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SCAD Presents Spike Lee What: The Savannah College of Art and Design presents a lecture entitled The World We Live In by acclaimed and controversial filmmaker Spike Lee, whose films include She’s Gotta Have It, Do The Right Thing, Jungle Fever, and Malcolm X. When: Monday, Sept. 26 at 7 p.m. Doors open at 6 p.m. and seating is first-come, first-served.

Where: Trustees Theater, 216 E. Broughton St. Cost: Free.

Wednesday Sept. 21

United Nations International Peace Day

Thursday Sept. 22

25th Annual Savannah Jazz Festival (thru the weekend)

What: Groups of 35 to 75 people assume roles in 26 typical families living in poverty. Their goal is to survive for one month of four 15-minute “weeks,” all while subsisting at or below the poverty level. When: Sept. 22 from 8:30-11 a.m.

Where: Savannah Civic Center. Call: Letty Shearer at 9215967 or send e-mail to shearele@mail.armstrong.edu.

U.S.-China Relations in a Globalized Era What: Dr. Banning Garrett, director of Asia Programs at the Atlantic Council of the United States will speak to the Savannah Council on World Affairs. When: Sept. 22 at 8 Where: Coastal Georgia Center, 305 Fahm St. p.m.W

Friday Sept. 23

Savannah Ocean Film Festival (thru the weekend)

What: Films about maritime heritage and undersea exploration are planned for the three-day festival. The festival will include children’s programming at the Tybee Island Marine Science Center. For a complete schedule, visit www.graysreef.noaa.gov. When: Sept. 23-25. Where: Trustees Theater, 216 E. Broughton St. Cost: Free, but tickets required. Tickets available at the Trustees Theater box office. Call: 525-5050.

‘Car Free’ group ride What: To mark ‘Car Free Day’ cyclists, skateboarders and runners are invited for a group ride through downtown Savannah. When & Where: Meet at Johnson Square at 11:30 a.m. Friday, Sept. 23. Cost: Free. Visit:carfreesavannah.org/.

SCAD Presents The Rocky Horror Show Live What: Richard O’Brien’s classic cult musical, directed by Jeffrey P. DeVincent. This show is recommended for ages 17 and older. When: Sept. 23 and 24 and Oct. 28 and 29 at 8 p.m. Where: Mondanaro Theater in Crites Hall, 217 Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd. Cost: $10 general public, $5 seniors and non-SCAD students and free with a SCAD ID.

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What: Miss the symphony? Here’s a chance to enjoy the music of the Jacksonville Symphony Orchestra, which will be presenting three concerts in Savannah over the next nine months. The first will feature a tribute to Rodgers and Hammerstein and Andrew Lloyd Webber.

When: Sept. 25 at 7 p.m. Where: Lucas Theatre. Cost: $25, $35 and $50. Call: 525-5050.

Southeastern Choral Arts Festival Concert What: The Armstrong Atlantic Department of Art, Music & Theatre will host this concert with the Stateline Grocery Barbershop Quartet, AASU Singers and AASU Chorale.

When: Sept. 25 at 7:30 p.m.W Where: AASU Fine Arts Auditorium.

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Monday Sept. 26

Latino Heritage Week begins

What: The Hispanic Outreach & Leadership (HOLA) program at Armstrong Atlantic State University will host a variety of cultural events, including a concert, salsa dance lessons, Fiesta Day at an open Latino market and more. When: Sept. 26-30. Where: AASU. Call: 921-7337.

Choral Arts Festival Choir in Concert What: The 7th Annual Southeastern Choral Arts Festival concludes with a concert. When: Sept. 26 at 7:30 p.m. Where: AASU Fine Arts Auditorium. Call: 927-5381 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. weekdays.

Tuesday Sept. 27

Maxfield Parrish: Master of Make-Believe

What: The opening preview of this major traveling exhibition will feature Alma Gilbert, director of the Cornish Museum, who will give an overview of Parrish’s career and discuss his wife, Lydia, and her time in coastal Georgia. The Georgia Sea Island singers will sing songs from the African American tradition of the Georgia coast. When: Sept. 27 at 6 p.m. Where: Telfair Academy of Art and Sciences.

Cost: Free. Call: 232-1177.

Wednesday Sept. 28

Psychotronic Film Society Presents The Velvet Underground: A Visual Retrospective

What: This double feature will present the only two documentaries ever made about the group. Both feature rare archival footage of the group that was shot by Andy Warhol. Neither film has ever been available in the United States. When: Sept. 28 at 8 p.m. Seating begins at 7:30 p.m. Where: The Sentient Bean, 13 E. Park Ave. Cost: $5. Tickets at the door. Call: 232-4447. ◗

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What: Experience life in the Middle Ages and Renaissance as the Friends of Oatland and the Society for Creative Anachronism join forces to present this festival. There will be demonstrations of archery, sword fighting, armoring and weaving, plus dancing, strolling minstrels and activities for children. The concession stand will offer turkey legs and other medieval treats. When: Sept. 24 from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Where: Oatland Island Education Center. Cost: $5. Kids under 4 are admitted free. Call: 898-3980 or visit www.oatlandisland.org.

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What: The exciting jazz festival continues with a variety of performances in various locations throughout the city. When: Sept. 22-24.IInfo: For a full schedule of concerts, visit www.coastaljazz.com/festival.php?id=24/.

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What: Peace songs will be sung, and the Rev. Mike Freeman will offer words of spiritual communion. Area peace groups, such as Code Pink and the Fellowship of Reconciliation, and churches will participate. When: Sept. 21 at 7 p.m. Where: Morrell Park, east end of River Street.

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THE DATE WAS DEC. 19, 1827.

Keeper John Whalton was tending to his lightship, a sort of mobile lighthouse, which was anchored a few miles off Key Largo. He was about to witness a tragedy.

As Whalton later said, “I saw the flash and heard the report of seven or eight guns.”

An international ban on the slave trade had been enacted, yet a Spanish slave ship, the Guerrero, was sailing along the Florida coast.

Aboard the ship were 561 captive Africans, kidnapped from five nations, and a crew of 90 Spaniards who were little more than pirates.

In hot pursuit of the Guerrero -- Spanish for “warrior” -- was the British warship Nimble. The British had received a tip that the Guerrero was bound for Cuba, where the Africans would be exchanged for goods to be exported to Europe.

The two ships were firing their cannons at each other as they neared the shore -- too close to the shore, as it turned out. As Whalton watched, both ships piled onto a reef.

The Nimble merely ran aground, but the Guerrero struck the reef so hard that her masts snapped and collapsed. The massive poles fell into the hold where the Africans were imprisoned, killing about 40 of them.

The Spanish ship sank immediately. A Baltimore newspaper later reported, “The cries of 561 slaves and the crew were appalling beyond description.”

Desperate to salvage their profit, the crew of the Guerrero hijacked two of the vessels that came to their aid. They forced about 400 of the Africans aboard these ships and took them to Cuba, where they were sold into slavery.

A salvage ship picked up the remaining survivors and took them to Key West. Later, they were moved up the coast to St. Augustine, but instead of returning them to Africa, the 121 survivors were rented to nearby plantations, where they were treated as slaves.

Finally, in 1829, the refugees were put aboard a ship to Africa. The ship developed leaks, and they were taken instead to Barbados. After several months, they finally arrived in Liberia.

The Guerrero’s voyage ended when it sank off the coast of Florida, and its dramatic story seemingly died with it. For decades, the only hint of its existence could be found in obscure historical accounts.

That changed 13 years ago when historian Gail Swanson learned about the wreck. Swanson was so intrigued by the story of the Guerrero she began researching its story, even selling her house in Key West and funding her research with the equity.

Today, because of Swanson’s research, expeditions are competing to discover the Guerrero’s resting place. A documentary about the ship and the search for it has been filmed by Wandering Dog Films and Blue Cactus Pictures.

The Guerrero Project will have its world premiere during the second annual Savannah Ocean Film Festival, which will be held Sept. 23, 24 and 25 at the Savannah College of Art and Design’s

Students can address one of four topics: Ocean Exploration, African Americans and the Sea, Coastal Issues or Marine Protected Areas.

One of the highlights of the festival will be the appearance of Stan Waterman, pioneer underwater film producer, who will present Giants of Underwater Film on Friday, Sept. 23 at 7 p.m. Waterman has won five Emmy Awards, just a few of his honors throughout a career that spans nearly 50 years.

In addition to numerous documentaries, television series and films for National Geographic, ABC and ESPN, Waterman collaborated with Peter Gimbel on the classic shark film, Blue Water, White Death.

Waterman worked with his close friend Peter Benchley on The Deep as the co-director of underwater photography.

A member of the National Association of Black Scuba Divers Frank Capra, Jr., the president of Screen over the Guerrero wrecksite Gems, will be on hand Saturday, Sept. 24 at 7 p.m. to present From Cousteau to Capra -Trustees Theater and the Tybee Island Marine Our Changing Views of the Ocean.

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The final segment, Maritime Heritage in the The festival is sponsored by the Gray’s Reef National Marine Sanctuary, which is managed by the Southeast, will be presented by Karuna Eberl on Sunday, Sept. 25 at 7 p.m. The world premiere of National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

The Guerrero Project will be presented during this “The enthusiasm in Savannah and the region segment. generated by last year’s successful film festival has Films on all three nights will be followed by inspired us to expand the event this year,” says question-and-answer sessions between the preSanctuary Manager Reed Bohne. senters and audience members. All in all, the This is the first time most of the festival’s films have been shown in the Southeast. Yet admission to formula that captivated Savannahians last year is back -- with some more events added for good every one of them is free -- although you will need measure. tickets to get in.

“The first festival was a wonderful success,” More than 20 films will be presented during the says Gail Krueger, Communications and Outreach festival, including 3000 Years Under the Sea; Blue Water, White Death; and The Power of Water.

Coordinator at Gray’s Reef. “It showed us people In addition, the Tybee Island Marine Science living in our area are looking for information about Center will host two days of free children’s prothe oceans. This is a good way of getting inforgrams on Saturday and Sunday from 10 a.m. to 4 mation to them. Not everyone has a boat. Not p.m. Those films will include Humphrey the Lost everyone can dive.”

Whale, SeaHouse and The Rainbow Fish.

The intent has always been to make admission There also will be a community lecture about the to the films free, Krueger says. “We have great film, The Guerrero Project. The lecture will take partners who help keep it free,” she says. place Monday, Sept. 26 from 12:30-1:30 p.m. at Putting the festival together is a major project, Savannah State University’s Jordan Auditorium in Krueger says. the College of Business Administration.

“It’s somewhat difficult because our focus is so The lecture is part of a program called Seaing is narrow. We look for films about the oceans, marine Believing, which is funded by a City of Savannah creatures and people who relate to them. We don’t Weave-A-Dream grant. Members of the cast and have as many films to choose from,” she says. crew will take part in a panel discussion on the “One of our goals is to change that. We are in a content and making of the documentary. growing partnership with Savannah College of Art Among those attending will be director Karuna and Design film students. We want them to make Eberl; historian Gail Swanson; Gene Tinnie, comore maritime films.” director of the Dos Amigos/Fair Rosamond Middle The whole intent of the festival is to show people Passage Ship Replica Project; Ken Stewart of the how important the oceans are to our health and to National Association of Black Scuba Divers; and foster stewardship of the oceans. Krueger says Florida treasure hunter Captain Carl Fismer. some local middle, high school and grade school As part of the community lecture, an essay and students will be brought in to attend the community visual arts competition for students in grades K-12 lecture. “The idea is to inspire more children to is being held. The essay contest is open to any explore maritime issues.” The deadline of the essay public or private school student in grades 7-12, and art contests has been extended to Oct. 14. while the visual arts competition is open to ele“We hope to get students of all ages thinking mentary students in kindergarten though 6th grade. about the marine environment,” Krueger says. “It

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Angeles, where she has produced a feature documentary, My Next Neurosis, which examines beauty and self-image.

She currently is producing a feature film, Saving Elena.

Eberl’s background is diverse. She has worked as a journalist, screenwriter, novelist, editor, photographer, film crew member and producer.

“I was introduced to film three years ago,” Eberl says. “After being on a film set, I was hooked.”

Eberl first learned about the Guerrero while working on a documentary about marine treasure hunters. It was there that she met Swanson, who first learned about the Guerrero in 1992.

“I was not a historian, I was doing nature work in the Keys,” Swanson says. “I was working on a nature calendar. I couldn’t fill out the entire 365 days, so I decided to fill in the gaps with history.”

At first, Swanson stuck with the 1500s, 1600s and 1700s. She did not want to incorporate any history past 1800.

But along the way, Swanson encountered the story of the Guerrero. She tried to ignore it, but couldn’t put it behind her.

“I got a guilty feeling,” Swanson says.

“I asked a researcher to look for official records.”

Soon, the documents began to pile up.

“It took weeks to transcribe them on tapes,” Swanson says. “I couldn’t believe the drama that was unfolding in each document.”

Swanson’s excitement increased when she learned that the American names given to the African survivors who were taken to the Keys had survived. That meant information about them could be traced.

“That’s what really sent me off,” Swanson says. “They were no longer nameless. I could follow them.”

At first, Swanson funded her research with a series of odd jobs. She finally sold her house and used the equity to fund the project.

“It’s not as benevolent as it sounds,” Swanson says. “I got a divorce, so I could hardly afford a house in the Florida Keys.

Then I got a cataract and could hardly work at all,. I ended up $30,000 in debt. I found a much cheaper house in central Florida, and used the $50,000 equity and also lived off credit cards.”

However, Swanson does not consider the project a labor of love. “It’s been a labor of obligation,” she says.

“I found these people in the archives. I owed it to them to tell their stories.

“Their story was totally forgotten,” Swanson says. “This all happened 35 minutes from where I lived, but it was totally forgotten.”

Swanson did all this work without any thought of making money. She had already written one book, Documentation of the Indians of the Florida Keys and Miami, 1513-1765, and planned to self-publish a history of the Guerrero.

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doesn’t matter if you never go to the ocean, everything you do on land impacts the ocean. The health of the ocean impacts all of us.”

The ocean’s story includes the entire scope of human history. Much of the oceans’ history has been lost -- but one story that has been discovered has already had a big impact.

The Guerrero’s value is mostly historic.

After the ship sank, salvagers recovered as much as they could.

However, there may be artifacts remaining at the site, including musket balls, utensils and equipment used aboard the ship, that would be of great interest to historians today.

In searching for the ship, teams of researchers use iron-sensing magnetometers and old records. There are two other known slave ship wrecks off the Florida Key, and scholars believe there may be many more.

About 12 million Africans survived the terrible voyages that took them from their homes into slavery. Undoubtedly there were many who perished at sea.

Throughout The Guerrero Project, footage of the scientific expeditions is incorporated with interviews and perspectives from historians, humanitarians and social advocates. There also are line drawings to depict some of the events that occurred during the wreck and its aftermath.

The Guerrero Project marks Eberl’s directorial debut. She first learned about the story from Swanson.

“I realized nobody really knew about it,” Eberl says. “ It’s an important piece of history.”

The need to tell a story doesn’t guarantee it will happen, though. “The biggest challenge in making any film is finding funding for it,” Eberl says. “Another challenge is trying to the role of this kind of history in society today.”

There was yet another hurdle -- racism.

Eberl, who is white, was told flat-out that whites should not be telling a story that is essentially African American.

Not by African-Americans, mind you, but by white film festival organizers and heads of agencies that fund grants.

“The real problem has been, who has the right to tell a story like this,” she says.

“The African-American community has been very supportive. Others felt we were too white to tell this story. We were told this point-blank by funding and progressive agencies.”

That was a real puzzle for Eberl and her crew. “We just set out to tell the story about people,” she says. “I felt this story was about all of us. It’s such an important part of American history, which influences all of us.”

Even Eberl agrees the project was different from most, though. “The film was shot 20 feel below the ocean, and edited 9,000 feet above sea level in the Colorado mountains,” she says with a laugh.

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“I do it for the totally forgotten people,” Swanson says, adding that her first book is about Indians who vanished before the Seminoles arrived and have been forgotten. “I don’t care about presidents and other name-nabbers.”

When Swanson met Eberl and told her the story of the Guerrero, Eberl expressed interest in making a documentary. “I’m really impressed with her following through with it,” Swanson says.

While Swanson is delighted so many researchers want to find the Guerrero because of her work, she does not hold out much hope that the wreck will be found. It lies within the boundaries of the Biscayne National Park.

“I think the archaeologists with the National Park Service don’t want anything to be found,” Swanson says. “I don’t get along with archaeologists at all. They think it will be more damaging to find something than to never find it.”

Although Swanson has devoted the past 13 years to the Guerrero, she plans to move on to other projects. There are many more stories she wants to dig into.

Swanson’s research has led to the discovery of an African burial ground in Key West. “There are 300 people buried there off another slave ship in 1860,” she says.

One of Swanson’s planned books will cover unusual natural phenomena. In all, she has eight books in the works.

Dinizulu Gene Tinnie also will travel to Savannah for the screening of The Guerrero Project and the community lecture the next day. An artist and historian of the Middle Passage, a term used to describe the Atlantic slave trade, he has devoted his life to helping others understand the Middle Passage.

Tinnie currently is the co-director of the Dos Amigos/Fair Rosamond Slave Ship Replica Project. This group hopes to build a replica of a slave ship by 2007, in time for he 200th anniversary of U.S. Abolitionism in 2008.

The story of the Guerrero is important, Tinnie says, “because it’s part of the story of the whole Middle Passage. It’s all part of an untold story, which is the story of who we are. Here is a case of a specific ship with real evidence and real names. It really makes the story something we can understand better with human terms and get a real feeling for.”

Though the story has been largely forgotten, it has turned up in obscure records. Tinnie says author and civil rights pioneer W.E.B. DuBois referred to the Guerrero in his Harvard doctoral thesis. “Here is a story that not only is human, here is something that happened in American waters,” Tinnie says.

How did such a story get lost?

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“I can remember in school I wasn’t fascinated by history at all,” he says. “I discovered it through a need to know more, to know how we came to be where we are.

“History just really needs to be looked at,” Tinnie says. “It is really time for us to take a good hard look at ourselves. Those of us who call ourselves Americans need to take a good look at what that means now.

“Essentially, history is the story of how people found food, clothing, shelter,” he says. “It really is what holds us together, and gives us the identity we have.

Diver Denis Trelewicz examines a Guerrero artifact “Why should anybody care about this?” Tinnie asks. “Because for certain that whole bodies of history it can get us to the point where we realize have been left out -- Native American we all come from a collective ancestry.” ◗ history, African American history,” Tinnie says. “The way schools once operated, For a complete schedule of films, visit journalism operated, that stuff was not graysreef.noaa.gov. considered important.”

Today, researchers, journalists and educators are more open minded, Tinnie says. “The whole point is that it isn’t someone else’s history,” he says. “Some people came here because there was a slave trade, whether we like it or not.”

Discoveries such as the Guerrero make history come to life for people who have never showed an interest in history before. Tinnie himself came to his interest in history as an adult.

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Since last year, Oatland and SCA have entered into a kind of symbiotic relationship. Some Oatland staff has joined SCA and some SCA members have come to work for Oatland.

As always, the focal point of this SCA event will be the highly authentic, periodstyle fighting that goes on between male participants, all wearing some form of homemade armor and wielding handmade “swords” which, while having no blade, still pack a heck of a whallop.

“This year we will have an actual period tournament,” Newton explains.

“We will fight in the melee style, which is a group battle, and pas-du-arms, a oneon-one combat.”

The winner of these battles is decided, as the invitation to compete puts it, “in the customary manner, being contested solely for honor and renown, rather that for the base spirit of victory” (in other words the ladies’ gallery will choose the winner based on chivalrous actions of the opponents).

SCA members will attend the festival from all over the southeast, and every member who is authorized in “heavy list combat” by an SCA Panel of Marshals is invited to participate in the tournament.

SCA members develop a persona, a person that they could have been had they actually lived during the middle ages.

They take a journey back in time as they develop their persona, learning skills, crafts and historic events along the way.

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THREE YEARS AGO FRIENDS OF Oatland (FOO), Oatland Island Educational Center’s financial and public awareness arm, held its first “Beastly Feast” fundraiser -- only it was really more of a Lowcountry Boil.

“Shouldn’t our food be, well... more beastly?” someone suggested the following year. Lots of meat like a medieval banquet, maybe some medieval fighting demonstrations.....

Enter the Society of Creative Anachronism (SCA) and Savannah’s first Medieval Festival, held last year at Oatland. FOO and SCA see the festival as an opportunity to not only raise funds for important projects at Oatland but also to bring Savannah a unique festival that will grow and improve with each year.

