DI News History - January 18, 2018
TEN YEARS AGO – Quilting is a stitch in time
In the January 17, 2008 issue of The Daniel Island News, the center spread featured an article about quilting. The Daniel Island Garden Club invited a trio of quilters from the Cobblestone Quilters Club of Mt. Pleasant to make a presentation at their Jan. 9 meeting. Sandy Boyd, Chris Taylor and Jennifer Ley gave a preview of what people would see at the club’s juried show, “Charleston Revisited: A Celebration of Quilts 2008,” in March. “Quilting goes back to around the late 1700s in America,” Taylor said, “and it remained popular until about the 1940s, when it sort of died out for a while.” She also noted that the 1976 U.S. Bicentennial and the invention of a rotary pattern cutter in 1979 helped revive interest in quilting.
In library news, the One Book Berkeley program made its debut on the literary circuit. The behind-the-scenes organization sponsoring the event, the Friends of the Berkeley County Library, had been in existence at the time for over 16 years. The One Book Berkeley program was developed due to the coordinated efforts of the library’s then director Donna Osborne, Friends’ president Gwen Lewis and Daniel Island Friends’ representative Pat Richards. According to Osborne, the main purpose of the program’s development was “to help bring reading back into the homes of Berkeley County residents.”
FIVE YEARS AGO – Cub Scouts install bat houses
A feature article in the January 17, 2013 issue of The Daniel Island News spotlighted some new “multi-family housing” that had been installed around Daniel Island. About 24 handmade bat houses were installed in various Daniel Island neighborhoods and parks as part of a local cub scout project to help cut down on the island’s troublesome mosquito population while protecting the environment. Cub scouts, parents and other helpers gathered on the grounds of Church of the Holy Cross on Daniel Island that fall to construct the houses, which can accommodate up to 20 bats. The thin, square-shaped structures were installed about 10 to 15 feet up in various tree lines. Recognizing that a typical brown bat can consume 1000 mosquitoes in an hour, the scouts estimated that there could be a potential 20,000 mosquitoes eliminated per bat house per night --- what a great way to take the bite out of summer!
In school news, the students of Daniel Island School led the charge to get a helmet on the head of every island bike rider, young and old. Members of the school’s student council and Beta Club commenced planning of a community-wide campaign aimed at eliciting the answer to that most pointed inquiry: “Dude, where’s your helmet?”