Helping Out for Oct. 31, 2018

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Helping Out highlights some of the many charitable events and activities going on in the Charleston area. ATTENTION: Submissions should now be made using our online form.

The Holiday Festival of Lights at James Island County Park is offering discounted entry to visitors who bring a canned food item to donate. Lowcountry Food Bank discount nights are every Monday through Thursday beginning Nov. 12.

Donations are good for $5 off the vehicle admission fee.

More than 30 Lowe’s Heroes, Habitat for Humanity of Berkeley County volunteers and community members partnered to build a community garden in the Wall Street Neighborhood in Moncks Corner.

Habitat for Humanity launched the Neighborhood Revitalization program in 2010. Lowe’s also awarded Habitat for Humanity of Berkeley County a $100,000 grant to revitalize the Moncks Corner neighborhood.

Tickets for Noir, a blind dining experience benefiting the Association for the Blind & Visually Impaired, go on sale at 8 a.m. Thursday. The event is scheduled for 6:30 to 10:30 p.m. Jan. 24 at the Memminger Auditorium.

Attendees will put on blindfolds before their main course to experience dining in the dark. The event will also include a cocktail hour, silent and live auctions, live music and a golf cart raffle. Tickets are $250 per couple.

Pet Helpers is absorbing Summerville-based Sinbad-Sadie Second Chance Rescue to operate Sinbad-Sadie more efficiently, increase pet adoptions and further reduce pet overpopulation.

Sinbad-Sadie was founded in 2014 with a mission to reduce the euthanasia of adoptable animals in South Carolina by coordinating with area shelters to ease overcrowding and find homes for abandoned, abused and neglected animals.