What | "Neighborhood Office Hours" with Gov. Mark Sanford

When | 4 p.m. today

Where | Outside Wal-Mart at 10820 N. Kings Highway

After hashing out the hot issues with local leaders today, Gov. Mark Sanford will meet informally with residents.

Myrtle Beach will be the third site of his "Neighborhood Office Hours" program since he was elected governor last year.

He's also been to Florence and Anderson.

"Certainly the Grand Strand, being part of his former congressional district, is somewhere he wanted to go very early on in the process," Sanford's spokesman, Will Folks, said Thursday. "There's a certain familiarity and identification with folks on the Grand Strand."

"Neighborhood Office Hours" is a continuation of a program Sanford started during his six years in Congress. From 1995 to 2001, then-Rep. Sanford held dozens of such visits in the 1st Congressional District, meeting with thousands of constituents outside Wal-Mart stores and local small businesses.

Today's session should last about an hour. More than 100 people have turned out at past stops, Folks said.

"It's a very informal and laid-back setting where folks can come up, shake hands and talk about what's on their minds," he said. "The governor doesn't really script these things as far as setting up a rigid format. That's how he likes it."