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We just did this thing in L.A. with Bob Dylan.

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BRAD EVANS bradevans11@gmail.com I feel like I knew Sean Pritchard before most of you did. He was in high school, running around doing shows with a bunch of punk kids out at Starcadia, and they were among the first to treat me like I was some kind of sell out when I first started this paper.

I was way older than them, I worked for a living and they thought it was bullshit that I charged money for advertising. When this group started the Macon Venue Project, I ended up donating advertising when I could, but if one issue I couldn’t, I was vilified. I respected their attitude though, and out of all of them, I knew Sean would be the one I’d be dealing with in the future. As far as I know the rest of them were eventually suffocated by their jeans, and I’m truly sorry for that.

The Pritchard boys have always been counted among my close friends. It wasn’t long after I moved here that I became friends with Sean’s brother Andy, and not long after his other brother Jordan. There was a time that I was rarely seen without a Pritchard close by. Though that time passed, I still have great respect for everyone in their family.

There is something they all have, besides that quick wit, that just makes you love them.

Sean is no exception.

He works harder to make his town better than anyone I know. And he doesn’t do it for money, and he certainly doesn’t do it for recognition. I respect that more than anything.

I honestly don’t know a better person for Macon than Sean. Sean never self promotes. He never takes the opportunity to use a platform to somehow leap frog into a better place for himself. He’s not a sellout. So Sean won’t be the one telling you that he’s in the toughest fight of his life.

He was recently diagnosed with Acute Myeloid Leukemia, and rushed to Atlanta to begin treatment. He’s facing a whole lot of expenses associated with this. Sean needs our help. His family has set up a GoFundMe page in his name, and you should drop this paper, get on your phone and donate what you can to help him. Until he’s cancer free, you’ll see the hashtag #seanstrong on our logo on our cover, and we’ll continue to update you on his progress. Seanie, we love you so much, and we will be lifting you up until you beat this.

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Macon Pops Celebrates “The Music of Macon” at the Macon City Auditorium, February 28 The Pops, along with co-founders multi-talented Artistic Director and Grammy®-award winning arranger, Matt Catingub, and Grammy®-nominated drummer Steve Moretti, will be joined by Chuck Leavell, Jimmy Hall, Robert McDuffie, Amy Schwartz Moretti, Floco Torres, Daniel NeSmith and Louise Warren “We have such a wonderful and diverse music history to honor, but we also want to highlight the present and future - writing a new chapter in our history book!”

Macon Pops is an innovative, high energy, world-class orchestra event bringing together the most talented studio and orchestral musicians from around the southeast and across the country. But… this is no traditional orchestra.

Unlike other Pops orchestras, Macon Pops uses all original compositions and arrangements, designed by Matt for each performance. $10 general admission balcony seating will be available at the door. The show begins at 7:30.

For more information, visit www.maconpops.com

Friday

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Tedeschi-Trucks Band at the Macon City Auditorium After many years on the road building separate, successful solo careers, Derek Trucks and Susan Tedeschi have united to form a new band with an extended pool of collaborators and friends.

Well-known for their outstanding live performances, the formidable husbandand-wife duo are now exploring new ideas together through songs rooted in the blues and infused with their own unique blend of southern soul, American roots music, authentic rock ‘n’ roll, and a touch of Florida swamp magic.

Tickets start at $17.50. 478-751-9232 Friends of the Library Old Book Sale at Central City Park Feb. 27-March 1 Thursday and Friday, 10am – 7pm Saturday, 10am – 5pm, Sunday, Noon – 5pm. There will be over 100,000 books in 75 categories, with free admission and parking – cash, checks, and credit cards accepted for book purchases.

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The Music of Macon Presented by Macon Pops at Macon City Auditorium. Join us as we celebrate 04 FEB 26 - MARCH 11, 2015

I Love Lucy: Live on Stage, The nationally-touring Broadway production at The Grand Opera House

I Love Lucy® Live on Stage is the hit stage show adapted from the most beloved program in television history! After sold-out runs in Chicago, Fort Worth and Los Angeles, I Love Lucy Live on Stage comes to Georgia for the first time.

It’s 1952 and you are a member of the Desilu Playhouse studio audience awaiting the filming of two hilarious and oh-so-familiar I Love Lucy® episodes. A charming host entertains and takes you behind the scenes of the exciting modern invention: the television. The Crystaltone Singers perform advertising jingles in perfect ’50s style harmony and the side-splitting antics of America’s favorite foursome – Lucy, Ricky, Fred and Ethel – are presented live on stage and in color for the very first time!TV Guide’s William Keck calls I Love Lucy® Live on Stage “the most entertaining stage production I’ve seen in years!” Tickets start at $35. www.thegrandmacon.com

Macon’s rich musical heritage from the past, present, AND future! This will be a fantastic evening for all music lovers and proud Maconites as Macon Pops performs music from artists who hail from Macon or have ties to our beloved city. Very special guest performers include: Dexter Redding and Otis Redding III, Chuck Leavell, Jimmy Hall, Amy Schwartz Moretti, Robert McDuffie, Floco Torres, Daniel NeSmith, Louise Warren, Joshua Neal and a few BIG surprises! Balcony tickets $10. 478751-9232.

Family Show in Las Vegas! “The New Yorker” named Gregory Popovich “One of the Worlds Best Physical Comedians”. Gregory Popovich has performed on “The Tonight Show” with Johnny Carson, Jay Leno, “Late Night” with David Letterman, and was a finalist on America’s Got Talent. Comedy Pet Theater is a family-oriented theatrical circus blend of unique physical comedy, starring the extraordinary talents of Gregory’s rescued performing pets.

Doors at 6 p.m., show at 7. Tickets $25 and up. 478-257-6391

Spring Garden Symposium at Middle Georgia State College 8:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Various sessions will focus on the topics of new and underused plants; and livable landscapes. Registration is $40 and includes continental breakfast and buffet lunch.

Sessions will take place on the first floor of the Professional Sciences and Conference Center on the Macon Campus. www.mga.edu/botanical.

