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Table of Contents

Volume 5, No. 40, June 28, 2006

On the cover: Photos by Robin Gunn

News 6 10 11 12

Cover Story 6

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Cover Story Independence Way Letter from the Editor Jane Fishman About the sportin’ life City Notebook News bits from around town Blotter From SPD reports News of the Weird Strange but true Earthweek The week on your planet

Culture Art Patrol Exhibitions and openings 19 Books Murray Silver 20 Cuisine New South Cafe 18 City Notebook 12

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Music Feature 22

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Music Feature Equinox on the Fourth Music Interview Dierks Bentley Connect Recommends Concerts of note Music Menu Local gigs a la carte Soundboard Who’s playing and where around town Good Show, Will Travel Regional concert listings

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fri, june 30 Summer Concerts in the Squares What: The City of Savannah’s Department of Cultural Affairs will present free concerts every Friday in June and July. This week, Serenade Savannah will present classical favorites. When: Friday, June 30 from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Where: Wright Square. Cost: Free.

Week at a Glance compiled by Linda Sickler

Mon, July 3 Savannah’s River Street

Fireworks Extravaganza

What: The festivities will begin with arts and crafts and entertainment along the waterfront plaza on Saturday, July 1. The Humane Society will sponsor its Second Annual Most Patriotic Pet Contest at 10 a.m. At 2 p.m., a hot dog eating contest will be held. Then on Tuesday, July 4, live music will be presented starting at 5 p.m. and a fireworks show will begin at 9:30 p.m. with musical accompaniment. When: July 1 and 4. Where: River Street. Cost: Free. Call: 2340295 or visit riverstreetsavannah.com.

Braves game. Most healthy people age 17 or older who weigh at least 110 pounds can donate blood and platelets. When: Saturday, July 1 from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m.; Monday, July 3 from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m.; and Tuesday, July 4 from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m.

The blood drive also will be held at the Savannah Savannah Civic Center Presents Mall on Saturday, July 1 from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Dierks Bentley in Concert Where: Red Cross Donor Center, 25 Tibet Ave. What: The country performer brings his Independence Day at Wormsloe band to Savannah for a concert. When: What: Events will include musket firings, carJune 30 at 7:30 p.m. Where: Savannah tridge making and colonial tools demonstrations Civic Center’s Martin Luther King Jr. When: July 1 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Where: Arena. Cost: $30. Call: 651-6556 Monday Wormsloe Historic Site, 7601 Skidaway Rd. through Friday from 10 a.m. to 5p.m.

Call: 353-3023.

Celebrating America at Fort Pulaski What: A special living history event with cannon firings, musket drills, Civil War soldier talks and Atlanta Braves All-American Blood Drive guided fort tours. When: July 1 from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Where: Fort Pulaski National Monument, What: All blood and platelet drive parU.S. 80 on Tybee Island. Cost: Free, as all fees ticipants will receive a vintage American Red Cross ball cap and a special buy-one- will be waived for the day. get-one-free ticket deal for an upcoming

sat, July 1

Annual Patriotic Concert and Barbecue What: Savannah Winds will honor America, current military personnel and veterans in this concert. An optional barbecue dinner will be served. When: July 2 at 3 p.m. Where: AASU Fine Arts Auditorium. Cost: $12. Call: 927-5381 weekdays from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.

Fireworks on the Beach What: Staged on the pier, but visible from any of Tybee’s eastern beaches. Plan to arrive early and stay late, because this is one of Tybee’s busiest days of the year.

When: July 3 at dusk, about 9:15 p.m.

Where: Any of Tybee’s eastern beaches.

Cost: Free. Call: 786-5444 visit.com.

Tue, july 4 Cannons Across the Marsh What: Re-enactors in period dress will give presentations. There will be cannon and musket firings. When: July 4 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Where: Fort King George Historic Site in Darien, three miles east of Interstate 95, Exit 49. Cost: $5 adults, $4.50 seniors and $2.50 youth. Call: 912437-4770.

Independence Day Colonial Faire What: Fort Morris State Historic Site will offer games of skill, live colonial music, musket and cannon firings. When: July 4 from 11 a.m.-3 p.m. Where: Ft. Morris, 7 miles east of I-95 at Exit 76.Call: 921-8845999 or visit www.gastateparks.org.

Savannah Swings!

What: The Equinox Jazz Band will perform a big band salute. Special guests Trae Gurley and Kim Polote. After the show, join a procession to VIP seating at the fireworks show on River Street. When: July 4 at 6 p.m. Where: Lucas Theatre. Cost: $25.

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Savannah Sand Gnats What: The Sand Gnats face the Rome Braves on June 29, then play a four-game series against the Columbus Catfish on June 30 and July 1, 2 and 3. Fireworks will follow Friday’s game. When: Games begin at 7:05 p.m. Where: Grayson Stadium, 1401 E. Victory Dr. Cost: Box seats are $9.50, reserved seats are $7.50 and general seating is $6. Call: 351-9150.

Savannah Actor’s Theatre’s Neverwhere What: A modern fairy tale about a London man who finds himself in London Below, the place where the forgotten go.

Following each performance, live improvisational comedy will be presented by the Opposite Of People Squad. When: June 29 and 30 and July 1 at 8 p.m. The OOPS improv show will begin at 10:30 p.m.

Where: Savannah Actor’s Theatre, 703 Louisville Rd., Suite D. Cost: Admission to Neverwhere is free, although donations are appreciated. Admission to OOPS is $8.

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Faces of Freedom

nce Three local residents share their struggles for personal independe

Independence... and Interdependence

where he would be well provided for. She was right.”

All of the single-floor units in Daughtry’s apartment complex are designed for ease-of-navigation by people with wheelchairs. The doorways are wide, the bathrooms are fitted with appropriate fixtures, and all A simple wooden entrances have smooth thresholds plaque hangs next to the and no steps. door of Wayne Daughtry’s “It was amazing to see all the southside Savannah apartment. people come together, bringing all Hand burnished, its message the furniture, ” says Abbott. “When is plain. we brought Wayne over here, it was a “Finally, Welcome to house. It was a home.”

Wayne’s Place.”

“It was a great day!” says For Daughtry and most of Daughtry. his visitors the home-made Maintaining Daughtry’s indesign sums up the story of a lifependence calls upon a large support time. It is both a celebration of network, both paid and voluntary, independence and a reminder in addition to Abbott. As a child, of the interdependent nature Wayne Daughtry, Kim Abbott and Mary White Daughtry was able to walk with the of liberty. aid of crutches made for him by his Daughtry has lived all of his grandfather, but says he has used a 56 years in Savannah. His life wheelchair “for a long time.” Although his mind remains has not been easy. Growing up in Silk Hope off of U.S. 80, sharp, Daughtry’s physical abilities, including his speaking he attended Eli Whitney Elementary, but didn’t go to high school because by his teen years, says Daughtry, he was hav- skills, have diminished in recent years. On St. Patrick’s Day several years back he was hit by a car near his apartment ing “operations. They took over the body.” as he made his way to Savannah Mall, further reducing his He is proud of his apartment, which has been his home mobility. since September 1994. The two-bedroom flat is roomy and Daughtry relies on the assistance of others for basic care. tidy. A large television fills one wall of the living room; on “I can’t get out of the wheelchair,” says Daughtry. “I can’t get each side of the TV are shelves holding photographs of out of bed. ” Says Abbott, “We have to use a hoist to get him Daughtry and family and friends. into bed.”

One of those friends, Kim Abbott, 53, is understated but Most days, Janie Geiger provides Daughtry with the help direct as he describes his introduction to Daughtry in early he needs.

“She helps with the home,” says Daughtry. “With 1993. meals. She puts on my clothes.”

“I met Wayne through LIFE [Living Independently For For the past seven years, Mary White, 52, has filled in Everybody], a group that was holding a meeting called the on Geiger’s day off. “Thursday nights, I give him his dinner, Circle of Friends at St. James Church,” says Abbott. “Wayne assist with his meds. We watch TV and get ready for bed. and I got to know each other. Tom Kohler [of Chatham-SaOn Fridays I’m here from 7 to 3. I give him breakfast in bed, vannah Citizens Advocacy] was building a circle of support spoiling him! I do his oral care. I do laundry.” for each person. I decided to be in Wayne’s circle.”

“We go to the mall,” adds Daughtry.

At that time, Daughtry had been living in a White Bluff In addition to being a friend, Abbott serves as Daughtry’s nursing home for about eight years. advocate. “I take care of his bills; make sure his financial “Wayne was in a room with two or three other people,” statements are balanced. If there’s anything that comes up says Abbott. “I couldn’t bring him gifts because they would with government issues, like the Social Security Administrajust disappear. It wasn’t his roommates because they could tion, I try to work it out myself. If I can’t I get some help.” hardly get out of bed. It was a bad situation.”

Over the years, the relationship between the two men “One of the things we decided at the circle was to get has transformed into a brotherhood. “We go out to eat every Wayne out of the nursing home.” other week,” says Abbott. “I take Wayne with the family. We “Wayne’s family was concerned that he would be out of go out to eat together. We talk.” the nursing home and then everything would fail,” says AbOne story from their past testifies to the mutual benefits bott. “We set it up so Wayne would get [Social Security disof the friendship between the two men. ability benefits.]”

“We were at the circle of Friends” says Daughtry with In 1994 a new apartment complex, the Phillips-Winters wide smile, “and I looked around. I asked Kim, ‘let’s go meet Apartments, was under construction near the Savannah somebody,’ and it was Mary Stewart,” another member of Mall. the group gathered at the church.

“Jackie Immel” -- at that time, the independent living “I had noticed Mary at the meetings, too,” says Abbott. coordinator with State Georgia of Department of Reha“At one time I did try to call her. That didn’t work out — I bilitation Services -- “is the one who got it all put together. never got hold of her. Then the opportunity came around She assured me that Wayne could live outside of the nursagain at those meetings at St. James.” ing home, that there were certain social structures in place When Mary Stewart and Kim Abbott were married on Wayne Daughtry’s pursuit of liberty and other inalienable rights -- with a little help from his friends

February 11, 1995, Daughtry was Abbott’s best man. “Mary was pretty,” says Daughtry.

The Abbotts now have four children—ages 11 months to 8 years old. “I like having all the kids around,” says Daughtry, although Abbott says that when they all go out together, “He fusses.”

“A little bit,” admits Daughtry, laughing.

“We’re like brothers,” he says. “We talk with each other.

We’re like family.”

“I think that sums it up—like family,” says Abbott. “If I didn’t know Wayne I’d be pretty well enclosed within our own family.”

Daughtry has this advice for anyone in a situation similar to his old one. “Talk to people. Community people. Talk to people like Tom Kohler, who came and saw me when I was in the nursing home.”

Says White, “Wayne’s told me that when Kim and all the other people started coming around, it gave him a hope that he never had. He wasn’t afraid anymore. He’ll tell anybody — ‘Don’t give up. If I can do it anybody can.’ ”

Freedom to Tell the Truth

Lessons learned by a student journalist in New Orleans Ask student journalist MaSovaida “Vaida” Morgan about her thoughts on independence, and she’ll use words like “responsibility,” “teamwork” and “truth.”

In late May, while many college students were heading for the beach, Morgan and fellow Savannah State University student journalist Oneisha Freeman gleaned some handson experience in journalistic freedom and bringing truth to the public during their participation in the New York Times Student Journalism Institute, held from May 14-27 in downtown New Orleans in collaboration with Dillard University.

“It’s a two week intense-as-hell program,” says Morgan, a junior in mass communications and the incoming editor-in-chief of The Tiger’s Roar, the SSU student paper. “We worked with other students and with editors from the New York Times (NYT) and Times company papers” including the Boston Globe and the Ocala Star Banner.

Now in its fourth year, the thirty students in the institute were chosen from about 150 applicants across the United States, according to Don Hecker, the Training Editor for Staff Editors at the NYT, who also serves as the director of the institute. The program grew out of an idea of the Black College Communications Association which represents journalism programs at historically black colleges and universities.

“They wanted some kind of a boot camp,” says Hecker.

“It immediately came to us, ‘Why don’t we run a newsroom?’ We said, ‘Why don’t we take the students who are most committed to journalism and provide a resource that’s as good as anybody can get …working with the very best journalists in the world?’ “ “We had students that were specifically there to do reporting, photography, editing, or design,” says Morgan. “I signed up for editing and design. We worked as a team.”

Although Dillard University in downtown New Orleans has hosted the institute since its start in 2003, this year’s

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After serving as the online editor of The Tiger’s Roar last year, Morgan stepped into the editor-in-chief slot in May, and intends to have the first issue of the paper for the school year ready to greet students when they arrive on campus for fall semester.

“I’m new at this whole editor thing, its going to be an interesting ride,” says Morgan. “I’m interested to see how it’s going to unfold with what we publish and what the school wants published. Most newspapers at public universities are independent of the school, but at the same time receive funding from the school. You have to make sure you’re not going to piss off the school or make them look bad, but at the same time you have a responsibility to report the truth as objectively as you see it.”

“Then there’s that whole question of whether objectivity exists in the media. We all have our experiences and opinions that shape what we think is fair and not fair.”

Morgan’s plans for the student paper in the fall reflect the strong team environment she experienced in New Orleans.

“The Tiger’s Roar is independent. I’m not trying to be some kind of radical publication. I don’t want the school to be threatened by us but at the same time I want to report the truth. I want to make nice with everyone, but I don’t want to lie. That would be doing a disservice to people.”

Citizenship, post-9/11

Restricted freedoms propel this legal resident to become an American Just like last year, chef Mir Ali will spend this July 4th cooking up fish tacos and jerk chicken in the low-ceilinged, windowless kitchen of the North Beach Grill on Tybee Island. “I’m a chef, I don’t have holidays,” he says with a grin. But though his environs haven’t changed, Ali is different in one way this year. This past spring the 34year-old Pakistani native became an American citizen.

“Everybody in my family is a U.S. citizen,” says Ali. “I was the last to become one because I was stubborn.”

In 1978 Ali emigrated with his parents and his two siblings from Karachi, Pakistan to Queens, New York City. Except for three years in Europe, Ali has lived in the United States ever since and says he’s always felt he’s American. For that reason, in spite of his change in legal status, Ali notes that this first Independence Day as a citizen “is not really going to mean that much more than the last twenty-six Fourth of July’s I’ve had.”

The easy-going Ali speaks in a mellowed version of a New York accent, tempered by his college years at the University of Virginia and two years of grad school at the University of North Carolina.

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experience was transformed as a Houston to result of Hurricane Katrina. vote. As soon as “Every day we had people gothey voted they ing out to cover the progress of the got on the bus city,” says Morgan. “They had the and went back. mayoral election while we were They traveled down there. That was huge.” six hours to “New Orleans is a very newsy vote.” city, but this is an unprecedented As an aspirexperience,” says Hecker. “There ing editor and was quite a dark cloud over the designer, Morinstitute this year. We had stugan spent most dents come back to the newsroom of her time in in tears. I heard over and over the the newsroom words ‘bearing witness,’ not only at the copy edifrom the students but from the tor’s desk. Says MoSovaida ‘Vaida’ Morgan professionals. We tried to guide Hecker, “What the students through the phases of we were trying what people were going through. to teach, and We tried to help them work through the what she took to very readily, was the replace where people are in tears, to a place sponsibility that we have as the freest media where, as a journalist, you can take those in the world, to use that in a way that benstories and turn them into the voices that efits our readers. Particularly on the copy can carry through to the rest of the world.” desk where you are deciding ‘Is this story “They told us that we had a responsibility complete? Is it fair? Is it ready to go?’ That to tell the story of our subject and to make responsibility angle is very important.” sure that we did whatever it took to make “We stayed busy on the copy desk. There sure that it was accurate and that it was fair,” were always stories coming in,” says Morsays Morgan. gan. “We’d be there most days from nine or “We had people climbing roofs and geteleven in the morning until sometimes three ting to the polls at five in the morning to in the morning. At the end, we published a cover the election. We had one student who newspaper, but we also had a website that went to Baton Rouge to catch a bus and was updated to the minute. The intensity ride back with some former Ninth Ward and the noise — I loved it. That adrenaline residents that were being bused back from going on — it was awesome.”

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rolled in first grade even though he was have here. It is a great commodity that seven years old “because I didn’t speak we have here. Although, that might be an English that well. We learned English arguable statement. Because, yes we have through programs like Sesame Street and freedom in the sense that you are able to at school.” move anywhere, and do what you want, At home, Ali and his family spoke their but then we have the issue of phone taps native Urdu, which he still uses to converse on American citizens,” he says. with his parents.

“If you say, ‘What is “The reason my freedom?’ I say ‘The United father moved to the States is freedom to me.’

United States first was But someone else might he wanted to be with say ‘Freedom is not being his brothers. Most of his watched all the time, or family had already im‘Freedom is not having to migrated. He got settled go through the county to here and got our house put up a fence around my in New York. He wanthouse,’” he says. ed to start a business.

Ali’s parents are devout That was his big dream.

Muslims, and their older He had a co-op store, he son has kept some Musand my mother.” lim practices despite his Until 2001, Ali says elementary education in “I wasn’t really missCatholic schools. ing out on anything Ali attends mosque else being a permawhen he visits his parents Mir Ali at the North Beach nent resident, except in metro Washington, D.C., Grill for the voting,” but his and abstains from eating American experience pork because ‘that’s somechanged dramatically after Sept. 11, 2001. thing I’ve retained and because pork’s not “I didn’t realize how much effect my that good for you. I keep an open mind. I resident status would have after 9/11, espe- think of religion as a faith more than as a cially traveling out of the country,” says Ali. defined way of living.”

“I lived in France for three years. Going After 9/11, Ali says “I think the negaback and forth was becoming a problem.” tive attention toward Muslims is because “I do have another reason -- for my people aren’t educated as to what Islam rewife and my daughter to be back in the ally is. They relate Islam to being terrorists.

United States,” says Ali. “As a citizen it’s an I think that’s the media’s fault. There were easier process for your family to come than people looking at me differently after 9/11, if you are a permanent resident.” but nobody had any violence against me “I think his citizenship really came to or anything. I think it was a normal reacbear when Mir got married to a French tion. I wouldn’t say it was just, but it was woman,” says George Spriggs, co-owner of normal. the North Beach Grill. “Getting her estab“Anywhere you go you’re going to have lished here has been a bit of a trial. I think discussions of groups of people—white, his marriage and the birth of his daughter black, Christian, Islamic, Jewish. If somewas the impetus behind getting it finalized. thing dramatic has to happen to raise And of course the atmosphere after 9/11.” those questions, that’s sad in itself. It’s easy From 1998 until 2001 Ali was sous chef to say ‘let’s all get along and live,’ but the and then head chef at Georges’ of Tybee, truth is there are differences in humanthe other island restaurant that Spriggs co- ity. I mean, religion has caused more wars owns with George Jackson. In late 2001 Ali than anything.” and his wife moved to her native country, Ali’s memories of 9/11 reflect his conwhere Ali remained until late 2004. His nection to his Queens childhood. “Growwife and three-year-old daughter are still ing up in New York I remember the twin in France. towers, of course. Living here and growing “I had a Pakistani passport. The first up in the city, it was very emotional for time after 9/11 I came back into the United me, it was like, this is it -- this is the end of States I was given an orange folder, and the world or something.”

I was detained almost two hours after a After learning that the attacks were ten-hour flight from Europe. They didn’t the work of Islamic extremists, “I thought tell me why. I was in a room with about 30 ‘Oh my God, there’s going to be hatred of other people. Some of them were citizens people of that faith.’ I called my parents but most had ethnic origins.” to make sure they were okay because they “They asked me, ‘Why did you leave live just outside of DC. I was afraid, in the the country? How long have you been sense of not knowing what was going on,” here?’ At that point I had lived here for he says. over 20 years. They didn’t tell me why they “That fear was more of ‘Why is this detained me. They were just being cauhappening? Why did they do that?’ How tious but there was no real answer given,” could somebody do that to all of these he says. people?” w “Living in Europe gave me a different perspective on life than we see it here Robin Gunn is a local freelance writer. in the United States,” says Ali. “I think a To comment, e-mail us at lot of Americans take for granted what we letters@connectsavannah.com

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by Jim Morekis

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Another Fourth of July is here. And for the umpteenth Independence Day in a row, the country is engaged in a fierce “debate” over who’s patriotic and who isn’t.

Like the movie Groundhog Day, it’s the same set piece over and over. One side accuses the other side of not being true Americans, of wanting to burn the flag, of perhaps not even worshipping God. On cue, the other side cringes and whimpers, “We do too support the troops -- just in a different way.”

As with a medieval morality play or the Harlem Globetrotters vs. the Washington Generals, there are no surprises or plot twists. Everyone plays their assigned role.

As if etched in stone, the rigid, unchanging script offers a single easy lesson: It’s futile to challenge the top dog.

While our continuing patriot game long ago ceased to be about actual public opinion or about anything real going on in Iraq, it does have very real effects here at home: It divides our citizenry, debases our democracy and disrespects our military.

And really, it also sells a lot of stuff.