“Oatland has been so fantastic to us,” says Darren Newton, whose exhaustively researched SCA alter ego is “Lord Chinua Qadanjin of the Shire of the Forth Castle.”

“We now hold our meetings here at Oatland, they’ve provided us with a perfect home base.”

Not only was last year’s festival a great success -- in the top ten festivals in the area in attendance -- it also provided Oatland with the matching funds for a grant from National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) for their Wetlands Observation Pier -- a whole new exhibit for Oatland, large enough to hold a class and boasting four wildlife viewing stations.

SCAD alumni will create lifestyle and design rooms in a circa - 1881 Italianate mansion at 19 E. Gordon St. All designs have been created by accomplished SCAD alumni and all furnishings are for sale, as well as the art hanging on the walls.

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Two SCA members practice their fighting skills

This year FOO has set the bar even higher, with the goal of raising money for the construction of a Wildlife Rehabilitation and Science Center.

“This will be a fully functioning facility,” says Dr. Martha McIllveene, Oatland Island’s director. “Animals we receive from the wild, like the two orphaned baby foxes we received from north Georgia, have to be quarantined for up to six months.”

“The wildlife rehabilitation center will provide a safe, controlled environment to quarantine these animals. It will have an operating room so that we can administer necessary care to the new and resident animals on site,” she says.

The cost of construction is estimated to be about $200,000. The Veterinary Clinic of America has already donated $30,000 worth of veterinary surgical equipment toward the facility.

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Take Christopher Floyd for example, who created the graceful and intriguing border design, or “illumination” for this year’s festival poster. Floyd’s persona is “His Lordship Crystoffer ap Cynan Llwyd,” a minor English/Welsh noble living in the 1300s during the first campaigns of the Hundred Years War. Floyd studies that time period and researches the arts and artisan techniques from that period, exploring leather working, furniture making, metal casting, and creating illuminations.

Carrie Newton’s persona, “Maya Kati,” has a different twist.

“Europeans traveled the Silk Road in the Middle East during the Middle Ages.

They would have encountered tribes and gypsies during their travels. My persona is a dancer from one of these encounters,” she says.

“I have a dance troupe here in Savannah -- Dunyavi, meaning ‘world’ in Hindi -- who will perform at the festival and at the evening feast,” she explains while lavishly dressed in her persona’s attire of a ghawazee coat, Indian style face paint, cowry shells woven into her hair, and tassels hanging from her waist.

“My dancing is a blend of cultures throughout the Middle East, mostly Turkish and Egyptian belly dance styles, incorporating some Spanish and Indian elements.”

continued from page 9 strolling minstrels, story telling, long and short bow demonstrations, weaving, coin striking, singing, dancing and dance lessons, a fashion show, and plenty of things for children to do as well. Stuff will be going on all day,” she says.

“There will also be a medieval costume contest for adults and children so everyone who’s interested should dress up and participate.”

Carrie Newton, aka ‘Maya Kati’ Events like the Medieval Festival give SCA the opportunity to demonstrate skills and educate others about life in medieval times.

“There are a lot more SCA members coming to the festival this year because the word is out about how great is was last year,” says Joy Green, the festival’s coordinator.

“We’ll have folks talking about medieval medicine, armoring, there’ll be

The Medieval Festival will culminate with an evening feast, the aptly named Beastly Feast (lots of meat on the menu this time!).

“It’s a feast to the eyes and to the tummy” says FOO board president Serena Nasworthy, referring to the transformation of Oatland dance hall into a great hall of a medieval castle and the chance or attendees to dine with SCA’s royalty and “mundanes” in high style.

“It truly is spectacular to see all the SCA members dressed in their beautiful period attire and the long tables so beautifully decorated,” she says. “It’s like being transported to another time and place. And the food is terrific!”

The Beastly Feast is only open to FOO members this year but there is still space available. If you are interested in joining FOO at any level and purchasing tickets to the Feast, call Martha at 8976653.

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“We are so excited about the festival because we see its great fundraising potential for Oatland,” Nasworthy says.

“Members of FOO, Oatland’s staff and many volunteers all realize what a jewel Oatland is and how fortunate we are to have it. We want it to always be available for education for the community.”

Nasworthy says Oatland’s burgeoning relationship with SCA has been particularly meaningful.

“Working with SCA is great fun.

Everyone has been exposed to medieval times, even if only in fairy tales. It’s fascinating to take a peek into times past and see the authentic costumes and armor,” she says.

“Oatland’s and SCA’s goals of education fit so well together. We think we have hit upon a special event for Savannah and are looking forward to watching it grow in years to come.” ◗

The Oatland Island Medieval Festival raises funds for expanded services at the educational site. It takes place this Saturday from 10 a.m.-5 p.m. at Oatland Island Educational Center off the Islands Expressway. Admission is $5; children under 4 are free. The “Beastly Feast” fundraising dinner takes place at 6 p.m.

Saturday; it is $25 per person (kids under 4 free). Call 897-6653 to purchase tickets.

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Another forgotten ‘war’

Come together

Editor, Jim Morekis (“Death Sentence in the Delta”) is right on about the miserable, bungled response to the poor during Katrina. But he has forgotten to mention another war that America lost long ago... the Kennedy and Johnson Administration’s “War on Poverty.”

There has seldom been a bigger boondoggle than the U.S. Office of Economic Opportunity. I know, because for a year in the Sixties, I was one of the war’s frontline soldiers, setting up Head Start and county health centers.

As for the names of Savannah’s poor: Let me see, there’s Kelly, a young welfare mother now homeless because her live-in boyfriend was shot. And there’s Jerry, who was recently banned for a year from a local soup kitchen for yelling at the staff. And there’s Darlene, who lives with her mother and was almost killed on her porch in a drug gang’s drive-by shooting.

Linda Bulloch

Editor, Now is the time to open up our hearts to our fellow brothers and sisters. Now is the time to put aside our differences and love people unconditionally regardless of race, creed, or religion. Now is the time to be all we can be. Now is the time to be who we came here to be.

Now is the time to be the Light, The White Christ Light, to vibrate and honor our True Selves. Now is the time to have compassion for our fellow brothers and sisters. Now is the time for each one of us to step up and step out into the Light.

Now is the time to be Peace, Love and Understanding in the face of conflict, pain, and suffering.

Now is the time to BE LOVE. We must embrace the positive to make positive change.

We are the people we have been waiting for. We must change and lighten up and help make this world a better place.

We must let go of our lower ego vibrational non-truths. We must do this as to save ourselves.

Love and Light, Love and Light, Love and Light, Christina Cummings-Slack

Wisdom of the Russians Editor, Regarding “Death Sentence in the Delta”: A Russian proverb says, “If men could forsee the future, they would still behave as they do now.”

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come up with nothing, we can make suggestions.

Except now everything I give away comes with caveats.

Beach daisy? A wonderful ground cover with yellow flowers that grows anywhere. That’s right. Currently it is covering my gerber daisies, climbing up a lowquat tree and obliterating a lovely wall of carefully and thoughtfully placed round stones. (Stones? What stones?)

Mexican sunflowers (tithonia)? A tall, reliable plant that comes back every year, with a handsome, orange flower butterflies adore -- and weak branches that will fall and block every conceivable path.

Equisedum (horsetail)? A fascinating, prehistoric plant that never met a boundary it could respect, a rule it could obey.

Deceitfully neat -- until it shows up down the street; until you try to remove it, which is, bottom line, impossible.

Cypress vine (ipomea quamoclit)? A delicate, morning glory vine with sweet little heart-shaped red flowers that is currently climbing over my fennel, through my moonflowers, up my sugar cane.

Swamp sunflower (helianthus angustifolius)? Hardy, a beautiful yellow bloom in late September when nothing much else is happening and a plant with no discipline, no sense of space, no limits.

Passion flower (passiflora incarnata)?

Don’t get me started. Let’s just say its nickname, maypop, has more to do with the way it seems to pop out of the ground than the sound it makes when stomped upon.

Obedience plant (phystostegia)? A good cut-flower plant with sweet pink blooms that writer Felder Rushing says should be renamed disobedient plant.

Another one of those you-can’t-kill it varieties.

Even the handsome lady’s thumb (persicaria). When a gardener in town gave me a little slip, I babied it like some exotic. Now I Google the thing and see it described as a “workhouse of a perennial.” Preaching to the choir. The thing is sprawling, tough, aggressive. And beautiful.

So don’t say you weren’t forewarned.

Don’t say we didn’t offer you a “truth window.” And don’t let any of this nonsense keep you from coming to the swap.

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EVER HEARD OF A “truth window?” It’s a small, glassed opening configured inside the interior wall of a strawbale house -- an offbeat, low-tech, environmentally friendly way to build -- providing absolute proof that the beautiful, stucco-covered house with rounded windows and doors really was constructed with straw.

I’m not sure who came up with the tradition -- it wasn’t a politician, a health insurance salesman or anyone named Karl Rove, that’s for sure -- but I really love the concept.

Which is why I’m biting the bullet, fessing up and handing you the absolute truth about the upcoming, fall plant swap.

First a little background. For the past eight years we’ve billed the twice-yearly swaps in benign, benevolent, peace-andlove terms -- a time of sharing, a time to gather with leftover perennials, extra packages or pods of seeds, an opportunity to ask those extraneous questions about gardening in Savannah.

With a budget of zero, no executive committees, no board of directors, no dues, no billboards, no rules, we’ve developed quite a following of capable and bighearted gardeners, as apt to show up the morning of the swap with a batch of homemade zucchini muffins fresh out of the oven as a truckload of ginger lilies, lantana or plumbago fresh out of the ground.

We also welcome people who have nothing to swap. We only want to share our leftovers.

And that’s the truth. After the Oct. 15 swap, set aside some time; get ready to dig in the dirt.

But this is where things get dicey.

Yes, the specimens you’ll drive away with a month from now are hardy, robust, rugged, seasoned and -- because they came from someone’s garden who lives in your planting zone -- perfectly suited to our weather.

But this is the part we never tell you.

Because the plants are so happy and well-adjusted, they’re also acquisitive and greedy. The reason they transplant so easily is because they’re glutinous, hoggish and easily satisfied.

Which is what prompted one veteran garden swapper to suggest we adopt a new slogan: Plant swap -- invasive by nature.

It’s true. If you have a backyard with a German shepherd, roots from a magnolia tree and nothing but shade, we have something for you. If you have a thumb without the slightest hue of green, we can get you started. If you have spent thousands of dollars at the nurseries and

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‘We have all given enough’

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Cindy Sheehan’s ‘Bring Them Home Now’ tour stopped in Forsyth Park last week “LET THERE BE PEACE on earth, and let it begin with me. Let there be peace on earth, the peace that was meant to be….”

The crowd that gathered in Forsyth Park on Monday, Sept. 12, lifted their voices for the familiar message of brotherhood and unity.

Some wore buttons, some carried signs. Some were happy to have the “Bring Them Home Now Tour” make a stop in Savannah.

And some wished they would all go home.

Many people may not be familiar with the group, but most have heard of the woman who mobilized their effort. Cindy Sheehan, a California woman whose son, Spc. Casey Sheehan, 24, was killed during his service in Iraq, began a vigil at the beginning of August near President Bush’s Crawford, Texas, home.

Sheehan requested a meeting with the president to answer questions concerning the war which took her son’s life. That meeting never took place, so now Sheehan and her followers are taking her questions to Washington, with stops like this one along the way.

The Tour has been crossing the country from Camp Casey (the name given to the Crawford encampment) in three separate caravans since first of the month in an effort to spread their message before converging in our nation’s capital for a national anti-war rally on Sept. 24.

“For 26 days, we sat in the ditches asking the president to come out and explain why this war in Iraq is such a ‘noble’ war,” said Ann Wright of Honolulu, Hawaii, addressing the crowd. Wright was a career foreign service officer with the U.S. State Department before resigning her position in 2003 in opposition to the war.

“We urge everyone to look at what war is really about," she implored. "The destruction of lives and the destruction of property.”

Dante Zappala and his family know firsthand just how destructive war can be -- not only for those lost, but to the lives of those left behind. While he has been touring the south, his mother and father have been speaking out on the north and central bus tours.

Zappala’s older brother, Sgt. Sherwood Baker, 30, was a National Guardsman from Pennsylvania. He was a peaceful man, Zappala said; not a fighter but a protector.

He was also a husband and a father.

Baker served in the Guard for seven years. He should have been out in six, Zappala says, but his duty was extended an extra year. Proud to serve his country -- he even became a recruiter -- Baker thought that the National Guard provided a valuable service in protecting the homeland, under the banner of “Serve Your Country – Stay at Home.”

“In the last e-mail he sent to us, he asked us for food and water,” says Zappala. “He said they weren’t getting supplies and he was down to one MRE and three bottles of water. This is where his life had gotten him – hungry, thirsty and looking for weapons of mass destruction.”

Then Zappala described the events leading up to his brother’s death.

On April 26, 2004, his brother and other soldiers went to inspect a building looking for weapons. He had his back to that building and was perched on his Humvee -in the words of Zappala, “protecting his soldiers like he had protected me my whole life.”

The building exploded behind him, and Baker was struck and killed. He had only been in Iraq for six weeks.

Above, Nicole Fraley (her sign reads “I want my son to meet his father”; at right, lighting candles in preparation for the vigil; lower right, pro-war counter-protestors “Around the same time my brother was at that building looking for those weapons, Bush was announcing to our country that there were no weapons of mass destruction, jokingly looking under his lectern and under the Oval Office rug. I guess he thought that was funny,” Zappala said, referring to Bush’s now-infamous schtick at a national press dinner while the war raged.

He doesn’t think his brother would have found much humor in the president’s standup comedy performance.

Linda and Phil Waste of Hinesville haven’t suffered the loss of a loved one to war, but unfortunately, their chances are higher than that of many families. The Wastes have three sons and two grandchildren who are all veterans of this war.

One of their sons is currently on his second deployment. Another will be leaving soon on his, with one of their granddaughters right behind him.

“Together, they’ve served 58 months to date,” says Linda. “With current and scheduled deployments, we are looking at 29 more months of consecutive service for our family.”

Linda says she’s had enough.

“Our family has given enough. We have all given enough,” Linda said emphatically to the crowd. “It is ‘We the People’ who are making the sacrifice. It is our children, not those of the House or the Senate, or even the Bush Administration. It is ‘We the People.’ That’s why we need to bring them home now, and support them when they get here.”

For Phil Waste, the claim that our military presence in Iraq is necessary to enforce democracy is a fallacy.

“For democracy to take effect anywhere, you have to have the right of self-determination -- their determination, not ours. We can’t just go in and hold a gun to their heads and force them to embrace it,” he says.

“These hot-shot, macho guys in Washington showed up from Texas and decided to show everyone else how to run the world. And look at what they’ve done so far,” says Waste. “That’s why we’re all going to Washington on the 24th. It’s time for the parents of our nation’s military to give Bush a spanking.”

Not everyone at the evenings’ demonstration shared Waste’s point of view. A small but determined group of war supporters ringed the periphery of the crowd for the duration of the night’s activities. They didn’t say much then, but a few spoke up afterwards.

Brian Millar was among them. A former army specialist, Millar said he was there to support the troops and the president.

“You know, even I don’t agree with everything, with the whole situation. But it’s my duty to support our president. I believe he is doing the best that he can with what he has to work with,” Millar said.

“I don’t want to see any more of our soldiers get killed either. We have wives here whose husbands are gone. It’s pain," he said somberly. “It’s pain that we all have to endure, but I think to support our president is the best way to get things done.”

Nicole Fraley doesn’t believe that.

The young woman sat on a bench most of the evening. She would have stood amongst the crowd to really show her support, but she was just too tired.

That was okay though -- because anyone who passed by could see why she was there. The sign she held said it all: “I want my son to meet his father.”

The father of the baby boy Fraley has been carrying for the past eight months is currently on his second deployment in Iraq. He hasn’t seen his wife her entire pregnancy, and he won’t see her, or his son, for at least another four months -- and perhaps not until June 2006.

“Disagreeing with this war does not mean that I do not support our troops,” Fraley said. “People may say disagreeing is not ‘patriotic’, but patriotism is not blindly supporting any decision made by the government.

Patriotism is love and support for my country -- and that love is why I think this war is a mistake.”

Fraley compared the U.S. to another legendary empire which famously overreached.

“Rome fell because they spread themselves too thin -they tried to conquer everything,” Fraley warned.

“We are on our way, and fighting this war that will never end is speeding us along. Mahatma Gandhi once said ‘An eye for an eye would make the world blind.’ I think that says it all.” ◗

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YOU GOTTA ADMIRE W. You really do. That’s one fine specimen of manhood.

Did you see him down in Mississippi after the storm, rolling up his sleeves and pitchin’ right in to help the folks? That was inspiring.

Just the sort of sturdy, reassuring fellow we need up there in the White House. Gets to work. Cuts through all the red tape. Doesn’t sweat the details.

Like, for example, all those firefighters standing beside him in the picture.

Turns out, some liberal reporter pointed out, those guys were flown in just for the occasion so our W. could look presidential.

Which -- duh -- is precisely what the country needs in a time of disaster. Jeez.

Gotta wonder, though, about those hundreds of highly-trained firefighters they had sitting around in an Atlanta hotel for days while folks were getting wiped out on the Gulf Coast.

Even if most of the dead were on welfare, that kind of seems a shame. Shows you how things get mucked up when government bureaucracy gets involved.

Makes you speculate what sort of fool’s in charge.

Our man W., though, you have to like him. He sees something that needs doing; he goes out and does it. Doesn’t sit around all day wasting time thinking about it. He just acts.

And man, he’s generous. That Mike Brown, at FEMA, shoot, no one else would have even given that boy a chance.

But W. said, buddy, I don’t care if you’re utterly unqualified and all you’ve ever done is screw up some fancyschmantzy horse show thing. That’s what America’s all about, giving a fellow a second chance.

Then, Lord, the press gets all over Mike when he says he doesn’t know about nobody dying down at that convention center. Like he had nothin’ to do but sit around all day and watch CNN. Now he’s got plenty of time, thanks to them sniping liberals.

Burns me up, too, about that pretty boy Harry Connick, Jr. Plays fruity music.

Then traipses right on down there to the convention center and talks to them folks. Half of them looters, probably.

Like he’s something special. Like anybody could just roll in there like him and hand out food and water.

People, especially “those people,” are so impatient these days. Sitting around waiting for the government to do everything for them.

Shoot, you’d think they’d be grateful.

It’s like W.’s Mama said, things actually worked out pretty well for them. Nice cot in the Astrodome, three square meals a day. Plenty better than sittin’ at home with your friendly local crack dealer down on the corner.

Why the hell didn’t they get out of town anyway? Sure seems like any moron could anticipate what would happen when a major-league blow like Katrina came roaring in.

All you gotta do is go down to the ATM, take out a few hundred, and get out. What’s so hard about that?

Kills me, too, how the liberal press is blaming W. for everything. Like anybody could predict a big storm like Katrina coming in and wiping out everything.

As soon as the hurricane hit -- well, pretty soon after -- W.’s boys were right there on the TV, talking about how they had help on the way.

Shoot, I must have seen a dozen press conferences where they promised help. Real soon.

And I’ll be damned if those people down there didn’t do nothing but whine.

Makes you sick.

Problem is, no one’s willing to take responsibility these days. First thing they do is point fingers, blame everyone else. Any fool can see, anyway, that it’s all the local and state governments’ fault.

Not to mention the press. The Weather Service. And Mother Nature.

Thank goodness, though, America’s got someone like W. in charge. Not one to play the blame game.

Get one of them pantywaist Democrats in the White House and we’d be hopelessly in debt, painfully divided, and about as popular around the world as malaria.

It’d be awful.

That W., though, you gotta admire how he plunges into things without thinking. That’s the problem with the world today: too much planning, contemplating, considering and re-considering everything.

So long as W.’s in the White House, we don’t have nothing to worry about that on that score.

And I for one, as a real American, am deeply grateful. ◗

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CAT buses collide downtown Two Chatham Area Transit (CAT) buses collided last week at Whitaker and Taylor Streets, sending two people to the hospital. One of the buses was traveling east on Taylor Street “when the driver failed to yield the right of way to another CAT bus that traveled south on Whitaker,” police say. The buses sustained moderate damage. The bus on Taylor Street was occupied only by the driver, who escaped without injury. One of three passengers and the driver on the Whitaker Street bus had to be transported to Memorial Health University Medical Center. The driver of the Taylor Street bus was charged with Failure to Yield the Right of Way.

