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August 29, 2013

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SIGHTINGS

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CAN’T WE ALL JUST GET ALONG? APPARENTLY NOT.

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fter months of insulting his fellow commissioners and berating members of the city’s staff, folks down at the Marble Palace were trying to bite their tongues this week when Augusta Commissioner Bill Lockett asked his colleagues to clean up their behavior and be “respectful” during meetings for the good of the entire city.

“I want to make a concerted effort and I’m going to extend an olive branch to all of my colleagues,” Lockett proudly boasted during this week’s Administrative Services Committee. “We are going to begin to learn how to get together as a body. We may not be the best of friends, but we can be cordial with each other and we can come to the realization of why we are here.”

Lockett continued to lecture the commissioners about the need for the entire body to make good decisions and be “salespeople” for Augusta-‐ Richmond County.

“And I know we all have our individual personalities. No one of us is guilty,” he said, as some of his colleagues began rolling their eyes. “We all are to a certain extent.”

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to disagree,” and still be friends.

“I’m going to do my very best,” Lockett said, smiling. “I’m going to work extremely hard and I hope I can get all of you to work half as hard as I intend to work.”

Now, the usual drill after one of these “I’m being the bigger man” sort of speeches is for the commissioners to smile for the cameras and agree to do what is best for the city of Augusta.

But not this time. No way.

Apparently, too many of the commissioners have been burned by Lockett to let him pretend he is the new savior of the city.

Augusta Commissioner Wayne Guilfoyle said when he first saw Lockett’s item on the agenda, he couldn’t help but think of the idiom about the pot calling the kettle black.

“One of the things that we are going to learn to do is respect,” Guilfoyle said, adding that commissioners must stop calling one another names.

As Guilfoyle is talking, he is clearly directing his comments to Lockett.

“We should not be disrespected in the media every week,” he said, explaining that he would never disparage another commissioner via the media. “I never have,

never will. Two wrongs don’t make a right in my book.”

Then in a stunning announcement, Guilfoyle suggested that if the commission really wanted to improve its image, the board would agree to change the city charter to allow for a stronger mayor and fewer commissioners representing Richmond County.

“If we all want to do something good,” he said, “let’s change this charter, reduce this commission down to seven and then we will see changes by leaps and bounds.”

Lockett seemed surprised by Guilfoyle’s suggestions, but still thanked him for his comments.

But then came Augusta Commissioner Bill Fennoy’s turn to speak and he wasn’t playing games.

He picked up this week’s copy of The Metro Courier and began reading a quote from Lockett regarding last week’s vote to bring in the private company, McDonald Transit, to run the city’s bus service.

“The article says, ‘I kind of wished (former District 1 Commissioner) Matt Aitken had been there. When Matt Aitken was there, I knew what he would do. But to think I had the support of his replacement (Fennoy) and didn’t get it was a complete

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surprise and very upsetting,’” Fennoy said, as he read from the paper.

Fennoy looked up at Lockett, shaking his head.

“Now, how can any commissioner expect the respect of other commissioners when that commissioner criticizes another commissioner for the way they voted?” he asked.

Fennoy insisted he is not beholden to any commissioner on the board, only to the constituents of District 1.

“When I was sworn in, I let it be known that any vote that I make, I will make that vote because I feel that it is in the best interest of the community,” Fennoy said.

“It would not be a black vote. It would not be a white vote. And if the news media wants to look at it like that, then that’s their prerogative.”

If the news media gets it wrong, that’s one thing, Fennoy said. But when a colleague on the commission purposely attacks another, that’s a whole different ballgame.

“I never, not once, did I expect to receive public criticism in an interview by a fellow commissioner because of the way that I voted,” Fennoy said, as he began to raise his voice. “It is very difficult, when you say, gayle@themetrospirit.com

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‘Do as I say, not as a I do.’ You just can’t operate like that. And the best way to lead is by example.”

Lockett, who sat through Fennoy’s comments without moving a muscle, appeared tense.

Instead of apologizing for his comments in the paper, Lockett simply said, “I said I’m turning over a new leaf. I’m extending an olive branch.”

But looking around the room, many of the commissioners appeared to want to snap that olive branch in two.

Augusta Commissioner Grady Smith, who has had several run-‐ins with Lockett, explained that if you treat people with mutual respect, it will get you much further in life.

The last thing you should do is run to the media outlets to complain about a colleague, Smith said.

“I was taught, whatever I’ve got to say, I’ll say it face to face,” Smith said. “I’m not on Facebook, I’m not on Twitter, I’m not on the little electric things that people hide behind. If I have something to say to somebody, I will say it to their face. And out of mutual respect, try to handle it like a gentleman.”

While his fellow commissioners were making excellent points and trying to force Lockett to open his eyes about his own poor choices in the past, Lockett still chose to put up a wall and not apologize for any of his actions.

“What you and I got into, or what I got into with everybody else last week, last month, last year, that’s history,” Lockett insisted. “Let’s just concentrate on this day on.”

Even Augusta Mayor Deke Copenhaver, who initially thanked

Lockett for putting the item of the agenda, felt the need to share a story with the commissioners about the way their negative behavior can impact a community.

“This really hit home for me,” Copenhaver said. “I was talking to a lady who is an ER nurse that I know from the Y. We were on the bike next to each other and her son was becoming, I believe, an Eagle Scout, so he was required to learn about local government.”

The boy decided to attend one of the commission meetings in order to get a first-‐hand look into how the government operates.

“He came down here and sat, I don’t know when, but he sat through one of our meetings and went home and told his mom, ‘There is no wonder they don’t ever get anything done,’” Copenhaver said, adding it was sad to see a young member of our community get that kind of impression of the government.

“If we expect (children) to behave and not call each other names and act good towards each other, then…” Copenhaver paused a moment and decided to end his comments on a positive note. “I once again applaud you (Lockett) for putting this on the agenda.”

So the moral of the story?

If you’ve been a jerk, own it. If you want to move forward and change your behavior, be brave enough to apologize for your mistakes.

And if you want your child to become an honest, considerate Eagle Scout, don’t send him to an Augusta Commission meeting.

