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Volume 5, No. 17, January 18, 2006 On the Cover: Cancer survivor bracelets; photo illustration by Brandon Blatcher

News Cover Story Free Speech Jane Fishman

6 Surviving cancer is getting easier 8 Saving which Savannah? IN 9

Kitty’s swan song ill ill

City Notebook 10 News bits from around town

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Blotter 11 From SPD reports News of the Weird 12 Strange but true Earthweek 13

This week on your planet

Culture HoTHo Art Patrol Cuisine

Music Interview 14

19 Exhibits & openings 20 Two benefit events

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Music Interview 14 Richard Leo Johnson Connect Recommends 16 Music Menu

Concerts of the week

17 Local gigs a la carte

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Soundboard 24 Who’s playing and where

Recommends 16

Film Now Showing 21 All the flicks that fit

5 Our best bets for cool stuff to do

Happenings 28 All the stuff, all the time

Art Patrol 19

Free Will Astrology 31 Rob Bresny’s look at your stars

Friday 20th The Bluesonics

Classifieds Weather 13 News from the sky Sudoku Puzzle 36 It’s all the rage Crossword Puzzle 37 Mental fun

Saturday 21st

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Classifieds 42 They call it “junk,” you call it “couch”

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Saturday, Jan. 21 Charles Wadsworth and Friends

AASU AMT Guest Artist Series Event

What: The young funk and blues band Cubes performs at this youth spoken word competition in Elementary, Middle, and High School categories. Winner of each takes home $75 cash. When: Saturday, 4-6 p.m. Where: The Sentient Bean, Park Avenue. Cost: $10 registration fee, admission to event whatever you’d like to give.

Sunday, Jan. 22 Wilderness Southeast’s ‘Ducks on Holiday’

What: The Armstrong Atlantic State University Department of Art, Music and Theatre will present soprano Brenda Rucker in a collaborative recital with pianist Joseph Walker. Music by Mozart, Mahler, Strauss, Brahms, Faure, Debussy, Sondheim, Gershwin, Hammerstein & Kern, and Weill & Lerner. When: Jan. 19 at 2:30 p.m. Where: AASU Fine Arts Auditorium. Cost: Free.

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What: Join a Wilderness Southeast naturalist guide to get acquainted with some of the 15 different species of diving and dabbling ducks at the Savannah National Wildlife Refuge. When: Jan. 22 from 2-4 p.m. Where: Meet at the Laurel Hill Entrance to the Savannah National Wildlife Refuge. Cost: $10 per person.

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Drawing Close to Apollo

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What: A series of Hellenistic construction drawings were etched onto the superstructure surfaces of the Temple of Apollo at Didyma, a site renowned for its oracle and its spectacular architecture. This presentation by Celeste Guichard will examine the drawings’ significance. When: Jan. 18 at 6:30 p.m.

Where: Oglethorpe House ballroom, 201 W. Oglethorpe Ave. Cost: Free and open to the public. Call: 525-6079.

What: Learn about the sea turtles that visit Tybee Island and the many obstacles they must overcome to survive. Popcorn is served with the movie! When: Jan. 22 at 3 p.m. Where: Tybee Island Marine Science Center. Cost: $4 adults, $3 children 3-16.

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Friday, Jan. 20 The Savannah Wine Weekend What: This three-part event will benefit the Savannah Music Festival. On Jan. 20 at 6 p.m., the Southern Mansion Festival Wine Receptions feature private receptions at the Delta, Lebanon and Ford plantations. On Jan. 21 from 9 a.m. to noon, the Festival Wine Symposia features presentations by vintners at the Mansion on Forsyth. The highlight will be the Annual Savannah Music Festival Wine Gala on Jan. 21 at 6 p.m. at the Mansion on Forsyth. When: Jan. 20-21. Cost: Tickets for the receptions are $100 per person. Tickets for symposia are $30 per session or $60 for all three. Tickets for the black-tie gala and auction are $275 per person. Call: 234-3378.

6th Annual Taste of Savannah What: A Hollywood theme will be in place as the Savannah Area Tourism Leadership Council hosts this event, which is a showcase featuring 20 of Savannah’s best restaurants and caterers. Cash bars will be available, and there will be a silent auction. When: Jan. 20 from 7-10 p.m. Where: Savannah International Trade & Convention Center. Cost: Tickets are $40 in advance or $45 the day of the event. Call: 356-1223.

Third Friday Foreign Cinema’s Pure Formality What: This is the least known but most intriguing of Giuseppe Tornatore’s many films which pairs up actor Gerard Depardieu and director Roman Polanski in what must be the most bizarre and unsettling murder interrogation in all of cinema history. In French, with English subtitles. When: Jan. 20 at 7 p.m. Where: The Sentient Bean, 13 E. Park Ave. Cost: $5. Call: 232-4447.

Reel Savannah Presents Separate Lies What: A wealthy couple’s idyllic life is shattered by the arrival of a handsome intruder in this suspense-filled drama from Gosford Park screenwriter Julian Fellowes. When: Jan. 22 at 7 p.m.

Where: Lucas Theatre for the Arts, 32 Abercorn St. Cost: $7 at the door, cash only.

Tuesday, Jan. 24 AASU AMT Guest Artist Series Event What: The Armstrong Atlantic State University Department of Art, Music & Theatre presents the Robert Lewis Trio featuring David Berkman in a guest artists jazz recital. When: Jan. 24 at 7:30 p.m.

Where: AASU Fine Arts Auditorium. Cost: Tickets are $5. Call: 927-5381 from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. weekdays.

Wednesday, Jan. 25 Factoring in the Arts What: This program is presented by Union Mission and sponsored by the Grassroots Art Program.When: Jan. 25 and 28 at 5 p.m. (1:30 p.m. on Jan. 28.) Where: J.C. Lewis Health Center. Call: 238-0277, Ext. 11.

US Written and Performed by Tim Miller What: A personal story of growing up hooked on Broadway musicals. When: Jan. 25 at 7 p.m. Where: Mondanaro Theater, 217 Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd. Cost: Week at a Glance Sponsored by: Free. Call: 525-6644. ◗

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What: Patrick Thomas will present a lecture titled Kazakhistan: Land in the Middle. When: Friday, Jan. 20 at noon. Where: Armstrong Atlantic State University’s University Hall, Room 156. Cost: Free and open to the public.

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What: This concert will feature music written by Mozart, Poulen, Beethoven, Ravel, Ligeti, and Nazareth and de Abreu. When: Jan. 21 at 8 p.m. Where: Lucas Theatre for the Arts, 32 Abercorn St. Cost: Tickets are $35, $25 and $12.50. Call: 525-5050.

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AFTER SURVIVING FOUR But fortunately, as the number of “In some areas, such as ovarian bouts of cancer, Hamilton new cases rises, so does the cancers, we’re starting to think maybe not Jordan knows he’s lucky. “My cure rate. “As we cure more in terms of five-year survival, but in terms life has never seemed more patients, we have to follow a of 10-year survival,” Hoskins says. “It is important and precious to me,” larger number of patients,” being converted from a fatal disease into he says.

Hoskins says. a chronic disease. We can control it for a Jordan was White House An entirely new field in cancer longer period of time.”

Chief of Staff in 1979 and 1980, research has emerged as during the Carter More patients are living with cancer researchers look at long-time Administration. He was in instead of dying from it. There’s even survivors of pediatric cancer to Savannah recently to speak at hope that some types of cancers can be see how treatments such as the grand opening of the chemotherapy and radiation early prevented.

Nancy N. and J.C. Lewis “Within a year, there’s going to be a in life have affected them in Cancer & Research Pavilion at vaccine available for the prevention of ceradulthood.

St. Joseph’s/Candler. vical cancer,” Hoskins says. “We know it “Most of the advances in “There’s an epidemic of occurs as a result of a sexually transpediatric cancer occurred during Hamilton Jordan, Dr. John Niederhuber and Dr. Hubert C. Hoover cancer in this country. By 2010, mitted virus and we now have a vaccine. the last 20 years,” Hoskins says.

50 percent of all American will “Twenty years ago, the patients all This is a disease that could be eliminated To have a facility as significant as the have or have had cancer in their life,” with proper vaccination of children.” died. Now 70 to 80 percent of pediatric Lewis Cancer & Research Pavilion in a Jordan says.

Hoover was recruited for the Lewis cancers are cured.” city the size of Savannah would place the “It’s due to the decline of other disPavilion post from the Lehigh Valley Hoskins’ speciality is gynecological city well ahead of others of comparable eases. More of us are living to older age, Hospital in Allentown, Penn., where he cancer treatment. “If you look at all gynesize. When you consider that Savannah and cancer is generally a disease of older had worked for more than a decade. cological cancers -- cervical, endometrial, has a second significant cancer facility in age.”

“Four months ago, I stood at a podium ovarian -- 60 to 70 percent will be cured,” the Anderson Cancer Institute, it is downSince leaving Washington, Jordan has and explained my decision to move to he says. “Same thing for breast cancer right astounding. focused on promoting public health Georgia,” he says. “I said I’d been and prostate cancer.”

Dr. William J. Hoskins, director of the issues, particularly those concerning preparing my whole life for this particular Early detection is key, but there aren’t Anderson Cancer Institute, came to cancer. job.” screenings for all types of cancers.

Savannah in 2001 from the prestigious “People think because I have had The new job combines Hoover’s two However, recognition of early symptoms is Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center cancer I have many answers,” Jordan passions -- cancer care and research. “We saving more patients, Hoskins says. in New York, where he was deputy says. “I don’t. Life is tremendously fragile. hope to add the best and brightest Targeted treatments with “smart” physician-in-chief of the disease man“We will never know how long we have oncology talent available,” he says. “This drugs, typically used to treat advanced agement teams. to live. I certainly don’t take life for will have a huge impact on the area and cancers, are lengthening lives. But if the “We pretty much offer the full range of granted.” its economic development.” strides made over the past 20 years seem the spectrum,” Hoskins says. “The only Local treatment centers such as the The Lewis center will focus on holistic thing we are not doing at this point in time amazing, just wait.

Lewis Cancer & Research Pavilion and the are bone marrow transplants.” healing. “We’re treating the entire person, “I think we’ve made an enormous Curtis and Elizabeth Anderson Cancer not just physically and biologically, but amount of progress in the last two But bone marrow transplants will be Institute at Memorial Health, will mean a emotionally and spiritually,” Hoover says. decades,” Hoskins says. “But the performed in Savannah within a year or tremendous difference in local cancer “The spiritual element is a big part of progress made in the next two decades so, Hoskins says. “For patients, that patients’ lives, Jordan says. “Savannah is this new facility,” he says. “We’re taking will make them look like the Dark Ages.” means they have an extraordinary level of very fortunate,” he says.

Not only will new drugs and treatments cancer care to another level, for the clinical care, clinical research and laboThe two centers allow patients to patient and for the patient’s family as be introduced, existing ones will be ratory research in the field of cancer,” he receive advanced care utilizing the latest well.” refined. “That will mean fewer side says. “We need to make people aware of treatments, all in one location, without The focus on a holistic approach can effects,” Hoskins says. the services that are available.” requiring them to travel to larger cities be seen in the way both In July, the William and Iffath such as Atlanta, New York or Dallas. centers are designed. There Hoskins Center for Biomedical Patients also have access to clinical trials, is a serenity garden with its Research will open at Memorial. which offer the benefits of the most own waterfall at the Anderson The facility will be devoted to recent research.

Cancer Institute, while the studying the genetics of cancer, Will Savannah ever be recognized as a Lewis Cancer & Research and scientists are being recruited cancer treatment destination point, such Pavilion has a butterfly to staff it. as centers found in larger urban centers? garden, a labyrinth where Local health experts say it not only could patients can walk, and a Cancer is the second leading but probably will happen, as the process stone bridge in a meditation cause of death in the United already has begun. area.

States, second only to heart “We’re bringing together the best and The entire spectrum of disease. While more cancer cases the brightest in cancer care,” says Dr. cancer care from diagnosis to are being diagnosed, it is because Herbert C. Hoover, Jr., Director and Chief recovery is covered. The of the aging of the population. of Surgical Oncology at the Lewis Cancer Lewis facility boasts a bou“We’re seeing a huge blip as & Research Pavilion. tique, called Renewal, where the Baby Boomers come into the Local cancer patients no longer need breast cancer patients cay cancer-age group,” Hoskins says. to go outside the region, Hoover says. buy prosthetics, wigs, “With the exception of pediatric “They’ll receive care here that is second cancers and some rare cancers, The Nancy N. and J.C. Lewis Cancer & Research Pavilion to none in the country,” he says. most cancers occur over age 50.”

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“We want to bring the treatment to the patient, not have the patient go to the treatment,” Niederhuber says. “This is a wonderful building. It is, though, just a building. A building is only as great as the people and programs you put in it. We have made tremendous progress.”

Such centers not only will help local residents, they will bring Georgia to the forefront of cancer care, says William Todd, President and CEO of the Georgia Cancer Coalition. “It’s about moving Georgia from a laggard state to being a leading state in cancer care,” Todd says.

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Hamilton Jordan is one of the founders of the Georgia Cancer Coalition and his wife, Dorothy, is a pediatric oncology nurse. Together the Jordans started Camp Sunshine Retreat for young oncology patients.

Jordan himself became a cancer patient when he was diagnosed with lymphoma in 1985. “They found a tumor the size of a baseball in my chest,” he says.

Such progress would not have been A biopsy confirmed the tumor was possible without the generosity of philanmalignant. As Jordan returned home with thropists such as the Andersons and his wife and then 6-month-old son, he Lewises. wondered if he would live to see his son’s “When Mr. and Mrs. first birthday.

Lewis so generously “I figured I had about a agreed to be involved in 20 percent chance of our vision, we asked being alive in five years,” them if they would allow Jordan says. us to name the pavilion A friend from after them,” Hinchey Savannah, Dr. Albert Wall, says. convinced Jordan to “Mr. Lewis asked, ‘Is partner with his doctors that necessary?’ We told to fight the cancer. him the panache of the Jordan began studying Lewis name might lymphoma and discovered encourage others to a clinical trial that was Renewal boutique for patients donate, so he said, ‘All resulting in a 60-70 right, if you think it will percent rate of remission. help.’”

Treatment involved six months of Lewis, a businessman and a former chemotherapy with six different drugs. mayor of Savannah, lost his own battle “No matter how badly I felt, I was deterwith leukemia at the age of 79. “My father mined not to let cancer totally dominate wanted to do his part in the fight against my life,” Jordan says. cancer,” says his son, Walter Lewis.

“I was very, very lucky. That big mass “He thought about supporting just melted away. I still had to go through research centers around the world, even all the chemotherapy, but I knew I had a one in India,” Walter Lewis says. “One chance to beat cancer.” thing that was clear in his mind, he Ten years later, Jordan was diagnosed wanted to make a meaningful difference with prostate cancer, but because it was to cancer patients.” found early, his odds of beating it were During his own treatment, Lewis greatly improved. traveled to Houston for care. “He knew he Then came a third diagnosis, was blessed he could afford to do that,” melanoma, a type of skin cancer. Jordan Walter Lewis says. “He knew it was some- has recovered from it, also, as well as a thing that was not possible for the second bout of skin cancer that was not average person.” as serious as the first.

So Lewis decided to look closer to Jordan wrote a best-selling book, No Such Thing as a Bad Day. “I’ve learned a home and help give local residents better lot about cancer, myself and life,” he says. access to cancer care. “He and my “There’s no such thing as a bad day. If we mother prayed about it,” Walter Lewis lived that way, all our lives will be fuller says. “If Dad were here today, he’d be and better.” ◗ really pleased.”

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scarves, makeup and even bathing suits designed just for them.

Both health systems offer numerous support groups and services for cancer patients. “That’s one of our strong suits,” Hoskins says. “In terms of support services, we have more here than SloanKettering.”

St. Joseph’s/Candler President and CEO Paul P. Hinchey says planning for the Lewis center began three years ago with the formation of a committee to focus on the development of a major cancer program. A national search for architects and contractors followed.

“We broke ground in June 2004,” Hinchey says. “Butterfly plants were given out and the recipients were asked to come back and place them in front of the building.”

The butterfly theme is a constant at the pavilion, which itself is laid out in wings to resemble a butterfly. The butterfly signifies healing, Hinchey says.

“Life is a series of new beginnings,” he says. “We’re attempting to capture that spirit.”

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by Nadra Enzi

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Saving which Savannah?

SAVANNAH IS A STRANGE PLACE. We are a majority black community with a black mayor, nearly black city council, a black Acting Chief of Police (no pun intended, that’s his job title) and one of the worst racial profiling police departments in this region — if not the nation.

In the wake of the shooting death of a 19-year-old white woman, an unprecedented mobilization has occurred, despite such steps never being taken after scores of black citizens were shot.

Even the Chatham County Sheriff’s Office, an agency notorious for not promoting black deputies and for limiting law enforcement tasks to warrant service, has chipped in 15 deputies to patrol the city -at overtime of course. The U.S. Attorney’s Office has pledged to strengthen enforcement of its Operation Ceasefire initiative, which federally prosecutes felons with firearms.

Calling this blatantly racist alert blatantly racist is unheard of in this town. If Atlanta’s nickname is “The City Too Busy To Hate,” the tag for Savannah’s AfricanAmerican community should be, “The Folks Too Numb To Care.”

A pall of inertia and simmering anger shadows black life in the Port City. The powers-that-be have convinced this group that privately complains about how unfair things are (despite the presence of the above mentioned elected officials and one alienated appointee) that public utterances of the same are somehow taboo.

This doesn’t apply to our white counterparts within these municipal limits. A founder of Save Our Savannah dismissed all black crime victims as “crackheads” without arousing the ire of his peers.

When our black Acting Police Chief left a meeting with the city manager and the mayor, he suddenly had almost twenty men and women in brown from the Sheriff’s office by his side -- this from an agency that threatened to sue a local television station because it was fudging the numbers of how many officer vacancies it had.

He hasn’t seen fit to address the black community in an attempt, no matter how disingenuous, that this crackdown will not violate our already violated civil rights.

In Savannah, no one in authority has to explain anything to its black majority. We are expected to simply take whatever is dished out without comment or reaction.

The tragedy is our acting chief grew up here, as did I. And despite his 25 years in uniform, I fail to believe that he has forgotten how harsh his predecessors were to citizens who resembled him. In an era awash with the loud music and rough manners of a young black generation that feels no one defended it, here we have a quintessential Establishment Man who is as removed from their rage as any white person we could appoint.

The mayor’s hands are tied in this matter because he helms a city governed under a strong city manager form of oversight. Instead of being a subordinate, the city manager exists as a Chief CoExecutive and he, not the mayor, is the police chief’s immediate superior.

This is a classic Savannah checkmate - majority black city and majority black city council, but one white city manager trumps them all.

We’re doubly fortunate that our mayor is both an activist and a Ph.D-wielding technocrat who weds both with stunning, systematic effectiveness within the confines of the city charter. He’s been waging a methodical war against crime and its causes from his candidacy to these two years in office.

But, when this young white woman with political connections was assaulted,

his foes finally found the chink in his armor and are now, I fear, shamelessly exploiting it for political gain, i.e. building a platform for the next municipal election.

The Savannah they want to save bears little resemblance to where I, the mayor or even our acting police chief grew up.

Before crack crushed many in the inner city, the Savannah these bluebloods always dismissed was full of dignity and routinely sent bright people away to “Mecca” (Atlanta) and other places where their talents would get a better shot.

The bluebloods who back Save Our Savannah intend to back this mayor -- and by extension black Savannahians -- into a corner where what little progress made here can be reversed. They are striking back at what they perceive as an assault on their way of life. The fact that their way of life always meant people like me had to suffer in silence and servitude was simply considered part of the natural order.

Against such a backdrop, I wonder: Which Savannah will be saved? And how will we explain this new repression to black youth not pacified by gospel music, who address injustice in a manner far less kind than those embraced by their elders in the mainstream? ◗

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So though Kitty was not present the Saturday I stepped up to her house, she may have been there in another configuration because she was capable of taking many forms, of being many places at one time.

At 5, living with her family in Bloomingdale, she followed a whim to run away with a goatman who used to travel Highway 80 in his covered wagon filled with junk and treasure and promise. She got as far as Faukville.

When she told me that story I thought it charming but apocryphal. I listened because Kitty was a good storyteller and such good company that you didn’t care what she was talking about. But I had my doubts.

Then I heard from others who lived in the area that same time about the man with the three-legged goat and the covered wagon and I knew what she had told me was true.

At 6, she announced to her parents she wasn’t going to church. The woods, she said, would be her church, her religion.

She was a woman who knew her mind. Ten hours before she died at her home on Lovell Avenue - and against the wishes of the six friends who kept vigil around her bed for days - Kitty, weak, fragile, unstable, pulled herself up, headed for her bathroom and shut the door.

“She told us, ‘I can do this myself,’” said Jenny Orr, who owns Fannie’s. “And we had to let her go. Next thing we know, we hear her taking a shower, talking to someone, laughing. When she came out she had washed her hair, put on her perfume, Channel No. 22, and changed to her favorite pajamas, white with green frogs.

“She whispered, ‘I never thought I’d go out wearing something like this.’”

After that there was no drama, no struggle.

“Finally, she just didn’t exhale,” said Jenny. “She breathed in and then she went. She was taking a jump somewhere.

But I made her swear when she came back she’d let me know who she was.

And I believe she will.”

Still, letting go is hard.

“When you’ve known this long, it’s hard to define who they are because they’re woven into your life,” said Elaine Longwater. “As Yeats said, It’s hard to tell the dancer from the dance.” ◗

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“YOU WANT TO know about Kitty Strozier?” said Elaine Longwater, Kitty’s childhood friend, mentor, running buddy, boss and long-term collaborator.