This national dog-and-pony show rivals American Idol in its predictability, its allpervasiveness and its essential pointlessness. And like American Idol, this show’s a real money-maker. It’s a cottage industry all its own. The blogosphere was built on it.

Entire TV networks are now based on it.

Fox News is by far the most successful cable news channel. Its two top-rated hosts, Bill O’Reilly and Sean Hannity, do little else but loudly call into question the patriotism of fellow citizens, night after night, day after day, week after week, all to great effect in the Nielsen ratings.

Ann Coulter just wrote a number-one bestseller saying that the 9/11 widows who criticized the Bush administration actually wanted their firefighter husbands to burn to death in the World Trade Center towers.

Number one in the country! They wanted their husbands to die on 9/11!

The Dixie Chicks also topped the national charts by playing the patriot game.

They added a nifty judo touch: Instead of letting bygones be bygones, they made sure the lead single from their new album specifically referenced an incident several years ago when their careers were hurt because they criticized the president.

Number one in the country! Yay, we’re still victims!

The game’s played locally as well. AM talk radio jock Ben Bennett seems largely to despise Connect Savannah -- but he just won the 2006 Connect reader’s poll for Best Local Radio DJ. Win-win, baby!

Like pro wrestling, it’s all show biz, every bit of it. It’s all about feigning outrage,

and then feigning outrage at someone’s else’s feigned outrage.

If the ultra-patriots actually believed their own rhetoric about terrorist-loving traitors in our midst, they’d be making citizen’s arrests all over the place, or at a bare minimum calling the FBI. And if all those accused of being unpatriotic actually felt good about their own positions, they’d stop taking the bait and quit trying to prove themselves.

At one time I, too, used to play the patriot game. One of its most eager local participants, in fact. Feigned outrage was my currency, my stock in trade. But frankly, these days I’m more interested in how easy it would be to short-circuit the whole thing if we really wanted to.

For example, instead of issuing teary “statements” to the media assuring us of their undying love for their husbands, why don’t the 9/11 widows just sue the bejeezus out of Ann Coulter for libel?

Instead of endlessly accusing their opponents of being limp-wristed cut-andrunners, why don’t the Republicans, you know, actually win the war?

Instead of trying to bleed red, white and blue, why can’t a Democrat go on a cable news show and just say, “You’re right, we don’t like wars and we’re really not that patriotic. But we’ll fix gas prices at $2 a gallon and give everybody a new cellphone and free health care. Who loves ya, baby?”

O’Reilly would be speechless for once!

But no one wants to be the first to burst the bubble. The national “debate” is designed to go nowhere, thus guaranteeing that nothing will get done. That of course is the primary goal of most politicians -- to do nothing and go nowhere.

It seems to me the truly patriotic thing to do is to opt out of the whole debate and move on. And the first step will have to be for more Americans to stand up and say, “You’re right -- I guess I’m just not as patriotic as you are. Now what?”

I guarantee you the worst thing that would happen is that maybe we’d all get a much-needed break from this foolishness.

Long before it was fashionable, this newspaper ran letters and opinion pieces against the Iraq war. I considered it a necessary risk as part of our mission to go where other local media won’t. And for a long time, I waited for the other shoe to drop, as I thought it eventually must.

But you know, that other shoe never did drop. Life goes on. Readers still read, advertisers still advertise. People still go out at night, still check the Happenings listings to see what’s... well, happening.

Apparently the patriot game isn’t the only game in town after all. Go figure. w Jim is editor-in-chief of Connect Savannah.

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The sporting life So who won the game? someone me asked afterward.

Who cares? Probably not the Pirates since the team is in last place.

Then again, I couldn’t tell you who won this month’s U.S. Open either.

Sometimes it’s hard to see the forest for the trees. That’s how I felt when I saw my first weightlifting competition.

Weightlfting? Where’s the ball? What?

A sport with no ball? Where are the crowds, the stadiums, the betting possibilities, the minor leagues? What television station is it on?

What kind of sport is this anyway? It’s dizzying. That’s what it is.

It’s noisy too, especially when they drop the dumb bells carrying weight above and beyond their own body weight onto the mat or when the audience starts yelling or when the lifter lets out a scream.

It’s confusing when you look on the computerized board and see numbers in kilos and numbers that don’t mean anything. It’s bewildering when you try to figure out who wins and how they go about it.

It’s technical, too. At each lift, three judges sit with their finger on a buzzer ready to disqualify a participant if the proper form is not exercised.

But the kids who are participating some 181 strong at Detroit’s national competition, from age 10 to 18 - don’t care how confusing it looks, how little the average person knows about the sport, how crazy people think they are, how often they have to say, “It’s not bench-pressing. It’s not power-lifting. It’s weightlifting.”

They just do their thing. Some got started to train for football. Others, nonathletes at the beginning, thought it would give them more endurance for something like soccer. Then they got hooked on the sport of it.

Now they don’t care if people think they’re addle-brained bodybuilders (they’re not), if most of the world thinks they’re going to get thick necks or bulging biceps (they won’t), if friends hear “clean and jerk” or “snatch” and think it’s some kind of dance (it’s not).

They know how they feel - lean, strong, focused, confident, able to tackle anything, part of a small but committed, good-natured group. They know what it’s like to work hard for something, to show up at the gym five days a week to train (not to work out), to match their mind and body with nutrition and focus.

They don’t have to turn on television to see sports. When they slip a name tag around their neck that says “athlete,” they already know. w E-mail Jane at gofish5@earthlink.net

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It’s soccer time again. And again and again. Jeez, this World Cup thing lasts a long time. A person could sail to Europe in the time it takes to get through the first few rounds.

Or read something by Charles Dickens in small print. It’s longer than the NBA championships, which seem to go on forever as it is.

I’m glad I’m not caught up with it.

Give me the last four holes of a major golf tournament like the U.S. Open, something where someone can really mess up, like Phil Mickelson did last week. Or where an old geezer like Colin Montgomery can drain a 50-foot putt with more twists than a pretzel.

Give me baseball, which as an American is part of my genetic makeup.

Give me a good walk - something away from the boob tube - or the national school age weight lifting championship, which I attended last week in Detroit and which I’m just starting to learn about.

Soccer is nice to watch on mute from the gyrating steps of some aerobic machine in the gym or from a bar stool at Donnies Tavern, which is right around the corner from my house. Lots of green and up close foot action and a little blood, too.

But one-goal games? Two-goal games?

Just not enough payoff for my tastes.

Now baseball. That’s another story.

The other night I went to a Pittsburgh Pirates baseball game at PNC stadium, where this year’s All Star game is scheduled. Beautiful stadium. Not old and gritty but a gem just the same.

Great spanning bridges towering behind the outfield along with the city’s majestic skyscrapers. A nice nighttime crowd of nearly 38,000 people.

It wasn’t cheap. By the end of the night, a friend and I spent $91-- $20 apiece to get in, $10 to park, $7.50 for two barbecue sandwiches, another $7.50 for three hard lemonades, $3.50 for a bag of peanuts.

No dizzying blindfolded bat gyrations for these folks between innings, the way you might see at Savannah’s venerable Grayson Stadium. But plenty of diversionary giveaways just the same.

For answering one question correctly a lucky lady in blue won a cow’s tongue (on ice). Honest.

Just for walking into the place they handed you a bobble-headed Danny Mazeroski. Manny Sangien signed the box of the bobblehead if you wanted to wait in line. Mazeroski played second base in the ‘60s. Sangien was a catcher with the ‘70s Pirates team. Now he owns Manny’s, where we bought our barbecue.

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hail the conquering cracker Alt-rock legends Cracker sold out the American Legion Hall last Thursday night in a raucous and tuneful affair that will be long remembered by those who attended.

At left, Johnny Hickman (front) with David Lowery; at right, Lowery at the mic; and bottom, Kenny Margolis on the accordion.

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Wild On Wild Wing City Market celebrated the longanticipated opening of the Wild Wing Cafe in the spot formerly occupied

by Malone’s. Along with the delicious wings, we particularly enjoyed the “Hot Shots” -- spicy poppers of sausage and cheese with mustard sauce -- and we also liked the, uh... well... the shooters, OK? The shooters. There, we said it, all right? Happy now?

At right, three who joined us in the highly professional merrymaking were Lilly Bolles, Kyle Merritt and Shawn Fallin.

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SCDS LEEDS THE WAY Savannah Country Day School’s new lower school building will be the first school in Savannah to be LEED-certified -- meaning it meets the nationally-recognized standards of Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design certification from the U.S. Green Building Council.

Thomas Bonnell, headmaster of Savannah Country Day, believes the decision will benefit the students.

“Building our new lower school as a LEED certified building will also be of great educational value for our children -- not only their environmental education, but their ethical education as well,” Bonnell says.

“For the process of LEED certification is essentially a process of becoming aware of our impact upon the world, by asking how each of the elements of the building will affect the environment and whether there are other ways of constructing the building that will not only minimize negative impact, but, in the best of all possible worlds, help restore the environment,” Bonnell says.

“Essentially, it’s ethical thinking done at the institutional level -- ethical thinking we believe will help our students learn to think ethically as well.”

Country Day’s choice to build in an environmentally responsible manner showed vision and leadership, says Tommy Linstroth, Chair of Savannah Chapter of the U.S. Green Building Council.

“Country Day’s decision to pursue LEED is a win for all involved,” Linstroth says.

“LEED certified schools have shown higher attendance rates and better test scores, and the impact on the environment will be minimized.”

Bill Eswine, lower school science teacher, applauds the recent decision by the Board of Trustees to build a LEED-certified lower school building because of the message it will send to the students.

“We could celebrate hundreds of Earth Days with engaging activities and powerful reminders to care for the earth, but they would not have the positive impact that this LEED building will have on our students,” Eswine says. “It will be tangible evidence of Savannah Country Day School’s commitment to the environment and to the value that is inherent in caring for the earth. It will also serve as a constant reminder of what is required to reduce the impact that human beings have on the planet.”

LEED features for the new lower school include: Reducing water use by 20 percent; using lower-fume paints, coatings, adhesives, sealants and carpets; using some materials, such as bricks, that come from within a 500-mile radius; and using some recycled materials.

Construction is scheduled to begin in January or February 2007 with a tentative completion date of August 2008. The 52,500-square-foot building will house grades 1-5, the media center, science facilities and administrative offices. w

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• Two officers on routine patrol noticed a car at Indian and Warner streets attempting to turn the wrong way on a one-way street. The suspect saw the police vehicle and corrected his actions.

One of the officers ran the license plate on the car and found it to be suspended with no insurance. The officers made a vehicle stop and approached the car.

They noticed that the two passengers had open bottles of beer in brown bags.

After checking the driver’s information, it was discovered that the driver’s license had been suspended for more than five years. The driver was arrested for driving on a suspended license, having no insurance and operation of an unregistered vehicle. The passengers were arrested for having open containers in a motor vehicle. The vehicle was towed and the three men were taken to jail because they had no identification.

• After responding to a residence on Lanier Street in reference to a domestic dispute, an officer spoke with a woman who said her husband had placed his hands on her in an aggressive manner and was acting irrationally. The woman said she had gone to her brother’s home when her husband knocked at the door.

When she opened the door, the husband pushed past her into the residence and began accusing her of things. The man then grabbed his wife by the arms and pushed her down on some chairs.

The woman called her 15 and 18-yearold children and asked them to come to her brother’s house to calm their father down and ask him to leave. She then left the residence. The woman was advised of warrant procedures, told about domestic violence counseling and given a case report number card. She told the officer she did not need medical attention. The

from recent Savannah/Chatham Police incident reports

officer told her to call police immediately if her husband returned to the area.

• An officer on routine patrol observed an SUV at Habersham Street and Maupas Avenue with its bright lights on.

The officer signaled with his own lights for the driver to dim the lights, but he refused. The officer signalled again and the driver still did not comply. The officer turned his vehicle around and initiated a traffic stop. The driver pulled the vehicle over to the wrong side of the road. He was ordered to remain in the vehicle, but got out and started running away.

After a short foot chase, he was stopped.

The officer learned that the driver was unlicensed and on parole. His eyes were bloodshot and droopy, his speech was slurred and he had a strong odor of alcohol coming from his person The man was arrested for driving under the influence. He also was charged with failure to drive with bright headlights, driving while unlicensed, having an expired tag and obstruction of justice by fleeing. He was jailed and his vehicle was towed.

• An officer on routine patrol saw a man approach a vehicle at a restaurant drive-through window on West Gwinnett Street and Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard. The man extended his arm to the driver’s side window of a car and received a dollar from the driver. The officer approached the man and asked him what he was doing. The man replied, “I’m hungry, that’s why I’m asking for money. I’m not going to lie to you.” The man was asked for his identification, but said he didn’t have any. He had a strong odor of alcohol, his eyes were bloodshot and he had a hard time walking. He was placed under arrest and charged with public drunkenness and panhandling.

He was taken to the Chatham County Detention Center. w

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Princely Behavior

though “both” men have the same middle name and birth date and coincidentally are married to women with the same first, middle and maiden names).

Honesty Is the Best Policy? (1) Jonifer Jackson, 20, was arrested in Clarksville, Tenn., in April and charged with reckless endangerment for firing a 9 mm pistol while street-preaching (because, he told police, it was the only way he could get people to listen to him). (2) Phillip Daniels, 42, was arrested in Dallas in April, as the one who had set off five explosives in the previous two weeks (which he told Dallas’ KXAS-TV were done just because he likes the sounds). (3) Yasuhisa Matsushita, 25, was arrested in Iwata, Japan, in March as the man who stole a high school girl’s swimsuit, put it on, and pranced around in it while relieving himself because, he told police, “(I)t felt so good.”

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In the course of an April ruling that the New York City school system had gone too far by firing Toquir Choudhri for poor work habits, administrative law judge John Spooner declared that city workers have a “right” to surf the Internet for personal use while at work. Choudhri was expecting reinstatement, but two weeks later Chancellor Joel Klein fired him anyway, citing poor work habits beyond his Web-surfing.

(Choudhri was unavailable for comment, in that he was suspected of being on leave in a country on whose tourist Web sites he had been lingering.)

Ironies

In May, in the midst of the Ford Motor Co.’s “Red, White & Bold,” buy-American ad campaign touting its classic Mustangs, the research firm CSM Worldwide (using statistics from the U.S. Department of

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Transportation) revealed that 35 percent of the 2006 Mustang’s content came from overseas, and in fact, that five Honda models and seven Toyota models contained more U.S. content than the Mustang, including Toyota’s Sienna minivan, which was 90 percent U.S. More Ironies: (1) The May 10 tornado that hit Highland County, Ohio, touched down in the town of Hillsboro, along Wizard of Oz Drive. (2) In April, The Washington Post, covering outdoor press conferences by Capitol Hill legislators to decry the then-recent bump in gasoline prices, reported that the vehicle of choice for most of them returning to offices only a few blocks away was a gas-guzzling SUV, and in fact that several senators hopped into idling SUVs even to travel across the street from the Capitol to their offices.

Cliches Come to Life

(1) The Chicago Sun-Times reported in May that at least six homeless substance addicts had claimed that someone had paid them $5 each to vote for certain candidates in a recent Chicago school board election (but that a schools spokesman, after consulting the rules, said vote-buying in Chicago school board elections might not even be illegal). (2) London’s Guardian reported in April that access to British dentists is becoming so difficult that in a recent week, 6,000 do-it-yourself crownand-cap replacement kits had been sold to consumers.

Least Competent Criminals

Flunking Finance 101: John Faux, 41, was arrested in Niagara Falls, N.Y., in April and charged with robbing a Key Bank branch of about $2,000; Faux had complained to the teller that he had clearly demanded not $2,000, but “$100 million,” and the two were still arguing when the police arrived. And Tekle Zigetta, 45, pleaded guilty in Los Angeles in March to trying to smuggle $250 billion into the country (which Customs agents discovered, in the form of 250 bills of the denomination of $1 billion, bearing a picture of President Grover Cleveland).

Updates

Veteran New England mobster Anthony St. Laurent, 64, was arrested again in April, in Providence, R.I., on loan-sharking charges. As with previous arrests, St. Laurent tried to convince the judge not to jail him because his colorectal condition required him to take 40 enemas a day, but the condition has apparently worsened, in that he now claims to need “to have his stool removed, biweekly,” according to his lawyer. (Note: “Biweekly,” meaning “every two weeks,” is often used incorrectly to mean twice a week.)

Four weeks ago, News of the Weird reported that a “side business” of British farmer David Lucas was building gallows for export to Zimbabwe and other countries that still execute by hanging. After the story was widely reported in the British press, a man who identified himself as Lucas’ sometime-business-partner told reporters that Lucas had been joking, that he had built only one gallows and was not actually in the business. At press time, it is unknown whether Lucas, or his partner, was telling the truth.

Undignified Deaths

(1) Recent incidents in which people were run over fatally by their own cars: a 62-year-old woman backing out of a parking space at a Wal-Mart in Kahului, Hawaii, in May (she had apparently opened the door to look behind her and fell out), and a 76-year-old woman visiting her husband’s grave at Maple Grove Cemetery in New York City in April (details not reported). (2) A 67-year-old woman was killed in Houston in May when her car went out of control, swerved across a road, and slammed into the lead car of a funeral procession about to depart Guadalupe Funeral Home for the cemetery. The woman’s family later announced that they would just leave the body at Guadalupe for funeral arrangements. w

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Britain’s Prince Philip has for at least 30 years accommodated a tribe of 400 “cargo cult” people on the South Sea island of Tanna, who revere him as the human face of an ancestral spirit, according to June revelations by London’s Daily Mail. Both sides have been discreet, but the prince has acquiesced by sending the tribe signed photographs, including one in which he is holding the traditional war club (even though a totally authentic pose would require that the prince hold it while naked). Cargo cults are so named because, lore has it, an ancient god forecast that one day, wealth would fall from the sky, and then, during World War II, it did, in the form of parachuted-in supplies for American troops who used the islands as staging areas.

An Iowa tribunal turned down Chris T. Coppinger’s demand for unemployment benefits in May, following his firing from a charitable fund-raising company in Davenport for various alleged indiscretions.

Among the company’s charges was that Coppinger had had sex on top of his desk with a co-worker, but Coppinger argued that that should not be a terminating offense, since many other company employees had had sex on his desk, too.

Never Give Up: Ronald Blankenship, a shoe repairman in Birmingham, Ala., finished second in June’s Democratic primary for sheriff and was placed in a run-off, when the Birmingham News discovered details of an apparently shady past: faking his death in connection with an insurance policy, assault and passing bad checks.

Blankenship’s defense, a week later: It must be another Ronald Blankenship (even

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Arctic Cannibals

A team of Canadian and 4.3 American researchers says it has found that 3.8 polar bears in the southern 3.4 Beaufort Sea may have turned to cannibalism due to the effects of global warming on the Arctic environment.

4.2 In an article to be published in the journal Polar Biology, lead author Steven Amstrup, of the U.S. Geological Survey Alaska Science Center, writes that the animals may be stalking each other because longer seasons without ice are now keeping the animals from their usual food supply.

Week Ending June 23, 2006 Of the three bear carcasses studied, one was of a mother bear that had been stalked by decade. At least 15 people have recently a larger male. Her den had been knocked died from the crippling disease, which is down before she was dragged off to be suspected in 96 other cases. eaten, leaving the cubs to suffocate in the Marine Noise Warning collapsed den. The researchers say this type The International Whaling of behavior has never before been observed Commission (IWC) says it among the species. wants the oil and gas industry Brazilian Flood Zone to find ways to reduce the Late autumn flooding in impact on marine mammals southern Brazil drove hundreds by seismic air guns, which are used across of families from their homes as entire oceans to search for oil. The IWC the rainy season brought the statement says loud noises that the devices Paraguay River to 16 feet above produce have been found to damage its normal level. Officials in Mato Grosso hearing and migratory patterns of marine do Sul state said that nearly 80 percent of mammals, and are also responsible for the land in the Pantanal region is expected reduced fish catches. A statement later to be inundated for the next three months. issued by ExxonMobil Corp. claimed the The Brazilian navy dispatched several ships company was unaware that the use of to the region to move residents to safer seismic guns had adverse effects on marine locations. wildlife. It added that the seismic surveys are “critical in the search for tomorrow’s oil Namibian Polio and gas resources.”

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late March sent nearby residents fleeing a rain of ash and strong tremors. About 500 people have taken refuge in nearby schools, but many farmers stayed behind to tend to their fields and livestock.

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Three people were injured by a moderate earthquake that jolted central China’s Gansu province. Officials say five houses were also toppled by the shaking in Linjiang and Liping townships.

• Earth movements were also felt in metropolitan Tokyo, Indonesia’s Sulawesi Island, the southern Philippines, western Greece, Trinidad, northeastern Ohio, southwestern Montana and Alaska’s Cook Inlet.

Eruptions

An estimated 740 acres of forests on the slopes of Indonesia’s Mount Merapi have been destroyed or scorched by hot clouds and debris cascading down the volcano’s slopes. Herders around the mountain have begun selling off their dairy cattle because ash that now covers the area has made it difficult to feed or water their animals.