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n an attempt to open up the lines of communication between the city and his constituents, Augusta Commissioner Donnie Smith introduced an online journal last week to the city’s website (augustaga.gov) called “Commissioner Donnie’s Corner.”

While it sounds like a name for a kid’s television program, “Commissioner Donnie’s Corner” could get ugly because anyone, and everyone, is allowed to put in their two cents.

Smith says the purpose of the online journal, or blog as most normal people would call it, is to provide citizens information about various issues facing the commission.

“My goal is to gain input from those in District 7 as well as throughout the city,” Smith wrote in his first blog dated August 21. “This will not prevent others from commenting, but I really enjoy hearing from the District 7 constituents that elected me. I only ask that responses or questions be respectful and not rants about things out of my control, like national issues or foreign policy.”

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While Smith’s first blog details his hope to improve the city’s insufficient storm water drainage system and explains his reasoning behind not supporting a proposal to give $2 million to The First Tee of Augusta to fund the city golf course’s improvements, this blog could open up a floodgate of complaints and concerns from voters.

And when election time comes rolling around, Smith will have a online record of receiving complaints and a public record of whether or not he has responded to those complaints.

That could mean more fodder for a future opponent’s campaign, but Smith insists he is up for the task.

“I am sure this opening of the Commissioner’s Corner will cause some debate,” Smith writes. “I am thankful for that, as it indicates YOU, the taxpayer are concerned with the actions of your elected officials and the results of your government.”

We’ll see if Smith is still thankful for everyone’s comments come election time.

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AUSTIN RIGHT, JUDGE WRONG ABOUT KRISTINE HEATH To the Editor:

Thank you for publishing Austin Rhodes’ editorial (“Split-‐Second Mistakes Can Have Permanent Consequences,” Metro Spirit, August 22) on the sentencing of Kristine Heath last week. I live in Aiken and was not aware of the trial until yesterday afternoon and have been devastated since I heard the news.

I too have known Kris for many years and have had the opportunity to spend uninterrupted hours sharing views about life and relationships and such with her. She shared her pain and sorrow with me about the suffering she caused her friends and family, the Renews and those in the other car following the accident. This was months afterwards when she was finally able to resume a semi-‐normal life with the help and support of those around her. Helping care for the rehabilitation of her sister and working to pay their medical bills that insurance didn’t cover was her main concern other than putting one foot in front of the other.

She wanted to write the Renew family a letter or meet with them to express her sorrow for their loss, but was dogged by reports that Morgan’s father was still angry and was tailing her like a vigilante private eye reporting her every move to the prosecutors in Georgia. She was tortured by the accusations that her volunteer work with the children at MCG was the reason for her missing blood alcohol test and described living in a separate reality where a tragic accident in which her family members were severely injured could result in felony charges and possible jail time.

As a member of the legal profession, I tried to reassure her. “Cooler heads will prevail,” I said. “Once a little time has passed, everyone will realize it was just a tragic accident,” I went on. “No one is going to put a good person like you with no criminal record and such a supportive and loving family in jail for running a stop sign in the rain,” I concluded.

During the months that passed, we did not discuss her case anymore, preferring to keep our conversations to more upbeat topics like her nephews and her upcoming family reunion. But any suggestion to enjoy a concert or other event was always returned with a heavy sigh as the enormity of her situation weighed on her shoulders once again. “I shouldn’t,” she would reply. “I can’t be seen having fun or people will think I don’t care. It is impossible to believe someone would think I don’t feel remorse, I feel it every moment of every day.”

Her words haunted me as I read the judge’s impression of her feelings. The strength she mustered to face the repercussions of her mistake that day only undermined her in the end by making her appear like she didn’t care. The judge’s impression was a mistake too, though. The only difference is he won’t be going to jail for 20 years for his.

Paige E. Tiffany Aiken, S.C.

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On the Rhodes Again: Insects, Pain and Predictability

This past Saturday, I was stung

by a hornet for the first time in almost 10 years. As eight of those years were spent living in Georgia — a state that, if it ever learns how to militarize redjacket swarms, will singlehandedly recapture all of America for the Confederacy — I’m a little proud of that accomplishment.

I mainly credit my advanced evasive maneuvers; whenever I see something that might sting me, bite me or otherwise exist a little too close for comfort, I step to the side in a manner that can only be described as what happens when an epileptic octopus is shoved into a room full of strobe lights and dangling electrical cords. I once tore open my own shirt pocket in fear-‐spasm when a cicada bumped into me a few summers ago.

It’s funny, because I do have a relatively high tolerance for pain; it’s the shock of the moment, the immediate knowledge of coming pain, that affects me more than anything. That day, Michelle and I were out running in a wooded trail near our apartment. It happened with almost a mile to go and, though I slapped frantically at my arm and shrieked out a few phrases I really shouldn’t have on a trail that’s pretty popular with families, we finished the run without stopping. In fact, I probably ran even faster.

Afterward, walking the half-‐mile back to our apartment, the thing had started to swell up around the still-‐visible puncture mark: white in the center, and faintly pinkish on the way out. It was smack on the left forearm muscle, which had started to seize ever so slightly, and which is still noticeably more swollen than my right one. Texture-‐wise, it looks like someone slipped a sand dollar just underneath my skin. Shock passed, I 6

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can regard it objectively as it segues into simply another element of the world that encases me.

This initial realizing-‐of-‐pain is, I think, one of the reasons I was so hesitant to read Austin Rhodes’ column the week after I took him to task for his borderline demonizing of Trayvon Martin. I can handle criticism, I can handle backlash.

It’s only really tough to listen to when it comes from people or institutions I respect; in graduate school, I feared and looked forward to Tuesday nights when Alice Friman — GCSU’s marvelous poet-‐ in-‐residence — would produce copies of the poems I’d turned in the previous Friday; copies now, of course, bleeding profusely. The sessions were more enlightening and helpful than terrifying, of course, but that possibility, the dreaded awareness, was pervasive.

Back to Austin, regrettably. I wrote that initial column with the same sort of wariness that I would poke a blind, three-‐legged honey badger with a shock stick: it might thrash around impotently in response, but it could at least make your life a little difficult for a while. Plus, I’ve been told time and time again not to feed trolls; if you could anthropomorphize Rhodes’ and a Kardashian’s pathologically attention-‐seeking behavior, it would resemble the climax of “Pacific Rim.” For even nerdier readers, let me put it this way: everyone knows what happens when you fire a volley of missiles into the face of the Great Evil in “The Fifth Element.”