“Go to her house at Tybee. Sit on the upper deck. Look around.”

So I do. A week after Kitty’s death from cancer, I climb the stairs of her pale yellow house, built long before the condos, the villas, the reef clubs. I sit facing the ocean and I hear the rustle of palm trees, the chatter of shorebirds, the quiet of the island on a Saturday morning.

I see a half-dozen of Kitty’s art projects, including a splendid window garnished in stained-glass style with shards of glass and marbles.

Then I think I hear Kitty’s infectious, staccato, animated voice - or was it Sigmund’s, her African gray parrot with the red collar that went everywhere with her, to the office at Longwater Advertising, to Mango’s outdoor restaurant at Key West, to the street scene of Provincetown.

“Hey, Boo-Boo,” said the bird also known as Siggy-Butt. “What’s going on?”

Except he - and she - would have said something a little more raucous, a little more raunchy.

I see Lizzie Jonell, the fetching, fourfoot-long iguana draped around Kitty’s neck and in and out of her small, quick fingers, as the pair sat at the bar at Fannie’s on the Beach; then Dewberry, the charming, diminutive chihuahua tucked into her jacket, peeking out of her black Saab, as they pulled up to her office on Tattnall Street.

I spot her mahogany Boston Whaler in the yard and remember stories she’d tell about going into the Back River, throwing the anchor, tossing out chicken necks at the end of a homemade line fashioned from a boom handle, 25 feet of twine, bent wire, a sinker, a scoop net and catching three or four crab at a time.

I think about the crab soup that followed.

I remember the last time I saw Kitty.

Her cousin Jimmy Maddox was singing at Fannie’s and legions of Kitty’s friends including a longterm friend who came to visit, saw how ill she was and stayed the final six months with her in her home were alerted to a rare public appearance.

Outfitted in wig and cap, wracked with pain and buoyed by morphine, Kitty roused herself for the night. She loved her cousin. Her eyes gleamed when he sang Louis Armstrong’s “What a Wonderful World’” and the tune he wrote for her, “Kitty’s Song, Following Your Smile.”

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Ross case takes a twist The same day the local daily paper ran a debutante photo from the cotillion Jennifer Ross attended hours before she was shot, a report also appeared that one of her companions that night may have been involved with someone in possession of drugs.

One of Ross’ fellow Savannah Country Day gradTony Aliotta uates, Tony Brian Aliotta, 19, was arrested Friday, Jan. 13 at his Perry Lane home by Savannah Police.

Aliotta was charged with two felonies: possession of a controlled substance (which the police report says was cocaine and prescription pills) and possession of marijuana. He was also charged with “possession of a drugrelated object for use” (a misdemeanor).

Sheriff’s Department records so far indicate Aliotta has not been charged with intent to distribute, though a Savannah police spokesman has said additional charges have not been ruled out in the ongoing investigation.

Reports went on to say that Aliotta’s roommate is Brannen Miles, who police say was with Jennifer Ross during the

incident which resulted in her death on New Year’s Day. In another Ross development, Savannah police spoke with a person of interest over the weekend in connection with the shooting and say they’ve entered “the next phase of the investigation” to determine who shot Ross.

A tip brought police to a stolen car off Wheaton Street that may be the same grey Ford Taurus witnesses described as the getaway car. Several drug arrests were made at the same time, but police so far say they currently know of no direct connection of those arrests with the Ross incident.

Lockamy to push uniforms A report last week that new schools superintendent Thomas Lockamy might push for district-wide mandatory uniforms prompted an unusual clarification last week from the district.

“So where are we right now on uniforms and the dress code?” began Savannah/Chatham Public Schools spokesman Bucky Burnsed (formerly of the Savannah Police public information office) in an e-mail to media.

“Upon Dr. Lockamy’s arrival, he almost immediately began talking about school safety and its association with what children wear to school,” Burnsed said. “Big, baggy clothes could hide a multitude of sins, conceivably weapons.

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Saying he expects a formal proposal from Lockamy to go to the board in the spring, Burnsed went on: “But you can count on it, it’s coming and when it is formally addressed it will be an agenda item.”

However, as of right now “there has been no change in policy and there is no order in place to adopt uniforms,” he said.

The current district uniform policy is somewhat confusing. Only at Smith and Hodge elementary schools are uniforms absolutely mandatory.

But uniforms at Gadsden are “strongly suggested” if not mandatory.

And the list of schools with loose uniform policies -- and which don’t send students home or reprimand them for breaking those policies -- is a long one: Bartow, Butler, East Broad, Garrison, Gould, Haven, Heart, Hesse, Howard, Isle of Hope, Low, Port Wentworth, Pulaski, Thunderbolt and Windsor.

AASU hearts the Gulf Armstrong Atlantic State University is soliciting donations for Valentine’s Day boxes for girls and boys up to age 18 to be delivered to Hurricane Katrina victims.

Donations can be dropped off in AASU’s Solms Hall, room 201, through February 1.

Items needed include small toys and games, books, school supplies, personal hygiene items, hair accessories,

Valentine’s Day gifts, gift wrap, and funds for shipping costs. No candy!

The drive is part of AASU’s Give for the Gulf, a yearlong, comprehensive initiative to provide assistance to those affected by Hurricane Katrina. For more info calle Nichelle Belair at 368-8020 or go to www.armstrong.edu/katrina/.

Boleman gets school kudos Lolisa Boleman, a 7th grade teacher at Southwest Middle School, is the Savannah/Chatham Public School District Teacher of the Year.

The 1988 graduate of Savannah State University received her Masters from Armstrong Atlantic State University.

“Being some child’s best hope is an enormous responsibility to me because I never Boleman at work want to disappoint a child,” Boleman wrote in an essay for the competition.

“As an adult entrusted with children, I make the choice to show them love and respect, let them have fun while learning, and let them see me as a real person.”

Boleman was joined by semi-finalists Steve Schetski of the Savannah Arts Academy and Marilee Laufenberg of Windsor Forest Elementary. ◗

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She was cited for criminal trespass and simple battery.

• Police were called to a Westlake Avenue apartment complex in reference to a report that shots were fired. Upon arrival, an officer met with three complainants, who said two suspects had entered the parking lot. The three said they were in the parking lot with a man known as “Uncle Pete,” who was finishing up repairs on their car. As the suspects were driving away, the passenger pointed a pistol at two of the victims. Both men said they saw a red laser coming from the pistol. They said the suspect fired about five rounds toward them. The officer located three Luger 9 mm silver shell casings, about 42 feet east of the victims’ vehicle. The car was hit in the passenger side reverse light and front windshield. The back glass also was shattered. Another vehicle was hit in the dash board in front of the driver’s seat. The windshield of that vehicle also was shattered. There also were holes in an apartment door and the siding around the door. ◗

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• A man was charged with stalking, prowling and criminal trespass after he tried to enter the rear of an East 41st Street home. The man told an officer he knew he was not supposed to be on the property. He had been observed hiding in the shadows under a carport. The suspect was arrested and the officer then walked around the residence and saw that a rear window screen had been damaged when the suspect tried to remove it to get inside the house. The woman who lives at the house said the man had been stalking and harassing her.

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• A woman took her dog with her into the Montgomery Street post office and refused to remove it, so police were called. On arrival, an officer saw “a woman waiting to be served with her dog lying beside her on the floor at her feet.” The dog was not a seeing-eye dog, so the woman was again asked to remove the dog. She refused. The officer then asked the person at the counter if the woman had been asked to remove the dog, The woman was asked several times to remove the dog, but said she would only remove the dog after she had been served. When the woman completed her business and exited the building, the officer was waiting for

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• At least four incidents of a scam known as the “Pigeon Drop” have been reported recently. All four victims were women, three of them elderly.

In each case, the victim was approached in the parking lot of a large retail center by two other women who claimed to have found a bag with a large amount of money inside. Then the suspects produced a note that supposedly was found inside the bag. The note indicated that the cash is the result of an illegal activity. The suspects then convinced the victims they would split the money with them, but they must first give some of their own money to the suspects. The victims were then left with the bag of “money” and the suspects left and never returned. Eventually, the victims opened the bag to find rolledup newspaper with a few authentic bills wrapped around on the outside.

So far, the suspects have obtained more than $20,000 in cash and jewelry. The suspects are described as two black females. One is believed to be in her 40s or 50s, about 5 feet, 2 inches tall and weighing 140 pounds.

The second is described as being in her 20s and about 5 feet 6 inches tall and weighing 130 pounds. A reward of up to $2,500 is available from CrimeStoppers for information that leads to an arrest. Call SCMPD Financial Crimes Unit at 651-6735 or CrimeStoppers at 234-2020.

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With an Oakland Tribune reporter and 20 people looking on in November in a parking lot in Fremont, Calif., Tu Jin-Sheng, 50, “grandmaster” in one of the Chinese arts of Qigong, pulled a rental truck several yards using only a piece of fabric tied to the base of his genitals. Jin-Sheng is supposedly a leader of the branch of Qigong known as “Iron Crotch,” whose 60,000 adherents worldwide believe that strengthening the genitals increases energy. To warm up for the pull, Jin-Sheng had an assistant kick him hard between the legs.

More People With Too Much Money (1) An October Agence FrancePresse report noted the 2005 launching of the Paris gourmet bakery Mon Bon Chien (“my good dog”), featuring carobflavored dog biscuits and foie gras dog cookies, and worldwide introduction of more than 400 new products for dogs, including stress-relief sprays, nail polish and hair coloring. (2) Gynecologists interviewed by The Wall Street Journal in December said business was booming for the $1,800 to $5,000 hymenoplasty (the re-creation of the hymen), for men who want to deflower their non-virgin women (surgery obviously good for one night only).

Family Values In December, according to police in Jersey City, N.J., Roselean Walker, 36, sat at one screen in a movie cineplex

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with her boyfriend while her 11-year-old son watched the longer Harry Potter film at another screen, but after her movie ended, she tired of waiting for the son and went home with the boyfriend to New York City.

When police called her the next morning to come pick up the boy, she demanded that they drive him home. After officers ordered her immediately to the station, she showed up in a bad mood, threatening a lawsuit for the inconvenience, and wound up being charged with assaulting an officer (in addition to endangering a child’s welfare).

According to the Nov. 10 Evening News of Sault Ste. Marie, Mich., a father was under investigation by police after War Memorial Hospital reported an assault on the man’s 11-year-old son. Police said it appeared that the two were playing a video game, that the son had beaten his dad by using a secret upgrade that made his character more powerful, and that the dad, in anger, had spanked the kid, put soap in his mouth and slapped him several times in the head. (The father said only that he had punished the boy for lying.)

The Continuing Crisis In June, a plaintiff’s lawyer in the massive class-action litigation against asbestos manufacturers, under pressure from federal judge Janis Graham Jack of Houston, acknowledged that more than half of previous asbestos claims in one case appear to be fraudulent. The lawyer claims his clients contracted silicosis from asbestos exposure, but most of those same clients also claimed asbestosis from asbestos exposure, when experts say the two illnesses rarely exist simultaneously. Judge Jack found that one plaintiff’s doctor, Ray Harron (who had given up his practice in order to in-

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Animals Gone Wild: A billy goat reportedly attacked Zimbabwe’s strongarm President Robert Mugabe during a gas-station stop en route to the mountain resort of Nyanga in December, injuring Mugabe’s scrotum and large bowel.

And Fremont, Calif., police officer Paul Rush, who was escorting a teenager home from a traffic stop in January, reported to a hospital emergency room afterward because five chihuahuas had attacked him at the front door of the teen’s home, biting his ankles.

Fine Points of the Law Stephanie Conley gave an agent for West Virginia National insurance company a $174 check on Aug. 15 (in 2001) for auto coverage, received the “issued” policy on Aug. 30 (“effective” Aug. 15), and on Aug. 31 was involved in a collision resulting from her negligence.

However, by then her $174 check had bounced, and the company considered the policy null and void. In December the West Virginia Supreme Court ruled that Conley was covered on Aug. 31 because the company hadn’t given her 10 days’ cancellation notice.

In December, the Bush administration’s Department of Justice filed a “friend of the court” brief at the U.S. Supreme Court, supporting Anna Nicole Smith in her battle with the son of her late husband, J. Howard Marshall II, over his estate. Smith and the administration believe that a federal bankruptcy court (which backed Smith) should control the case and not a Texas state court (which had sided with Marshall’s son).

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BBC News reported in September that Sandra Luchian, 15, from Moldova, managed to hand-copy the 607-page “Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince,” filling five notebooks, after borrowing it from a friend in the U.K. (since it was not available anywhere in Moldova and she couldn’t afford to have it shipped to her).

She said it took her about a month.

Least Competent Criminals (1) The robber of a Fastrip store in Joplin, Mo., ignoring a “Use Other Door” sign pointing to an unlocked front door, spent valuable getaway time trying unsuccessfully to bash in the companion (but locked) front door with a chair, then finally bashed in a small window along a side wall and crawled out to escape (December). (2) Landon McQuilkin, 21, arrested in November in Jacksonville, Fla., after he allegedly abducted a man and said he would kill him, relented to his victim’s “last request” to visit his girlfriend before he died; with McQuilkin waiting in the car outside her house, the victim went in, locked the door and called police.

Recurring Themes On the surface, it appeared that Michael Sargent, an unhappy, 29-year veteran postal worker in Anchorage, Alaska, had managed to work out his anger fairly passively by, according to prosecutors, merely accepting bulk mailings into the postal system without bothering to charge the mailers (cheating the Postal Service out of at least $106,000 in revenue and perhaps as much as $436,000). However, a search of Sargent’s home turned up a federal gundealer permit in his name, along with 66 firearms, including silencers and a machine gun. Said the prosecutor, “He is a disgruntled public employee. Access to weapons is of concern.” ◗

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across India, Nepal and Bangladesh. The chill also threatens the survivors of last year’s devastating earthquake who are living in makeshift shelters in northern India and Pakistan. A doctor in one of the worst-hit towns in Indian Kashmir said quake survivors are showing signs of hypothermia and frostbite.

Earthquakes A magnitude 6.9 temblor rocked a wide area from Greece to Egypt and the Middle East but caused no significant damage. The quake was centered under the Mediterranean between the Greek islands of Crete and Kythira.

• Earth movements were also felt in southern Portugal, southern Ghana, southern Iran, northern Pakistan, northwest Sumatra, the central Philippines, northern New Zealand, the California-Baja California border area, northeast Ohio and along the New York-Quebec border.

Deadly Swarms Swarms of agitated bees conducted a vicious attack on humans and animals in a remote Nigerian community after the man they were pursuing took refuge in a local mosque. The official News Agency of Nigeria reported the attacks came in the northern state of Kaduna after the “scent dealer” outran the insects, which then chased everyone else in sight.

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A severe drought that threatens millions of humans across East Africa is also putting Kenya’s famed wildlife at risk. The Kenya Wildlife Service says that depleted water supplies and withered vegetation due to two consecutive failures of the rainy season are causing more frequent conflicts between the animals and humans. Elephants have killed at least two people since late December, and have even dis4.1 rupted the funeral of one of the victims. Hundreds of pachyderms in the Maasai Mara National Reserve have invaded neighboring farms in search of food and water.

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Turkey’s Agriculture Ministry announced that 306,000 poultry have 4.4 4.2 been culled across 15 3.3 2.6 of the country’s 81 provinces in a bid to contain an outbreak of bird flu, which has claimed at least three 3.7 human lives. Thirteen other people, mostly children and teenagers, were being treated for infection.

• A European wildlife organization claimed that migratory birds have been wrongly accused of bringing avian influenza to Turkey. It instead blamed human traffic. The Belgian League for the Protection of Birds said: “No birds migrate from China Week Ending January 13, 2006 to Europe. On the other hand, the path follows the main trade route significant damage the storm’s high winds between the Far East and Europe.” It also was reported. claimed that no migratory birds caught by hunters or scientists had been shown to carry the virus.

Severe blizzards in western China’s Xinjiang region trapped Alaska’s Augustine Volcano almost a quarter of a million erupted for the first time since members of ethnic Mongolian 1987 with a column of ash that and Kazakh herding families, and presoared about 30,000 feet into vented their livestock from feeding. the skies southwest of Anchorage. The Beijing dispatched troops and civilian reseruption followed months of elevated seis- cue workers to help plow roads and evacmic activity. uate the stranded families and their • An eruption of Mexico’s Colima Volcano livestock, according to the official Xinhua produced a gray cloud of ash and gas, news agency. While no people were reand triggered several small landslides on ported dead or injured in Xinjiang, mass the mountain’s flanks. starvation among the region’s livestock was feared. The worst snowstorm in 20 years dumped more than 3 feet of snow in The first tropical cyclone of the the region and brought temperatures as season to strike northwestern cold as minus 33 degrees Fahrenheit.

Australia forced more than 1,500 people to flee their homes A bitter cold spell blanketing and mining operations to be halted. northern parts of the Indian Cyclone Clare made landfall near the town subcontinent brought Delhi its of Dampier, where the port was closed coldest temperature in 70 and ships were ordered out to sea. No years and killed at least 225 people

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‘I’ve spent too many years

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IT’S BEEN CLOSE to 5 years since Richard Leo Johnson decided he’d had enough.

The celebrated musician – who’s drawn deserved comparisons to such iconic guitarists as Jimi Hendrix, Leo Kottke and John McLaughlin – had found that sometimes, the thing you love most can wind up as a damn heavy albatross.

“To tell you the truth, man, I was just burned out,” he now recalls with a stillweary tone in his voice.

“Being on the road, playing most every night, you start to realize that you’ve gotten caught up in some kind of ‘dog and pony show,’ and before you know it, your music starts to suffer. I didn’t want to fall into that trap.”

Not that the average person (or even diehard guitar nut) would have likely been able to tell if Johnson was off his game.

The intense, complex and labyrinthine compositions he’s known for – and which had earned him a highly coveted slot on the famed Blue Note jazz label’s artist roster – are by their very nature such head-spinning displays of polyrhythmic dexterity and brainiac timekeeping that it’s hard to even keep up with what Johnson’s frantic fingers are doing, let alone scope out a minor slip here or there.

But, one can sense it’s not technical lapses he was worried about. It was a loss of inspiration, or worse yet, of self.

“The bottom line is that I know plenty of people in the music business who hate what they do,” he continues. “That ‘dog and pony show’ thing I was talkin’ about – well, I used to go see them when they were passionate about their craft. Now it’s basically the same thing over and over again every night. Why would you want to get to the point where you hate the very thing that you love so much? It ceases to be art, and it winds up just being a commodity.”

Wary of following that same path himself, Johnson says he began to fret, and wound up giving himself what he terms a slight nervous breakdown. For anyone who’s ever witnessed a concert or recital by Richard Leo, it’s not hard to imagine

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Richard Leo Johnson celebrates the release of The Legend of Vernon McAlister by appearing in the guise of “Charlie Shoe” at The Sentient Bean, Saturday at 8 pm. Suggested donation is $5 for ALL AGES, and advance copies of his new CD will be available for sale.

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features prominently in both the genesis of this album and Johnson’s soon-to-be-released next effort) that I’m adopting for these shows... the way Charlie sounds is the way I learned to play the guitar as a kid, with tangible melody lines and a slower pace. It’s more about songcraft.

“That’s why I’m not so concerned about whether or not people can wrap their heads around the notion of this fictional story. It all comes from the same place. It’s based on real historical facts, Memphis music, the rockabilly world.”

Johnson does admit that at times, the long months of hard work he’s put into developing what is essentially a bemusing one-act stage show and original score have left him feeling like “the kid in Rushmore who puts on all those stupid plays,” but says he’s relishing this new, combined form of expression.

“In a way, it’s like the Theatre of The Absurd, ok? I’m adopting a character so that I can pursue and perform songs that represent my own personal history of American music – from the area where I was raised.

“So, in pulling away and creating something based in fictional mythology it gives me a great opportunity. People have no expectations of Charlie. He doesn’t even exist! He becomes a vehicle for a level of honesty that in some cases you can’t find because ego gets in the way.

“See, I’m not interested in what I can do, but what the music can do. I know it’s a bit of a Dada trip – but what winds up being the case with these songs is that someone had to write them. Someone had to perform them, and go through the effort of recording them. That’s me by default because I’m the only one who knows how to play the guitar like this.”

Johnson says the process has already been so freeing and inspirational for him that he’s planning a series of themed albums – each based around a single instrument, and featuring a new, fictional character drawn in part from his own life.

“The point of this recording is not about virtuosity, but content and concept,” he confides. “I have spent too many years having the reputation as the axe-slinger doing the ‘impossible thing’ on the guitar. It was time to think and feel my way for a change.” ◗

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years ago after a New Orleans gig to offer his legendary recording studio’s services.)

As if that weren’t enough of a departure for a man known for playing postmodern jazz and trance music on custom-made dual-necked electric guitars with many more than 12 strings – he’s also written an elaborate and convoluted backstory to explain the creative shift, and with it, at least 2 imaginary characters – one of whom he now plans to embody onstage in a series of live shows that will mix his idiosyncratic guitarwork with storytelling and dramatic interpretation.

They say the devil is in the details, and the details of this undertaking would take another half-page to simply catalog. Those who care (or dare) to wade through on their own can find plenty of clues online at www.vernonmcalister.com – but the easiest way to describe what Johnson’s up to is as follows: A neighbor of his gave him an old battered dobro, and in the course of exploring the rare instrument’s attributes, he noticed the name “Vernon McAlister” crudely carved into the metallic body of the 70-yearold steel guitar.

As Johnson’s intrigue with the history of this well-worn instrument increased, so did his devotion for the sounds he could coax out of its resonant body and antiquated fretboard.