• The strongest explosion to rock the central Philippines’ Bulusan Volcano since

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Night Flight Warming

A new study on global warming says that restrictions on overnight flights by airlines could reduce the industry’s contribution to climate change. In an article published in the journal Nature, meteorologists from the University of Reading in southern England say that contrails left behind highflying jets during the day actually have a cooling effect, because they are white and reflect some of the sun’s energy back into space. But they warn that those generated at night trap heat emitted by the Earth’s surface, creating a “greenhouse effect” that adds to warming.

Big Cat Revenge

A pride of lions near Kenya’s northern border with Somalia attacked and killed five villagers after three of their cubs were kidnapped by Somali gunmen.

Councillor Bishar Gurre of the Garissa district told The Nation newspaper that 15 lions raided dwellings in two villages in an apparent fit of revenge for their missing offspring. Kenyan herders who witnessed the kidnapping said the Somali militiamen took away the cubs in a pickup truck while on a hunting expedition. Attempts by the Kenya Wildlife Service to retrieve the cubs have failed because the Somalis insist on a high ransom payment for their return. w

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Patrol

compiled by Jim Morekis

‘Rise of the Rays’ -- Drawings and paintings by Eryka Fiedler, July 2-15 at Vero 44.

Opening reception July 7, 7-10 p.m.

Athon. Through July, with opening reception Sun. July 2, 7 p.m.-until. Black Orchid Tattoo, 131 Drayton St.

‘Orange Peels and Duck Ponds’ -- SCAD professor Todd Schroeder uses an orange peel and an ink stamp of a pond as springboards to present different concepts of pictorial reality. At Pinnacle Gallery, 320 E. Liberty St., until July 10.

Jean Claude Roy -- French impressionism through July 9 in the Grand Bohemian Gallery at The Mansion on Forsyth Park.

‘Remind Me of Home’ -- Photogravure and painting by Robin Rathmann, through July 6 at Gallery Espresso, 234 Bull St. ‘Recent Works’ -- Exhibit by SCAD grad Tiffani Taylor at Off the Wall Gallery, in 45 Bistro at the Marshall House on Broughton Street. Through July.

‘Homo Hominis’ -- Exhibition by Mikhail Truovsky, Jorge Alvarez and Kiril Jeliazkov on display at the Red Gallery, 201 E. Broughton St. through July 25.

Karen Abato --- Primitive figurative work, nudes, some with spoken word verse, some sculptural work, First Friday in July at the Starlander Coffee Cafe. No cover, opening at 6 p.m., Moon River Brewing Company and Starlander Coffee Cafe contributing refreshments.

‘Dead or Alive’ -- Lightboxes, paintings, and photographs by Chris Giddens and Jon

New works -- New paintings by Daniel E. Smith and Melody Postma; also on display are June Stratton, Corinne Adams, Barbara J. Brown, Stephen Kasun, James Allen, Leslie Kneisel and Adela Holmes. Whitney Gallery, 415 Whitaker St. ‘Abstract and Abstracted’ -- Chroma Gallery hosts a show featuring Loja; a collaboration of two favorites Jan Clayton Pagratis and Lori Keith Robinson; Ikeda Lowe; Ursula Brenner Elena Madden; and Heather Lindsey Stewart. 31 Barnard St. Isle of Hope Artisans League -- July 1–August 31 at the Hospice Savannah Art Gallery, 1352 Eisenhower Drive. Opening reception, Tuesday, July 11 5:30-7:30. Show includes woodturnings by Noel Wright; ceramics by John Jensen and Polly Cooper; paintings by Pat Myers, Angela Oliver, Bellamy Murphy, Nancy Solano, Nancy Hughes, Betty Weeks, Camille Nelson and Dorie Nichols; photography by Linda Jensen, Bruce O’Donnell, and Mark Uzmann; quilting by Julie Rittmeyer; and stained glass

by Connie Wright.

mark District on St. Helena Island, South Carolina.

Telfair Art Fair Call for Artists -- From November 3-5 the Telfair Art Fair will feature original work by top local, regional and national artists. Entry deadline is July 15.

Call 790-8869 or e-mail artfair@telfair.org.

Work by Roland Wolff is at the JEA beginning July 3 Luther Vann -- The Hurn Museum of Contemporary Folk art presents work by this visionary painter through June 28. The Hurn Museum, 1015 Whitaker St. TuesdaySaturday 11-4; Sunday 12-4; closed Monday.

Adults $ 4, Students $3.

Gallery 440 -- Gallery 440 welcomes Charlotte Dunlap, Morgan Kuhn, Cissie Victor and Frances Walter, artists in residence.

Also upstairs are works by photographer Tim Coy and paintings by Billy Herrin. 440 Bull St., open 11-5 Wed-Sat. ‘Poly-Rhythmic Explorations’ -- Exhibit

by Savannah-born artist David Pleasant, Tuesdays and Thursdays, July 16-30 at the Penn Center School National Historic Land-

‘Journey of a Soul’ -- Work of Outsider artist Larry Beaver documents his struggle with his demons. Hurn Museum of Contemporary Folk Art, 1015 Whitaker Street, (on the corner of Park Avenue and Whitaker), 234-7322.

‘Botanical Impressions’ -- Photography

by Michael D. Weinman, MD, May-June at the Hospice Savannah Gallery of Art, 1352 Eisenhower Dr. Hours 8:30 a.m.-5 p.m.

JEA Art for July– The Art Show at the Jewish Educational Alliance will feature the art of Vietnam War veteran Roland Wolff beginning July 3 at 5111 Abercorn St. Jepson Center for the Arts– Exhibits include: “Jack Leigh: Late Photographs”; Selections from the Walter O. Evans Collection of African American Art; and “Myrtle Jones: A Tribute.” Call 790-8800. w Art Patrol is for rotating shows, exhibitions and receptions. Send art info to jim@connectsavannah.com

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by Linda Sickler

Silver linings

Fact seems stranger than fiction in Murray Silver’s latest book people I’ve encountered. It tells the life stories of other people I’ve met.�

The book was printed locally by Bonaventture Books. “When I first sent it out to agents and publishers I had worked with, they rejected it because they said it was fiction and poorly written, at that,� Silver says. “That’s why I put the photographs in -- to prove these things happened to little old me.�

An example: Silver began promoting concerts while he was still in high school in 1969. “I told my father there was money to be made bringing rock concerts to Atlanta,� he says.

So his father (a lawyerturned-author who also is named Murray Silver) agreed to back him in a venture to bring concerts to Atlanta on a weekly basis.

In December, 1969, Silver found a five-man blues band from England that was called Fleetwood Mac. Hold on, it gets even better. On the same bill was another group called Grand Funk Railroad. “Tickets were $3,� Silver says. “I couldn’t find a theater, so it was held at Oglethorpe College Field House. At the end of the night, there wasn’t even enough money to pay the bands.�

So Silver took the members of Fleetwood Mac home, because they not only could not get to their next gig in Chicago, they couldn’t pay their hotel bill in Atlanta.

To raise money to pay the bands, he promoted a second concert. “I went back to school and passed out a ballot in homeroom,� Silver says. “I asked my classmates who they wanted to hear.�

They voted for Joe Cocker, Blood Sweat and Tears and Chicago Transit Authority.

So Silver promised them a show with those performers, even though none of them were touring at the time -- and an opening act called Fleetwood Mac. “I sold every student a ticket,� Silver says. “It was a sold-out show. The entire school turned out to see it.�

By the time Fleetwood Mac finished, most of the students had to leave because of a school-night curfew. However, when Silver attended his 20-year class reunion, his old classmates were still talking about seeing a concert that didn’t really happen. “You can walk out the door and your life will never be the same,� Silver says. “I was a nice Jewish boy from Savannah who ended up being a special assistant to the Dalai Lama. Wonderful things can happen.� w When Elvis Meets the Dalai Lama costs $24.90 and is available locally or from www.Bonaventture.com. The author’s website is www.whenelvis.com.

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Murray Silver seems to have a knack for being in the right place at the right time. Because of this gift, the Savannah native has had some extraordinary experiences and met some amazing people.

In 1982, he published his first book, Great Balls of Fire: The Uncensored Story of Jerry Lee Lewis. Silver also is the author of Behind the Moss Curtain and other Great Savannah Stories. His latest book is When Elvis Meets the Dalai Lama, and in it he recounts personal favorite stories from his own life.

That includes telling how, at the tender age of 16, Silver began promoting rock concerts in Atlanta.

Along the way, he would bring future supergroups (then barely known) such as Fleetwood Mac, the Grateful Dead, the Allman Brothers, Sonny and Cher and Paul Simon to Atlanta.

It includes the story of meeting -- by chance -- Myra Lewis, ex-wife of Jerry Lee Lewis. That led to meeting The Killer himself and telling his story in a book, which in turn led to a motion picture.

When Elvis Meets the Dalai Lama also tells how Silver’s very life was threatened when he agreed to write the autobiography of Dr. George Nichopoulos -- the notorious “Dr. Nick,� who was the personal physician to Elvis Presley at the time of the singer’s death.

There are other outlandish -- and hilarious -- episodes in the book, including the stories of wrestler Harley Race and pornographer Gail Palmer. The book closes with the author’s story of his association with the Tibetan Buddhist monks of Depung Loseling Monastery.

Along the way, Silver has met luminaries such as His Holiness the Dalai Lama, actors Richard Gere, Dennis Quaid and Winona Ryder, poet Allen Ginsberg, and many, many more.

Don’t believe it? Just wait -- Silver has about a million photographs to prove it, and several are in his book.

Why would a 52-year-old write his memoirs? “I want to clear the decks,� Silver says. “I’ll never forget when I wrote the Jerry Lee Lewis biography. Myra Lewis was not yet 50 years old. She said, ‘This has set me free.’ I realized that once you put the past in the right place, you’re able to move on.�

Silver also wanted to answer, once and for all, the questions he is often asked by others. “People still ask me about Jerry Lee Lewis and Elvis. When I meet people, it’s not long before they say, ‘You’ve lived an interesting life,’� he says. “I wrote down all my favorite stories, but there is not much stuff in the book about me,� Silver says. “It’s really about the

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by Linda Sickler

New South Cafe: Fine dining, casual setting Matt Cohen and Scott Gordon are passionate about cooking.

Trained at the prestigious Culinary Institute of America, they’re also passionate about presentation, so diners at their New South Cafe will eat with real silverware from a ceramic plate on a linen tablecloth.

Yet at the same time, the atmosphere is casual and the prices are reasonable.

Before they opened the New South Cafe -- celebrating its grand opening this week at 2601 Skidaway Road -- Cohen and Gordon spent six years running a catering business called Professional Chef Services.

“The best thing about catering is we have the same clients use us over and over and over again,” Cohen says. “One thing we believe is that it doesn’t matter what the ingredients are, your cooking techniques are what’s important.”

The only thing Cohen and Gordon won’t do is cook for themselves on their days off. “Never,” says Cohen.

“Never, never,” adds Gordon.

Cohen is a fourth-generation Savannahian. “My grandfather had a grocery store in Savannah,” he says. He was a food peddler, so I guess it was in my blood.”

Cooking isn’t Cohen’s only passion.

“I’m a big boy,” he says. “I love to eat.”

At an early age, Cohen knew what he wanted to do with his life. “When I was

very young, my Cohen, left, way into the kitchen,” Gordon says. grandfather “Curiosity got me in there.” and Gordon used to come Cohen and Gordon met on their and visit us,” first day of classes at the he says. “I Culinary Institute. “There loved to do were 84 students in our two things. class,” Cohen says.

“I would “Someone asked a get up early question, and I made in the morna smart-aleck coming and write ment,” he says. “Scott him a little said he knew he breakfast menu,” ‘wanted to get to know Cohen says. “I’d give him that dude.’ We hit it the menu and he’d order. off and became friends He always paid his bill and gave me a tip. and switched around so “At 5 p.m., I’d fix him a cocktail,” Cohen we could become roomsays. “I’d give him a little bowl of peanuts mates. We always knew we to go with it. He paid me $5 for the cocktail would probably go into business and gave me $5 for the tip.” together.”

That sparked Cohen’s interest. “When After classes finished, the two did furhe paid me for serving him, I knew that’s ther training at the Houston Country Club. what I wanted to do,” he says.

“One of the best parts of working together Gordon originally is from Philadelis we don’t do the same things,” Cohen phia. “I just love cooking,” he says. “It’s a lot says. “I like left, while Scott likes right. The of work, but when I try to take a break, it things I dislike, Scott likes.” draws me back. It’s a passion.”

However, Cohen is highly complimenGordon also started cooking at an early tary of Gordon’s signature dishes. “He age. “I can remember being in the kitchen came up with the sweet potato succotash,” and making cookies,” he says. “We always Cohen says. “There are eight, nine, ten flamade a big Thanksgiving dinner. vors going on in that dish.”

“When I got older, I always found my Everything made at the New South

Cafe is made from scratch from the freshest ingredients. “It is simple, fresh, local ingredients,” Cohen says. “We want collard greens to taste like collard greens. We want sweet potatoes to taste like sweet potatoes. We’re very loyal to the food.”

While the two prepare traditional Southern foods, those foods are prepared with a twist. Such an approach can take lots of practice.

“Scott came up with hush-puppy-crusted fried catfish fingers,” Cohen says. “We tried 15 to 20 ways to figure out how to bread it.”

That doesn’t mean the two always agree. “We argue all the time,” Cohen says. “When you make something out of a prepared batter or a mix, it comes out perfectly. When it’s handmade, the process doesn’t always turn out right. We have to practice and practice and practice.”

The chefs say by far their most popular dish is the award-winning crab cake burger, made with fresh lump crab meat served with an Asiago cheese dressing.

“Everyone in town goes nuts for our crab cake,” Cohen says. “It’s 100 percent crab meat, with no filler.” w The New South Cafe is open M-F from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Take-out available. The cafe is at 2601 Skidaway Rd. Call 233-7568.

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Feature

by Jim Reed

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July 4 event brings big band tribute to the Lucas and a parade to River Street It’s said that city officials are expecting somewhere in the neighborhood of 150,000 men, women and children to pack River Street, Bay Street and the surrounding side-streets this upcoming July 4 for the city’s annual Independence Day fireworks display.

Sure, there’s nothing remotely like craning your neck skyward to bask in the glow — and cacophonous reports — of hundreds of colorful, synchronized projectiles (not to mention the sublime, subconscious surge of patriotism that arguably courses through the veins of even the most diehard anti-establishment types at such fetes), but between the dogs, babies, stogies and general mayhem, it’s not unheard of to ask oneself why you even bothered.

At times like those, I have sometimes found myself glancing at the rows of people lining the open windows of Bay Street’s hotels, or leaning out of the balconies of factor’s Walk’s posh condos, inns and retail establishments, chardonnay in hand, far from the madding crowd.

Those folks are enjoying the show in a much more leisurely and comfortable manner than the majority of us punters — many of whom arrived with our broods several hours beforehand, just to nab a decent “seat” or spot to stand in.

Which brings me to this question: What if you didn’t have to fight anyone for a splendid view of the fireworks?

Not the sort of air-conditioned splendor afforded by an invite to some exclusive, chi-chi perch, but merely a great, unobstructed vantage point. One that was reserved ahead of time, and required little to no effort to navigate to.

How much would that be worth?

While you’re ruminating on that, let me go ahead and say, “But wait! There’s more!”

What if that same reserved seat was merely the icing on the cake? What if the same ticket price that gets you into the VIP seating area also afforded you a couple of hours of relaxation in a beautifully restored historic theatre only a block away from the

River? And what if some of the Jeremy area’s finest jazz musicians entertained you while you waited Davis, Trae Gurley and by playing timeless big band Kim Polote music?

No, how much would you pay?

How about $25?

Oh, wait. There’s one other thing I forgot to mention. Proceeds from your ticket price go to fund a scholastic award that’s given out to two deserving local high school seniors each year who wish to study music at a higher level.

Pretty snazzy, huh?

Well, that’s exactly the notion behind the first-ever Savannah Swings! Concert at the Lucas Theatre for The Arts.

A partnership between the Lucas and the established Non-Profit Organization The Friends of Johnny Mercer, this major concert seeks to provide a unique experience for folks of all ages, all in support of a worthy cause.

That group, which is dedicated to preserving the memory of —and perpetuating the lyrics, music and life of— Savannah’s native son John Herndon Mercer, recently selected Jeremy Davis as their President, and this event is one of his first attempts to help grow the organization’s public profile (and its coffers).

With the help of the Lucas, the show, which finds Davis’ Equinox Jazz Orchestra —a 20-piece group featuring many of the region’s top musicians, as well as a few longtime sidemen from his tenure in the Louisiana area— backing notable Savannah vocalists Kim Polote and Trae Gurley, has blossomed into a novel attempt to introduce Johnny Mercer’s music to all manner of folks, both native Savannahians and tourists alike.

For one low price, ticket holders will attend the show, which features the music of Johnny Mercer, Frank Sinatra and other big-band icons, as well as patriotic numbers like “America The Beautiful.” Upon the conclusion of the show, the band will leave the stage, walk out the doors of the theatre, and (in true Big Easy fashion) continue to play as they march —crowd in tow— all the way to River Street, where they’ll continue with a 45-minute set of uptempo, party-oriented brass band tunes.

Best of all, they’ll lead the ticket holders straight through the sea of humanity to a special VIP seating section that’s being held just for them.

This should afford all the participants a great view of the subsequent fireworks.

Davis says he’s been dreaming of a show of this type since he first relocated to Savannah last year. However, he claims the final format of the concert is much cooler than what he had initially envisioned.

I guess the stars just lined up in the right way,” he says with a laugh. According to Davis, a veteran of the touring circuit, who before coming to our area regularly played as many as 250 dates a year in venues ranging from small bars to large theatres, the Lucas is a gem of a room.

“When I first came to town, I walked in there one day and thought it was one of the most beautiful theatres of its kind on the entire East Coast. I approached Ken (Carter, Jr., Executive Director of the Lucas Theatre), and told him basically what I wanted to do. It turned out they had this date open and were up for throwing a big shindig.”

Meaghan Walsh, the Lucas’ Managing Director picks up the story: “It was a great marriage of separate smaller ideas floating around. Ken, Jeremy, Kenny Hill (of the Savannah Waterfront Association) and I were sitting in the room batting ideas around. Jeremy and I are both involved with the Friends of Johnny Mercer. Ken and I are both at the Lucas. We have similar sensibilities in terms of trying to create blockbusters, unique events for Savannah. We realized this concert would be problematic if people felt they would miss the fireworks completely, or wind up with bad seats. So we combined both events into one.”

Both Davis and Walsh say that the Waterfront Association was eager to find another way to enhance the public’s enjoyment of their annual fireworks show.

“They were very easy to work with,” explains Davis. “They were excited because we helping to bring a specific type of excitement to the fireworks that hadn’t been there before. It’s a perfect fit, and they were happy to oblige us.”

“The band will play right up until the start of the fireworks, and plenty of people on River Street will be able to see and hear the group.”

He says that while most of the people

who want to attend the concert will likely want to watch the fireworks as well, he hopes the inverse will be true, too.

“It’s a no-brainer. People are elbow to elbow staking out their spots early. We’re doing a patriotic show one block away. People can come down, stroll on the river, have lunch, then escape the heat for a couple of hours and support a good cause at the same time. Then at the end, there’s a special chair waiting for you by the river.”

“I feel if people just know about what a great value this is, the theatre will be packed,” says Davis.

Still, as has been noted in this publication before, offering a worthwhile show in this town does not always translate into stellar advance ticket sales.

“You know how Savannah is,” Davis muses. “People just don’t buy in advance like they should.”

Walsh concurs.

“I think $25 is a steal for everything you get. Besides, it’s a benefit,” she says. “The band gets nothing. The Lucas gets nothing. It all goes to The Friends of Johnny Mercer’s Scholarship Award fund.”

Davis says that those who do attend the show will get to see something more than just a conglomerate of local talent.

“We’ll do some of the normal stuff that my 20-piece orchestra usually performs, such as the Sinatra material and the Mercer, but we’ll also do five or six numbers geared toward paying tribute to veterans on July 4th. I’m bringing in a couple of vocalists from out of state that I’ve worked with in the past, in addition to Kim and Trae. Clay Johnson and Adam Jones are both excellent singers, and I’m sure people will get a big thrill out of what they do.”

However, Davis has no shortage of praise for Gurley and Polote.

“Those are two of Savannah’s best,” he exclaims.

“Kim and I hit it off immediately. Everybody loves her and is in awe of her talent. Trae and I are like a marriage made in heaven. He sings Sinatra on a weekly basis to pre-recorded tracks, but when we work together he gets a chance to do it with a full, real band behind him, just like Frank.

I was just fired up to find a local guy who’s capable of such things. w Savannah Swings! Tuesday at 6 pm at the Lucas Theatre. For tickets, call 525-5050 or go to the SCAD Box Office at 216 E. Broughton Street.

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Interview

by Jim Reed

From SKID R OW to Music Row

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and yelling requests at you and singing along. I love it.”

“But you know, not everybody can play those rooms. Certainly not a lot of country people! I’m not sure if it’s ego or recklessness that’s required to put yourself in that type of situation at this stage in a career, but it definitely take a certain personality type, and I guess I just love the little bit of danger or the lack of predictability that comes with those kind of shows.”