I said earlier that one of the things that helps me get over or forget any sort of pain is to try and regard it with an objective eye. Extract it from the self, place it into the larger context of the world, and you will truly begin to wonder

how you ever let so little a matter so grieve you. So when I finally went back to read Austin’s column, “Judge Thugs?

Damn Straight!” I was both relieved and perplexed: how, truly, could something be so predictably stupid?

I don’t want to spend a lot of time dissecting this mess, but here’s the short version: inferring parallels to Trayvon Martin that could only exist in the most narrow of minds, Rhodes recounts the story of one Travis Berrian, a man who was himself gunned down when he opened fire in a room full of armed law enforcement officers. As if implying that a convicted felon with a death wish was exactly the same kind of person as a trouble-‐making teenager — as if there’s any other kind of teenager! Ha ha! Amiright, Austin? — didn’t constitute enough brazen, drooling insanity, we’re then treated to this: “21 years ago I called for the mandated physical castration of convicted serial child molesters, and I have asked that those not yet in custody commit suicide if the urge to molest is moving them to illegal action. Throughout the years I have celebrated the executions of Ted Bundy, Timothy McVeigh and John Wayne Gacy. I am scheduled to be at the state execution of double murderer Willie Palmer, if it ever happens, and I will dance a jig the day Renaldo Rivera gets the needle for his sick, murderous rampage. I hate criminals, I hate those who harm innocents and I hate a system that seems to coddle these animals more than it corrects them.

Who am I to judge? I am someone, like most of you, who would never kill an innocent human being for love or money.

I will judge killers, and those who attempt to kill, much and often. We all do, and

we all better. Tiptoe around the death of a thug? Not me. Not now, not ever.”

I’d like to pause and thank Austin for fluffing my word count. Indisputably, this man’s bloodlust cannot be sated.

Why acknowledge that the upbringings of Ted Bundy and John Wayne Gacy were characterized by psychological, physical and sexual abuse? Because it would complicate this empirical hate for criminals that Rhodes seems to harbor. In his world, there is no room for gray areas: bad is bad, and bad must be punished, no questions asked. He despises “a system that seems to coddle these animals more than it corrects them,” and glosses over the inherent rhetorical canyon that exists between “coddle” and “correct.”

What does he mean? Is he referring to the programs in place to try and rehabilitate the incarcerated, to help them learn a trade and thereby avoid returning to a life of crime upon release? Prison music programs? Library study? Service dog training? Truly, no good can, has or ever will, come of these things.

I admit I was nervous to read that column. But the moment passed and, upon realizing that Austin Rhodes wants all criminals, regardless of transgression, to be treated like Alex in “A Clockwork Orange,” he wafted, like that film, into the realm of the surreal, the garish, the comic nightmare.

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Come Party With Us… And Bring Cash!

I am not sure whether to call this

“ballsy,” “audacious” or “ignorant as all Hell.”

Pick one; any of them fit.

Invitations to Augusta Commissioner Corey Johnson’s 40th birthday party went out a few weeks ago and, as you can see, the back of it had a fairly direct “suggestion”: birthday presents are not necessary, but “monetary gifts are appreciated.”

Been around a good long time, this is a first for me. A sitting politician (or someone on his behalf) asking not for political contributions, but for cold, hard cash in the form of a birthday present.

Commissioner Johnson is serving his last elected term for the city. Because his higher political aspirations have never been a secret, it came as no surprise that he used the occasion of this event to announce he is seeking the 22nd District State Senate seat currently held by Hardie Davis. Davis will be leaving his position to run for mayor of Augusta.

Johnson has had a good run on the commission, despite often running afoul of the outspoken political boomerang we all know as Marion Williams. That said, he needs to take serious stock of the way he carries himself, particularly in the area of finances.

Getting a little “glad-‐hand” in old Augusta is one thing, but if he makes his way into state legislative service, such “birthday parties” can earn the attention of those who tend to frown upon public officials soliciting gratuities.

If state authorities, or God forbid the IRS, start poking around his personal records after such an event, he could find himself in real trouble.

Corey should take the advice of the old timers around here and stick to “fish frys” and “bar-‐be-‐ques” where his henchmen can distribute tickets and pick up receipts.

Heck of a concept, though... and much healthier than tying it to all that fried

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food, and fatty pork.

Last Week’s Austin Rhodes Media Blitz I do not employ a publicist but, if I did, last week she would have gotten a bonus.

Aside from the column that I usually write, I was a topic of great interest in three different articles, in three very different publications.

In the Metro Spirit’s Insider column we had a piece suggesting I was “digging in for an extended campaign” in my ongoing battle with Richmond County Sheriff Richard Roundtree.

While I do not deny voicing objections to Tree when he sets bad policy, or makes a bad decision, I have given him credit for several good things I have seen in his nine months in office. Contrary to the piece, I have no problem with his name being on patrol cars, and I do not blame him directly for the DUI arrest of the TV reporter.

But yes, seeing as how I was one of the few people who campaigned against him that was not either put on the department payroll or retained on the department payroll (after his victory), I have no inspiration to become a Tree Hugger.

In his own weekly column in The Jail Report, the sheriff himself had a most bizarre response when asked why he would not come on the radio show so we could hash out our differences for the good of the community. I would reprint what he said here, but I would likely be accused of intentionally misquoting him.

Hand to Heaven, I could not understand what he was trying to say. This much was clear, though; he said he did not want to increase my ratings (we haven’t been in a ratings period since mid-‐June, and won’t be back in one until mid-‐October, but let’s not split hairs), and something along the lines that I needed to get my facts straight, or some such. Kinda ironic, the sheriff’s demands for pure accuracy.

His newly established and personally designed Public Information Office has

put out more corrections and retractions lately than the media can keep up with.

But hey, nobody is perfect.

And finally, my old buddy Corey Washington, a local author who has appeared on my show several times to promote three different books over the years, used about 600 words to warn the community about me in a featured column in the Urban Pro Weekly under the headline: “Austin Rhodes: The Most Dangerous Man in Augusta.”