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Popovich Comedy Pet Theatre at The Cox Capitol Theatre A unique blend of physical comedy, award-winning juggling and the extraordinary talents of more than 30 rescued performing pets. Voted Best

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Macon Action Plan Open House at The Cox Capitol Theatre Curious to know more about the proposed action strategies for downtown and see illustrations that bring our shared vision to life? All members of the community are invited to attend a reception at the Cox Capitol Theatre to hear more about MAP’s proposed action strategies for Macon’s Urban Core.

Guests are encouraged to come for Happy Hour (includes a free beer!), review the plan’s recommendations, and, before departing, identify priorities for making our shared vision for the Urban Core become reality. 5 to 8:00 PM, with a formal presentation on the proposed action strategies at 6:30 PM.

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Journey Through Jazz Presented by Hay House 7 pm - 9 pm. This multisensory event will feature the sounds of the Keith Fitzgerald jazz quintet playing pieces spanning from the early 1900’s-to the 1970’s, while lighting and pictures will accompany the performance. A reception will follow featuring catering by Paul Harpin. Reservations are required as seating is limited. Admission to Journey Through Jazz is free and open to the public. There is a suggested donation of $15.00 that can be given directly to Hay House.

Ken Ford in Concert at The Douglass Theatre Electric. A word that describes not only Ken Ford’s violin but aptly describes the man himself, with electrifying and deeply physical live performances that have audiences up on their feet and into the aisles, feeling the music as much as he does, jumping and dancing around on stage. Far from being any quiet instrument, Ken’s infectious energy takes the violin center stage with amazing artistry and creativity, rocking out on the violin with a passion and fervor that rivals the biggest and baddest guitar solos. 8 p.m. tickets $30/$35. 478-742-2000 Opening Reception for Pints and Prints at Macon Arts Gallery 5-8 p.m. Light refreshments. Free and open to the public. Live music by Justin Cutway. Featuring printmakers and ceramic artists, including: Craig Burkhalter, Jason Frost, Christopher Johnson, Mary-Frances Burt, Lauren Bausch, Roger Jamison, Eric Wakefield, Ronan Kyle Peterson, Kirby Gregory, Lisa & Alex LaPella, and more.

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Pipes, Dances, and Drums Presented

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the United States. Plentiful percussion in each piece will leave you energized and refreshed! $38.50 for adults, $18.50 for students, and $13.50 for children age 12 & under. 478-301-5300 First Saturday Village Market 9 a.m. - 1p.m. Local artisans, growers, and producers providing a wide variety of handmade and homegrown products and services in Mercer Village.

Sunday

3.08

“Diplomacy” Film Screening Presented

by Macon Film Guild at Douglass Theatre.

Directed by Volker Schlondorff (The Tin Drum). As the Allies march toward Paris in the summer of 1944, Hitler gives orders that the French capital should not fall into enemy hands, or if it does, then “only as a field of rubble.” (France, 85 minutes, drama/history) Admission $5. Screenings at 2 p.m., 4:30 and 7 p.m.

Thursday

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Disney On Ice: “Let’s Celebrate” at Macon Centreplex It’s one colossal party on ice, with all your favorite Disney friends at Disney On Ice presents Let’s Celebrate! Several show times March 12-15. Tickets for children ages 2 and up $12. maconcentreplex.com

Friday

3.13

Peaches to Beaches Yard Sale 8 a.m. - 2 p.m. Described at the Longest Yard Sale in Georgia Peaches to Beaches begins in Barnesville running over 200 miles down Georgia Highway 341 to the Beaches. This is an event owned by Golden Isles Parkway Association and includes all towns along the way to near the beaches of Brunswick. “Shop till you drop” for two days finding treasure after treasure.

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Peach Blossom Festival at Lane Southern Orchards 10 a.m. - 5 p.m. Face painting, play zone, live music, and more!

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An Interview with

Derek Trucks

Derek Trucks is touted as the greatest slide guitarist in the world, maybe ever. He’s been playing on stage since he was 9 years old, headlining since he was 11. He’s played with everyone including Eric Clapton, Carlos Santana, BB King, Buddy Guy. He toured as a guitarist with the Allman Brothers since 1999. In early 2008, Trucks took advantage of a few months off the road to finish building his home studio, which he dubbed Swamp Raga. A year later he recorded Already Free, an album heavy on original songs that proved a significant turning point in his career. It won a Grammy in 2010, establishing a new, song-oriented direction for Trucks, and set the stage for a musical partnership with his wife that eventually culminated in 2011 with the formation of the Tedeschi Trucks Band and the release of Revelator. His two most recent Grammys, for Revelator and a Lifetime Achievement Award for his membership in the Allman Brothers Band (Trucks is one of the youngest living musicians to receive the accolade), prove him to be on a path that has yet to realize its full potential which hurts my brain to even think about. But kind and gracious as ever, Derek remains on of the most fun souls I ever get to talk to with the 11th Hour. I spoke to him from his home in Florida just last week.

BE: I was at a TaJ Mahal Fishing Tournament in Costa Rica with you several years ago. Jimmy Herring caught a 500 pound marlin and Taj and I won the sailfish tournament.

DT: Oh yeah. I remember that well. I just found the pictures of it the other day.

I don’t remember much of it. Did it look like we had a good time. Oh yeah. We did.

Tell me about the first time you picked up a guitar.

The very first time.

Well you know I grabbed a guitar at a garage sale. It wasn’t much of an instrument. I wasn’t even that excited about it. (Laughs) But I had like five bucks on me, and it was the only kid friendly thing at the sale. I think I was 8 or 9 years old. And I did know that my dad played a little bit. But, it was just something interesting to do. It kind of sat around for a while. At the time my dad was a roofer. He left the house at five in the morning and got home pretty late. He worked over the Florida heat. So it was probably a week or two before he had the chance to show me a few things. Once he did, I remember that

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feeling of knowing a melody that you heard before and then being able to play it. That was the revelation. And it came really naturally, and that was part of it too. When you are young and things work, you enjoy it.

off!” I just remember it occupied a pretty weighty space.

The way he’d talk about Bob Dylan and those records, and how they changed his life, and for my Mom it was Joni Mitchell. It was just important to us.