He also became entranced with the sounds it coaxed out of him.

“I’ve been collecting old, cheap guitars for a while now. I have like 12 of ‘em that I’ve found – mostly on eBay. I even bought an old concertina to mess around with. They all have a very limited tonality. But each one is extremely singular. By limiting myself to the opportunities afforded by these odd instruments, I’m forced to play in a way that is not typical for me. I’m not using all my standard 2handed techniques, yet the way these guitars operate – and what they bring out in me – I’m loving it.

“I’ll take this for what it is. If it makes me think and play like this, then I don’t care what the limitations are. I mean, some of the things I’m coming up with these days sound like psychedelic country and western!”

Johnson says that while he only writes instrumental material, that doesn’t mean his songs don’t have narrative meanings – even if they may not always be easily discerned by his listeners.

“This is a very autobiographical CD. The specifics are different, but the impetus was totally based on my own experiences growing up. The character of Charlie Shoe (the “mildly autistic” self-taught guitar prodigy with the photographic memory who

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the type of tension and anxiety that leads to such stressful situations being corked up inside this restless, mercurial artist.

Despite his extremely laid-back demeanor and slight Southern drawl – he is a man obviously haunted in no small way by his own prodigious abilities as a musician, and by an innate need to excel at what anything he chooses to do.

And so, he retreated a bit. He stayed closer to home, spent more time on his architectural photography business, and took on a few young guitar students who were eager to test their own musical boundaries.

Johnson says that in some respects, it was the best thing that could have happened to him as an artist.

He also became choosier about what sorts of gigs were worth the headache and downer vibe of travel (which he says drains him of creative impulses).

“You know, you hear about all these musicians who write material out on the road – but honestly, when I was touring, I’d hardly ever compose in my hotel room. All my songs have always been worked out in the solitude of my own house.”

“And, I’d done so many interviews over the years. Hundreds, you know?

And you have to talk about yourself all the time, and promote yourself, and I was just sick to death of that, so I said I’m gettin’ off the road!

Once I did that, it started the process of me trying to remember – and understand – what it was I loved about playing guitar in the first place.”

That love affair dates back to when a pre-teen Johnson first became intrigued with the instrument which is now his stock-in-trade.

Growing up in Arkansas, he was exposed to blues, rockabilly and country music of the ‘50s, ‘60s and ‘70s, but although he absorbed much of these genres by osmosis, he had little interest in aping those styles, or taking the traditional route of playing popular tunes.

However, in an odd turn of events, he is now following up his last, rather avant-garde album (the internationally praised Poetry of Appliance by The Richard Leo Johnson Trio) with a stripped-down disc of introspective, Americana-based solo compositions written and performed on nothing save a vintage 1930s National Duolian resonator dobro.

The Legend of Vernon McAlister was recorded by Johnson himself at home in his “small, windowless attic.”

It’s a crepuscular, swampy collection of mesmerizing guitar music that immediately brings to mind the great Daniel Lanois’ ambient-inspired pedal steel showcases. (Which is ironic, since Lanois approached Johnson

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Organizer Bob Sinclair says the rules are simple: check your egos at the door and have fun; bring your own bottles and coolers, but drink at your own risk; don’t bring children or immature adults; • A new attitude don’t drink and • Special deals for Passafire drive; active military and no pets after dark.

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• Southeast Georgia’s top gone.” music technology and Bob says they’ll party rain or shine, production department and cautions people to think twice about breaking his sensible policies. “Policemen Write a monthly • Lots to see & try will be on site checking IDs. We won’t column on the local allow underage drinking or rude behavior, so be nice, or be gone!” Tickets available Southeast Georgia at Spanky’s Southside, Mary’s Seafood & music scene for our Steaks, and Sandfly’s Driftaway Café, or website. by calling 354-2929.

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Sat., 10 pm, Locos Deli & Pub.

Jeff & Vida This fantastic New Orleans-based Americana act (known for their standingroom-only shows at American Legion Post #135) was on tour in Colorado when Katrina hit, but had already planned to relocate to Nashville for the betterment of their burgeoning career. In Music City since last September, they’ve been honing their already-excellent live show and woodshedding new material that’s more progressive in tone than the straight-up bluegrass and mountain music they’re known for across the USA and in the U.K..

This duo show will be only their 3rd concert since returning to the road, and mandolinist and banjo picker Jeff Burke says that while they love to “rock out” the Legion with their full-on trio (featuring stand-up bass in addition to Vida’s frenetic acoustic guitarwork), they’re hoping to give their existing fans a more intimate concert than they’re used to.

This should also serve as a wonderful introduction to one of the most beguiling and promising roots-rock-meets-old-time outfits in the country. Fans of Lucinda Williams, Steve Earle, Gillian Welch and David Rawlings, Townes Van Zandt and Tom Russell will think they’ve died and gone to heaven. This gig gets my highest recommendation.

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Blackwürm Mesmerizing instrumental space-rock trio (think Hawkwind, Helios Creed, CAN, etc...), featuring members of ARTillery Punch and The Jazz & Tango Kings.

Noted local rock guitarist Kevin F. Rose (GAM, Shitrocket) also sits in on an extended set of “Go-Go Music,” as part of a Fashion Show and Grand Opening Party for this indie clothing and accessory store. DJ KZL spins eclectica as well.

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Classic C & W hits, plus some modern cowboy hat-pop and a smattering of Southern rock and crowd-pleasing party classics. Fri., 8:30 pm, Pogy’s Bar & Grill (Richmond Hill).

Hard-grooving instrumentals soul-jazz quintet (bass, trumpet, drums, trombone and guitar) of moonlighting local music educators that veers into rock and funk territory. Fri. & Sat., 9:30 pm, Il Pasticcio.

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Captain Soularcat Popular Rome, Ga. jam-band influenced by funk, rock and Latin music.

They boast strong ties to the Athens scene (and famed banjoist Rev. Jeff Mosier). Sat., 10 pm, Savannah Blues.

Thomas Claxton Balls-out solo acoustic guitarist who peppers his intense sets of classic and modern rock covers with original material.

He’s soon to release a debut CD of his own songs. Wed., 7 pm, Pogy’s Bar & Grill (Richmond Hill) + Fri. - Sat., 9 pm, The Bayou Café + Sun., 5:30 pm, The Warehouse.

Sarah Colvin Refined and sublime jazz vocalist from Jacksonville, Fl., dealing in early swing, blues, and ‘50s standards, as well as bop from the ‘60s through today. She’ll be backed by pianist Josh Bowles, bassist Paul Sikivie, and trumpeter Alex Nguyen.

Sat., 9 pm, The Mansion on Forsyth Park.

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Eric Britt Solo acoustic set from the frontman and songwriter of brainy, regional alt.rock faves Hazel Virtue. Fri., 10 pm, Jen’s & Friends.

The brainchild of former Savannah resident Andrew Benjamin, this Augustabased collective plays dark and addled Vaudevillian blues strongly influenced by both old-timey gypsy flair and the European cabaret tradition. While their rotating lineup makes it impossible to guarantee this live show will live up to their indie CD, if space permitted, I’d have made this a recommended show of the week on that basis alone. They employ everything from toy instruments to transistor radios and empty wine bottle-percussion, their songs aiming squarely for fans of the creepy burlesque-and-sea chanty vibe of Swordfishtrombones-era Tom Waits.

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The area’s bestknown electric R & B guitarist and vocalist (think Albert King) – who just released a live album that’s easily the best of his career. Tues. (hosts Open Jam) Hellblinki Sextet Wed., Mercury Lounge Rock and roll outfit + Thurs., JJ Cagney’s featuring members of Athens’ Grateful + Fri. - Sun., 10 pm, Fiddler’s Crab House.

Dead and Beatles Tributes Cosmic Charlie and Abbey Road Live, plus Acoustic pop, rock and soul covers Savannah’s own Americana stalwarts from key members of Wilmington Island’s Stewart & Winfield.

Band In The Park. Fri., 7 pm, Uncle Fri., 10 pm, Locos Deli & Pub. Bubba’s Oyster House + Sat., 10:30 pm, The Underground @ Churchill’s Pub. Long-running local Chicago-style blues known for a tight, upbeat show.

Talented pianist, whose indie CD of Sat., 9 pm, Jazz’d Tapas Bar. unique arrangements of old Johnny Mercer tunes is one of the best local jazz Enthralling Delta-blues-influenced quartet (bass, drums, guitar and harp) that blurs the lines between roadhouse rock, Americana and garage music.

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The Scott Giddens Quartet Nicknamed “The Reverend,” for his ability to “take you to church” with his spiritual take on the blues, this Florida pianist swings hard, with influences drawn from Herbie Hancock, Monk, and Ahmad Jamal, among others. Fri. - Sat., 7:30 pm, The Jazz Corner (Hilton Head).

The Alex Nguyen Trio

Young trumpet prodigy, backed by veterans Von Barlow (drums) – who’s worked with the late Beach, boogie, Lou Rawls, Roy blues and “Parrothead Ayers and Etta Showbread Music,” on acoustic James, among others guitar with sequenced – and Paul backing.

Sikivie (bass). They play Nguyen’s own Thurs., 7 pm, Baja Cantina (The tunes and standards.

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Singer and clarinetist born and raised in Savannah, but now based out of Asheville, N.C.., and offering jazz standards, blues and oldies. Fri., 9 pm, The Mansion on Forsyth Park.

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Loose, fiery Southern blues-rock that’s one part twang and two parts jam, 7-piece original rock much like Widespread band made up of moonPanic and The Allman lighting members of Brothers Band, 2 such well-known local groups whose acts as Hot Pink influence practically Interior, City of Lindas, drips off this talented Superhorse The Hall Monitor, The quartet. Thurs., (10 Judge & The Jury and pm), Fiddler’s Crab The 8-Tracks. They play loud and House + Fri., 10 pm, Savannah Blues. raunchy pre-punk (think MC5, The VU, and The Stones), and noisy garage-pop (think Replacements, Sonic Youth).

Earnest acoustic neo-folk with an Atlanta’s Tiger! Tiger! opens. obvious Christian theme – similar in tone Fri., 10 pm, The Jinx. to Howie “Air Rage” Day. Thurs., 8 pm, Tubby’s (Thunderbolt).

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Sat., 10 pm, JJ Cagney’s.

‘Georgia Kyle’ Shiver w/Jimmy Wolling Blues and folk-influenced guitarist and songwriter Shiver is joined by noted bluegrass phenom Wolling on banjo for a twist on each of their usual stage shows. Sat., 7 pm, Uncle Bubba’s Oyster House.

Showbread One of the biggest underground sensations of the past few years, this

A downtown fixture of sorts, this vibrant singing pianist plays jazzy standards and show tunes.

Tues. - Sun., Planter’s Tavern (beneath The Olde Pink House Restaurant).

Too Blue Electric blues and R & B duo of guitarists Jeff Beasley and Ray Lundy (of Bottles & Cans). Fri., 10 pm, Molly Macpherson’s Scottish Pub + Sat., 6 pm, The Warehouse.

The Train Wrecks Roots-rock trio featuring guitarist Jason Bible and Hazel Virtue drummer Mark Kuhlmann. Covers and originals.

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IF YOU’RE IN THE MOOD for fine dining and fine wining, you’re in luck.

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The theme of the 6th Annual. Taste of Savannah, set for Jan. 20 from 7-10 p.m., is Hollywood! A Gourmet Premiere. “We try to play the theme up every year,” says Julie Ford Musselman, Savannah Tourism Council interim director.

The Savannah International Trade & Convention Center will be transformed for the event. “Guests will arrive on a red carpet,” Musselman says. “Paparazzi will be shooting photographs of them as they arrive. In the past, the awards we have given have been plaques, but this year we are giving Oscars.”

Taste of Savannah showcases 25 of Savannah’s best restaurants and caterers, who will be serving samples of their favorite menu items. They all will be competing for prizes, as well.

In addition to good food, there will be cash bars and a silent auction. Proceeds will benefit the Tourism Leadership Council. Tickets for the Taste of Savannah

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The Savannah Music Festival 2006 Wine Weekend will be held Friday and Saturday, January 20-21. The weekend features private receptions and wine symposia plus a black-tie gala and auction. The first event will begin Friday, January 20, at 6 p.m. with the Southern Mansion Festival Wine Receptions. These private receptions will be held at the Delta, Lebanon and Ford plantations.

Each location will feature fine wines, live music and personal interaction with vineyard owners. At Lebanon, participants will explore Southeastern wines while Ford and Delta will host West Coast vintners. Tickets for this event are $100 per person.

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“Having Mr. Edgerton here means that the audience will have a better understanding of the top-notch quality of the wines we’re bidding on,” says Carolyn Luck, co-chair of the gala with Jane Feiler and Jaqueline Rabinowitz.

The decision to expand the event was made last fall, according to Hart Williford, chairman of the Savannah Music Festival board.

“This weekend is very important to the Savannah Music Festival,” he says. “Less than 40 percent of our income is from ticket sales, so we earn the rest from sponsorships and public and private contributions and special events like this wine weekend and our golf tournament at Spring Island in June.”

The committee hopes that the Wine Weekend will be not only a permanent event, but one that will continue to grow.

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The highlight will be the black-tie gala and auction Saturday, Jan. 21 at 6 p.m. at the Mansion on Forsyth Park. The gala will include a five-course dinner accompanied by fine wines. Tickets are $275 per person for the gala.

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“The goal of the committee was to attract some of the country’s finest wine makers to enhance our lovely Savannah and support our community’s leading performing arts program,” says Howard J. Morrison, Jr., co-chair of the event’s wine acquisition committee.

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A remake of a 1950 British comedy starring Alec Guinness, Last Holiday is better than expected thanks to its retooling as a vehicle for Queen Latifah. Director Wayne Wang, who probably eyes the career of Ang Lee and wonders where he went wrong, has long been demoted from indie darling (Smoke) to studio hack (Maid In Manhattan), and his desire to appease the studio gods means that there’s very little innovation on view in this predictable picture. But Queen Latifah and her supporting cast -- to say nothing of the gorgeous location shooting and eye-popping shots of delectable food dishes -- go a long way toward making this digestible. Latifah stars as Georgia Byrd, a working class woman who, upon learning that she’ll die in three weeks, cashes in all her assets and heads off to the Grandhotel Pupp (located in the Czech Republic) with the intent of winding down her life in luxury. While at the hotel, she befriends the cook (Gerard Depardieu -- how I’ve missed him!), offers sage advice to assorted individuals (among them Giancarlo Esposito’s silky Senator and Alicia Witt’s kept woman), and butts heads with her former boss, the hardhearted CEO of a national retail chain (Timothy Hutton). Meanwhile, her love interest (LL Cool J) back home discovers her dark secret and hightails it to be by her side. The message of the film is that everyone -- no matter their lot in life -- should be treated with dignity and respect, but after watching Latifah receive endless massages, hit the snowy slopes and chow down on lobster and lamb, most moviegoers will be forgiven for believing that the true message of the picture is that (duh) it’s better to be rich than poor. continued on page 22

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Has there ever existed a movie genre simultaneously as macho and as rife with homoerotic undertones as the Western? With the exception of the war flick, no other classification has found as little use for women as this one. So in hindsight, it seems like a no-brainer that Annie Proulx’s short story Brokeback Mountain should have been brought to the big screen. Ultimately, it doesn’t matter what the nation’s in-bred yahoos and right-wing commentators think about the film: Most likely, they won’t turn out for it any more than they did for, say, Lost In Translation, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind or any other challenging movie that had nothing to do with homosexuality but plenty to do with breaking away from the conventional pack. But the secret behind Brokeback Mountain is that, behind its convenient (and infuriating) designation as “the gay cowboy movie,” this is as universal as any love story Hollywood has produced in recent times. The story begins in 1963 Wyoming, when two young cowboys -- reserved Ennis Del Mar (Heath Ledger) and the more outgoing Jack Twist (Jake Gyllenhaal) -- are hired by a gruff rancher (Randy Quaid) to tend to a flock of sheep up on Brokeback Mountain. One night, when it’s too cold to sleep alone, the pair huddle up together inside their small tent; before long, Jack is forcefully kissing Ennis and, to his own surprise, Ennis responds in an equally aggressive manner. The men separate, each going on to pursue a more traditional lifestyle.

For Ennis, that means marrying his longtime sweetheart, Alma (Michelle Williams), and producing some kids. For Jack, that means trying his hand once again on the rodeo circuit, where he eventually meets his future wife, Lureen (Anne Hathaway). It isn’t until some time later that the men see each other again, and upon their first embrace it’s clear that they’ve been bottling up a significant part of their lives. As Jack, Gyllenhaal delivers a nicely modulated performance that’s by turns silly and sullen. The weakness in his work -- that he doesn’t completely disappear into his character -- is only noticeable because his co-star is operating at such a stratospheric level. Ledger, in short, is phenomenal as Ennis, the sort of pensive individual who’s so reluctant to speak that it appears as if uttering a syllable is as strenuous for him as lifting a refrigerator is to the rest of us.

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These days, it seems that everyone this side of Mike Leigh has climbed aboard the animation bandwagon. So it’s really no surprise that Harvey and Bob Weinstein, the former Miramax heads responsible for such adult features as The Piano and The English Patient, have acquired (for their new outfit The

Weinstein Company) the distribution rights for this independently produced toon flick. Given the quality, however, the Weinstein siblings would have been welladvised to use the funds as a down payment on another Jane Campion or Anthony Minghella project instead.

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Stiers) hears variations on the saga from four different participants: Red (Anne Hathaway), Granny (Glenn Close), the Wolf (Patrick Warburton) and the Woodsman (Jim Belushi). Viewers who haven’t completely Zenned out during the showing will easily guess the identity of the true culprit, though they’ll

events that transpired after that tragic day at the 1972 Olympics in Germany, when a group of Palestinian terrorists known as Black September slaughtered the Israeli athletes they were holding as hostages. The movie reveals that, in an effort to exhibit their toughness to the world, the Israeli government sent a select band of assassins to eliminate everyone who was responsible for the Munich massacre. Spielberg and his writers bring to vivid life this motley crew of enforcers: Avner (Eric Bana), the sensitive leader of the group; the fiery getaway driver Steve (Daniel Craig, aka the new James Bond); the meticulous "clean up" man Carl (Ciaran Hinds); the jittery bomb maker Robert (Mathieu Kassovitz); and the pensive forger Hans (Hanns Zischler). But these characters aren't positioned as Israel's version of The Untouchables, with clear-cut visions of right and wrong. Instead, as they carry out each hit on their eye-for-an-eye agenda, each man reacts differently to the consequences of their actions. Is this brand of retribution just? Or are they in effect embracing the same ideology that drives the terrorists? Spielberg's muddying of the moral waters is already drawing heat (primarily from Jewish leaders), but it's to his credit as a filmmaker of consequence that he asks the hard questions and doesn't flinch from any unsettling truths that might emerge.

This is perhaps the least sentimental of any motion picture in the director's strong filmography, with a couple of scenes that stand among the most memorable he's created in recent times.

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its crude animation, lumbering storyline and forgettable songs, it’s hard to envision any demand for its mere existence. Clearly aping the Shrek films, this attempts to put a spin on the classic children’s fairy tales by adding all manner of so-called “hip” references and grownup-geared plot maneuverings, approaches that grow more stale with each passing year. Hoodwinked is basically Little Red Riding Hood by way of Rashomon, as amphibious Detective Nicky Flippers (voiced by David Ogden

doubtless have more fun mentally tracking the Six Degrees of Separation between Mike Leigh and Jim Belushi.

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Munich is a strong film, an important work, and already a lightning rod for controversy and (one hopes) healthy debate. But another instant Spielberg classic? Not quite. With a script drafted by heavy-hitters Tony Kushner (Angels In America) and Eric Roth (Forrest Gump), Munich is largely a fictionalization of the

In need of quick cash, a struggling office worker named Steve (Johnny Knoxville) is persuaded by his sleazy uncle (Brian Cox) to pretend to be a mentally challenged athlete named Jeffy so he can enter the Special Olympics and come away the big winner. The movie may sound outrageous and offensive, but truthfully, navel-scratching slobs won't enjoy this any more than navel-gazing snobs once they catch a whiff of its overwhelming timidity. Because the filmmakers respect the plight of the mentally handicapped (indeed, the movie's executive producer is Tim Shriver, Chairman of the Special Olympics), they go out of their way to avoid anything that might be construed as demeaning. This in turn means that, except for a smattering of scenes with Cox's character (who openly calls the athletes "'tards"), the film's only outlet for any risky business is Knoxville, and he falls in line by offering up a performance-within-a-performance (i.e. a regular guy pretending to be handicapped) that's so meek, it's often hard to differentiate between when he's playing Steve and when he's playing Jeffy.

MEMOIRS OF A GEISHA ✰✰1/2

Director Rob Marshall’s adaptation of the Arthur Golden novel plays like a

23 Disney version of a Zhang Yimou movie, though the end result isn’t as dreadful as that designation might suggest. As movie artifice, it’s above average, but it goes no deeper than that. Two Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon alumni handle the key roles: Ziyi Zhang plays Chiyo, the penniless foster child who grows up to become the legendary geisha known as Sayuri, while Michelle Yeoh essays the role of her mentor, Mameha. The Last Samurai’s Oscar nominee Ken Watanabe has the principal male role as the Chairman, the older man who catches Sayuri’s eye at an early (pre-pubescent) age and finds himself the center of her adoration over the ensuing years.

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Mel Brook’s commercial failure but cult success was resurrected by the comic legend himself as a Broadway musical, one so successful that it earned a record 12 Tony Awards to go along with its enormous box office booty. That a movie version would follow is no surprise; what’s startling is how the picture plays as little more than a static filming of the stage play. In the Gene Wilder role of the timid accountant Leo Bloom, Matthew Broderick strains too hard to be funny.

