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14In this Issue

Health & Wellness14 A Few Words From Margarita Murphy16 Start The Summer with New Evening Fitness Classes18 Back 2 Health Physical Medicine

Flowertown Women!24 Meet Realtor Loren Bethea26 The Big Rooster- Meet Richard “Dickie” Miler

Business & Web Directory43 Contact our Advertisers

Personal Note44 The Gift of Children

From the Editor 2 Summer is here!

Events3 What’s Happening?

Let’s Talk4 A Flowertown Legend Grows & Gives Back7 The Art of Learning8 Dinosaurs: Land of Fire and Ice™ Roars Into Edventure Children’s Museum

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Celebrating the Survivor in You!12 One Wild & Precious Life

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elcome to Charleston Woman Magazine! We are so glad you decided to take a copy home with you today. We hope you are having a wonderful spring. Charleston has often been called W

one of the most beautiful cities in the State of South Carolina. This time of year bears witness to that fact.

This issue was especially fun because of our Flowertown Women. What an impressive group of women. So many talents and wonderful ideas are on the cover of this one issue of CWM. Look for stories about them in the upcom-ing months. From Loren Bethea to Dr. Chellis each of these women own or manage businesses that have a made a commitment to you the Charleston Woman to provide quality products and services. We hope you enjoy reading about them as much as we enjoyed writing about them.

As always CWM Celebrates the Survivor in you! This issue we featured Anona Tolar a local resident who has fought and wont the battle of cancer. She also made an interesting career change late in her life! You may even recognize her from a little stint in Hollywood. See if you can guess where you recognize her from? Google her name and you will be tickled to know she is your neighbor! We are excited to celebrate her with you in this issue.

As always we want you to tell our advertisers where you saw them. It is because of their support of women in our community that we are able to make this publication available to you at no charge.I look foward to seeing you in the Summer!

Your friend,“My meaning simply is, that whatever I have tried to do in life, I have tried with all my heart to do well; that whatever I have devoted myself to, I have devot-ed myself to completely; that in great aims and in small, I have always been thoroughly in earnest.” -Charles Dickens, David Copperfield


What’s HAPPENING?Events

Freshfields Village Outdoor Movie SeriesStarting May 28, 2014 Starlight CinemaGrab a beach chair or blanket, pack a picnic and head the Village Green at Freshfields Village for Starlight Cinema, a free outdoor movies series. Beginning May 28, Starlight Cinema will take place every Wednesday at 8:30 p.m. until August 27.

Firefly Friday: Charleston Harbor Dolphin Sunset SailSet Sail for a dolphin sunset sail with the Palmetto Breeze with proceeds benefiting the Susan G. Komen fight against breast cancer. For more information please see www.charlestoncvb.com

Fourth of July Picnic on the HarborJuly 4th, 2014South Carolina Aquarium Enjoy one of the best views of the fireworks over Charleston Harbor with the Fourth of July Picnic at the South Carolina Aquarium.

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Charleston Middleton Place Plantation Tuesday, July 1 - Thursday, July 31 Middleton Place, located just 14 miles northwest of Charleston, South Carolina, is a National Historic Landmark and a carefully preserved 18th-century plantation that has survived everything from the Civil War to natural disasters.

Charleston’s Ghosts & GraveyardsTuesday, July 1- Thursday, July 31Walking TourCharleston’s ghostly secrets are waiting to be shared with you on the chilling Charleston’s Ghosts & Grave-yards Walking Tour.

TODDLER,DAY-SURF,SAND, AND SUN June 25, 2014 360 Meeting StreetCharleston, South Carolina 29403t’s time for the beach! Create sand art and decorate a sand bucket. These classes are designed for toddlers (18 months - 3 years) and a parent, grandparent, or friend

to play and explore in The Charleston Museum. Each program includes four craft projects as well as finger paints, a puppet stage, a sandbox, and more. All class-es are on Wednesdays from 10 - 11 am. $6/Museum members, $9/Nonmembers. Price includes Museum admittance and program for one child and one adult. See the website to make reservations online.