Obviously a lot of hard work went into it. But when anyone watches you play, it just looks like something was meant to be there. I’m not saying that it came easy for you, because I know it didn’t, but do you ever think that playing the guitar is something you were meant to do? A little bit. I didn’t really think about it a whole lot. Especially at that age. I enjoyed a handful of things.

I enjoyed baseball. I just did it, you know? I didn’t over think it. A lot of it was being in the right place at the right time. Having parents that were listening to the right music. They cared about music in the right way too.

Music in our house, kind of took the place of religion, in a lot of ways. My dad didn’t go to church, but when he talked about seeing Duane at the Fillmore or seeing Ray Charles, there was this look in his eye. I could tell it wasn’t just entertainment you know? The music that he had an aversion to was the same way. Something would come on and immediately he’d be like “Turn that shit

Butch Trucks, your uncle. Was he around? Were you aware of how important he was to the music industry?

Did it get talked about a lot that you had this connection to the Allman Brothers?

I was aware of the family connection. I was aware that some of that stuff started in my grandfather’s house in Jacksonville. But, at that time, it was the 80’s, they weren’t playing. They didn’t exist. They were done. In some ways it was mythology to me. It was this thing that happened a long time ago that you’d never get to see. I remember when I saw the reunion tour in ‘89 when they played Jacksonville in Metropolitan Park. I had just started playing then. Seeing that band come to life, was a very big moment.

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I know it was an honor to end up on stage with them?

Man. Absolutely it was. Me and Susan have both been so lucky to play with a lot of the reasons we started playing.

Sometimes we have been in bands with them. Sometimes we’ve been guests with them. From the Allman’s to BB King. We just did this thing in L.A. with Bob Dylan.

When you get a call that Bob Dylan wants you and your wife to fly out and play this song, and that he’s picked out a song for you. All you can say is Holy Shit, I’ll be there.

You’ve probably said that a lot in your life.

Yes, Yes I have. It’s pretty intense though, ya know?

We’ve been really lucky to have those moments.

Where did you first meet Susan?

Well I first met her at Smith’s Olde Bar in Atlanta. But we didn’t make a connection then. I was in a relationship, and I was trying to be good. We were both with other people. I was like “Oh nice to meet you….Later” But we actually met in ‘99, when she was opening the first tour I did with the Allman Brothers. We spent a lot of time together on the road. Lot of long bus rides... me and Susan and Otiel would sit around and listen to music, and stay up late. It was a unique courtship.

What is your house like when you are off the road?

It’s busy here. We try to keep on top of the kids and make sure they are applying themselves properly. If it’s baseball or horseback with our daughter, there is always lots to do when we get home. But we also have our studio here, so the band comes down often. Today the band flies in and we’ll be writing and working on a new album. A lot of music flies around here. And it’s fun now, because our

kids are showing an interest. They enjoy listening to music. I’ll steal my kid’s headphones, and it’s always refreshing when it’s a Stevie Wonder record, or my son is on a big Zeppelin/David Bowie kick lately. That works for me! And I think they enjoy what our band does to.

I want to ask you a question about our common friend Bill Lucado. How did he come into your life?

Bill Lucado came into my Trucks and Tedeschi will play the City Auditorium, Friday, Feb. 27 life at Elizabeth Reeds Music Hall. He just came out to more. It’s always good to see him. When I think of this show and he was larger Macon, Georgia, I think of Bill Lucado, then the Allman than life. He is larger than life. We were a band that was Brothers.(Laughs) In my life he’s been such a huge part. struggling to get from gig to gig, trying to buy gas. And I was just over at my parent’s house, and my old Chevy I think he came in and bought every CD we had and just gave them out to people. I think we had 30-40 there. We blazer was there. It was my first real car. And I realized I were like this guy is fucking great! He just saved our tour. bought that from Bill. When I was done with it I gave it to my younger brother, and he gave it to our other brothWe are going to make it to Knoxville. er. The Lucado car!

He did the kind of same thing for me. He led me Always fun talking with you man. I’m looking foraround Macon to every story that should be told. ward to seeing you and the Tedeschi-Trucks Band at He’s one of those characters. And we became really good the Auditorium on the 27th. friends over the years. He’s got an oversized heart, he Likewise man. Hope to see you Friday! sends it all outward. And we should all try to do that

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MARCH CONCERT IN CHERRY ST PLAZA NewTown Macon’s First Friday, presented by Robins Federal Credit Union, hosts a free concert in Cherry Street Plaza. The concert will feature three regional bands. From 5:00 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. Matthew Hope will perform, from 5:45 p.m. to 6:45 p.m. AJ Ghent and Seven Handle Circus from 7:15 to 8:45 p.m.

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Macon is known for its music history and we want Macon to continue to be known for its music culture. Shadow Sound Studio and NewTown Macon are partnering to create a compilation CD of Middle Georgia music to promote the great sounds coming from our local artists.

Macon Music CD Volume 1 will be accepting submissions between March 1, 2015 at 12: 00 A.M. and March 31, 2015 at 11:59 P.M. Only digital submissions will be accepted through SonicBids.com/newtownmacon and CDs will not be accepted.

Once submitted, a panel of judges will listen to and rate all submissions.

Using these ratings, NewTown Macon and Shadow Sound Studio will collaborate to select ten winning tracks that represent a broad and diverse group of styles, artists, and genres.

Tracks do not need to be professionally recorded to be considered.

The ten selected artists will have their track professionally recorded or re-recorded and produced at Shadow Sound Studio in Downtown Macon, at no cost. If needed, Shadow Sound Studio will provide production services and play any instruments required to create the music recording. The ten-track record will be created into a CD. NewTown Macon will own the master recording produced by Shadow Sound Studio. The record will be uploaded to streaming music services, and made available to all locally owned restaurants, bars and entertainment venues in Middle Georgia for unlimited playback. Each winning tracks will receive 25 copies of the disc to give out for promotions and the group or performer may order an unlimited number of extra discs at cost.

In Summer 2015, Macon Music will host a free promotional launch party for all of the winning musicians to perform for the community.