• Police were called in reference to a complaint of stalking. The victim has obtained a Good Behavior Warrant against the suspect. The two had been involved in a brief physical relationship. The man has been sending “obscene amounts” of email to her work email address. Later, he went to her residence unannounced and began screaming at her because she “ruined his life”. The man also threatened suicide. She ordered him out of her house and told him to stop contacting her, and had her locks changed. During an argument, he threw a copy of her house key at her. She once again ordered him out of the house and called police. ◗

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• Police were called to the bus station in reference to a man who appeared to have been beaten up. The man said he was walking home from his girlfriend’s apartment when he was jumped and robbed by three men. The man recognized two of the suspects and gave the officer their names. When he described the third man, the officer recognized the description, as he has dealt with the suspect before. The victim sustained a cut lip, swelling around his right eye, various minor cuts and abrasions on his arms. The men got about $45 cash. The victim said he was willing to prosecute.

• A man told police that he had discovered that his house key, mail box key and $50 from his wallet were missing.

He said he suspects a woman he identified as a prostitute. He said the woman called him and told him she had some pictures to show him, so he allowed her to enter his house. He said she has stolen from him before.

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• When a man drove up to a gas station, he was approached by four men who asked him if he had some money.

The man told them that he didn’t. One of them said, “You gotta have something.” The man said no again. Another man took out a knife and pointed it at the victim, who reached into his vehicle and pulled out a .38 caliber revolver.

One of the men hit his wrist and he dropped the gun. When he looked down to find it, they fled. They have not been identified.

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• A woman told police that when she did not take her children to football practice because of rain, her exboyfriend arrived in an agitated state.

His grandmother was with him. When the woman asked the grandmother a question, the man said, “That’s none of your business,” and slapped her head, then began striking her with an umbrella five times about the body. He then threw her on top of the hook of a car, and choked her with his hands. She managed to escape his grasp and got into her car.

• Police were called in reference to a disorderly person. The victim said she wanted the suspect to leave her residence, but the suspect told police he did not want to leave. The officer asked the man if his name was on the lease and he said it wasn’t. The officer informed him that his name had to be on the lease for him to live on the premises of public housing. The man was advised that he had to leave. The officer told the victim she was in violation of her lease for letting the man stay at her residence. The man took a television, a suitcase and a bag full of items from the residence. He was advised to contact the sheriff’s office if he needed to retrieve any more items.

He told police the woman “punked” him in the head and he wanted a report to take to the leasing office.

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Another Underreported Success Story in Iraq

by Chuck Shepherd

Can’t Possibly Be True

“Abu Mustafa� (a nickname) is part of a small market of vendors of pornographic videos operating in Baghdad, according to an August Reuters dispatch, and sells about 50 DVDs a day, with movies from Lebanon and other Arab countries the most popular. “I tried lots of other jobs,� he said, but this was his most promising opportunity (although he said the righteous Shi’ite Badr Brigades have threatened to kill him and his approximately 30 competitors in the Bab al-Sharjee neighborhood).

Australian surfer Shane Willmott of the country’s Gold Coast became a national media sensation in July when reporters showed up to watch him put his three trained mouse surfers through their paces, in local creeks and in the Pacific Ocean. Willmott trained them in a bathtub and built them little surfboards and little jet skis.

A week apart in August, police in Searcy, Ark., and Victoria, British Columbia, reported increases in local behaviors that they both strangely but confidently attributed to methamphetamine addiction.

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from lengthy forays into local fields, and Victoria police report a similar fascination with bicycle parts. Authorities in both places say meth makes users need to keep their hands busy on menial tasks. (Said a Victoria constable, â&#x20AC;&#x153;They sit in the bush with hundreds of (bicycle) parts just fiddling with them all day.â&#x20AC;?)

In May, the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation made a $700,000 grant to a World Wildlife Fund program to protect the apparently gorgeous forests in the Himalayan nation of Bhutan even though (according to a 2003 report in National Geographic) the recipient of the attention, the Sakteng Wildlife Sanctuary, was explicitly created to protect Bhutanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s version of â&#x20AC;&#x153;Bigfoot.â&#x20AC;?

Bhutanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s â&#x20AC;&#x153;yetiâ&#x20AC;? is called the â&#x20AC;&#x153;migoiâ&#x20AC;? and is about 5 feet tall, covered with hair except for a face, smells horrible, and disguises its four-legged tracks by carefully making sure to leave only two prints.

The Most Frightening Stories of the Week In Kimberly, British Columbia, in July, trying to establish a Guinness Book record, 644 people at a music festival played their accordions simultaneously for half an hour. And in August, the Bradenton (Fla.) Herald reported that business is strong for local resident John Flannery, who at age 78 still works 15 to 20 times a month posing for artists as a nude model.

Unclear on the Concept â&#x20AC;&#x153;Sex Offendersâ&#x20AC;?: Charbel Hamaty, of Lebanese descent, spent six months in jail in Raleigh, N.C., after being arrested last year for â&#x20AC;&#x153;molestingâ&#x20AC;? his infant son, with the evidence consisting of family snapshots of Hamaty playfully kissing the nude totâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s belly button. Only after a protest campaign did a judge finally dismiss the charge, according to a July report by WRAL-TV. Not so lucky was Fitzroy Barnaby of Evanston, Ill., who angrily grabbed the arm of a 14-year-old girl whom he almost ran into as she was playing dangerously in traffic. He was convicted under the stateâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s â&#x20AC;&#x153;restraining a minorâ&#x20AC;? statute, which requires that its violators be listed as sex offenders (even though the trial judge and, in June, the state Appellate Court, both discounted any sexual motive).

Ohio state alcohol and drug undercover agent Timothy Gales was accused, after an internal investigation, of having undermined his own teenage confidential informant in a Columbus store that the pair were probing for selling cigarettes to minors. According to the official report (described in the Columbus Dispatch in July), Gales stood alongside the teenager, and when the clerk proceeded with the sale, Gale asked, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Hey, arenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t you supposed to ask for ID?â&#x20AC;? It was allegedly Galesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; second blown-sting incident this year.

Elijah Walker, 35, who pleaded guilty to cocaine possession in Cincinnati in June, resisted complying with the state requirement that he also give up a DNA sample, in that he feared the state would use it to create a clone of him. (Said the prosecutor, reassuringly, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m not sure the state really wants another Elijah Walker.â&#x20AC;?)

The Absolute Right Never to Be Offended Earlier this year, the Department of Enterprise, Trade and Investment in Belfast, Northern Ireland, banned the use of the term â&#x20AC;&#x153;brainstormingâ&#x20AC;? when referring to thinking up ideas, instead decreeing that staff will use the term â&#x20AC;&#x153;thought showersâ&#x20AC;? since the former term might be offensive to some people with brain injuries. And New York City mayoral candidate C. Virginia Fields apologized in July for telling a reporter that, when she was arrested in a civil rights protest in the South in 1963, police took her away in a â&#x20AC;&#x153;paddy wagon.â&#x20AC;? She said the term could be offensive to some Irish-Americans.

Least Competent Criminals In Clovis, N.M., in July, Danny J. Jimenez, 51, was sentenced to six years in prison for a pair of 2003 burglaries.

Police had captured Jimenez by following the blood trail that stemmed from his encounter with a pawn shopâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s glass jewelry case. Later, investigators learned that an injury to Jimenezâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s head did not come from the jewelry case but occurred when Jimenez accidentally hit himself with a hammer while burglarizing a church later that night. Said a detective, â&#x20AC;&#x153;(Jimenez) had a big, round (indentation) in his forehead that was consistent with the hammer that I found.â&#x20AC;? (And, as if he needed more misery, Jimenezâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s loot bag broke during his getaway, causing him to lose most of the jewelry, anyway.)

The District of Calamity (continued) (1) The Capitol City all-stars, bubbling with confidence that this year would be their best chance ever to win the regionals and advance to the Little League World Series, found out in June that they were out of the tournament because the District of Columbia Department of Parks and Recreation failed to send in the paperwork on time. (2) In June, the District of Columbia agency that approves charter schools turned down the Dupont Circle International Academy (a rigorous International Baccalaureate program), citing as one ground that the school will not admit or pass students who perform at below their grade level.

The agencyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s chairman told Washington City Paper, â&#x20AC;&#x153;(A school) has to serve everybody that shows up.â&#x20AC;? â&#x2014;&#x2014;

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Digital Diva THIS WEEK: TASKBARS, repair installations and 2000 Preludes. I was in Raleigh and was packing some things to return to Wilmington and dropped my keys

in the trunk.

As soon as I slammed the trunk closed, I just knew. OH NO! I had no spare key on me. It was a new car. I called three different companies to come unlock the car, but not one could get the door unlocked. The third person that arrived let me know he knew a guy that could get into virtually anything. He arrives and it takes less than a minute.

Below I will explain a simple process related to computers that many may take hours to bother with. I am the locksmith, and you’ve lost your keys.

First let me warn you — a repair instal lation is not the cure-all! It will help a lot of things, but it will not fix everything!

But it is worth a shot. I compare it to spilling something on your carpet, then using Resolve to clean it up — it’s a lot easier than replacing the rug.

But here you go: Boot up from the system installer CD. If your computer will not automatically boot to the CD at startup, you may need to go into the bios and change the boot sequence.

Refer to your computer’s documentation on how to set this.

Most new systems are set to automatically boot to the CD, and if you have the operating system CD inserted in the drive upon starting the system you should see a prompt to press any key to start from CD. Press any key on the keyboard at that point. You should then see a welcome screen that says to setup Windows XP, press enter. You will then see an option to press R for the Recovery Console.

Don’t select that one!

Soon you’ll come across the licensing agreement screen. You’ll need to press the F8 key to pass that screen.

If you have more than one Windows XP installation (which will probably not be the case) make sure you highlight the correct installation. You will probably only see one.

After highlighting Windows XP press “R” afterwards Windows XP will simply guide you through with one of its nice little wizards.

Just a note: You can also boot the system with a Windows 98 or Me Startup disk with CD support and run WINNT.EXE in the I386 folder located on the CD (If you aren’t running XP).

Beta tester?

Should I keep automatic updates turned on? — Jamie For virus definitions, yes. In my opinion, Windows = NO! I like to wait for the rest of the world to beta test before I do. I like to wait until all the security updates and bug patches are released for their new service packs/software. ◗

Link of the Week This is way cool. If you can’t find anything else to do with your time, that is.

Why not create your own handwriting font. Here’s a link on how to do it: http://www.myfirstfont.com/

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At the top? You obviously didn’t mean to put it there. What’s the big hype with this? It’s pretty simple. Here’s what happened: You held your left mouse button down and accidentally moved it by dragging it to another spot.

This can occur easily if you haven’t locked the task bar in place. It’s very common. If that sucker goes away completely, you may have minimized it to the point of not seeing it. You may have somehow dragged it down with your mouse. Or you may have unknowingly set to auto-hide.

If the taskbar is stuck on the side or top of your desktop, hold the left mouse key and while keeping the mouse key down drag it around the sides of your desktop until it’s where you prefer.

Those taskbars can get away from you if you aren’t careful. If you right click on an area on the task bar where there is a blank area (It may be easier to close out of your applications, so you’ll have a blank area) Scroll down to properties.

You will see some choices. You can lock it, auto-hide it, etc.

That useful taskbar can be anywhere if you allow it. Lock it if you have “mouse frenzy,” and tend to press those buttons obsessively.

Use this same basic trick if you have shoved it down into barely a glimpse on your desktop. Hunt for the top of what’s left of the taskbar and basically you’ll see two vertical arrow keys appear.

While holding the left mouse key down — drag it up and back home (You can maximize or minimize it using this technique). If this doesn’t work make sure you don’t have your taskbar locked.

Simply right clicking on the taskbar will show that.

Diva, I have been having a lot of problems with Windows. I have been told it might help to repair install. How do I go about doing that exactly? I’m having booting issues, etc. The list goes on.

— XP driving me crazy

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Why does the taskbar move on the side of the screen instead of the bottom—and sometimes gets stuck at the top? Sometimes I hear it laughing at me. Now it’s completely gone. How can I get it back? — Ned needs his taskbar

To repair install or not to repair install?

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A World Without Trees

Tropical Cyclones

Scientists from NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center say that between one-third and one-half of the planet’s land surface has been transformed by human development, with global consequences.

Their new study focused on how deforestation in tropical regions affects the global climate. They found that while deforestation has done little to affect global warming, decades of wholesale forest clearing in the Amazon severely reduced rainfall in the Gulf of Mexico, Texas and northern Mexico during the spring and summer growing seasons. Similarly, deforesting in central Africa affects precipitation patterns in the American Midwest.

At least 18 people died when Typhoon Khanun battered China’s eastern coast.

Officials say Khanun damaged about 7,500 homes and affected 5 million people in Zhejiang province.

• Hurricane Ophelia drifted slowly off the southeastern coast of the United States before lashing eastern parts of the Carolinas.

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A rapidly evolving wheat pathogen that is spreading across parts of East Africa could cause “catastrophic” damage to crops around the world if urgent steps are not taken, according to agricultural scientists meeting in Nairobi.

The mutating strain of stem rust fungus, dubbed Ug99, was discovered in Ugandan wheat crops in 1999, and has since spread into Kenya and Ethiopia, where it has damaged crops in virtually all plantations. Its spores can be spread in the wind, on travelers’ clothing and in luggage. “It is only a matter of time until Ug99 reaches across the Saudi Arabian peninsula and into the Middle East, South Asia and eventually, East Asia and the Americas,” warned plant specialist Ronnie Coffman of Cornell University. A stem rust outbreak in 1950 destroyed nearly 70 percent of North American wheat crops before a resistant wheat was developed.

A discharge of volcanic ash, water and other debris from Alaska’s Mount Chiginagak Volcano has caused the disappearance of fish and other wildlife along the King Salmon River this summer. Flyfishing guide Jon Kent told the Anchorage Daily News that there are no bears, no birds and no fish along the river’s path.

“It’s like someone dropped a bomb on the place,” Kent said. The volcano’s crater lake gushed the acidic mix into the river in early summer, probably killing any fish that were in the water at that time, according to state wildlife officials. They added that because the contaminated water no longer smelled or tasted like the stream in which they were born, many fish probably went up other rivers to spawn this year.

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Feline Fuel Economy A German inventor has triggered an outcry from animal rights activists with his scheme of using dead cats to produce a unique type of organic diesel fuel.

Christian Koch told the Bild newspaper that his invention uses a blend of garbage, roadkill cats and other ingredients to produce a gallon of bio-diesel fuel for about $1.35. Bild reports Koch’s firm, Alphakat GmbH, says that 20 dead cats added to the blend could produce enough fuel to fill an 11-gallon tank. But the president of the German Society for the Protection of Animals warned that using dead cats to produce fuel is illegal. ◗

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A magnitude 7.3 temblor centered just off Papua New Guinea’s New Britain island created a small tsunami that washed into Rabaul Harbor.

• Earth movements were also felt in northeast Japan, northwest Sumatra, Australia’s Northern Territory, northeast

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Iran, northwestern Greece, western Argentina and California’s Imperial Valley.

A massive solar flare hurled a stream of highly charged particles toward Earth on Sept. 13. Vivid aurora displays were expected when the particles began interacting with Earth’s geomagnetic field.

Such solar storms can also affect highfrequency and satellite communications, as well as power grids. The sunspot responsible for the latest coronal mass ejection has produced the most active month on the sun since March 1991.

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The head of Switzerland’s environment agency cautioned that Hurricane Katrina, and storms that have recently hit Europe, are clear indications of global warming.

“These are typically phenomena described by the models for climate change.

So the link is for me personally really evident,” said Philippe Roch. But he also feels that human development expanding into disaster-prone areas is contributing to the amount of damage and number of fatalities caused by increasingly severe weather.

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Local rockers Argyle release their first indie CD YOU’VE REALLY GOT TO HAND it to made the right move by waiting till now, Argyle. While so many of their brethren and by putting their best foot forward. in the local band scene are content to “Argyle’s one of the hardest-working record no-budget CDs using home combands in town right now,” he offers. puter software and Radio Shack mics, or “Every step of the way they tried to push – and this is sometimes only a marginally their limits. They even hired Dave Collins better methodology – blow a small to master the album. He’s worked with amount of cash on a road trip to everyone from Sublime to Black Sabbath Charleston or Atlanta with the express to (Oingo Boingo leader) Danny Elfman.” purpose of spending two or three days Oddly enough, those three extremely in a real studio and hoping for the best, different artists actually embody many of this intriguing rock group took an Argyle’s off-kilter influences. entirely different approach.

Initially pegged as a jam-band due to Avoiding the “quicker/cheaper/faster” their Humboldt-friendly image and penphilosophy which permeates most of the chant for elastic song structure, the underground music world these days, group has honed their love for ska, they turned instead to the classic rock reggae, punk rock and improvisational and reggae groups of the ‘70s and ‘80s jazz fusion into something of a for inspiration, trademark sound and decided – that is every bit much as those as uneven as it is folks had done cohesive. The back in the day – group can (and to take as much will) shift gears time as they from a laid-back needed to make Jamaican dance their allriddim to a punimportant debut ishing metalalbum, tinged bridge, or regardless of a wailing guitar Argyle time or money. solo over a That meant driving backbeat. spending untold hours over the course It’s the kind of thing that fellow musiof more than 6 months to track, overdub, cians and serious listeners get a big kick mix and otherwise finesse the 10 original out of, but that – by and large – radio tracks on Puzzled, the first proper and MTV don’t have too much use for. release on their own indie label, Guitarist Jason Sutton says he’s Imaginary Friend Records. unconcerned about those hindrances.

That dedication to quality control and “Corporate music all kind of sounds artistic vision continued on through the the same. I think that people are going rest of the manufacturing process, from to want something different eventually.” mastering to packaging design, and it’s Jeremy adds, “I'm not worried about that dedication which helps to set Argyle having some huge corporation pushing apart from almost every other original us. Our works sells itself. Fans are Savannah band of the past decade. spreading the word of our live shows.”

Bassist Rob Stephens says when it Rose thinks that with a little luck and came to their first real record, presenting a strong grass-roots marketing push, the group in the best – and truest – light this album could do very well. possible was of paramount importance.

“I think it’s a really neat product. It’s “I think it just takes time to make a as diverse as I guess it can be, and reasonably good first album. Years ago if these guys deserve to succeed.” we had tried to make one we probably For the time being, Stephen Riddle would have been permanently categosays the band will work even harder now rized into being a jam band, which we that they have a finished product – but are not. So we waited. Yes, in ways we they won’t try to reinvent the wheel. have been held back because of not “The overall game plan is the same having an album, but I really don't know as any other freshman band on the road. what that album would have comprised Hit as many towns as possible as many of. Now we have enough material to times as possible. Push the album and easily put out a great second one.” put on a top rate show in every city.”

Guitarist Jeremy Riddle concurs.

Rob Stephens agrees, and says he “We've produced 3 demos before can’t wait to start touring in earnest. recording this CD. I think we weren't “We have played too much in solid enough until now. I'm glad we Savannah. It's all about the world now.” waited, so that we could put out a more ◗ polished and professional album.”

Argyle plays an ALL-AGES CD Release Engineers Kevin Rose and Jason Party Friday at Locos with reggae act Anderson cut the album at their Elevated Ras Knouth & The Knots, and Basement Studios. Rose feels the band The 8-Tracks.

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OVER THE YEARS, the annual Savannah Jazz Festival has seen its fair share of changes in both attendance and the fame of its headliners. However, one thing has remained a constant: community participation.

With the vast majority of these free shows taking place in beautiful Forsyth Park (or indoors at Savannah State University’s Tiger Arena if the weather turns), the JazzFest is the only time many locals get to enjoy live jazz and blues. That’s a shame, as – in many Roy Ayers respects – both art forms represent all that is good and inspirational about America.

While many readers may be unfamiliar with some of the folks on the bill this time around, trust me when I say that it’s a very nice cross-section of artists. In fact, when taken as a whole, our 2005 festival holds its own quite nicely against similar city-sponsored events held in larger metropolitan areas (i.e., Jacksonville).

Prevailing wisdom around town says that most folks who come out for the JazzFest would do so regardless of who’s actually onstage, but for those with limited free time who are looking for a bit of direction, here’s the lowdown: Wednesday night at 8 p.m., Ragtime pianist David Thomas Roberts holds court on the veranda at Suzabelle’s on the corner of East Broad and Broughton.

Thursday night, the party moves to Forsyth Park. That evening is dedicated to the blues, and features a 7 p.m. opening set by local favorite Eric Culberson and Band. Eric’s an internationally-known Chicago-style electric guitarist who’ll soon release his third CD. He’ll be followed at 8 p.m. by Corey Harris, a sensational singing guitar player (who’s cut LPs for both Alligator and Rounder). He’s as comfortable with authentic, Lightnin’ Hopkins and Son House-style acoustic country blues as he is New Orleans-influenced romps.