PATRIOTS POINT 4TH OF JULY BLAST40 Patriots Point RoadNorth Charleston, South CarolinaEnjoy a professional fireworks display and shore side party with a beach music band. Tickets on the flight deck will be sold in a limited quantity. For $20 per person ($10 for children 11 and under), guests on the Flight Deck will enjoy special access to the USS York-town starting at 6 p.m., with catered food and beverage available for purchase, as well as live musical perfor-mances and activities for kids throughout the evening. Once the sun sets in the Charleston Harbor, the Flight Deck of the Yorktown will offer a front row seat to the fireworks display, which will feature firework shells shot from a barge in the Cooper River. Lawn chairs are en-couraged for guests on the Flight Deck; but no coolers or personal food will be permitted.

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T raveling to Legend Oaks down historic highway 61, from Summerville or Charleston, is the prelude to an entrance of the neighborhood and golf course through an avenue of 300 year old live oak trees. Brian McCallen,

editor of The Golf Magazine compared this drive to the famed road Magnolia Drive, which leads to the icon of golf, Augusta National, home of the Masters.

A Flowertown Legend Grows & Gives Back

While Legend Oaks is a rather large community with over 1300 homesites, its charm is the closeness and charitable nature of the community. With a diversity in the community fromboomers to millennials, both locally and from outside the area, they have found Legend Oaks to be a community to be proud of. The unique landscape of the Lowcountry is seen in the beauty

of the azaleas, various wetlands species and magnificent live oak trees. Then there is the exceptional wild life, including bald eagles, herons, egret, wild turkeys, red hawks, turtles and of course alligators.

From the award winning golf and tennisprograms at the club to family oriented dining and social programs, Legend Oaks Golf & Tennis Club has something for everyone. The facilities include an 18 hole championship golf

course, four lighted hard surface tennis courts and a pool complex with a junior Olympic pool and smaller children’s pool. Unlike many semi-private clubs, membership at the club has grown 50% over the past 7 years. The club also boasts new Diamond greens installed in early 2014 and GPS tablets on each golf cart so distance and hazards can be managed more easily by the golfer. The clubs family orientation is delivered in part with its Little Legends golf program, and summer swim team,


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Easter egg hunt and sports camp programs.

Education is vitally important to the world and is very important to residents of the Legend Oaks community. There are education options for the children, as the community is part of the highly acclaimed Dorchester 2 public school district and it is located only 15 minutes from the Pinewood Preparatory K3-grade 12 private school.

Another very important part of the club and community is the Legend Oaks Give Back (LOGB) charitable giving program. LOGB is a year long program that includes a 5k race, golf & tennis tournaments, a silent auction dinner,

back to school drive and holiday toy drive that occur at various times throughout the year. At the beginning of the year, members of the club nominate their favorite charity to be included. The community volunteers communicate and coordinate with businesses for sponsorships and gifts for the events. “We could not do this without the support of the entire community”, says Janette Chipas, Co-Chairman of LOGB. Some of the charities that have benefited include Meals on Wheels of Summerville, Palmetto House, The Ark, MUSC Children’s Hospital, Dorchester Children’s Center and Hollings Cancer Center. LOGB has raised al-

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most $200,000 in just 5 years. “I am so proud to be a part of a community that supports their neighbors in need” said Jim Chickarello, Managing Partner of Legend Oaks Golf and Tennis Club and Co-Chairman of LOGB.

Legend Oaks community is surrounded by the massive 70,000+ acre Mead Westvaco East Edisto development project. Summers

Corner which, is adjacent to Legend Oaks, is an area to see early development of the overall master plan with two new schools in 2015 and over the next several decades several thou-sand new families will be coming to the area.

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Having your child participate in our summer camps is a great way for them to think creatively, practice

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I really like the outreach thatmuseums do in the community for people of all ages, and along with that comes the idea of sponsorship and fundraising.