Whether Dierks is playing civic auditoriums or backwoods honky-tonks, it’s still a far cry from his humble beginnings as a nascent headbanger. Before discovering the intoxicating world of country music at age 17, he was first entranced by the flamboyant MTV world of hair metal.

“The first concert I went to was Bon Jovi and Skid Row,” he admits with an audible grin. “When you first pick up an electric guitar, you just wanna play power chords through a distortion pedal because it sounds so cool. Looking back, I wasted 3 years trying to be Eddie Van Halen before I realized it was never meant to be, and I regret not studying bluegrass.”

“There’s so much good music out there that you just have to search for,” he continues. “Hell, I could’ve been listening to Bob Dylan instead of Quiet Riot! (laughs)” Bentley says this Savannah audience can expect to hear tunes from his first few records, as well as some brand-new, unreleased material, and —if the mood is right— he may “dig into some (Johnny) Cash, or Waylon (Jennings)” tunes.

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There’s a big difference between recording artists who sometimes tour, and performing artists who sometimes record.

From time to time, you’ll run across a musician and/or songwriter who likes to do plenty of both, but by and large, most folks seem to stick with the creative outlet they feel most comfortable with.

Dierks Bentley enjoys making albums, and it shows. The 29-year-old native of Phoenix, Az., has one certified Platinum CD under his belt (his self-titled 2003 debut), and one Gold (2005’s Modern Day Drifter), as well as a fistful of hit singles, including the Number One country smash “What Was I Thinkin’.” However, one quick look at this award-winning artist’s itinerary is all that’s required to paint a vivid mental picture of a man in love with the road.

Bentley plays shows at an astonishingly wide array or venues —from stadiums to small bars— everywhere from Bakersfield, Ca. to Dublin, Ireland, sometimes as a headliner, and sometimes as the support act for such C & W superstars as George Strait, Kenny Chesney and Toby Keith.

It’s a punishing and brutal schedule, but after speaking with Bentley by cell phone from somewhere on his never ending tour, I got the distinct impression that he would agree with this sentiment expressed by fellow lifer Frank Black in his ode to the nomadic existence of touring, “If It Takes All Night” — “Some call it the ribbon, some say the white line / I say truck stop livin’, well it suits me fine.”

“Yeah, we’ve had a lot of that kind of experience in the last 2 years,” says Bentley of his band, with a slight chuckle.

“We’ve toured more than anyone in Nashville. Our bus was out for 318 days last year! We played with Kenny Chesney in stadiums that held 20,000 people, and then gone over to Europe and played in tiny rooms that don’t hold more then 50.”

“Plus, we do the ‘High Times & Hangovers Tour’ every Fall with our friends in Cross Canadian Ragweed. The whole point is just to play big bars and clubs. Nothing over 1,900 seats. To me, it’s that variety that keeps things interesting.”

He also reckons that it takes a certain amount of moxie to downshift and play smaller bars and intimate gigs after topping the charts. In many ways, it’s not only a humbling experience, but one that makes sure they always connect with the fans who made them famous.

“There’s something about playing those small places,” Bentley says with a touch of whimsy. “There’s no big stage or barricade to keep the fans away. We’ve played some shows where literally, the first row is just a foot beyond my mic.

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The Hellblinki Sextet

The brainchild of former Savannah resident (and Rogue’s Gallery member) Andrew Benjamin, this Augustabased collective plays dark and addled Vaudevillian blues strongly influenced by both old-timey gypsy flair and the European cabaret tradition.

Their rotating lineup employs everything from toy instruments to transistor radios and empty wine bottle-percussion, and as such, their songs aim squarely for fans of the creepy burlesqueand-sea chanty vibe of Swordfishtrombones-era Tom Waits, while also appealing to devotees of Tim Burton’s crepuscular fantasy world.

Openers Monsters of Japan adore Clutch and play quirky metal while in Kabuki-inspired regalia.

Sat., 10 pm, The Jinx.

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The Denny Phillips Band

There’s something about this long-running local party band that defies easy categorization. They’re not the slickest group, and their shows can sometimes be a tad shambolic. However, they enjoy a devoted following of folks who’ve enjoyed them for years, and it seems that whenever they play a public show at a club or restaurant, they always draw a sizable crowd.

H.R. w/ Dub Agents

Many readers will likely remember H.R. as the singer of Washington, D.C.’s notorious underground music pioneers Bad Brains (whose cassette-only debut, and subsequent full-length vinyl release on the influential PVC label made them instant cult heroes in the punk, reggae and hardcore scenes).

Though he left that band years ago after a series of career missteps involving jail time, poor album distribution, and a couple of rather high-profile major label flops, he essentially broke with the punk movement to embrace reggae full-on. Now he’s back, fronting a new group, and headlining a nationwide tour designed to promote the “Global Rock Revolution.”

This revolution is described by the folks behind it as “a very kool (sic) uprising without any major fanfare (that’s) not only about great muzik (sic), but also a kool (sic) lifestyle where total inclusion is at the center.”

This show draws on ska, dub, reggae, rock and hip-hop, and will likely be a must-see for enthusiasts of all those genres.

Tickets are $15 in advance, or $20 the night of the show.

Fri., 10 pm, The Jinx.

cozy Hilton Head supper club that’s made a name for itself as the place to see the better regional jazz cats and the occasional topshelf touring artist.

Known for 1996’s sleeper hit “Barely Breathing” (produced by none other than Rupert Hine), the 36-year-old pianist and guitarist got his start gigging with fellow modern-popper Lisa Loeb at Brown University before signing with Atlantic.

Since he first came to prominence, he’s ventured away from his original sound (kind of like middle-period Matthew Sweet without all the Quine and Lloyd) into more orchestral productions —reminiscent of big budget Edwin McCain releases— but that hasn’t stopped him from rocking out on occasion.

It’s extremely rare to see an artist of this magnitude play what amounts to little more than a house concert with a nice stage, so this one should be packed.

For more info, call (843) 842-8620.

Fri., 7:30 pm, The Jazz Corner (Hilton Head).

The Wreckers

Duncan Sheik Vocalist Phillips is known for being more than happy to pull out all the stops on the Neil Diamond numbers (as he’s got the chops and stage presence to do them justice), and his backing band (impressively stocked with old-school area ringers) radiates a good-natured, laid-back vibe.

Fri., 10 pm, Dolphin Reef Lounge (Tybee).

Duncan Sheik

Much like celebrated singer/songwriter Angie Aparo, this Grammy-nominated alt.rock lyricist spent some formative time in S.C., and much like Aparo, he’s now showing up to play an intimate show at this

Michelle Branch burst on the pop scene at the tender age of 17, after only 3 years as a practicing musician, signing to Madonna’s Maverick Records label, and releasing the hit single “Everywhere.” In no short time, she was acting as a featured vocalist on one of Carlos Santana’s (abysmally-contrived) Clive Davis payoff albums, and packing theatres around the country.

However, in 2004, she took a break from her burgeoning solo career, and hooked up with friend and backup singer Jessica Harp.

Dubbing their new project The Wreckers, Branch welcomed Harp’s Nashville-honed country songwriting action into her own modern, stylized pop sound. The result? A rootsy-but-slick hybrid that focuses on their shimmering vocal harmonies.

The duo are enjoying the type of notoriety and success that comes from having a standout track on the soundtrack to a WB teen drama (in this case, “Good Kind” from One Tree Hill), and their latest album on Maverick made it into the Top 20.

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Absylom Rising

Eclectic and experienced jam and boogie band from Miss., that’s worked with legendary producer and keyboardist Jim Dickinson. Fri. - Mon., 9 pm, Fiddler’s Crab House.

Annie Allman

Talented multi-instrumentalist who’s an old hand at drums, guitar and bass. Sat., 5 pm, Molly MacPherson’s Scottish Pub.

Bluesonics

With openers Nathan Shepard and Chris Talley. Sat. - Sun., 9 pm, Murphy’s Law.

The Spec Hosti Band

Great jam-grass act featuring members of The Jimmy Wolling Band. Fri., 6:30 pm, North Beach Grill (Tybee).

Lurid Miscreants

Up-and-coming Tybee-based metal trio, featuring veteran guitarist/frontman Brian “Ragman” Dingess. Thurs., 10 pm, Wind Rose Café (Tybee).

Alex Nguyen Trio

Electric blues quartet known for their rock-solid rhythm section.

Fri., 9 pm, Jazz’d Tapas Bar.

Bottles & Cans

Raw, freaky, psychedelic Delta blues with a garage-rock vibe.

Wed. & Tues. (hosts Open Mic), 10 pm, Savannah Blues.

Harry O’Donoghue

The Chuck Courtenay Band

Electric honkytonk, Southern rock and country hits (both classic and modern). Fri. - Sat., 9 pm, Tubby’s (Thunderbolt).

Alex Nguyen

The Courtenay Brothers

Traditional and contemporary Celtic ballads and originals, from a seasoned acoustic troubadour on guitar and bodhran.

Wed. - Sun., Kevin Barry’s.

The Permanent Tourists

Killer R & B, funk and rock covers. Fri., 9 pm, The Mansion on Forsyth Park.

Acoustic guitar-playing siblings, covering pop, rock and country hits. Sun., 5 pm, City Market Courtyard.

G.E. Perry w/James Gay

Stripped-down version of Wilmington Island’s pop/rock/soul cover group Band In The Park. Fri. - Sat., 7 pm, Uncle Bubba’s Oyster House.

Seven Gates To Elsewhere

Hard-bop act led by a Louisiana saxman. Fri. - Sat., 9:30 pm, Tantra Lounge (formerly The Monkey Bar).

A rare full-band gig from this talented blues-rock and country-folk guitarist and singer. Sat., 10 pm, Café Loco (Tybee).

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Eric Culberson Blues Band Funky Chicago and Memphis-style electric blues from an internationallyknown local. Tues. (hosts Open Jam) - Wed., Mercury Lounge + Thurs., 10 pm, Fiddler’s Crab House.

Eat Mo’ Music

Upbeat, instrumental soul-jazz quintet (horns, drums, guitars). Sat., 9 pm, Jazz’d Tapas Bar + Mon., 6:30 pm, North Beach Grill (Tybee).

Junkyard Angel

This “Red, White & Blues Independence Jam” features a regional roots-rock collective (playing covers and originals) boasting members of such well-known Athens, Ga. groups as Bloodkin, Stewart & Winfield and The Park Bench Trio.

Guitar and mouth harp duo offering roadhouse blues with rock and jazz influences. Fri., 9 pm, Augie’s (Richmond Hill).

Young locals influenced by late-’60s psychedelia and soulful ‘70s British bluesrock. Fri., Guitar Bar (348 MLK, Jr., Blvd.).

‘Georgia Kyle’ Shiver Band John Tisbert

Jazz trumpeter known for leading local soul-jazz quintet Eat Mo’ Music. Thurs., 8 pm, The Mansion on Forsyth Park.

The Train Wrecks

Raucous roots-rock trio featuring Jason Bible. Fri., 7 pm, The Warehouse + Tues., 6 pm, Dewey’s Dockside (Tybee).

Turtlefolk

Local, percussion-heavy jam act. Fri., 10 pm, Locos Deli & Pub (Downtown).

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Today, the 1978 film version of Superman (directed

by Richard Donner) may look primitive to young eyes weaned on PlayStation 2 and new-and-improved Tolkien tales, but it still holds up beautifully, with dazzling special effects, plenty of heart and spunk, and career performances by Christopher Reeve and Margot Kidder. Director Bryan Singer, the X-Men and X2 helmer who jumped ship to steer this franchise, chose to take the road less traveled. His movie is neither a remake of the 1978 staple nor a direct repudiation of it; instead, he imagined Superman Returns as a continuation of the original saga. For fans of Donner’s ‘78 model, the pleasures begin immediately with a triple play. First, those cool opening credits are back. Second, they’re accompanied by the familiar chords of John Williams’ score (John Ottman receives credit for original music, but so much of Williams’ classic piece is employed that new themes were hardly needed). Finally, Singer made the decision to borrow 1978 footage of Marlon Brando as Jor-El (the Man of Steel’s father) and use it at the beginning of his new picture. Learning that scientists had discovered the remains of his home planet of Krypton, Kal-El (Superman’s birth name) went to check it out for himself, only coming back to our planet after a five-year hiatus. Once again donning his human disguise as bumbling news reporter Clark Kent, he’s able to get his old

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job back at the Daily Planet, but other chapters of his life have been radically affected. Lois Lane (Kate Bosworth), now a Pulitzer Prize-winning writer (for an essay titled “Why The World Doesn’t Need Superman”), has tried to suppress her love for Superman: Having moved forward, she now has a young son (Tristan Leabu) and a fiance (James Marsden). Meanwhile, Superman’s arch-nemesis Lex Luthor (Kevin Spacey) is back in play and has ideas on how to assert his authority through unusual real estate ventures while also acquiring a chunk of kryptonite to put the Man of Steel out of business. Singer has some problems with rhythm and pacing -the 150-minute running time eventually makes its presence known, and the movie has at least one ending too many -- while Bosworth appears too young and delicate to be playing a tough, award-winning journalist. Yet in the central role, Routh manages to command our attention: He’s not nearly as memorable as Reeve, but he’s easily able to hop between his hunky Superman persona and his goofy Clark Kent shtick while making both characterizations believable. Spacey appears to be having a ball as Lex Luthor, and the movie’s flashes of nasty humor (including a startling yet hilarious gag involving a pair of pomeranians) generally can be found in scenes involving his character.

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Adam Sandler earns his hefty paychecks for comedies like The Wedding Singer and Nacho Libre the execrable Big Daddy, but he satisfies For a movie that many people (includhis thespian aspirations with films like ing me) tagged as this summer’s off-thePunch-Drunk Love and the underrated beaten-path sleeper hit, Nacho Libre turns Spanglish. With Click, he attempts to have out to be a surprisingly mild affair, one of it both ways. those films where the Spending more time sucking up to his creative juices dried unctuous boss (Daup at some point bevid Hasselhoff) than tween conception and bonding with his wife execution. The prem(Kate Beckinsale) ise held promise: Naand kids, Michael cho (Jack Black), the Newman (Sandler in lowly cook at a Mexifamiliar man-child can monastery that mode) is so distractBreakfast At Tiffany’s doubles as a home for ed that he can’t even Savannah Film Society presents the orphaned boys, realkeep track of the classic 1961 film starring Audrey izes that becoming a household remotes Hepburn. July 1 at 7 p.m. at the Lucha Libre wrestler (he points the clicker would not only earn Trustees Theatre. Cost: $6. Call: at his TV and the him enough money to 525-5050 or visit garage door opens). better take care of the www.trusteestheater.com.

Venturing into the lads under his watch, “Beyond” section of but it might also inBed, Bath & Beyond, still enough self-conhe stumbles upon Love fidence so that he eccentric employee Reel Savannah presents this 2005 won’t remain tongueMorty (Christopher thriller which opened to rave retied around the lovely Walken), who gives views. However, there are only three new nun (Penelope him a universal re35mm copies of it, one of which will Cruz look-alike Ana mote that allows him be shown in Savannah. The film is de la Reguera). But to program his life as in English and Serbo-Croatian with because the monks well as his TV set: He English subtitles. July 2 at 7 p.m. at frown upon wrescan mute the dog’s the Lucas Theatre. Cost: $7. tling, Nacho is forced barking, fast-forward to disguise himself through foreplay and by donning a mask. even listen to audio Writer-director commentary (proJared Hess (NapoElectra Glide in Blue vided by James Earl leon Dynamite) and Psychotronic Film Series rarelyJones) on past events co-scripter Mike seen 1973 counterculture film classic in his life. For the first White (The School starring the infamous Robert Blake half of the film, this of Rock) serve up a (Baretta, Lost Highway) as a sadistic clever concept yields few potent gags, but West Coast motorcycle cop who’s out some genuine laughs they’re spread mighty to intimidate and arrest as many hipbut more often gets thin throughout the pies, longhairs and peaceniks as he buried under the sort picture’s running can. Shot by the Oscar-winning cinof adolescent humor time. The remainematographer Conrad Hall (Amerithat long ago became der of the film is split can Beauty), this intense drama the actor’s calling card between the sort of was influenced by classic John Ford (how many times scatological humor Westerns, and is regarded by critics do we have to watch we can find anywhere as the caustic and cynical flipside to the family dog hump else — See Jack Black Dennis Hopper’s iconic indie smash a stuffed animal?). break wind! See Jack of a few years earlier, Easy Rider.

Then the movie shifts Black sit on the toilet!

Wednesday, July 5 at the Sentient its course dramatiSee Jack Black smear Bean on Park Avenue. Seating at 7:30 cally: Morphing into animal excrement p.m., screening at 8 p.m. Cost: $5 at an update of Frank on someone’s face! the door. w Capra’s It’s a Wonder— and lazy south-offul Life, it chronicles the-border caricatures how the remainder of that aren’t funny, are Michael’s life becomes offensive or are ofa human tragedy, as fensively funny. After he’s unable to stop the a while, this disapremote from fast-forpointing film just lays warding through the there, like a wrestler years, ultimately leaving him with bitter body-slammed one time too memories and numerous regrets. many.

The comedy isn’t as pointed as desired and the drama isn’t as maudlin as expected, yielding decidedly mixed results. Still, it should prove to be an acceptable DVD continued on page 32 rental in about six months. If they can get

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Sandra Bullock’s star-making performance in 1994’s fast and furious Speed rushed through auditoriums like a welcome breeze on a muggy summer day. But with the exception of those imbecilic Miss Congeniality comedies, it’s hard to recall a recent picture in which Bullock has been allowed to draw upon her natural charisma. On the other hand, Reeves in ‘94 was just emerging from a period in which his repeated miscasting in prestige pictures like Bram Stoker’s Dracula, Dangerous Liaisons and Much Ado About Nothing left critics and fellow actors scratching their heads as to his ability to repeatedly land such high-profile roles. Since then, he’s excelled in a handful of diverse roles: iconic in The Matrix, funny in Thumbsucker and, in his best work, disarmingly romantic as he woos Diane Keaton in Something’s Gotta Give. The Lake House, which brings the stars together for the first time since Speed, serves as an exclamation point to the evolution of their respective careers. Bullock plays Dr. Kate Forester, whose new position at a Chicago hospital convinces her to move into the city and leave behind the lake house she’s been renting. Before departing, she whips off a welcome note for the next tenant, who turns out to be an architect named Alex Wyler (Reeves). But Kate’s comments in the letter, concerning the condition of the house, don’t jibe with what Alex sees, so he writes her back to clarify. As the missives keep flying back and forth, both parties come to the startling realization that they’re actually corresponding over the years -- she’s writing and receiving his letters in 2006, he’s doing likewise in 2004 -- and that the lake house mailbox serves as the magic portal through which they’re able to communicate. The Lake House’s central idea could conceivably work under the right set of circumstances -- chief among them the presentation of two lovers whose ardor is so all-encompassing that we feel like we’ll die if they don’t end up in each other’s arms before the closing credits. But The Lake House doesn’t even begin to inspire that level of swoony romance on our parts. The blame begins with director Alejandro Agresti, whose principal concern was apparently making sure that cinematographer Alar Kivilo captured the right lighting for each shot. Yes, it’s all as pretty as a picture, only it’s the wrong type of picture -- we expect a motion picture, but we get a still life instead.

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Admit it: Ever since Pixar Animation Studios began its incredible run with Toy Story back in 1995 (followed by five more toon blockbusters, the last being The Incredibles), haven’t most observers been wondering when the company will hit a critical and/or commercial roadblock and watch its latest effort crash and burn?

Newsflash: It’s hasn’t happened yet, and it ain’t happening with Cars. John Lasseter,

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the creative wizard behind Pixar (and now Walt Disney Pictures as well) has repeatedly stated that the key to any good animated film is the story, and of course he’s absolutely right. But the success of Pixar rests with the fact that they go beyond good storytelling and beyond good visual schemes to provide their pictures with that extra oomph, whether it’s in the tiny details or in the always spot-on voice casting. For all its high-gloss NASCAR trappings, Cars is ultimately a paean to Route 66. The cars are the characters -- no humans exist in this world -- and the most prominent vehicle is Lightning McQueen (voiced by Owen Wilson), a rookie sensation on the NASCAR circuit (the name is doubtless an homage to Steve McQueen, a real-life racing enthusiast). Lightning is cocky, conceited and convinced that he needs nobody’s help to make it to the top. Clearly, Lightning is due for a comeuppance even more than he’s due for an oil and filter change. On his way to California to prepare for a race against a grizzled veteran known as The King (Richard Petty) and a loudmouth called Chick Hicks (Michael Keaton), Lightning unexpectedly winds up in the town of Radiator Springs, a once-bustling Route 66 burg whose status rapidly collapsed once the freeway insured that all cross-country traffic would be diverted away from the town. He becomes acquainted with the locals, including Sally (Bonnie Hunt), a former big-city lawyer who prefers the simple life; Mater (Larry the Cable Guy), a good ole boy tow truck whose idea of a good time is tipping the sleeping tractors; and Doc Hudson (Paul Newman), a sage automobile who might be able to teach the young hothead a few things about winning -- not only on the track but also in life and

in love. That Lightning will find redemption is never in doubt, but like the best storytellers, Lasseter and his co-writers make the journey to self-discovery as interesting as possible.