Nathan Lane is a riot in the Zero Mostel role of Max Bialystock, the struggling producer who determines that a show called Springtime for Hitler is his ticket to riches.

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Jim Carrey and Tea Leoni play the new Dick and Jane, who find themselves in a similar predicament once the CEO (Alec Baldwin) of Dick’s company bails out, leaving thousands of employees without jobs, pensions or benefits. After working a series of low-paying odd jobs (the picture’s funniest sequences), the couple eventually turn to robbing local

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She maneuvers to meet him in person, only to find that, like her mom and grandma before her, she can’t resist his roguish charm. The hook turns out to be the most entertaining aspect of the film, as Sarah strives to learn exactly how all the pieces of the Graduate puzzle fit together. Director Rob Reiner then proceeds to make matters worse, repeatedly mistaking frantic for funny.

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Peter Jackson’s new Kong will make a fortune, and it saddens me that it will be viewed by scores of people who won’t even give the original 1933 take a passing glance because they lack the imagination to immerse themselves in the world of vintage black-and-white cinema. But that’s their loss, and certainly not Jackson’s fault. He’s done his part by treating the property with love

and respect, and, much to my surprise, his Kong is a -- pardon the pun -- roaring success. The first portion of the film details how visionary filmmaker Carl Denham (Jack Black) elects to head out into uncharted waters to make his epic adventure movie, recruiting a struggling actress named Ann Darrow (Naomi Watts) to serve as his leading lady.

Denham is all business, meaning that Ann’s romantic escapades arrive in the form of Jack Driscoll (Adrien Brody), a sensitive screenwriter. The second part charts the sea voyage and the arrival on Skull Island, whereupon Ann is co-opted by the local natives for the purpose of serving as a human sacrifice to the great ape known as Kong. The climactic third act finds Kong captured and taken to New York, where, billed as “King Kong, The Eighth Wonder of the World,” he becomes the featured attraction in Denham’s lavish theatrical production.

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This Australian import strands three college-age kids (Cassandra McGrath, Kestie Morassi and Nathan Phillips) in the Australian Outback, whereupon they meet a hulking roughneck (John Jarratt) who proceeds to slice and dice them as he sees fit. besides, Steven Spielberg already treated us to these sights in Jurassic Park. For the most part, though, the movie's pace never lags, and even the

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Bob Barnes (George Clooney) is a CIA field operative who’s stunned when his years of service count for naught once his superiors decide it’s in their best interest to betray him. Syriana offers little hope and no answers, catering instead to the substantial number of Americans who feel that the bad guys -chiefly, Big Business and Big Government -- have already won, and there’s not a damn thing we can do about it. For those who already believe this, the movie’s a well-executed downer.

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C.S. Lewis' source material -- the first book in a series of seven Narnia adventures -- sprinkled Christian allegories throughout a fantasy yarn that was aimed primarily at children, and the movie steadfastly respects Lewis' intentions. Like the best kid flicks, this one never talks down to its target audience, and its religious themes -- issues involving honor, forgiveness and redemption -- embody the true spirit of Christianity and in effect serve as an antidote to the sadistic theatrics of Mel Gibson's garish snuff film, The Passion of the Christ. Lewis and The Lord of the Rings author J.R.R. Tolkien were friends and contemporaries, so it's not surprising that the films based on their respective works often resemble each other in style and structure. In fact, I'd wager that it took the massive success of the LOTR flicks for Narnia to even be given the green light. Therefore, it's easy to see the plucky Pevensie children -Peter (William Moseley), Susan (Anna Popplewell), Edmund (Skandar Keynes) and little Lucy (Georgie Henley) -- as human Hobbits, bravely entering enemy territory to defeat an evil entity whose cruel reign threatens all sorts of races and civilizations. It's not hard to spot a bit of Aragorn and Sauron in the noble

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SUNDAY JANUARY 22ND AJ’S DOCKSIDE RESTAURANT (Tybee)- Joey Manning (7 pm) AQUA STAR RESTAURANT (THE WESTIN)- Ben Tucker & Bob Alberti (11:30 am) BAYOU CAFÉ- Live Music TBA BELFORD’S- Live Music TBA (6 pm) CAFÉ LOCO (Tybee)- “Georgia Kyle” Shiver (10 pm) CAPTAIN’S LOUNGE- #@*! Karaoke DAQUIRI ISLAND (Abercorn)- Karaoke DOC’S BAR (Tybee Island)- Live Music TBA DRIFTAWAY CAFÉ (Wilmington Isl.)Live Music TBA (7 pm) FANNIE’S ON THE BEACH (Tybee)Randy “Hatman” Smith (3 pm) FIDDLER’S CRAB HOUSE- The Eric Culberson Blues Band (9 pm) THE JAZZ CORNER (Hilton Head)Deas’ Guys (7:30 pm) JAZZ’D TAPAS BAR- Jeff Beasley & Mike Perry (7 pm)

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MARY’S SEAFOOD & STEAKS- Live Music TBA (8 pm) MCDONOUGH’S- Karaoke MERCURY LOUNGE- Live Music TBA (10 pm) MOLLY MACPHERSON’S SCOTTISH PUB- Too Blue (10 pm) MOON RIVER BREWING CO.- Live Music TBA (8:30 pm) MULBERRY INN- The Champagne Jazz Trio (8 pm) PLANTER’S TAVERN (OLDE PINK HOUSE)- Gail Thurmond POGY’S BAR & GRILL (Richmond Hill)Chuck Courtenay & The Georgia Rhythm Band (8:30 pm) SAVANNAH BLUES- Phantom Wingo (10 pm) SAVANNAH DOWN UNDER- DJ Blue Ice & Tropical Thunder SAVANNAH SMILES- Dueling Pianos SAVANNAH THEATRE- Jukebox Journey (8 pm) SCANDALS (Tybee)- Live Music TBA (9:30 pm) THE SEA GRILL (Pt. Wentworth)- Live Music TBA (8 pm) THE SENTIENT BEAN- 3rd Friday Foreign Film: PURE FORMALITY (7 pm) 1790 RESTAURANT- Ed Rogers SILVER DOLLAR BAR & GRILL (Hwy 204)- Live Music TBA (9 pm) SPANKY’S (River St.)- Karaoke (9 pm) STEAMERS (Georgetown)- Live Music TBA (9 pm) STINGRAY’S (Tybee)- Live Music TBA (7 pm) TOMMY’S (Pooler)- High Velocity (9 pm) TUBBY’S (Thunderbolt)- Live Music TBA (9 pm) UNCLE BUBBA’S OYSTER HOUSEMary Davis & Co. (7 pm) THE UNDERGROUND @ CHURCHILL’S PUB- Bluesonics (10:30 pm) VENUS DI MILO- DJ Maybe, DJ Aerochron & Friends (10:30 pm)

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KEVIN BARRY’S- Frank Emerson THE MANSION ON FORSYTH PARKHarpist Kristin Gustafson (11 am) MCDONOUGH’S- Karaoke MERCURY LOUNGE- Live Music TBA (10 pm) PLANTER’S TAVERN (OLDE PINK HOUSE)- Gail Thurmond THE SENTIENT BEAN- Jeff & Vida (8 pm) 1790 RESTAURANT- Ed Rogers SAVANNAH THEATRE- Jukebox Journey (3 pm) UNCLE BUBBA’S OYSTER HOUSELive Music TBA (7 pm) THE WAREHOUSE- Thomas Claxton (5:30 pm)

MONDAY JANUARY 23RD BAYOU CAFÉ- Chief BLUEBERRY HILL- Karaoke DOUBLES (Holiday Inn Midtown)- DJ spins Beach Music DRIFTAWAY CAFÉ (Wilmington Isl.)Live Music TBA (7 pm) FIDDLER’S CRAB HOUSE- BN Trivia w/Artie & Brad THE GRILL BEACHSIDE (Tybee)- Live Music TBA (7 pm) THE IRISH TIMES- Live Irish Music THE JAZZ CORNER (Hilton Head)Deas’ Guys (7:30 pm) THE JINX- DrunkTank Soundsystem w/DJ Boo-Cock-Eye (10 pm) JJ CAGNEY’S- Greg Williams (10 pm) KEVIN BARRY’S- Harry O’Donoghue PLANTER’S TAVERN (OLDE PINK HOUSE)- Live Piano Music TBA SAVANNAH BLUES- Green Mossy Runoff SAVANNAH NIGHTS- Karaoke SCANDALS (Tybee)- DJ Marty Corley (9:30 pm)

THE SENTIENT BEAN- Old-Time Music Jam Session (7 pm) 1790 RESTAURANT- Ed Rogers WET WILLIE’S- Karaoke (9 pm)

TUESDAY JANUARY 24TH BAY STREET BLUES- Live Trivia BAYOU CAFÉ- Chief BLAINE’S BACK DOOR BAR- #@*!

Karaoke COASTAL COFFEE (2100 E. Victory Drive)- Poetry Open Mic (7 pm) DEB’S PUB & GRUB- #@*! Karaoke (10:30 pm) DRIFTAWAY CAFÉ (Wilmington Isl.)Live Music TBA (6 pm) FIDDLER’S CRAB HOUSE- Argyle (10 pm) THE JAZZ CORNER (Hilton Head)- Bob Masteller & Friends (7:30 pm) THE JINX- Hip-hop w/DJs D-Frost & Selvis + late night MC battles/breakdancing (10 pm) JJ CAGNEY’S- Open Mic Night w/Red Moon KEVIN BARRY’S- Harry O’Donoghue MERCURY LOUNGE- Open Mic Jam w/EROK NV NIGHT CLUB (Sedah/Main Floor)Teen Night w/DJ Triple A PLANTER’S TAVERN (OLDE PINK HOUSE)- Gail Thurmond SAVANNAH BLUES- Open Mic w/The Hitmen THE SENTIENT BEAN- THE MAGIC COIN TRILOGY book reading & signing (7 pm) 1790 RESTAURANT- Ed Rogers VENUS DI MILO- Open DJ Tables bring needles & vinyl (10 pm) WET WILLIE’S- Karaoke (9 pm)

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DAQUIRI ISLAND (Abercorn)Karaoke DOC’S BAR (Tybee)- Live Music TBA DOLPHIN REEF (Tybee)- Live DJ DOUBLES (Holiday Inn Midtown)“World Famous” DJ Sam Diamond DRIFTAWAY CAFÉ (Wilmington Isl.)- Live Music TBA FANNIE’S ON THE BEACH (Tybee)The New Christy Alan Band (9 pm) FIDDLER’S CRAB HOUSE- The Eric Culberson Blues Band (10 pm) FRIENDLY’S TAVERN 2- #@*!

Karaoke GILLEY’S (Hinesville)- Live Music TBA (9 pm) THE GOLD CLUB- Live Music TBA (10 pm) JANUARY 20TH HUC-A-POOS (Tybee)- Live Music TBA (9 pm) AJ’S DOCKSIDE RESTAURANT IL PASTICCIO- Eat Mo’ Music (9:30 (Tybee)- “Georgia Kyle” Shiver (7 pm) pm) THE JAZZ CORNER (Hilton Head)AMERICAN LEGION POST #36 The Scott Giddens Quartet (7:30 (Thunderbolt)- Karaoke pm) AUGIE’S (Richmond Hill)- Live JAZZ’D TAPAS BAR- The Alex Music TBA Nguyen Trio (9 pm) BAY STREET BLUES- Karaoke BAYOU CAFÉ- Thomas Claxton (9 JEN’S & FRIENDS (Bull & Broughton Sts.)- Eric Britt (10 pm) pm) BERNIE’S ON RIVER STREET- Live THE JINX- Superhorse, Tiger! Tiger!

(10 pm) Entertainment TBA (9 pm) JJ CAGNEY’S- Red Moon (10 pm) CAFÉ LOCO (Tybee)- Live Music JUKEBOX BAR & GRILL TBA (Richmond Hill)- Live Music TBA (9 CAPTAIN’S LOUNGE- #@*! pm) Karaoke KEVIN BARRY’S- Frank Emerson CLUB ICE (formerly THE CAVALIER)- DJ Southstar: Hip-hop LE MORTE ROUGE (103 W. Congress St.)- Showbread, A Gun (10 pm - 6 am) CLUB INVASION- Live DJ (10 pm) A Girl A Ghost, The Round Table, CLUB ONE- Local Cast, DJ Jason Oakstreet Thesis (7 pm) LOCOS DELI & PUB (Downtown)Hancock (Main Floor) Blender (10 pm) CONGA CLUB- Rhumba Night THE MANSION ON FORSYTH Latin Music Party (11:30 pm) PARK- Vocalist/Clarinetist Melody CRYSTAL BEER PARLOR- The Parton (9 pm) Beer Parlor Ramblers (7:30 pm)

Songwriter Showcase (7:30 pm) 1790 RESTAURANT- Ed Rogers SLUGGERS- Trivia w/Artie & Brad (10 pm) SPANKY’S (River St.)- Live Music TBA (8 pm) TOMMY’S (Pooler)- Karaoke w/Jeff & Rebecca TROPICANA NIGHTCLUB- DJ Southstar spins Top 40 (10 pm) TUBBY’S (Thunderbolt)- Paul Reeves & Justin Aiello (8 pm) UNCLE BUBBA’S OYSTER HOUSE- Live Music TBA (7 pm) VENUS DE MILO- DJ Maybe spins disco & house (9 pm)

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DOC’S BAR (Tybee)- Live Music TBA DOUBLES (Holiday Inn Midtown)DJ Sam Diamond’s Karaoke DRIFTAWAY CAFÉ (Wilmington Isl.)- Live Music TBA (7 pm) FIDDLER’S CRAB HOUSEPhantom Wingo (10 pm) THE GRILL BEACHSIDE (Tybee)Live Music TBA (7 pm) THE JAZZ CORNER (Hilton Head)The Bobby Ryder Quartet (7:30 pm) JAZZ’D TAPAS BAR- Trae Gurley’s Sinatra Tribute (7 pm) THE JINX- Fever Dance Party w/DJs Vinyl Ritchie & ShizNite JJ CAGNEY’S- The Eric Culberson Blues Band (10 pm) KEVIN BARRY’S- Frank Emerson LOCOS DELI & PUB- Open Mic Night w/The Hitmen THE MANSION ON FORSYTH PARK- Trombonist Teddy Adams (8 pm) MCDONOUGH’S- Karaoke MERCURY LOUNGE- Live Music TBA (10 pm) MOON RIVER BREWING CO.- Eric Britt (8:30 pm) PLANTER’S TAVERN (OLDE PINK HOUSE)- Gail Thurmond THE RAIL PUB (405 W. Congress St.)- “Helium Karaoke” w/Wrath Nasty SAVANNAH BLUES- Chaos Inc. (10 pm) SAVANNAH DOWN UNDER- DJ Blue Ice (Hip-hop, Reggae, Top 40, R & B) SAVANNAH SMILES- Dueling Pianos SAVANNAH THEATRE- Jukebox Journey (8 pm) SCANDALS (Tybee)- Karaoke w/DJ Marty Corley (9:30 pm) THE SENTIENT BEAN- Acoustic

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Hill)- Thomas Claxton (7 pm) SAVANNAH BLUES- Bottles & JANUARY 18TH Cans (10 pm) SAVANNAH DOWN UNDER- DJ AJ’S DOCKSIDE RESTAURANT Blue Ice (Hip-hop, Reggae, Top 40, (Tybee)- Joey Manning (7 pm) R & B) B & D BURGERS (Southside)SAVANNAH SMILES- Dueling Trivia w/Artie & Brad (10 pm) Pianos BAYOU CAFÉ- Live Music TBA (9 SAVANNAH THEATRE- Jukebox pm) Journey (8 pm) CLUB ONE- #@*! Karaoke SCANDALS (Tybee)- Karaoke w/DJ DOUBLES (Holiday Inn Midtown)Marty Corley (9:30 pm) DJ Pat McBride (Savannah Shag THE SENTIENT BEAN-SGVT Film: Club) DRIFTAWAY CAFÉ (Sandfly)- Live THE END OF SUBURBIA (7 pm) 1790 RESTAURANT- Ed Rogers Music TBA (7 pm) TANGO (Tybee)- Trae Gurley’s DRIFTAWAY CAFÉ (Wilmington Sinatra Tribute (7 pm) Isl.)- Live Music TBA (7 pm) FANNIE’S ON THE BEACH (Tybee)- TUBBY’S (Thunderbolt)- Live Music TBA (7 pm) Live Music TBA (7 pm) FIDDLER’S CRAB HOUSE“Georgia Kyle” Shiver & Fiddlin’ Scott Holton (9 pm) JANUARY 19TH FINNEGAN’S WAKE- Open Mic B & D BURGERS (Southside w/Tim & Mark (10 pm) Location)- Live Music TBA THE ISLAND GRILL (Pt. Wentworth)- Live Music TBA (7 pm) BAJA CANTINA (The Landings)THE JAZZ CORNER (Hilton Head)- Randy “Hatman” Smith (7 pm) The Earl Williams Quartet (7:30 pm) BARNES & NOBLE (Oglethorpe JAZZ’D TAPAS BAR- Greg Snyder Mall)- Open Mic (8 pm) BAY STREET BLUES- Open Mic (7 pm) Night w/Tim THE JINX- “Rock & Roll Bingo” BAYOU CAFÉ- Live Music TBA (9 w/DJ Boo-Cock-Eye (11 pm) pm) JJ CAGNEY’S- Turtle (10 pm) BERNIE’S ON RIVER STREET- Live KEVIN BARRY’S- Frank Emerson Music TBA (8 pm) LOCOS DELI & PUB- Team Trivia BLAINE’S BACK DOOR BAR- #@*! w/Ben Bennett & Senea Karaoke THE MANSION ON FORSYTH PARK- Pianist David Duckworth (7 CHUCK’S BAR- #@*! Karaoke (10 pm) pm) CLUB INVASION (121 W. Congress MCDONOUGH’S- Karaoke St.)- DJ Nick J - ‘80s, house, MERCURY LOUNGE- The Eric breaks, D & B (10 pm) Culberson Blues Band PLANTER’S TAVERN (OLDE PINK CLUB ONE- Industrial Resurrection w/DJs Shrapnel & Pimpsatan (10 HOUSE)- Gail Thurmond POGY’S BAR & GRILL (Richmond pm) CREOLE RED- Karaoke (9 pm)

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Nonprofits -- We will list your event or service at no charge if you are a bona fide nonprofit.

Free events or services -- If your event or service is free of charge, we will in turn list it at no charge.

Current Connect Savannah clients -- We will list your Happening at no charge in gratitude for your continued support of our newspaper.

Private business or individual -- We will charge $5 per week per entry, payable up front by check or credit card. This goes for art classes, yoga classes, workshops, seminars, etc. that do not meet the above criteria. We retain the option to place your happening in the appropriate category.

Send Happenings and/or payment to: Connect Savannah, 1800 E. Victory Dr, Suite 7, Savannah, GA, 31404. Fax to 231-9932.

E-mail: linda@connectsavannah.com. We reserve the right to edit or cut nonpaid listings because of space limitations.

Activism & Politics Amnesty International meets the third Tuesday of the month at 6 p.m. at the Sentient Bean Coffeehouse, 13 E. Park Ave.. Call Raymond at 898-3506.

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

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

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

Libertarian Party of Chatham County

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

meets each Thursday at 8:30 p.m. at Moon River Brewing Co., 21 W. Bay St. Call 3083934 or visit http://www.nodebts.com/chathamlibertariansga.html.

Chatham County Young Democrats

National Council of Negro Women

Chatham County Democratic Women

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

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

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

Drinking Liberally Promoting democracy one pint at a time -share politics while sharing a pitcher at a local Democratic drinking club. This is an informal gathering of like-minded, leftleaners who may want to trade ideas, get more involved and just enjoy each other’s company. Meets the first and third Thursdays of the month at 7:30 p.m. at Coach’s Corner. For information, visit www.DrinkingLiberally.org or send email to august1494@excite.com.

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

Planned Parenthood meets the second Thursday of the month at 6 p.m. at The Sentient Bean, 13 E. Park Ave. For info, call Megan Burgoyne at 352-4052 or send e-mail to megan.burgoyne@ppfa.org.

Savannah Peace Coalition meets every Tuesday on Yahoo Chat around 7 p.m. Send an e-mail to schmalk@yahoo.com to receive an invitation to join the chat.

Savannah Republican Club Meets every second Tuesday of the month.

Call 927-7170.

29 Sierra Club meets the 3rd Thursday of each month at 7:30 p.m., at the First Presbyterian Church, 520 E. Washington Ave. 351-7436.

Skidaway Island Democrats Call Tom Oxnard at 598-4290 or send e-mail to oxhouse@aol.com.

Speak Up! Local activist group focused on protesting the war in Iraq. Call Richard DiPirro at 4417167.

Auditions Abyssinia Players will audition new company members for the February production of A Sho ‘Nuff Heaven! - A Gospel Song Play, written and directed

by Ja Jahannes. Seven actors with strong dramatic narrative voices, seven soloists with gospel singing experience, praise dancers of all ages, and members for a spoken word ensemble are needed. Must be able to commit to rehearsals. Send e-mail to abyssiniaplayers@aol.com. Send a brief resume of theater experience, sound files if available and contact information. will hold auditions for its production of The Sound of Music on Monday and Tuesday, Jan. 30 and 31 at 6:30 p.m. with call-backs on Feb. 2 at the Black Box Theatre at SPACE, 2 W. Henry St. Call 651-6783.