Karen first started her career thinking she would be a college professor or mu-seum curator. She earned her master’s in music history, and was accepted to a Ph.D. program at Columbia Univer-sity, but she decided to take some time off to pursue a career. Karen was first offered a position with the Pierpont Morgan Library and Museum in New York as an administrative assistant, a museum that has perhaps the best mu-sic manuscript collection in the nation, with an eye on being a curator there.

After a short time, she was hired away from the museum to work for Philip Morris, a corporation who interna-tionally supported the arts, where she stayed in various positions for about 20 years, having discovered her passion for museum management. In 2004, she and her husband, a native South Carolinian, decided to move to SC so she could begin her new job as the executive director of the CMA and create a positive change for the muse-um. “The reason we have these objects is to engage and to educate. Sometimes, people have the incorrect perception you have to know a lot about art to come to a museum. It’s time to break down barriers and perceptions of what a museum should do,” Karen says. “I really like the outreach that muse-ums do in the community for people of all ages, and along with that comes the idea of sponsorship and fundraising,” she explains. At the beginning of her stay, she explained that she also spent a fair amount of time determining what it was that identified the CMA and how it could be a unique experience for vis-itors. “It’s a museum that reaches out to

every corner of the state. We’re the only museum that has a general art collec-tion in the state,” Karen says, meaning their art collection stretches from an-tiquity to present day. “I like to think of us as providing a wonderful experience looking at art from everywhere and all times,” she goes on.

The true challenge of her job, she says is handling the ups and downs of a museum endowment. A museum relies on a variety of funding sources, which is ideally balanced between endow-ments, government funding, and other, private support and sponsorships from individuals, foundations, and corpora-tions. Unfortunately, a struggle with the CMA is their relatively small endow-ment. Karen has worked tirelessly over the past 10 years of her directorship to grow the overall funding base and now is focusing on increasing the endow-ment, to help strengthen the museum’s programs, outreach, and accomplish-ments. The beauty of an endowment,

she told me, is that money from an endowment is preserved forever in the collections and upkeep of a museum. “Your money,” Karen says, “is working for your beloved institution.”

All summer long, the museum has several exhibits, all based around the theme of “animals in art”. They have partnered this year with the Riverbanks Zoo and there are plenty of activities available for children. In the spring of 2015, the museum will also host an American impressionist exhibit, fea-turing the lavish paintings of Charles Courtney Curran. This unique and spe-cial museum brings joy to people, the joy that comes only from being with art, Karen explained to me. “You can just see people’s faces light up,” Karen says. For additional information on the incredible impact Karen and the entire staff has on Columbia’s art scene, visit http://www.columbiamuseum.org/. Or visit the museum on Sundays-they have free admission!

The Art of Learning:Educational Programs at the CMA

ime flies when you’re having fun, and Karen Brosius knows this better than most. When I sat down to speak with her in her office at the Columbia Museum of Art, she smiled and said, “I can’t believe it’s been 10 years!”T

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DINOSAURS: LAND OF FIRE AND ICETM ROARS INTO EDVENTURE CHILDREN’S MUSEUM Exhibit Utilizes New Research to Create Distinct Dinosaur Environments

OLUMBIA, SC– April 25, 2014– EdVenture Children’s Museum is pleased to announce Dinosaurs: Land of C

Fire and IceTM, opening June 7 through September 14. Crossing the threshold of this exciting exhibit means traveling back in time to explore to the Cretaceous Period (145 – 65 million years ago), the time when dinosaurs last lived on earth. As visitors move through the exhibit, they encounter unfamiliar landscapes, touch-able dinosaurs of all shapes and sizes and opportunities to investi-gate clues about what these mysterious creatures left behind.

In the steamy "Land of Fire," visitors experience the sizzling prehistoric home of the Triceratops and T-Rex. Children don insect costumes to buzz through a volcano with oozing lava or a swampy bog, and identify an ecosystem of animals and plants.

