Pooler Magazine September/October 2013

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September/October 2013

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CONTENTS September/October 2013

features

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Dustin White Playing The Oldest Sport

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Pooler Police Department

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An Editorial From Buddy Carter

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Pooler Fire Department

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Pooler Recreation Department

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Lynn Coates Whittling Is An Art

departments

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Publisher’s Page Pooler Recreation Spotlight Stephanie Cummings

specials

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Dustin White is a senior at Benedictine, playing the oldest sport, lacrosse.

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Dustin White

Playing the

Oldest Sport • Story by SHERRY COOK •

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photo courtesy of Spicer Lyons of Spicer’s Snapshots

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ustin White is a determined and talented 6 foot, 180 pound midfielder for the lacrosse team at Benedictine Military School in Savannah. Not just a midfielder, but a long stick midfielder, which according to this young man is the most confusing position on the field.

White, a senior at the school, came to Benedictine his sophomore year in order to play the sport he loves. Benedictine was the first school in Savannah to recognize lacrosse as a varsity sport.

What began as games played by Native American Indian tribal warriors hundreds of years ago has developed into the interscholastic, professional and international sport of lacrosse.

These early games were played to settle tribal disputes or to physically prepare and toughen young warriors for combat. Their lacrosse sticks often had elaborate carvings on them, and were so treasured by their owners that they requested to be buried with them. Lacrosse has gained popularity as a team sport in the United States, and more than 200 colleges have men’s and women’s collegiate teams.

Dustin is an athletic young man who began playing sports at the age of five. Like most young boys, he was interested in traditional sports like basketball, football and baseball. He participated in all three of these team sports at the Pooler Recreation Department.

Savannah Christian Preparatory School is where White was enrolled before transferring to Benedictine Military School. During his middle school years at the prep school he played football, basketball and baseball. He remained at Savannah Christian Prep through his freshman year, and then made the transfer to Benedictine.

Dustin had never played lacrosse before the age of 14, and luckily one day a friend invited him to try the sport. He said, “One of my friends played and he asked me if I wanted to try it.” So that’s what he did and he enthusiastically says, “I loved it and I just kept playing.”

He has been playing the sport since his 8th grade year of school.

White began his lacrosse career by playing for Coastal Empire Lacrosse during his 8th grade year. Team Palmetto Lacrosse, a traveling all-star team, is where he played as a high school freshman. Dustin had the honor of being only the 2nd freshman to ever make the team.

This is quite an achievement for a young man who had only been practicing the sport for a year.

The upcoming season marks the 5th year of Benedictine Military School’s lacrosse program.

The team has won the South Carolina Independent Lacrosse League State Championship for the past two years. Dustin was selected to play on the All-State team both of these years. Nationwide, he achieved an outstanding recognition for being in the top ten for ground balls at

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photo courtesy of Spicer Lyons of Spicer’s Snapshots

the end of each of these seasons.

The Benedictine Lacrosse Team started a tradition two years ago to honor the memory of a former schoolmate and lacrosse player. Ricky McAllaster, son of head coach Dick McAllaster, died in an automobile accident four days prior to the start of Benedictine’s inaugural lacrosse season. Ricky was instrumental in convincing the school to start a lacrosse program.

Each year on Senior Day, an incoming senior on the team is chosen to wear the #10 jersey as homage to Ricky. They are chosen by the outgoing senior who wore the jersey that season. The chosen player must possess the same character traits Ricky McAllaster exemplified. These traits are strength of character, leadership, friendship, spirit and a passion for the sport of lacrosse. Wearing this jersey is a greatly sought-after honor that not only pays tribute to Ricky, but it represents the qualities that Benedictine instills in their students.

Coach Dick McAllaster chose the first recipient to wear the #10 jersey, and he chose Hunter Hebert, a fellow teammate

and good friend of his son’s. On Senior Day this past season, Hunter chose to pass the honor to Dustin, and this year during his final high school lacrosse season he will be representing his school and honoring Ricky McAllaster.