At some point in the recent past, I went from being a great way to get the word out about his work, to being the Anti-‐ Christ. Who knew?

I haven’t beaten anyone with a baseball bat on Riverwalk, I haven’t knocked the stew out of anyone at Waffle House, I did not shoot up a neighborhood party with

a bunch of my homies, nor did I kill and decapitate any members of my family, but somehow I win this amazing and dubious title.

My parents are so proud (the ones I did not kill).

Got to chuckle about that one. That big, bold headline is going to look great framed and hanging on my bathroom “Wall of Fame.”

And how was your week?

AUSTIN RHODES

The views expressed are the opinions of Austin Rhodes and do not necessarily represent the views of the publisher.

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COMMISSIONERS QUESTION KEEPING SENTINEL IN STATE COURT STACEY EIDSON

The idea of Richmond County

State Court awarding a 2014 contract to Sentinel Offender Services, the private probation company that is currently facing several lawsuits challenging whether private misdemeanor probation is even constitutional, is not sitting well with some Augusta commissioners.

“I know that, according to media reports, this particular company has several outstanding and pending lawsuits,” Augusta Commissioner Bill Lockett said during the city’s Public Safety Committee meeting on August 26. “What has been done or what will be done to make sure that this government does not assume any liability in any of these particular cases?”

Chief State Court Judge Richard Slaby, who went before the committee to request the 2014 contract be approved, said he was not concerned about the lawsuits filed against Sentinel because they deal with the constitutionality of the entire private probation services.

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outcome of those lawsuits will be. Of course, obviously, if the court rules that private probation are unconstitutional those matters will be appealed, no matter which way the judge rules.

“But if the judge rules it is unconstitutional and the Supreme Court upholds that, then the county is looking at one heck of a cost insofar as providing probation services. Hopefully, that won’t be the case.”

But Augusta Commissioner Donnie Smith said the concerns over Sentinel’s service to Richmond County goes beyond simply the argument of whether or not private probation is unconstitutional.

“Judge Slaby, there are 10 lawsuits, if I’m correct, against Sentinel,” Smith said. “And most of what it involves is the violation of the Eighth Amendment, which says we won’t put people in debtors’ prison.”

After being contacted by some of the attorneys involved in the Sentinel cases, Smith said he had major concerns about renewing the company’s contract.

“At this point, we have been notified by attorneys representing these people that during the course of their business with Sentinel, their probation fees and

supervising fees have turned out to be $1,000 and the person’s original fine was $300.”

Slaby said he was not familiar with such claims against Sentinel and that judges have the right to waive probation fees if they feel it is appropriate.

“Sentinel has went and got warrants for people and put people in jail for not paying their portion of the fees, which is their (Sentinel’s) profit,” Smith said. “And I think that is the reason Columbia County and the Superior Court both have quit using Sentinel, isn’t that correct?”

Again, Slaby said he was not sure why both Columbia County and the Superior Court were no longer using Sentinel’s services.

In those cases, Sentinel did provide probation services for the Superior Courts of Richmond and Columbia counties, but those duties were awarded to Evans-‐based CSRA Probation Services when Sentinel pulled out after it later discovered that it did not have a valid contract with the courts.

With so much controversy surrounding Sentinel’s services, Smith told the commission that it would be

wise for the state court to begin looking for another private probation company.

“The legislature passed laws this past year to stop predatory lending where poor people were targeted with high interest rates where the interest became more than the amount that was borrowed,” Smith said. “Certainly, that applies in this particular case that Sentinel has done where the fine is one thing and it turns out they owe more in probation and supervision fees than the original fine.”

“I don’t see any difference between predatory lending and what Sentinel has done, do you?” Smith asked Slaby.

Slaby said he could not comment on such accusations.

“I don’t know what they’ve done,” Slaby responded. “I don’t know what you are talking about.”

There are cases where probation fees could be more than the fine, but Slaby insisted that is not necessarily Sentinel’s fault.

“An individual who has been placed on probation has got certain responsibilities to comply with the terms of the probation,” Slaby said. “But if you’ve got a particular instance, I’ll be 29AUGUST2013

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Richard Slaby glad to look at it.�

However, Slaby explained that all of the judges in the state court have been satisfied with Sentinel’s services. “We have all agreed that we would like to continue utilizing them,� he told the committee members. “They have always been very responsive to us. They have always been very diligent and professional in how they have dealt with us. Periodically, people complain about things. We have always looked into those complaints and we have always found a resolution or quite frankly found they aren’t valid.�

Slaby said the State Court of Richmond County has utilized Sentinel since 1997 and the judges feel comfortable extending its contract with the company. “It is a year-�to-�year agreement,�

Slaby said. “There are termination provisions in the contract. And there are limitations to the amount you can charge for probation fees. Some contracts don’t have that.�

From time to time, there are reports about people being abused by the system, but Slaby said he doesn’t tolerate such actions.

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“None of us will tolerate anybody being treated any other way than with courtesy,� Slaby said. “I’m not going tolerate them being abusive with people. I don’t believe in that. I believe you can accomplish a lot more by taking a more gentle tone with people.� “So, if anything comes to light that we don’t like,� Slaby added, “there are provisions for termination.�

The motion to approve Sentinel’s contract with the state court failed to get the required three votes, with commissioners Grady Smith and Lockett approving the contract and Donnie Smith voting against it. Commissioner Alvin Mason was absent from the meeting. The contract will go before the full commission on September 3. “I guess the thing that concerns me as a taxpayer is, if our Superior Courts have no confidence in Sentinel, and Columbia County has no confidence in Sentinel, then why are we still having confidence in Sentinel?� Donnie Smith asked. “That doesn’t make sense to me.�

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FUN WITH TUBES

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h, what a life!”

I’m pretty sure that’s what he’s saying to me right now. After all, just look at him, sitting there nibbling on one kernel of corn after another.

“Don’t look at me like you’re not in trouble,” I say in response to his innocent stare. “How many times do I have to tell you the wheel is off limits between 11 p.m. and 4 a.m.?”