Southside Fire/EMS 2006 Calendar This project raises money for burn victims throughout the region. Models for the calendar are actual firefighters and emergency personnel from the Southside Fire Department. The calendars are $10 and are available at three SunCom locations in Oglethorpe Mall, on Hodgson Memorial near Kroger and at the Savannah Crossing Shopping Center on Abercorn Extension.

Calendars also may be purchased at SSFD Headquarters on Norwood Avenue or by calling 354-1011.

Zonta Club Fudge Scrabble Tournament This fundraiser helps uninsured and underinsured women receive mammograms. It will be held Saturday, Jan. 28 from 1-5 p.m. at Candler Hospital’s Marsh Auditorium. Cost is $15 in advance or $20 the day of the tournament. Rule ”fudges” will sell for $1 and cheat sheets for $5. To pre-register, call 8195074.

Call for Entries Chatham County Chamber seeks musicians The Chatham County Chamber Group is seeking classically trained musicians. Call 232-2326.

Cultural Affairs Artist Roster

Greater Savannah Athletic Hall of Fame

Girl Scouts currently are taking orders.

Cookies are $3.50 a box, with proceeds benefitting local girls. Call the Cookie Hotline at 888-223-3883 or visit www.girlscouting.org.

Blessingdale’s thrift store at 2118 Bona Bella, at the corner of Skidaway and Bona Bella in the Bacon Park Shopping Center, sells clothes, furniture, electronics and household items.

Proceeds support The Living Vine Christian maternity home. Donations appreciated. Call 355-4339.

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

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 http://www.katrinahelp.gatherat.com.

Night Stalkers Association In honor of the fallen soldiers who served in the 3rd Battalion, 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment (Airborne) out of Hunter Army Airfield, the Military Affairs Council of the Savannah Area Chamber of Commerce is encouraging donations. Call Linda R. Rogers at 352-6645 or send donations to: The Night Stalkers Association, 3/160 SOAR, 1304 N. Lightning Rd., Hunter Army Airfield, 314094719.

Red Cross assists returning troops The Savannah Chapter -- Liberty Branch of the American Red Cross is seeking donations of coffee, hot chocolate mix, tea bags, baked goods, snack foods, hot-serve cups, stir sticks, individual sugar and creamer

is accepting resumes from area athletes and coaches who have accomplishments or made contributions to athletics through coaching, financial support and moral support. Include as much documentation as possible, including but not limited to news clippings, scrapbooks, testimonial letters and certificates of achievement, all pertaining to athletics. Entries must be postmarked no later than Jan. 31 and should be mailed to: The Greater Savannah Athletic Hall of Fame, Box 983, Savannah, 31402, Attention: Honors Court.

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Two Pale Josephines is a boutique gallery/working studio on West Broughton Street that is looking for artists to consign work, especially clothing, accessories and textiles, plus home decor, painting and sculpture. Send email to 2palejosephines@bellsouth.net or call 232-4848.

Classes & Workshops Adult Art Classes are held at The Art School Mondays from 7-9 p.m. and Tuesdays from 10 a.m. to noon.

Beginners are welcome. For information, call Lind Hollingsworth at 921-1151.

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

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

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is looking for actors, writers, directors, producers, musicians, poets and others. Send email to negroensemble@comcast.net.

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The City of Savannah's Department of Cultural Affairs is compiling a list of artists of all disciplines of the arts and humanities to include in a Savannah Artists Roster. Call Daisy Williams at 912-651-6417 or send an email to dwilliams@savannahga.gov and include: group and/or individual name, contact information, and discipline.

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

Register now for afterschool classes.

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. The cost is $50, which includes materials. To register, call 355-4601.

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Chatham County Aquatic Center offers open lap swim, water aerobics classes, swim lessons and competitive swim teams for all ages, home school programs and field trips for students on Monday and Wednesday or Tuesday and Thursday. 6526793 or chathamcounty.org.

Church Music Seminar The School of Church Music located at 101 Bull St. offers specialized workshops to give practical help with almost every area of music ministry. Call 236-1566 or send email to scm@schoolofchurchmusic.org.

Classes at Familiar Pathways

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.

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 classes cost $50 and lunch is included.

Many classes are ongoing, running every month. Payment is to be made two days prior to the class starting date. Call Anastasia at 443-9678.

Beginners quilting classes

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choose their hours between Monday-Friday, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Call 447-0578.

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

Basic computer class

are held Tuesday at 10 a.m. at the Wesley Community Centers of Savannah, Inc., 1601 Drayton St. 447--5711.

Building a Home The UBuildIt office in Savannah offers free seminars. Call 236-1211.

Career Achievement Program St. Mary’s Community Center, 812 W. 36th St., an affiliate of St. Joseph’s/Candler, offers a program to help adults with math, reading and writing skills. Participants

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. Cost is $20 for the session and $20 for the text book. Pre-registration is required. Call 3550219.

Culinary Arts Classes Enroll now in a free culinary arts training program at the Starfish Cafe. This program is a collaborative effort of Union Mission, Inc., and Savannah Technical College. For information, call Mindy Saunders at 2382777.

Davenport House Docent Training will be offered beginning in mid-February.

Training includes studies in local history and decorative arts. Docents lead tours and assist with programming. Call Dottie Kraft at 236-8097 or send e-mail to jcredle@savbusiness.net.

Discover Creativity Coaching Free initial consultation. Expert with two creativity degrees helps you kick-start your project, sort ideas, break through blocks, clarify intentions and plan approaches. Call 412-9199 or send e-mail to breakthru.creativity@gmail.com.

Drawing to Painting to Clay Classes with certified art teacher Carolyne Rodgers Graham are offered on an ongoing basis on Tuesdays from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the Savannah Art Association in City market.

Sign up at any time. Call 925-5465 to register.

Eastside Concerned Citizens, Inc. Project Tomorrow Inc. offers several classes and workshops, including sewing, crocheting, computer training, CPR and more. 232-5280.

The Economic Opportunity Authority offers free computer classes in Computer Basics Level One plus the study guide program software for the Georgia High School Graduation Test. Call Gloria Ferguson at 238-2960, Ext. 153.

Fanny’s Spanish Learning Center Spanish is fun. Classes for adults and children are held at the Jewish Educational Alliance, 5111 Abercorn St. Call 920-2171 or 220-6570 to register.

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

Housing Authority offers free classes The Housing Authority of Savannah Neighborhood Resource Center at 1407 Wheaton St. is offering classes free to the public. Job Search and Job Skills training is

offered the second, third and fourth Tuesdays from 9 a.m. to noon. Job Training Unlimited for ages 14-21 is by appointment.

Adult Literacy classes are offered Mondays and Wednesdays from 4-6 p.m. Call 2324232, Ext. 115.

Free Coaching Session and Assessment for personal, career and professional development. Call Executive Leadership Coaching, 443-9860, or send e-mail 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.

Housing Authority of Savannah Classes Free classes that will be offered include Kids Experiencing Divorce on Jan. 20 from 2:30-3:30 p.m., Employability on Jan. 25 from 10-11:30 a.m. and Financial Education on Jan. 26 from 11 a.m. to noon. The classes are offered at the Neighborhood Resource Center, 1407 Wheaton St. Call 232-4232, Ext. 115.

Inquiry Circle based on the work of Byron Katie offers immediate help when you need answers right away. No charge. Contact Ursula at 484-0134 or send e-mail to u.sterling@att.net. For information, visit http://www.thework.com/WhatisTheWork.as p.

Legal Secretary Certificate Program at Armstrong Atlantic State University is a series of 10 courses over a one-year period.

Each course meets once a week for six weeks. Fees are $135 plus textbooks. Call 927-5213.

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.

The Live Oak Public Library offers free classes on using computers to access information at the Bull Street Library.

Call 652-3662.

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

Mindful meditation classes will be held Monday from 8:30-9:30 a.m. and on Thursday from 6-8 p.m. at the Integrated Behavioral Center, 1121 Cornell Ave. The cost is $10 per session. Call 355-4987.

Mindfulness and Ordinary Recovery Indepth exploration of the 11th step.

Meditation and contemplation instruction

Adult Figure Drawing Sessions Wednesday Mornings 9am - noon $60 for 6 week session $12 for drop in

Full Figure Weekend Figure Drawing from 9am - 4pm Friday, Feb. 3 & Saturday, Feb. 4 $25 per day Call 921-1151 or visit www.TheArtSchool-Sav.com for more information.

“Open Hearts, Open Minds, Open Doors”

Asbury Memorial UMC

Sunday, January 22nd

“The Time is Now” Check out our web site: www.asburymemorial.org

Worship@11:15a.m. www.asburymemorial.com • Corner of Henry St. & Waters Ave. • 233-4351, parking lot in back of building.

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

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.

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.

Paralegal Certificate Program The Armstrong Atlantic State University paralegal programs provide real-world skills

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rience of the people you see every day.

They’re always fresh, always different from who they were last time. This is an ideal time to acknowledge and celebrate that mystery.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): Two people in Evansville, Indiana, were exploring an office building they wanted to buy. To the surprise of the owner, they discovered the structure had a second story that had been closed up for decades. The three of them gained access to the hidden area and found business papers that had last touched human hands in 1931. According to my analysis of the astrological omens, Cancerian, you will soon make a similar find. Sealed-off parts of your world you didn’t know existed will become available for your inspection.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): The Galactic Question Center at Galquest.blogspot.com asks you to imagine the following scenario: Upon awakening one morning, you find that you are lying on top of a mile-high pole that is 24 feet in diameter. Next to you is a can of unopened chicken soup, a tube of strong glue, a half-mile long rope, and a German shepherd dog. Can you come up with a way to get yourself back down to the ground? I don’t think you will face this exact predicament in the coming week, Leo, but it has a metaphorical resemblance to a knotty riddle you’ll be presented with. Fortunately, you have the brain power to solve it.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Burton Butler is Northern California’s top Skunk Whisperer. Because he has developed a special rapport with skunks, he’s often called on by spooked suburbanites to safely remove the critters when they take up residence in basements and garages. I believe you will have an analogous talent in the coming weeks, Virgo. Due to your smart, unsentimental brand of sensitivity, you will be able to defuse potentially smelly problems with little or no damage to either the stinker or stinkees.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): In the science fiction film Contact, Jodie Foster plays a scientist who’s chosen as an astronaut for a solo trip to an alien world far from our solar system. As she careens through a staggering array of sublime celestial phenomena, she muses aloud to herself, half crying, “It’s so beautiful . . . so beautiful . . . They should have sent a poet.” To properly understand and appreciate the experiences that lie ahead for you, Libra, adopt her advice: Awaken the poet within you, and let him or her lead the way as you go on your adventures. You say you don’t have an inner poet? I disagree. We all have one. It’s the part of you that thinks like the moon, dreams like the sun, and loves like the earth.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): A psychologist in the U.K. believes that January 24 is the “most depressing day of the year,” at least in the Northern Hemisphere. Cliff Arnall, whose specialty is seasonal disorders, says this day is typically a low point, when glum feelings generated by overcast weather, debt from the holidays, and broken New Year’s resolutions reach a crescendo.

While this might hold true for the other signs of the zodiac, Capricorn, it doesn’t apply to you. The astrological omens continued on page <None> reveal you’re at the peak of your cycle, when you can triumph over challenges and accomplish breakthroughs that might normally be impossible. I suggest you proceed as if long-standing limitations have become irrelevant.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): In her San Francisco Chronicle column, Leah Garchik reported that a woman shopping at a local Safeway grocery store had heard “Blitzkrieg Bop,” a snarling anthem by the Ramones, playing over the loudspeaker. Was it an unfortunate development that besmirched the integrity of the seminal punk band, or a welcome sign that what was once raw rebel squawk is infiltrating the mainstream? You’re ready to entertain an analogous question that pertains to your own personal quest for authenticity, Scorpio.

Should you compromise a little so as to inject your influence into a setting where it’s desperately needed? Or should you remain aloof and pure, content to affect mostly just those who already agree with you?

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): A guy I met in a bar in New York’s Lower East Side discoursed at length on the psycho-spiritual meaning of The Wizard of Oz. “The Wicked Witch of the West was Dorothy’s greatest teacher,” he told me. “The witch’s animosity compelled her to learn new tricks, master her circumstances, and ultimately find her way home.” I hope that lately you have been benefiting from your own personal version of the Wicked Witch, Aquarius, and I trust that you will soon graduate from your need for the lessons he or she has provided.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): This should not be a race-down-an-eight-lane-superhighway kind of week, Sagittarius. From what I can tell, it’s got to be an exploratory-meanderdown-a-bunch-of-dirt-roads kind of week.

In order to be exposed to what’s important for you to learn, you’ll have to take the scenic route through back country. Please don’t be in a hurry.

Regard the muddy patches and potholes as your allies. It’s high time to slow down and smell the cow manure, which might be more accurately referred to as fertilizer.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Krakow, Poland hasn’t had a full-time rabbi on duty since the events of World War II decimated the once-thriving Jewish population. Recently that changed with the arrival of Rabbi Avraham Flaks from Israel. He has promised to help build solidarity in the small Jewish community that has arisen since the fall of Communism and the end of the Polish government’s unofficial policy of antiSemitism. I foresee a comparable development in your own life, Pisces. You are poised to experience a reawakening of spiritual impulses that have been dormant for some time. If you follow the clues you’ll be given, it’s quite possible that a teacher, leader, or other inspirational influence will come to catalyze further excitement. ◗

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GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Having ridden my mountain bike through Marin County’s hills for years, I’ve watched Mt. Tamalpais go through endless changes.

Depending on the weather, the season, and the time of day, it has been a different mountain on each occasion I’ve seen it.

When the low-slung sun illuminates the thin layer of mist covering it late on a winter afternoon, for example, I can’t believe it’s the same mountain that lies beneath a full moon beaming down on it through a hole in the streaming clouds on a summer night. The poet in me says I’d be justified in giving it a new name on each of the thousands of times I’ve been in its presence. If you’re honest, Gemini, you know that my relationship with Mt. Tamalpais is very much like your expe-

The Savannah-Chatham Metropolitan Police Department will present a free two-hour parent/teen driver’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

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TAURUS (April 20-May 20): For the last nine years the daffodils in my yard have blossomed in mid-February. This time around, however, their yellow blooms sprouted in the first week of January. Another sign of global warming? I don’t know. So far the flowers’ early arrival hasn’t been a problem. They’re still going strong, showing a hardy resistance to sporadic bursts of cold and rain.

According to my astrological analysis, Taurus, you have also ripened a bit prematurely. Ahead of schedule, you’ve accomplished your upgrade and are ready to try your hand at a spicier challenge. Like the daffodils, you will probably do fine. Just one piece of advice, though: Don’t scrimp on your efforts to protect and nurture yourself.

Parent and Teen Driving Course

14-16 year olds and their parents. Advance registration is required.

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ARIES (March 21-April 19): In my book Pronoia Is the Antidote for Paranoia, there’s a 1500word piece extolling a few of the many ways in which I feel that living on this planet is a glorious privilege. You’re in a phase of your astrological cycle when it makes perfect sense for you to write something similar. To be in maximum alignment with cosmic luck, therefore, you should sit down and compose a list of everything that works well for you, delights you, and helps you feel at home in the world. Call it your “Joy Manifesto.”

and training. Each course meets once a week for eight weeks. Fees are $130 plus textbook. Call the AASU Center for Justice Administration at 927-5231.

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Park Place Outreach offers Wednesday night youth groups for ages 11-17 and tutorial assistance sponsored by Park Place Outreach -- Street Outreach Team, formerly the Savannah Runaway Home. Call Tonyour Bolden, outreach coordinator, at 234-4048 for a location.

Poverty Reduction Initiative Step Up Orientation sessions for residents who are interesting in classroom and on-the-job training followed by apprenticeship with local contractors are set for Tuesday, Jan. 24 from 9:30 al.m. to noon at the Housing Authority of Savannah, 1407 Wheaton St., and Wednesday, Jan. 25 from 5:30-8 p.m. at St. Mary’s Community Center, 812 W. 36th St.

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at 801 E. Gwinnett offers business and computer classes.

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

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

Art, Coffee and Conversation meets the second Thursday from 5:30-8:30 p.m. of the month at Books-A-Million. Bring your art, art books of interest, techniques, etc. to discuss and share with the group.

information. Meetings are held on the first Monday of each month at Tubby’s Tank House restaurant in Thunderbolt at 6:30 p.m. 728-5989.

Coastal Georgia Volkswagen Club Meets the 3rd Saturday of every month. 9610602.

Artist/Photographers Group

Community Hymn Chorus

A new group is forming to honor unique artistic visions and means of photographic expression. For information, call Kathleen Thomas at 234-2130 or send e-mail to ghostgirl1204@excite.com.

All denominations are welcome to come together to make a joyful noise every Tuesday at 11:15 a.m. at White Bluff United Methodist Church’s Horton Hall, 11911 White Bluff Rd. Call Ronn Alford, Director of Music Ministries, at 925-5924.

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 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.

Daughters of Destiny

Friends of the Library

meets very second Saturday at 1 p.m. at The Sentient Bean, 13 E. Park Ave. to critique works in progress and to discuss technique and marketing. Fiction and non-fiction, but no poetry.

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

Bridge club meets at the JEA

Harley Owners Group

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

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

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

Buy Local Savannah

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

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 free role playing. The club meets at 7:30 p.m. at the AASU Compass Point Club House and sponsors a laser tag team and bi-monthly children’s readings on Saturdays from 1-3 p.m. at Media Play. Call Antonio at 713-1470 or send email to Catscandance2@aol.com.

ABATE (American Bikers Active Toward Education) 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.

Alternative Video/Film Enthusiast Viewings are held in private homes which includes social time as well as viewing a

Chihuahua Club of Savannah

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

A place for those interested in the Gothic subcultures. Visit www.Goth-NightSavannah.com.

Historic Victorian Neighborhood Association

Hostess City Toastmasters Club Gain confidence in public speaking. Meets Tuesday evenings, 7pm at 6206 Waters Ave, Rivers Edge Retirement Community. 3555450.

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

Irish Session

Civil Air Patrol

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is the civilian, volunteer auxiliary of the U.S. Air Force and is involved in search and rescue, aerospace education and cadet programs. Meets every Tuesday at 6 p.m. for cadets (12-18 years old) and 7 p.m. for adult members at the former Savannah Airport terminal building off Dean Forest Road. Visit www.gawg.cap.gov, send e-mail to N303WR@aol.com, or call Capt. Jim Phillips at 412-4410.

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

Coastal Bicycle Touring Club of Savannah sponsors a ride every Saturday. Visit www.cbtc.org for a ride schedule and more

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.

Postage stamp meeting and auction

Progressive Guys’ Discussion Group

Goth Night Savannah

UGA Marine Education Center and Aquarium

Partners for Community Health

Gold Wing Road Riders Association

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.

Jamie and Bobby Dean of The Lady and Sons will speak at the Buy Local Savannah annual awards luncheon on Jan. 18 at noon at The Lady and Sons. The cost is $20 for members and $30 for non-members. RSVP at www.buylocalsavannah.com or send email to joe@marketsouth.com.

meets for lunch the second Tuesday of each month at 12:30 p.m. Call 966-3619 or visit www.obpw.org.

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.

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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.

meets biweekly at the Lion’s Den Lounge.

Call Brian at 234-2484 or ww.savannahobjectivists.org.

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

Georgia Christian Singles

Bike Night with Mikie

Tybee Island Marine Science Center

Objectivist Society of Savannah

is a group that meets every other month to discuss healthcare topics that impact the community. Call Dana Huffman at 350-6357.

Business Tax Deductions is set for Jan. 24.

Employment Taxes Jan. 31 and Understanding Financial Statements: Managing by the Numbers Feb. 7. The cost is $30 per workshop. Call 651-3200 to register. will be held Jan. 26 from 6-8:30 p.m. at the Small Business Assistance Center, 111 E. Liberty St. The cost is $40 in advance or $50 the day of the workshop. Call 651-3200 to register.

The purpose is to achieve wealth and success in personal and professional life and to share this wealth by mentoring others. Call 236-3660.

Friends of Oatland

Beanhead Writers Group

Bipolar Support Group

Millionaire’s Club for Women

Oglethorpe Business & Professional Women’s Club

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

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.

The Island Mothers of Preschoolers meets every first and third Wednesday at First Baptist Church of the Islands, 6613 Johnny Mercer Blvd. Child care is provided. Call Linda at 897-9632.

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

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.

Beach Historic Neighborhood Association

MOPS (Mothers of Preschoolers)

All instrumentalists 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. the game that will soon replace Chess as the intellectual strategy game par excellence., Tuesday at 7:30 p.m. at Books-AMillion on Abercorn. Call Greg at 232-7549.

Low Country Artists’ and Artisans’ Society sponsors a Country Textiles African American Quilt Making Guild. Call 447-1888.

Loyal Order of Moose at 2202 Norwood Ave. sponsors bingo every Tuesday and Friday starting at 7:30 p.m.

There is a $700 jackpot.

MOMS Club for stay-at-home moms and their children.

For information, call Courtney at 921-1462, visit www.momsclub.org or send e-mail to momsclubofsavannahga@hotmail.com.

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.

231-8841.

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.

Salon for Women Seeking Change Lively discussion, laughter and fun. Call 2368581.

Savannah Adventure Club People who enjoy outdoor activities and are looking for adventure are invited to join. Visit www.savannahadventureclub.com for information.

Savannah Area Landlord & Real Estate Investors Association Learn to be a real estate investor or landlord. 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. Call 6550994.

Savannah Art Association offers affordable art workshops, social activities and a chance to display art in a downtown gallery. Drop by the gallery at 309 W. St. Julian St. above Belford’s in City Market or call 356-0249.