This upcoming season Benedictine will start play in the GHSA Lacrosse league.

In order to comply with GHSA rules, Benedictine added Dennis Daly to their faculty/staff. Coach Daly has more than forty years of experience in lacrosse. Dick McAllaster will remain an integral part of the program that he and his son helped start just a few short years ago.

College is the next challenge this talented lacrosse midfielder plans on tackling.

Dustin has his eyes on Mercer University, Piedmont College, Young Harris College, High Point University, Furman University and the University of Richmond. Mercer University is his top choice and he would love to play lacrosse for them.

Dustin White is not just an accomplished athlete. This dedicated young man is an honor student with a 3.5 GPA, and a member of the National Honor Society. He obviously possesses outstand-

ing character traits and is respected by his fellow students. His dedication and hard work are evident in his willingness to give up participating in football, basketball and baseball in order to give his best to the lacrosse team.

“I have full support from my family,” says Dustin White. His dad, Robbie White, and mom, Alison, have always encouraged their children in their athletic endeavors.

Dustin’s siblings, Dylan and Alana, also participate in sports. Robbie White played college football at East Tennessee in his younger days. “I think it is awesome he plays a sport I knew nothing about,” says Dustin’s father. “He is a natural and has a strong passion, so I am okay with whatever sport makes him the happiest.”

Lacrosse, the oldest sport in the United States, is definitely where Dustin White stands out even though he has only been playing for three years. Give this long stick midfielder three more years in the sport and who knows where he will be.

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Pooler POLICE Department

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he City of Pooler has been incorporated since 1907, and the Pooler Police Department has been in operation since 1950. The department is a state certified agency that adheres to rigorous state-approved standards. The city of Pooler is becoming one of the fastest growing communities in Georgia, and the Police Department has grown as well. At the moment, there are forty officers employed by the city, as well as various support personnel.

The dedicated and professional officers of the Pooler Police Department are committed to providing adequate law enforcement to the community. Police Chief Mark Revenew says, “The Pooler Police Department is family oriented,” meaning their purpose is to make sure that Pooler remains a great place to raise a family.

They do this through a variety of services that are offered to the community.

Neighborhood watches can be organized with the aid of the Police Department. They will show the residents how to get the neighborhood watch functioning and then let them take over.

The residents at this point become the eyes and ears for the department. The department also offers residency checks for anyone on vacation who wishes to have their property watched.

Pooler has also become a golf cart community and the Police Department offers golf cart registration.

The traffic officers of the Pooler Police Department provide bike safety fairs at the local elementary schools where students are taught the importance of bike safety. Citizen’s firearm courses and “ride alongs” are offered to the community. “Ride alongs” can be arranged through the department, and this is the opportunity for citizens to shadow a police officer and observe them on the job. Chief Revenew says this is a great way for the public to witness the hard work and dedication the officers put into their jobs.

The Pooler Police Department actively supports and respects

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the military. Hunter Army Airfield and Fort Stewart are nearby and many military families live in the community. Reaching out and making deployments easier for the families left behind, and supporting those who have been wounded is important to the department. They sponsor a Wounded Warrior 5K each Patriot’s Weekend in September, and have donated over $30, 000 to the Wounded Warrior Fund.

Pooler is definitely a great community to live in and the police department is one of its great assets. For more information about the department and other important links such as identity theft victims packets, golf cart registration forms, local crime statistics, etc., visit their website at http://www.pooler-ga.us/police.php.

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A Tribute To Our Firefighters By: Buddy Carter, State Senator District 1

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n our lives there are places and things we remember.

I remember one event as if it were yesterday.

It was a little after 9:00 AM and we had just opened the pharmacy for business. My assistant came running in where I was working and asked if we had heard about the building that had been damaged at the Trade Center.

I was confused at first and thought she was talking about the Savannah Trade Center on Hutchinson Island. She went on to explain that she was talking about the World Trade Center In New York City and that a plane had crashed into one of the twin towers.

