Also known as Frogmore Stew or Beaufort Boil, Low Country Boil is traditionally associated with the coastal areas of South Carolina and Georgia, but some members of Foothills Community Chapel have decided to bring it to the foothills of North Carolina.
The event, which will benefit local resident L. Colleen Decker, will be Friday, March 23 at 6 p.m. at Foothills Community Chapel on Landrum Road east of I-26. It will feature the Low Country Boil, with shrimp, sausage, corn on the cob and new red potatoes, as well as coleslaw and homemade dinner rolls served with Amish butter and muscadine jam and a dessert buffet.
Another highlight of the evening will be guest speakers Joe Land from Charleston and Frank Zecher from Atlanta, who will share information about the health benefits of the muscadine grape, including scientific research done by a major North Carolina university on how the muscadine seed affects cancer cells.
Decker, who has been a resident of South and North Carolina for the past 18 years, is lately referred to affectionately by friends and family as the “lady with nine lives.” Being devoted to nursing in one way or another most of her 63 years of life, whether it be her family of seven children or in the workplace, she has been actively involved in the community in home health, St. Luke’s Hospital, Autumn Care of Saluda, Habitat for Humanity, therapeutic foster care and her most recent nursing job – caring for her handicapped husband and son.
Decker has recently experienced a series of medical problems. In the beginning of October 2011 she suffered a stroke and then underwent a surgical brain procedure.
Later that month she was involved in a vehicle accident and ended up in the hospital again with blood clots. Then, on Sunday, March 11, she collapsed, was again hospitalized, then suffered a heart attack during the night. Since having a stent put in, she is “feeling better than she has in a long time,” in her words.
Her granddaughter Kezia said, “The way I would describe Pama, she will give and give even when you would think she has nothing left. Those of us who know her well say, absolutely, ‘Giving’ is her middle name. We are thankful she’s still here, keeping us in stitches with her latest escapades, and living out the rest of those nine lives with all she’s got.”
Tickets can be purchased at the following locations: Door of Hope Ministry, New For You Re-Use It Shop, Stott’s Ford, Dutch Country Whole Foods and Foothills Amish Furniture. Tickets must be purchased in advance and presented at the door.
For further details on the event, call Roger Helmuth at 828-817-0380.
– article submitted by Cynthia Helmuth