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Hurricanes and the Palmetto Trail

Mary Roe, executive director of Palmetto Conservation, caretakers of the Palmetto Trail, a hiking and biking trail connecting the coast to the mountains.
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Mary Roe, executive director of Palmetto Conservation, caretakers of the Palmetto Trail, a hiking and biking trail connecting the coast to the mountains.

Over the past few decades, our next guest’s organization has been busy building and maintaining the Palmetto Trail, a hiking and biking trail connecting the coast to the mountains. What’s the latest progress on completing the trail and how has it fared after the two recent hurricanes? Mike Switzer interviews Mary Roe, executive director of Palmetto Conservation, the caretakers of that trail.

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After almost 20 years, Mike Switzer retired from Wells Fargo Securities in 2001 as Senior Vice President/Investment Officer and Certified Portfolio Manager. In 1999, he and his wife, Maggie, purchased and operated for eight years the Baskin Robbins ice cream store on Forest Drive in Columbia. They grew the store from a bottom-tier operation in the Baskin Robbins franchise system to one in the top 5% nationwide within three years, tripling sales along the way. While operating the ice cream store, Mike and Maggie received patents for a portable ice cream sink and fold-down sneezeguard they invented and in 2002 started Magnolia Carts, an ice cream cart manufacturing company, which they sold in 2013.