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. Call 447-0943 or visit www.hdb.org and click on Clubs, then Savannah Brewers League.

Savannah Chapter of the Sons of Italy 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. Call John Findeis at 748-7020.

Savannah Euchre Club

Savannah Express Network Chapter of American Business Women’s Association

Savannah Fencing Club

Savannah Friends of Music will meet Monday, Jan. 23 at 11 a.m. at the Deer Creek Club at The Landings. Lunch will be served and music will be provided by cellist Daryl Giuliano. and flutist Amanda Barrow. Gene Pinion of the Savannah Music Festival will speak on education programs and volunteer opportunities at the festival.

The cost is $20. Send checks to Karen Cassard, 6 Riding Lane, Savannah, 31411.

Savannah Italian Club is dedicated to discussing and preserving the heritage of Italians and ItalianAmericans. Meets the first Tuesday at 2717 Livingston Ave. Call Carol Taylor at 9254064.

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 Linux Users Group The group usually meets the first Wednesday of every month. Call Vernon at 210-9066.

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) 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

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.

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Savannah Plastic Surgery 912-351-5050 800-424-8478 www.savannahplasticsurgery.com

Savannah Psychogeographic Society The society will investigate spaces in and around downtown. Celebrate the ordinary, the extraordinary, the overlooked, the neglected and the transcendent in Savannah’s built and natural landscapes. Contact Ryan at leifmadson@hotmail.com.

Savannah Ski Club For information, see www.savannahskiclub.com.

Savannah Stitch-N-Bitch meets every second Tuesday of the month from 6-8 p.m. at wild fibre, 409 E. Liberty St. All that is required is an interest in knitting or crocheting. Bring a project and join in the stitching, talking and munchies. Call 2380514.

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

233-1600.

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

Savannah Ultimate Frisbee 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) 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.

Southside Optimist Club 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.

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

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.

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Euchre is a four-handed card game in the same family as Hearts and Spades, a poor (but discerning) man’s Bridge. Call Katie at 308-9815.

club hosts a monthly luncheon and program on the third Wednesday of each month at various area restaurants and sponsors tours, activities and events to help new residents. Call 351-3171.

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

Tybee Beautification Association meets the second Wednesday at 7:30 p.m.

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

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

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meets the fourth Mondays at 6:30 p.m., August through May, at the Coastal Development Services, 7712 Seawright Dr. Those who love smocking and sewing are invited to attend. New members are welcome.

not necessary. Call 927-4784 or 398-8784 or visit www.shagbeachbop.com.

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

Call 233-1951.

Fitness 5 Steps to Healthy Weight Loss Taught by Debra Whalen C.P.T. is offered Thursdays through Feb. 9 from 5:30-6:45 p.m. at Muscle Quest Sports Nutrition Center, 109 Jefferson St. downtown. Call 232-4784.

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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.

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.

Writers Unite!

Center for Wellbeing Hatha Yoga classes

Weekend Warriors

Serious writers who want to read, do warmup writing, hold each other accountable, call 236-3660 and ask for Dana.

The Young Professionals of Savannah For information, contact Jacob Cottingham at Jacob@thesouthmag.com.

Dance Adult Ballet & Modern Dance Classes at Islands Dance Academy, 115 Charlotte Dr, Whitemarsh Island near Publix shopping center. Challenging, rewarding and fun. All levels and body types welcome. BeginnerIntermediate Adult Ballet is held Mondays and Thursdays from 6:30-7:30 p.m.

Intermediate/Advanced Ballet is held Mondays and Wednesdays from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. and Tuesdays and Thursdays from 10:30 a.m. to noon. Beginner Adult Modern is Mondays from 1-2 p.m. Intermediate/ Advanced Modern is Mondays from 10-11:30 a.m. A variety of youth classes ages 3 to teen are available. Call Sue Braddy at 8972100.

Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater will come to Savannah on Jan. 31 at 7 p.m. at the Savannah Civic Center’s Johnny Mercer Theatre as part of the 2006 Black Heritage Festival. Admission will be free, but tickets are required. Call 691-6847 to reserve tickets. Unclaimed seats will be distributed to those waiting 10 minutes prior to the show.

Ballroom Dance Party The Moon River Dancers will present this party Saturday, Jan. 21. The basic lesson (West Coast swing) is at 7 p.m. followed by the social dance from 8-10:30 p.m. The cost is $6 for members and $10 for nonmembers. Beginners and singles are welcome. Call 925-7416.

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. No cover and club membership is

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

Free Nutritional Counseling/Body Fat Testing by certified nutritional consultants. Muscle Quest Sports Nutrition Center, 109 Jefferson St. downtown. Call 232-4784.

Jade Lotus Tai Chi Group Classes are offered Saturdays from 9:3011:30 a.m. at the Unity Church, 2320 Sunset Blvd. Drop-in rate is $10, $8 for students or 10 classes for $80, $70 for students. All experience levels are welcome.

Fundamental/beginner instruction available for the first hour. Call Jeff at 352-7057 or send e-mail to jadelotustaichi@yahoo.com.

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

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

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

Pilates Classes are offered at the St. Joseph’s/Candler Center for WellBeing, Suite 203 of the Candler Heart and Lung Building, 5356 Reynolds St. Four sessions are $30, eight sessions are $50. Pre-register by calling 8196463.

Private Yoga Instruction Have you always wanted to try yoga but were unsure about participating in group classes? Do you need a safe, gentle and effective method of creating radiant health, reducing and even eliminating stress, and increasing happiness and joy in your life?

Then consider learning the ancient and timehonored science of yoga in your own home.

Instruction will be tailored to fit your indi-

vidual needs and help you create a daily, personal practice or allow you to feel more confident practicing in a group setting. The instructor is certified and thoroughly educated in the practical applications of yoga as well as its history and philosophy, and has taught group classes and private students for the past 10 years. For information or scheduling, call Hunter Leaf, 354-9274.

Savannah Yoga Center Peace of mind in an energized body. Dropins welcome. If you are breathing, then you can do yoga. Come sweat, relax and get energized. Yoga Basics, all levels, Tuesday 6-7:15 p.m. Flow Yoga, all levels, Wednesday from 6-7:15 p.m. and Saturday from 10-11:15 a.m. Drop-in rate $13, Student drop-in rate $11 with ID. Active duty military/dependents $9. Best value with multi-class card purchase -- 8 class card $85, 12-class card $120, 20-class card $190. Taught by Kelley Boyd Crane. Located at the International Center for Leadership and Coaching, 25 E. 40th St. at Drayton Street. Call 441-6653 or visit www.savannahyoga.com.

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

Water aerobics at the JEA The Jewish Educational Alliance is offering aquatics classes. Call Shannon at 748-2393.

Yoga The City of Savannah, Leisure Services, Recreation Services Department, offers a yoga class on Saturday from noon to 1 p.m. at the Windsor Forest Center, 414 Briarcliff Circle. The fee is $10 per month for ages 14 and over. Call 921-2105 or 651-3650.

Yoga Flow classes taught by Debra Whalen R.Y.T. are offered Wednesdays from 5:30-6:45 p.m. at Muscle Quest Sports Nutrition Center, 109 Jefferson St. downtown. $10 drop-in fee.

Call 232-4784.

Yoga @ Work A six-week series of Yoga @ Work will be held Mondays from 5:30-6:30 p.m. in offices located in downtown Savannah starting in January. The series will incorporate discussions about stress and provide tools to use during the work day to combat the stress we all experience. The class is available to all ages and levels of physical ability. No special attire is needed. The instructor is Ann Carroll. The cost is $90. Call 667-8877 for information on space availability or send e-mail to yayaannie@bellsouth.net.

The Yoga Room 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 8980361.

for four sessions or $50 for eight sessions.

Call 819-6463.

Food and Beverage Calling All Cooks The Tybee Island Marine Science Center is planning to publish a cookbook that will feature seafood recipes along with illustrations and the natural history of the fish, crabs, shrimp, oysters, mussels, clams and so on featured in each dish. The cookbook also will include appetizers, salads, side dishes and deserts that will compliment the seafood entrees. Visit www.tybeemsc.org for information on submitting your recipes.

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 FCN’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 “Gay Savannah” businesses and happenings. www.firstcitynetwork.com. 236-CITY

First City Network’s Workforce project offers assistance to youth and young adults who need and want a job or a better job.

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

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.

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

Georgia Equality Savannah Training Sessions Local residents can become certified ”Ambassadors” for Georgia Equality. A training session will be held Sunday, Jan. 22 from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the offices of First City Network, 307 E. Harris St. A $10 registration fee covers lunch and all materials.

Call Kevin Clark at 944-0996.

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

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.

Yogalates Classes are offered by St. Joseph’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

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Standout is First City’s gay youth support group.

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

Call 657-1966.

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

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. 310 Eisenhower Drive Medical Center. Call for an appointment at 692-1451. 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.

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are conducted at three locations within St. Joseph’s/Candler. From 8:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. and 5:15-7 p.m. every Tuesday and

Free blood pressure checks and blood sugar screenings

Thursday, checks will be offered at the St. Joseph’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. Mary’s Community Center at 812 W. 36th St. Call 447-0578.

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

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

Got a drug problem? Need help?

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

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.

Hospice Savannah Open House

5:30-7 p.m. at 1674 Chatham Parkway. Call 355-2289.

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.

La Leche League of Savannah Call 897-9261.

Lose Weight like Mark Merlis on Dateline. Safe, effective, reasonable cost. Researchers at the University of Connecticut found that people who used hypnosis lost 60 percent more weight than any other method. The Alpha Institute, 201-0071.

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

Memorial Health heart risk assessment

Mammograms St. Joseph’s/Candler will be performing mammograms to screen for breast cancer in its mobile screening unit. Most insurance plans (with the exception of Blue Cross HMO) are accepted. Financial assistance is available to women who qualify.

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.

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Memorial Health Joint Replacement Lecture This free orthopedic lecture series is held the third Tuesday of each month from 6:157:30 p.m. in the Medical Education Auditorium at Memorial Health to educate the community about the risk factors of arthritis, the prevention of arthritis and medical and surgical joint replacement. To register, call 350-3603.

Memorial Health SET Focus Group This is a program to encourage Sickle Cell patients ages 11 to 18 and their parents/caregivers to learn more about Sickle Cell disease. Call Donna at 350-5616 or Saundra at 350-3396.

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will make available power (electric) wheelchairs to non-ambulatory senior citizens (65 and over) usually at no out-of-pocket expense. This service also may be available to the permanently disabled of any age. Call 1-800-749-8778 or visit the Web site at www.durablemedical.com.

This program is presented by Wilderness Southeast in conjunction with Fort McAlister State Park. It will be presented Sunday, Feb. 19 and March 19 from 2-5 p.m. Walk and paddle with a naturalist guide to learn about the salt marsh ecosystem. $30 per person includes canoe rental and basic instruction.

Meet in the parking lot at Fort McAlister.

Reservations are required. Call 897-5108.

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

Planned Parenthood Hotline First Line is a statewide hotline for women who want information on health services.

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

Project SAVE The program provides eye exams, education and care to those who have no health insurance, are unable to pay for care privately and meet certain qualifications. The clinic meets Thursdays by appointment. Call 352-2032.

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Super 2 Access Clinic 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.

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

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

Tybee Island Marine Science Center Visit the center to discover the Georgia coast. The exhibits and aquariums are home to more than 100 species of fish, reptiles, amphibians, corals and other interesting sea creatures. Beach Discovery Walks are offered Fridays and Saturdays at 2 p.m. Call 786-5917 for information about current programs. Admission is $4 for adults and $3 for children 3-16. The center is open daily from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., except Tuesdays when it is open 9 a.m. to noon.

Pets and Animals Site Launched for Reclaiming Lost Pets A new website has been launched to help people reclaim lost pets. It is located at www.thepetrescue.com. 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.

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

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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.

A Missing Steam Train The Coastal Heritage Society is trying to locate a working replica of the Central of Georgia’s No. 406 passenger train that was built in the 1950s by machinist J.L. Owen.

The 1/12th sized train operated on actual steam power and included child-sized passenger cars. Owen pulled kids around the former Gold Star Ranch, which was located off White Bluff Road. Anyone with information about the train is asked to call Michael Jordan at 651-6895 or send e-mail to mjordan@chsgeorgia.org.

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

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

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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 Branch Library, 1820 Ogeechee Rd. Call 2321339.

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Tea time at Ola's is a new book discussion group that meets the fourth Tuesday at 1 p.m. at the Ola Wyeth Branch Library, 4 E. Bay St. Call Beatrice Wright at 652-3660. Bring your ideas and lunches. Tea will be provided. 2325488 or 652-3660.

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.

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Religious & Spiritual

Christian Businessmenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Committee meets for a prayer breakfast every Tuesday at 6:30 a.m. at Peggy Lynnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Country Cooking, 3718 Ogeechee Rd. Call 964-4297.

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

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

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

Would Jesusâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; teaching require anything less today?

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 9-10:30 a.m. at the Unitarian Universalist Church of Savannah, on Habersham Street at East Harris and East Macon Streets, on Troup Square.

Please arrive and be seated no later than 8:55 a.m. Sitting and walking meditation and

Unitarian Universalist Church of Savannah A liberal religious community where different people with different beliefs gather as one faith. Jim Key will speak from the topic, And Who Is My Neighbor? The church has moved to a temporary home at Congregation Mickve Israel, 20 E. Gordon St. on Monterey Square. For information, call 234-0980, or send e-mail to uusav@comcast.net or visit www.jinglebellchurch org. The Uncommon Denomination.

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

Al Anon Family Groups A fellowship of relatives and friends of alcoholics meets Monday at 12:30 p.m. and 8 p.m., Wednesday at 1:30 p.m., Thursday at 8 p.m. and Sunday at 8 p.m. at 1501 Eisenhower Dr. and Tuesday at 8 p.m. at Goodwill on Sallie Mood Drive. Call 5989860 or visit http://al_anon_savannah.freeservers.com.

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

Alzheimer's Caregiverâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Support Group

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.

The group is for caregivers, family members and friends of persons affected by Alzheimerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Disease or other dementiacausing illnesses and meets the first Monday and third Tuesday of each month from 10:30 a.m. to noon in Room 111 of the Skidaway Island Methodist Church, 54 Diamond Causeway. Upcoming meetings are set for Tuesday, Jan. 17 and Monday, Feb. 6. Visit www.alzga.org or call 920-2231.

Woodlawn United Methodist Church

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

This monthly support group is for families of persons suffering from Alzheimer's Disease and other forms of dementia and is held the second Thursday at 6 p.m. at Ruth Byck Adult Day Care facility, 64 Jasper St. Call ahead to reserve a seat. Call Amanda Christenson, 236-0363, Ext. 105.

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Womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Bible Study at the Womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Center of Wesley Community Centers. Call 447-5711 or stop by 1601 Drayton Street.

Sports & Games Savannah Area Tennis will hold an after-school and weekend Junior Group Tennis Program for ages kindergarten through 12th grade at various sites throughout Savannah. A cardio tennis program, Adultsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Workout With a Racquet, is a group activity that features drills aimed at giving players of all abilities a high-energy workout. Sessions are $10. For information about either program, call Phyllis Greene at 961-9862 or 507-9862 or send e-mail to ctcsavannahga@prodigy.net.

Savannah Masters Adult Swimming is available at the Chatham County Aquatic Center, 7240 Sallie Mood Dr., next to Lake Mayer. Levels are Beginner, Fitness, Triathlete and Competitive. Times are Monday, Wednesday and Friday from 5:306:45 a.m., Monday, Tuesday and Thursday from 6-7:15 p.m. and Saturday from 7-8:30 a.m. For information, call Scott Rabalais at 927-7016 or visit www.savannahmasters.com.

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

Call 355-7778 or 353-9635.

Backus Childrenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Hospital Support Group for Parents

meets quarterly, March 24, June 16, September 15 and December 15, at noon, Conference Room 2, Candler Heart & Lung Bldg. 5356 Reynolds St. Contact Tina Nelson at 819-7340 or Cindy Balkstra at 8198032.

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.

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

CASA Support Group This support group is for parents and extended caregivers whose child or children have been involved with DFCS and/or returned to your custody after being in foster care, or who have been given custody of a family memberâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s child who has been involved with DFCS and/or has been in foster care. The group meets the first Thursday of the month from 6-7 p.m. at Youth Futures Family Resource Center at 705 Anderson St. For information, call Madison at CASA at 447-8908 or send email to madison@savannahcasa.org.

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

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

Celiac Support Group for anyone with celiac disease who is allergic to products containing gluten, their family or friends. For information, call 5072592.

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

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meets the fourth Saturday of the month from10:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. at the Candler Heart and Lung Building, second floor, Room 2. Call 352-8383 or 927-8332.

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

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

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Bariatric/Gastric Bypass Support Group for past and potential obesity surgery patients and their families. For information, call Cheryl Brown at 350-3644.

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Savannah Shamrocks womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s rugby team Practices are every Monday and Wednesday at 6 p.m. in Forsyth Park near the tennis courts. Call 404-449-5875 or send e-mail to savannahrugby@yahoo.com.

Wheelchair Basketball BlazeSports Club of Savannah, a program of The Rehabilitative Institute at Memorial Health Medical Center, sponsors wheelchair basketball. Practices are held each Monday.

Beginners and intermediate players practice from 6-7 p.m. Advanced players practice from 7-8 p.m. Basketballs and sports wheelchairs are provided. Call 350-7268.

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The Service of Compline, â&#x20AC;?Saying good night to God,â&#x20AC;? 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.

Affirming the worth and dignity of every person. The church is located at the corner of Houston and Oglethorpe streets.

Religious education is provided for K-12 youth. Call 233-6284 or send e-mail to UUBC2@aol.com.

African-American Women Overcoming Depression and Bi-Polar Disease

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Local author Winnie Walsh will sign her first novel, Child of the Lots, Saturday, Jan. 21 at 2 p.m. at Barnes & Noble. Walsh has resided in Savannah for eight years and her prose has been published in various newspapers, while her poetry has been printed in some anthologies.

Dharma talk or reading. All practices are welcome. Newcomers should contact Cindy Beach, lay ordained Soto Zen Buddhist, at 429-7265 for sitting instruction.

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Compassionate Friends Support Group

Keeping hope alive while living with cancer

offers friendship and understanding to bereaved parents. It meets the first Thursday of the month from 7-8:30 p.m. in the Candler Heart & Lung Building, Conference Room 2, 5356 Reynolds St. 9255195.

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

Depressive/Manic support group Open to persons diagnosed with depression. Meetings are held in classroom B in the Surgery Center Building of Memorial Hospital every Tuesday at 7 p.m.

920-0153 or 927-2064

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

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

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

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

Living without Violence The SAFE Shelter offers free drop-in counseling to anyone who is in an abusive relationship. Meets every Thursday from 7-8:30 p.m. at the First Baptist Church Education Building at Whitaker & McDonough St. 2349999.

Domestic Violence Hotline

Lowcountry Huntington’s Disease Group

The Georgia Human Resources Department and Georgia Coalition on Family Violence, have a new number, 24 hours a day. 1-80033-HAVEN

Lung Cancer Support Group

Eating Disorders/Self Harm Support Group A 12-step group for people with eating disorders and self-harm disorders. For information, call Brandon Lee at 927-1324.

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

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

Full Circle Grief and Loss Center a program of Hospice Savannah, offers the free counseling services for anyone dealing with loss. Call 355-2289. Grief 101 is a seven week support group for individuals who have suffered a loss by death. Pre-registration required. Tuesdays 6-7 p.m. Grief Support Network is an on-going peer-run support group. Tuesdays 6-7 p.m.

Children's Groups, call for times. Specialty Groups such as Spouse Loss Group and Loss by Suicide Group are offered when needed.

Call 964-0455 or visit www.LowcountryHD.com. Call 964-0455. is for families who are going through lung cancer treatment and survivors of lung cancer. It meets monthly at Summit Cancer Care. Call Patty Thornton at 350-9385.

Church, 8412 Whitfield Ave. at Montgomery Cross Roads. 355-1523

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

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

Overcoming the Stigma of Seizure Disorders

Teen Mom Support Program

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

Hope House of Savannah provides support for teenage mothers between the ages of 13 to 19. Childcare, snacks and transportation provided. Call 236-5310.

Overeaters Anonymous

Pancreatic Cancer Support Group

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

Call Jennifer Currin at 350-7845.

The Parents of Difficult Teens group

Memorial Health Pancreatic Cancer Support Group’ will meet Jan. 25 from 4-5 p.m. ..at the Cancer Institute Conference Room at Memorial Health. For information, call Jennifer Currin at 350-3988.

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

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

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

For information, call Martyn Hills at 6514094.

Safe Shelter Outreach Program

Memorial Health POPPS! Group

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

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

St. Joseph’s/Candler Emory transplant support group

Memorial Health PRIDE Bleeding Disorders Support Group will meet Jan. 23 from 6:15-7:45 p.m. in the Backus Children’s Hospital Outpatient Center. To RSVP, call Mary Lou Cygan at 350-7285.

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

Memorial Health SET Focus

Sarcoidosis support group

provides supportive housing for single mothers with one child. Please call 236-5310 for information.

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

meets quarterly, March 24, June 16, September 15 and December 15, Noon, Conference Room 2, Candler Heart & Lung Bldg. 5356 Reynolds St. 692-2032.

Huntington Disease Support Group

Mommy and Me: Life With Your Little One

Savannah Chatham Truancy Intervention Project

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

meets the fourth Thursday of each month from 5:30-6:30 p.m. at 428 Bull St. in the United Way Building. The project can educate you regarding the new truancy law and how it impacts your child.