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The Shakedown Continues: Dallemand Tries to Sue for $10 Million The Free Dictionary defines “Libel and Slander” as: “Collectively known as defamation, libel and slander are civil wrongs that harm a reputation; decrease respect, regard, orconfidence; or induce disparaging, hostile, or disagreeable opinions or feelings against an individual or entity. The injury toone’s good name or reputation is affected through written or spoken words or visual images. The laws governing these torts are identical.”

Clearly not caring about definitions, our “good friend” the Hatian Huckster Romain Dallemand filed a $10 million dollar claim with the American Arbitration Association of Vorhees, New Jersey last month which was just unearthed this week by The Telegraph. Apparently Dallemand assumes that when he left our district in a shambles of debt, personnel issues and law suits, that he actually had a good name to defame. That is the furthest thing from the truth, but I am SO glad that he has tried to shake down the Board of Education for even more money than he previously fleeced us out of.

Why do you ask? Why would I welcome him to go to arbitration and cost us more money in trying to stop him from collecting another nickel? It’s simple. If the Board is smart, which at least four and possibly five of them are now, they will turn this into a way to get Dallemand behind bars by not agreeing to any arbitration but rather to turn the table on him and countersue him for damages done to our system; damages that may take decades to repair. Enter our new Superintendent-elect Dr. Curtis Jones formerly of the Spalding County-Griffin District. Dr. Jones has a huge task and a heavy responsibility ahead of him, but based on his past and his training, I feel he will come in to the Bibb Board of Education and go through it like Patton did through Germany with the 3rd Army in World War II. (I had to go with an Army comparison…Dr. Jones went to West Point.)

Now as I was saying, this will be a golden opportunity to cook Dallemand’s goose and get his butt on a witness stand and depose him with the goal of making him out of the courthouse not a millionaire, but in a nice brightly colored jumpsuit with “Bibb County” stamped on it, only to be replaced very quickly with a “Federal Prisoner” stamp on it when all of his misdeeds and chicanery of Title I funds are exposed that were meant for our kids, but were instead spent on the lavish, and now closed, “Welcome Center” as 16 FEB 26 - MARCH 11, 2015

well as the salaries that were wasted on political payoffs cloaked in high salaries for inept administrators to guard the “Palatial Palace on Riverside”.

I do have to say that Dallemand has got to have balls the size of the Big Peach down in Byron to try and pull off his latest scheme to get more money from us. His narcissism is legendary and this is just another prime example of it.

I’ll never forget the time I was doing an interview with a vendor that Dallemand tried to shake down while scamming the system into investing into induction lighting. Dallemand basically asked the company for a kickback, which was turned down by the vendor, who told me that after their meeting that he “felt like he (the vendor) needed to take a shower”, because he felt so dirty after dealing with Dallemand. After our collective screwing

by Dallemand, we all should feel like a long hot shower, but I digress.

Further, I think that when we get done with Dallemand, we should review all the board’s legal representation for their roles in allowing a lot of Dallemand’s nonsense to occur, as well as a complete and thorough audit of all bids that Dallemand was a part of to make certain that everything was done in a fair and equitable manner. Lastly, there should be an investigation into the relationship that one of the “Dallemand Defenders” Board Member Tom Hudson had and has with Bibb County DFACS and programs and services that his company The Middle Georgia Council on Drugs supplies to the Bibb County Board of Education through DFACS. There’s a lot of smoke to this fire and we to get to the bottom of a lot of things that just don’t smell or look right.

I hope that Dr. Jones has some desire to do some digging before we completely finish the book on Dallemand and his cronies and that the current Board of Education can write a final chapter for him that results in decades of jail time.

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American / Bar Food 20’s Pub Boasting freshly prepared sandwiches, salads and dinner specials in a well-lit tavern-like setting. LD • BAR • $ 3076 Riverside Dr. AP’s Hidden Hideaway Making homecooked meals like your mamma used tomake.Menu also features burgers, sandwiches, wings and more.

LD • BAR $ 4274 Broadway. Open Tues-Fri 3pm - 2am. Sat and Sunday at noon. Waiter service and outdoor seating available. (478) 781-5656 Bearfoot Tavern Downtown Macon’s only sports tavern with loads of beers on tap, over 50 craft beers (the largest in middle ga!), great food and flat screen tvs at every booth. LD • BAR • $ 401 Cherry Street. Open Monday through Friday at 4:00 p.m and Saturday and Sunday at noon.

Locos Grill & Pub Casual, kid-friendly, family dining. We’re talking great food, sports on the big screens and a full bar. Fantastic weekly specials and live music on the weekends. Delivery and catering also available. LD BAR • $ 2440 Riverside Drive.

The Rookery There isn’t a place downtown that has been serving us longer. Two time winner of Best Burger in Macon in the Readers Choice Awards. Sandwiches, fresh salads and house specialties. LD BAR $-$$ 543 Cherry Street, 746-8658 Texas Cattle Company Macon’s original premier steak house and banquet facility. Featuring hand-cut, choice-grain, aged beef, fresh seafood, in-house ground steak burgers and banquet accamadations for groups of 5-50. TCC will buy your dinner on your birthday, simply bring in a valid ID after 4 p.m. Open 7 days a week for lunch and dinner. Prices from $5.99 - $24.99. LD • BAR • $-$$. 5797 Houston Road.

Wild Wing Cafe Newly opened franchise at the Shoppes at River Crossing, fantastic wings in over 30 flavors, over 20 brews on tap, great salads and one of the few dining options in North Macon that offers live music on the weekends.

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Seafood Kudzu Seafood Company New downtown eatery featuring New Orleans-style po’boys and fried seafood baskets. Fresh salads also available.

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Pizza / Italian Ingleside Village Pizza IVP has the best pizza in town and the best beer selection. Keep it classy with the white pizza and a Stella Artois or, keep it real with a slice of the ultimate and a 24-oz.

High Life. LD • BAR $ 2396 Ingleside Avenue.

Sauced at Mercer Village Serving pizza, calzones, sammies and fresh salads, Sauced makes all their dough, specialty sauce and breads inhouse. Delivery available within the College Hill Corridor. (478) 743-4113.