We quickly turned our attention to the radio and listened carefully as the reports came in.

September 11, 2001, or simply 9/11 as it is called, was the defining moment for a generation. Many refer to it as our modern-day Pearl Harbor.

The events of the day are well documented.

8:46 AM- The North Tower is struck by American Airlines Flight 11, carrying 81 passengers and 11 crew members.

8:52 AM- 1st Battalion Chief Joe Pfeifer and 2 ladder and engine companies of the Fire Department of New York City (FDNY) arrive on the scene.

9:03 AM- The South Tower is stuck by United Airlines Flight 175, carrying 56 passengers and nine crew members.

9:37 AM- The Pentagon in Washington, DC is struck by American Airlines Flight 77, with 58 passengers and six crew members.

9:59 AM- The South Tower collapses.

10:03 AM- United Airlines Flight 93, carrying 37 passengers and seven crew members, crashes in Shanksville, PA. 10:28 AM- The North Tower collapses.

On this fateful day, 4 planes are hijacked and 2,977 people die.

America had been attacked.

Included in those who lost their lives are 343 firefighters and 72 police officers.

1st Battalion Chief Joe Pfeifer, who was the first fireman to arrive on this horrific scene, would return to the World Trade Center site again on February 3, 2002. This time he would carry

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the flag-draped body of his younger brother Kevin, another of New York City’s finest, from the North Tower area.

The picture of a firefighter, in full gear and carrying his equipment, racing up the stairwell of the one of the twin towers while frantic citizens flee down the stairwell remains embedded in all of our memories.

Last week, as our nation observed Patriot Day, we remembered and honored those who perished during 9/11 and celebrated their lives and their legacies.

Our appreciation and observance of the work firefighters and first responders provide our state and nation is never ending.

Firefighters and first responders are a unique group in our communities. Theirs is not a job. Theirs is not a profession.

Theirs is a calling.

We are blessed in our nation to have a mixture of paid and volunteer firefighters. Perhaps no other vocation in our nation is comprised of over 69% volunteers. Of the total 30,145 fire departments in our country, 20,200 are all volunteer and 5,530 are mostly volunteer.

In Georgia, it is estimated that there are at least 6,000 volunteer firefighters. Of the 626 compliant fire departments in our state, 236 are all-volunteer departments.

Training required to become a career firefighter is offered through the Georgia Fire Academy at the Georgia Public Safety Training Center in Forsyth. The eight week program consists of 340 hours of rigorous training that includes classroom-based lecture and practical skills building sessions. The program is recognized as being one of the best in the nation.

From 1981 through 2011, 70 Georgia firefighters have been killed in the line of duty. The Georgia Fallen Firefighters Foundation profiles some recent firefighter deaths and their actions of valor on their website at www.gafallenfirefighters.org.

We are thankful for our firefighters and first responders in Georgia and our Nation and we pray every day for their safety.

Our nation will never forget 9/11. We will continue to observe Patriot Day and honor those who perished that fateful day.

In our lives, there are places and things we remember.

Pooler Fire Department

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he City of Pooler Fire Department serves one of the fastest growing communities in the state of Georgia. Pooler’s population has more than tripled since the 2000 census, and according to the 2012 census 20,598 people reside in the city. Pooler, Georgia was incorporated in 1907, and the Fire Department was first recognized by a city ordinance on June 13, 1950.

Not only has the City of Pooler experienced significant growth, but the Fire Department has undergone quite an expansion over the last two decades. The department added its first Chief to the payroll in 1999, and by May of 2008 a second station had been built and 16 employed firefighters, as well as 20 volunteers, supported the daily operations of the department.

The City of Pooler Department of Fire-Rescue Services currently employs 45 firefighters and they also have four volunteer personnel. It is a full service fire department that has the capability to respond to any type of fire, rescue/and or medical related emergency.

Four fire stations throughout the city are in operation, an additional station is slated to be built by 2014, and there are also future plans for two additional stations. An impressive inventory of fire and rescue equipment enables the department to safely and adequately do their job. There are five firefighting engines, two aerial ladder trucks, a heavy rescue squad with Jaws of Life, a 3,500 gallon water tanker truck, and two command vehicles.