A frozen trip across the "Land of Ice" introduc-es visitors to a Troodon and Edmontosaurus, two dinosaurs who made their homes in cold climates. Activities include climbing rocky steps, breezing down an icy slide and hopping across stepping stones over an icy river.In the Field Research Station, children step into the role of paleontologist, uncovering fossils and creating drawings of the dinosaur environment. The exhibit also features a station to create a prehis-

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Dinosaurs: Land of Fire and IceTM is presented by Aflac. Dinosaurs: Land of Fire and IceTM was creat-ed by Minnesota Children’s Museum.

The mission of EdVenture is to inspire children to expe-rience the joy of learning. EdVenture is dedicated to lifelong learning through its 92,000 square feet of indoor and outdoor interactive exhibit space and in its edu-cational outreach programs and after school programs. The museum has welcomed visitors from all 50 states and 18 foreign countries, creating shared experiences and mem-ories for families learning together.

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The realities of higher education costsIn general, the cost of college continues to rise faster than infla-tion. According to the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), in the decade ending with the 2010-2011 school year (the last year data was provid-ed for by the NCES), tuition, room and board at a four year public university rose 46 percent. During that same period, the broad inflation rate, based on the Consumer Price Index, rose just 27 percent. Applying this to actu-al costs, the average cost for four years at an in-state public uni-versity for 2010-2011 was more than $62,000. If inflation trends continue, four years at a public university could cost more than $130,000 for a child born today.Combine those startling figures with the fact that the most widely available form of financial aid to students today is in the form of loans. Grant and scholarship aid may be limited, and more readily available to students with a demonstrated financial need.

Start early and stick with itThe best strategy to build a college fund is to start it as early as possible with a regular savings program. Some parents choose to set aside a portion of their income each month for just that purpose as soon as a child is born, or even earlier. This gives them the ultimate advantage of the time value of money.For example, saving $300 per month in a college savings plan for a child beginning at birth and earning an average annual return of 7 percent (no fees or taxes are assumed) will build an education

fund valued at nearly $130,000 by the child's 18th birthday. In essence, the parents had to save just half of that amount, about $65,000, to accumulate what was needed to cover the potential fu-ture cost of four years of college.

The high cost of waitingIf your child is now five years of age or older, you've lost some valuable time but still have an opportunity to save a significant sum in a similar fashion. But to accumulate close to $130,000 for college by the time the child turns 18 (under the same circumstanc-es outlined above) will require savings of $510 per month.Wait until your child is ten years old to begin saving, and you must set aside $670 per month to achieve a similar result. As these exam-ples show, the burden of saving becomes much more severe if you put off starting an education funding strategy.

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ummerville’s Anona Tolar shares her journey as she answers the question posed by Mary Oliver’s poem “The Summer Day.” What is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life? Over the course of a lifetime, childhood dreams are often S

forgotten, pushed back or overshadowed. It is a rare occurrence to have the opportunity to achieve them later in life, but Anona Tolar is a living testimony that no matter your place in the walk of life, there is still time to make your dreams come true.

Tolar grew up knowing that she wanted to be an actress. She participated in performances as a child and went to arts camp for five summers. In her junior year of high school she studied at the Interlochen

Arts Academy concentrat-ing on perfecting drama, dance and voice talents. However, the thought of moving to big cities like Los Angeles or New York was daunting, so Tolar decided to fulfill her other

lifelong dream of being a wife and mother. “There is no greater joy than my children,” she says.

Being a stay-at-home mom was Tolar’s calling until about three years ago, at

the age of 50, when she re-alized she could still reach for her dreams of becom-ing an actress. It all fell into place when a friend started a new talent agency in Mt. Pleasant, Tout Talent. Tolar participated in some Sum-

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merville theater produc-tions with the Flowertown Players, and after a few local commercials and a part in an Indie film, Tolar recieved the call for an audition for the movie Ride Along starring comedian Kevin Hart. The audition was a dream come true, so Tolar took a chance and travelled to Atlanta to try out for the role.

“I just felt like I had the part,” she says, “And I never feel that way.”

A lot of leather and some fake facial hair later, she got the part and began filming

in Atlanta for the role of a lifetime. A trailer on set with her name on it made the dream a reality, and working with someone as talented Kevin Hart was the icing on the cake.