Fans of Woody Guthrie, Wilco, and/or Billy Bragg may know him for his contribution to the infamous Mermaid Avenue LP sessions.

Finishing up the night at 9 p.m. is the legendary James Blood Ulmer, one of the most underrated and intense electric guitarists you’ll find. He first came to prominence playing Ornette Colemaninspired Harmolodic free jazz, but he’s now into deeply personal (and angular) blues that betray a complex understanding of both his instrument and the music’s African origins. Plus, he’s the only cat on this bill who’s ever gigged with Captain Beefheart.

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Friday night at 7 p.m., Savannah Arts Academy’s award-winning Skylite Jazz Band backs up the noted Florida-based trumpeter J.B. Scott, followed by the U.S. Air Force Reserve Band at 8 p.m..

Things really kick into high gear at 9 p.m., though, when the one and only Roy Ayers takes the stage. One of the most famous (and popular) vibraphonists and composers ever, at 70 he continues to rack up dance music and fusion hits across the globe – beyond his ongoing legacy of amazing collaborations with Herbie Mann (including the ridiculously bad-ass Memphis Underground LP) and his own charttopping fusion combo the Roy Ayers Ubiquity.

Saturday, there’s an afternoon show at 2 p.m. by the University of North Florida Jazz Ensemble, followed by the U.S. Army Ground Forces Band. At 4 p.m., The J.B. Scott/Lisa Kelly Quintet perform. The last time this formidable Floridian ensemble of musical heavyweights hit Savannah was last New Year’s Eve when an expanded version of their group dazzled attendees at American Legion Post #135’s ball.

Eric Person (repeatedly named a Top 10 soprano sax player in Downbeat’s Readers’ Poll) and his group Meta Four play tunes from their brand-new album at 5 p.m., followed by Sabor Brasil – a Latin jazz group offering sambas, cool bossa novas and Brazilian rhythms – featuring percussionist and singer Susan Pereira (who’s worked with Flora Purim).

Finishing out the night is a triple bill that has to be seen to be believed: keyboardist (and Black Jazz movement pioneer) Ben Riley Doug Carn’s Quartet at 7 p.m.; native Savannah drummer extraordinaire Ben Riley (who’s worked with everyone from Sonny Rollins to Stan Getz, but is most famous for his 4-year stint with Thelonious Monk) at 8 p.m.; and an exceedingly rare appearance by “The Genius of Vocalese” Jon Hendricks (of Lambert, Hendricks & Ross fame).

One of the true innovators of jazz singing, many feel Hendricks perfected Eddie Jefferson’s idea of transposing sung lyrics onto the melodies found in horn, guitar and keyboard solos (an approach later used by The Manhattan Transfer and Bobby McFerrin, among others). His set with the Savannah Jazz Orchestra should not be missed.

Additionally, there are after-festival Jam Sessions taking place at JJ Cagney’s (Thursday) and Suzabelle’s (Friday and Saturday), and a Sunday afternoon kids’ show in the park with the Coastal Jazz Society Allstars, The Skylite Band and yes – even Ronald McDonald (no word yet on what his particular axe is). ◗

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Artimus Pyledriver

Lies - Guns 'N' Roses Tribute

Monstrous “Southern Rawk” band from Atlanta that’s like an 8-piece box of dark meat Mountain with 2 sides: a pint of Nashville Pussy and a brawl straight outta Hooper. Fri., 10 pm, The Jinx.

Charleston impersonators (not to be confused with the L.A.-based impersonators led by Axl “Scary Face” Rose. Fri., 10 pm, The Gold Club (Hwy 17).

Backyard Tire Fire Soulful Illinois trio led by brothers Ed and Matt Anderson. Their fiery attack is reminiscent of Gov’t Mule or Neil Young’s Crazy Horse. Fri., JJ Cagney’s.

Loyd, Lapointe, and Finch Three singing acoustic guitarists, playing “in the round.” Julie Loyd boasts a physicality and sense of drama. Lauren Lapointe is a fixture on our local scene,

and Juliana Finch crafts instantly likable contemporary folk-rock with a gritty edge. Tues., 7:30 pm, The Sentient Bean.

Mama's Mojo Brand-new regional electric blues band featuring former members of local favorites Bluesonics and The Ignitors.

Sat., 9 pm, Jazz’d Tapas Bar.

Phantom Wingo Local guitar-heavy jam band with a strong Allman Brothers/Widespread Panic vibe. Wed., Savannah Blues.

Rick & (Liquid) Ginger Acoustic guitar and vocal duo (mostly covers) from popular local band Liquid Ginger. Thurs., 9 pm, Fiddler’s Crab House + Fri., 9:30 pm, Café Loco (Tybee) + Sat., Felipé’s Mexican Restaurant. ◗

Eric Britt Solo acoustic gig from the frontman of regional alt.rockers Hazel Virtue.

Wed., 10 pm, (hosts Open Mic Night), Finnegan’s Wake + Thurs., 8:30 pm, Moon River Brewing Company.

The David Buskirk Quintet Thomas Claxton

Theodore Croker & His Band

Eric Culberson Blues Band Longtime local guitar hero and singer.

Fri. - Sat., 10 pm, Mercury Lounge.

Eat Mo' Music Instrumental jazz quintet (bass, drums, guitar, trumpet, trombone) with an emphasis on soulful solos and funky grooves. Fri., 9 pm, Jazz’d Tapas Bar + Sat., 10 pm, Mansion on Forsyth Park.

The 8-Tracks Eclectic party band playing quirky rock, country and soul nuggets – with members of Superhorse and Hot Pink Interior. Fri., 11:30 pm, Locos Deli & Pub.

Erickson & Strong Beach, boogie and calypso. Fri., 7 pm, Driftaway Café (Wilmington Island).

Artie Fletcher Big Apple-based standup comic, known as “The Bad Boy of NYC.” Wed., 11 pm, The Jazz Corner (Hilton Head).

High Velocity Straight-up, old-school Southern rock. Fri. - Sat., 9 pm, Tommy’s (Pooler) + Sat., 5 pm Oglethorpe Speedway Park Connect Recommends).

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Keith Kozel & The Foxedos Local anti-folk trio opening for Curtis Eller, a great, banjo-playing vaudeville type from NYC who’s a cross between Buster Keaton and Leon Redbone.

Thurs., 8 pm, The Sentient Bean.

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Young, celebrated trumpeter whose grandfather was the legendary jazz artist Doc Cheatham. Fri. - Sat., 8:30 pm, Moon River Brewing Company.

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The Jacksonville Symphony Emboldened by the numbers of local classical music aficionados who have made the trek down to Duval County now that our own symphony is no more, the Jacksonville Symphony Orchestra has scheduled three road concerts in Savannah over the next few months.

The first, this Sept. 25, features a pops program in tribute to the classic American songwriting team of Rodgers & Hammerstein and a nod to the more modern style of Andrew Lloyd Webber.

JSO Executive Director Alan Hopper says, “Savannah has not had an orchestra for a number of years, and we’d hoped something would redevelop and a new organization would emerge.”

However, since that hasn’t happened and since the local interest is obviously there, Hopper says the JSO “felt like it’s time to be a little bit innovative, and bring the music to Savannah instead.”

Contrary to the nationwide trend towards dwindling symphony audiences, the JSO has experienced strong growth.

“Our audience is growing dramatically,” Hopper says. “Many orchestras have fallen into the trap of believing ‘if you build it, they’ll come,’ but that’s not the case with anything anymore. We’ve tried to create interest and momentum.”

Does Hopper find it somewhat ironic that his audience is growing while thousands of tickets to Jacksonville Jaguars home games continue to go unsold?

“I’m sure if the Jaguars were stronger there would be a bigger audience,”

Hopper laughs. “But nobody loses at a concert if it’s a good orchestra.”

Sun., 7 p.m., Lucas Theatre; Tix are $25, $35 and $50. Call 525-5050.

Victor Wainwright One of the only good things to result from Hurricane Katrina is the renewed interest in the artistic and cultural importance of New Orleans. Now, while the music known as boogie woogie certainly didn’t originate in bayou country, the dance craze which took its name from its infectious barrelhouse piano rhythms did. For a time, it was all the rage, from jazz Victor Wainwright swing clubs to the rockabilly movement of the ‘50s.

Full-tilt boogie is nowhere near as popular or prevalent as it once was, but don’t tell that to Vic Wainwright. The native Savannahian (now Floridian) has dedicated himself to perpetuating the genre, and his brand-new full-length debut (with his road band The Wild Roots) showcases a strong understanding of the form, and a heavyhanded, hell-or-high water outlook.

Rollicking, jazz-influenced numbers with giveaway titles like “Two-Lane Blacktop,” “Get Gone, Let’s Go!” and “Bad Seed” harken back to the late ‘50s, but also cleverly incorporate unexpected instrumentation – like mandolin, trumpet and Hammond organ. This should be one of the finest evenings of old-school dance music Savannah has seen in some

time, and anyone who appreciates the golden age of rock and roll would be wise to attend. Some ticket packages include a copy of Vic’s new CD, and a BBQ dinner. For ticket info, call 667-5560 or 352-1771. Sat., 9 p.m., The Elk’s Club.

PoolerFest w/Sawyer Brown It’s hard to believe these former Grand Prize winners of Star Search have been around under this name for just about a quarter of a century, but that’s a fact. Though their star has gone from bright to dim and back again since 1981, this Nashville-based country-pop act has retained mostly the same lineup for the duration, and their solid reputation for consistently good live shows has helped keep them not only afloat, but popular through the lean times when radio did not embrace what they were doing.

They’ve played our area several times over the years, and one should expect to hear many of their greatest hits (like the mid-’80s faves “Betty’s Bein’ Bad” and "This Missin' You Heart of Mine"), alongside their more recent crossover material. Local Southern rock bar band High Velocity opens the show.

Sat., 7 pm (gates open at 5 pm) Oglethorpe Speedway Park (Pooler).

The Rocky Horror Show live This student production of Richard “Ritz” O’Brien’s gender-bending ‘70s rock opera about aliens, cannibalism, sexual experimentation and the glory days of sci-fi cinema suffers from a few shortcomings (less than ideal sightlines, and inadequate live sound), but that’s offset by the verve with which the actors dig into their ham-fisted roles.

Making the most out of a smallish set, the talented cast (especially the couple playing protagonists Brad Majors and Janet Weiss) elevate what could have been a middling attempt at aping the beloved Jim Sharman filmic version to the level of engaging cabaret. Tickets are $10 for the general public, $5 for seniors and college students, and free for SCAD students, sold an hour before showtime. Intended for ages 17 and up.

Fri.-Sat., 8 pm, Mondonaro Theater (217 MLK Jr. Blvd.). ◗

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‘Sandscapes’ -- A collection of new paintings and drawings by Christopher Arnold at DAC Gallery at One East Broughton St. Artist’s reception Friday Sept.

30 6-8 p.m. DAC Gallery is actively seeking area artists to show. Inquire at the desk or at desmithart@prodigy.net ‘Constructs Series’ -SCAD presents this exhibition of the work of ‘Jazz Box’ at The Whitney Gallery photography professor Liz Darlington, Sept. 28–Oct. DesotoRow Hurricane Relief Show -- Half 30 at Pinnacle Gallery, 320 E. Liberty St. of proceeds go to hurricane relief and the other half to the artist. Entry fee ‘Katherine Sandoz -- New paintings at Kim waved, up to three entries per person in Iocovozzi Fine Art, 12 West Harris St. any medium. The show will run Sept. 22from Sept. 15-30.

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Sandy Branam -- Solo exhibit at the Hospice Savannah Art Gallery, at Hospice June Stratton -- New fall collection of figHouse, 1352 Eisenhower Dr. thru October. urative oils now on view at the Whitney Gallery, 415 Whitaker St. Wed-Sat 10-5.

‘Black and White’-- Charcoal over palette gessoed canvas by Kellie Kaori Vernon.

Sept 15-Oct. 6 at Gallery Espresso, 234 Bull St. Reception Sept. 22, 6-8 p.m.

Art at the JEA -- September features the work of photographer Gene Fox and an exhibit sponsored by the Savannah Folk Music Society, “Noteworthy Art.” The JEA Art Gallery is at 5111 Abercorn St.

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‘Revelations: The Discovery of Beauty in Light and Shadow’ - Photographs of the human figure by Bill Ballard at the Starlander Gallery & Cafe, 11 E. 41st St. ‘Die Mutter’ -- Paintings and poems by Shelley Smith at Venus De Milo, 38 MLK Jr. Blvd. through September.

‘Nocturnal Sunshine’ -SCAD presents this exhibition of photographs by undergraduate photography student Brad Rankin, Sept. 8–Oct. 3, in the May Poetter Gallery, 342 Bull St. Free and open to the public.

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‘A Celebration of Judaic Art’ -Work by Vicki Stone and Raya Zorkine expressing Jewish life.

Sept. 6-Oct. 31 ‘The Upper and Lower at the Hurn ‘Two Sisters’ at Gallery Espresso Worlds of Alhambra’ -Museum, 1015 SCAD presents this Whitaker St. printmaking exhibition by professor Closed Monday. Admission for adults if Robert Brown, Aug. 31–Sept. 25, at the $4 and for students is $3.

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The IMPORTERS These guys are our guides to good taste Recommended Wines Due to small production, these wines will be difficult to find, but look for importer names on any label.

Domaine La Hitare 2003 Les Tours Gasgogne (France) -- Unique flavors and unique grapes, like ugni blanc and gros manseng, from a relatively unknown region in France. Tastes like over-ripe grapes, and has a zingy, fizzy thing that finishes with a rush of lemon. Amazing price. Kacher selection. Sweetness = 3. $7.50. ★★★★ Chateau Grande Cassagne 2003 Costieres de Nimes (France) -- Bursts at you with strawberry, plums and spicy white pepper. Elegant, sophisticated juice, and it’s pink. Gasp! Kacher Selection. Sw = 2. $10. ★★★ 1/2 Vega Sindoa 2002 Cabernet Tempranillo Navarra (Spain) -- Chocolate, leather, dark cherry and black pepper make you want to don an apron and use it for cooking. But don’t — savor it.

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Grateful Palate in your PDA, your planner or on your hand, since you’ve found a reliable path to nirvana.

If Austrian or German wine beckons, seek out Terry Thiese. Wine Advocate succinctly said of him, “In a country where selling high-quality German is akin to swimming against the current, [Terry Thiese] has done a remarkable job, making true believers out of many skeptics.”

He believes in finding wines that have soul, and only represents those that are craft-made, with the winemaker following production from grapes to bottle. He also imports Champagne. Mmmm…

Jorge Ordoñez has been importing Spanish wines since 1987, before they were cool. He works tirelessly to educate winemakers about updating old techniques that will improve their quality and thus make Spanish wines more competitive. Consequently, Ordoñez finds almost absurd bargains from the corners of this vast wine-producing country.

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Then he negotiates with the small producer to allow him to represent their pride and joy in the United States. I discovered one of my favorite Bordeaux whites, Chateau Graville Lacoste, by eyeing Kermit Lynch’s name on the label.

Enter Robert Kacher. Prolific and worshipped by wine snobs across the country, Kacher, who’s obsessed with uncovering only highest quality French juice, finds these obscure little vineyards and creates a following just with the 12 letters of his name on the label.

I have literally never tried a wine imported by Robert Kacher that didn’t completely rock. Most of the time, you haven’t heard of the region or the maker, and perhaps even the grape names, but just pop the cork and be assured of a good time, usually at a good price.

Dan Philips, an enthusiast in his late 30s, traverses the expanses of Australia to import the best Down Under has to offer. In 1997, he formed a company called Grateful Palate, which now represents so many award-winning wines I can’t keep up — from Paringa to Trevor Jones to his own label Marquis Philips.

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THERE’S A REASON why today’s kids, while abandoning the time-honored traditions of kick-the-can and tag, still migrate towards treasure hunts.

Video games abound with secret treasures hiding beneath five layers of passwords; and youngsters can slay evil gargoyles along the way. Finding treasure gives a feeling of accomplishment.

Wine importers get this high everyday in the grownup world. Importers, individuals with unrelenting passion for wine, scour the earth to find the next great wine treasure, meeting in dusty cellars to uncover hidden greatness. Each wine they import bears their name on the label, so that with only one glance, you can be assured of a deliciously addictive drink.

Most importers specialize in one country, and cover the regions with eager expertise. Kermit Lynch, a Californian importer and retailer who spends half the year in the south of France, reportedly tastes every wine he puts his name on.

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JUST LIKE HEAVEN ✰✰1/2

A pastiche of Ghost, Ghostbusters, The Ghost and Mrs. Muir and seemingly every other ghost story this side of Bill Cosby’s disastrous Ghost Dad, Just Like Heaven is the latest Reese Witherspoon vehicle that makes ample use of her winsome movie star appeal while largely ignoring the deeper acting chops employed in earlier pics like Election and Freeway. Yet as far as these things go, audiences can do worse, as a clever concept and ideally cast roles make this more bearable than it has any right to be. Not especially funny but nevertheless breaking down audience barriers through sheer likability, this romantic comedy casts the plucky actress as Elizabeth, a workaholic who seemingly gets killed while driving home from her job at a San Francisco hospital. She continues to haunt her apartment, which proves to be a problem since the place is now occupied by David (Mark Ruffalo), a new tenant who for personal reasons has shut himself off from the rest of the world. Hostile at first, the pair eventually try to bring each other back to life -- physically in her case, emotionally in his. Ruffalo’s shaggy dog demeanor offers an unexpected counterpoint to Witherspoon’s polished spunk -they make a good on-screen match -while Napoleon Dynamite’s Jon Heder summons some laughs as a laid-back bookstore employee with the ability to sense the presence of spirits.

THE EXORCISM OF EMILY ROSE ✰1/2

There’s a reason that some communities back in 1973 sought to prevent teens from seeing The Exorcist even though the R rating meant that theoretically they could check it out with a parent by their side. The idea of Satan or one of his minions taking complete control of someone’s body is a terrifying concept, certainly not suitable for impressionable young minds. But this is 2005, not 1973, and more often than not, the rule at the multiplex is to make sure every picture is sanitized to the point that it earns no harsher than a family-friendly PG-13. And

LORD OF WAR ✰✰

Lord of War is a sober look at international gunrunning, and the opening credit sequence, which follows a single bullet from its creation in a factory to its final destination inside the skull of a young boy, promises that this picture will take no prisoners. Yet what dooms Lord of War right from the start is its central character. Speaking to the camera as if he fancied himself Ferris Bueller, Yuri Orlov (Nicolas Cage) informs us he’s an international arms dealer who’s made a successful life for himself by acquiring and selling weapons to anyone, anywhere. Yuri takes us back to the beginning, relating in GoodFellas mode how a restless kid from Brooklyn’s Little Odessa decided to pursue this line of occupation for the thrill and the dough. We follow him as he lands his dream girl (Bridget Moynahan), takes his coke-addled brother (Jared Leto) under his wing, orchestrates deals with mass murderers across the globe and eventually has a crisis of conscience so small that it seems to last only a nanosecond. It’s Scarface all over again, to such an extent that I almost expected Yuri to point at his arsenal of AK-47s and bellow, “Say hello to my little friends!” But Scarface (both the 1932 and 1983 versions) made no bones about the fact that the title gangster was a vile human being. By contrast, Lord of War keeps soft-pedaling its central character: Yuri defends his despicable actions not only by using the feeble argument that, hey, if he wasn’t doing it, somebody else would, but also by delivering a risible speech in which he declares that he hopes all the bullets he sells miss their targets so that nobody gets injured! The improbabilities and contradictions make this an impossible character to play, and Cage immediately falls back on his established mannerisms (namely, sleepy-eyed indifference) to coast through this film. Director Andrew Niccol would have had more success if he had placed his data in the context of compelling entertainment -- for inspiration, he should have studied 1999’s Gulf War flick Three Kings, where the dark humor served to complement the movie’s anti-war stance.

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so we get The Exorcism of Emily Rose, a rigidly literal-minded horror yarn that’s no more frightening than a Chihuahua with a bad disposition. Newcomer Jennifer Carpenter is the title character, the product of a deeply religious farm family who heads off to college and promptly becomes possessed by demonic forces. The family priest (Tom Wilkinson) is summoned to perform an exorcism, but after the girl dies in his care, he finds himself being defended against involuntary manslaughter charges by an agnostic lawyer (Laura Linney). Tedious rather than tense and sabotaged by its full range of one-dimensional characterizations, the movie alternates between Dolby-enhanced possession scenes that could benefit from some projectile vomiting (or at least a spinning head) and droning courtroom sequences that wouldn’t pass muster on the weakest episode of “Matlock.”