Pooler Fire-Rescue offers more to the community than emergency response. They also provide home safety inspections, commercial building pre-fire planning, fire hydrant inspection, and blood pressure checks. Fire prevention activities complete with fire safety clowns are offered to the local schools, and static fire apparatus displays and safety demonstrations can be requested for community activities.

The Pooler Fire-Rescue Department is a State Certified Agency that complies with all state approved standards and with all policies and regulations, and is one of the best trained and equipped fire departments in the region. Thanks to the funding and support provided by the City of Pooler, this department has become a topnotch fire-rescue department.

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Pooler Recreation Department

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he Pooler Recreation Department and Leisure Services boasts several recreational attractions to include two large recreation complexes, a community center and a senior citizens center.

The Pooler Recreation Complex, located at 200 Preston Stokes Drive, offers two lighted soccer/football fields, five lighted baseball fields, a concessions stand with restroom facilities, two playgrounds, batting cages and picnic pavilions to the community. Pooler Park, located at 900 S. Rogers Street, also has five lighted baseball fields, concession stand, two playgrounds, picnic pavilions, a multipurpose room, and a gymnasium. The baseball fields at each complex are available for rental to those interested.

The Community Center, at 955 Plantation Drive, is a facility that offers a full kitchen, a 1400 square foot dining area, restrooms, and ample room for outdoor activities. The center is available to be rented for parties, meeting, receptions, etc.

The Senior Citizens Center, at Sangrena Woods, offers daily activities Monday through Friday from 9 a.m. – 3 p.m. for the community’s senior population. The center strives to create a welcoming environment to eliminate loneliness. Arts and crafts, exercise classes, games, day trips and hot meals can be enjoyed at the center. Transportation can be provided for those who find it necessary.

The Recreation Department also offers youth athletic programs, as well as adult sports. Baseball, t-ball, softball, soccer, basketball, gymnastics and dance are the activities that are avail-

able to the community. The mission of the department is to provide quality programs and activities for the community that are safe, competitive, and educational and that create, promote, and enhance a healthy lifestyle, as well as encouraging good sportsmanship, teamwork and fair play.

For more information about the Pooler Recreation Department and Leisure Services visit their website at www.poolerrec.com or call 912-748-5776.

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Lynn Coates

The art of whittling

• Story by SHERRY COOK •

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t doesn’t take a person very long to figure out they have one sharp fellow on their hands when they meet Lynn Coates.

Coates, who has been “whittling” for over seventy years, is fairly new to the Pooler area, relocating from South Haven, Mississippi to live with his son.

Born in 1925 in Eureka, California, this eighty-eight year old gentleman has an endless supply of interesting stories to tell. He quickly admits he likes to talk, but you find out soon into a conversation with him, that is not all he likes to do.

Speaking of his home town, Coates says, “Eureka is where the red woods grow. There is only one kind of weather there; cold when the wind is blowing and foggy when it’s not.”

Mr. Coates moved away from Eureka in 1943 when he joined the service. While serving in World War II, he was involved in a serious accident. He was thrown from the back of a weapons

carrier and run over by a second weapons carrier following close behind. Luckily, his sergeant just happened to be in the second carrier and he saved Coates’ life. The young soldier’s face was buried deep in the mud and his sergeant thought he was dead.

“He (his sergeant) pulled my face out of the mud and I started breathing. I lost a kidney and broke every rib on my right side.

I still have the scars to prove it. I spent six months in a military hospital. They had to put me back together.”

After three years in the service, Mr. Coates returned to his home state of California. Here he met his lovely wife to be in Oakland, California and they were married in 1949. He and his wife, Patricia, had two sons within the next few years.