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Robert Altman’s best film since the onetwo punch of Short Cuts and The Player back in the early 1990s might at first glance seem like a minor work, an ambling, congenial picture constructed as little more than an opportunity to corral several major talents and give them a chance to sing songs and tell jokes in a relaxed setting.

That the film is inspired by Garrison Keillor’s long-running radio show of the same name adds to that impression: Keillor, at least in his on-air persona, is the epitome of laid-back, down-home hospitality.

Altman’s Prairie can indeed be viewed in such a light, but there’s more going on here.

For all its levity, the central theme focuses on the specter of Death -- how it hovers around us, how it haunts us, and how it can inform our every move. The movie chronicles the events that take place during the last broadcast of a popular radio show. The Axeman (Tommy Lee Jones), a corporate suit with no respect for history or tradition, has dropped by to make sure the closing goes according to plan. G.K. (Keillor), the program’s guiding light, takes it all in stride (“Every show is your last show; that’s my philosophy”), more concerned that all the talent is in place. And what talent!

First, there are the singing sisters Yolanda and Rhonda Johnson (Meryl Streep and Lily Tomlin). Then there are the cowboys Dusty (Woody Harrelson) and Lefty (John

C. Reilly), adept at crooning cowpoke tunes. Backstage, the characters are no less colorful. Guy Noir (Kevin Kline) handles security for the program, though his bumbling manner recalls Inspector Clouseau more than it does Sam Spade. Yolanda’s daughter Lola (Lindsay Lohan) mopes around in the dressing room while Mom performs. And then there’s the mysterious lady (Virginia Madsen) who appears out of nowhere and hangs around for the rest of the show. When the radio performers are front and center, the movie is nothing less than a joyous celebration of both Americana and the arts. Streep (who sang to equally good effect in Postcards from the Edge) and Tomlin make a formidable duet, while Harrelson and Reilly break through any lingering melancholy with their steady stream of quips.

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There’s a fine movie trapped inside The Break-Up, and it’s a shame that it couldn’t break free. As it stands, here’s a picture whose many fine ingredients are never able to compensate for the staggering miscalculation that cripples the piece almost immediately. Vince Vaughn and Jennifer Aniston play Gary and Brooke, whose initial meeting and courtship are dealt with during the opening credits. From there, an argument over a dinner party proves to be the catalyst for the pair deciding to call it quits. Secretly, Brooke doesn’t want to break up -- she only wants Gary to appreciate her more -- but as time crawls along, the hostility between the pair increases, and it becomes apparent that there’s simply no saving this relationship. Gary is painted as a self-centered, insensitive man-child whose greatest passions are video games and baseball; the only reason audiences like this character at all is because he’s played by the charismatic Vaughn, whose motormouth wit is always good for a few laughs. Brooke, meanwhile, is intelligent, classy, mature, patient, and on and on. He’s a prick; she’s a saint. Why exactly would we have an interest in whether these two remain together? Simple answer: We don’t.

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It’s a testament to the durability of the original comic created by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby that the movie survives this hostile takeover. Newbies need not apply, but the faithful will catch on immediately when the movie brings up its smoking gun of a central issue: a “cure” has been found for mutancy, leading to divergent viewpoints among those afflicted with extraordinary powers. Some, like X-Woman Storm (Halle Berry) and the villainous Magneto (Ian McKellen), don’t look at mutancy as a curse and are offended that such a remedy is even being offered. Others see nothing wrong in desiring a life of normalcy; among those is Rogue (Anna

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Paquin), whose mere touch can kill anyone, even a boyfriend (Shawn Ashmore’s Iceman) with whom she can never enjoy even the most chaste of physical intimacy. As always, X-Men guru Charles Xavier (Patrick Stewart) takes a philosophical, wait-and-see approach. And Wolverine (Hugh Jackman) and Cyclops (James Marsden)? They don’t seem too preoccupied with the issue, since they’re both still reflecting on the death of Jean Grey (Famke Janssen), who sacrificed herself at the end of X2.

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Yet another charmless animated feature made by profiteers whose historical reference point seems to begin and end with Shrek. In other words, don’t look for what was once quaintly referred to as “Disney magic,” that timeless, ethereal quality that used to be par for the course in toon flicks like Dumbo, 101 Dalmatians and, in more recent times, Beauty and the Beast. With rare exception, today’s cartoon characters

aren’t allowed to be romantic or introspective or lovably quixotic -- usually, they’re too busy hyperventilating or passing gas or trying to find ways to screw over their fellow toons. Over the Hedge is more of the same, as an opportunistic raccoon (Bruce Willis), in hock to a grouchy grizzly (Nick Nolte), cons a group of peaceful forest denizens into helping him invade suburbia and steal the humans’ junk food.

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The original Poseidon Adventure was one of the first disaster flicks and it arguably remains the best. The Oscar-winning visual effects hold up; the Oscar-winning song “The Morning After” does not. Come next spring, I doubt we’ll be similarly mentioning the new Poseidon and Oscars in the same sentence, since this is as forgettable as motion pictures can get.

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Look, I’m as sick of hearing about Tom Cruise’s offscreen nonsense as anyone else.

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No instant classic and it won’t sweep next year’s Academy Awards. Conversely, it’s also not a turkey for the ages -- it won’t draw instant titters at the mere mention of its name like, say, Gigli or Battlefield Earth or The Bonfire of the Vanities. Like Bonfire, however, I suspect that it will be judged far more harshly by those who read the book than those who didn’t. After all, on its own cinematic terms, it’s a moderately entertaining ride, sort of like the Nicolas Cage hit National Treasure only done with more style and a more respectable cast. Steered by his Apollo 13 director Ron Howard, Tom Hanks plays the central role of Robert Langdon, a Harvard symbologist whose book-signing stint in Paris is cut short when he’s summoned to the Louvre to hopefully shed light on the strange circumstances surrounding the murder of an elderly curator. What Langdon doesn’t initially know is that the detective on the case, the gruff Bezu Fache (French national treasure Jean Reno), is convinced that he’s the killer. With a police cryptologist named Sophie Neveu (Amelie’s Audrey Tautou) as his only ally, Langdon evades capture and begins a jaunt across France and, later, England in an attempt to solve an ancient mystery that, if revealed, could potentially spell the end of Christianity as we know it. Seeking guidance, Langdon and Sophie turn to British scholar Leigh Teabing (Ian McKellen, easily earning MVP honors) to fill in the missing pieces. However tantalizingly this might have all played out on the page, up on the screen it simply comes off as one more familiar Hollywood thriller. Yet where The Da Vinci Code succeeds is, as expected, within the arena of religious debate.

Whatever one thinks of the worldwide protests of offended Christians or Dan Brown’s research and subsequent conclusions, there’s no denying that the movie’s most gripping scenes involve the laying out of the conspiracy theories.

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Activism & Politics AMBUCS

is dedicated to creating mobility and independence of people with disabilities Volunteers meet every first and third Monday at 7 p.m. at Fire Mountain Restaurant on Stephenson Ave. Call Kevin Sheehan at 691-2934 or send email to kshe62@aol.com..

Chatham County Democratic Committee

meets the second Monday of each month. at 6 p.m. Call Joe Murray Rivers, chair, 2345969, or Janice Shay, 547-5212 or visit www. chathamdems.com.

Chatham County Democratic Women For information, call Maxine Harris at 3520470 or 484-3222.

Chatham County Young Democrats

Call Cory at 508-3335 or send email to c@ depthllc.com.

Savannah Branch NAACP

will hold a mass membership meeting Sunday, July 2 at 5 p.m. at Thankful Baptist Church, 820 Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd.

The public is invited to attend. The NAACP has launced a membership campaign called Campaign 1000 Now! For information, call 233-4161.

Savannah Republican Club

Meets every second Tuesday of the month.

Call 927-7170.

Savannah Area Young Republicans Call Alexandra Tabarrok at 572-8528.

Skidaway Island Democrats

will meet Wednesday, June 28 at 7 p.m. in the conference room of the Landings Association Building, 600 Landings Way South. Congressional candidate Jim Nelson and State Sentate candidate Mel Traylor will speak. Call Tom Oxnard at 598-4290 or send e-mail to oxhouse@aol.com.

Chatham County Young Republicans

For information, visit www.savannahyr.com or call Brad Morrison at 596-4810.

Coastal Democrats

For information, call Maxine Harris at 352-0470 or 484-3222 or send e-mail to R1999MHAR@aol.com.

Drinking Liberally

meets at The Caledonian at the corner of Abercorn and 41st streets, just north of Victory Drive. Promoting democracy one pint at a time -- share politics while sharing a pitcher. This is an informal gathering of like-minded, left-leaners who may want to trade ideas, get more involved and just enjoy each other’s company. Meets the first and third Thursdays of the month at 7:30 p.m. For information, visit www.

DrinkingLiberally.org or send email to august1494@excite.com.

League of Women Voters

meets on the first Monday of the month at 5 p.m. in Room 3 of the Heart and Lung Building at Candler Hospital. Membership is open to anyone18 and older.

Libertarian Party of Chatham County meets each Monday at 8:30 p.m. at Moon River Brewing Co., 21 W. Bay St. Call 3083934 or visit http://www.no-debts.com/chathamlibertariansga.html.

National Council of Negro Women

meets the first Saturday of every month at 10 a.m. at the Ralph Mark Gilbert Civil Rights Museum.

Planned Parenthood

meets the second Thursday of the month at 6 p.m. at The Sentient Bean, 13 E. Park Ave. For info, call Heather Holloway at 352-4052 or heather.holloway@ppfa.org. Volunteers are needed for Planned Parenthood, and will meet the second Thursday at 6:30 p.m. at The Sentient Bean. For information about volunteering, call Megan Burgoyne at 3524052 or megan.burgoyne@ppfa.org.

Auditions

Davenport House Museum

is looking for an acress to portray Dr. Mary Lavinder in the museum’s award-winning Yellow Fever program, which portrays the 1820 epidemic. Must be able to play a woman aged 42 years old and be available every Friday and Saturday in October. Call 236-8097 or send email to jcredle@savbusiness.net.

Benefits & Fund Raisers Give for the Gulf

is a year-long, comprehensive Armstrong Atlantic State University initiative that will raise funds and provide community services for evacuees of Hurricane Katrina. Visit www.armstrong.edu/katrina.

Tybee Turtle Tour

This program is sposnored by the Tybee Arts Association to raise money to help save turtles through ecological education in a public art forum. Fifty fiberglass statues of sea turtles have been placed around Tybee Island and vicinity, and volunteers are being sought to decorate them. Organizational meetings are being held Wednesdays at 7pm, at the old school behind the new gym on Tybee. Visit www.TybeeTurtleTour.org. The tour will be active through autumn, 2007.

Call for Entries

Tybee Arts Association Logo Contest Prizes include limo service, dinner, a hotel stay and more. The deadline for entries is

June 30. For information and contest rules, call 786-5920 or visit www.tybeearts.org.

Classes, Camps & Workshops AARP Drivers Safety Program

Classes will be held Wednesday, July 5 and Thursday, July 5 from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. at Smart Senior at Candler. Call 352-4405.

Adult Education

The Women’s Center of Wesley Community Centers, 1601 Drayton St., offers tutoring Tuesday and Thursday from 6:30-7:30 p.m. in basic literacy skills, GED preparation and computer training. Call 447-5711.

Applied Behavior Analysis

The Kicklighter Resource Center will offer a training series for parents, teachers, students and professionals working with both special needs and typically developing children. The topic for June 30 is Introduction to Language Acquisition. The class will be held from 8 a.m. to noon at the Kicklighter Resource Center. The cost is $50. Space is limited. Call Stacy Martin at 355-7633.

The Art School

Summer 2006 classes will run for a week at a time. Students attend Monday through Friday. There are two sessions a day, one for ages 6-10 and the other for ages 11-teen.

The morning session is 9 a.m. to noon and the afternoon session is 1-4 p.m. The price per week is $160. Art supplies are provided.

Classes include Rare & Exotic Animals July 10-14, People & Pets July 17-21, and This Land is Your Land. July 24-28. For information, visit www.TheArtSchool.-Sav.com or call Lind at 921-1151.

Art with Clay

Free pottery lessons. Coiling, slab building, pinch pots or try the wheel. Tuesday and Thursday from 6:30-7:30 p.m. at the Glazed Over Pottery Painting Place, 1190 King George Blvd., behind Steamers. Call 9614494 or send e-mail to glazedoverppp@aol. com.

Baby sign classes

Savannah Speech & Hearing Center is offering Baby Sign classes for babies aged 6-12 months and their parents. The cost is $50, which includes materials. To register, call 355-4601.

Babysitters training class

St. Joseph’s/Candler Childhood Injury Prevention Program offers a class for boys and girls 11-15 who want to become babysitters. The cost is $35. Call 819-8583.

Children’s Creative Saturdays

Every second Saturday of the month from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., children are invited to The Dragonfly Studio for projects in pottery, painting, planting, music and more. Every Saturday, a new project will be presented.

Children must be 6 or older to participate.

Parents may drop off children or stay and

join them. Dragonfly Studio is located on Tybee Island, 1.5 miles past the Lazzaretto Creek Bridge on the right. Call 786-4431 or send e-mail to dragonflytybee@aol.com.

Christopher Scott Writing Classes

“I’ve never written anything since leaving school” -- but you always wanted to write.

A two-evening course set for July 10 and 11 will get you started. All details at www. cscottwriting.com/savworkshops.htm or call 398-1727.

Clay Classes in Hand-building

will be held Wednesdays from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. and 6:30-8:30 p.m. at Carolyne’s Studio.

An open studio is available Fridays from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. To register, call 925-5465.

Fany’s Spanish/English Institute

Spanish is fun. Classes for adults and children are held at 15 E. Montgomery Cross Rd. Call 921-4646 or 220-6570 to register.

First Steps parent education program

This parent education and support program is based at St. Joseph’s/Candler. Call 8196910.

Guided Imagery

Change your life with guided imagery.

Read about it in Oprah magazine, January 2006. Ditch anxiety, manage deadlines, lose weight, recovery from surgery. Call the Alpha Institute, 201-0071.

Horse Camp

will be held July 10-14 and July 17-21 at Norwood Stables. The cost is $200 weekly.

Call 356-1387.

Housing Authority of Savannah Classes

Free classes will be offered at the Neighborhood Resource Center, 1407 Wheaton St. Call 232-4232, Ext. 115. Some classes are on-going. Adult Literacy is offered every Monday and Wednesday from 4-6 p.m. Homework Help is offered every Tuesday and Thursday from 3-4:30 p.m.

Junior Interpreters at the Davenport House

Young people ages 14 to 19 are wanted to participate in the Isaiah Davenport House’s summer Junior Interpreter program.

Participants will be trained on Thursday evenings through July 13 to give tours of the museum. Once trained, participants will be qualified to give tours to the public.

Call Jamie at 236-8097 or email jcredle@ savbusiness.net.

Legend’s Community Program Grants

Four informational sessions about this program for non-profit organizations in Bryan, Chatham, Effingham and Liberty counties are set for June 28 and July 13 from 9:30-11 a.m. and June 29 and July 11 from 3-4:30 p.m. at the United Way Building, 428 Bull St. Grant applications can be found at www.uwce.org. Completed applications are due at the United Way by Tuesday, Aug. 15 at 4:30 p.m. Call Richard Edwards at 6517727 or redwards@uwce.org.

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Mindfulness and Ordinary Recovery

Indepth exploration of the 11th step.

Meditation and contemplation instruction provided as it applies to recovery and maintenance. Classes are held on Monday from noon to 1 p.m. or 7:30-8:30 p.m. Class fee is $12. 313 E. Harris St. For information, call Cindy Beach, M.S., 429-7265.

The Publishing Scene

A one-day course for writers on the world of publishing will be held Sunday, July 16.

Learn about agents, publishers, self-publishing and publishing-on-demand. For details, fees and reservations, call 3981727 or visit www.cscottwriting.com/savworkshop.htm.

Puppet Shows

Savannah Children’s Theatre Camp

Campers will be cast in, rehearse and perform in summer productions. Tom Sawyer camp will be held July 10-23 and is open to rising 1st through 8th graders. The Wiz camp will be open to 6th through 12th graders and will be held July 24-Aug. 6.

Camp will be held Monday through Friday

Savannah Entrepreneurial Center offers a variety of business classes. The center is at 801 E. Gwinnett St. Call 6523582.

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Skills of Fiction-Writing

Christopher Scott Writing Courses teaches self-contained evening classes Tuesdays or Thursdays throughout the year on specific aspects of writing and publishing fiction.

For details, schedules, fees and reservations, call 398-1727 or visit www.cscottwriting. com/savworkshop.htm.

S.T.A.R.S. Summer Camp

St. Joseph’s/Candler’s St. Mary’s Community Center, 812 W. 36th St., is offering a summer camp for students in kindergarten through 8th grades that provides arts and crafts, swimming, outdoor games and academic skill building through July 21, Monday through Friday from 10 a.m. to noon. Call Program Coordinator Artinique Thomas at 447-0578.

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Science Center. Call 786-5917 or visit www. tybeemsc.org.

reservations, call 398-1727 or visit www. cscottwriting.com/savworkshop.htm.

The 2006 schedule of classes offered by Christopher Scott Writing Courses includes weekday (evening), full weekend and single-day weekend classes for writers of all standards. Learn the basic Skills of Writing Fiction (plus a two-evening preparatory course entitled I’ve never written anything since leaving School!) or take the Advanced Fiction Writing course designed for more experienced writers. Other classes include The Publishing Scene and Writing Family Memoirs. Learn to write and get published.

Find details, schedules, fees, etc. at www. cscottwriting.com/savworkshop.htm or call 398--1727.

is registering kids ages 2 to 12. This year’s camp theme is Feel the Spirit. Camp will run through Aug. 11 from 7 a.m. to 6 p.m.

Monday through Friday. Activities include swimming, arts and crafts, sports, music, field trips, movies, spiritual enrichment, dance, character development and cultural and educational programs. Registration is $40 per child and the weekly fee ranges from $50 to $80 per week based on household income. Call 233-1951.

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Writing Family Memoirs

Christopher Scott Writing Courses will teach a one-day course on researching, organizing and writing family memoirs on Saturday, July 14. For all details, fees and

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Clubs & Organizations

AASU Sci-Fi Fantasy Club

This is an official student club of Armstrong Atlantic State University that accepts non-students as associate members. It is devoted to the exploration and enjoyment

of the genres of science fiction and fantasy.

Activities include book discussions, movie screenings, role playing game sessions, board and card games, guest speakers, episode marathons and armor demonstrations. Provides guest speakers to educators upon request. Currently organizing a club trip to DragonCon, and a club magazine.

Call Michael at 220-8129, send e-mail to lightmagus@yahoo.com or mccauln1981@ hotmail.com. or visit http://aasuscifi. proboards105.com/index.cgi.

N303WR@aol.com, or call Capt. Jim Phillips at 412-4410.

Clean Coast

meets monthly on the first Monday at the Jewish Educational Alliance, 5111 Abercorn St. Check www.cleancoast.org for event schedule.

Coastal Bicycle Touring Club of Savannah

Visit www.cbtc.org for meeting schedule and more information. Meetings are held on the first Monday of each month at Tubby’s Tank House restaurant in Thunderbolt at 6:30 p.m. 728-5989.

Bicycle Night

On June 28 at 8 p.m., enjoy food, fun and a beverage at Moon River Brewing Co., 21 W. Bay St., while watching The Collective, a great bicycling video. For more information about this event or to arrange the showing of other bicycling videos, contact Scott at 5972423 or yipiia@aol.com.

Daughters of Destiny

An ongoing seminar for women who want to make changes in their lives through spirituality and positive reinforcement meets every Monday at 7 p.m. at Daughters of Destiny House, 12 E. 41st St. Facilitated by Miriam Center. Call 663-0894.

Bike Night with Mikie

every Saturday at 6:30 p.m. at The Red Zone Bar and Grill in Richmond Hill. Half of the proceeds of a 50/50 drawing go to the military for phone cards and other items.

English Style Table Soccer

Savannah Subbuteo Club. Call 667-7204 or visit http://savannahsubbuteo.tripod.com.

Blackbeard’s Scuba Club

Historic Victorian Neighborhood Association

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Military Order of the Purple Heart Ladies Auxiliary

will meet Friday, July 7 at 7:30 p.m. at The Pirates’ House, 20 E. Broad St. There will be a guest speaker and a discussion of several upcoming dive trips. Call Ryan Johnson at 604-5977 for information.

meets the second Wednesday of every month at 6:30 p.m. at the American Legion, Post 135, 1108 Bull St. between Park Avenue and Duffy Street. Call 236-8546.

will hold a luncheon Thursday, June 29.

Networking is at 11:30, with lunch from noon to 1 p.m. at The Pirates’ House, 20 E. Broad St. The guest speaker is Monica McGoldrick of Celia Dunn Sotheby’s International Realty, who will discuss Ten Reasons Why People are Moving to Savannah and jow that will Affect Local Businesses.

