytona Speedway,” better known as Pope Avenue and the Sea Pines Circle. For the last three months, the speedway usually begins operations on most evenings at 10 p.m., and sometimes lasts until 2 or 3 a.m.
The cars roar like “Indy” cars up and down Pope Avenue.
I understand there is a Hilton Head noise ordinance, but it does not seem to be enforced.
I have mentioned this to the police department many times. In my opinion, no action has been taken.
Chester Nowacki, Hilton Head Island
Support the arts
I believe that our Town Council must support a group of arts and cultural leaders on Hilton Head who are interested in taking on the task of ensuring that “everyone has equal access to a full, vibrant creative life, which is essential to a healthy and democratic society,” the Cultural Equity Resource Center.
The Cultural Equity Resource Center provides an avenue for the Hilton Head Arts leaders, and for all of us, to test our biases, to take part in projects that aim to provide cultural equity in our communities, and to practice critical theory and critical thinking.
Critical theory teaches that knowledge is power. For me, and the many students I have worked with, the bridge between critical theory and cultural studies is clearly defined and provides significant potential for each of us. Overcoming a bias, for example, is an important advancement in anyone’s life.
Critical thinking is a political process and fosters the kind of learning that leads to a truly democratic society. The exploration of tasks for adults such as challenging ideology, unmasking power, overcoming alienation, contesting hegemony is pertinent.
Jan Ferrari, Ph.D., Hilton Head