Like any young man with a new family to support, Coates joined the working world. He got a job in a plant that produced glass bottles. He was employed as a tool and die maker, and his

Whittling is the art of carving shapes, typically out of raw wood or bone, with a knife. Whittling is typically performed with a light, small-bladed knife, usually a pocket knife. Specialized whittling knives are available as well. They have thick handles which are easier to grip for long periods, allowing precise control and pressure. Occasionally the terms “whittling” and “carving” are used interchangeably, but they are different arts. Carving employs the use of chisels, gouges, and a mallet, while whittling involves only the use of a knife. These days whittling is mainly a hobby and not as a living as it used to be before carving machines were invented. (Wikipedia) job was to carve the wording and designs for the bottles inside the molds.

This particular job brought back memories of something Coates loved to do when he was younger. As a teenager in the late 40’s, he began carving heads on the end of chalk sticks. As a young man he discovered he had a natural talent and gift for whittling.

He remembers how his mother would give him bars of soap and he would carve figurines out of them. The memories quickly

bring a smile to his face and he says, “My sister wanted to try it.

She wanted so badly to carve those figurines, but all she got was soap chips.”

Years later during retirement, he and his wife were living in South Texas and Coates was looking for something to occupy his time. He joined a local carving club where the members were whittling animals. He and his wife would stay in Texas during the winter months and travel to other areas of the country during the summer months in their 5th wheel. The couple traveled the coun-

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try in their trailer for eight years. After leaving Texas, they moved on to Montgomery, Alabama where he joined the Montgomery Chippers Carving Club and carved horses on carousels.

“I had a wonderful life and a very wonderful wife,” recalls Mr. Coates. Lynn Coates whole face lights up when he speaks of his wife. She passed away three years ago after a battle with pancreatic cancer, and he speaks of her with great love and pride. He recounts that she went back to school at the age of 40 and finished her college degree. She was a Cultural Anthropologist and the couple traveled all over South America visiting anthropologic sites. They would work together on the sites. Mr. Coates says, “It was not always peaches and cream,” as he grins, then adds, “but we had a lot of fun.”

One such trip really stands out in his mind. They had traveled to Minaus, Brazil, located on the Amazon River. “At one time, all the rubber in the world came from Minaus. Huge ocean steamers would travel into the city on the Amazon to transport the rubber to Indonesia and it was a most interesting sight.”

Nowadays the avid whittler spends his days carving ash wood into intricate figurines. He spends several days a week at the Pooler Senior Citizens Center, enjoying activities and carving away. “Carving wood is a pastime that is a dying art,” states Mr. Coates. It is no longer an art you could make a living at because of the hours you have to put into each carving. He gives away his works of art, and he recently gave his pastor a cheetah he carved.

The process of whittling, according to Coates, “is just a matter of a very sharp knife and you just cut away what doesn’t look right.” He admits he does cut himself at times, but he just tapes it up quickly and keeps on going. Hours of patience are also put into each and every wood carving this talented gentleman creates.

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Lynn Coates obviously enjoys “whittling” and he also enjoys giving his unique creations away. He acknowledges that he has enjoyed a very fortunate life. If he can make someone happy with the talent he was blessed with it is well worth all the hours he invests in his favorite pastime.

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Stephanie Cummings

a passion for dance • Story by SHERRY COOK •

“Let us first teach little children to breathe, to vibrate, to feel, and to become one with the general harmony and movement of nature. Let us first produce a beautiful human being, a dancing child.” (Isadora Duncan)

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roducing dancing children is what Stephanie Cummings is passionate about. She has been teaching dance classes at the Pooler Recreation Department for the past three years, and has a total of nine years of teaching under her belt. When asked what her favorite style of dance to teach is, she replied, “That’s a very hard question because I love to teach all styles.”

Stephanie began her own dance career at Maxine Patterson’s School of Dance located at 2212 Lincoln Street in Savannah.

The talented dancer began taking classes at the age of four and continued at the school until she left for college. After high school, Cummings attended college at The University of West Georgia in Carrollton, Georgia. While in college she was the co-captain and one of the lead choreographers of the university’s dance company, Position One Dance Company. She also received dance training at a studio in Atlanta, but eventually she returned to Savannah.

