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NORTH CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCSC) - A church in North Charleston will offer members of the community the chance to take home donated household items for free this Saturday.

Mount Moriah Missionary Baptist Church will give away items like diapers, small kitchen appliances, clothing, shoes, and bookbags while supplies last.

The church’s senior pastor, Byron Benton, says the goods are coming from Dallas on behalf of World Vision, an organization the church partners with. The organization sent 26 pallets of supplies.

“They come from places like BJ’s, Amazon, and other major corporations who donate them to World Vision who then disseminate them to partnering organizations which we are pleased to be a part of,” Benton says.

Elisha Kemper, who works with World Vision, says the organization is partnering with churches and communities across the U.S. in both global and local missions.

Everyone is welcome, but the church will ask that you answer a few questions at check-in so they can keep track of how the donated goods are being administered.

“We need to know how many you have in your house, we need to know how many you’re serving, things of that nature,” Benton says. “We have wonderful volunteers who will be here to walk with you through that process and to help you get your supplies to your car.”

Benton says this is not about just giving away supplies.

“It’s about hoping that people really find the love of God, that they feel seen, that they feel like they belong,” he says.

The giveaway is set to run from 9 a.m. until 3 p.m. at the church, located at 7396 Rivers Ave.

The items are available on a first come first served basis, but Benton encourages everyone to get there early.

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More often than not, tipsters, readers, friends, and family of Eater have one question: Where should I eat right now? What are the new restaurants? What's everyone talking about? While the Eater 18 is a crucial resource covering old standbys and neighborhood essentials across the city, it is not a chronicle of the "it" places of the moment. Enter the Eater Heatmap, which will change continually to highlight the spots crowds are flocking to at the moment or generating a big buzz. Folks are asking, "Have you been yet?" Try one of these newbies today.

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Chinese American restaurant Jackrabbit Filly moved up the street to a bigger dining room and more prominent location. With the move comes a more extensive menu with exciting new options. Karrage, dumplings, and fried rice are still on the menu, but now there’s also a crab rangoon cheese ball, mapo tofu vol au vent, spicy Korean gnocchi, and Sichuan seafood wonton soup.

The couple behind Wagener Terrace hangout Berkeley’s recently opened their second restaurant, the Archer. They want it to have the same neighborhood vibes but raise the stakes with a full bar and fine dining-level comfort plates. Chef Paul Farmer (formerly of Three Sirens), puts out plates like duck frites, baked oysters, beef stroganoff, chicken liver mousse, and chilled crab dip.

Chubby Fish (most recently visited by Martha Stewart) has smartly expanded into the space next door with another cozy nautical space, but this time, the team is focused on world-class cocktails from Christian Favier (formerly of the Ordinary). Rum figures heavily on the list, but there’s also a delicious smoked dirty martini and plenty of fizzy drinks thanks to a fancy Japanese Suntory highball machine. Customers can order snacks from the ever-changing menu, including oysters, crudos, agnolotti, Iberico ham, and more.

Legami is a new Italian restaurant boasting a chef brought in from Rome by a family with roots in Turin, Italy. Washington Street Hospitality, which controls three Pasta Beach restaurants in New England, thought the King Street building would be another location for Pasta Beach, but decided to switch it up once they got into the historic building. Chef Andrea Congiusta cooks modern Italian fare with some influences from France. “We took inspiration from the classic fine dining, but we also want to have something fun, something that looks very fancy, and something you can crave,” says Congiusta. Dishes include king crab tagliolini, beef Wellington, and veal Milanese.

Modern steakhouse Marbled & Fin is giving all the other steakhouses a run for their money. The expansive dining room fills nightly with well-heeled customers ready to see and be seen. On the menu, chef Eucepe “Cepe” Puntriano includes all the steakhouse classics plus an emphasis on seafood dishes for non-meat eaters. Look for seafood towers, wedge salads, wagyu beef, bone marrow with oysters, creamed spinach, and more.

Superstar chef Sean Brock has brought his fast-casual burger/biscuit joint to the Lowcountry. Joyland is Brock’s fun nod to the fast-food joints of yesteryear. Breakfast includes all types of biscuit sandwiches and a breakfast burrito. The lunch and dinner menu includes the Joyburger Deluxe, fried chicken sandwiches, Chicago dogs, Crustburgers, and Joysticks. Most of the menu items can be made gluten-free.