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There’s still enough summertime left for one more financial mega-flop to clear out movie houses and studio coffers (see also The Island and Stealth), so why not , an $80 million stinkbomb that also has the dishonor of being the season’s worst release? (Well, keep in mind that I didn’t see Deuce Bigalow: European Gigolo.)

Terry Gilliam, the former Monty Python member whose peculiar brand of genius doesn’t always translate comfortably to his motion picture endeavors, has concocted an overstuffed boondoggle that’s miles removed from the mind-bending highs of Brazil or Twelve Monkeys. Matt Damon and Heath Ledger are cast adrift as the title characters, con artists whose ability to fool the local yokels of Germany with their fabricated yarns gets put to the test once they encounter genuine monsters.

RED EYE ✰✰1/2

Wes Craven's delight in filming the twitch of the death nerve is second only to his fetishistic tendency to focus on women in extreme peril and undergoing unspeakable torture. Yet Red Eye marks that rare occasion in which the put-upon female protagonist never seems like a helpless victim as much as a headstrong heroine just waiting for the right moment to make her move. For that, credit writers Carl Ellsworth and Dan Foos, but reserve the biggest cheer for Rachel McAdams. McAdams delivers a strong performance as Lisa Reisert, whose flight home to Miami turns into a terror trip once she discovers that the charming guy (Cillian Murphy) sitting next to her will manipulate her into helping him assassinate the Deputy Secretary of Homeland Security (Jack Scalia). ◗

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Brazilian director Fernando Meirelles seemingly came out of nowhere to make his mark on international cinema with the powerful City of God, and it’s nice to see that he hasn’t cut himself any slack with his follow-up feature. Strong enough that it should have been held for year-end release rather than tossed away during the waning days of summer, The Constant Gardener is a gripping film that somehow manages to make its central romance even more compelling than all the attendant global intrigue. Based on the novel by John Le Carre, the film stars Ralph Fiennes as Justin Quayle, a mildmannered British diplomat living in Kenya with his outspoken activist wife Tessa (Rachel Weisz). They don’t seem like the most compatible match, and after Tessa is murdered, further details emerge that cast a dark spell on her fidelity and paint their marriage as a troubled one.

Unfazed, Justin is nevertheless determined to solve the mystery of her death, and what he uncovers is a scandalous affair involving pharmaceutical conglomerates, low-life assassins and highranking British officials. With its unblinking (and accurate) examinations of the soulnessness of corporations and the grotesque manner in which the western world continues to ignore the plight of impoverished African nations (an angle it shares with Hotel Rwanda and The Interpreter), The Constant Gardener reverberates with a torn-from-the-headlines urgency. Yet what’s most startling about the movie is the gale force of its love story, featuring characters so vividly brought to life (both Fiennes and Weisz are terrific) that you leave the theater with a lump in the throat to accompany the fire in the belly.

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than in just about any comparable modern comedy, including the current hit Wedding Crashers -- in fact, not since There’s Something About Mary has a movie combined these disparate elements so seamlessly. Displaying a spark of comic invention in small roles in Bewitched, Anchorman and Bruce Almighty, Steve Carell catches on fire here, playing a sympathetic character that he created with director Judd Apatow (both men are credited with the screenplay). Carell plays Andy, a manchild who sports an impressive collection of comic books and action figures (all in mint condition, of course), rides a bicycle to work every day, and never has even come close to knowing the joys of a relationship, let alone the attendant carnal pleasures. His three coworkers at the electronics store (Paul Rudd, Romany Malco and Seth Rogen) make it their mission in life to hook Andy up; he eventually bumps into a few prospects, the most promising being Trish (excellent Catherine Keener), a divorcee with three kids and a flailing Internet business.

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E-mail: linda@connectsavannah.com. We reserve the right to edit or cut non-paid listings because of space limitations. the Heart and Lung Building at Candler Hospital. The league is a statewide, non-partisan, non-profit, multi-issue organization that encourages citizen participation in government and takes action on public policy issues. Membership is open to any citizen at least 18 years old.

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Local group meets regularly the third Tuesday of the month at 6 p.m. at the Sentient Bean Coffeehouse, 13 E. Park Ave. Call Raymond at 898-3506.

Libertarian Party of Chatham County

Chatham County Democratic Committee

Libertarian Party of Chatham County meets each Monday at 8:30 p.m. at Barnes & Noble at Oglethorpe Mall. Call 308-3934 or visit www.nodebts.com/chathamlibertariansinsga.html.

meets on the second Monday of each month. at 6 p.m. For information, call Joe Murray Rivers, chair, 234-5969, or Janice Shay, 547-5212 or visit www.chathamdems.com.

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Chatham County Democratic Women

Keep up with current events every Tuesday night on Yahoo Chat around 7 p.m. Send an e-mail to schmalk@yahoo.com to receive an invitation to join the chat.

For information, call Maxine Harris at 3520470 or 484-3222.

Chatham County Young Republicans For information, call Brad Morrison at 5964810.

Savannah Republican Club

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Meets every 2nd Tuesday of the month. Call 927-7170.

For information, call Maxine Harris at 3520470 or 484-3222.

Sierra Club

Curbside Recycling Persons who would like the city to initiate a curbside recycling program can sign a petition offered by the Savannah Chapter of the Green Building Council. Call 236-0781 or access the petition online at www.petitiononline.com/cleannow/petition.html.

Fellowship of Reconciliation The oldest interfaith peace and justice organization in the United States meets on the second Tuesday of each month at 6 p.m. at The Sentient Bean, 13 E. Park Ave.

League of Women Voters The Savannah-Chatham chapter of the League of Women Voters meets on the first Monday of the month at 5 p.m. in Room 3 of

Regular meetings held on the 3rd Thursday of each month at 7:30 p.m., at the First Presbyterian Church, 520 E. Washington Ave. 351-7436.

Speak Up! Local activist group focused on protesting the illegality of the war in Iraq. Contact Richard DiPirro at 441-7167 for more information.

Auditions Abyssinia Players Present Black Nativity The Abyssinia Players will schedule auditions for Langston Hughes’ gospel musical Black Nativity, directed by Ja Jahannes.

Four male and four female singing roles in the 20-60 age range, four dancing roles in

the 16-25 age range, and two male nonsinging roles in the 40-65 age range are needed. Production is scheduled for December. Send bio, headshot and audio sound files, if available, to DrJaPsych@aol.com or to Abyssinia Players, 1622 Ogeechee Rd., Savannah, 31419.

Individuals will be contacted via e-mail and telephone to schedule auditions.

Lowcountry Ensemble Company is looking for actors, writers, directors, producers, musicians, poets and those who want to be. The Lowcountry Ensemble Company is in the process of creating, developing and maintaining a company of actors. For information, send e-mail to negroensemble@comcast.net.

Benefits & Fundraisers Fill it Up, Give Life Savannah Mall and Oglethorpe Mall are partnering with Cumulus Broadcasting to help the American Red Cross by hosting blood drives and donating all funds collected in the mall fountains. The ”Fill It Up, Give Life” collections will be donated to aid Gulf Coast residents. Change can be donated at either fountain. Blood drives will be held Sundays from 2-6 p.m. through Oct. 30.

The Gatlins in Concert Shag-Beach Bop-Etc. Savannah presents a concert and dance featuring The Gatlins on Saturday, Oct. 1 at 6 p.m. at Holiday Inn/Midtown, 7100 Abercorn St. There will be a charity auction to benefit Open Arms and the Inner City Night Shelter. Tickets are $15 in advance and $20 at the door.

Volunteers for the event can get tickets for half price. Call 927-4784 or 398-8784 or book tickets online at www.shagbeachbop.com.

Girl Scouts Helping Hurricane Victims The Girl Scout Council of Savannah and the American Red Cross-Savannah are collecting donations for ”infant comfort kits.”

Donations of travel-sized baby lotion, shampoo, powder, combs, diaper rash ointment, baby wipes, baby blankets, small bath toys, washcloths and one-gallon plastic storage bags and being collected on Sept.

22 and 23 from 1:30-5:30 p.m. at the Girl Scout Council of Savannah, 127 Abercorn St., fourth floor. Call 236-1571.

Give for the Gulf This year-long, comprehensive Armstrong Atlantic State University initiative will raise funds and provide community service for evacuees of Hurricane Katrina. Visit www.armstrong.edu/katrina.

Horsin’ Around This non-profit therapeutic riding program for special needs children will hold an auction on Saturday, Sept. 24 at 5 p.m. at the Georgia Wranglers Arena on Highway 67 between Pembroke and Interstate 16. All money will go to continue Horsin’ Around, which benefits children with cerebral palsy, spina bifida, muscular dystrophy, autism, developmental disabilities and other physical and mental disorders. Call Cindi Colley at 898-0419 or Judy Clark at 748-7919.

Hurricane Katrina Benefit Website A community website/blog where local Hurricane Katrina relief efforts, fundraising events and other information are listed can be found at www.katrinahelp.gatherat.com.

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Affiliate of the American Heart Association to raise funds and awareness. It is based on long-distance sea-kayak trips along the Atlantic coast. To follow the progress or make a donation, visit www.heartpaddle.org. r 713-8778.

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is a new event sponsored by the Humane Society on Friday, Sept. 23. There will be live music by the Denny Phillips Band, cocktails and hors d’oeuvres, live and silent auctions, prize drawings and the presentation of the Annual Maggie Medal. Tickets are $50. Call Mindy Nash at 598-1527 or mnash@savannah-humane.com.

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Art and Theater Classes at S.P.A.C.E. Several classes in art and theater are being offered for both children and adults at S.P.A.C.E., 9 W. Henry St. For information, call 651-4248.

The Art School The Art School provides quality art instruction for ages 6 through adult.

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Classes provide a comfortable, non-competitive atmosphere for students of all levels.

Tuition includes professional art supplies.

Located across from Summit Gymnastics/Sharks Cheerleading at 74 W. Montgomery Crossroads. Call 921-1151 or visit www.theartschool-sav.com.

Baby sign classes Savannah Speech & Hearing Center is offering Baby Sign classes for babies aged 6-12 months and their parents.

Communicate with your baby before you knew it was possible. Classes are offered in four-week sessions every month. Times vary. 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, which includes lunch and a training manual, plus certification on completion of the class.

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Basic computer class Eastside Concerned Citizens Inc. at 803 E. Park Ave. offers basic computer classes every second and fourth Saturday from 10 a.m. to noon. 232-5280.

Beginners quilting classes are held every Tuesday at 10 a.m. at the Wesley Community Centers of Savannah, Inc., 1601 Drayton St. Register by calling 447--5711 or stop by the center.

Building a Home The UBuildIt office in Savannah invites you to attend a free seminar to help you learn more about building your very own dream house. Call 236-1211.

Buying a Home Made Easy is a Wisdom and Gathering Session set for Sept. 22 from 5:30-7 p.m. at the St. Joseph’s/Candler African-American Health Information and Resource Center, 1910 Abercorn St. Call 447-6605.

Career Achievement Program

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St. Mary’s Community Center, an affiliate of St. Joseph’s/Candler, is offering a program to help adults with math, reading and writing skills. Participants learn through a computer software program, small group and individual tutoring and study books.

Participants can choose their hours between Monday through Friday, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. The center is at 812 W. 36th St. Call 447-0578.

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Children’s Art Studio Combining quality education with the fun and enrichment of the creative process, the Children’s Art Studio will offer mixed-media classes for children ages 4-12. Tentative class offerings include Ceramic Birdhouses, Children’s LiterARTure, Amazing Animal Games, Do The Zoo, Mimic the Masters and The Artist’s Garden. The studio is located at 714 Mall Blvd., across from South College.

Classes will be offered Monday through Friday from 9-10:30 a.m., 11 a.m. to noon and 1-2:30 p.m. All classes are $95 for the week, which includes materials and a snack.

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Church Music Seminar The School of Church Music located at 101 Bull St. is announcing specialized workshops to give practical help with almost every area of music ministry, including Conducting Techniques, Youth Choirs, Planning and Organization, Worship Teams, Midi and Keyboards, Children’s Choirs, Worship Planning, Liturgy, Senior Choirs, Keyboards, Vocal Techniques, Rehearsal Tips, Music Software and more. Call 2361566 or send email to scm@schoolofchurchmusic.org.

City’s Arts and Theatre Classes The City of Savannah’s Department of Cultural Affairs offers classes in both Performing and Visual Arts, Ceramics, Painting, Drawing, Stained Glass Mosaics, Jewelry-Making, Audition and Monologue Preparation, Creative Dramatics and more.

The eight-week classes will begin in September, so enroll today to guarantee a spot. All ages and abilities. Call 651-4248 or visit www.savannahga.gov/arts.

Classes at Familiar Pathways Several classes are offered, including Meditation 101 and 102; Aura 101; Tarot 101, 102. 103 and 104; Witchcraft 101 and 102; Henna 101 and 102; Herbology 101, 102 and 103; Deity 101 and 102; and The Art of Control: Principles and Tactics. Most of these classes cost $50 and lunch is included. Many of the classes are ongoing, running every month. Payment is to be made two days prior to the class starting date. Call Anastasia at 443-9678 for class times.

Coastal Scooters Classes Coastal Scooters is conducting classes that focus on road skills, safety and the proper maintenance of scooters. Classes are limited in size to provide personal assistance. Each rider is equipped with a TGB 49.5cc scooter and helmet. The class is three hours in length, consisting of classroom, field and on-road instruction.

Classes meet on Saturdays from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. or Sundays from 1-4 p.m. The cost is $40. To register, call 232-5513 or visit Coastal Scooters at 418 W. Broughton St.

Computer Classes Basic introduction to computers and Microsoft Works offered at St. Paul’s Lutheran Church, Bull and 31st streets.

Classes meet for two hours, one day a week for six weeks. Cost is $20 for the session and $20 for the text book. Pre-registration is required. Call 355-0219.

Culinary Arts Classes Enroll now in a free culinary arts training program at the Starfish Cafe. This program

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Drawing Inspiration From the Masters Free drawing classes for teens, adults and seniors are offered by the Savannah Art Association through a grant from the Department of Cultural Affairs and Leisure Services Bureau. Classes are held Saturdays through October from 9 a.m. to noon at Armstrong Atlantic State University’s’ Fine Arts Hall. This program offers a solid foundational art education to members of the community at no cost. For information, call 897-5612 or 598-8217.

members, $45 for non-members. Call 8975612.

Mindful meditation classes

offers free classes on using computers to access information at the Bull Street Library.

Call 652-3662.

will be held on Mondays from 8:30-9:30 a.m. and on Thursdays from 6-8 p.m. at the Integrated Behavioral Center, 1121 Cornell Ave. The cost is $10 per session. Call 3554987.

Memorial Health positive parenting class

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The cost is $10 per person and is most beneficial to parents of children less than 4 years. To register, call 350-9335.

Indepth exploration of the 11th step.

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Multiple blessings is a four-week education course offered by Memorial Health and designed for the family expecting twins, triplets or more. Call Barbara at 350-3129 or visit www.memorialhealth.com.

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Eastside Concerned Citizens, Inc. Project Tomorrow Inc. is offering several classes and workshops.

The list includes sewing, crocheting, computer training, CPR and more. 232-5280.

The Economic Opportunity Authority

This parent education and support program is based at St. Joseph’s/Candler. To find out how you can help, call 819-6910.

Free Coaching Session and Assessment Free session for personal, career and professional development. Call Executive Leadership Coaching, 443-9860, or send email to Vicki@excellentcoach.com.

Free computer classes St. Joseph’s/Candler African-American Health Information and Resource Center offers free computer classes. Call 447-6605 for times, days and registration information.

Space is limited.

Inquiry Circle based on the work of Byron Katie is now forming. It offers immediate help when you need answers right away. No charge.

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Rising Interest Rates What You Can Do Now is an integrated wealth management course that will be offered Wednesday, Sept. 21 at 7 p.m. and Thursday, Sept. 22 at noon at Smith Barney, 7402 Hodgson Memorial Dr., Suite 200. Call 692-4613.

Life Challenge Consulting When would now be a great time to engage yourself in life-changing strategies. Career; stress reduction; spirituality. Free initial halfhour consultation. Call Cindy Beach, M.S., at 429-7265.

Life Drawing Sessions with a clothed model will be held Sundays Sept. 25 and Oct. 23 from 1-4 p.m. at the Savannah Art Association, located above Belford’s in City Market. Bring drawing supplies. The cost is $35 per session for

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Painting Classes for beginners and studio groups for experienced artists Private studio in historic district.

Professional instruction by MFA graduate of the Savannah College of Art and Design. Oil and acrylic painting, charcoal, pencil and pastel drawing. $125 for six-week course or $75 a month for weekly studio sessions. Call 234-5737 for information and registration.

Parent and Teen Driving Course The Savannah-Chatham Metropolitan Police Department will present a free two-hour parent/teen driverâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s course the last Thursday of each month at 6:30 p.m. at Calvary Baptist Day School, 4625 Waters Ave. Call 651-6653 or send e-mail to ccamire@savannahga.gov and request a registration form. The course is designed for 14-16 year olds and their parents. Advance registration is required. is a course offered by Telfair Womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Hospital at Candler. Call at 819-3368 or visit www.sjchs.org.

Savannah Art Association Life Drawing Drawing sessions will be held the first three Tuesdays of every month from 9:30-11:30 a.m. at the Savannah Art Association (located in City Market upstairs over Belford's). The model is clothed. Bring your own drawing supplies. $10 per session for members.

Savannah Entrepreneurial Center at 801 E. Gwinnett offers business and computer classes.

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workshop will be held Sept. 22 from 6:308:30 p.m. at the Small Business Assistance Center, 111 E. Liberty St. Cost is $40 with pre-registration or $50 the day of. 651-3200.

Tybee Island Marine Science Center offers hands-on classes for students of all ages from pre-kindergarten through adults.

Classes include microscope labs, squid dissection, guided beach walks and tours of the Science Center. Call 786-5917 or visit www.tybeemsc.org.

UGA Marine Education Center and Aquarium presents outreach programs that are interactive, with live animals, costumes and fun activities. Contact Stephanie Edgecombe at 598-2335 for reservations. "Turtle Tales" is a 60-minute outreach program that combines science and art for pre-kindergarten and kindergarten students. Call Edith Schmidt at 598-2447.

Clubs & Organizations AASU Sci-Fi Fantasy Club On Thursdays, the club sponsors role playing with Dungeons and Dragons, Modern D29, Witchcraft, magic the gathering and other role playing games. Anyone interested in playing is free to join. The club meets at 7:30 p.m. at the AASU Compass Point Club House. The club is forming a laser tag team and has bi-monthly childrenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s readings on Saturdays from 1-3 p.m. at Media Play. For information, call Antonio at 713-1470 or send email to Catscandance2@aol.com.

Come learn the foundations of stress reduction as it applies to family, the workplace and current life challenges. Classes are held Wednesdays from 7-8:30 p.m. Class fee is $15. 313 E. Harris St. For more information, call Cindy Beach, M.S., 429-7265.

ABATE (American Bikers Active Toward Education)

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Tennis for munchkins, juniors and adults -summer camps, clinics, ball machine workouts. Call 961-9862.

movie. Call Don at 655-0482 or send e-mail to savdeca@aol.com.

Ascension Lutheran Dinner and a Movie Join other college-age Lutheran friends for fun and fellowship on the first and third Sundays at 5:30 p.m. at Ascension Lutheran, 120 Bull St. After dinner, the group will attend Reel Savannah screenings. Call 2324151 or send email to program@elcota.org.

Banner of the Nations Savannah is part of a regional and global church network. The group meets Sundays at 10:30 a.m. at 12 Drake Dr. Call Frank Spencer at 352-2323 or visit the Web site at www.bannerofthenations.com.

Clean Coast

meets monthly on the third Thursday at 6 p.m. Call 605-4471 for details.

Beanhead Writers Group

Coastal Bicycle Touring Club of Savannah

Get together with other Savannah writers -published and unpublished -- every second Saturday at 1 p.m. at The Sentient Bean, 13 E. Park Ave. The group meets to critique works in progress and to discuss technique and marketing. Fiction and non-fiction, but no poetry.

sponsors a bicycle ride every Saturday. Visit www.cbtc.org for a ride schedule and more information. Meetings are held on the first Monday of each month at Tubbyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Tank House restaurant in Thunderbolt at 6:30 p.m. Visitors are welcome. 728-5989.