Lunch Spots Harpin’s A mid-town lunch favorite, serving chicken salad, pimento cheese, deli sandwiches and fresh salads and daily soup specials. Call ahead for take-out or try their new Take ‘n Go cooler. 3378 Brookdale Ave (478) 742-5252

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The Downtown Grill Slightly upscale dining serving specialties like Andouille- crusted rainbow trout, cranberry and goat cheese stuffed filets and desserts to die for. Also features an extensive wine list and it’s own humidor. Free valet parking. D • BAR • $$-$$$ 562 Mulberry Street, 742.5999 The Tic Toc Room Contemporary setting with a sophisticated menu, great wine selection. D • BAR • $$-$$$ 401Cherry Street, 743.4645

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Macon Super Suppers Quick and delicious lunch served Monday - Friday 11am-2pm.

Large, full-service dining featuring Dano’s specialty sandwiches, salads, soups and desserts.

Grab your dinner from our Grab ‘N Go freezer while your here! 4524 Forsyth Rd Market City Café – Superb sandwiches, homemade soups, loaded salads, pizza and pastas.

Unique breakfast menu including gourmet coffees and teas. Dinner served Fridays and Saturdays featuring seafood and steak specials.

Full bar, excellent wine cellar. Open Tues-Thur, 7am-6pm; Friday and Saturday 7am-9pm. 502 Cherry St., Macon 257-6612 BLD • BAR • $-$$

Edgar’s Bistro City-chic and a foodie’s dream!

Edgar’s Bistro presents a dining experience that nourishes the body and soul. Open for lunch Monday thru Friday, Edgar’s serves as a handson training facility for the culinary students at Helms College’s Polly Long Denton School of Hospitality. Come dine with them on an array of New American selections of soups, garden-fresh salads, sandwiches and entrees. To view the quarterly menu visit Edgarshospitality.com/menu.

Yabu Sushi + Chic upstairs dining on Poplar Street. Serving inventive sushi rolls, nigiri and sashimi. Small plates and salads also available. Great specialty cocktail menu, hot teas and full bar available.

496 Second Street. Tuesday - Thursday 5pm 10pm. Friday - Saturday 5pm - 11pm.

Ginger Stir-Fry Located downtown, it’s Macon’s only build your own stir fry bar with over 500 combinations. Cool experience for the kids, not your average dining experience. You want it spicy, sweet, both? You be the judge, but don’t worry, there are recipe cards as well for the beWe deliver in the Corridor! ginner.

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Greek Corner Deli Serving delicious lamb gyros, monster greek salads, subs and specialty sandwiches 7 days a week. One of the few restaurants downtown open on Sundays and the only late night eatery on Saturdays 12:30am til 3am! LD • $ 587 Cherry Street, 254.3059.

Second location; Greek Corner Pizza also offers calzones, pizzas, greek firies and plenty of readymade desserts. Forsyth

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Describing the album as “a synthesis between their zany bluegrass sound and my long-suffering, implosive-depressive novelist view of the South,” White says it fulfills his “conniving goal to become a happy bluegrass man.”

Sounding like an ivory-tower academic one minute and a stand-up comedian the next, he says “versus” addresses the “conflagration of opposing mindsets” as an answer to the question, “What happens when we throw these two unlikely elements together?”

A unique blend of physical comedy, award-winning juggling and the extraordinary talents of more than 30 rescued performing pets.Voted Best Family Show in Las Vegas! “The New Yorker” named Gregory Popovich "One of the Worlds Best Physical Comedians”. Gregory Popovich performed on “The Tonight Show” with Johnny Carson, Jay Leno, “Late Night” with David Letterman, and was a finalist on America's Got Talent.

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$22+ Wet Willie, originally from Mobile, Alabama, relocated to Macon, Georgia in 1969, where they were signed to Capricorn Records, and began a relentless recording and touring schedule. They broke into the national charts with their Southern Rock anthem "Keep On Smilin'" in 1974, with other hits to follow during the '70's, like "Streetcorner Serenade," "Countryside of Life" and "Weekend" for Capricorn and Epic Records. Wet Willie continues to tour, currently in support of their most recent release Miles of Smiles on Atlanta's Hittin' the Note label.

Some people take up a life of playing music with the goal of someday reaching a destination of fame and fortune; but from the get-go, Keen just wanted to write and sing his own songs, and to keep writing and singing them for as long as possible.

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ARE YOU READY FOR SOME . . . HOCKEY?

Bubble Soccer!

Back in November of 2009, I penned an article as a Mercer University basketball season ticket holder encouraging this community to take an active interest in this great NCAA Division I community resource of ours and fill the arena seats.

“Rookie of the Year” in the American Hockey League and the East Coast Hockey League’s “Player of the Year.”

Newly named Mayhem Coach, Kevin Kerr, was selected in the third round of the 1986 National Hockey League Entry Draft by the Buffalo Sabres. In 2005, he became the all-time leader for minor league professional goals, retiring with 677 goals scored in a career that spanned from 1987 to 2005.

So I think you’ll agree that the Macon Mayhem is bringing some pretty impressive, experienced and tested leadership into our Macon-Bibb Centreplex Coliseum and Middle Georgia community. They’re doing their part, but the potential economic impact that their presence ultimately brings will depend largely upon the enthusiasm and support that you and I extend in return.

To those who envision the Mayhem as simply going the way of the Whoopie and Trax, I would respond that things here in Macon and Middle Georgia have changed significantly, and that this time around, we are currently on an upswing that this entire region has neither seen nor experienced in a number of decades.

Personally and in addition to my four Mercer University football and four basketball season seats, I have anteed up for an additional four season tickets to the Mayhem games to do what I am able to insure its success.

I would, therefore, encourage all readers to follow my lead by lending your personal and business support to this great regional and economic opportunity in every possible way.

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Well, a 2013 College Insider Tournament championship later, and a Mercer Bears victory over Duke in the 2014 NCAA tournament has now by and large brought fans into Hawkins Arena and regularly filled those seats to capacity.