Chef Micheal Toscano recently opened a taco shop next to his Italian restaurant Le Farfalle. Blanca Estrada is Toscano’s ode to his Mexican mother and grandmother, whose cooking was an early influence on his culinary journey. The kitchen offers a selection of tacos, from cochinita pibil to lengua, several specials, like a lamb neck burrito, and several tequila drinks and pineapple vinegar soda.

Ice-cold martinis with a side of caviar set the vibe at By the Way, a new upscale lounge and restaurant in Cannonborough/Elliotborough hoping to draw a slightly more mature clientele away from King Street. It’s from Uptown Hospitality Group, the folks behind hotspots like Uptown Social and Bodega, in partnership with Craig Conover and Austen Kroll, two stars of Bravo TV’s Southern Charm. Fairly intimate with the feel of an old-world tavern, By the Way serves a menu of trendy pub fare like ’nduja deviled eggs, poutine, fried oysters with caviar, and steak frites.

Charming new hotel the Dunlin offers sweeping views of the Kiawah River, abundant hospitality, and coastal Southern fare in its signature restaurant, Linnette’s. Chef Michael DeCicco puts out dishes like a pressed and pickled watermelon salad, wood-fired oysters, cornmeal-crusted flounder, and a sorghum-benne lacquered steak with charred okra.

Chinese American restaurant Jackrabbit Filly moved up the street to a bigger dining room and more prominent location. With the move comes a more extensive menu with exciting new options. Karrage, dumplings, and fried rice are still on the menu, but now there’s also a crab rangoon cheese ball, mapo tofu vol au vent, spicy Korean gnocchi, and Sichuan seafood wonton soup.

The couple behind Wagener Terrace hangout Berkeley’s recently opened their second restaurant, the Archer. They want it to have the same neighborhood vibes but raise the stakes with a full bar and fine dining-level comfort plates. Chef Paul Farmer (formerly of Three Sirens), puts out plates like duck frites, baked oysters, beef stroganoff, chicken liver mousse, and chilled crab dip.

Chubby Fish (most recently visited by Martha Stewart) has smartly expanded into the space next door with another cozy nautical space, but this time, the team is focused on world-class cocktails from Christian Favier (formerly of the Ordinary). Rum figures heavily on the list, but there’s also a delicious smoked dirty martini and plenty of fizzy drinks thanks to a fancy Japanese Suntory highball machine. Customers can order snacks from the ever-changing menu, including oysters, crudos, agnolotti, Iberico ham, and more.

Legami is a new Italian restaurant boasting a chef brought in from Rome by a family with roots in Turin, Italy. Washington Street Hospitality, which controls three Pasta Beach restaurants in New England, thought the King Street building would be another location for Pasta Beach, but decided to switch it up once they got into the historic building. Chef Andrea Congiusta cooks modern Italian fare with some influences from France. “We took inspiration from the classic fine dining, but we also want to have something fun, something that looks very fancy, and something you can crave,” says Congiusta. Dishes include king crab tagliolini, beef Wellington, and veal Milanese.

Modern steakhouse Marbled & Fin is giving all the other steakhouses a run for their money. The expansive dining room fills nightly with well-heeled customers ready to see and be seen. On the menu, chef Eucepe “Cepe” Puntriano includes all the steakhouse classics plus an emphasis on seafood dishes for non-meat eaters. Look for seafood towers, wedge salads, wagyu beef, bone marrow with oysters, creamed spinach, and more.

Superstar chef Sean Brock has brought his fast-casual burger/biscuit joint to the Lowcountry. Joyland is Brock’s fun nod to the fast-food joints of yesteryear. Breakfast includes all types of biscuit sandwiches and a breakfast burrito. The lunch and dinner menu includes the Joyburger Deluxe, fried chicken sandwiches, Chicago dogs, Crustburgers, and Joysticks. Most of the menu items can be made gluten-free.

Chef Micheal Toscano recently opened a taco shop next to his Italian restaurant Le Farfalle. Blanca Estrada is Toscano’s ode to his Mexican mother and grandmother, whose cooking was an early influence on his culinary journey. The kitchen offers a selection of tacos, from cochinita pibil to lengua, several specials, like a lamb neck burrito, and several tequila drinks and pineapple vinegar soda.

