The Island Packet from Hilton Head Island, South Carolina • 2

2 A The Island Packet Sunday November 13 2005 LOCAL MOUIMJUMBSSK Bluffton cinema set to roll film on Wednesday BY BEN CRITES THE ISLAND PACKET BLUFFTON Believe it or not Sea Turtle Cinemas soon wil no longer be a coming attraction The projectors at the new theater along Buckwalter Parkway officially will roll Wednesday in time for Riday much-anticipated release of "Hany Potter and the Goblet of the Fire" Located just south of US 278 the 12-screen multiplex is the backdrop of Berkeley Place a shopping and entertainment site officials are envisioning as Bluffton new community gathering place In the upcoming months the lour buildings adjacent to the theater wil house several restaurants and retail operations including Cheeburger Cheeburger Marble Sab Creamery Kobe Japanese Steakhouse Berry Berry Smoodiy Gamefreaks a pizza restaurant and a wine store among other tenants just the ticket the movie Photos by Jonathan DyarTtio Wend Mat Abova: Oyster levers gathered at Shelter Cove Community Park on Saturday afternoon for the annual Hilton HMd Oyster Festival sponsored by the Island Recreation Association and South Carolina Bank Trust Left: Who needs oysters? Not Jacey Hatfield The 2-yearold wasn't In the mood for molt treks but she found something she did like roasted marshmallows at the Hilton Head Oyster Festival at Shelter Cove Community Rark on Saturday afternoon All proceeds benefit the Island Recreation Association scholarship fund I 7 'vi VI -r i News Briefs From staff reports USCB awarded $1 million grant for Opportunity Scholars Program The US Department of Education has awarded a SI million four-year grart to the Opportunity Scholars Rogram at the University of South Carolina Beaufort to continue TRIO programming Student Support Services Talent Search for middle-schoolers Upward Bound for high schoolers The grant will contribute more than $265400 per year to pay for academic career and educational services for the scholars program which serves more than 160 students every year Students in the program complete an success that allows education specialists to identify a student's academic need and tailor services to assist in their success The students' performance is tracked and becomes part of eight goals that the program strives to dchicvCa lb team more about the scholars program call 521-3168 or 208-8114 Aviation official to address committee A Federal Aviation Administration representative will address several issues of concern in a presentation to the Community Relations Committee of the Beaufort County Aviation Advisory Board on Monday Mark Ward air traffic manager Airspace and Operations Branch of the Eastern Enroute and Oceanic Service Area for the FAA Atlanta office will appear at the meeting It will be held at 4:30 pm in the old terminal building at the Hilton Head Island Airport off Dillon Road The committee has asked Ward to address various topics including: ownership and control of airspace around airports arrival flight paths leading to and from the airport departure flight paths and how they are controlled and what control authority the tower has at the airport US 278 paving continues Sunday night Paving operations will resume as part of the US 278 widening project beginning Sunday night according to a news release from TkipleCt-King Associates one of the project's contractors Asphalt-leveling work will be done in the left westbound and east-bound lanes of the highway near the Tanger Outlet Center entrances The left lane will be closed in both directions beginning at 7 pm Beginning Monday the median opening near Enmark at the Crossing shopping center will be closed permanently Packet hosts news submission seminars The Island Packet will host three seminars on getting your news into the paper starting next week At each seminar Packet editors will provide guidelines on getting different types of news into the paper Participants should choose the session that will deal with the kind of news they are trying to get published The first session which focuses on the features section will be held from 9 to 10:30 am Tuesday Seminar topics are: How to get your news or special announcement into The Island Packet deadlines you need to know information you should provide and pitching your story or photo idea to the newspaper A Guide" to The Packet will be distributed to all attendees Seating limited so please onfy send one representative per organization Reserve your seat by calling Suzi Reed at 706-8104 Pinckney preserve dedication Monday Beaufort County Council will dedicate Pinckney Colony Preserve in greater Bluffton at 1 :30 pm Monday The 38-acre passive park is located on Pinckney Colony Road at US 278 Volunteers have groomed some of the vegetation at the site and assembled pienk tables benches and trash cans The land was acquired through the county's Rural and Critical Land Preservation Program Quick poll 'Do you think Christmas season has coma too early In recant Yds No 1m Total votsa: 28 7MI to a aatfaabctatf aampMit therefore the reeuffa are not eoncfoaVii Vote now 'Do you agree with the Beaufort County Board of Education's decision to continue searching for another high school site in the north area of the Readers may vote by going to The Island Packets Web site (wwwfsfomrpechetcom) Click on Quick Poll then follow the directions On Wednesday the results will be published here and posted at wwMMsmfoactetcom Voting closes at 5 pm Tuesday Gullah unveiling helps end Heritage Days theater will be all the buzz The 42300-square-foot facility which has been more