Being on set with a Holly-wood comedian may sound glamorous, but in the role as “Bearded Biker Wife,” Tolar felt anything but.

“I had my hair slicked back in a bandana, no make up on. She [the make up artist] was putting whiskers on my face, I had cotton balls stuck in my upper lip to brown out my teeth

and right in the middle of all that Kevin Hart and Ice Cube sit next to me at the make up trailer,” she laughs, “I was thinking to myself ‘This is going to be funny someday.’”

If Tolar’s story of achieve-ment wasn’t inspiring enough, she shares that she is an 18-year breast cancer survivor. While her act-ing career came long after her battle with cancer, she believes that defeating the disease gave her to courage to take advantage of her time and go for her dreams.

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recover you are so grateful for every breath, for every day,” she explains.

Tolar hopes that her journey encourages more women who have put their dreams on hold for family, heath or anything else to achieve greatness in whatever they want to do. She believes that “God puts dreams in our hearts and writes a destiny over our lives,”

“When I act, even in auditions, I feel like its my destiny. It’s what I was made for,” she says.

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ince 2010, Julia, a retired nurse had experienced an unusual urge to use the bathroom at the most inappropriate times; it did not matter what she ate. This made even short trips impossible. Her life

revolved around the bathroom visits, she had tried multiple forms of treatment without success. If she left the house, which was rare, it meant taking an extra set of clothes and wearing pads. "I declined social invitations because I didn't know when I would have an accident."

One day her friends invited her for a long weekend in Myrtle Beach. The fear of having acciden-tal bowel leakage in front of her friends was such that she decided not to go. "I was too scared of be-ing embarrassed and I didn't feel like telling my friends about my problem. I asked myself, would I ever be able to do the things that I enjoyed so much again?" It was then that she decided she needed help. She consulted with her primary care doctor who referred her to see Dr. Margarita Murphy, a colon and rectal surgeon in Mount Pleasant.

Robert had worked hard all his life to reach his retirement. Howev-

er, when that time finally came, he started having bowel leakage which he could not control. Ini-tially the events were scarce. Even-tually, they became so frequent and large that he had to hire two caretakers to help him keep his house clean. Instead of enjoying his retirement he was now almost completely homebound. His worst experience came when his son convinced him to go to a family reunion. His son picked him up in his car and shortly after Robert felt the bowel movement starting. They could not find a bathroom fast enough. Completely embar-rassed, he asked his son to turn around and take him home. The whole way he was mortified, sitting in the mess. "It was very upsetting" he said. "You feel very helpless." His son did some re-search and found Dr. Murphy.

You Are Not AloneIt is now estimated that one in every five women in the United States suffers from some level of fecal incontinence. Accidental bowel leakage or fecal inconti-nence, is a devastating problem that affects women more frequent-ly than men. It affects self-esteem, close relationships, employment and family life. The social conse-quences are immense, to the point that patients with fecal incon-tinence restrict their lives in an

attempt to cope with it.In an era when people talk about just about anything, fecal incon-tinence is one of the few medical conditions that is so embarrassing and disturbing, that people do not even tell their doctors about it.

Yet, because you do not hear about it, this does not mean that it does not happen often. "This is a debilitating condition in otherwise healthy individuals that drastically affects their quality of life" says Dr. Murphy. "People often become housebound or live as hermits because of the stigma."

Ending the EmbarrassmentAfter a brief series of tests and evaluations Dr. Murphy recom-mended a sacral nerve stimulator for both Julia and Robert. "It was so easy to talk to Dr. Murphy. She made me feel comfortable from the moment I met her," explains Julia. "Even though, I couldn't imagine or grasp how this implant would work, I immediately trusted Dr. Murphy and decided to move forward."

The Sacral Nerve Stimulator is not much different from a heart pacer, this tiny device is inserted under the skin in the upper buttocks region. It sends mild electrical pulses stimulating the sacral nerves that control the bowel,

rectum and bladder. It helps pa-tients regain control of bowel and bladder functions.