Ice-cold martinis with a side of caviar set the vibe at By the Way, a new upscale lounge and restaurant in Cannonborough/Elliotborough hoping to draw a slightly more mature clientele away from King Street. It’s from Uptown Hospitality Group, the folks behind hotspots like Uptown Social and Bodega, in partnership with Craig Conover and Austen Kroll, two stars of Bravo TV’s Southern Charm. Fairly intimate with the feel of an old-world tavern, By the Way serves a menu of trendy pub fare like ’nduja deviled eggs, poutine, fried oysters with caviar, and steak frites.

Charming new hotel the Dunlin offers sweeping views of the Kiawah River, abundant hospitality, and coastal Southern fare in its signature restaurant, Linnette’s. Chef Michael DeCicco puts out dishes like a pressed and pickled watermelon salad, wood-fired oysters, cornmeal-crusted flounder, and a sorghum-benne lacquered steak with charred okra.

NORTH CHARLESTON — Boeing Co.'s top bosses traveled to South Carolina to deliver an upbeat investor update on April 23, reaffirming plans to raise the production rate for the locally based 787 program, even as a costly U.S.-China trade war disrupts aircraft deliveries.

Among other highlights, CEO Kelley Ortberg said he was "pleased to report" that the company recently finished the final repairs to 122 Dreamliners sent to a temporary "shadow factory" near Seattle since late 2020 to fix hairline gaps in their fuselages.

The milestone, reached last month, allowed the company to "redeploy the people and facilities dedicated to that work," Ortberg said during his unannounced visit to the Lowcountry.

It also will provide a large infusion of cash as airlines and other buyers pay Boeing for the repaired Dreamliners once they pick them up.

Ortberg also said the South Carolina plant remains on track to raise its 787 output to seven planes a month from five over the next few months, assuming all of the critical performance indicators point to "a stable production system."

“And they're currently looking very good,” he said.

Boeing has stated it's aiming to build 10 Dreamliners a month in North Charleston by around 2027.

The higher production rates will coincide with a $1 billion expansion announced last year for the company's Palmetto State operations. Plans include a new assembly building at the main 787 campus near Charleston International Airport.

Ortberg shrugged off the short-term impact of the U.S.-China trade dispute on Boeing's business and the recent refusal by Chinese customers to accept new jets they've ordered from the company. He still expects the plane maker to hit its delivery goals while assessing options for the roughly 50 aircraft that were to be sent this year to buyers in the world's second-largest economy.

“For those airplanes that haven't been built yet, we'll be looking to maybe redirect those to other customers,” he told CNBC from a perch overlooking the 787 factory floor. “For the airplanes that have been built, we call it remarketing.”

Brian West, Boeing's chief financial officer, said the company is sticking to its forecast of about 80 Dreamliner deliveries in 2025, up from 50 last year, with Chinese buyers accounting for "a handful."

Customers picked up 13 of the widebodies in the first quarter and five so far in April, he said.

The 787 program recently hit a high note by locking down orders for 53 planes. Boeing attributed 33 of the March bookings to unidentified buyers and the rest to Korean Air.

"So things are going pretty well," West said.

NORTH CHARLESTON — Funds the city set aside to revive its anti-violence grant program that's been swept up in a federal corruption probe could now help finance an affordable housing project instead.

The $1.3 million Gun Violence Prevention Grant program, an initiative created by City Council in late 2022, doled out one-time $100,000 payments to 13 nonprofits working to tamp down violence across the city. A Post and Courier investigation later found city officials failed to thoroughly evaluate the nonprofits and track how the public funds were spent.

In February, the Federal Bureau of Investigation charged Councilman Jerome Heyward in a series of schemes, including accepting $40,000 in kickbacks from two nonprofit leaders in exchange for using his position to steer grant funds from the program their way. Heyward, one of eight people charged in the federal probe, resigned from public office before pleading guilty.

Also charged were the nonprofit leaders who allegedly paid Heyward to help secure the grant funds, Donavan Moten of Core4Success and Michelle Stint-Hilton of DEEP SC. They, along with Rose Lorenzo, a financial company owner who allegedly helped to facilitate the payments, were charged with bribery, conspiracy, wire fraud and money laundering.