Coastal Georgia Volkswagen Club

Bike Night with Mikie

This group for Volkswagen lovers - who enjoy meeting like people & attending activities in their autos. Meets the 3rd Saturday of every month. 961-0602.

Beach Historic Neighborhood Association

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.

Bipolar Support Group 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.

1511 Abercorn, ACBL certified duplicate bridge game every Wednesday at 1 p.m.

There is a $4 fee. Call Lynn Pierce at 3549739.

Chihuahua Club of Savannah

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Viewings will be held in private homes which includes social time as well as viewing a

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, immediately behind Sitel Corp. and Signature Flight Support. For information, check the web site at www.gawg.cap.gov, send e-mail to N303WR@aol.com, or call Capt. Jim Phillips at 412-4410. meets monthly on the first Monday at the Jewish Educational Alliance, 5111 Abercorn St. The group needs volunteers and volunteer boat-owners for monthly clean-ups on area beaches, barrier islands and marshes. Check www.cleancoast.org for event schedule.

Bridge club meets at the JEA

District 11 meets the 2nd Sunday of each month at 3 p.m. at the Silver Dollar Saloon on Hwy. 204 and Old River Rd. Please call for more info. 233-9800.

Civil Air Patrol

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

Community Hymn Chorus All you need is the desire to have a good time singing Godâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s music. All denominations are welcome to come together to make a joyful noise. Meets every Tuesday at 11:15 a.m. at White Bluff United Methodist Churchâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Horton Hall, 11911 White Bluff Rd. Call Ronn Alford, Director of Music Ministries, at 925-5924.

Daughters of Destiny will present an evening with Mary McAlister, executive director of the Rape Crisis Center, on Monday, Sept. 26 at 7 p.m. at the Daughters of Destiny Cottage, 12 E. 41st St. An ongoing seminar for women who want to

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make changes in their lives through spirituality and positive reinforcement. The answers lie inside each of us. Meets every Monday at 7 p.m. at Daughters of Destiny House, 12 E. 41st St. Open to all women, all ages, all religions, all beliefs. Facilitated by Miriam Center.

Drumming circle There will be a Drumming Circle on Tybee Island the 3rd Saturday of each month from 4-6 p.m. at the Casual Reader bookstore at the shops at Tybee Oaks off Hwy. 80. Call 786-7655.

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Friends of the Library meet the first Monday of each month at 5:30 p.m. at the Bull Street Library. Call 652-3655.

Gold Wing Road Riders Association

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promotes education, safety and fun to motorcycle riders. Call Julian at 920-2700 or John at 858-5414 or visit chaptere2.tripod.com.

Goth Night Savannah A place to connect with fellow individuals who are interested in the music and art of the Gothic subcultures. We welcome musicians, bands, DJs, filmmakers, performance troupes, writers, clothiers, artists and artisans. Visit www.Goth-NightSavannah.com.

Harley Owners Group HOG meets the second Tuesday of every month at 7 p.m. at the Mighty Eighth Heritage Museum. Call 925-5349.

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Noon - 4 $5 T Bone and Fries - Mon-Fri 4-7 (Happy Hour) $2 Small appetizers Mon. - $10 Wings Tues. - 2 for $1 Tacos Wed. - Italian Night (Featured Italian Dishes For $6) Thurs. - T Bone Dinner Fri. - Fish and Chips $6 Sat. - Free Breakfast Buffet

sponsors a Country Textiles African American Quilt Making Guild. Call 447-1888. at 2202 Norwood Ave. sponsors bingo every Tuesday and Friday starting at 7:30 p.m.

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Low Country Artists’ and Artisans’ Society Loyal Order of Moose

Memberships start at $25 and remain active until marriage. See website or call for local chapters. 1-800-869-2500.

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Learn how to play the game that will soon replace Chess as the intellectual strategy game par excellence., Tuesday at 7:30 p.m. at Books-A-Million on Abercorn. Call Greg at 232-7549.

Board of Directors meets every third Wednesday at 6:30 p.m.; general membership meeting follows at 7 p.m. at the Oatland Island Educational Center. Call Serena Nasworthy at 897-3060.

Dave Mathews Band –“Dreamgirl“

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interested in Celtic music are welcome.

Meets the second and fourth Sundays at 5:30 p.m. at the Folk Traditions Store, 12 Price St. Call 341-8898.

holds its board meetings on 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.

These meetings are open to the public. For information, call 236-8546.

Hostess City Toastmasters Club For those interested in gaining confidence in public speaking. Meets Tuesday evenings, 7pm at 6206 Waters Ave, Rivers Edge Retirement Community. 355-5450.

Irish Session The Irish Session is getting ready for a performance at the Sentient Bean in September. All instrumentalists who are

MOMS Club The name of this group stands for Moms Offering Moms Support. It is for stay-athome moms and their children and we meet during the day, during the week, when moms need the most support. Events include day trips, service projects, monthly Mom’s Night Outs, play groups, play dates, crafts events, a babysitting co-op, and other activities. For information, call Courtney at 921-1462, visit www.momsclub.org or send e-mail to momsclubofsavannahga@hotmail.com.

MOPS (Mothers of Preschoolers) The Island Mothers of Preschoolers meets every first and third Wednesday of the month at First Baptist Church of the Islands, 6613 Johnny Mercer Blvd. Child care will be provided. There will be food, games and door prizes. Call Linda at 897-9632.

Millionaire’s Club for Women The purpose of the organization is to achieve wealth and success in personal and professional life and to share this wealth by mentoring others on the same path. Call 236-3660.

Objectivist Society of Savannah is a group dedicated to the philosophy of Ayn Rand meets biweekly at the Lion’s Den Lounge. Call Brian at 234-2484 or ww.savannahobjectivists.org.

Oglethorpe Business & Professional Women’s Club meets for lunch the second Tuesday of each month at 12:30 p.m. Call 966-3619 or visit www.obpw.org.

Philo Cafe Philosophical sessions taking on a different topic each time at Barnes & Noble every Wednesday at 7:30 pm. Call 659-2930 or 443-9267.

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Postage stamp meeting and auction The Savannah Stamp Club meeting and stamp auction is held the second Thursday at 7 p.m. at the Grace United Methodist Church, 6412 Waters Ave. Call 354-8870.

Progressive Guys’ Discussion Group An opportunity for men to discuss books, music, film and cultural issues in an intellectually stimulating and non-judgmental environment. Meets the third Wednesday at 7 p.m. at the Sentient Bean Coffee House. 2318841.

Rogue Phoenix Sci-Fi Fantasy Club 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.

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Group meets the second Tuesday of each month at 6:30 p.m. at the Holiday Inn Midtown on Abercorn. The $20 guest fee will apply to your membership if you join.

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 non-denominational community musical activity emphasizes participation, not performance. Songs are from The Sacred Harp, an oblong songbook first published in 1844. All are welcome to sing or just listen. No experience or membership is required. Books will be available for loan or purchase. For information, including dates and times, call 6550994.

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Savannah Brewers’ League Meets the first Wednesday of every month at 7:30 p.m. at Moon River Brewing Co., 21 W. Bay St. 447-0943. For more details, call 4470943 or visit our web site at www.hdb.org and click on Clubs, then choose Savannah Brewers League.

Savannah Chapter of the Sons of Italy The Order of the Sons of Italy is forming a lodge in Savannah. This is the oldest and largest national organization that celebrates Italian/American heritage for men and women. Call Dennis Piasio at 1-888-674-2937.

Savannah Chess Club meets Monday at Books-A-Million from 7 to 11 p.m. Bring your chess sets. Call 631-0338 or send e-mail to geocities/savannahchessclub.com.

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. The Navy League is a non-profit civilian organization that supports the men and women of our sea services and educates the public about the importance of sea power. For information, call John Findeis at 748-7020.

Savannah Euchre Club Euchre is a four-handed card game in the same family as Hearts and Spades, a poor (but discerning) man’s Bridge. Approaching Platonic perfection is all that one could wish from playing cards, it combines the deceptive simplicity of Gin with the addictive competitiveness of Poker, and it moves briskly enough to consume many hours of your life. Call Katie at 227-4193.

Savannah Express Network Chapter of American Business Women’s Association meets the first Wednesday at 11:45 a.m. at the Savannah Golf Club on East President Street. RSVP to Laura McLaren at 236-6750, Ext. 14, or 898-9362.

Savannah Fencing Club offers beginning classes Tuesday and Thursday evenings for six weeks. Fees are $30. All 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 savannahfencingclub@hotmail.com.

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”How untidy my shell has become! Blurred with moss, knobby with barnacles, its shape is hardly recognizable any more. Surely, it had a shape once. It has a shape still in my mind. What is the shape of my life?” -- Anne Morrow Lindbergh. If these words resonate with you and you are a woman of ”a certain age” on her own, join us for lively discussion, laughter and fun. Call 236-8581.

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Meeting once a month inside a haunted historic house, this is a town hall for psychics, metaphysicians, tarot readers, mediums, remote viewers, pagans, Wiccans, vampyres and those interested in ghosts and parapsychology. Free to join. For information, visit http://www,ghosts.meetup.com/18/ or send e-mail to sscott191@comcast.net.

Savannah Italian Club is dedicated to discussing and preserving the heritage of Italians and ItalianAmericans. Meetings are the first Tuesday at 2717 Livingston Ave. Call Carol Taylor at 925-4064.

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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 232-6682 or visit www.savannahjaycees.com.

Savannah Lions Club meets the second and fourth Thursday at 12:30 p.m. at the Savannah Golf Club. For information, call 355-6033.

Savannah Macintosh Users Group (SMUG) Group for Macintosh computer and software users meets the second Tuesday of every month at 7 p.m. See www.savannahmug.org.

Savannah Newcomers Club is open to all residents who have lived in the Savannah area for less than two years. The club hosts a monthly luncheon and program on the third Wednesday of each month at various area restaurants. In addition, the Newcomers sponsor tours, activities and

events to help new residents in the area learn about their community and provide a forum in which to make new friendships. If you are interested in attending a luncheon or would like more information, call 3513171.

Savannah-Ogeechee Canal Society is dedicated to the preservation of the canal and its natural and historical features.

Dinner meetings are the second Tuesday of the month at 6:30 p.m. at the Fairmont Restaurant, 65 W. Fairmont Ave. Volunteer Saturdays are the second Saturday of the month from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. at the Savannah-Ogeechee Museum & Nature Center at 681 Fort Argyle Rd. (Highway 204) 2.3 miles west of Interstate 95. 748-8068.

Savannah Port City Lions Club meets every first and third Tuesday at 6:30 p.m. at Ryan’s Restaurant on Stephenson.

For information, call 920-9081.

meets every Thursday from 7:30-8:30 am at the First City Club in downtown Savannah.

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works? Good company, edgy conversation, laughter, edible food, music, the arts, the beach and the pool, croquet, tennis, kayaks and dancing, just for starters. Call 232-4247.

Savannah Toastmasters

Tybee Beautification Association

Savannah Sunrise Rotary club

meets every Tuesday and Thursday at 6 p.m. and Sundays at 3 p.m. in Forsyth Park. Bring a white and dark shirt, water, cleats and a positive attitude. Visit www.savannahultimate.com for information.

Single People in Christian Education (SPICE)

For information, see www.savannahskiclub.com.

This group is interdenominational and there are no dues or fees. The group discusses education and plans and hosts social events and functions for singles throughout each month. Meets Sunday at 9:30 a.m. at White Bluff United Methodist Church, Room 22.

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Savannah Ski Club

meets every second Tuesday of the month from 6-8 p.m. at wild fibre, 409 E. Liberty St. New members are welcome. All that is required is an interest in knitting or crocheting. Bring a project and join in the stitching, talking and munchies. A preemie hat project is in progress. Guest lectures.

Free and open to the public. Call 238-0514 for information.

is a civic organization catering to youth and community service projects that meets every Wednesday at 12:30 p.m. at Taylor’s Restaurant inside the Days Inn on Mall Boulevard. Call Linda Lee at 695-7733.

Subbuteo Table Soccer meets monthly for tournaments and practice matches. For information, call 667-7204 or visit http://savannahsubbuteo.tripod.com.

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Weekend Warriors is a program at Portman’s Music for people who were musicians as kids, but went on to pursue other types of careers. The cost is $95, which includes two hours of instruction each week for four weeks. The latest gear will be provided. Call 354-1500.

Young Professionals of Savannah A forum for young professionals ages 21-40 to build relationships, develop professionally and enhance business by expanding their social network. Will neet Sept. 29 from 6-8 p.m. at Cobblestone Conch House, 225 W. River St. The guest speaker will be Lou Phelps of Phelps, Cutler and Associates and Coastal Empire Media, Inc. For informaiton, send email to Katie at kathleen.patterson@smithbarney.com or Garrett at garrett.w.murphy@smithbarney.com..

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With the exception of the June and December meetings, the association meets at the Tybee Community Center.

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Adult Ballet Classes at Islands Dance Academy. All levels welcome, including beginners. Challenging, rewarding and fun. Mondays at 6:30 p.m. and Thursdays at 7 p.m. at 115 Charlotte Rd. on Whitemarsh Island. Call Sue Braddy at 8972100.

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 7-9 p.m. at Double’s, Holiday Inn/Midtown, 7100 Abercorn St. Free swing dance lessons are offered the first two Mondays and free shag lessons are offered the third and fourth Mondays. Every lady dances each Monday night with members of the Shag-Beach-Bop Nip ‘N Males Dance Team. No cover and club membership is not necessary. Call 927-4784 or 398-8784 or visit www.shagbeachbop.com.

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.

The Zion Method Local minster, choreographer and dance professor LaJune Wise-Wilkerson has developed a method that incorporates known dance techniques with all forms of movement to celebrate all of God’s creation. The academy is located at 120 E. 42nd St. Classes include dance therapy for the physically and visually impaired, Christian-based dance therapy, general dance therapy, Guardians-Double Dutch weight loss, Double Dutch fitness, Double Dutch competition, advanced level dance composition/choreography, ballet, modern, jazz, tai fusion, ethnic and Zion Method liturgical. Call 306-3077 or visit www.zionmethod.com.

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.

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Chopra Center at Memorial Health Yoga Classes are held Mondays at 6:30 p.m. and Fridays at 5:30 p.m. at the Chopra Center and Thursdays at 6:30 p.m. in Richmond Hill. The cost is $36 a month or $12 for walk-ins. 3502467.

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Drop-in rate is $10. All experience levels are welcome. Beginner instruction available for the first hour. Call Jeff at 352-7057 or email jadelotustaichi@yahoo.com

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The Jewish Education Alliance will offer the following health and fitness classes: Yoga- Join Amy Levy at 9:45 am on Friday’s 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 355-8111.

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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.

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Pregnancy Yoga An eight-week session of Pregnancy Yoga will be held starting Oct. 4 on Tuesday and Thursday evenings from 6-7:15 p.m. at offices located at 7116 Hodgson Memorial Dr. Prenatal yoga helps prepare mothers-to-be for a more mindful approach to the challenges of pregnancy, labor and delivery. The instructor is Ann Carroll. The cost is $90 for once per week or $150 for twice per week for the eight-week session. Call Ann at 667-8877 or send email to ann@aikyayoga.com for information and space availability.

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.

Yoga The City of Savannah, Leisure Services, Recreation Services Department, offers a yoga class on Saturday from noon to 1 p.m.

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Yoga classes are held Monday, Wednesday and Saturday from 10-11:15 a.m. (Morning Yoga) Mondays and Wednesday from noon to 1 p.m. (Lunch Yoga) and Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays from 5:45-7 p.m.

(Evening Yoga.) The cost choices include a $12 walk-in rate, along with additional rates.

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Hatha Flow Level I Wednesday 10-11:30 a.m., Friday 6-7:30 p.m. and Saturday from 10:30 a.m. to noon; Hatha Flow levels I and II, Tuesday 6-7:30 p.m. and Sunday 5-6:30 p.m.; Hatha Flow levels I and II Monday 6:30-8 p.m.; Vinyasa Flow-Power Yoga Saturday 910 a.m. and Thursday 6:30-7:30 p.m.; Mommy & Me Yoga Monday 4-5 p.m. for 5years old and up and Wednesday from 4-5 p.m. for 2 and 4-year-olds; Baby & Mommy Yoga call for schedule. Private instruction and gift certificates available. Whitemarsh Center, 115 Charlotte Rd. Cost is $12 for drop-ins and $75 for eight classes. Call 898-0361.

Girls eat and socialize. Meets the 3rd Saturday of each month. 236-CITY.

Yogalates Classes are offered by St. Josephâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s/Candler for WellBeing on Thursdays from 5:45-6:45 p.m. in Suite 203 of the Candler Heart and Lung Building, 5356 Reynolds St. The cost is $30 for four sessions or $50 for eight sessions.

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Lite and Lean Mexican Cuisine is a program offered by the St. Josephâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s/Candler Wellness Center on Sept.

22 from noon to 1:30 p.m. in the Marsh Auditorium at Candler Hospital. The cost is $15. Call 819-8800 to register.

Gay & Lesbian Alpha Financial Management seminars A series of free seminars specifically designed for the LGBT community will be held. Attendees will learn about the tools needed to increase their wealth, protect their assets, take actions that are congruent with their own values, and to build a sense of financial and emotional security in life. For information, call 353-9343.

First City Network Board Meeting Meets the first Monday at 6 p.m. at FCNâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s office, 307 E. Harris St., 3rd floor. 236-2489.

First City Network Community Center and Library 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 â&#x20AC;&#x153;Gay Savannahâ&#x20AC;? businesses and happenings. www.firstcitynetwork.com. 236-CITY

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Friends & Company bowling league meets Sundays at 5:30 p.m. at AMF Victory Lanes, 2055 E. Victory Dr. 354-5710.

Gay AA Meeting meets Sunday and Wednesday at 7:30 p.m. at 307 E. Harris St., second floor. For information, contact Mark at 441-4407.

is the local chapter of Georgia's largest gay rights group. 104 W. 38th St. 944-0996.

Lesbian Therapy Group Share your thoughts, feelings and concerns in a safe, confidential environment that is facilitated by a licensed therapist the second and fourth Friday at 7 p.m. Spaces are limited. Call 352-2611.

Savannah Gay Business Guild meets the second Tuesday at 7 p.m. to offer a networking service of gay and gay friendly businesses, organizations and individuals.

For information, contact Kevyn Withers at kevyn@kevynwithers.com.

Standout is First Cityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s gay youth support group.

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

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What Makes A Family is a childrenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s therapy group for children of GLBT parents. Groups range in age from 10 to 18 and are held twice a month. Call 3522611.

Health Community HealthCare Center provides free health care for those patients who live in Chatham County, are under 65, who do not have primary medical coverage, and who do not exceed certain financial thresholds. The Center is located at 310 Eisenhower Drive Medical Center. Call for an appointment at 692-1451.

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

Free blood pressure checks and blood sugar screenings 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.

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

A Union Mission Inc. program that provides HIV/AIDS education and outreach through the use of free workshops, seminars and peer education. Free needleless testing is provided. Services are free to churches, clubs and shelters. Contact DaVena Jordan at 231-0123 or send e-mail to djordan@unionmission.org.

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 231-8727.

Harvest of Hope This is a camping program for families with a member who has cancer. A orientation session will be held to provide information about the program on Monday, Sept. 26 from 4:30-5:30 p.m. at the Curtis and Elizabeth Anderson Cancer Institute’s Conference Room on the Memorial Health campus. Call Jennifer Currin at 350-7845.

La Leche League Are you breastfeeding or planning to?

Information, education, encouragement and support are available free of charge to all women who are interested in breastfeeding through monthly meetings and over the telephone from La Leche League of Savannah.

Call the LLL of Savannah Help Line at 8979261. All series meetings are held in the Candler Professional Building, 5354 Reynolds St, Room 508A.

Mammograms St. Joseph’s/Candler will be performing mammograms to screen for breast cancer in its

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March of Dimes The March of Dimes offers valuable information for women. www.modimes.org or 1888-MODIMES. 354-5900.

Massage by Certified Massage Practitioner at your home, business or hotel in the Savannah and Richmond Hill area. He comes to you. Offers therapeutic and relaxing massage, Swedish massage, deep muscle, reflexology and energy balance. Pain treatment, cellulite reduction, long established business. Specials for women or

couples. Gift certificates available. Call 8561534.

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 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.

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.

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TAURUS - While anger in your local area now fuels revolutionary political sentiment, Pallas Athena in Scorpio warns that such sentiment will be dissolute, vulgar & misdirected. Channel dialogue through legitimate organizations – including churches – where leadership disciplines rabble without restricting delivery of the message.