Our next great community sports challenge is to become a hockey town as the Macon Mayhem of the Southern Professional Hockey League prepares now to take to the ice in the fall.

I am no stranger to minor league hockey. During my tenure in Richmond, Virginia, the Richmond Renegades of the East Coast Hockey League actually won that league’s championship title and throughout the season and into the playoffs, I was there in the stands cheering them on.

So, not only was I delighted as a Macon-Bibb County Commissioner to approve the initial contract with the Mayhem team, I was absolutely psyched as well that professional hockey was returning to Middle Georgia, and very optimistic about the potential economic impact that it would bring to its home ice community here in Macon-Bibb County.

As a result, I was among the first to greet and welcome franchise owners Bob and Diane Kerzner to our city last summer.

Prior to acquiring McDonalds franchises in South Carolina, Bob was a hockey player himself who obviously has not left the game or the sport.

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HAPPY TRAILS Local group creates Peach State Ale Trail connecting craft beer destinations

BY LEE GREENWAY

Ale Trail Founders Left-to-right: Lee Greenway, Chris Tsavatewa, Jonathan Dye, and Josh Epps.

Five years ago - and you can ask people who knew me back then - I was not a beer aficionado. I was not a beer geek. I was not even a beer drinker. If alcohol was to be on the menu, then I wanted a good, dry, red wine or a couple of fingers of bourbon or rye on the rocks. I’d enjoyed a few craftier brews here and there during my college days, and when I was feeling adventurous (or when one of my friends held my whiskey hostage and wouldn’t give it back until I sipped their Norwegian-hops-and-lychee-triple-malt-imperial-logarithm or something like that). But more or less, beer was what I drank when there wasn’t anything else around. And then one fateful afternoon, my father’s number popped up on my cell phone.

“I’m over at Goodwill, and they’ve got a couple of big boxes of homebrewing gear for $25. Want me to pick that up for you?”

I said, “Sure,” because I’m bizarrely addicted to starting new hobbies, and I picked up three big plastic totes full of beakers and growlers and extracts and some weird pump thingy from my parents’ garage that weekend. I was happy to have it, but I had no idea what that afternoon of my dad poppin’ tags at Goodwill was going to lead to - my own personal craft beer renaissance.

Homebrewing begat experimenting, experimenting begat exploring, and exploring led me to my current role as Ink Wrangler (designer) and Word Czar (editor) for the Peach State Ale Trail.

The state of Georgia is full of stories like that. Not exactly like that, mind you - I doubt there are too many craft beer fanatics who got their start at a 50% off sale at their local thrift shop - but the road to craft beer geekdom follows as many different paths as there are grains of malt in a mash tun. No matter where I go across the state, every drinker I talk to remembers their first sip of craft beer. And as every tale is told, I see the same expression spread across the teller’s face - a slow smile, a moment of reverie, and the spark of recognition as they realize they’re talking to Someone Who’s Been There, Too. Craft beer (a broad term that covers such diverse decoctions as five-gallons-at-a-time nanobrews and the bordering-on-macrobrewed Samuel Adams’ Boston Lager) is a drink, to be sure, but above and beyond that, it is an experience. It’s something to be enjoyed and shared, discussed and reviewed and dissected and celebrated and it was with that in mind that I found myself sharing an outdoor table at the Rookery last summer with Chris Tsavatewa and Jonathan Dye, talking about Chris’s new idea for a craft-beer portal for the state of Georgia.

Since that fortuitous evening on Cherry Street, what started as a few sketches, flow charts, scribbled slogans, and contact information jotted down in a dogeared graph notebook has become an actual thing, a one-stop shop for Georgia’s Craft Beer Experience. With backstories as varied as a Marvel comics pantheon, four Macon locals Craft Beer Evangelist Chris Tsavatewa, Systems Overlord Jonathan Dye, “Scrooge McDuck” Josh Epps, and your 24 FEB 26 - MARCH 11, 2015

correspondent the Word Czar/Ink Wrangler Lee Greenway - joined forces to create this portal - the Peach State Ale Trail - and to help celebrate the renaissance of craft beer here in Georgia.

“There has been tremendous growth over the past year; we have seen the number of craft breweries double,” said Tsavatewa.

The growth in Georgia’s craft beer industry isn’t strictly a matter of numbers, either - Georgia’s Monday Night Brewing took a prestigious gold medal for their Bourbon Barrel Drafty Kilt at the Great American Beer Festival back in September; Creature Comforts and Coastal Empire were also medaled at the event. Georgia’s new love for craft beer is beginning to be noted by fans around the country, as well.

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The Curious Case of Craft Beer Part of the allure to working on the Trail is sharing the stories of our fellow imbibers. One Georgia craft-beer drinker - Rodney Mangum, a Marietta resident for 20 years - got his start in craft beer during his time in the UK, quaffing English bitters at pubs around the British Isles, and has a powerful craving for English-style ales.

“This is the greatest day in the history of North America,” he told me as we sipped a taste of a right-proper bitter at the Atlanta Cask Beer Tasting in Atlanta last month, adding “the only way it could get any better is if they’d bring in some more British beers.”

Another, Caroline Lagoy, moved to the Peach State from our tiny neighbor up north, Rhode Island. She wouldn’t go so far as to say that Burnt Hickory’s beers were the reason for her relocation, but she did think that people ought to “...keep drinking locally. There’s so much awesome stuff out there.”

John Freeman, an Atlanta native who was attending his first-ever cask beer tasting, was a man of few words, but the words he did have were of praise for a smoky whiskey-barrel aged brew. “I’m kinda hung up on Jack Daniels.” He pointed to a cask being tended a few feet away. “I liked that one a lot.”

A few hours at the cask beer tasting event - an event admittedly geared towards the craft beer ubermensch types - drove home just how popular this thing has gotten here in Georgia. Cask beers are a relative rarity in the US (although they’re still rather common ‘cross the Pond), and your average drinker usually needs a little time to get used to their more complex flavor profiles and less-pronounced effervescence. Despite the relative obscurity of the subject matter, the cask beer tasting brought enough aficionados to Sandy Springs that afternoon to pack both the 5 Seasons Brewery and the adjacent Taco Mac to the rafters, illustrating a wonderful bit of news for fans: craft beer is exploding in the state of Georgia.