Despite the controversy, Mayor Reggie Burgess hoped to relaunch the program with a committee dedicated to overseeing the funds. In December 2024, City Council approved $1 million for the program with the guarantee that funds would not be distributed until the FBI concluded its inquiry.

Now, however, city officials said it's "unlikely" the grant money will be allocated to nonprofits this fiscal year, which ends June 30.

Instead, officials are considering giving $600,000 of the funding to the North Charleston Housing Authority's nonprofit arm, called North Charleston Renaissance, to help finance a 120-unit affordable housing project on Eagle Landing Boulevard.

The city's Finance Committee approved the reallocation of the money during an April 17 meeting, though the item still must pass two City Council readings.

The reallocated funding would help bolster the North Charleston Housing Authority's 9 percent Low-Income Housing Tax Credit application for the first phase of the project. The competitive federal incentive program, administered by SC Housing, does not award more than one new construction application per county, according to the program's application.

The city's funds will only be transferred upon the Housing Authority receiving the award, which is expected to be announced in November.

The Housing Authority purchased the 6.5-acre lot in October 2023 for $3.85 million. A deserted movie theater once sat on the property located within walking distance to Northwoods Mall. The vacant lot is near the planned Lowcountry Rapid Transit bus line on Rivers Avenue, which is primed for future housing growth.

If awarded, the tax credit, combined with the city's grant, will support the financial closing of the project's first phase at the start of 2026, according to a letter from the Housing Authority. This phase includes 60 units designed for residents earning between 20 percent and 80 percent of the area's median income. For a single-person household, a $54,450 annual salary is 80 percent AMI in Charleston County.

Councilwoman Rhonda Jerome said during a committee meeting that the grant is a gift to the Housing Authority and the city will not be involved in the project's development.

Any leftover funds that were set aside for the anti-violence grant program that aren't allocated before the close of the fiscal year will return to the city's fund balance. If officials decide to pursue the grant program in the next fiscal year, the amount must be re-appropriated in that budget, according to city documents.

Burgess previously told The Post and Courier he wants to continue the program to reward the nonprofits that are making a positive impact on the community.

NORTH CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCSC) - The highly-anticipated Riverfront Revival fest is coming back to North Charleston for its fourth year this fall and it’s bringing with it a country-studded two-day lineup that event organizers say is a return to the festival’s roots.

Three-time Grammy Award-winner and Charleston native Darius Rucker has teamed up with SRE Entertainment to put on this year’s festival, which will take place Friday, Oct. 10 and Saturday, Oct. 11 at Riverfront Park.

“My love for Charleston has influenced so much of my career,” Rucker said. “Riverfront Revival, which made my longtime dream of bringing a music festival to this community a reality, is a celebration of the Lowcountry that gets better every year.”

In addition to Rucker’s musical appearance, big-name actor and comedian, best known for his work in films like Ghostbusters and Groundhog Day, Bill Murray has been given the title of “very special guest” and will be joining the festival alongside “His Blood Brothers.”

South Carolina-grown talents will be among those who take to the stage, including Warrick McZeke, Faith Schueler and Elizabeth Covington.

Additionally, attendees will be treated to performances by Riley Green, The Red Clay Strays, Whiskey Myers, Flatland Cavalry, Lukas Nelson, Dylan Marlowe, Kashus Culpepper, Brittney Spencer, Clay Street Unit, Neon Union, Austin Williams, Daniel Donato’s Cosmic Country and Whiskey Run.

Dates for each artist are in the photo below:

Two-day weekend passes start at $205 for general admission, with plus and VIP levels also available. One-day passes start at $130. In a release, organizers said VIP tickets are “limited in quantity and sold out three years in a row, include dedicated entrances and viewing areas in front of the stages, exclusive premium lounge areas, bars and upscale air-conditioned restrooms. “

Each ticket sold is also going toward donations that pour right back into the community. Part of the proceeds are going toward the Arts in Healing program at MUSC and the nonprofit Just Be You, which focuses on teen empowerment, confidence, compassion and love for oneself.

Ticket presale opens Thursday at 10 a.m. for those who sign up for a code here. General onsale launches Friday at 10 a.m. at this link.

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