The cost is $15 for members and $20 for nomembers. RSVP at www.buylocalsavannah.com.

meets the first Saturday of the month at 1 p.m. at American Legion Post 184 in Thunderbolt. Call 786-4508.

No Kidding!

is the area’s first social club for single and married adults who do not have children.

Meet other non-parents at events and activities. For information on No Kidding! visit www.nokidding.net or send e-mail to luluette@prodigy.net.

Rogue Phoenix Sci-Fi Fantasy Club

Chihuahua Club of Savannah

Members of Starfleet International and The Klingon Assault Group meet twice a month, on the first Sunday at 4 pm. at Books-AMillion and the third Tuesday at Chen’s Chinese Restaurant at 20 E. Derenne Ave. at 7:30 p.m. Call 692-0382, email kasak@ comcast.net or visit www.roguephoenix.org.

A special little club for special little dogs and their owners meets one Saturday each month at 10:30 a.m. For information, visit http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ ChiSavannah/.

Civil Air Patrol

is the civilian, volunteer auxiliary of the U.S. Air Force and is involved in search and rescue, aerospace education and cadet programs. Meets every Tuesday at 6 p.m. for cadets (12-18 years old) and 7 p.m. for adult members at the former Savannah Airport terminal building off Dean Forest Road.

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Learn to be a real estate investor or landlord.

Group meets the second Tuesday of each month at the Spiva Law Group, 12020 Abercorn St. The doors open at 6:30 p.m. and the meeting begins at 7:30 p.m.

Savannah Area Sacred Harp Singers

The public is invited to come and sing early American music and folk hymns from the shape note tradition. This nondenominational community musical activity emphasizes participation, not performance.

Songs are from The Sacred Harp, an oblong songbook first published in 1844. Call 6550994.

Savannah Art Association

meets the second Thursday of the month from 6-8 p.m. On June 8, guest artist Susie Chisholm will present Evolution of a Scultpure. Call 232-7731.

Savannah Brewers’ League

Savannah Council, Navy League of the United States

has a dinner meeting the fourth Tuesday of each month (except December) at 6 p.m. at the Hunter Club, Hunter Army Airfield. Call John Findeis at 748-7020.

Savannah Fencing Club

offers beginning classes Tuesday and Thursday evenings for six weeks. Fees are $40. Some equipment is provided. After completing the class, you may become a member of the Savannah Fencing Club for $5 per month. Experienced fencers are welcome to join. Call 429-6918 or send email to savannahfencing@aol.com.

Savannah Jaycees

for young professionals ages 21 to 39 is a Junior Chamber of Commerce that focuses on friendship, career development and community involvement. Meets the second and fourth Tuesday at 6:30 p.m. Dinner is included and there is no charge for guests.

Call 234-2106 or visit www.savannahjaycees. com.

Savannah Kennel Club

meets the fourth Monday of each month at 7:30 p.m. from September through May at the Fire Mountain restaurant on Stephenson Avenue. Those who wish to eat before the meeting are encouraged to arrive earlier.

656-2410.

Savannah’s First Pug Playday

This group meets every first Saturday at 10 a.m. at the Savannah Dog Park at 41st and Drayton streets. All humans and dogs who live in a pug household are welcome. A donation to the Savannah Dog Park would be appreciated. Contact Mike or Melinda at kennedy.mike@comcast.net.

Savannah Toastmasters

helps you improve speaking and leadership skills in a friendly and supportive environment on Mondays at 6:15 p.m. at Memorial Health University Medical Center, Conference Room C. 352-1935.

Small Business Chamber

will hold a networking breakfast Tuesday, July 11 from 7-9 p.m. at The First City Club, 32 Bull St. on Johnson Square. The cost is $20, which must be paid by July 6.

Mail checks to: SBC, Box 13785, Savannah, 31406. Call Frank Manibusan at 353-9343. .

Tybee Performing Arts Society

meets the first Tuesday of the month at 6:30 p.m. at the old Tybee school All interested, please attend or send e-mail to ried793@ netscape.com.

Urban Professionals

meets first Fridays at 7:30 p.m. at Vu at the Hyatt on Bay Street. If you’re not having fun, you’re not doing it right. Call 272-9830 or send e-mail to spannangela@hotmail.com.

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Dance

Adult Ballet & Modern Dance Classes

at Islands Dance Academy, 115 Charlotte Dr, Whitemarsh Island near Publix shopping center. Challenging, rewarding and fun. All levels and body types welcome.

Beginner-Intermediate Adult Ballet is held Mondays and Thursdays from 6:30-7:30 p.m. Intermediate/Advanced Ballet is held Mondays and Wednesdays from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. and Tuesdays and Thursdays from 10:30 a.m. to noon. Beginner Adult Modern is Mondays from 1-2 p.m. Intermediate/ Advanced Modern is Mondays from 1011:30 a.m. A variety of youth classes ages 3 to teen are available. Call Sue Braddy at 897-2100.

Ballroom Dance Lesson

Learn the waltz and the mambo on Saturday, July 1 from 1-3 p.m. at the West Broad Street YMCA, 1110 May St. The cost is $3.

Beginners and singles are welcome. Call 961-9960.

Flamenco Enthusiasts

Dance or learn flamenco in Savannah with the Flamenco Cooperative. Meetings are held on Saturdays from 1 to 2:30 or 3 p.m. at the Maxine Patterson School of Dance. Any level welcome. If you would like to dance, accompany or sing, contact Laura Chason at laura_chason@yahoo.com.

Independence Ball

The Moon River Dancers will host the Independence Ball on July 8 from 8-11 p.m. at American Legion Post 135, 1108 Bull St. The doors will open at 7:30 p.m. Attire is black-tie optional. There will be a complimentary dessert bar and coffee, plus a cash bar. Tickets are $10 and must be purchased

by July 1. Send checks to David White, 35 Bee Keeper Court, Richmond Hill, 31324.

Tickets will be mailed or placed on will-call status at the dance. For information, call Barbara Brown at 961-9960.

The Savannah Shag Club

Savannah’s original shag club meets every Wednesday at the Holiday Inn Midtown at 6:30 p.m. Admission is free. Call 927-9439.

Shag-Beach Bop-Etc. Savannah

hosts Magnificent Mondays from 6:30-11 p.m. at Double’s, Holiday Inn/Midtown, 7100 Abercorn St. Free basic shag, swing, salsa, cha cha, line dance and others are offered the first two Mondays and free shag lessons are offered. The lesson schedule is posted at www.shagbeachbop.com and announced each Monday. The dance lessons are held 6:30-7:30 p.m. Special cocktail prices are from 6:30-10 p.m. and their are hors d’ouerves. There is no cover charge.

Everyone is invited and welcomed into club

membership. Call 927-4784 or 398-8784 or visit www.shagbeachbop.com.

Youth Dance Program

The West Broad Street YMCA, Inc. presents its Instructional Dance Program in jazz and ballet for kids 4 to 18. $30 per month for one class and $35 per month for both classes. Call 233-1951.

Events

6th Annual Southern Isles Bodybuilding and Figure Championships

will be held Saturday, July 22 at Armstrong Atlantic State University’s Fine Arts Auditorium. Pre-judging is at 10 a.m. and the finals show is at 7 p.m. Special door prizes, including a stay at the Forsyth Park Inn, will be given away at the finals. For tickets, entries or information, contact Tony or Mary Ann at 897-1263.

Fitness

A balanced life

Student massage and yoga classes are offered at the Savannah School of Massage Therapy, Inc. Cost ranges from $20 to $30 for a one-hour massage and sessions are instructor supervised. Call 355-3011 for an appointment. Multi-level yoga classes are offered Monday and Friday at 5:45 p.m. Cost is $10 for drop-ins, $40 for a package card of five classes. Walk-ins are welcome. The school is located at 6413B Waters Ave. www. ssomt.com.

Center for Wellbeing Hatha Yoga classes

are offered Monday and Wednesday from 5:30-6:30 p.m. in Suite 203 of the Candler Heart and Lung Building, 5356 Reynolds St. Cost is $30 for four sessions or $50 for 8 sessions. 819-6463.

Free Nutritional Counseling/Body Fat Testing

by certified nutritional consultants. Muscle Quest Sports Nutrition Center, 109 Jefferson St. downtown. Call ahead to reserve a space at 232-4784.

Jade Lotus Tai Chi Group

Classes are offered Saturdays from 9:3011:30 a.m. and Wednesdays from 7-9 p.m. at the Unity Church, 2320 Sunset Blvd. Dropin rate is $10, $8 for students or 10 classes for $80, $70 for students. All experience levels are welcome. Look on the web at www.jadelotustaichi.com.

The Jewish Education Alliance

Join Amy Levy at 9:45 am on Fridays for yoga. Fee is $35 per month, Water Aerobics, Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday at 10:30 am. Fee is $42 a month for up to 16 sessions, Step Aerobics will be offered at the JEA on Thursday’s at 6:15 am. Cost is $35 per month. Call Drew Edmonds at 3558111.

Ladies Living Smart fitness club

provides nutritional education and exercise to encourage lifestyle changes at the St. Joseph’s/Candler African-American Health Information and Resource Center, 1910 Abercorn St. at 5:30 p.m. Call 447-6605.

Monday through Friday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Pilates Classes

are offered at the St. Joseph’s/Candler Center for WellBeing, Suite 203 of the Candler Heart and Lung Building, 5356 Reynolds St. Four sessions are $30, eight sessions are $50.

Pre-register by calling 819-6463.

Pregnancy Yoga

An 8-week session of Pregnancy Yoga will be held Tuesday and Thursday from 6-7:15 p.m. beginning June 6 in offices located at 7116 Hodgson Memorial Dr. Pre-natal yoga helps mothers-to-be prepare for a more mindful approach to the challenges of pregnancy, labor and delivery. The instructor is Ann Carroll. Cost is $90 for once per week or $150 for twice per week for the 8-week session. Call 596-0584 for information or space availability or send e-mail to ann@ aikyayoga.com.

Savannah Yoga Center

Classes offered seven days a week.

Community Flow yoga is offered three times a week at a cost of $5 per session. For other classes, the drop-in rate is $13, the student drop-in rate is $11 with ID and active duty military/dependents rate is $9. The summer schedule is: Monday, Community Flow Yoga from 8:30-9:30 a.m. and All Levels Flow Yoga from 5:30-6:45 p.m.; Tuesday: Yoga Basics from 6-7:15 p.m.; Wednesday, Gentle Yoga from 5:30-6:45 p.m.; Thursday, Dynamic Flow Yoga from 6-7:15 p.m.; Friday, Community Flow Yoga from 10-11 a.m.; Saturday, All Levels Flow Yoga from 10:30-11:45 a.m.; and Sunday, Community Flow Yoga from 5-6 p.m. Located at the International Center for Leadership and Coaching, 25 E. 40th St. at Drayton Street.

Call Director Kelley Boyd at 441-6653, email kelley@savannahyoga.com or visit www. savannahyoga.com.

Tai Chi Classes

are offered Mondays and Wednesdays from 10:30-11:30 a.m. and Tuesdays and Thursdays from 5:30-6:30 p.m. in Suite 203, Candler Heart and Lung Building, 5356 Reynolds St. Four sessions are $30 or eight sessions are $50. Call 819-6463.

Water aerobics at the JEA

The Jewish Educational Alliance is offering aquatics classes. Call Shannon at 748-2393. classes taught by Debra Whalen R.Y.T. are offered Wednesdays from 5:30-6:45 p.m. at Muscle Quest Sports Nutrition Center, 109 Jefferson St. downtown. $10 drop-in fee.

Call ahead to reserve a space at 232-4784.

The Yoga Room

Monday Level I and II 6:30-8 p.m., Mommy and Me Yoga 4-5 p.m. Tuesday Level II and III from 6-7:30 p.m. Wednesday Level I from 10-11:30 a.m. and Level I and II from 6-7:30 p.m. Thursday Vinyasa Flow from 6:30-7:30 p.m. Friday Level I from 6-7:30 p.m. Saturday Vinyasa Flow from 9-10 a.m. and Level I from 10:30 a.m. to noon. Sunday Level II and III from 5-6:30 p.m. There are openings for private sessions on weekends.

Visit www.thesavannahyogaroom.com or call 898-0361.

Yogalates Classes

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Gay & Lesbian

Standout

is First City’s gay youth support group.

Meets every Thursday at 7 p.m. at the FCN Headquarters, 307 E. Harris St., 3rd floor.

Call 657-1966.

First City Network Board Meeting

Meets the first Monday at 6 p.m. at FCN’s office, 307 E. Harris St., 3rd floor. 236-2489.

First City Network Community Center and Library

What Makes A Family

is a children’s therapy group for children of GLBT parents. Groups range in age from 10 to 18 and are held twice a month. Call 3522611.

The FCN Community Center & Library is open Saturdays from 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Visitors are welcome to check out gay/lesbian books and obtain information on “Gay Savannah� businesses and happenings. www.firstcitynetwork.com. 236-CITY

Be Stress Free

offers assistance to youth and young adults who need and want a job or a better job.

Call 236-2489 or send e-mail to bwooten@ comcast.net.

This group meets monthly to practice a variety of meditation techniques. Meets every second Sunday from noon to 1 p.m. at 6205 Abercorn St., No. 203. Arrive 5-10 minutes before noon and go to the front door. Access peace, healing, clarity and inner wisdom. Beginners are welcome. To reserve a space, email Ellen Farrell, M.A. at ellenjfarrell@comcast.net.

Gay AA Meeting

meets Sunday and Wednesday at 7:30 p.m. at 307 E. Harris St., second floor. For information, contact Ken at 398-8969.

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St. Josephâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s/Candler African-American Health Information and Resource Center, 1910 Abercorn St., will sponsor a client assessment and referral service that assists individuals in obtaining health care and medical assistance, indigent services, housing and other social services. Call 447-6605 or 232-2003.

Connect, discuss, meditate and share energy with live-minded individuals in this free, inspirational circle of healing at the Center for Holistic Healing at Memorial Health, 300 Bull St. Call 236-2131.

Community HealthCare Center

is a non-profit organization that provides free medical care for uninsured individuals who work or live in Chatham County and do not qualify for Medicare or Medicaid. All patients receive free examinations, medicine through the patient assistance program and free lab work. Women receive free pap smears and mammograms. Call 692-1451 to see if you qualify for services. Located at 310 Eisenhower Dr., No. 5, Medical Center.

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Health

First City Networkâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Workforce project

Canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t sleep or stay asleep?â&#x20AC;&#x2C6;Hypnosis and guided imagery works. Call 201-0071 for more information.

offers free blood pressure checks Monday through Friday from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. at 1900 Abercorn St. Call 232-6624.

Dual Recovery Anonymous

This 12-step program addresses all addictions and mental health recovery. Persons who are recovering from an addiction and a mental health problem can send e-mail to katkope@ netscape.com for information.

Eating Disorders/Self Harm Support Group

HIV/AIDS and STD awareness training

My Brothaz Home, Inc., a local nonprofit HIV/AIDS organization, offers free HIV/ AIDS and STD awareness training, risk reduction counseling and prevention case management to individual males and groups of males. Upon completion of the training, a monetary incentive and educational materials will be given to each participant. Call 2318727.

Home Health Care Part II

is a seminar that will be presented June 29 from 5:30-7 p.m. at the St. Josephâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s/Candler African-American Health Information and Resource Center, 1910 Abercorn St. Call 4476605.

La Leche League of Savannah Call Phoebe at 897-9261.

Lose Weight

like Mark Merlis on Dateline. Safe, effective, reasonable cost. Researchers at the University of Connecticut found that people who used hypnosis lost 60 percent more weight than any other method. The Alpha Institute, 2010071.

Mammograms

St. Josephâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s/Candler will be performing mammograms to screen for breast cancer in its mobile screening unit. SJ/C accepts most insurance plans. Financial assistance is available to women who qualify.

Mammograms will be performed June 30 from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. at St. Thomas Episcopal Church, Isle of Hope. For appointments, call 354-9357.

Memorial Health blood pressure check are offered free every Tuesday and Thursday from 7:30-9:30 a.m. at GenerationOne. 3507587.

Memorial Health CPR training

Every Step Counts Survivor Walk

FitnessOne provides American Heart Association courses each month to certify individuals in infant, child and adult CPR. The cost is $30. Call 350-4030 or visit www. memorialhealth.com.

Free blood pressure checks and blood sugar screenings

are offered free to the public every Tuesday from 5:30-6 p.m. on the third floor of the Center for Advanced Medicine.

A 12-step group for people with eating disorders and self-harm disorders. For information, call Brandon Lee at 927-1324.

This monthly cancer survivorsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; walk is free and open to all survivors and their loved ones. Call DeDe Cargill at 398-6654.

are conducted at three locations within St. Josephâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s/Candler. From 8:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. and 5:15-7 p.m. every Tuesday and Thursday, checks will be offered at the St. Josephâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s/Candler African-American Health Information and Resource Center, 1910 Abercorn St. Call 447-6605 to make an appointment. Checks are offered every Monday from 10 a.m. to noon at the Smart Senior office, No. 8 Medical Arts Center. No appointment is necessary. Checks will be offered Monday through Friday from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at St. Maryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Community Center at 812 W. 36th St. Call 447-0578.

Free hearing & speech screening

Every Thursday morning from 9 a.m.-12 noon at the Savannah Speech and Hearing Center, 1206 E. 66th Street. Call 355-4601.

Gastric Bypass Surgery Session

Memorial Health Bariatrics presents free informational sessions every Wednesday at 6 p.m. in the Medical Education Auditorium with Dr. John Angstadt and other staff members, who discuss obesity and the surgical process. Free. Call 350-DIET or visit bariatrics.memorialhealth.com.

Got a drug problem?â&#x20AC;&#x2C6;Need help?

Call the Narcotics Anonymous Helpline at 1800-334-3322.

Memorial Health group meditation sessions

Memorial Health heart risk assessment is held once a month at FitnessOne. The appointment takes about 40 minutes and the cost is $50. Call Midge at 350-4042.

Memorial Health Joint Replacement Lecture

This free orthopedic lecture series is held the third Tuesday of each month from 6:15-7:30 p.m. in the Medical Education Auditorium at Memorial Health to educate the community about the risk factors of arthritis, the prevention of arthritis and medical and surgical joint replacement. To register, call 350-3603.

Memorial Health SETâ&#x20AC;&#x2C6;Focus Group

This is a program to encourage Sickle Cell patients ages 11 to 18 and their parents/caregivers to learn more about Sickle Cell disease.

Call Donna at 350-5616 or Saundra at 3503396.

The Midwife Group of Coastal Georgia

The Midwife Group offers a free program to women at any stage of pregnancy that includes free information on pregnancy, birth and parenting, an opportunity to talk to other pregnant women and information on a certified nurse midwife-assisted birth, whether at a birth center or area hospital. Call 826-4155 or send e-mail to birthcenter@alltel.net.

Planned Parenthood Hotline

the 411|Happenings First Line is a statewide hotline for women who want information on health services.

Open every night from 7-11p.m. 1-800-2647154.

Project SAVE

The program provides eye exams, education and care to those who have no health insurance, are unable to pay for care privately and meet certain qualifications. The clinic meets Thursdays by appointment. Call 3522032.

The Quit Line

a toll-free resource that provides counseling, screening, support and referral services for all Georgia residents 18 or older and concerned parents of adolescents who are using tobacco.

Call 1-877-270-STOP or visit www.unitegeorgia.com.

Stop Smoking

Researchers at the University of Iowa combined 600 studies covering 72,000 people and found that hypnosis is the most effective way to stop smoking. Call the Alpha Institute.

201-0071.

Super 2 Access (After Cancer Cure Evaluation Strategy and Support) is a clinic for children and adolescents who completed cancer treatment at least two years ago. For information, call Pam at 658-2215 or Donna at 667-8943.

Third Annual Multi-Generational Health Fair

Men can get free prostate, blood sugar, blood pressure and cholesterol checks Saturday, June 24 from 1 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the Georgia Infirmary, 1900 Abercorn St. Appointments must be placed for the prostate screening by calling 819-3438.

Wanted: CPR and First Aid Instructors

The Savannah Chapter of the American Red Cross is looking for instructors. Call 651-5371 or send email to daled@savannahredcross. org.

Nature & Environment

Tybee Island Marine Science Center

Visit the center to discover the Georgia coast. The exhibits and aquariums are home to more than 100 species of fish, reptiles, amphibians, corals and other interesting sea creatures. Beach Discovery Walks are offered Fridays and Saturdays at 2 p.m. Call 786-5917 for information about current programs.

Admission is $4 for adults and $3 for children 3-16. The center is open daily from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., except Tuesdays when it is open 9 a.m. to noon.

Volunteers needed for Tybee Marine Center

Tybee Marine Science Center is looking for volunteers interested in supporting educational programs. Help is needed with touch tank presentations, animal care, special events, sea turtle monitoring, outreach programs, gift shop and office duties. Call 7865917 or visit www.tbeemsc.org.

