Mount Pleasant Magazine Jan/Feb 2015

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schools open in August 2015. Later,
the road will be extended to the
southeast to Six Mile Road. At this
point, Hungryneck, Sweetgrass Basket
Parkway and Billy Swails Boulevard
– all part of the same road – will go
from the intersection of Highway 17
and Interstate 526 to Porchers Bluff.
n Coleman Boulevard will get a
new surface, curbs, gutters, much-
needed drainage improvements and a
landscaped median from Mill Street
near Shem Creek to about a quarter
mile past its intersection with Chuck
Dawley and Ben Sawyer boulevards.
In addition, the traffic lights at the
intersection will be removed and re-
placed by a two-lane roundabout. The
16-month project is expected to begin
in the spring or summer of this year.
All this will, of course, enhance
Mount Pleasant’s regional and nation-
al reputation as “a place were we work
hard to do things the right way,” ac-
cording to DeMoura, who was county
manager in Caswell County, North
Carolina, and deputy mayor in his
home town of Taunton before coming
to Mount Pleasant as deputy director
of administrative services in 2003. He
was appointed deputy administrator
of the town in 2006.
Working hard is nothing new
to DeMoura. As a high schooler, he
remembers trudging through snow
in the middle of the Massachusetts
winter to hone his baseball skills by
hitting balls off a tee. And though
he was a football and baseball star in
high school, he arrived at Clemson to
find himself surrounded by athletes
who were bigger, stronger and more
talented than he was.
“I was overwhelmed at the level
of talent around me,” he commented.
“I’m proud of the way I worked to
get to the level of being an everyday
player at Clemson.”
He’s also proud of the town he
now runs.
“We’re known as a community
that offers a high quality of life. We’re
not perfect. We make mistakes at
times. But Mount Pleasant is a re-
ally special place. Communities like
this don’t just happen on their own.
There are people who have to make it
happen,” said DeMoura, who lives in
Mount Pleasant with his wife, Jamie,
a native of Easley, South Carolina,
and their children: Cally, 10, and
Cannon, 6.
“I’m proud of our record the last
four years,” he added. “We’ve had
a great record of accomplishment
together. In government, no one does
it alone. It requires partnerships with
the town council, the mayor, our
tremendous staff and our citizens.”
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