After a successful two-week trial, Julia and Robert received a permanent implant. Despite her "guarded optimism," Julia started seeing the results immediately. Now, over a year after her pro-cedure, she is enjoying her life and is free of accidents. "I finally get to go anywhere I want to, I couldn't be happier!" Robert is able to spend lots of time with his grandchildren at last. "This is what retirement should be like and I could have never experienced it without the help of Dr. Murphy."

Dr. Murphy is rated number two in the United States, making her one of the most experienced doc-tors for this amazing technique. "It has completely changed my practice. The last year and a half has been the most satisfying in my career. I have been able to change people’s lives in such a radical way with this quick, minimally invasive procedure." Dr. Murphy, spends her time in her office in Mount Pleasant seeing patients and teaching the theory and tech-nique of sacral nerve stimulation for Fecal Incontinence to doctors all over the United States, Central, and South America.Dr. Margarita Murphy


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Start the Summer with new evening fitness classes

Health To You (H2U) is expanding its popular exercise classes with an assort-ment of evening options at Summerville Medical Center and Trident Medical Center that can help you live up to your New Year’s resolutions. The following selections are now being offered in the evenings:

• Zumba – Dance fitness classes set to high-energy Latin and international beats.• WERQ – A fiercely fun dance class based on pop, rock and hip-hop music.• Pilates – An innovative, safe system of mind-body exercise that improves

strength, flexibility and agility and also teaches body awareness, good posture and graceful movement.

Trident Health’s H2U members can take an unlimited number of evening classes for $15 a month. Otherwise,

anyone in the community can drop in and pay $5 a class.“An important part of succeeding and sticking with a pro-gram is finding one that works for your lifestyle,” says Catherine Grych, director of H2U at Trident Health. “We hope to meet the needs of our community by adding the evening offerings.”

The evening schedule is geared to par-ticipants who have daytime jobs and the setup will be easy for professionals who work at or near the hospitals. “They like the convenience of walking to

class right from work.”

The new classes are in addition to an al-ready existing selection of H2U daytime options at the Faith Sellers Community Center in Summerville (Tai Chi, low-im-pact aerobics, weight training, gentle yoga and line dancing) as well as water aerobics at the Summerville YMCA. H2U members can continue to take an unlim-ited number of daytime classes for $10 a month or take a mixture of daytime and evening classes for $15 a month.

H2U members can sign up for the special exercise class rates on a month to month basis, making it flexible for people who need to take a break for traveling or other reasons. “H2U also keeps important paperwork on file for our members, such as physician clearance and emergency contact information, so we can keep our exercisers safe,” says Grych.

In addition to high-quality exercise classes at reasonable rates, H2U also provides access to health screenings, so-cial activities, discounts and informative publications. One membership costs $20 a year or $35 for two years. A couple or household can join collectively for $35 a year when signing up together.

For more information on H2U and the evening exercise program, please call the Trident H2U office at 843-847-5068.

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any people spend their entire lives searching for the right fit in a career and never find it. Not the case with Loren Bethea, who after a number of years in the automobile business with her husband John, decided she would get her real estate license

in 2007 and began her career as a Realtor . In her very first year, with business beginning to slow from it’s red hot pace of the mid 2000s, Loren earned the honor of Rookie of the Year in her Keller Williams office. At the end of 2009, Loren’s husband John closed his used car operation and joined his wife as a partner in the real estate business. The decision was made to join Carolina One Real Estate at that point and the Bethea’s have never looked back.

The early years took a lot of hard work”, Loren explained. “Not only were we in a recession, but I was just starting out in the business and it takes time to develop a cli-ent base.” Loren went on to explain that real estate is a very people oriented business, and gaining their trust required being at the “top of her game”. “One of my mentors told me,” Loren added, “Have a good team working with you. Have experienced pro-fessionals to call on when you need help....good mortgage bankers, attorneys, inspec-tors, … ‘GO TO’ people. Getting to where she is now was no easy task, but Loren says she couldn’t be happier.