With new and respected Georgia breweries popping up at a dizzying pace, Georgia drinkers are facing an ever-growing selection of locally-made beer. At the Peach State Ale Trail, we’re trying to create a statewide community of folks in the craft beer world - drinkers, retailers, distributors, and those magicians of malt, the brewers themselves.

“Our vision is to connect the consumer to the breweries and access points across the Peach State,” said Tsavatewa.

The Ale Trail takes a few different approaches towards accomplishing that vision. If all you need to get you moving towards a craft beer is a map and a pulse, the Ale Trail’s website features a directory of breweries, beer bars, and growler shops around the state, on the Grab a Craft Beer page - and the site’s calendar is a compendium of upcoming festivals and craft beer events. If you want to drill down and get a little more detail from the world of craft beer, the Georgia Beer Buzz, the Trail’s blog, has news and reviews from around the world of Georgia craft beer.

To make passage on the Trail a little easier - whether a drinker is new to the hobby or a seasoned veteran - the Ale Trail also offers a Passport program, an annual membership card that affords its members discounts at craft beer locations all over Georgia, in addition to unique members-only swag and (at some levels) access to special members-only and “Black Koozie” events.

My own journey on the Trail started with the aforementioned afternoon meeting in downtown Macon, but the idea had been brewing for some time. “This is not a new concept, most successful craft beer communities, hubs, and cultural centers have some similar experience,” said Tsavatewa, citing examples from beer destinations such as Bend, OR, Asheville, NC, and Susquehanna, PA. “In reviewing all our predecessors across the country we determined there were several identifiable critical factors that were reflective of a successful ‘Ale Trail’ endeavor.”

For more details about the Peach State Ale Trail and to get the latest buzz from Georgia’s growing world of craft beer, visit the website (www.peachstatealetrail.com) or follow the Trail on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Pinterest, and Untappd at @GAAleTrail.

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Music of Macon Compilation Album Seeking Submissions NewTown Macon and Shadow Sound Studio are teaming up to produce an album of Middle Georgia’s best musicians. Submissions accepted between March 1 and March 31.

Macon is known for its music history and NewTown Macon and Shadow Sound Studio want Macon to continue to be known for its music scene. The partnership between Shadow Sound Studio and NewTown Macon is to create a compilation CD of Middle Georgia music to promote the great sounds coming from our local artists.

Macon Music CD Volume 1 Submissions will be accepted between March 1, 2015 at 12: 00 A.M. and March 31, 2015 at 11:59 P.M. Only digital submissions will be accepted through Sonicbids.com/newtownmacon and CDs will not be accepted. If you have any issues, please email music@newtownmacon.com. NewTown Macon and Shadow Sound Studio will not accept phone calls and will not provide feedback or comment on selection process.

Once submitted, a panel of judges will listen to and rate all submissions. Using these ratings, NewTown Macon and Shadow Sound Studio will collaborate to select ten winning tracks that represent a broad and diverse group of styles, artists and genres. Tracks do not need to be professionally recorded for consideration and all genres of music will be considered.

The ten selected artists chosen by the judges will have their track professionally recorded or re-recorded and produced at Shadow Sound Studio in Downtown Macon, at no cost. If needed, Shadow Sound Studio will provide production services and play instruments required to create the music recording. The ten-track record will be created into a CD with a locally designed sleeve case. NewTown Macon will own the master recording produced by Shadow Sound Studio. The record will be uploaded to streaming music services, and made available to all locally owned restaurants, bars and entertainment venues in Middle Georgia for unlimited playback.

Lastly, each group or performer of the winning track will receive 25 copies of the disc to give out for promotions and the group or performer may order an unlimited number of extra discs at cost. However, the artists may not directly profit from the discs.

In Summer 2015, Macon Music will host a promotional launch party for all of the winning musicians to perform for the community, at no cost. For more information please visit http://www.sonicbids.com/newtownmacon/

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THUR 3/12

Big Mike and the Booty Papas 20’S PUB

The Place Holders 20’S PUB

Good Night Alive w/ Variant THE HUMMINGBIRD

Chuck Courtenay THE CRAZY BULL

Big Mike & the Booty Papas BILLY’S CLUBHOUSE

Those Cats THE HUMMINGBIRD

Holman Autrey Band THE CRAZY BULL

Rob Walker & Eddie Stone WILD WING

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Orange Constant THE HUMMINGBIRD

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Matt Rogers Band WILD WING CAFE

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Loose Skrews WILD WING CAFE

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Tres Hombre AP’S HIDDEN HIDEAWAY Campbell Airlines BACKPORCH LOUNGE Macon Pops: The Music of Macon CITY AUDITORIUM

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Brett Eldredge THE CRAZY BULL

Jacob Powell CRAZY BULL

Colin Fountain Band THE HUMMINGBIRD

Big Bird Battle of the Bands THE HUMMINGBIRD

Matt Pippin Band TWANG

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WED 3/4 Moon Things THE HUMMINGBIRD

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Big Swig TWANG Matt Pippin Band WILD WING CAFE

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Tyler Hammond THE CRAZY BULL Albatross THE HUMMINGBIRD John Stanley Band RIVALRY’S Wes Heath & Josh Carson WILD WING CAFE

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Royal Noise THE HUMMINGBIRD

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Meat & Bread $3.99 Meat, Bread &1 $5.79 Meat, Bread & 2 $7.69 Meat, Bread & 3 $9.49 Vegetable Plate (3) $6.19 Vegetable Plate (4) $7.99 Founded in 1959 by Inez Hill and Louise Hudson, H&H Restaurant is a Macon institution. Mama Hill and Mama Louise have kept Macon’s most diverse clientele well fed with delicious, stick-to-ya-ribs soul food since Otis Redding was just an unknown band member in Johnny Jenkins’ Pinetoppers.

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FRIDAY, FEB 27 Big Mike and the Booty Papas @ 20’s Pub Big Mike and his Booty Papas are one of the most loved bands in Macon, playing around town and all over the southeast for decades.

