Mount Pleasant Magazine Jan/Feb 2018

13 www.MPMcalendar.com | www.BestOfMP.com | www.MountPleasantMagazine.com Vol. 8, Issue 1 • January/February 2018 Publisher/Editorial Director Bill Macchio Publisher@MountPleasantMagazine.com Editor Denise K. James Editor@MountPleasantMagazine.com Managing Editor Brian Sherman Art Director Dana Coleman Designer Kim Hall Designer Cristina Young Webmaster George Conklin Internet Sherman Paggi Editorial & Photo Assistant Sara Hart Calendar Assistant Rachel Maile Writers Pamela Brownstein • Krysta Chapman Michael Cochran • Samantha Connors Stacy E. Domingo • Bill Farley Mike Gibbons • Will Haynie Kalene McCort • Emily Paschal Barbara M. Patrick • Diane Pauldine Enid Spitz • Theresa Stratford Anne Toole • John Torsiello Photographers Jenn Cady • Brandon Clark Brian Sherman • Thomas Runion Rick Walo • Jess Wood Sales Manager Cullen Murray-Kemp Cullen@MountPleasantMagazine.com Independent Media Consultants Jennifer Burke Jennifer@MountPleasantMagazine.com Margaret Burns Margaret@MountPleasantMagazine.com Brandon Clark Brandon@MountPleasantMagazine.com Jason Dailey Jason@MountPleasantMagazine.com Heidi Hein Heidi@MountPleasantMagazine.com Matthew Prosser Matthew@MountPleasantMagazine.com Bert Wood Bert@MountPleasantMagazine.com Administration & Bookkeeping Diane Pauldine Ginger Sottile Distribution U.S. Post Office • Harris Teeter Publix • CVS Bert Wood Bert@MountPleasantMagazine.com MountPleasantMagazine is published locally by a team of independent contractors. Mount Pleasant Magazine is published six times per year by Media Services, Inc. 1013 Chuck Dawley Blvd., Mount Pleasant, S.C. 29464 Copyright © Media Services 2018. All rights reserved. Reproduction electronically or in print format without the expressed written consent of the publisher is strictly prohibited and a violation of U.S. copyright laws. Inquiries to: Mount Pleasant Magazine P.O. Box 22617, Charleston, S.C. 29413 843-881-1481 Info@MountPleasantMagazine.com publisher’s note O ur town is such an awesome place to own a business, raise a family, retire, vacation and more. Our lifestyle is hard to beat. When you dive into the 2018 Best Of issue, it’s obvious Mount Pleasant has a lot to offer. In 1993, I created my first Best Of when I was publishing East Cooper Magazine . Mount Pleasant had far fewer people, businesses and restaurants. It just wasn’t the thriving town it is today. Generating votes and interest in our first Best Of was a lot harder without the internet and social media. However, even without the marketing tools we have today, there was still a lot enthusiasm and interest back then. Today we inform our 39,000+ Facebook fans and the thousands of visitors who access our website, www.MountPleasantMagazine.com , about Mount Pleasant Magazine’s 2018 Best Of. As a result, over the past six years, we’ve generated more than 226,000 Best Of votes, 41,324 of them for the 2018 competition. When you visit a Mount Pleasant business, if you see the official Best Of insignia on a wall, door or window, you know you’ve entered a business that’s been voted the best in their category – a business that treasures its relationship with its customers. That’s why customers showed them some love and voted them best. Speaking of voting: We were fortunate enough to have our new mayor, Will Haynie, pen an article in this issue about what it was like running for mayor. I think you’ll find it to be insightful. The top vote-getter among Council candidates was Tom O’Rourke, whom we interviewed, along incumbent Councilman Gary Santos and newly-elected councilwomen Kathy Landing and G.M. Whitley. There’s so much more in this issue, including Valentine’s Day weddings and other love stories, New Year’s resolutions, workout ideas, a marginally deranged narrative by our own living and breathing baseball dictionary Brian Sherman and a look at Wando High School basketball. I could go on and on – but I won’t. Just know there are some very rich articles about our awesome town, along with 174 categories of the businesses and services that our readers considered among the best in East Cooper. Our readers mean everything to us. So thanks for reading in print or online at www.ReadMPM.com . Until next time, — B i l l M a c c h i o, Publisher Publisher@MountPleasantMagazine.com