TYBEE LOVE
By Alaina Loughridge
Photos courtesy of Travis Sayre, Sara Cromer, Mac McLellan, and Art Greene
This is the time of year that most people dig deep into their pockets and
donate to their favorite cause; to help their fellow man that needs you
to reach down, grasp their hand and pull them to their feet. Thankfully,
we live on Tybee where we are known for our generous hearts and
willingness to go above and beyond for our neighbors. This year is no
different and we are going to cover but just a few of these on-going
efforts:
• The Crab Shack and Nickie’s put together the Junkanoo Benefit to
help those folks in the Bahamas after Hurricane Dorian stopped by on his
most unwelcome visit. Unless you were out of town, you must know about
the Harley Davidson and convertible Mercedes Benz that were donated
to raffle off in an effort to raise funds for Junkanoo. Thanks to Mike &
Iris Scarborough and Sonny Denmark, respectively, for those donations.
Spec Hosti won the Harley and Lex Bazemore won the convertible during
the drawing of these items at the benefit The Crab Shack hosted. Virginia
Ward said, “You could literally hear a pin drop when Lex Bazemore – the
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raffle winner of the Mercedes convertible said ‘Let’s do it again,’ (as
in auction/raffle off the car again) and then the crowd went absolutely
berserk!” The car was auctioned off again and Gary Williams, who is
the best husband ever, paid $13,500 cash for his wife to have a run
around car! All told, between the efforts of Calvin Ratterree of Nickie’s
and Jack and Belinda Flanigan of The Crab Shack, coordinating, and the
love of a lot of people donating their money, time and love, this benefit
has raised over $55,800!!! JUST WOW!!!! There is still time to donate to
this cause and to help Junkanoo and the Bahamian people. There is an
open account at Sun Trust bank and any and all monetary donations are
welcome.