Stephanie is married and the mother of two. Nate, her husband, is an electrical engineer at Gulfstream. Jaelin, her daughter, is 11 years old, and Landon, her son, is 5 years old. Cummings says her mother is a great support to her and her family and helps with caring for her children while she and her husband work.

Maxine Patterson asked Stephanie to instruct at her school after she returned to the Coastal Georgia region. The two dance teachers obviously have a mutual admiration and respect for each other. Maxine tells us, “Stephanie is a great girl who was brought up right and is very respectful. She is my right hand.”

Cummings’ respect for her childhood dance teacher and current employer is apparent when she says, “Maxine Patterson has not only taught me how to dance but she has taught me life lessons.

She has been an inspiration to me as well as my daughter who also dances.”

Stephanie Cummings hopes to be an inspiration to her own students. She began teaching one day a week at the Pooler Recreation Department three years ago. “Hugh Elton, director of the Recreation Department, has been a great supporter of the Pooler dance program,” says Stephanie. She recently added another day of classes to the schedule and now offers instruction

to those interested on Wednesdays and Thursdays. The dedicated dancer teaches creative movement, also known as pre-ballet, for 3-4 years old students, as well as ballet for 5-6 and 7-10 year olds.

Tap/Jazz instruction is offered at the recreation center for 5-6 and 7-10 year olds.

Stephanie definitely keeps herself busy during the week. She teaches tap, jazz, lyrical and contemporary dance at Maxine Patterson’s School of Dance throughout the week, as well as choreographing the recitals for the school. She also choreographs for Rhythm in Motion Dance Company.

Working with such young children would be a challenge for most people, but Stephanie Cummings loves it. She says, “I learned a great deal about myself when I started teaching. It is fun and challenging. I learned I like to teach, I like to choreograph, and I love working with kids.”

She loves watching her students improve and advance throughout their instruction. “I love seeing them learn and watching their faces when they get it,” she says with pride.

When questioned about the difficulties she encounters as a dance instructor to such young children, Cummings states that there is no hard part to it. “It is rewarding to see students challenge themselves, work hard, and get excited when they get a step or a combination,” she adds. The only trials this instructor will confess to are the ones she encounters teaching her own daughter to dance. She admits that it can be challenging at times but she loves doing it.

Passion is a vital tool in being successful in whatever you choose to do in life. Cummings says, “The dancers with great passion for dance who have influenced me are Debbie Dee, Gene Kelly, Savion Glover and Sonny Leo.” This zealous teacher is passionate about influencing her students and instilling the love and desire to dance in them. “Anyone can learn to dance,” she enthusiastically proclaims.

Information about enrollment in Stephanie Cummings dance classes at the Pooler Recreation Department can be found on the website athttp://www.poolerrec.com/, or you can call 912-7485776.

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Pooler Attractions Pooler Attractions National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force

175 Bourne Ave. • Pooler, GA 31322 The Museum is conveniently located off of I-95 at exit 102 in Pooler, GA, just two miles south of the Savannah/Hilton Head International Airport exit and minutes away from the heart of downtown Savannah. Today, the Mighty 8th Air Force Museum is one of the world’s most powerful museum experiences.

Savannah-Ogeechee Canal

Listed on the national register of historic places, the canal has a hiking trail that starts at a point in Tom Triplett Park and ends at the canal.

There is a museum on the Ogeechee River with guided tours of the canal. For more information, visit www.savannahogeecheecanal.com.

Recreation

Pooler boasts a number of recreational attractions such as a recreation complex near city hall and a 102-acre “super complex” near the Pooler Parkway. This facility is located on Isaac Laroche Drive behind the West Chatham YMCA.Visit the Pooler Recreation Department website for more information, http://www.poolerrec. com/rec/ or call 748-5776.