GEMINI - Because you demand perfection as well as total transparent adherence to all rules, Pallas Athena in Scorpio guarantees that certain colleagues will now cheat. If you catch such individuals cheating, say nothing to them, but talk about it with bosses. Find a way to fool all the “crabs” as you lead them directly into your “trap.”

CANCER - Adversaries will now invade your space to induce you to reveal your agenda. Therefore, Pallas Athena in Scorpio urges you to act against your usual habits by mingling gregariously. While this will not assuage your opponents’ suspicions (they know you too well), it will prevent them from launching their invasive strategy against you (perhaps they do not know you well enough?).

LEO - Pallas Athena in Scorpio will teach you by negative example why you should avoid personal confrontations – especially with those beneath your station in life.

Don’t allow your ego to react to provocations by those who need to bring you down in order to pull themselves up.

VIRGO - Since you don’t feel confident that you can identify the spy lingering in your professional environment, Pallas Athena in Scorpio asks, “Why not assume that everybody is a spy until you can prove otherwise through your own brand of ‘litmus testing’?”

LIBRA - You waited for several, long months for that first initial lead in a criminal investigation or a solid fact upon which you could base your long-term investments, which you only recently received. While you need to mine much more data in order to see truly productive results, Pallas Athena in Scorpio promises that such data is forthcoming. For now, prioritize all that you need.

SCORPIO - Professional superiors & law enforcement officials who relentlessly monitored every aspect of your life for the past several years have sacrificed their advantage because they have revealed all of their tricks.

Pallas Athena in Scorpio now advises you to find ways to turn such knowledge to advantage – but do not implement them all at once. Ponder the long-term view.

SAGITTARIUS - Talk frankly with one who hurt themselves with drugs, promiscuous sex or their own criminal activity. Pallas Athena in Scorpio signifies that conditions will soon be ripe for negative episodes to repeat themselves. Discover what impels somebody to regress so that you can find an antidote that works.

CAPRICORN - An associate who turned sour on you because you would not devote yourself to their overzealous ideology plans to coerce your cooperation under the current influence of Pallas Athena in Scorpio.

You can no longer afford to pity this individual. Rally the troops to support your interests.

AQUARIUS - Because you know that you may be unable to accomplish what your professional position requires throughout 2006, Pallas Athena in Scorpio demands that you develop a strategy, right now, that defines your limits. Don’t undermine your credibility down the line by allowing the impossible to creep up & to swallow you whole.

PISCES - Pending approval from educational institutions, regulatory agencies & publishers, your upcoming future is not only very bright but potentially limitless.

However exciting such news may be, Pallas Athena in Scorpio reminds you that you cannot do everything, all at once, all the time, forever. Prioritize what it is you want to do first & foremost. ◗

* Pallas Athena, the second asteroid to be discovered in 1802, was named after the warrior queen who officially protected ancient Athens. Pallas Athena always thought before she acted to insure inevitable victory. As befits her mythological birth, wherein she sprung fully grown & clad as a warrior from the back of the head of Jupiter, Pallas Athena operates under the same principle as the Queen of Swords in the Tarot, “The densest thought penetrates matter.” # Ceres, the largest asteroid & the first to be discovered in 1801, is named for the goddess of agriculture whose daughter Persephone suffered forcible & eternal abduction

by Pluto, lord of the underworld. As such, Ceres rules not only the Cancerian emotion of empathy & the maternal functions of nurturing, but also the production & distribution of food through agriculture & labor -- as well as the halting of such production & distribution through organized strikes of labor.

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ARIES - Remain alert for self-appointed authority figures who oppose theater, movies, dancing, drugs, alcohol or sex outside of marriage. Pallas Athena in Scorpio warns that new demagogues appoint themselves censors of their respective tribes. Monitor the complicitous who subvert dissent via casual dialogue with the weak-minded.

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Pallas Athena* transits Scorpio from September 19 to November 27, 2005. Those who resented the influence that extremely secretive, ruthless & intrepid power brokers wielded as Pluto transited Scorpio from 1983 to 1995 loved to see them suffer as Ceres# transited Scorpio from December 2004 through September 2005. However, those who envy & fear the command & control of such Scorpionic types also realize that nothing & nobody can keep such Scorpionic types down forever – and, with Jupiter about to transit Scorpio from late October 2005 through November 2006, these fearful, envious individuals intuit that the star of such Scorpionic types is about to rise. As such, expect the envious & the fearful to cultivate maneuvers & plans to thwart the strengths of such Scorpionic types – and expect such Scorpionic types to incorporate such maneuvers & plans into countermaneuvers & counterstrategies which assert that their will shall not be denied. Spy vs. spy during High Mass within Chapel Perilous!

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mobile screening unit. Most insurance plans (with the exception of Blue Cross HMO) are accepted. Financial assistance is available to women who qualify. Mammograms will be performed Sept. 27 from 10 a.m to 4 p.m. at the St. Joseph’s/Candler Medical Group in Rincon. Call 354-9357 for appointments.

Mammograms will be performed Sept. 28 from 10 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. at the Bryan County Health Department in Richmond Hill. Call 7562611 for appointments.

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The Midwife Group The Midwife Group/Family Health & Birth Center is offering 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 8264155.

The National Wellness Foundation sponsors a lecture every Thursday at 6 p.m. titled "The Essence of Chiropractic for the 21st Century." Call 356-5887.

Open Meditation is offered at The Chopra Center at Memorial Health. Visit chopra.memorialhealth.com or call 350-2467.

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Pamper Yourself is a seminar that will be offered Sept. 29 from 5:30-7 p.m. at the St. Joseph’s/Candler African-American Health Information and Resource Center, 1910 Abercorn St. Call 447-6605.

Planned Parenthood Hotline First Line is a statewide hotline for women who want information on health services, women’s shelters, sexual assault services, crisis information, birth control, S.T.D.s, pregnancy options, and more. Open every night from 7-11p.m. 1-800-264-7154.

Project SAVE The Savannah Health Mission, the Georgia Eye Institute and the local chapter of the American Diabetes Association are joining forces to implement Project SAVE, Screening and Vision Education, for people with diabetes. 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 352-2032.

Sankofa Counseling Center offers specialized therapy groups, individual therapy, family therapy, couples therapy and training and retreats. There is a sliding fee scale and a $25 fee per group. Located at 8111 Waters Ave. Call 352-2611.

Senior companions needed Citizens Inc. is seeking Senior Companions -- men and women 60 or older -- to provide care to older adults. Senior Companions receive a small stipend and travel assistance for their duties, which consist of light housekeeping, running errands and providing companionship, as well as other tasks as needed. Applicants must meet program

requirements to apply. Call 236-0363, Ext. 120 or 121.

Branch Library, 1820 Ogeechee Rd. Call 232-1339.

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

Super 2 Access Clinic

Reader’s theater meeting

Faith Academy of Christian Teaching

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.

every other Thursday from 4-5:30 p.m. at the South Effingham Library in Rincon. This performance group is a free program for middle and high school students. Call Linda Bridges, children’s coordinator at 826-2222.

Wanted: CPR and First Aid Instructors

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. 2325488 or 652-3660.

Prayer: Does God Listen? is the topic of discussion for the spring quarter of FACT, an adult academy at Skidaway Island Presbyterian Church, 50 Diamond Causeway. Dr. John Law will lead the class that will be held in the church sanctuary each Wednesday at 7 p.m. Call 598-0151.

The Savannah Chapter of the American Red Cross is looking for smart, motivated people interested in giving back to their community.

Call 651-5371 or send email to daled@savannahredcross.org.

Pets and Animals Norwood Stables Horse Show will be held Saturday, Sept. 24 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at Norwood Stables. No charge to visit. The stables offer lessons, rentals and boarding. For information, call 356-1387. t

Readings & Signings A.W.O.L. -- All Walks of Life, Inc.

is a spoken word troupe that hosts an open mic night every third Sunday at the Sentient Bean, 13 E. Park Ave. Free and open to the public.

The Casual Poets Society holds an open poetry reading the second Saturday of the month at 4 p.m. at The Casual Reader bookstore, 1213 Highway 80. on Tybee Island at The Shops at Tybee Oaks. Call 786-7655.

Circle of Sister/Brotherhood Book Club meets the last Sunday at 4 p.m. at the center, 1910 Abercorn St. 447-6605.

Inspirational book club Wesley Community Centers offers weekly book discussions of life situations and complexities every Monday at 6:30 p.m. at 1601 Drayton St. All women and teen-aged girls are invited to attend. Stop by the center or call 447-5711.

The Islands book group discusses thought-provoking literature with a different theme monthly the second Monday at 7 p.m. at the Islands Branch Library, 125 Wilmington Island Rd. 897-6233.

Lunch bunch book group An open book discussion the fourth Wednesday at 1 p.m. at Barnes & Noble.

Participants can talk about any book.

Page turners book group meets monthly to get the scoop on what other adults are reading at the Ogeechee

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Tongues of Fire: erotic poetry will be held the third Monday of each month from 8-11 p.m. at 800 E. Derenne Ave. Poets should stop by by 7 p.m. The fee is $5 general admission and $2 for poets. All are welcome regardless of race, sexual orientation or class. For directions, call 354-1678 or 352-2134.

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.

Covenant of Unitarian Universalist Pagans The CUUPS group meets the fourth Saturday of each month at 7:30 p.m. in the Fellowship Hall of the Unitarian Universalist Church of Savannah, on Habersham at East Harris and East Macon streets on Troup Square. Come explore an earth-centered and earth-honoring spiritual path among like-minded people.

Ekklesia, The Church Do church in a casual and relaxed setting on Saturday nights. Fellowship begins at 6 p.m., praise and worship at 6:30 p.m. in the BSU building on Abercorn between the Publix

Quakers (Religious Society of Friends) meet Sundays, 11 a.m. at Trinity United Methodist Church, 225 W. President St., Savannah. Call Janet Pence at 652-3496.

Savannah Buddhist Sitting Group meets Sundays from 9:30-10:30 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 9:25 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.

Unitarian Universalist Beloved Community Church Affirming the worth and dignity of every person. The church is located at the corner of Houston and Oglethorpe streets.

Services are held Sundays at 10 a.m. Call 233-6284 or send e-mail to UUBC2@aol.com.

Unitarian Universalist Church of Savannah A liberal religious community where different people with different beliefs gather as one faith. On Sept. 25 at 11 a.m., the Rev. Joan Kahn-Schneider will deliver the sermon, I Know You Believe You Understand What You Think I Said.

The church has moved to a temporary home at the Congregation Mickve Israel, 20 E. Gordon St. on Monterey Square.

For information, call 234-0980, or send email 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.

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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PILLOW TOP MATTRESS A Brand NEW deluxe queen mattress and box spring set with warranty. Sill NEW in original factory bag.

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FURNITURE Elegant hand-carved cherry 4 poster bedroom set. Dresser w/tri view mirror, chest and nightstand, All wood, NEW. Still in boxes. List $4500. Sacrifice $1500.

Can deliver. 912-9669937

810 Maupas Ave. Baldwin Park at its best! Pride of ownership shows in this 3 bedroom, 2 baths home. This home has been completely renovated and offers many extras. An awesome kitchen with an island and maple countertops, living room with a wood burning fireplace, hardwood floors, brick construction, metal roof and a 1 car garage with ample off street parking. You will truly want to call this home. Offered at $235,000.

Call Don Callahan 441-4416 Mopper-Stapen Realty*

305 W Duffy St. New condo conversion. Gracious entrance foyer to three residential units with 1 BR each. Separate street entrance to commercial unit with attached living space.

High ceilings, multiple fireplaces, w/d, dishwasher, hardwood floors, ch /a, private porch and off-street parking. Priced from $139,500.00.

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2401 Habersham Street Victorian style home located in the Thomas Square District. Completely restored, wonderful finishes in the kitchen & baths. All systems are new, Central Heat & Air, Electric & Plumbing. Offered at $235,000.

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907 East 38 th St .

How cute can you get? This totally remodeled 3 bedroom, 1 bath cottage is offering a large lot and an attached deck for entertaining. Make this your home for only $130,000. Call Don Callahan 441-4416 Mopper-Stapen Realty*

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907 East 40th Street Absolutely charming Baldwin Park Bungalow. Restored and offering 2 br., 1 ba, new metal roof, wood floors, spacious backyard for entertaining, fireplace and a welcoming front porch.

Move in today! Just $175,000.

101 W. Broughton Street Great space. 1187 sq. ft. Large 1 bedroom available with high ceilings. Class A hallways and entryway planned. Last one in the building. $299,000 (94766) Contact Rhondda.

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107 Whitaker Street Just off Broughton Street. 4746 sq. ft. unfinished basement level with brick walls and high ceilings. Historic buildings, existing freight elevator shaft with rear alley. Private entrance from Whitaker Street. $589,000.

(94930) Contact Rhondda.

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1601 E 59 St Absolutely like brand new. Move in ready.

Totally remodeled brick home with very tasteful touches throughout. Offering 3 bedrooms, beautiful new bathrooms, tile floors, new carpets, and garage. Located on a very large private lot. Easy Living at just $145,000. Call Don Callahan 441-4416 Mopper-Stapen Realty*

321 Drayton Street.

An oasis in the middle of downtown! 2 BR 1 BA condo with wide plank hardwood floors, fully furnished kitchen, large bath, 2 fireplaces, ample closet space and private courtyard!

All appliances, including washer/dryer, included. $210,000.00.

Shelley Carroll Lowther 912-604-8177 Re/Max Savannah 355-7711or visit www.SavannahGARealtor.com*

328 Price Street Townhome in historic district between East Harris and Macon Street. Great Location.

2 bedrooms, 1-1/2 baths, heartpine floors throughout, 4 fireplaces, washer, dryer, and refrigerator included. Fenced courtyard.

Excellent condition. $255,000. (95176) Contact Rhondda.

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505 Pinecrest Court.

Southern Living in Pooler! Beautifully designed and decorated, this 3 BR 2 BA is ready to move in, with brand new kitchen and updated baths, and a 16 X 20 covered terrace for outdoor entertaining.

Home warranty included! $142,000.00 Shelley Carroll Lowther 912-604-8177 Re/Max Savannah 355-7711or visit www.SavannahGARealtor.com*

103 W. Broughton Street Prime retail space in excellent condition.

Approx. 1500 sq. ft.

High ceilings, high traffic and 2 blocks from Ellis Square. Alley access for loading. $469,000.

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105 West Congress Street Suite B. Only commercial condo left in beautifully restored building. This is the residential unit in the building that can be converted to a residence with some work.

Secure entry, hardwood floors, tin ceilings, and a great central location! $195,000.00.

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114 Stockbridge.

Convenient and desirable Georgetown location!

3 BR 2 BA updates home is in move-in condition!

Run--- don’t walk! This one will not last long!

Shelley Carroll Lowther 912-604-8177 Re/Max Savannah 355-7711or visit www.SavannahGARealtor.com* PRICED WELL BE LOW APPRAISED VALUE! Newly built Hallmark home in Southern Woods at Rice Mill is priced almost $20,000 below value! 4 BR 2.5 BA with wood floors, and new everything!

This is a must see! A great home at a great price! $299,900.00 Shelley Carroll Lowther 912-604-8177 Re/Max Savannah 355-7711or visit www.SavannahGARealtor.com* Jefferson Commons Be the first to own one of these six - 2 bedroom, 2 bath condos in the heart of the Historic District. Conveniently located close to SCAD. Features 4 fireplaces, spiral stair case, granite counter tops and stainless steel appliances. Gated, off street parking. $196,000 each Alexander Grikitis 912-2201700 The Coastal Real Estate Group*

518 East Henry Street A duplex in the Historic District close to SCAD. Newly re-done and ready to move in to.

Two 2 bedroom, 1 bath units with W/D and all new appliances. In addition, this duplex has cedar closets, new carpet and parking in the rear. $235,000 Alexander Grikitis 912-2201700 The Coastal Real Estate Group*

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212B WEST HALL STREET 2 bedroom, 1 bath apartment, living room, kitchen with stove, refrigerator and dishwasher, totally electric. $850/mo.

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610 ⁄2 EAST VICTORY DRIVE 1 bedroom, 1 bath carriage house with loft space, living room, full kitchen, wood floors, dishwasher, all electric $750/mo.

407 East 34th Street Arts & Crafts details in this 3 bedroom, 1 bath home. Wood floors throughout, plaster walls and 4 fireplaces.

Located in an area of active restoration and growth. Great single family or convert to a duplex. $175,000 Alexander Grikitis 912220-1700 The Coastal Real Estate Group*

302 LORCH STREET UNIT 201 Chic 1 bedroom, 1 bath condo, hardwood floors, stainless steel, appliances, granite countertops, upgrades, sec. system, secure gated parking. $1,000/mo.

550 EAST MCDONOUGH STREET Garden apartment. 1 bedroom 1 bath apartment, living room, kitchen with refrigerator, dishwasher, stack washer and dryer, central heat and air, off street parking space. Avail. mid October. $650/mo.

2514 WHITAKER STREET Renovated 3 bedroom, 1 bath apartment. living room, kitchen with electric cooktop stove, heart pine floors, fresh paint. $1,000/mo.

512 MLK BOULEVARD Spacious 2 bedroom, 2-1/2 bath apartment with 2 bonus rooms. Stainless steel cooktop, combo living room/dining room, heart pine floors, deck off living room, stack washer/dryer. $1800/mo.

303B EAST HENRY STREET 2 bedrooms, 1 bath apartment, eat-in kitchen, washer/dryer connection, dishwasher, living room, bonus room, 2 off street parking spaces. $950/mo.

705 WHITAKER STREET APARTMENT F 1 bedroom apartment with bonus room, off Forsyth Park, living room, dining room, washer and dryer connections, wood floors, Jacuzzi tub. Available mid October. $900/mo.

602 LINCOLN STREET Upper. 2 bedrooms, 2-1/2 bath apartment, living room, dining room, eat-in kitchen with JenAir stove, dishwasher, trash compactor, washer and dryer, fresh paint. $1,490/mo.

518 East Duffy Street A beautiful newly redone home with 3 bedrooms, 1 bath. Kitchen has a sub zero fridge, dishwasher, honed granite countertops and travertine floors.

The rest of the house has original heart of pine floors, plaster walls in good shape, and 3 fireplaces. W/D included. Currently rents for $1,000 month. $225,000 Alex Grikitis 912-220-1700 The Coastal Real Estate Group*

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513 East 36th Street A charming 2 bedroom, 1.5 bath cottage nestled near a park. Offers the closeness of downtown without the price. Recently renovated kitchen and baths. Great for 1st time buyers or student rentals. $112,000 Alexander Grikitis 912220-1700 The Coastal Real Estate Group*

625 East 51st Street Ardsley Park bungalow within walking distance to Grayson Stadium, Savannah Arts Academy, and Charles Ellis.

3 bedrooms, 2 baths.

Detached garage with electricity. Newly refinished wood floors throughout and fully updated kitchen and baths. $289,000 Alexander Grikitis 912220-1700 The Coastal Real Estate Group*

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Stop renting! 3 bedroom, 2bath double wide in sought after area, offers1680 sq.ft of living area, large lot , 1.61 acres, dining, and family rooms, home warranty and more. Call LaTrelle Pevey 658-7777, ERA Adams-Pevey Realty 826-2550 $79,999. H4058*

Horse Lovers Dream!

10 + acres, pond, tack room, field room, arena, 4 completed stalls with 4 more available.

Home has 3 beds/3baths and approx. 2300 sq. feet; 9 ft. ceilings, hardwood flooring, surround sound, screened back porch and custom cabinets in kitchen. All for only $309,900.

Call LaTrelle @ 6587777. H-4206 ERA Adams-Pevey Realty 826-2550 *

Great 3 bed/2 bath starter home in desirable Rincon neighborhood. Separate L.R., Den, and Country kitchen. Covered patio and large fenced yard. Call LaTrelle for your personal showing @658-7777 ERA Adams -Pevey Realty 826-2550 H4262 $115,900 *

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1992 Fleetwood manufactured 3 bed 2 bath home situated beautifully on 6.96 acres 2 of which are fenced in great for your animals!

Landscaped yard with complete sprinkler system. Workshed 20x20 w/concrete floor, and 40x40 car-

port. All this for only $79,000. Call LaTrelle 658-7777. H-4104 ERA Adams-Pevey Realty 826-2550 * Welcome to the Country! Build your new home in the peaceful country. 4 lots with acreage between 5.05 and 7.52 acres. in Register, Ga. , near Statesboro – Horses welcome call today, don’t delay.

Prices range from $28,000 to $42,000.

Plats are available in the office.

LaTrelle Pevey @ 658-7777 ERA Adams-Pevey Realty 826-2550* 514-516 East Bolton Street Great SCAD Rental!