Over the years, Loren has achieved a num-ber of special designations in order to bet-ter serve her clients. As a Certified Foreclo-sure Specialist (CFS) and as an Accredited Buyer’s Representative (ABR), Loren is able to offer a higher level of professionalism to her buyers and sellers.” Recognized as a Realtor of Distinction for many years now, Loren commented, “ You have to keep learning all the time. The more I learn, the better job I can do for the folks that trust me with one of the most important deci-sions of their lives. “ She added,” You can’t have any complaints filed and still qualify

for the exclusive and prestigious group that is The Realtor ' s of Distinction.”

Recently, Loren received her accreditation as a Certified Negotiation Expert (CNE), a level of training and expertise that is held by only 1000 agents nationwide. Only through an intensive course of study at the National Real Estate Negotiation Institute can this designation be achieved. When asked about the future, Loren smiled, “I’m having a great time in this business part-nered with my husband, but we are always looking at ways to get better. So this year, I think I may get my Broker’s license. Who knows where that might lead?”

As a firm believer in The Golden Rule, Loren says she lets it be her guide. “If I were buying or selling a home, I ask myself ‘How would I like to be treated by my agent?’. In closing, Loren remarked how special her office at Carolina One on Main Street in Summerville is. ‘”All of the realtors in our office are professionals. All of them are committed to helping one another”, she ex-plained. I work with some awesome people who have tons of experience helping clients with their real estate needs.”

“One day I think I will write a book,” Loren laughed. “ I’ve seen and done some crazy things so far, including walking into the wrong house or walking into a house and having a half naked man step out of the shower. I’ve even heard a ghost while on a home tour and chased a chicken that got inside my open house! It’s all part of the business we love!”

For more information on how Loren can assist you in finding a new home, selling an existing home, or just a question about real estate, call her at 843.696.1156, or contact her [email protected], or visit her website at LorenBethea.com.

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The Big RoosterMeet Richard “Dickie” Miler

By: Diana Barton

ach morning of the work week, Dickie Miler walks into his Summerville office of talented real estate professionals, begins with an office prayer, and looks forward to a day of success and freshly baked cook-E

ies. That’s right, every day at Miler Properties you’ll find not only savory sweets, but also a highly dedicated, all female staff.

Miler and his wife, Debbie own the family-run full service real estate company, Miler Properties. Since 1993, the pair, and various family members at different times, have operated a real estate and residential sales, rentals, and real estate investments business in the town that they have always called home. A Summerville native, Miler has had extensive experience in the real estate business since he started out as a mortgage broker some 30 years ago after finishing his studies at The Citadel. Little did he know that three decades later he would find himself the only man in an office of 14 women.

Miler is no stranger to an all-female environment. With four daughters, an office filled with women holds a very familiar feeling. “My whole world is around women between my daughters and work. They call me the big rooster,” he laughs.

According to Miler, raising his daughters has been a huge help in the success of his fiscal endeavors. He has grown to love working with only women and embraces the at-mosphere of his chatty and talkative workplace. He jokes, “I have learned to walk on eggshells in a very polite and professional way.”

All kidding aside, Miler truly appreciates the rewards of his unique situation. “I really do love working with them,” he says, “Women all have a wonderful sense of what’s right and wrong.”

He compares his staff to an extended family with many sisters, which fits in well with his company’s goals and philosophy. Fifteen years ago, Miler was compelled to

dedicate his business to the Lord. The group’s dealings are conducted in a Christ-like manner, encouraging integrity, honesty and fair play in every aspect of the business. Em-ployees are considered family, and customers are friends.

We want to bless our friends as opposed to selling to customers,” he explains. His philosophy in dealing with custom-ers, or friends, is to “find great people to work with and then grow together.

The office is a fun, open, relaxing and gracious environ-ment. A morning prayer is followed by a day filled with music ranging from a Christian blend to the best of the 60s. And of course there are always fresh cookies. The heavenly aroma hangs in the air all day, a warm and inviting welcome that one could only assume adds to a positive and relaxing day at work.