Rock and Roll, Blues and that good old school country can be found in their set list, all with tons of personality.

Chuck Courtenay @ The Crazy Bull Chuck’s vocal prowess and dedication to the old-school values that made country music great the first time around have caught the attention of some of Nashville’s best and brightest. The fact that he’s come this far without the backing of a large record company --or even a manager-speaks volumes for the loyal support he earns from his devoted fans.

Those Cats @ The Bird Those Cats are a high energy Soul & Funk powerhouse from Statesboro, GA and have been described as “A band whose fresh, funky and soulful sound provides its listeners with a never-ending well of tastefully grooving tracks.

SATURDAY, FEB 28 Campbell Airlines @ Backporch Lounge Campbell Airlines is a fun and talented cover band based in Middle Georgia. They perform a variety of Rock, Country, Blues and Dance music.

Brett Eldredge @ The Crazy Bull Country up-and-comer Brett Eldredge has always been attracted to singers, a fact that should come as no surprise to anyone who’s heard the Illinois native’s soulful, distinctive

baritone. Voted CMA “Country Artist of the Year” Macon is lucky to have this chance to see this rising Nashville star. BRETT ELDREDGE IS SOLDOUT!!!!..However, they will have a wait line outside and The Brickhouse will be open at 10PM for non-ticket holders.

Matt Pippin Band @ Twang Matt Pippin has done it all in Country music and Macon’s lucky he’s still around, playing great songs and picking his guitar. He’s played with Jason Aldean, Faith Hill and more.

Go see this man!

THURSDAY, MARCH 5 Little Racer @ The Bird Written largely in the spring and summer of 2013 on a four-track recorder in a bedroom before the band went off to work, Modern Accent captures the strum of eggs and orange juice, melodies about nights with heads down on the bar, infused with a dollop of Coppertone, Sunkist and sweat. There’s a blend of influences in this New York sound - the combing through of decades of dusty vinyl guitar-pop has been simmered in the sweltering sun into six cohesive and memorable song Louise Warren @ Main Street Pizza Louise Warren is a force to be reckoned with. A singer, a songwriter, and a heartfelt performer she’s penned songs in the hundreds and performed all over the Southeast including venues such as the 40 Watt Club and Eddie’s Attic. Her song, “Cherish” was featured on Zooey Deschanel’s website, Hello Giggles and “Home” was the focus of a Super Bowl commercial just before the 2013 kick off.

FRIDAY, MARCH 6 Orange Constant @ The Bird The Orange Constant draws from different styles and musical experience to create something new and unique.

Being influenced by bands like Phish and Widespread Panic, The Orange Constant focuses their energy on live performances. These performances are always filled with positive energy jams and original songs.

Psycho Devilles @ Twang Atlanta’s Hot Rod Walt & the Psycho DeVilles are a super-charged, high-energy rockabilly show singing tunes about hot rod cars, mean women, and having a good ol’ time.

TUESDAY, MARCH 10 Triathalon w/Dalmatian @ The Bird (A Benefit for Sean Pritchard) Triathalon carries the basis of Motown surf sounds with a twist of experimental sketchyness. Come out and enjoy Happy Hour Specials all day! Mel Washington, Former member of All Get Out and close friend of Sean. Mel has had his fair share of great shows in Macon, but none will be as sentimental and meaningful as this one. Dalmatian, previously known as WoolFolk, is a quartet that rocks/grooves by combining psychedelic folk funk freak-outs. that rock hard. Their designer brand of “Southern G-Folk” mimics the fertile Middle Georgia terrain for which they call home.

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Notice is hereby given that Macon-Bibb County will receive sealed bids in the Procurement Department, Suite 800, Government Center Annex, 682 Cherry Street, Macon, Georgia 31201, until 12:00 o’clock NOON at the time legally prevailing in Macon, Georgia on Thursday, April Every NightRoad - Cj’s– Sports Bar 17,DJ 2014, forSaturday Reconstruct Full Depth Reclamation (2014) for the Macon-Bibb County Live MusicDepartment. and DJ at Midtown every Engineering Bids willKey be Club publicly Thursday-Saturday night Department Conferopened in the Procurement ence Room, on Thursday, April 17, 2014, starting at 2:00 o’clock p.m.

Bid documents may be examined and obtained at the Macon-Bibb County Procurement Department, Government8pm Center Tuesdays atSuite 9pm.800, Wed/Thursday Annex, 682 Cherry Street, Macon, Georgia 31201, Saturdays 8pm 20’s pub by calling (478) 803-0550, or may be viewed and downloaded from oneatofAP’s the links included below: Sundays 9pm-until Georgia Procurement Registry http://ssl.doas.state.ga.us/PRSapp/PR_custom_i Monday Baloon Pop @ Billys ndex.jsp?agency=61100 Bibb County website at Saturday Night @ Roasted with the Captain http://www.co.bibb.ga.us/ City of Macon website at Thursdays - Fridays - Sundays at 8 http://www.cityofmacon.net Backporch Lounge A Pre-bid conference is scheduled for 10:00 o’clock a.m., Thursday, April 3, 2014 in the 11th Floor Training Room of the Government Center Annex, 682 Cherry Street, Macon, Georgia 31201.

This conference is not mandatory, but highly Every Tuesday Night come play with friends for recommended.

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Whereas anticipate at Wildthe Wing Cafe base bid exceeds $5,000.00, all bids in order to be considered, shall be Every accompanied bid bond,Lounge payable to the Tuesday by @ aBackporch Owner (Macon-Bibb County), in amount not less than five-percent (5%) of the Base Bid. This bid Trivia every Thursday 7pm compete for $200 security shall become payable to the Owner only Sticky Fingers if the bidder to whom award is made should fail to execute a contract with the Owner and furnish Every Wednesday With Jason Hawk at bonds in accordance with the terms of the bid Margaritas Mercer Village within ten (10) days after notification of award.

No bid may be withdrawn for a period of thirty Starafter Teamdate Trivia Every Monday 7-9 (30)Alldays of opening.

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