THE MAGAZINE FOR COOPERATIVE MEMBERS
VOLUME 74 • NUMBER 8
(ISSN 0047-486X, USPS 316-240)
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   2 0 2 0 | aug 13 Holy superheroes,
   Batman!
During this surreal pandemic year, voyage back through time with us to a comic con multiverse, where fantasy worlds of graphic novels, science fifiction movies, video games, anime and role-playing quests all happily collide. Superhero costume optional, but highly encouraged.
Sarah Stevens, left, cosplays the character of Coraline, while her friend Jennifer Solarski portrays Lup from The Adventure Zone, at the 2019 Soda City Comic Con.
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 4 CO-OP NEWS
Updates from your cooperative
6 AGENDA
Do you love your co-op? Tell us all about it in our latest reader poll.
8 DIALOGUE
Left behind without broadband South Carolina’s electric cooperatives are ready and able to bring much-needed broadband service to rural communities.
10 RECIPE
Tastes of the Mediterranean
Chef Belinda Smith-Sullivan shares Mediterranean recipes that are healthy, delicious and easy to make at home.
12 SC STORIES
Hitting a home run
Meet Josh Shea, the creative chef behind the gourmet ballpark food now available for takeout from Charleston’s Joseph P. Riley, Jr. Park, home of the Charleston RiverDogs.
18 MARKETPLACE
20 GARDENER Spinach 101
Sure, it’s hot outside, but believe it or not, it is time to crank up the fall veggie garden, starting with Popeye’s favorite vegetable.
22 HUMOR ME
Wheel of serendipitous happenstance In search of chocolate chip cookies, our humor columnist unwittingly becomes the heroine of a bildungsroman spun by her vocabulary-obsessed mom. And yes, we had to look it up, too.
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    FROM TOP: ANDREW HAWORTH; IULIIA NEDRYGAILOVA; L.A. JACKSON
SC RECIPE
Tastes of the Mediterranean HUMOR ME
Magniloquent Fanatic
vernacular
Con-goers pose with Batman, aka Lyn Powell
of the charity-focused cosplay group known as The Signal, at the 2019 Soda City Comic Con. Photo by Andrew Haworth.
 fun
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 Role-playing rules at South Carolina comic cons
AUGUST 2020