Charlie Olliff Square

Olliff honored for many years of service to Sea Island Bank and the community

Sea Island Bank President Darron Burnette, left, and Bruce Yawn, right, help Longtime Sea Island Bank board member Charlie Olliff, 96, get a closer look at a marker after he was honored with the bank's downtown parking lot being named Charlie Olliff Square on Wednesday. The square is the location of the Mainstreet Farmers Market

W031214 OLLIFF DEDICATION 01 — Sea Island Bank President Darron Burnette, left, and Bruce Yawn, right, help Longtime Sea Island Bank board member Charlie Olliff, 96, get a closer look at a marker after he was honored with the bank's downtown parking lot being named Charlie Olliff Square on Wednesday. The square is the location of the Mainstreet Farmers Market

The decoratively fenced and gated area where the Mainstreet Farmers Market and other events are held is no longer just the Sea Island Bank parking lot. It’s Charlie Olliff Square, by proclamation of the city and as an honor from the bank to its longest-serving board member.Olliff has served on the bank’s board of directors for more than 48 years. Some said all his life, but that is really only half of it so far.

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