Tom Triplett Park

The heart of Tom Triplett Park is the lake. Surrounding the lake are biking and jogging paths and a frisbee golf course. The bike paths consist of three intertwined loops of 3.5 miles, 5 miles and 6.5 miles with a lot of technical turns, drops and downhills. Biking in the park is a great way to explore the historic area. Picnic tables under shelters are reminiscent of pagodas and playgrounds while barbeque grills ensure a

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perfect outing for friends and family. Everyone can try their hand at fishing from the two piers. A clubhouse is available for rent for any of your special events.

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The West Chatham YMCA is located at 165 Isaac G. LaRoche Dr. in Pooler.

Today the YMCA of Coastal Georgia reaches from Tybee Island to Hinesville, Richmond Hill to Rincon, with 10 operating branches in and around the greater Savannah area. With continuing emphasis on family, the YMCA offers a broad selection of activities including preschool childcare, school age care, summer camps, parenting groups, youth and adult sports, family activities, teen fellowship, spiritual rejuvenation, adult wellness, weight management, nutritional counseling, stress management, weight training, aerobics, dancing, yoga, swimming, and much...much more. For more information about the West Chatham YMCA visit their website at www.ymcaofcoastalga. org/west-chatham.

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There are two golf courses in the Pooler area. Crosswinds Golf Club is a unique golfing venue offering 27 holes of some of Savannah’s best golf. They are known for their excellent greens and course conditions throughout the year. The 18 hole championship course is an open, parkland style design with no homes anywhere on the course. Crosswinds is located at 232 James B. Blackburn Drive, Savannah, GA. Call (912)966-0674 or visit their website at www. crosswindsgolfclub.com.

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Oglethorpe Speedway Park

Every Friday, race fans gather at Oglethorpe Speedway Park to watch the best drivers in the area race for points and prizes. The half-mile speedway has entertained fans since March of 1951. A tradition of championship racing in a family oriented facility lives on as they run weekly sanctioned NASCAR events. Late Models, Street Stocks, Mini Stocks and Pure Stocks make up the weekly schedule.

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There are lots and lots of games at Pooler’s playground, Frames-nGames. The family entertainment center has 28 bowling lanes, videogame arcade, two-story laser tag arena, Balladium and The Pooler Grille, a restaurant and sports bar. Frames-n-Games is located at 6 Towne Center Court, Pooler GA To reserve a lane, or book a party call 912-330-5577.

Fun Zone Amusement & Sports Park

Fun Zone has more than 80 arcade games, four Go-Karts tracks, a 36 hole Mini-Golf course, paintball field, kiddieland playground, food and beverages and free party rooms.

For more information call (912)330-9860 or visit www.poolerfunzone.com. Fun Zone is at 1040 East Highway 80, near I-95 exit 102, Pooler.

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Georgia Theatre Company has opened its 12-screen Pooler Stadium Cinemas 12 at the Pooler Marketplace. Pooler Marketplace is located off of Pooler Parkway near I-16 and I-95.

Royal Cinema and I-Max, a 10 screen movie theatre, is located in the Towne Center at Godley Station next to Frames-n-Games.

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Sk8 City offers an 11,000 square foot skating rink, arcade gaming area, a state of the art laser maze, a soft play area for young kids and a full service snack bar. For more information, call 988-1388 or visit sk8citypooler.com. 4 Towne Center Court, Pooler.

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Girl Scout First Headquarters 110 Pipemakers Circle Suite 116 Pooler, GA 31322 (912)236-1571 The Girl Scout Program is girl-driven, reflecting the ever-changing needs and interests of today’s girls. Girls discover the fun, friendship and power of girls together, while learning the importance of personal responsibility, the value of goal-setting, the spirit of teamwork and the thrill of accomplishment.

Live Oak Public Library

Located at 216 S. Rogers Street in Pooler, the Live Oak Public Library offers a wide variety of books, videos, music, newspapers, magazines and computers. The Pooler Live Oak Library has a wonderful children’s section, and is a great place to visit during the hotter summer months. For more information about the library, visit their website at www.liveoakpl.org or call, (912)748-0471.

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