Miler and his wife are active and respected citizens and business owners in the town of Summerville. Debbie has been named one of the top ten women to watch in the industry and they are heavily involved in organizations where they donate their money and time to help those in need.

“We’ve always felt so blessed to be a part of the communi-ty we love,” says Miler. “We see every day as an opportuni-ty to serve people.”

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A Personal Note

It seems at this time of year, I always find myself lamenting over the milestones that each of my four children have checked off the invisible list.

This year is kind of a big one. On May 31st at 4:00 pm or shortly thereafter, our oldest son will officially graduate from White Knoll High School. Trey has worked very hard to be a part of all that WKHS has to offer, from DECA to FCA, from All State Chorus to Football. My son has won many awards and been afforded some pretty amazing opportunities in leadership through sports, academics and with Palmetto Boys State. He has also made some pretty amazing friends. I am very humbled by all he has accomplished like many of your children; he has enjoyed his four years of high school and is ready for the next step. This is a tough season for me as a mother. I covet your prayers, and I will be praying for all of us who have seniors that will be leaving us for college next year.

Colton is also “graduating” Only he is graduating from 5th grade to 6th. He enjoyed a trip to Charleston with the South Carolina State Honors choir for ele-mentary students and he has had a fantastic baseball season with Lexington Dixie Youth playing on the very accomplished Absolute Glass Team this season for the Ozone division. Soon they and Cofield Law will be competing in the playoffs for the coveted # 1 spot. My little C man will officially be finished with elementary school in a few weeks. He amazes me as he continues to be our little encourager. Nothing new frightens him where school is concerned. He is definitely a glass half full guy. I am blessed that God chose me to help parent Colton.

Abby is finishing up an exciting sophomore year. She has been bitten by the drama bug. She loves the class and is planning to attend Show Chior Camp in thesummer. Music just oozes out of her pores. She is happiest when she is preform-ing, playing guitar, piano, or acting. She thinks she may want to be a drama teacher. If you have parented a middle school daughter, you know they are uniquely qualified to fill this position. Seriously, she is a joy to watch grow into a responsible young woman. I am proud to be her mom as well.

Ryan is finishing up 1st grade. He has had the most wonderful teacher. So far, his school experience has been a very good one. Ryan is a little more serious than he used to be, and recently told me that he was worried that becoming a veterinarian might not be an option. “I can’t bear to operate on an animal, Mom. I think I just want to work at SeaWorld and swim with dolphins or whales.” Whatever makes him happy - as long as they build a SeaWorld in Lexington so he can be near his mama when he begins work.I am thankful for all four of my children. For every baseball game, chorus concert, soccer game, end of the year school play, award ceremony and every moment that I get to share another milestone with them. I am sowing seeds in their lives in hopes that one day I will sit somewhere close and watch their gardens continue to grow.

God bless you and your children,

once heard someone say that all parenting is –is the process of letting go. From the first moment the I

umbilical cord is cut we are teaching them how to leave us. Excited about the first time they can walk away from us, eat without our assistance, dress themselves, bathe themselves, and all the other milestones that we put on Facebook as they occur. As parents, we walk the fine line of letting go too soon or hanging on too long.

Each day of our lives we make deposits in the memory banks of our children. ~ Charles (Chuck) Swindoll


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295 Midland Parkway | Summerville, SC 29485 | (843) 832-5000 | www.tridenthealthsystem.com/peds

Summerville Medical Center provides dedicated pediatric care for children — newborn to

age 17. Our beautiful new Pediatric Emergency Department and inpatient unit are now

open! They were created just for young patients.

• Board Certified pediatric emergency physician

• 24/7 Pediatric Nurses specifically trained to care for pediatric emergencies

• All private rooms and area for families to stay with the child

Residents of Dorchester and Berkeley Counties, North Charleston and surrounding

communities are now just minutes from emergency pediatric services. As a national

leader in quality care, Summerville Medical Center is proud to make this healthy

commitment to kids.

Spring 2014

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