than two and a half years in the making will offer 2706 total seats -336 in the largest theater and 121 in the smallest Michael Kronimus of KRA Inc the chief architect for the theater has designed more than 55 movie theaters nationwide and said there nothing else quite like it won find this anywhere else in the country" he said Saturday during a media tour of the facility "Wr took everything we foamed from designing movie theaters and put it all Among the innovations the theater features in-house elevators leather VIP seating rear concession-stand access so patrons don have to go back into the lobby once they've presented their tickets and a birthday party room The theater also features an arcade credit-card machines that allow patrons to print out tickets reserved online booster seats with Velcro for shorter folks 14-inch risen between upper-deck seating rows in the bigger theaters and three projector rooms The inside of the theater looks like a small seaside village with mock buildings and canopies hanging over tables and chain Staff members wear purple button-up shirts with purple and green vests and black pan ts In the upper-deck level outside the theater a sitting area will be equipped with wireless internet connections for patrons wishing to do computer work The VIP lounge inside also will feature seating The theater sits hi part of about 24 acres 16 of which are being developed into the Berkeley Place entertainment centet Another 35 acres just south of the theater will be developed into a bask amenities shopping centec The areas wiD be joined by a connector road About 850 parking spaces the bulk of which are behind the theater make ty the lot Two entrances will be available from Buckwalter In front of the theatet with a third in store on the southern property which would be located at the intersection of Buckwalter Parkway and the entrance to Woodbridge Kronimus said traffic lights are in store for the entrances In the upcoming months theater officials hope to host parties such as to the Super Bowl trig boxing matches or the Oscars based on interest In aH the main thread is community Kronimus said TfeTe hoping this will be like Harbour Ibwn" he said want people to meet their friends here to make one stop and stay for several hours" Contact Ben Chtes at 706-8138 or bcritesCiskmdpadcfL com lb comment on this story please goto BY SANDRA WALSH THE BEAUFORT GAZETTE ST HELENA ISLAND Slow-moving bumper-to-bumper traffic and hundreds of people on foot lined both sides of Martin Luther King Jr Drive on Saturday as they made their way to and from the last day iff the 23rd Annual Penn Center Heritage Days Celebration Penn Center grounds were crammed with thousands of people wandering through dozens of vendor stands selling sugarcane sticks sizzling shrimp baskets and sundries 1 am just excited to see so many young people out said Eartha Brown in town for the celebration with a church group from Charleston 1 am truly impressed there is a lot of activity here geared toward everybody" At about noon on the main stage David Rank a linguist and part of the Sea island Translation Ifcam presented to the crowd the New Testament translated into Gullah a language that evolved on the Sea Islands from West African slaves who were brought to the area to work on plantations The Gullah culture is a mixture of West African American Indian and European backgrounds The unique culture still thrives in coastal South Carolina and Georgia and was the main focus of the weekend celebration which featured demonstrations in net making basket weaving and hair braiding as well as lectures and films about Gullah history and traditions Rank said the Bible translation project started in 1979 as an effort by WydifFe Bible Translators consultants Pat and Claude Sharpe Three years ago Rank a creole language expert was hired to bring the 26year project to a dose after Pat Sharpe died Rank said such endeavors typically take between 15 and 20 years to complete under normal circumstances due to the lengthy process of identifying accurate vocabulary terminology and theological concepts from one language to another The endeaw or had a deeper meaning than language preservation not just about Rank said between signing autographs of the Bible for festivalgoers who bought the book for S8 each The Gullah people have a long Christian tradition but what they've never had is a Scripture in their Annie McCoy traveled from North Carolina to attend the festival and snatch up two of the 10000 copies of the Bible which soon will be available at Penn Center and area bookstores "As a Christian this is important to me to read the Scripture and get a new perspective from the McCoy said This culture representation is very Khary Williams 23 drove from Atlanta to siead out over a patch of grass on a blanket with his girlfriend Jackeline Harrod 24 his two daughters and his little brother to celebrate his father 60th birthday a very family-oriented atmosphere" Williams said "We try to come every year We come to have fun but also learn something at the same time" Contact Sandra Walsh at 986-5538 or swulsfiMnqbrtgazeaexom 7b comment on this story piease go to beaitfbrtgaxtte tom Packet INSIDE Index 12-A UN chief Kofi Arman calls for national reconciliation in Iraq during a surprise visit arriving Just as a car bomb explodes near a street market in a Shiite neighborhood of Baghdad killing eight shoppers State AA While preschool tutoring programs grow in popularity many educators say no evidence exists to show the lessons have long term benefits for 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