Of course, I’m talking to the newest member of our family, a yet-‐to-‐be-‐named, brown fluffball of a hamster. I have to admit he’s a cute little fluffball, but the past week he’s taken to midnight runs on the wheel. The first night he woke the girls up, last night it was my wife and tonight it’s my turn.

“So little guy, now that I’m up, why don’t you tell me what cute little rodentia like yourself do in the middle of the night?”

I reach over and that did it. He’s gone straight for the tube.

It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to figure out that the tube is this little guy’s happy place. He’s spent most of his time with us curled up and hidden away.

At first we thought he was shy, but I’m beginning to believe he just likes the tube.

And it only takes a moderately contrived thought process to see why.

The tube limits the scope of your universe and gives you a sense of protection. Yet the tube provides an opportunity for exploration — who doesn’t get excited thinking about what’s around the next corner? The tubes at McDonalds and Chick-‐fil-‐A are some of our kids’ favorite places. And you’ll never admit it, but we all know you secretly got excited when they couldn’t find a way out, and you had to go on a tube rescue.

Hence it’s with no great surprise 10 METROSPIRITAUGUSTA’S INDEPENDENT VOICE SINCE 1989

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that the Hyperloop is receiving positive reviews. The Hyperloop is a theoretical form of high-‐speed transportation proposed by Elon Musk, the founder of SpaceX. The proposal involves placing a capsule inside a reduced-‐pressure tube, suspending the capsule on air bearings and propelling the capsule with linear electric magnets.

Musk theorizes that the capsule could travel over 600 miles per hour, transforming the trip from San Francisco to Los Angeles into a 30-‐minute commute. In addition, Musk believes you can build a Hyperloop for a small fraction of the cost of a conventional high-‐speed rail project.

So as I sit here watching a hamster wedge himself into his tube and contemplating near-‐supersonic travel through a 350-‐mile long cylinder, it occurs to me that I haven’t mentioned anything about carbon nanotubes or their potential use in constructing a space elevator.

Unfortunately, this faux rat has kept me up far to long to get started on a new topic. I’ll just reference the Georgia Tech Epic Welcome Speech and include a link: youtube.com/watch?v=98nNpzE6gIs. Enjoy!

Until next time, I’m off the grid @ gregory_a_baker.

GREGORY A. BAKER, PH.D, is vice president and chief rocket scientist for CMA, which provides technology services to CSRA buisness and nonprofits.

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CAN THE “GOLDEN BLOCKS” SHINE AGAIN?

The revitalization of Laney Walker and Bethlehem neighborhoods is well underway, but it could soon face a roadblock

Marion Williams and Bill Fennoy on Pine Street.

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s a young child, Neita Coleman spent many long summers in Augusta surrounded by her grandmother and a handful of adoring aunts and uncles in a close-‐knit community.

“About 30 years ago, my aunt used to live off Chestnut Street, right down from Wrightsboro Road,” said Coleman, now 42. “It was years and years ago, before the neighborhood declined a little bit.”

For Coleman, Augusta is home. So, when she moved back to the area in 2010 and accepted a position in the tax assessor’s office, she was interested in putting down roots. But the years had not been kind to the neighborhoods she remembered as a child.

In 2010, approximately 33 percent of the housing in the city’s historic Laney Walker neighborhood was in poor to dilapidated condition and more than 20 percent of the parcels were vacant lots.

In Augusta’s Bethlehem neighborhood, not far from where Coleman’s aunt used to live, the statistics were even worse.

About 70 percent of its housing was in poor to dilapidated condition and more than 30 percent of the parcels were vacant lots.

These historic black communities, which were once home to a diverse mix of thriving businesses and single-‐family residences nicknamed the “golden blocks,” were in a serious tailspin.

Not exactly the neighborhoods most single women would consider calling home.

However, almost a year after moving back to Augusta, Coleman began hearing a lot about the city’s Heritage Pine project on Pine Street in the Laney Walker neighborhood.

Heritage Pine is part of the city’s efforts to revitalize the two historic black neighborhoods using bonds that are reliant on future collections of the hotel-‐bed tax. The Laney Walker and 12 METROSPIRITAUGUSTA’S INDEPENDENT VOICE SINCE 1989

“You would have to see what this street looked like before this project began to really appreciate what has been done here,” Bill Fennoy said.

“There was blight everywhere.”

Bethlehem communities are guaranteed $750,000 a year from the hotel-‐bed tax collections for 50 years.

To date, Augusta’s Housing and Community Development Department has spent approximately $8.5 million on this redevelopment effort by acquiring 275 lots, demolishing 97 units and completing 19 new homes. Another six houses are currently under construction.

“I began reading about Heritage Pine and I came by the area to talk to some of the people who were already here,” Coleman said.

What Coleman found was everything she loved about Augusta as a child: A neighborhood that treated everyone like family.

“Everybody was very friendly and wanted pretty much what I did, which was to reinvest in the neighborhood and move it forward again,” Coleman said, explaining that she began envisioning a wonderful future as she walked along Pine Street and saw the beautiful homes with wraparound porches and rocking chairs out front. “Even at that point, I knew this neighborhood was going to be part of a larger picture. I was familiar enough with the neighborhood that I could see some changes already happening for the better.”

With these new homes starting in the low $100,000s, Coleman reviewed the project’s incentive plan for homeowners and decided this was an opportunity she couldn’t pass up.

“I decided I wanted to help this neighborhood be even better than what it used to be when it flourished with families and children playing in the streets,” she said. “Back then, you could go up to the corner store with no problems whatsoever. I don’t know if those days are coming back yet, but at least it is coming to a point where it is more family friendly and more oriented to people such as myself. Whether it be singles, young couples, school-‐ age people or professionals — blue-‐ collar and white-‐collar alike — this is a neighborhood for everybody.”

But not everyone in Augusta is as confident about the future of this redevelopment project as Coleman.

At a recent Augusta Commission meeting to discuss a request by the city’s Housing and Community Development Department for the approval of a $2.5 million bridge loan, Commissioner Joe Jackson was shocked to learn that approximately $45,000 a month was going to pay consultants working on the project.

“How much more do we need to give a consultant when you are down to $2.5 million?” Jackson asked.