Wild Island and Estuary

This Wilderness Southeast Walk on the Wild Side will be held Saturday, July 1 from 9 a.m. to noon. Travel through the tidal marshes of the Bull River and other creeks to observe birds, dolphins and other marsh creatures.

Boat traffic permitting, venture ashore on Williamson Island, Georgia’s yougest barrier island. The cost is $40 per person. Departs from the Bull River Marina. Advance reservations are required. Call 897-5108.

Pets & Animals St. Almo

The name stands for Savannah True Animal Lovers Meeting Others. Informal dog walks are held Sundays (weather permitting). Meet at 6:25 p.m. at Canine Palace, 618 Abercorn St. Call 234-3336.

SSavannah’s First Pug Playday

This group meets every first Saturday at 10 a.m. at the Savannah Dog Park at 41st and Drayton streets. All humans and dogs who live in a pug household are welcome. A donation to the Savannah Dog Park would be appreciated. Contact Mike or Melinda at kennedy.mike@comcast.net.

Dolphin Project of Georgia

Site Launched for Reclaiming Lost Pets

Explore the Salt Marsh by Land and Sea

Readings & Signings

Boat owners, photographers and other volunteers are needed to help conduct scientific research which will take place one weekend during the months of January, April, July and October. Must be at least 18 years old. Call 232-6572 or visit www.TheDolphinProject. org.

A new website has been launched to help people reclaim lost pets. It is located at www. thepetrescue.com.

Walk and paddle with a naturalist guide on Sunday, July 16 or Aug. 13 to learn about and experience the dynamic and fascinating salt marsh ecosystem which has supported humans on this coast throughout history. $30 fee includes canoe rental and basic canoeing instruction. Meet in the parking lot of Fort McAlister. There is a $2 parking fee.

Reservations are required. Call 897-5708.

Circle of Sister/Brotherhood Book Club

Take a walk on the wild side

at the Oatland Island Education Center.

The “Native Animal Nature Trail” features a variety of live animals and landscapes and winds through maritime forest, freshwater wetland and salt marsh habitats. Located 5 miles east of downtown off the Islands Expressway. M-F:9 a.m.-4 p.m. and most Saturdays from 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Admission is $3 per person for everyone over 4. 898-3980 or visit www.oatlandisland.org.

meets the last Sunday at 4 p.m. at the center, 1910 Abercorn St. 447-6605.

Rosemary Daniell Reading

The author, who lives in Savannah, will read from her latest book, Secrets of the Zona Rosa: How Writing (and Sisterhood) Can Change Women’s Lives, June 30 from 5:30-7 p.m. at The Book Lady, 6 E. Liberty St. There also will be an exhibition of fine drawings by W. Jerome Temple. Call 233-3628.

Tea time at Ola’s

is a new book discussion group that meets the fourth Tuesday at 1 p.m. at the Ola Wyeth Branch Library, 4 E. Bay St. Call Beatrice Wright at 652-3660. Bring your ideas and lunches. Tea will be provided. 232-5488 or 652-3660.

Religious & Spiritual Chanted Office of Compline

The Service of Compline, ”Saying good night to God,” is chanted Sunday evenings at 9 p.m. by the Compline Choir of Christ Church Savannah (Episcopal), located on Johnson Square. The choir, made up of singers from churches around the city, sings in the darkened nave of Christ Church by candlelight. Compline, the last of the monastic prayer services before retiring, is a service in which one is invited to meditate and reflect on the day or week past and then enter into the little death of sleep to rise with hope and thanksgiving for the days ahead.

Christian Businessmen’s Committee

meets for a prayer breakfast every Tuesday at 6:30 a.m. at Peggy Lynn’s Country Cooking, 3718 Ogeechee Rd. Call 964-4297.

Cresthill Baptist Church

Youth VBS is June 26-30 from 7-9 p.m. for grades 7-12. This year’s theme is Arctic Edge: Where Adventure Meets Courage. The church is located at 9120 Whitfield Ave. Call 3551505.

Ekklesia, The Church

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Shopping Center and the Armstrong campus. Call 596-4077.

Nicodemus by Night

An open forum is held every Wednesday at 7 p.m. at 223 E. Gwinnett St. Nicodemus was a religious leader who came to Jesus by night looking for a way out of the darkness.

He received revolutionary understanding that compelled him to forsake everything to become a disciple. Jesus was considered a heretic for his radical teachings that people should give up their own possessions and care for one another instead of themselves.

Would Jesus’ teaching require anything less today?

Peace Meditation Group

Learn a variety of meditation techniques and create more peace. Meets the second Sunday

the 411|Free Will Astrology ARIES (March 21-April 19): A Malaysian woman

survived a showdown with a tiger. Kaliyama was working as a rubber tapper when the big cat slinked up behind her and wrapped its jaws around her leg. “Amma!

Amma!” she cried out, invoking the name of the mother goddess. The tiger let go, backed off a step, and glared at her. Summoning her courage, she gazed back at it.

After a few minutes of this staring match, the tiger departed, leaving Kaliyama in peace. I advise you to use a similar approach in your engagement with a beastly influence, Aries. Ask for the goddess’s help, then let your essence beam out through the windows to your soul.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): In the game known as

Rock Paper Scissors, each player pumps a fist twice and then displays his or her hand in one of three different shapes: flat to indicate a piece of paper, a fist to symbolize rock, or index finger and middle finger extended for scissors. Each of the three can beat just one of the other two.

Scissors cuts paper, paper covers rock, and rock smashes scissors. For centuries in many cultures, this game has been used by pairs of people to settle small decisions, such as who will wash the dishes this time or who will run to the store to get beer.

Though it’s not usually invoked to determine matters of great importance, you might consider bucking tradition this week.

It may be impossible to solve knotty questions through common sense and negotiation. Why not try the Rock Paper Scissors approach?

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Sixty percent of Nigeria’s

population lives below the poverty line. Yet according to the World Values Survey, published in *New Scientist* magazine, Nigerians are the happiest people on the planet.

How can that be? It may have something to do with the Survey’s conclusion that “the desire for material goods is a happiness suppressant.” Sounds to me like the conclusion the Buddhists came to a long time ago: Craving for earthly riches is the source of a lot of suffering. Luckily, you Geminis are

of the month from noon to 1 p.m. at 5206 Abercorn St., No. 203. Arrive 5-10 minutes early at the front door. Access peace, healing, clarity and inner wisdom. Beginners are welcome. To reserve a space, email Ellen Farrell, M.A. at ellenjfarrell@cincast,bet,

Quakers (Religious Society of Friends) meet Sundays, 11 a.m. at Trinity United Methodist Church, 225 W. President St., Savannah. Call Janet Pence at 247-4903.

Savannah Buddhist Sitting Group

meets Sundays from 9-10:30 a.m. at the Unitarian Universalist Church of Savannah, on Habersham Street at East Harris and East Macon Streets, on Troup Square. Please arrive and be seated no later than 8:55 a.m.

Sitting and walking meditation and Dharma talk or reading. All practices are welcome.

Newcomers should contact Cindy Beach, lay ordained Soto Zen Buddhist, at 429-7265 for sitting instruction.

Soka Gakkai of America (SGI-USA)

SGI-USA is an American Buddhist movement for world peace that practices Nichiren Buddhism by chanting NAM MYOHO RENGE KYO. For information, call Gil at 659-1917 after 7 p.m.

Unitarian Universalist Church of Savannah A liberal religious community where different people with different beliefs gather as one faith. On July 2, author Amy Blackmarr will speak from the topic The Heart of Peace.

The service will be held Sunday, at 11 a.m. in the Troup Square Sanctuary. For information, call 234-0980, or send e-mail to

uusav@comcast.net or visit www.jinglebellchurch org. The Uncommon Denomination.

Wildwood United Methodist Church

invites you to its morning worship at 9:30 a.m. each Sunday followed by Sunday morning worship fellowship at 10:30 a.m. and Sunday School at 10:45 a.m. Wildwood UMC is located at 4912 Garrard Ave. east of the south end of the Chatham Parkway.

Woodlawn United Methodist Church Sunday school is at 9:45, worship at 10:50 a.m. and 6 p.m. 2502 Highway 80, Garden City.

Women’s Bible Study

at the Women’s Center of Wesley Community Centers. Call 447-5711 or stop by 1601 Drayton Street.

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in a phase when you have great power to shift your pursuit of satisfaction away from transitory, ephemeral, ultimately useless pleasures and toward the truly gratifying, eternal ones.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): In 1982 I moved into a

new home in Santa Cruz. It was just a funky old cottage that had once been a barn, but I was ecstatic to have it. As I opened the front door to begin my first day there, a violetcrowned hummingbird bolted inside in front of me, stayed for a few minutes, then departed. I regarded its visit as a phenomenally good omen, and it turned out to be just that. During my years in that house, I wrote my first book, recorded my first music album, fell in love with the woman I married, and conceived my daughter. Almost exactly 24 years later, I’m meditating on your horoscope as I sit in my current abode. “Send me a sign,” I just said to the gods. “What’s in the works for Cancerians?”

Now a violet-crowned hummingbird is dancing exuberantly in front of my window, peering in, lingering a long time. I take it to mean you’re at the beginning of a great opening.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): According to the organiza-

tion Human Rights Watch, there are currently 2,225 American convicts condemned to life sentences for crimes they perpetrated as teenagers. In contrast, the entire rest of the world has only 12 prisoners in a similar situation. I favor the more lenient approach that prevails on the planet outside of the U.S.--not just for criminals but for everyone. Though most of us didn’t commit felonies when we were young, we all made big mistakes that caused problems for us as well as others. Should we suffer for our sins forever? I hope not. It so happens that the coming days will provide fresh opportunities for you Leos to atone for and correct the wrong turns you made way back when.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): HELP WANTED: look-

ing for a smart operator who has expertise in both rebellion and compromise. Must be willing to break taboos if necessary in order

to help people, but must also be a sensitive and empathetic collaborator who’s skilled at creating harmonious solutions. Are you a rugged individualist with a strong sense of self or are you a community builder who can get along with a wide variety of human types? Both, hopefully. Be a good listener who expresses yourself clearly.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): If you set your mind

to it, you could break the world’s record for most ketchup sipped through a straw in three minutes, or the greatest distance pushing a tangerine down a highway with one’s nose, or the most jumps on a pogostick in the rain at dawn while wearing a leather jumpsuit. For that matter, Libra, you now have the boldness, physical vigor, and slightly crazed chutzpah to accomplish a whole range of precedent-breaking feats, from halting an abuse of power you’ve been putting up with to overthrowing the soggy status quo that has watered down the passions of everyone in a group you care about.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): The U.S. Congress cre-

ates a constant stream of new legislation, but that doesn’t mean President Bush has to enforce it. Since he took office in 2001, in fact, Bush has chosen to disobey more than 750 freshly minted laws. At the risk of getting you in trouble with the powers-thatbe, I’m advising you to make Bush your role model in the coming week. Try to get away with ignoring any rules of the game you don’t like or agree with. To maximize your chance of sailing through unscathed, proceed as Bush does--in a stealth mode, not calling attention to the fact that you’re in a rebel outlaw mode.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Please stick to drink-

ing low-fat water in the coming days; avoid the high-fat H20 whenever possible. Likewise, inhale only the kind of oxygen that’s low in cholesterol, and don’t allow your eyes to take in fatty landscapes or other calorie-rich sights. In other words, Sagittarius, celebrate simple pleasures. To make best use of the astrological opportunities, you’ve got to consistently choose the most raw, basic

options.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Last week’s symbol

was a closed fist.

The mood was determined, fierce, and intolerant of any funny stuff. But you’re leaving the zone in which that stance made sense. Your new metaphor is the open hand.

Your chances at succeeding will increase in proportion to your willingness to negotiate for peace, seek connection, and accept input. Receptivity is the Truth and the Way. “Why not?” is your power mantra. To prime yourself for the transition, I suggest that wherever you are right now, you spread your arms wide and unfurl your welcoming palms.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): When you obsess

on your adversaries, you risk becoming like them. The more you shape your life through your responses to things you don’t like, you invite them to define your destiny.

You’ll have to be on guard against falling prey to this mistake in the coming weeks, Aquarius. While I don’t suggest that you totally ignore the forces that oppose you, neither do I recommend that you regularly wake up in the middle of the night and spend hours plotting your next ten moves against them. Confine your scheming to a circumscribed period--say every Saturday between 11:30 a.m. and noon-- and devote the rest of your time to creating what you love.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Actress Isla Fisher won

the Breakthrough Performance award at the MTV Movie Awards for her role in the film *Wedding Crashers.* “For most people, playing a bi-polar nymphomaniac would have been a challenge,” she said. “But I just played myself.” She’s your role model for the coming week, Pisces. I hope she inspires you to be yourself, only bigger and badder and brighter. It’s like you have a poetic license to proceed as if you’re starring in the blockbuster movie of your own life. w

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9860 or visit http://al_anon_savannah. freeservers.com.

will hold an after-school and weekend Junior Group Tennis Program for ages kindergarten through 12th grade at various sites throughout Savannah. A cardio tennis program, Adults’ Workout With a Racquet, is a group activity that features drills aimed at giving players of all abilities a high-energy workout. Sessions are $10. For information about either program, call Phyllis Greene at 961-9862 or 507-9862 or send e-mail to ctcsavannahga@prodigy.net.

If you or someone you know has a problem with alcohol, call 354-0993.

Savannah Area Tennis

Savannah Disc Golf Club

holds an Open Doubles Tournament at 10 a.m. each Saturday at Tom Triplett Park on U.S. 80 between Dean Forest Road and Interstate 95. New players are welcome.

Free coaching in driving and putting skills is available. Teams are chosen by luck of the draw. Entry is $5. For information, visit savannahdiscgolf.com.

African-American Women Overcoming Depression and Bi-Polar Disease

meets the third Thursday of the month at the Bull Street Library. For information, call JoAnne Wright at 236-0027.

Al Anon Family Groups

A fellowship of relatives and friends of alcoholics meets Monday at 12:30 p.m. and 8 p.m., Wednesday at 1:30 p.m., Thursday at 8 p.m. and Sunday at 8 p.m. at 1501 Eisenhower Dr. and Tuesday at 8 p.m. at house full free on classSallie 6/12/06Mood 4:33 PM Drive.

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Alzheimer’s Caregiver’s Support Group

The group is for caregivers, family members and friends of persons affected

by Alzheimer’s Disease or other dementiacausing illnesses and meets the first Monday and third Tuesday of each month from 10:30 a.m. to noon in Room 111 of the Skidaway Island Methodist Church, 54 Diamond Causeway. Visit www.alzga.org or call 9202231.

Amputee Support Group

Open to all patients who have had a limb amputated and their families or caregivers.

Call 355-7778 or 353-9635.

Backus Children’s Hospital Support Group for Parents

who have a seriously ill child receiving treatment on an inpatient or outpatient basis. A case manager facilitates the meetings, and a child life specialist provides an arts and crafts activity Meets once a week. Call Donna at 350-5616.

Backus Children’s Hospital Support Group for Parents of Children with Bleeding Disorders

meets the fourth Tuesday of every month at 6:30 p.m. at Memorial Health. Call Mary Lou Cygan at 350-7285.

Bariatric/Gastric Bypass Support Group

for past and potential obesity surgery patients and their families. For information, call Cheryl Brown at 350-3644.

meets quarterly, March 24, June 16, September 15 and December 15, at noon, Conference Room 2, Candler Heart & Lung Bldg. 5356 Reynolds St. Contact Tina Nelson at 819-7340 or Cindy Balkstra at 819-8032.

Caring for Us

is a support group for caregivers of ill or injured family members or loved ones. Call Kimberlee Mitchell at 350-3399.

Celiac Support Group

Bipolar Support Group

for anyone with celiac disease who is allergic to products containing gluten, their family or friends. For information, call 507-2592.

Bulloch County Rape Crisis Hotline

Open to families of children or adults with autism, mental retardation, and other developmental disabilities. Meets monthly at 1211 Eisenhower Drive. 355-7633.

CASA Support Group

meets the fourth Saturday of the month at 10 a.m. at the Candler Heart and Lung Building, second floor, Room 2. Call 3551221.

John J. Dunn, Ph.D., is interested in hearing from people who want to participate in a bipolar support group. Call 692-1230 after 6 p.m.

The Bulloch County Sexual Assault Task Force has announced a new 24 hour/7 day a week hotline staffed by trained volunteers to aid victims of rape, incest and sexual molestation. The number is 912-531-1771.

This support group is for parents and extended caregivers whose child or children have been involved with DFCS and/or returned to your custody after being in foster care, or who have been given custody of a family member’s child who has been involved with DFCS and/or has been in foster care. The group meets the first Thursday of the month from 6-7 p.m. at Youth Futures Family Resource Center at 705 Anderson St. For information, call Madison at CASA at 447-8908 or send email to madison@savannahcasa.org.

Cancer support group

meets every Wednesday from 11 a.m. to noon in the board room located on the first floor of St. Joseph’s Hospital. 819-2475.

Citizens With Retarded Citizens

Coastal Empire Polio Survivors Association

Compassionate Friends Support Group

offers friendship and understanding to bereaved parents. It meets the first Thursday of the month from 7-8:30 p.m. in the Candler Heart & Lung Building, Conference Room 2, 5356 Reynolds St. 925-5195.

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Depressive/Manic support group

Open to persons diagnosed with depression.

Meetings are held in classroom B in the Surgery Center Building of Memorial Hospital every Tuesday at 7 p.m. 920-0153 or 927-2064

Diabetes support group

meets the third Thursday at 6 p.m. at Memorial Health in Conference Room A. Call Robin at 350-3843.

Domestic violence community support group SAFE Shelter provides a domestic violence support group every Thursday from noon to 1 p.m. at the Senior Citizens Building at 325 Bull St. Call Brenda Edwards, 629-8888.

Domestic Violence Hotline

The Georgia Human Resources Department and Georgia Coalition on Family Violence, have a new number, 24 hours a day. 1-800-33HAVEN

Eating Disorders/Self Harm Support Group

A 12-step group for people with eating disorders and self-harm disorders. For information, call Brandon Lee at 927-1324.

Fibromyalgia support group

meets the second Thursday from 5:30-6:30 p.m. in Conference Room 2, Candler Heart and Lung Building, 5356 Reynolds St.. 8196743.

First Line

is an after-hours referral and information line to talk confidentially about birth control, sexually transmitted diseases and pregnancy options. A free service from Planned Parenthood, available nightly from 7 to 11 p.m. at 1-800-264-7154.

Full Circle Grief and Loss Center

a program of Hospice Savannah, offers the free counseling services for anyone dealing with loss. Call 355-2289. Grief 101 is a seven week support group for individuals who have suffered a loss by death. Pre-registration required. Tuesda­ys 6-7 p.m. Grief Support Network is an on-going peer-run support group. Tuesdays 6-7 p.m. Children’s Groups, call for times. Specialty Groups such

as Spouse Loss Group and Loss by Suicide Group are offered when needed.

HIV/AIDS :living with HIV/AIDS? My Brothaz Home is a support group for men meets every Thursday of the month. Come on out and meet other brothaz. 231-8727.

Hope House

provides housing and support services such as life skills, resources and referrals, followup care and parent-child activities funded

by DHR Promoting Safe and Stable Families.

Please call 236-5310 for information.

Huntington Disease Support Group

meets the last Tuesday at 6 p.m. in the Heart and Lung Building at Candler Hospital, second floor, Room 2. Call Sandra at 9640455.

Keeping hope alive while living with cancer

meets the fourth Monday from 4:30-5:30 p.m. in the Women’s Services Conference Room at the Center for Advanced Medicine at Memorial Health. Call 350-7845.

Koolostomy Accessories

is a support group open to anyone who has an ostomy and their loved ones. Call Jennifer Currin at 350-7845.

Leukemia, Lymphoma and Myeloma Support Group

Each month, the group focuses on a specific topic related to blood-related cancers and also discusses ways to improve quality of life. Call Jennifer Currin at 350-7845.

Living without Violence

The SAFE Shelter offers free drop-in counseling to anyone who is in an abusive relationship. Meets every Thursday from 7-8:30 p.m. at the First Baptist Church Education Building at Whitaker & McDonough St. 2349999.

Lowcountry Huntington’s Disease Group

Call 964-0455 or visit www.LowcountryHD. com. Call 964-0455.

Lung Cancer Support Group

is for families who are going through lung cancer treatment and survivors of lung

cancer. It meets monthly at Summit Cancer Care. Call Patty Thornton at 350-9385.

Lupus Encouragement Group

Thursday at 3:30 p.m. at St. James Catholic Church, 8412 Whitfield Ave. at Montgomery Cross Roads. 355-1523

Memorial Health Cancer Challenges Support Group

meets Jan. 28, April 19, July 19 and Oct. 18 from noon to 1 p.m. in Conference Room 2, Candler Heart & Lung Building, 5356 Reynolds St. 354-9576.

A support group that is open to patients with lupus, their family members and friends. 4476605.

Call Jennifer Currin at 350-7845.

Memorial Health Diabetes Support Group

meets the third Thursday at 6 p.m. at the Error Prevention Conference Room. A variety of guests discuss ways to improve health. Call Glenda at 350-3690.