Multiple Sclerosis support group

The Savannah Parkinson’s Support Group

discusses topics that are relevant to anyone with a debilitating disease every fourth Thursday at 3:30 p.m. at St. James Catholic

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

Gay AA Meeting An Alcoholics Anonymous group for gays meets Sunday and Wednesday at 7:30 p.m. at 307 E. Harris St., second floor. For information, contact Mark at 233-4255.

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

Hope House

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

Journey Through Journaling People whose lives have been touched by cancer are invited to this support group that delves into the creative expression of cancer experiences through journaling and craft activities. Call Jennifer Currin at 350-7845.

My Brothaz Home, Inc. is sponsoring this support group. For information, call Lady Maverick or George at 231-8727.

United Way’s First Call for Help

Memorial Health Cancer Challenges Support Group

for parents of children with bleeding disorders. Call Mary Lou Cygan at 350-7285.

Transgender Support Group

Is food a problem for you? Do you eat when you’re not hungry? Do you go on eating binges for no apparent reason? Does your weight affect the way you live your lfie? No dues, no fees, no weigh-ins. Meets Saturdays at 10:30 a.m. at 1030 Shawnee St., Unit F2. Call 728-4028.

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

Memorial Health Hemophilia Support Group

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

Smoking Cessation Support Group

PRIDE Support Group

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

S-Anon Family Group

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

A support group that is open to patients with lupus, their family members and friends. 447-6605.

Memorial Health Diabetes Support Group

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

National Alliance for the Mentally Ill

Lupus Encouragement Group

will meet Monday, Jan. 23 from 4:30-6 p.m. at the Cancer Institute Conference Room at Memorial Health. This month’s topic is coping with chemotherapy. Call Jennifer Currin at 350-7845.

Sexaholics Anonymous

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

651-7730.

Victim-Witness assistance program

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

Wheeze busters is an asthma support group for children that meets in the Rainbow Room at The Children’s Place at Candler Hospital. Call 921-3368.

Women who love too much meets Fridays from noon to 1 p.m. Call Maureen Wozniak at 355-4987.

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

Volunteers AARP Tax Aid the nation’s largest free, volunteer-run tax counseling and preparation service, is seeking Chatham County volunteers to assist with income tax return preparation and to serve as receptionists. There is no requirement to be retired or to be an AARP member. Call Linda Gladin at 786-5530.

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

America’s Second Harvest Food Bank needs volunteers to sort, clean, & shelve salvaged foods from reclamation centers where bent cans or crumpled boxes of nutritious food is sent. Apply as soon as possible. 912-2366750 ext 109.

Basic Computer Instructors Needed Volunteers are needed to teach Basic Computer Classes on Tuesdays and Thursdays at Wesley Community Centers.

Call Valeria Flowers at 447-5711.

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CASA needs volunteers to speak up for abused children in court for their best interests and to help ensure they are placed in safe and permanent homes.

Call 447-8908 or send e-mail to infor@savannahcasa.org.

Chatham County Truancy Intervention Project matches volunteer attorneys and other professionals with children who have been brought before the court for excessive school absenteeism. They also provide legal representation and other resources to children and their families to prevent school failure. TIP is recruiting professionals in the fields of education, law enforcement and social service. Become a mentor today and help make a difference in a child’s life. For information, call 201-2133.

Coastal Pet Rescue

Call Justin Johnson at 655-9953 or 1-800888-9040.

filing, process mail and perform other office tasks. Call Holly Smith at 356-2898.

First Steps at St. Joseph’s/Candler

Islands MOPS seeks volunteers

Mentor and Volunteer Probation Program

Become a volunteer with First Steps and provide support, education and community resources to help parents of newborns establish healthy and positive relationships with their babies. Call 819-6910.

Islands Mothers of Preschoolers is seeking loving childcare volunteers for their MOPPETS program, a non-denominational Christian ministry that encourages and supports moms of preschoolers. Meets the first and third Wednesday from Sept. through May from 9:15 to 11:30 a.m. at First Baptist Church of the Islands, 6613 Johnny Mercer Blvd. Call Linda at 897-9632.

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

Fort Pulaski National Monument is seeking volunteers. Greet visitors, maintain trails, catalogue historic photographs and assist in the gift shop and more.

Call David Underwood at 786-5787.

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

The Foster Grandparent Program needs volunteers who are 60 or older to volunteer their time in educational facilities, day care centers and other social service agencies for 20 hours per week, working four or five days per week. FGP offers a modest stipend and assistance with transportation fee. Call Linda Fields at 234-7842 or 238-2960, Ext. 123.

Georgia Cares

Hospice Savannah volunteer training

The Women’s Center of Wesley Community Centers is seeking volunteers to teach crafts or ceramic classes on Mondays. Call Valeria Flowers at 447-5711.

is available in all areas of care. Volunteers can work directly with patients and families in their homes, in the nursing home or assisted living facilities or at Hospice House, and also can provide clerical assistance or other bereavement support. Call Beth Logan at 629-1043.

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

Faith in Action Multi-cultural Program of EOA

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needs volunteers. Your neighbors who are elderly or who have disabilities need your help with everyday activities, simple chores,

Host families needed for exchange students Students from Spain, Mexico, France, Germany, Great Britain, Japan or one of the former Soviet Union countries need host parents. The World Heritage International Student Exchange Program is seeking families for the 2002-2003 school year. Host families provide room, board and guidance.

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

Oatland Island Education Center

Lifelink of Georgia seeks volunteers

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

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

Literacy volunteers needed Project READ, an adult literacy program, is in need of volunteer tutors who can commit to 2 or 4 hours each week. Call Jodi at Royce Learning Center at 354-4047.

Live Oak Regional Public Libraries needs volunteers to assist in a variety of ways at its branches in Chatham, Effingham and Liberty counties. Call Kathy Newman at 652-3661.

Meals on Wheels Senior Citizens Inc.’s Meals on Wheels volunteers are responsible for delivering hot, nutritious meals to seniors on routes that typically do not exceed one hour in length.

Volunteers may deliver as frequently as they choose and all meals are brought to the area by Senior Citizens Inc. staff. Training and support is provided. Call Darla Cady, volunteer coordinator, at 236-0363.

Medbank foundation, Inc. needs volunteers to fill out applications, do data entry, make phone calls, help with

at 711 Sandtown Road needs volunteers for special events and Saturdays. Trail volunteers and admissions attendees are needed.

Call Dan Genrich at 898-3980.

Odyssey HealthCare

The Rape Crisis Center trains volunteer advocates to provide support and information to sexual assault victims on the crisis line and/or at area hospitals. Train to be an advocate who provides support for rape victims taken to area hospitals or serve as a crisis line counselor. The next training session will be held Jan. 21-27.

Call 233-3000.

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

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

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Crafts and Ceramics Teachers Needed

Community Cardiovascular Council

The St. Joseph’s/Candler program helps provide new parents with support, education and resource referrals to establish positive relationships with their newborns.

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

is a program of the Savannah Regional Office of Georgia Legal Services that provides free, unbiased information and assistance to Medicare enrollees on health insurance coverage, benefits, consumer rights and healthcare fraud. Volunteer training is required. Call Rose Beck, 1-800559-8387.

Library gift shop needs volunteers

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

friendly visits, telephone calls and respite care. Call Linda Fields at 238-2960, Ext. 123.

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Connect Savannah cannot guarantee the goodwill of those placing ads. Misprints: Connect Savannah is not responsible for any typographical errors which appear after the first week of an ad’s publication. Please check your ad promptly for accuracy.P PRESSURE WASH INC. Get your home spotless for the new year. All homes, porches, driveways, decks. If it is dirty, will clean it! FREE estimates. Call Wes at 912-657-2140.

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DONATE Your car or boat get a Tax Break Call 927-7272 Coastal Empire Council Boy Scouts of America Proceeds from sales of all the sale cars and boats will go toward sending boys to summer camp.

For Service Shopping, Dining & More... www.savannahbest.com*

Health Services MOBILE MASSAGE RELAX! Certified Massage Therapist will come to you! $55/hour. Call Joseph, 912-234-7004. For Health, For Tranquility, For A Gift. www.savannahhomespa.com EXPERIENCE HYPNOSIS BY A CERTIFIED HYPNOSIS PRACTITIONER, CALL 912308-8171.

WAIT STAFF-1 year with wine knowledge a must. Must be able to work 2 weekday lunches. PM shifts available. PM Saute Cook needed part-time. Call between 2:30pm-4:30pm. 354-4005 or email JShanks12@comcast.net.

THE INTERNATIONAL CENTER for Leadership and Coaching is seeking a center coordinator; High-level administrative support. Planning use of materials, HR, preparing correspondence, receiving visitors and scheduling. 912-236-3660 M-Th 7:305:30 GLENN PHILLIPS SALON looking for professional hair stylist for station rent or commission.

Call 354-2652.

THE EXPRESS CAFE & BAKERY 39 Barnard Street Has immediate need for an experienced cook. Knowledge of preparation of breakfast items, pastry baking and cafe cuisine helpful. Must be able to work well with others, be creative in developing new menu items, be dependable and have reliable transportation. Must be available 5 days, possibly 6, 6:30am3pm. Drug screen and background check required. For all applicants, to apply call or come by between 11:00am-11:30am ONLY. Monday-Thursday and ask for Beth. EOE.

912-233-4683.

Musical Services ATTENTION ALL original bands and solo artists; Guitar bar wants you! We are now booking for February 2006. For more info call 912-313-7136.

Help Wanted Mellow Mushroom Now hiring for all positions! Please inquire within at 11 West Liberty St. Savannah Sun Coast Realty is expanding and hiring real estate agents. If you are interested in high commissions, great working conditions, call for an interview. Located on the second floor of 820 Abercorn St, Savannah, near the Mansion! 912-507-9800 or 912 341-8005 *

DOWNTOWN CAFE looking for bicycle delivery persons to deliver to businesses and residences. Hours are MonFri 9am-3pm. Must be dependable, articulate, well groomed and physically fit.

Apply in person: Monday-Thurs 11am-11:30am.

39 Barnard St. Between Broughton & Congress E/O/E. BELLA’S ON HABERSHAM

BUSINESS TO BUSINESS sales position open at Speros.

Business telephone systems, computer networks and surveillance systems. Call Susan at 790-5151 for an interview.

Pets/Animals/Livesto ck AMERICAN BULLDOG PUPPIES. 8 weeks old. All female, no males. NKC registered. Mother on site, excellent temperament.

Father certified canine good citizen. Handled daily by child, all shots & wormed. $500 OBO. 478-232-2798.

Miscellaneous Items For Sale

ABSOLUTE BARGAIN 5 piece Cherry bedroom group!

NEW headboard, footboard and rails (sleigh), chest & nightstand, still in original boxes.

Value $1650. Sell $695. 912-3132303.

CHERRY 4 POSTER RICE BED Queen size solid wood cherry headboard and footboard with

side rails. NEW in box. $999/retail, selling for $399. 965-9652.

YAMAHA CLUB series system, (2X15H house speakers/stands w 1X18” sub), 1X 400 watt power amp. $600 OBO. Call 727-4217 272-8171.

GORGEOUS CARVED sleigh bedroom set. Solid wood dresser and mirror, carved headboard and footboard plus a nightstand. All brand new furniture sealed in original boxes. $1300. Can deliver 912-3132303.

FULL MATTRESS SET Absolute bargain! Factory sealed plush set with warranty. $125. Can deliver, call 964-1494.

Motorcycles/ Mopeds/ATVs NEW DIRTBIKES and 4 wheelers for sale. 90 cc and up. Prices start at $675 up to $1350. Located in Allenhurst Ga , 5 minutes from Fort Stewart. Call 912-5723373 or 912-369-4801.

2003 KAWASAKI CONCOURS ZG-1000. Excellent condition, low miles (4800), garage kept, must sell. $5500 OBO. 2005 Kawasaki Mule 610 4X4. Like new, forest green, larger tires & wheels, low hours (-10 hrs).

Must sell, $6500 OBO. Call 6650057.

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MEMORY FOAM MATTRESS Visco memory foam mattress and box (as seen on TV). NEW sealed in original plastic. $1700 value, selling for $500. 965-9652.

DINING ROOM GROUP Cherry table and leaf, includes 6 chairs with hutch/buffet. Entire set is NEW and in original boxes. $5k value, sacrifice $1000. Can deliver 965-9652.

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KING PILLOWTOP mattress set. New & factory sealed with warranty. $225. Can deliver, call 912-964-1494.

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355-5932 1990 CADILLAC SEVILLE. Approx 113k miles, possible blown headgasket but car runs, perfect for mechanic or caddy enthusiast; $950 OBO. Call 912228-2474.

Sport Utility Vehicles 1997 EDDIE BAUER Edition Ford Explorer 4X4. Fully loaded!

125k miles, all reasonable offers considered. Great SUV. Will go very fast. Call 912-450-7990. (color)

635 East Henry Street Wonderful Newer Construction on a tremendous lot. This 3BDR, 2 ? BA home offers a great floor plan, completely fenced, front and side porches. Would be a super home for the first-time buyer or an investment property. Offered at $219,000.

Call Don Callahan 441-4416 Mopper-Stapen Realty*

529 E. 31 st Street Recently renovated duplex.

Wonderful details throughout offering 2 BRDS, 2 BA, High ceilings, fully equipped kitchen and fenced back yard. Area of active renovation. Great investment. Just $199,900 Call Don Callahan 441-4416 Mopper-Stapen Realty*

404 East 40 th Street Arts and Crafts fixer. Over 2400 square feet of 1930’s charm!

Hardwood floors, 2 FP’s, separate LR & DR, eat-in kitchen, large back yard and a wonderful generous sized porch to relax and take in the neighborhood. Just waiting for your touches and Offered at $192,000.

Call Don Callahan 441-4416 Mopper-Stapen Realty*

406 E. 35th Street Such a deal – Offered in “As-Is” condition, this 3bdr. 1ba. home is your opportunity to turn it into a showplace. Look beyond the vinyl siding and carpet and you will find clapboard on the exterior and heart pine floors. Don’t let this one pass you by.

Just $139,000.

Call Don Callahan 441-4416 Mopper-Stapen Realty*

WE BUY HOUSES Need repairs? Vacant? Has’t sold yet? Liens, divorce, etc. Let us help, call today. We are NOT agents. Quick offers. Quick closing. Call 351-0500.

Cars

Paint & Body Work Reasonably Priced Insurance Claims We buy wrecks

1224 East 48 th Street Charming Craftsman Style Cottage located in the Coveted Parkside Community. This lovely home is offering 3 bedrooms [2 with fireplaces], separate Dinning room and Living room [each with fireplaces].

Refinished heart pine floors throughout and ceiling fans in many rooms. Also included is a very comfortable rear garden with a patio for entertaining along with additional large side yards. Pride of Ownership Shows. This house is ready for you to make it your home. Asking $210,000.

Call Don Callahan 441-4416 Mopper-Stapen Realty*

Don’t Wait Any Longer, Call us today!

912-429-9600

Cherry sleigh & rails with pillow top mattress & boxspring! New in wrapper. Sacrifice $425. Can deliver 966-9937.

100% Luxury Double pillow-top queen mattress & boxspring, sealed in original plastic, with warranty. Must move! $350. 912966-9937.

Homes for Sale

1014 Abercorn Street Stunning totally remolded “ New York ” style 3bdr., 2ba. loft over two large fabulous commercial spaces.

Opportunity awaits for a variety of options. Live atop your own business in the thriving Victorian District.

Only 1 block from Forsyth Park .Offered at $550,000.

Owner/Agent Call Don Callahan 441-4416 Mopper-Stapen Realty*

WE BUY HOUSES Need repairs? Vacant? Has’t sold yet? Liens, divorce, etc. Let us help, call today. We are NOT agents. Quick offers. Quick closing. Call 351-0500.

$ I BUY HOUSES $ We buy houses & lots/land.

Don’t Stress! We buy “as is”!

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219 East 31 st Street Circa 1905 Victorian Home offering over 3,000sq. ft. of impressive details. Triple parlors, 6 fpl’s, crown moldings, medallions and pocket doors. This Southern Lady boasts 5 Bdr., 3 ? Ba. large lot and is waiting for your personal attention. Own a piece of old Savannah . Offered at $435,000.* Call Don Callahan 441-4416 Mopper-Stapen Realty*

519 E. 45th Street Arts & Craft hardy board exterior, 2 story home with 4 bedrooms, 3 baths in the main house. Loads of detail, secret garden and brick courtyard with brick wall. Carriage house is rented for $900 per month!

Reduced to 529000.

Rhondda @ Sun Coast Realty 912 507-9800*.

Midway LOT 1.5 acres of land of the LAKE. Water already to the property.

Located on Pineland. 80,000 Build your dream home!

Rhondda @ Sun Coast Realty 912 507-9800*.

519 E 45th Arts & Craft hardy board exterior, 2 story home with 4 bedrooms, 3 baths in the main house. Loads of detail, secret garden and brick courtyard with brick wall. Carriage house is rented for $900 per month!

Reduced to 529000.

Rhondda @ Sun Coast Realty 912 507-9800*.

515 East Harris Street $319,000 Perfect, move in condition.

Beautiful courtyard, huge kitchen, all appliance remain, 2 bedrooms, 1.5 baths, one is a jack & Jill bath.

Great Street! 319,000 Rhondda @ Sun Coast Realty 912 507-9800*.

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112 E Duffy St. 495,000 Triplex. Renotation going on now. Three 2 bedrooms. Steps to Forsythe Park.

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W. Broughton Street Condos - 2 left, both with great views and large windows good sq.ft. 289,900 and 295,900.

Rhondda @ Sun Coast Realty 912 507-9800 101 West Broughton Street $285,000 for almost 1200 sq.ft. of living space! One bedroom and one bath, staninless appliances, beautiful wood floors, move in condition!

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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 sin-

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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.

Currently rents for $1,000 month. $225,000 Alexander Grikitis 912-220-1700 Coastal Real Estate Group*

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 912-220-1700 Coastal Real Estate

Beautifully appointed 3 bedroom, 2 bath with bonus. All brick with interior arches, wood floors, brick fireplace in Great Room. Crown molding, 9 ft. plus ceilings, oversized whirlpool tub, separate shower and sitting room in master suite.

Home has approx. 2100 sq. ft.

For more information or your personal viewing call LaTrelle @ 658-7777 H-4375 244,900 ERA Adams-Pevey Realty 826-2550*

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Investors/First Time Home Buyers REDUCED! 3 bedrooms/1 bath in Desirable neighborhood. Eat in kitchen, separate Dining room, outside storage building and carport.

Owner is a licensed Real Estate Broker. H-4201 Call LaTrelle @ 658-7777 $78,000 ERA Adams-Pevey Realty 826-2550*

Call Michael McCormick (912) 441-8285 Steven A McCormick Appraisals and Realty

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Beautifully appointed 3 bedroom, 2 bath with bonus. All brick with interior arches, wood floors, brick fireplace in Great Room. Crown molding, 9 ft. plus ceilings, oversized whirlpool tub, separate shower and sitting room in master suite.

Home has approx. 2100 sq. ft.

For more information or your personal viewing call LaTrelle @ 6587777 H-4375 $244,900 ERA Adams-Pevey Realty 826-2550*

Beautifully appointed 3 bed/3 bath home on 5 +/- acres. Deck overlooking 1 1/2 acre stocked pond, inground pool and Koi pond with waterfall. Large greatroom, separate dining room. Jenn-Air cooktop in kitchen with large, separate eating area. Skylights with remote control blinds. Dentil molding, wood floors. 30 x 50 insulated 3 bay metal building with electricity.

Many extras! $438,000 H- 4211 Call Latrelle for details @ 658-7777 ERA Adams-Pevey Realty 826-2550*

Beautiful all brick home with wood and ceramic flooring. 9' plus ceilings, plantation shutters, surround sound speakers and sprinkler system in yard. Home has 4 bedrooms, 3 baths plus a bonus room, separate study, eat in kitchen and separate dining room. Great room has fireplace.

Call Latrelle for your personal viewing @ 912-658-7777.

ERA Adams-Pevey Realty 826-2550 H-4370 $338,500*

Custom country 3 bed/2bath home on 2 plus acres. Second floor overlooking great room and cathedral ceiling. Front great room features a clerestory that illuminates the open great room. Upstairs master retreat has loft/study that can be converted into additional bedroom.

For your personal showing of this lovely property Call LaTrelle @658-7777 ERA Adams-Pevey Realty 826-2550 $254,900 H-4309*

REDUCED! Come view this finely appointed 3 bedroom 2 ? bath all brick home, sitting on a spacious lot across from the club in Honey Ridge. Cherry cabinets, trey ceilings, corian counter tops, cultured marble in baths, hardwood floors, ceramic tile and oversized 3 car garage. Back porch is covered with surround sound speakers inside and out.Large fenced in back yard.

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Call LaTrelle 658-7777, ERA Adams-Pevey Realty 826-2550.

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When you think of “online shopping,” you envision browsing through pages of results for clothing, music cds and movie dvds, collectibles, sporting merchandise, almost anything you can imagine. But what about your home?

Are you going to add a three-bedroom, two-and-a-half bath with fenced yard to your “shopping cart” and proceed to checkout with your credit card information?

It may seem like a ridiculous scenario, but the reason people look for (and sell) things online is the convenience.

It may seem harmless enough to browse the offerings on “For Sale By Owner” websites, but be wary of the information presented there. Like elsewhere on the web, misinformation abounds.

If you want to begin your search from the comfort of home while relaxing in your pajamas, start by looking at what licensed real estate agencies are offering. You can find “virtual tours” and links to neighborhood information that are backed up by the agency offering the listings. As it stands right now, you don’t get much protection from doit-yourself listing sites.