If approved, the $2.5 million bridge loan will allow the city to continue the neighborhood development until the next bond can be issued in 2015.

However, the $2.5 million must come

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out of the city’s $30 million reserve fund, which makes several commissioners extremely nervous.

“This is going to be a loan,” said Augusta Commissioner Wayne Guilfoyle during the city’s Administrative Services Committee meeting on August 26. “How can we make sure on this bridge loan that we are guaranteed to get our money back?”

Augusta Deputy Finance Director Tim Schroer explained that this bridge loan is not a huge risk because the city has a debt service through the hotel-‐bed tax to pay for the bonds.

“There is always a potential for risk,” Schroer said. “But this is a nominal risk.”

Over the next few years, the project is scheduled to expand to include approximately 1,100 acres in areas along Holley Street, Wrightsboro Road, 12th Street, Twigg Street, Perry Street and 13th Street.

“This will not be just a five-‐year endeavor,” Housing and Community Development Director Chester Wheeler told the commissioners. “It will take us quite some time to turn around the challenges in the neighborhood in terms of quality of life.”

Last week, Augusta Commissioner Donnie Smith also questioned whether it was wise for the city to spend $6,000 a month to simply market the project to prospective buyers.

“So we are paying $72,000 a year in marketing and yet every house that we have down there is already sold,” Smith said. “What are they still marketing?”

Wheeler explained that it was part of the city’s mission is to “rebrand” the neighborhood.

“The neighborhood when we started was a very blighted neighborhood and there are large pockets of that still today,” Wheeler explained. “It requires a complete rebranding of the neighborhood so that persons who are interested in moving back in will have some comfort level of security… Unfortunately, these neighborhoods lost that over the years.”

According to Melaver McIntosh, a Savannah-‐based consulting firm hired to rebrand the Laney Walker and Bethlehem neighborhoods, its job is to help discard negative imagery connected with the neighborhood such as crime, blight and vandalism.

“Laney Walker/Bethlehem is at the physical heart of the city,” Patty McIntosh, founder of the marketing company, wrote in an August 21 memo to Wheeler and the Augusta Commission. “It is simply too physically proximate to the rest of Augusta simply to allow the process of demolition through disinvestment and neglect to reach its ultimate end.”

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out negative messages to the entire community and bring the city down with them, she wrote.

“Up until fairly recently, most Augustans had written off these two neighborhoods with a ‘do not resuscitate’ note tacked to all 1,100 acres,” she added. “If you were to ask what the vision was only a few years ago, you would have gotten blank stares or references to the way it used to be.”

This week, members of the city’s Adminstrative Services Committee unanimously voted to approve the $2.5 million bridge loan with the stipulation that Wheeler and the finance department must come up with a plan to leverage a revenue stream for future funding of the project.

“We will either need a continuing funding stream for this project or it will go dormant,” Jackson warned, adding that the city can’t rely on just the hotel-‐bed tax collections. “People have a misconception that it is a lump of money available right now. It is collected over 50 years and you can only borrow so much along the way.”

The Augusta Commission will face a final vote on the $2.5 million bridge loan on

magazine and the Association County Commissioners of Georgia and has been Home across the street across the Heritage Pine development project. highlighted in Georgia Trend magazine and Harvard University’s “Harvard Journal of Real Estate.”

Fennoy, along with Augusta Commissioner Bill Lockett, attended the National Planning Conference in Chicago in April to accept the award from the APA and HUD. “In receiving the award in Chicago, there were citizens all across the country who came up to Commissioner Lockett and myself saying they would love something like this started in their city,” Fennoy said. “And this is happening in Augusta. Personally, I would like to see this project expanded to other parts of the city, areas like Sand Hills because they are a lot of blighted property up there. And parts of Harrisburg definitely need attention. So I think this is just a beginning of future projects here to come.”

Walking alongside Fennoy, Commissioner Marion Williams said he has never seen a city project like this in Augusta before.

“At first, I was a little worried because

“How much more do we need to give a consultant when you are down to $2.5 million?” Joe Jackson asked.

September 3. If the loan is not approved next week, Wheeler said it would result in “serious financial implications” for the project’s future.

Despite the criticism of the redevelopment project by some of their colleagues, Augusta commissioners Bill Fennoy and Marion Williams insist that the positives of the project far outweigh the negatives.

Walking down Pine Street surrounded by beautiful homes that could rival those in downtown Savannah or Charleston, Fennoy said people who were familiar with the neighborhood three years ago would never believe it was the same street.

“You would have to see what this street looked like before this project began to really appreciate what has been done here,” he said. “There was blight everywhere.”

Now to have energy efficient homes with brick columns, wrought iron fences, nine-‐ foot ceilings and hardwood floors is truly miraculous, he said.

“I have been really impressed with the job that they have done so far and I think the fact that the project received a national award says it all,” Fennoy said, referring to the 2013 National Planning Excellence Award the Laney Walker/ Bethlehem initiative received from the American Planning Association and U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. The project has also received recognition from Southern Living 29AUGUST2013

it was kind of a slow start, but I see the difference now when you look at Pine Street compared to other projects around town,” Williams said. “Other groups like Antioch (Ministries) and 30901 (Development Corporation), all of those did some new housing and some rebuilding, but it wasn’t to the standard of what is on Pine Street. This standard down here is really just overwhelming.”

But as a growing number of commissioners begin to question the continued funding of the redevelopment of the Laney Walker and Bethlehem neighborhoods, Williams is concerned this project might begin to lose some momentum.

“I’m cautious,” Williams said. “I want to make sure we can continue that same quality throughout the neighborhood. I don’t want to do anything that we can’t continue to do. And I’m open to looking at how we can do it better or how we can save as much money as we can, but we still need to maintain the quality of the project. So, I’m cautious. You have to be cautious when you are spending that kind of money.”

And Williams is the first to admit that “rebranding” the Laney Walker and Bethlehem neighborhoods won’t be easy.

“To me, I see it as the elephant I’m always talking about,” he said. “You have to take it one bite at a time. If you are talking about rebranding this entire area at once, that’s an uphill battle. It’s a process, but you have to keep working, working, working. Those neighborhoods

Newly renovated home on Pine Street.