Memorial Health Hemophilia Support Group for parents of children with bleeding disorders. Call Mary Lou Cygan at 350-7285.

Memorial Health Pancreatic Cancer Support Group’

For information, call Jennifer Currin at 3503988.

Memorial Health POPPS! Group

for children with cancer and their parents and caregivers. Call Donna at 350-5616.

Memorial Health PRIDE Bleeding Disorders Support Group Call Mary Lou Cygan at 350-7285.

Memorial Health SET Focus

SET Focus is a program to encourage Sickle Cell patients ages 11 to 18 and their parents and caregivers to learn more about Sickle Cell disease. For information, call Saundra at 350-3396.

Mommy and Me: Life With Your Little One is a support group that meets the first Thursday of the month from 5:30-6:30 p.m. at the Candler Professional Building, Room 508A, 5354 Reynolds St. Call 819-6171 for information.

Multiple Sclerosis Support Group

will meet July 5 at 10 a.m. and July 15 at noon in Conference Room 2, Candler Heart and Lung Building. Call 653-5878.

Multiple Sclerosis support group

discusses topics that are relevant to anyone with a debilitating disease every fourth

Muscular Dystrophy support group

National Alliance for the Mentally Ill

meets the third Sunday from 3:30-6 p.m. at the Armstrong Atlantic State University Sports Education Building, Room 226. 3517035 or 353-7143.

Overcoming the Stigma of Seizure Disorders

meets the fourth Thursday at the Wesley Monumental United Methodist Church at Abercorn and Gordon streets. A free story/ coloring book, I’m Feeling Just Ducky!, is available for children to better explain seizure activity.. Call Pam Steadman at 233-1006.

Overeaters Anonymous

Is food a problem for you? Do you eat when you’re not hungry? Do you go on eating binges for no apparent reason? Does your weight affect the way you live your life? No dues, no fees, no weigh-ins. Meets Saturdays at 10:30 a.m. at 1030 Shawnee St., Unit F2.

Call 728-4028.

Pancreatic Cancer Support Group Call Jennifer Currin at 350-7845.

PRIDE Support Group

This is a support group for parents of children with bleeding disorders. Call Mary Lou Cygan at 350-7285.

The Parents of Difficult Teens group

for parents having problems with their teens and pre-teens. 353-7699.

Rape Crisis Center Incest Survivor’s Group

As part of its ongoing work with incest survivors, the Rape Crisis Center has built a cinder-block wall where incest survivors can throw plates as an anger management technique. In order to continue, donations of china are needed. Call 233-3000 to make a donation.

the 411|Happenings Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy Support Group The group welcomes anyone suffering with this disorder, and family members or caregivers interested in learning more about it.

For information, call Martyn Hills at 6514094.

Safe Shelter Outreach Program

Providing services for survivors of domestic violence. All services are confidential and free. 3025 Bull St. 651-0004.

St. Josephâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s/Candler Emory transplant support group

meets every other month, Jan. 12, March 9, May 11, July 13, Sept. 14 and Nov. 9, in Conference Room 2, Candler Heart &â&#x20AC;&#x2C6;Lung Building, 5356 Reynolds St. For information, call Terria Manning at 819-2171 or Karen Traver at 819-8350.

Sarcoidosis support group

meets quarterly, March 24, June 16, September 15 and December 15, Noon, Conference Room 2, Candler Heart & Lung Bldg. 5356 Reynolds St. 692-2032. meets the fourth Thursday of each month from 5:30-6:30 p.m. at 428 Bull St. in the United Way Building. The project can educate you regarding the new truancy law and how it impacts your child.

The Savannah Parkinsonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Support Group

meets the first Thursday of the month from 5-6:30 p.m. in the Marsh Auditorium at Candler Hospital. Call 355-6347 or 238-4666.

Senior Citizenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Inc. Alzheimerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Support Group

This monthly support group is for families of persons suffering from Alzheimerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Disease and other forms of dementia and is held the second Thursday at 5:30 p.m. at Ruth Byck Adult Day Care facility, 64 Jasper St. Call ahead to reserve a seat. Call Stacey Floydâ&#x20AC;&#x2C6;at 236-0363.

Sexaholics Anonymous

is a fellowship of men and women whose purpose is to help those with sexual addictions. 351-7440.

S-Anon Family Group

is a fellowship for families and friends of sexaholics. For information, call 663-2565.

Smoking Cessation Support Group

is open to anyone who has stopped smoking and needs additional support or to those who are considering trying to stop smoking. Call 819-8032 or 819-3361.

United Wayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s First Call for Help

Telephone information & referral service that provides expertise and relief to individuals and families in need, with a database of more than 500 agencies and organizations. 6517730.

Victim-Witness assistance program

is for families of murder victims. The meetings are at 6 p.m. in the Chatham County Courthouse on Montgomery St. third Thursday of each month. 652-7329

Weight loss support group

TOPS (Take Off Pounds Sensibly), a nonprofit weight loss group provides informative programs & info. Meets every Tuesday. from 6-6:45/6:45-7:45 at the Windsor Forest Community Center. 748-8700.

Wheeze busters

is an asthma support group for children that meets in the Rainbow Room at The Childrenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Place at Candler Hospital. Call 921-3368.

Women who love too much

meets Fridays from noon to 1 p.m. Call Maureen Wozniak at 355-4987.

The Work

meets the fourth Friday at 7 p.m. at 2320 Sunset Blvd., (just off Skidaway at Carey Hilliards). The Work is for mentally healthy people who are stuck in some area of their lives. 355-4704.

Chatham County Truancy Intervention Project matches volunteer attorneys and other professionals with children who have been brought before the court for excessive school absenteeism. They also provide legal representation and other resources to children and their families to prevent school failure. TIPâ&#x20AC;&#x2C6;is recruiting professionals in the fields of education, law enforcement and social service.

Become a mentor today and help make a difference in a childâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s life. For information, call 201-2133.

Coastal Pet Rescue

Foster parents are needed. A volunteer coordinator is needed, as are vet techs with microchipping experience, Pet Expo volunteers, fundraiser volunteers, a PR/marketing coordinator, a trainer/behaviorist and Adoption Day volunteers. Fill out an online application at www.coastalpetrescue.org.

Community Cardiovascular Council

is looking for medical volunteers to check blood pressures for our walk-ins.â&#x20AC;&#x2C6;Anyone interested in a few hours a week please call Sydney Oetgen at 236-7666.

Community HealthCare Center

Volunteers

This non-profit organization is looking for volunteer nurses, doctors, nurses practitioners and development/fundraising volunteers to work at the center, which provides free medical care for working uninsured individuals. Call Margarita Ruppe at 398-9720 or visit www.chcsavannah.org. The center is located at 310 Eisenhower Dr., No. 5.

The Chatham Branch of the Savannah Red Cross needs volunteers. Call Mark Stall at 651-5352 or send e-mail to stallm@savannahredcross.org.

The Womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Center of Wesley Community Centers is seeking volunteers to teach crafts or ceramic classes on Mondays. Call Valeria Flowers at 447-5711.

to sort, clean, & shelve salvaged foods from reclamation centers where bent cans or crumpled boxes of nutritious food is sent.

Apply as soon as possible. 912-236-6750 ext 109.

needs boat owners, photographers and other volunteers to help conduct scientific research on the Atlantic Bottlenose dolphin along the coast of Georgia. You must be at least 18 years old. Call 232-6572 or visit the Web site at www.TheDolphinProject.org.

American Red Cross needs volunteers

Americaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Second Harvest Food Bank needs volunteers

Become a mentor

Make a difference in a childâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s life. Call Michelle Jones, 652-6710.

CASA needs volunteers

to speak up for abused children in court for their best interests and to help ensure they are placed in safe and permanent homes. Call 447-8908 or send e-mail to infor@savannahcasa.org.

Stroke Support Group

Speak with someone who has survived a stroke, who will listen and understand stroke patientsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; experiences. Groups meet in three locations -- every Tuesday from 12:303:30 p.m. at First Presbyterian Church, 520 Washington Ave.; every Friday from 10-11 a.m. at Savannah Speech and Hearing, 1206 E. 66th St., (call Jane Medoff at 355-4601); and every third Thursday of the month from 4-5:30 p.m. at Messiah Lutheran Church at 1 W. Ridge Rd. on Skidaway Island. Call Ann Farr at 598-1766 or Shirley Nack at 598-7047.

Crafts and Ceramics Teachers Needed

Foster families and adoptive families are needed in Chatham County. Call 651-5437.

The Foster Grandparent Program needs volunteers

who are 60 or older to volunteer their time in educational facilities, day care centers and other social service agencies for 20 hours per week, working four or five days per week.

FGP offers a modest stipend and assistance with transportation fee. Call Linda Fields at 234-7842 or 238-2960, Ext. 123.

Georgia Cares

is a program of the Savannah Regional Office of Georgia Legal Services that provides free, unbiased information and assistance to Medicare enrollees on health insurance coverage, benefits, consumer rights and healthcare fraud. Volunteer training is required. Call Rose Beck, 1-800-559-8387.

Hospice Savannah volunteer training

needs volunteers to play music to pateitns, visit patients in their homes or nursing homes in Chatham, Bryan, Effingham, Liberty and Long counties, assist staff and families in Hospice House in Savannah, or help out in the administrative office on Chatham Parkway. Volunteer training is offered the second Monday and Tuesday of every month.

Contact Beth Logan, Volunteer Services Manager at 35502289.

Faith in Action Multi-cultural Program of EOA needs volunteers. Your neighbors who are elderly or who have disabilities need your help with everyday activities, simple chores, friendly visits, telephone calls and respite care. Call Linda Fields at 238-2960, Ext. 123.

First Steps at St. Josephâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s/Candler

The Friends of the Library Gift Shop at the Bull Street Library needs volunteers for all days of the week and Saturdays. Retail experience is not necessary. All proceeds from the gift shop benefit the library branches. Call Kathy Newman at 652-3661.

Lifelink of Georgia seeks volunteers

to speak to community groups, pass out information at health fairs and organize awareness-raising events. Potential volunteers include transplant recipients and their families, patients waiting for organ or tissue transplantation, donor families or anyone interested in organ and tissue donation. Call 341-0000.

Literacy volunteers needed

Project READ, an adult literacy program, is in need of volunteer tutors who can commit

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to 2 or 4 hours each week. Call Jodi at Royce Learning Center at 354-4047.

and admissions attendees are needed. Call Dan Genrich at 898-3980.

needs volunteers to assist in a variety of ways at its branches in Chatham, Effingham and Liberty counties. Call Kathy Newman at 6523661.

provides hospice services in Chatham, Effingham, Bryan and Liberty counties and is seeking volunteers to assist in providing compassionate end-of-life care. Volunteers may visit patients, help with office tasks or work on special projects. Training, ongoing support and education are provided. Call Edward Minor, 352-8200.

Live Oak Regional Public Libraries

Living Legends of Literacy

The King-Tisdell Cottage Foundation is seeking volunteers to help promote the importance of reading and literacy to children. The program is affiliated with the King-Tisdell Cottage Foundation 2006 Lecture Series, Literary Voices of the African Diaspora. Volunteers are needed to read to students at both East Broad and Garrison Elementary schools. Call 234-8000.

Meals on Wheels

Senior Citizens Inc.’s Meals on Wheels volunteers are responsible for delivering hot, nutritious meals to seniors on routes that typically do not exceed one hour in length. Volunteers may deliver as frequently as they choose and all meals are brought to the area by Senior Citizens Inc. staff. Training and support is provided. Call Darla Cady, volunteer coordinator, at 236-0363.

Medbank foundation, Inc.

needs volunteers to fill out applications, do data entry, make phone calls, help with filing, process mail and perform other office tasks.

Call Holly Smith at 356-2898.

Mentor and Volunteer Probation Program

Community volunteers are needed to be mentors for low-risk youth currently involved in the juvenile justice system. Call 652-6710.

New Parent Education Program

Odyssey HealthCare

Quest International

is seeking volunteers to host English-speaking foreign exchange students, ages 15-18. For information, call 866-540-4029 or send email to ForeignExchangeOrg@yahoo.com.

The Rape Crisis Center

trains volunteer advocates to provide support and information to sexual assault victims on the crisis line and/or at area hospitals. Train to be an advocate who provides support for rape victims taken to area hospitals or serve as a crisis line counselor. Call 233-3000.

Riverview Health and Rehabilitation Center

is looking for volunteers to assist residents in activities or just come and visit. For information, call Rhonda Sheffield, volunteer coordinator, at 354-8225, Ext. 243.

Ronald McDonald House volunteers needed

Caring adults are needed to help in the ”home away from home” for the families of hospitalized children. Volunteer internships also available for college students. Call Jean Asta at 356-5520.

Save-a-Life volunteers

Volunteer animal welfare organization is seeking volunteers and foster homes. Visit www.savannahsl.org, email us at savealifeinc@yahoo.com, or call 598-SPAY.

Senior Citizens, inc. seeking volunteers

Reading and math tutorial volunteers needed

Looking for volunteers to teach classes at Club 55. Areas of interest include music, art, computers, and exercise. 236-0363, Ext. 114.

Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy Support

needs volunteers. Spanish Oaks Hospice and Retreat is located at 8510 Whitfield Ave. Orientation and training are available to all interested volunteers. Call Cyndi HaggertyKrupa at 356-0233.

for elementary and middle school students, Call Tosha Powell, Special Program Coordinator, St. Joseph’s/Candler AfricanAmerican Health Information and Resource Center, 1901 Abercorn St. 447-6605.

welcomes anyone suffering with this disorder, family members or caregivers interested in learning more about it. Call Martyn Mills at 651-4094.

The Retired and Senior volunteer program

The St. Joseph’s/Candler program helps provide new parents with support, education and resource referrals to establish positive relationships with their newborns. To find out how to become a volunteer, call 692-6910.

Through RSVP seniors 55 and older serve in various community organizations, including hospitals, churches, youth recreational center and education facilities. Call 234-7842 or call Volunteer Coordinator Linda Fields at 2382960, Ext. 123.

at 711 Sandtown Road needs volunteers for special events and Saturdays. Trail volunteers

Share your time and talents with others.

Through RSVP seniors 55 and older serve at

Oatland Island Education Center

various community organizations from 1 to 40 hours per week. Call 234-7842 or Linda Fields at 238-2960, Ext. 123.

Retired and Senior Volunteer Program

Spanish Oaks Hospice

Speech and hearing center needs volunteers

to conduct hearing screenings for adults and children. Nurses and retired nurses are encouraged to apply for eye, ear, and dental exams on pre-school children. Flexible scheduling is available. Savannah Speech and Hearing Center, 1206 E. 66th Street. Call Jane Medoff at 355-4601

Tutoring Volunteers Needed

If you are an education major, retired reading teacher or a community resident who is interested in volunteering your time to a reading and math tutorial program for elementary and middle school students, call the African-

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USO Volunteers Needed

at the Savannah-Hilton Head Airport and Hunter Army Airfield. Call Mary Nelson Adams at mna935@aol.com.

The Volunteer Center

is a service of the United Way of the Coastal Empire. Call 2-1-1 or 651-7726 between 9 a.m. and 4:30 p.m. Monday through Friday, or send e-mail to volunteer@uwce.org.

Volunteer managers needed

Non-profit and profit organizations are invited to attend the Council of Volunteer Administrators (COVA), which meets every first Wednesday at the GA Radio Reading Service in the Senior Citizen Building, 3025 Bull St. 234-9999.

Volunteers needed for tutoring youngsters

If you are an education major, retired reading teacher or a community resident interested in volunteering your time to a reading and math tutorial program for elementary and middle school students, your skills are needed. Contact the African-American Health Information and Resource Center at 447--6605.

Skidaway Island State Park

Skidaway Island State Park is looking for anyone with a love of nature and a willing spirit. Opportunities for a variety of interests Call 598-2301.

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216 West Park Condos ~ www.216west.com 817 Abercorn Street in a gorgeously renovated Five new condos Fabulous Bloomquist construction feahistoric building on Park Avenue. Completely turing Christina Sharf Design. updated kitchens withInterior stainless fixtures, Magnificent features include Honduran stainless appliances, Shaker-style cabinets, pine, white terrace, & baths withcultured marblemarble, granitelarge countertops courtyard, and much, much more. to marble floors.

Hardwood floors Have throughout. see to –believe! $695,000 Call for details.

1500 2035 square feet.

Pricing starting at Alexander 912-220-1700 / John $300,000. Grikitis Alexander Grikitis 912-220-1700 / Giles John912-220-1667.

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30 West York Lane Henry Place Condos High Voltage Loft! Create your own utopia 645-656 East Henry Street when you purchase this fabulous raw space.

Four renovated condos located on beauEach unit will include 2 off-street parking tiful East Henry Street. Two bedrooms, spaces and the rest of the finishes are up to 1 bath, off-street parking, and porches. you. Call for details. Alexander Grikitis Excellent investment opportunity! Starting 912-220-1700 / John Giles 912-220-1667 at $139,000. Call Alex Grikitis at 912-2201700 or John Giles at 912-220-1667 for more information

Smith Avenue – Garden City 216 West64Park Avenue Large brick historic ranch-style home in desirState-of-the-art condominium community. able neighborhood Gardenspacious City floor Three units with 2 and 3ofbedroom located on over 3 located acres. 4 near bedrooms/2 plans.

Conveniently all downtown baths,has spacious room, updated Savannah to offer.family Units include stainless applibrick granite patio, in-law ancekitchen, package,fireplace, plasma T.V., countertops, and much more. Over 2100 square and suite surveillance systems.

Priced from $280,000 feet. Priced at $205,000. $300,000.

Call Alexander Grikitis at 912-220-1700 Hill 912-844-4000/ or John GilesRoy at 912-220-1667 for more details.

John Giles 912-220-1667.

for $145,000. Roy Hill 912-844-4000 / John Giles 912-220-1667.

The Coastal Real Estate 315 E. Group, Liberty LLC Street 315 E. Liberty Savannah, GAStreet 31401 Savannah, GA 31401

Park Park Avenue ParkPlace Placeon Condos on Park Avenue Twotwo condos out ofleft! fourOne left. bedroom One Only condos / bedroom/ one bath units in an one bath units located in a located great historic historic building close to Forsyth Park , building close to Forsyth Park, SCAD and SCAD and shopping.

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Roy Hill 912-844-4000 costs, 1-yr home warranty, & $1000 bonus to selling agent! $174,000 each.

Roy Hill / 912-844-4000.

407 East 34th Street Newly renovated home 311 Columbus Drive in an area of active restoration. the corner of 34th and CharmingNear 2 Bedroom 1 Bath Bungalow Habersham, thisOak 3 bedroom/1 bathroom in Midtown. hardwood floors, brand home over 1100 square kitchen feet, refinnew has bathroom, beechwood cabiished hardwood floors, a new HVAC, and a netry.

Just one block from Habersham fenced back yard.

Priced at $235,000.

Shopping Village shops and Restaurants.

Alexander 912-220-1700 / John 1132 sq.Grikitis feet. $220,000.

Call Catherine Giles 912-220-1667.

Harrison for more details. 912-856-5582.

401 N. Cromwell – Wilmington Island 3311 Bull Street Wonderful, renovated Remarkable Ardsley duplex locatedcondo on in 1678 the sq.ft. established commucorner lot. with 3 bedrooms/2 nity of The Commons.

First baths. Features include new HVAC and floor 1 bed / 1 bath condo has water heaters, hardwood floors, fenced yard, updatedlot off-streetgranite parking,countertops, and more. Includes kitchen, screened porch and next to property. Seller to pay 2% of closnew upgrades. $108,000. ing costs.many $350,000 Alexander Grikitis Linda Bray 912-220-1700/John Giles912-507-8500/ 912-220-1667.

Ray Hill 912-844-4000

Bolton Bolton Row – A New Condominium Row ~ 305 East BoltonCommunity Street Seven fabulous new construction 1 bedroom / 1 A luxury condominium community!

Two bedbath condominiums.

827-1,045 sq.ft. fine room/one bath condos with off-streetMany parking, appointments andfinishes, amenities, including off-street pool, upscale & $3000 paid towards parking community pool. close Pleasetogo by to buyer’sand closing costs. Located Forsyth seePark, construction progress. $240,000-$310,000.

Call for marketing SCAD & shopping. package and details. to sell from Roy HillPriced 912-844-4000 / $240,000 - $310,000. John Roy Hill / John Giles Giles912-844-4000 912-220-1667.

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Cottages at Stillwell ~ Pritchardville, S.C. 2 Parkersburg – Isle of42-lot Hope cottage comNow taking Court reservations!

Great brick home on hugethree corner lot.ponds Less than munity situated around fish under one mile to oak beautiful Driveinand majestic trees.Bluff Starting theMarina. low 400’s.

3 bed/2 bath with Mexican tile and hardwoods.

Located in Pritchardville, S.C. just 20 minutes Handpainted kitchenSavannah. floor, brick patio manyat from downtown Call theand office updates.

New updates! with $1,000 912-233-5900 or Roy$283,000 Hill at 912-844-4000. design allowance. Call Linda Bray 912.507.8500.

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