Be aware that these “For Sale By Owner” websites are not yet regulated and not held to the same high standards that you expect from a real estate professional. The Internet might be a great place to start your research, but ultimately meet with a professional face-to-face to guarantee both your legal rights and home buying satisfaction.

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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 912-220-1700 The Coastal Real Estate Group*

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Comfortable Bungalow 19 Columbus St 3 bed, 1 bath Ardsley Area, Hardwood and Tile floors, Deck, Fenced Yard, Separate Den and living room/dining room, Updated Kitchen Call Michael McCormick 441 8285 Steven A McCormick Appraisals and Realty*

gle family or convert to a duplex. $175,000 Alexander Grikitis 912-220-1700 Coastal Real Estate Group*

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9 EAST GORDON STREET Top floor apartment. 1 bedroom, 1 bath apartment off Monteray Square, hardwood floors, porch off bedroom. $800/mo. Includes water and trash.

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514 EAST BOLTON STREET Lower apartment. 2 bedrooms, 1 bath, living room, kitchen. $600/mo.

204B WEST DUFFY 2 bedroom, 1 bath apartment. Open living room, kitchen area, central heat and air, washer/dryer. $650/mo.

315 WEST TAYLOR STREET 2 bedroom, 2-1/2 bath townhome, living room, kitchen with convection oven, side by side, washer/dryer, dining room with columns, garage parking, shared courtyard. $2,025/mo. Free months rent with 12 month lease.

121 CHATSWORTH 3 bedroom, 2 bath home in Wilmington Park. Living room/dining room combo.

Separate den with wood burning fireplace. Washer and dryer, fenced backyard, gas appliances. Available midMarch. $1,100/mo.

722 East East 49th Street Large 2 BR, 1 Bath apartment with a formal dining room, sun room, large kitchen with stove, refrigerator and dishwasher, W/D connections, hardwood floors, central H/A. Pet-friendly apartment. $875/mo. Available March 2006.

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14 West 40th Street In the heart of the Starland District. Beautifully renovated 2BR, 1BA, with formal DR, refinished heart pine flooring, ceiling fans, new bathroom & kitchen with ceramic tile floors, C/H/A, total electric and security system. Separate laundry room, private courtyard and front and rear balconies. Petfriendly apartment. $900/mo. Currently under renovations.

Available February 2006.

542 East 49th Street In the heart of Ardsley, spacious 3 BR, 1 1/2 Bath apartment with a formal dining room, sun room, separate laundry room with W/D connections, kitchen with stove, refrigerator and dishwasher, hardwood floors, central H/A, off-street parking and small shared backyard. Pet-friendly apartment. $900/mo.

Available February 2006

2003 BULL STREET Upper. Large 2 bedroom, 1 bath apartment with view of Bull Street Library, Washer and dryer connections.

Available March 6th. $1,100/mo.

201 EAST 49TH STREET Lower. 2 bedroom, 1 bath duplex. 2 offstreet parking spaces, living room, dining room, hardwood floors, $900/mo.

214-B WEST PARK AVENUE 2 bedrooms, 1 bath apartment with clawfoot tub, living room, kitchen refinished hardwood floors, fresh paint. $750/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.)

2314 BARNARD STREET 4 bedrooms, 2 baths, living room, kitchen with gas stove, hardwood floors, central heat and air, washer and dryer, small deck. $1,200/mo.

Thackery Place 2 and 3 BR apartments – Thackery Place is between Bull and Montgomery off of 61st Street. Close to Montgomery Hall and Habersham Village. Spacious apartments (over 1,200 sq ft) with separate dining rooms, 1 _ - 2 BA, hardwood floors, central H/A, kitchens furnished with stove & refrigerator, W/D connections and off street parking. Pet-friendly apartments. $625 - $700/mo.

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MIDTOWN 2033 SKIDAWAY RD- 2bd, 1ba, $650.00 1628 E 51st ST- 3bd, 2ba, $1100.00

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REDUCED! Beautiful low country on large wooded lot, large bonus, master on main has master bath with double vanities, whirlpool and walk in marble shower. Kitchen has island, large pantry and bay window.

Eating area and screened porch off of kitchen. Call LaTrelle @ 658-7777 for your personal showing. $269,900 ERA Adams-Pevey Realty 826-2550 H-4310*

Reduced by $10,000! Beautifully appointed Savannah Grey Brick 3 bed/ 2 bath home. Custom built by Douglas Leonard. Hardwood and ceramic tile floors. 10 ft. ceilings with crown molding. Custom built cabinets and bookshelves.

Separate Dining Room. 22 x 33 all brick patio overlooking golf course with private Lagoon view. Many custom features set this home apart.

Call LaTrelle for a personal viewing @ 658-7777 H-4226 $279,500*

12 COLUMBUS- 3bd, 2ba, $1200.00 1012 CUBBEDGE-2bd, 1ba, $475.00

514-516 East Bolton Street Kit and Caboodle!

This Historic District income-producer just a few blocks from Forsyth comes with a buildable side lot worth at least $80K. The whole nine yards offered at just $399,000!

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314 West Penrose Drive Room to Spread Out Enormous brick Colonial includes 4226sf, 5BR, 2 full/1 half bath, eat-in country kitchen, barbecue pit, 2-car carport & fireplace. Mother-in-law suite adds another bedroom, 1.5 baths, kitchen and separate entrance, perfect for a home office or rental. A must see! $375,000.

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THUNDERBOLT 2812 WHATLEY- 3bd, 2ba, $1,100.00

ISLANDS 919 BETZ CREEK- 3bd,2ba,$1200.00 ( appt only) 103 RUNNER RD- 3bd, 2ba, marsh view $1400.00 211 REDAN DR- 3bd, 2ba, Avail mid Dec $1000.00 153 LEWIS AVE-3bd, 2 ba, $950.00 ( Avail mid Feb)

SOUTHSIDE 129 RED FOX- 3bd, 2ba, $1,250.00 9 DELMAR- 3bd, 1.5ba, ($950.00) 2 RUSTIC LN -3bd, 2ba, $1050.00

203 WEST WALDBURG STREET Garden apartment. 2 bedroom, 1 bath apartment, living room, kitchen, shared courtyard. $850/mo.

626 East 53 rd Street Ardsley Bungalow A Go-Go This 1939 Arts & Crafts home offers 3BR/2BA, oak & heart pine floors, 4over-1 windows, charming front porch, cedar closet, brick mantel & an attic big enough for a master suite or office. Room enough to make it your haven! $209,500.

Katherine W. Oxnard, Keller Williams Realty Coastal Area Partners (912) 704-3545/356-5001 katherineoxnard@comcast.net www.kwsavannah.com*.

1112 East Victory Drive Spacious 3 BR, 2 Bath house with large family room, hardwood floors, central H/A, W/D connections, wrap around porch, small backyard, garage & driveway. Pet friendly home. $1,050/mo.

210 WEST 31ST STREET 3 bedroom, 1 bath apartment. Living room, kitchen, hardwood floors, CHSA approved. $575/mo.

509 EAST PRESIDENT STREET 2 bedroom, 1 bath home. Heart pine floors and cabinets, exposed wood beams, washer and dryer, central heat and air, security system, courtyard. $1,300/mo.

Large 3 bedroom/2 1/2 bath home with great room, heated sun room and large office/den. Master bedroom has 2 walk in closets and master bath has double sinks with cultured marble vanity and separate water closet. 3 stall barn has tack, feed and tool rooms utilizing approx. 1440 sq. feet. Pasture is approx 2 1/2 fenced acres and pond is approx 1/3 acre.

Call LaTrelle @ 658-7777 for your personal viewing of this lovely property. Offered for only $324,900 H4292 ERA Adams-Pevey Realty 826-2550*

34 LAS TUNAS -3bd, 1.5ba, $1000.00 (Avail mid January)

WESTSIDE 5 WESTBOURNE-3 bd, 2 ba, $1175.00 25 FAIRGREEN -3 bd, 2 ba, $1175.00

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 A-4239* 5 Hawkins Lane Island Dreamscape Prime eastern marsh lot with cooling summer breezes overlooking hammock with Indian artifacts, Tybee and Wassau Islands . Perfect spot for a stunning primary residence or second home for island living at its best! $469,000.

Katherine W. Oxnard Keller Williams Realty Coastal Area Partners (912) 704-3545/356-5001 katherineoxnard@comcast.net www.kwsavannah.com*

409 Cranman Drive Bionic Home So much new stuff in this well-built 3BR/1BA 1950s ranch, it’s the real estate equivalent of Steve Austin!

New roof, windows, siding, appliances, water heater, flooring and more. A home for the New Millennium! $130,000.

Katherine W. Oxnard Keller Williams Realty Coastal Area Partners (912)704-3545/356-5001 katherineoxnard@comcast.net www.kwsavannah.com*

6007 Waters Avenue Under Contract!

Low Country parson’s house is a great investment or starter home.

Rented for $700 month-to-month, with original tabby exterior, 2BR/1BA, new appliances incl. dishwasher & stackable washer/dryer ,plus large fenced yard with shed. $90,000.

Katherine W. Oxnard Keller Williams Realty Coastal Area Partners (912)704-3545/356-5001 katherineoxnard@comcast.net www.kwsavannah.com*

669 East 32nd Street Adorable 2BR/1BA Bungalow in a mature neighborhood.New systems and appliances. House sits on a nice corner lot with a cozy backyard and off-street parking. Nice location.

Asking $82,900. Could also berented for $700/month.

CALL SHERI OR LORI AT 912-236-1000.

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1505 Grove St Great investment or starter 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 $88,900 Could also be rented for $725/month.

Call Lori Judge or Sheri Cermak, Judge Realty 236-1000 *

416 West 36th Street This 1920 grand home needs your final touch to bring it's lost splendor back. Hardwood floors, parlors, garage and so much more! Area of active restoration.$224,900 Call Sonja Bannon 441-4470*

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 $85,000.

Could also be rented for $600/month.

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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! $295,000 Call Lori Judge, Judge Realty 484-1514 *

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 at 441-9314 or visit www.morehomesofsavannah.com* 18 E 41st Starland Design District 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 Moore at 441-9314 or visit www.morehomesofsavannah.com* 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!

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RENT TO OWN 2306 Alabama Ave. $575/deposit. Cinder block house, 2 bedroom, 1 bath, newly renovated kitchen, new carpet, washer/dryer hookup, appliances, window a/c, large fenced property, good neighborhood. 547-5977.

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605 BERWICK DRIVE. 4 bedroom, 2 bath, 2 car garage. Formal living/dining rooms, greatroom with fireplace and wood floors. Updated kitchen. A/C and alarm system. Wooded lot with privacy fence and pool.

Over 200 sq ft $189,900. Call for appointment 912-921-0284 912-308-3044.

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319 E Huntingdon Lane Utilities and furnishings included!!!!

2 bedroom townhome with cable tv, towels sheets, and everything you need, even a parking space! Bring your clothes and move in. $1500 , month to month.

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Call Rhondda @507-9800* Charlton Street on Troup Sq. Furnsihed home with 2 bedrooms, 2.5 baths, cable tv and all utilities included. Courtyard that is very special! Must see this 3 story home. Available in June - $2500 per month, month to month lease.

Call Rhondda @507-9800* 907 Montgomery St. Adorable Victorian duplex awaits your arrival. Each unit is 2BR/1BA, hardwood floors, new central HVAC, washer/dryer, new appliances. Walking distance to Forsyth Park. $850/$900 Call Christen at Judge Realty 236-1000.* 413 East 58th Street Ardsley Park Great spacious 3BR/2BA home in beautiful Ardsley offers over 2,000 square feet of space. Can be made into 4 Bedrooms if needed. Home has been renovated and features new appliances and large, open floorplan. $1,200/month Call Christen @ 912-236-1000 Judge Realty* 1507 Grove Street.

Charming Eastern Victorian Bungalow. 2br/1ba, totally redone cozy home awaits you for $700/month.

Call Christen at 912-236-1000. Judge Realty.*

2 EAST 61ST STREET This handsome 1,500 + sq. ft. brick home has been thoroughly updated to include a totally new kitchen with stainless steel appliances and granite countertops, remodeled bath, new roof, new HVAC, refinished hardwood floors, new door and window hardware... and the list goes on and on. This property features 3 bedrooms and 1 full bath, a corner lot, fenced yard, lovely landscaping, 2-car carport, sunroom and more! $225,000.

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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.

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TOWNHOUSE IN THE WILMINGTON PLANTATION ON THE INTERCOASTAL. Located in Savannah, Ga on the Wilmington River. 2 bedroom, 3 bath elegant townhouse with 2 car garage. This luxurious home features 2 kitchens, one leading out to huge porch overlooking waterway. This waterfront townhouse is also across the street from the Wilmington Island Club golf course. Amenities include Pool, dock, landscaped grounds, gated entrance and much much more! Contact Susie Russell of Homestead Realty 912-6651313 912-897-1307 or 912897-3109.

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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.

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2 BEDROOM, 2 BATH condo at the Commons on Wilmington Island features washer/dryer hookup, 2 year old appliances, Berber carpet, hardwood, vinyl, screened porch. Amenities include tennis courts, pool, gated entrance and more.

Asking $129,900. Unit Q-5 at the Commons off Cromwell Rd. Contact Susie Russell 665-1313 or 897-1307. Office is 897-3109 .

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307 Briarcliff Circle Windsor Forest 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.*

Dazzling Queen Anne Interior details have been painstakenly restored while kitchens and baths have been updated with all new appliances and fixtures. This 3,200 square foot home has four bedrooms, three baths, eight fireplaces, new windows, large walk-in attic (could be studio or apartment), hardwood floors and artistic detail.

Offered at $574,900.

Call Christi Oates 695-5945 or Roberta Carver 596-0107.

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Completely renovated charming 3br/2ba bungalow in eastern Victoriandistrict. Hardwood Floors, quiet street, close to Downtown. Move-in for $825/ month.

Call Christen at 912-236-1000. Judge Realty.* 705 East Henry 2BR/1BA newly remodeled, hardwood floors, fresh paint, new appliances, of f-street parking $750/month Call Judge Realty 236-1000* 116 West 39th Huge 3BR/1BA duplex in up and coming Starland District! Newly remodeled with 12 foot ceilings, 4 fireplaces,hardwood floors, security alarm, and tons of historic charm.$900/month Call Judge Realty 236-1000* 1317 Bonaventure 3BR/2BA, freshly painted, hardwood floors, fenced yard, off-street parking, lots of closets. $900 Call Judge Realty 236-1000* BEAUTIFUL 3-BEDROOM 2-bath home on Bonaventure Rd. Central heat/air, hardwood floors, fireplace, DW, washer/dryer hook-up, off street parking, fenced, pets ok, $875/month. Call 912-844-4043 CHARMING 2 BEDROOM, 1 bath home on the Eastside. $625/month + security. Call 429-9600.

CUTE BUNGALOW 2 bedroom, 1 bath, new kitchen, fenced yard, pets ok with deposit. $675/month. 1222 E. 33rd St. Call 844-2703.

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213 Stephanie Immaculate 4 bed/2 bath home in Effingham community. Visit www.213Stephanie.com for more info and more pictures. Home is 25 min. from Historic Savannah and only 15-20 min. from the airport.

Many beautifully appointed details! Call LaTrelle for your personal viewing @ 658-7777. H-4381 $249,900.

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TYBEE ISLAND Properties for rent. 1 bedroom efficiency, furnished, utilities included, $650/month. Short term lease.

2 bedroom, 1 bath, unfurnished, water included, $800/month.

Long term lease. Contact Tybee Vacation Rentals. 912-786-5853.

2210 WHITAKER STREET. 3bedroom 2-bath, washer/dryer, dishwasher, central heat/air, off street parking. $950 monthly/1 month deposit. Pets negotiable. Call 912-667-2928

BRAND NEW!!

Gorgeous 3-bedroom 2-bath at Salt Creek Landing. 1450sqft., pool, playground, lagoon, 10min. to DT/Mall/I-95, many upgrades, non smoking, no pets, $1100/month. Call 912353-8970 WILMINGTON ISLAND CONDO. 3 bedrooms upstairs, Bull River Shoals, amenities provided, $850/month.

Available February 1st. 6631753.

414 East Park Avenue 2BR/1BA, all new appliances, central HVAC, off-street parking, available Jan. 1st $850.

Call Judge Realty 236-1000*

\STARLAND DISTRICT. Beautiful 2-bedroom, 1-bath apartment. Recently renovated, with hardwood and tile floors, HVAC, off-street parking. $900/month includes water and trash. 22 1/2 East 39th Street.

912-658-8550.

3 or 4 BEDROOMS, 2 baths, livingroom, sunroom, full kitchen, hardwood floors, fireplaces, washer/dryer connection.

Perfect for roommates. $1050/month $1000/deposit.

Call 912-897-0438.

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 and DSL included. $750 + deposit. No pets! 912-748-8367.

SPACIOUS 3-BEDROOM apartments, 917 Abercorn Street. $850/month. No pets or drug abusers. Available immediately. sliding pocket door, fireplace, hardwood floors, and many extras. Call 912-272-8883

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/Dryer furnished, dishwasher, fireplace, kitchens by Ikea. Off-street parking, 6-month to one-year leases. $795/month William 912-412-5517 or Lazaro @ 912-272-0382.

HISTORIC DISTRICT 1 bedroom + trunk room. 1 bath, balcony, 2nd floor of newly restored Victorian duplex. Two blocks from Forsyth Park. $950/month.

Separate utilities. $950/ deposit. 732-757-7280.

LARGE 1-BEDROOM apartment with porch, renovated Victorian. LR, DR w/fireplaces, spiral stairs to master suite/loft w/full bath, private deck and washer/dryer, guest bedroom or office and 2nd-bath on main

floor, hardwood floors, central heat/air, water included, $875/month. Call 912-233-5246 for appointment.

Available February 1st.

CARRIAGE HOUSE, 112 East Henry Lane. 2/1 with loft.

Central heat/air. $750/month.

596-5489.

VICTORIAN HISTORIC 2-bedroom apartment with hardwood floors, great downtown location, near Forsyth Park, central heat/air, dishwasher, nice front porch balcony, pets ok, $875/month. Call 912-844-4043

Commercial Property 111 West Anderson St. Superb Commercial space available for Sale or Lease, Located near forsyth park. Aprox. 1500 Sq.Ft, w/ lots of parking.Front and rear access, high traffic area.

Contact: 912-220-1020 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 912-351-0510 or 912-224-5200.* Building Lot Eastside 45x110 approximate size. Priced to sell at $30,000.

Call Betty Stevenson with Prudential at 912-351-0510 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 Prudential for tax info and showing at 912-351-0510 or 912-224-5200* 107 Whitaker St. Commercial space - basement level.

Brick walls and unfinished. 4764 sq.ft. in a great location corner of Whitaker and Broughton. Great investment opportunity. $595000.

Call Rhondda @ Sun Coast Realty 507-9800*

102 Acres of Effingham Co. Land Great property for residential development.Priced at $20,500 per acre for 57.71 of upland acres.Will yield at least 128 units.County water & sewer on Hwy. 30 access for property. Won't last! $1,183,000 Call Lori Judge 912-236-1000*

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9 • 13 • 17 West Charlton St. 234.3323 toll free: 888.810.0143 office:

Victoria Turner, Realtor cell phone: 441-2381 email: victoriaturner@celiadunn.com website: www.celiadunn.com

Christi Oates, Realtor

Where Old Tradition Meets New Savannah! cell phone: 695-5945 email: christi@celiadunn.com website: www.christioates.com

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211 Travelers Way $,875,000. Gorgeous hardwood floors, rare Pecky Cypress walls and Soaked Stone kitchen counters, this house boast the most beautiful craftsmenship and attention to detail. The Oyster house is perfect for entertaining!

John Brown, Realtor cell phone: 844-1914 email: jabrown1@comcast.net website: www.celiadunn.com

190 Green Island Road Fabulous deep water property with 6 acres of high ground and a beautiful Southern European style home. Open floor plan, tall ceiling, spacious rooms, hardwood floors, 2 fireplaces, screened porch and 2 floating docks. Christi Oates 695-5945 or Celia Dunn 234-3323.

Susan Ason, Realtor cell phone: 308-1681 email: susanason@bellsouth.net website: www.susanason.com

22 West Harris Street Splendid 5 BR/5.5 BA Historic 4-story brick single family home near Madison Square. Features original architectural details, floor to ceiling windows and original heart pine floors. Includes a carriage house and a garden apartment. John Brown 844-1914 or Celia Dunn 234-3323.

Ford Plantation Exclusive gated community. This home at 481 McAllister Landing is 2.3 acres with views of the Ogeechee River and the bird and wildlife sanctuary. John A. Brown 844-1914 orCelia Dunn 234-3323.

109 Carolina Cherry Court – Pooler New listing in a great community. Immaculate and shows like a model! This 4BR/2BA home features a split floor plan, separate living and dining rooms, a family room and bonus room. Loaded with upgrades including hard wood floors, corian countertops, a marble Master bath, and pre-wiring for surround sound in the family room. Located on a lagoon.

Won’t last long! $279,500. SUSAN ASON 308-1681 or LORI COMBS 596-0288.

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103 Commodore Dr. $1,050,000.00. Islands/ Beaches. 4 Bdrm, 5 full and 2 half Bath. Stunning low country home situated in the Commodore Point community near the Savannah Yacht Club. Built by J.T. Turner, the house features the finest quality and attention to detail. Magnificant master suite with incredible master bath and closets.

Fireplace in family room. Separate dining room, gourmet kitchen, den, hardwood floors, and awesome temperature-controlled wine room. Perfect for family and entertaining.

Victoria Turner 484-3169 or Celia W. Dunn 234-3323.

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