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Aging homes on 11th Street just down from Heritage Pine development. didn’t get like that overnight. It is going to take time to build it back up.”

But citizens can’t just look to the city government to improve the neighborhoods’ images, Williams said.

“The people who have properties in the neighborhood, they need to do their part by cleaning up, cutting back the vegetation and beautifying,” he said.

“We can’t let the city do everything. We, the people, have to roll up our sleeves and say, ‘Hey, I’m not going to let my neighborhood fall into disrepair.’”

In addition, the city has to be mindful of those residents who receive incentive plans to move into the newly renovated homes, Williams said.

“The building of the new houses and developments is always great, but it has to be affordable,” he said. “I don’t want to put a person in a house who is able to make the payments, but they can’t maintain it. Because the first four or five years with a brand-‐new house, you might not have any problems but, after that, you have to put some paint out there. You have to trim some shrubs and you have got to do some edging.

“You just can’t take a sling blade and go out there cutting grass in the front yard. You have to have a nice piece of equipment to work with. So, the 14 METROSPIRITAUGUSTA’S INDEPENDENT VOICE SINCE 1989

economic dollars also play a big role. All of this goes to together.”

For more than a year, Coleman has enjoyed her beautiful new home surrounded by neighbors who have become much like family. Everybody watches after everyone else, she said.

“Our homeowners association meets at the model home next door every month, so we get to tell each other about what is going on and if there is any changes, such as if there has been any suspicious behavior by anybody or anything,” she said. “But I’ve been here a little over a year now — I moved in last February — and I’ve had absolutely no problems. It’s been wonderful.”

In fact, considering Pine Street is nestled between the railroad tracks and the medical district, Coleman fully expected to bombarded by noise, both day and night.

“It has been so quiet,” she said, laughing. “Even with the existing neighbors on 11th Street, there has been no excessive noise or loud parties or anything like that. It is just a very quiet, peaceful, close-‐knit community.”

But Coleman said it is crucial that the project continues to receive funding in order to guarantee its success.

Just a few doors down from Coleman’s house are two dilapidated homes in dire need of repair. In both cases, there are holes in the roofs, excessive water damage and the porches are beginning to collapse.

“From what I understand, there has been a lot of talk about trying to restore at least one of those homes, and the other trying to get at least the façade restored on it,” she said. “But, if not, there is no other choice than for those homes to be torn down. So those two are in the works for a restoration project. We are Neita Coleman

just trying to wait and see if contract negotiations work out for both the city and the potential vendor.”

Coleman hopes that the entire commission understands that they are not just investing in two historically black neighborhoods, but in the future of the entire city.

“This project is not just about bringing back Laney Walker and Bethlehem as a historic African-‐American neighborhood,” she said. “It is about this neighborhood being a part of Augusta and a part of downtown. It has historical significance.

“So, I think the money invested for marketing will actually pay itself off in the long run. It is not going to happen overnight, but in five, 10 or 15 years down the road, this is going to be an entirely different place. A place the whole city can be proud of.”

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THE AESTHETICS OF DESIRE

NYC transplant Miozotis Pumarol makes the move into Augusta’s art scene VALERIE EMERICK

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ocal artist Miozotis Pumarol is what one might consider a renaissance woman when it comes to the visual arts. Originally from Manhattan, she got her start in fashion design and has also done illustration and fashion art, as well as 3-‐D pieces made up of recycled materials and jewelry making. She also does fashion photography and has plans to launch her own line of clothing within the next year.

A relative newcomer to the art scene in Augusta, Pumarol will celebrate her two-‐year anniversary in the CSRA this month. She made the move from NYC with her boyfriend, who is former military. He didn’t particularly enjoy big city life and she had never lived anywhere other than in a major city, so she thought it might be time for a change. The transition from “the big city” to Augusta has been noticeable, Pumarol said, but she appreciates being here.

“I definitely notice the difference between living in a big city and living in a smaller one because I’ve been able to be a lot more focused in my work — I guess I like that part,” Pumarol said. “It’s kind of a smaller community atmosphere — I’ve really changed my perspective and how I see people and how I even speak and communicate, actually, because when you’re from somewhere where everything happens so fast, and I’m a really jaded New Yorker, at that, I should be able to stop and sit back and appreciate nature and all the stuff Augusta has to offer.”

It’s not just the nature; fewer distractions and the slower pace that hold a draw for the artist.

She also likes the close-‐knit aspects of the downtown art scene.

“I love downtown in particular, in addition to all the forestry,” Pumarol explained.

“The art scene is small and it’s boutique and it’s nice. I like that I was able to maybe make a few friends in the short time that I’ve been here that are artists and people that have galleries. That’s been a real blessing.”

Pumarol has always had an affinity for beautiful things and refers to her art as The Aesthetics of Desire. Her work can be found in her Etsy shop online and she will have a booth at this year’s Arts in the Heart of Augusta, which will take place September 20-‐23.

In addition to creating her own art, Pumarol has started a branch of Dr. Sketchy’s Anti-‐Art School here. For those not familiar with Dr. Sketchy’s, it is a worldwide art movement that was started in 2005 by artist Molly Crabapple. From its inception at a dive bar in Brooklyn, Dr. Sketchy’s now has over 100 branches around the globe, including Los Angeles, London, Rome, Tokyo and Melbourne.

So, what exactly is it? During the course of an evening, artists draw glamorous burlesque dancers, compete in contests and win prizes. Did we mention that this all takes place in a bar?

The Augusta branch meets once a month at 1102 on Broad Street.

For more information about Pumarol or Dr. Sketchy’s Anti-­Art School, you can check her out online. septemberaesthetics.blogspot.com etsy.com/shop/miopumashop wix.com/miopuma/miozotis drsketchy.com/branch/augusta

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Bucksnort’s

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Manuel's Bread Cafe

The Highlander

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The Loft The Evil Streaks Monday, September 2

Sky City Will McCranie, Bain Mattox, John Krueger Saturday, August 31

Fatman's

fatmans.com 1450 Greene St (706) 733-1740

Sweet Lou’s Crabshack sweetlouscrabshack.com 13th & Broad (706) 922-1699

Frog Hollow Tavern

froghollowtavern.com 1282 Broad St (706) 364-6906

Pizza Joint

thepizzajoint.net 1245 Broad St (706) 774-0037

Mellow Mushroom

mellowmushroom.com 1167 Broad St (706) 828-5578

Sky City

skycityaugusta.com 1157 Broad St (706) 945-1270

Firehouse

1145 Broad St (706) 826-9955

Knuckle Sandwiches 1149 Broad St (706) 828-4700

abritishpub.com 133 Georgia Ave (803) 278-2796

Wine World

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Taste

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Metro Coffeehouse & Pub Happy House every day from 4-8 p.m.

