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Tidewater Lifestyle Served Any Way You Like It
Lois and Joe Aldinger live comfortably in Tidewater Golf Club and Plantation. They 
bought their fairway home site on their first visit to the development in 1994, and they have never looked back.
If anything, they look ahead … to a day on the beach at the Tidewater coastal cabana located on the oceanfront in North Myrtle Beach ... to at least one or two days a week on the golf course outside their home’s rear panorama … to dancing the nights away at the clubhouse or local night spot … to goodness only knows what else.
Of course, they think fondly of their home back in eastern Pennsylvania, where Joe was in the printing business and Lois was in international marketing. But that was then, and this is an incredible now.
Since they became South Carolinians, the Aldingers enjoy themselves doing whatever 
they want and need to do. It is a relaxed lifestyle, but it is also a busy one.
They golf. They are involved in the communities inside and outside the Tidewater gates. They dance, as they did when they were ballroom dancing instructors back in Westchester, PA., and they really enjoy the friendships they have developed with other Tidewater residents.
“We first came down to visit Tidewater when, as it turned out, there was an ice storm,” says Lois Aldinger. “We met people here who were so friendly. We just fell in love with these people. We bought our lot on that first visit.”
Bill Pearson, president of the Homeowners Association, puts it a little differently: “The community is involved in everything [the board does]. We don’t micromanage. We have so many volunteers with experience that we probably have the highest professional 
staff anywhere. It’s really a joy to be involved.
“Our board meetings are open to the residents,” he continues. “We have informal question and answer gettogethers at least once a month. Where (some boards in other neighborhoods) may close the doors, that advertises something’s going on. We don’t do that.”
Craig Wink, who is retired and lives in Rochester, N.Y. a handful of weeks each year, always returns to Tidewater for most of the year to live among the other 338 families who call it home. He says his and his wife’s decision to purchase here, after five years of searching, was based on “the atmosphere, the amenities and the activities.” He 
cites potluck dinners, the volunteerism by residents, a diversity of age groups, bridge games and activities outside the gates among the reasons for choosing Tidewater.
Ronnie E. Nichols, vice president of Great-West Retirement Services, and his wife, Harriette, represent another group of the community’s eclectic residents. They still work, but it was the golf that initially attracted Nichols when he played in the 1999 World Amateur Golf Championship on the Grand Strand of S. C. He decided on the spot to buy a lot and went back home to tell his wife. She still smiles about that event.