Three of four units of this Victorian quadplex are rented. 2-yr.-old roof, central heat/AC and a large buildable side lot! Offered at $399,000. Katherine W. Oxnard, Keller Williams, (912) 7043545/356-5001. katherineoxnard@kw.com.

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LEGACY SQUARE 171 Parkview Road $185,000 Just like new home with many upgrades in desirable neighborhood. 4 bedrooms, 21/2 baths, separate living and dining rooms, 2 car garage, and huge backyard.

Call Lori Judge, 4841514.*

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316 DRAYTON STREET 2 bedroom with bonus room, 1-1/2 bath, kitchen, living room, terrace, washer and dryer connections. $1,500/mo.

20 E. OGLETHORPE

Join Richmond Hill’s premier community at the lowest cost ever.

1BR/1BA $450 • 2BR/1BA $510 2BR/2BA $530 • 3BR/2BA $600 Clubhouse • Swimming Pool & Sundeck • Extensive Fitness Center Washer/Dryer Connections Modern Decor

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Duplex Deal - 1113 East Park Ave. "Two" 2BR/1BA units ready for renovation. Live in one side while you rent the other. Situated on a double lot in an active area of renovation. Asking $75,000 Call Lori Judge 484-1514 *

660 East 39th Street Renovated building on huge lot is a great opportunity for investors!

Zoned R-4 with 3 rental units will have you cash flowing immediately.

Located in an active area of renovation.

New electric, alarm system and much more. A lot of opportunity with this property! $165,000 Call Lori Judge or Sheri Cermak, Judge Realty 2361000 *

1505 Grove St Great investment or star ter home!

Charming 3BR/1BA bungalow in the Eastern Victorian District is completely renovated and ready to move in. New fixtures, hardwood floors, central heat and air, electric and plumbing system. Lots of Southern Charm! Offered at just $98,500 Call Lori Judge or Sheri Cermak, Judge Realty 236-1000 *

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1312 LINCOLN STREET 3 story, 3 bedroom, 2 bath apartment, living room, alarm system, washer and dryer. $950/mo.

3602 MONTGOMERY STREET Renovated 2 bedroom, 1 bath duplex, central heat and air, washer and dryer connections, all new appliances, carpet with off street parking. $750/mo. (SCAD Students $650/mo.)

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1507 Grove St Absolutely charming Eastern Victorian bungalow! This move in ready 2BR/1BA home is remodeled with new central heat and air, electric and plumbing system. Fenced in yard great for entertaining. New fixtures and adorable paint job make this a must see property! Great for 1st time home buyer or investor! Move in today for just $92,500 Call Lori Judge or Sheri Cermak, Judge Realty 236-1000 *

2210 Atlantic Charming Baldwin Park bungalow, white picket fence and all!

This adorable home has been completely renovated and offers 2BR/1BA, wrap porch, marble accents, new kitchen, appliances and much more!

Large 60 x 100 lot is great for all kinds of entertaining. Truly a Gem! Make this your home for $124,900 Call Lori Judge or Sheri Cermak, Judge Realty 236-1000 *

138 Walz Circle Totally Redone Starter Home or Investment Property. New Roof, paint, tile flooring and door. 3br/1.5ba, eat-in kitchen, large yard.

Asking $131,000. Call Sonja Bannon, Judge Realty @ 912-441-4470. www.HomesOfSavannah.com *

1 Moss Hammock Lane One of few remaining lots at the Landings.

Corner lot in upscale neighborhood, custom Home plans available.

Build you dream home!

Asking $185,900. Call Sonja Bannon, Judge Realty @ 912-441-4470. www.HomesOfSavannah.com * 311 W. Henry Completely renovated triplex near SCAD, with great rental history.

Two cottages are 2BR/1BA units and one cottage is 3BR/1BA unit. All new appliances, electrical, HVAC and plumbing. Great Investment! $315,000 Call Lori Judge, Judge Realty 484-1514 * 307 Briarcliff Circle Windsor Forest

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Commercial Property Eastside Commercial Building 2,600 + sq. feet. Great location. Front and back access, large bay with overhead door. Offices and baths.Call Betty Stevenson with Prudential at 912-3510510 or 912-224-5200.* Building Lot Eastside 45x110 approximate size. Priced to sell at $30,000. Call Betty Stevenson with Prudential at 912-3510510 or 912-224-5200* Business Only For Sale Parcel Forwarding located at 7082 Hodgeson Memorial Drive.

Priced at $60,000.

Make an offer. Call Betty with Prudentialfor tax info and showing at 912-351-0510 or 912-224-5200*

925 E. 37th Street Large commercial proper ty.

Over 13,000 square feet.

A lot of potential!

Owner financing available. $175,000 Call Lori Judge, Judge Realty 484-1514 *

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House for Rent Tybee Island Year round lease for $1100 - walk to the beach and enjoy this 3 bedroom/2 bath condo. 2 level townhome located on the North Side of Tybee. Call Sun coast Realty 3418005 or 507-9800*.

515 East Huntingdon Street Only $1100 per month for this 3 bedroom/2 bath victorian home with a fenced courtyard. Pets ok with a deposit. Call Sun coast realty - 912 3418005 or 507-9800 * Furnished Carriage House For Rent Located at Historic Jones St. Cute 1 BR/1 BA, Central HVAC, Dishwasher, Washer/Dryer, 1 Off Street Parking. $1200/month Call Judge Realty 236-1000 * Starland District Large 3 BR / 1 BA Apartment, Central HVAC, Washer/Dryer, Private Balcony. $850/month Includes Water. Call Judge Realty 236-1000 * Wilmington Island 6523 Concord Road Adorable 3BR/2BA House, Large Fenced Back Yard, Hot Tub, 2 Car Garage $1800/month Call Judge Realty 2361000 *

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FOUR STAR PROPERTY MANAGEMENT, 912897-3138 PETS NEGOTIABLESAVANNAH GORDONSTON Furnished 2bd/1ba apartment, with hardwood floors, kitchen, central heat/air, washer/dr yer available, upstairs unit. $700.

GORDONSTON Downstairs 2bd/1ba apartment, with hardwood floors, kitchen.

LR, DR, sunroom, deck, and w/d available, central heat/air. $1100 RICHMOND HILL MAINSTREET SUBDIVISION 297 Ivey Street 3bd/2ba, 2 car garage, $975 with 1/2 off first month’s rent.

MELROSE SUBDIVISION 45 Miner Drive.

3br/2ba, 1 car garage.

Updated home, $1100.

POOLER GODLEY PARK SUBDIVISION Near the airport. New houses, 3 & 4 with garages. From $875 to $1400. Move-in discounts available.

2020 ALABAMA AVE. New home for lease, 3bedroom 2-bath, ceramic tile/carpet through out, central heat/air, single-car garage, no pets, $850/month, $850/deposit.

Available July 25 912429-3597.

ARDSLEY PARK, 217 E. 56th Street 2 story carriage house, 3-bedroom 2.5-bath, central heat/air, large living room with fireplace, washer/dr yer, of f street parking $1200/month. Call 912656-2898 120 W. 37TH STREET HISTORIC HOUSE, newly renovated, 5bedroom 1-full bath (2nd bath can be added). 3,078sqf t., kitchen, washer/dryer, private cour tyard, $2742/month, long or short term lease available. Call 478-745-9065 or email williegriffin@hotmail.co m

Apartments for Rent Tybee Island, 3 bedrooms/2 baths, pool $1100-year round lease! Contact R. Nether ton @ Sun Coast Realty. 5079800* Historic District - 515 E Huntingdon St. Free standing home with 2 bedrooms, walk in closet, big kitchen, fireplaces, heartpine floors! $1200. Call Rhondda @ Sun Coast Realty 912 507-9800* Historic District - 2 bedroom townhome totally furnished with utilities included, cable tv, washer/dryer and full service kitchen.

Rhondda @ Sun coast Realty 507-9800* Tybee Island, steps from the beach.

WWW.tybeecoquinacottage.com Daily, weekly or monthly rentals starting as low as 575 a week, 1250 per month. 2 bedrooms, 2 baths. 5079800* 138 W. 51st Street.

Newly renovated triplex, across SCAD's Montgomer y Hall Bldg. 2 bedroom, 1 bath, Bonus Room, LR, kitchen, washer/dr yer, H/W floors, Cen H/A, Courtyard & offstreet parking $750/month And 1Bedroom, 1Bath for $500/month Contact: 912-484-5181 or 912-220-1020 fvenetico@hotmail.co m* Historic District 219 W. Waldburg Large 1BR/1BA Apartment, Central HVAC, Washer/Dryer Great Location! $750/month Call Judge Realty 2361000 * Spacious downtown apartment for rent.

Front and back porches, washer & dryer hookup, of f-street parking, courtyard and MUCH more. Must See! Please call 912247-8164. *

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HISTORIC DISTRICT 1310 E. HENRY ST. Four Units Available 2-bedroom, 1-bath apartments, 1200 sqft, separate living room, dining room.

Completely remodeled with Central Heat/Air, Washer/Dr yer furnished, dishwasher, fireplace, kitchens by Ikea. Off-street parking, 6-month to one-year leases. $795/month William 912-412-5517 or Lazaro @ 912-2720382.

2 BEDROOMS, 1 BATH. Kitchen and living room, newly renovated, new appliances, central heat/air. utilities included. $700/monthly, $200/deposit. Call 912234-0702.

201 WEST 37TH STREET. 2 bedroom, 1 bath apartment, beautiful condition, large kithen, all new appliances, w/d, dw, central heat/air, private entrance, fenced yard, water included. $740/mo. 912-60 43199.

Commercial/ Residential For Lease STARLAND DESIGN DISTRICT Beautifully renovated 2BR/1BA Formal dining room, refinished heart pine floors, ceiling fans, new bathroom & kitchen w/ceramic tile floors.

Seperate laundry room and private courtyard.

C/H/A, total electric, security system.

Viewing by appointment only

234-0606 Email: sicayproperties@comcast.net

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2 APARTMENTS FOR RENT! 3 BEDROOM, 1 BATH 7 room, second floor apartment with porch.

HVAC, stove, refrigerator, dishwasher with disposal, washer/dryer.

Convenient downtown location.

Pets considered.

2 bedroom, 2 bath cottage.

Deluxe renovation 200 4. New HVAC, downtown location, dishwasher, stove, refrigerator, washer/dryer hookup.

Pets considered. Call 912-233-0413 for appointment or email rburgess@besttranslation.com for more information.

MUST SEE to appreciate. 6 miles from I-95.

20 minutes to Savannah Mall. 1 bedroom, washer/dryer, cable, water, furnished or unfurnished. All utilities included $750 + deposit.

No pets!

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912-352-2747 MIDTOWN 2033 SKIDAWAY RD- 2BD, 1BA, $650.00 317 W WALDBURG- APART B 3 BD, 1 BA $ 800.00

THUNDERBOLT 2612 WHATLEY UNIT 11- 3BD,2BA, $1,000.00 2812 WHATLEY-3BD,2 BA, $1,100.00

ISLANDS 103 OYSTER SHELL RD-3BD, 2 BA CONDO$995.00 4 TEAKWOOD RD- 3BD, 2BA, $1,375.00 127 PALMETTO BAY ROAD- 3BD, 2BA, $1,200.00 127 ST. ANDREWS WAY- 4BD, 2.5BA, $1,300.00 32 MAPMAKER LN- 3BD, 2BA, APPT ONLY$900.00 15 ROPEMAKER COURT- 4BD, 2 BA, $1050.00 105 FORESTAY CT- 3BD, 2BA, $900.00 110 SOUTH SHEFTALL- 3BD, 2BA, $1,100.00 1018 TARA-3BD, 2BA, $1200.00 40 BRYAN WOOD-4 BD, 2 BA, $950.00 32 HIGHPOINT- 3BD, 2 BA, $1,150.00 (AVAIL OCT)

SOUTHSIDE 129 RED FOX- 3BD, 2BA, $1,250.00 11 CUTLER DR- 3BD, 2 BA, $1100.00 109 DOVETAIL-3BD,2BA, $1100.00.

11 OAKMOUNT RD- 3 BD, 2 BA , $1,375.00 (AVAIL OCT)

RICHMOND HILL 145 LAURENBURG- 5BD, 2.5 BA, $1,575.00

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Super Floor Plan 3 bedrooms, 2 1/2 baths. Includes extra lot. Midtown 2864 sq. ft. heated. 2 car garage &breezeway. $359,000 Asking price.

Call Betty Stevenson with Prudential at 912351-0510 or 912-2245200 * 307 E 51st Totally renovated Ardsley Park home just steps from McCauley Park. 3 bedrooms, sunroom, fabulous kitchen with island is a cook's dream.

Fenced yard, deck, off street parking. It's even wired for sound and has a new roof!

Reduced to $249,000.

Call Lisa Moore at 441-9314 or visit www.morehomesofsavannah.com * 27 E 55th Large Ardsley home with 3 bedrooms and 2 1/2 baths. Open floor plan is great for entertaining, wonderful kitchen with Italian cabinets,Silestone counters, and stainless steel appliances.

Master suite with private sunroom and bath. Only $329,000.

Call Lisa Moore 4419314 or visit www.morehomesofsavannah.com * 18 E 41st Starland Design Dis trict Classic Victorian beauty with fully restored exterior in area of high interest and active restoration and new construction.

Original details abound including restored standing seam roof, and heart pine floors. Buyer to complete interior.

Call Lisa at 441-9314 or visit www.morehomesofsavannah.com *

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730 E 48th Ardsley Park Great opportunity to buy in Ardsley for less! Adorable 3 bedroom bungalow with all the details such as wood floors, high ceilings and front porch.

This one even has off street parking, a garage, and wonderful courtyard with fountain. A little love and care will make this bungalow fabulous! Call Lisa Moore at 441-9314 or visit www.morehomesofsavannah.com *

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Easy walk to Windsor Forest Elementary and Windsor Forest High School! 3 bedrooms, 2 baths, living room, dining room, den and family room. New carpet and garage has been converted into a nice family room. Two car carport and a fenced in backyard with metal storage building. Roof and AC compressor 1 year old and house is well above grade with no flooding problems.

Some furnishings for sale. Call Betty Stevenson at 912-351-0510 or 912-224-5200.*

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519 E. 45th Street

328 Price Street

Wonderful family home in Ardsley Park with 4 bedrooms and 4 baths. Includes is a secret garden, bricked private patio, and an apt. rented for $900 per month. Totally restored to perfection! Call for a private showing. Priced to sell at $560,000. Sun Coast Realty, Rhondda Netherton 912 507-9800

Townhome in the historic didtrict between East Harris and Macon Street. Great location. 2 bedrooms, 1-1/2 baths, heartpine floors throughout, 4 fireplaces, washer, dryer, and refrigerator included.

Fenced courtyard. Excellent condition. $255,000.

Sun Coast Realty, Rhondda Netherton 912 507-9800

Rhondda Netherton 912 507-9800 and 341-8005 rhonddane@comcast.net

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POP QUIZ!

There are always plenty of questions to ask before selling your home, but if you’re planning to try to sell on your own, here are the most important questions to start with.

How will you price your home? It takes detailed research and knowledge of market trends to arrive at a fair price. You don’t want to cheat yourself out of receiving the full value of your home, but you don’t want to overprice and drive away serious buyers who will compare your home’s value against similar ones on the market. A Comparative Market Analysis conducted by a professional agent is your best bet for formulating the perfect asking price.

Once you’ve priced your home, how will you attract those buyers? It takes more than ads, “For Sale By Owner” signs, and open houses to promote your home to the right prospects. The best exposure will come from the Multiple Listing Service, where all realty professionals will find it, and alert their ready-and-waiting throng of buyers. But without representation, you won’t have access to it.

Once you’ve got an offer, will you be able to handle all the paperwork to insure legally binding contracts and a smooth closing?

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CHARMING BRICK BUNGALOW Beautiful brick bungalow offers large open rooms, hardwood floors, huge updated kitchen, living room, dining room, sunroom, and large bath on ground level. Stairs to floored attic reveal a working half bath, with room to expand living space by almost 1000 sq. ft. Situated on large corner lot with park view! 302 East 49th Street, $305,000.

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ARDSLEY PARK 2-bedroom garage apartment, 1110 East 51st Street.

Hardwood floors, washer/dryer, central heat/air, fenced bak yard, small pets welcome. $650/month. Call 912596-1355

Rooms For Rent SPACE AVAILABLE FOR MASSAGE THERAPIST

2 BEDROOM, 2 bath, condo for rent.

Washer/dryer connections. $750/mo, $750/security deposit.

912-898-9088 or 912-7133406

Roommates Wanted WHITEMARSH Ideal location Share large, 3-bedroom, 2-bath, home. Working or student--mature only. $600/mo plus deposit and utilities-negotiable..

Call 912-897-1777.

ROOMMATE WANTED Spacious 3 BR/1 BA home. W/D, hardwood floors, Downtown.

Dogs OK. $375/month plus 1/2 utilities. Call 912-210-0104.

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SHARE 3 Bedroom apt. white with black top/inone block off Forsyth terior, good mileage with Park. $400 month.

Includes off street park- style, less then 48,000 ing and all utilities, miles. $9000 OBO. Call balcony Alternative 912-443-9313 lifestyle OK. No pets 5/10/04 or 3_79x6newlywedALMH.ai 1:58:27 PM drug abuser. 9am-9pm, 912-272-8883.

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1125 East 48th Street An Exceptional Parkside Residence This substantial home, c. 1918, boasts numerous architectural details including 6 fireplaces, 10' ceilings, refinished heart of pine floors, interior elevator, and a large front porch perfect for lounging...all within a block of the expansive and beautiful Daffin Park. A great home, at a great price! $325,000

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518 East Duffy Street A beautiful newly re-done home with 3 bedrooms, 1 bath. Kitchen has a sub zero fridge, dishwasher, honed granite countertops and travertine floors. The rest of the house has original heart of pine floors, plaster walls in good shape, and 3 fireplaces.

W/D included. $225,000 Alexander Grikitis 912.220.1700 John Giles 912.220.1667

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625 East 51st Street Ardsley Park bungalow within walking distance to Grayson Stadium, Savannah Arts Academy, and Charles Ellis. 3 bedrooms, 2 baths. Detached garage with electricity. Newly refinished wood floors throughout and fully updated kitchen and baths. $289,000 John Giles 912.220.1667 Alexander Grikitis 912.220.1700

2008 Whitaker Circa 1900. Beautiful row house with many architectural details with 2004 updates.

Same layout as 2006 Whitaker Street.

Complete with coveted off-street parking and a courtyard. Within walking distance of SCAD's future Richard Arnold Campus.

Priced at $219,000 Roy Hill 912.844.4000

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518 East Henry Street A duplex in the Historic District close to SCAD. Newly re-done and ready to move in to. Two 2 bedroom, 1 bath units with W/D and all new appliances. In addition, this duplex has cedar closets, new carpet and parking in the rear. $235,000 John Giles 912.220.1667 Alexander Grikitis 912.220.1700

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Coming Soon! A high-end historic Condominium Community... West Park / A Condominium.

Two and three bedroom spacious floor plans just 2 blocks from Forsyth Park. Just steps from all of the historic district has to offer. Units include stainless appliances, plasma TV, granite counters and surveillance systems. Priced from $280,000 to $300,000. Alex Grikitis 912.220.1700 John Giles 912.220.1667

315 E. Liberty Street Savannah, GA 31401

Jefferson Commons Be the first to own one of these six - 2 bedroom, 2 bath condos in the heart of the Historic District. Conveniently located close to SCAD. Features 4 fireplaces, spiral stair case, granite counter tops and stainless steel appliances.

Gated, off street parking. $196,000 each John Giles 912.220.1667 Alexander Grikitis 912.220.1700

Park Place on Park Avenue Four condos located in an historic building close to Forsyth Park, SCAD and shopping. Currently undergoing renovation, available August 2005. $174,000 to $177,000 each Roy Hill 912-844-4000 ONLY 2 LEFT!

1007 Juanita Street Great remodeled Whitemarsh Island home.

3 bed/2 bath. 1600 +/- square feet with garage and work/playroom additions. Large eat-in kitchen, ceramic floors, built-in bookcases. Large yard with privacy fence and custom playhouse and shed. $1,500 carpeting allowance. Priced at $205,000. Linda Bray 912.507.8500

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616 E. 58th Street Newly Renovated, 3 bedroom/1 Bath Home. Attached Garage, back deck, sunroom, Fenced in back yard, New Appliances (comes w/ W/D) $235,000 John Giles 912.220.1667 Alexander Grikitis 912.220.1700

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