Farmhaus Burger

Bee’s Knees

farmhausburger.com 1204 Broad St (706) 496-8771

beeskneestapas.com 211 10th St (706) 828-3600

Boar’s Head Pub

Rooster’s Beak

theboarsheadpublichouse.com 1135 Broad St (706) 723-5177

feedyourbeak.com 215 10th St (706) 364-2260

1102

Blue Sky Kitchen

1102 Broad St (706) 364-4075

Metro Coffee House 1054 Broad St (706) 722-6468

The First Round 210 11th St. (706) 364-8278

Whiskey Bar (Kitchen) whiskeybarkitchen.com 1048 Broad St (706) 814-6159

Soy Noodle House

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Pauley’s Steakhouse

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Eros Bistro

erosbistro.com 1002 Broad St (706) 303-8641

blueskydowntown.com 990 Broad St (706) 821-3988

Soul Bar

soulbar.com 984 Broad St (706) 724-8880

Playground

978 Broad St (706) 724-2232

Nacho Mama’s

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Stillwater Taproom 974 Broad St (706) 826-9857

New Moon Cafe

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Stillwater Taproom Mountain Express Acoustic Friday, August 30

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Bar on Broad

The Boll Weevil Cafe

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Club Rehab

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Joe’s Underground 144 8th St (706) 724-9457

Imperial Theater

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Mi Rancho

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Le Chat Noir

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La Maison on Telfair lamaisontelfair.com 404 Telfair St (706) 722-4805

Sector 7G

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Mi Rancho Cornhole Carolina Meeting Tuesday, September 3

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Cadwalladers Café 106 Davis Rd (706) 860-7444

Carolina Ale House

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Crazy Turks

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Hooters

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Cue and Brew

Limelite Café

Double Tree

Rack and Grill

2852 Washington Rd (706) 737-6008 doubletree.com 2651 Perimeter Pkwy (706) 855-8100

Edgars Grille

edgarsgrille.com 3165 Washington Rd (706) 854-4700

French Market Grille West frenchmarketwest.com 368 Furys Ferry Rd (706) 855-5111

1137 Agerton Ln (706) 731-0220 3481 Old Petersburg Rd (706) 855-7534

Rae's Coastal Café

3208 W Wimbledon Dr (706) 738-1313

Rhineharts

beyondcasual.com 3051 Washington Rd (706) 860-2337

Road Runner

roadrunnercafe.com 2821 Washington Rd (706) 364-3525

Bird Dog Grille Sunday brunch is 15 percent off with your church bulletin.

Pizza Joint

Sidetrack Bar and Grill

thepizzajoint.net 4301 Washington Rd (706) 447-4992

sidetrackbarandgrill.com 4027 Washington Rd (706) 863-8951

evanstownecenterpark.com 7016 Evans Town Center Blvd.

706-650-5005

Retreat Tapas Bar

Takosushi

4446 Washington Rd (706) 250-3717

takosushi.com 1202 Town Park Ln (706) 863-0606

Mai Thai

Rhineharts

Tbonz

beyondcasual.com 305 N Belair Rd (706) 868-6850

tbonzofaugusta.com 2856 Washington Rd (706) 737-8325

Lauras Backyard Tavern 218 S Belair Rd (706) 869-8695

Lady A. Amphitheater

CHEVY’S NIGHTCLUB 4272 Washington Rd (706) 210-9008

COLUMBIA COUNTY

Amphitheater 7022 Faircloth Dr (706) 868-3349

Limelite Cafe :gllge k Mh CYjYgc] Tuesday, September 3

Country Club McKenzies Mill Saturday, August 31

Somewhere in Augusta Comedy Zone w/ Kevin Lee & Cindy Pooh NJaa Wednesday, September 4

3851 Evans To Locks Rd (706) 814-5007

3328 Washington Road 706-250-3261

Sheehan's Irish Pub Calvert's Restaurant

J`af]`Yjl k Try the crab leg special with a tequila sunrise.

Tuesday, September 3

Mellow Mushroom mellowmushroom.com 4348 Washington Rd (706) 364-6756

The Tavern at the Bean beanbaskette.com 4414 Evans to Locks Rd (706) 447-2006

S. Augusta Coyotes Joe Olds Saturday, August 31

Robbie's Sport Bar

2834 Washington Rd (706) 738-0866

Shannons

300 Shartom Dr (706) 814-7760

Sheraton

sheratonaugusta.com 1069 Stevens Creek Rd (706) 396-1000

Somewhere in Augusta somewhereinaugusta.com 2820 Washington Rd (706) 739-0002

TGI Fridays

www.tgifridays.com 2800 Washington Rd (706) 736-8888

The Snug Steak & Grill thesnug.net 240 Davis Rd (706) 863-1118

Wild Wing Café

wildwingcafe.com 3035 Washington Rd (706) 364-9453

Coyotes

Road Runner Café

Villa Europa

coyotesaugusta.com 2512 Peach Orchard Rd (706) 560-9245

2508 Peach Orchard Rd (706) 790-8177

villaeuropa.com 3044 Deans Bridge Rd (706) 798-6211

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Pop-‐Up Jazz

Thursday, August 29 Live Music

Mellow Mushroom (Downtown and Evans)

Live and Local Polo Tavern - Riley Williams

Stables at Rose Hill Estate

Weston & Sandra Surrey Tavern - Stereotype Wild Wing - Tiki Barflys

FOR ONE NIGHT ONLY, the Augusta Common will turn into a jazz club when Garden City Jazz presents Pop-Up Jazz on Sunday, September 1. From 6-9 p.m., patrons are invited to bring their own seating and picnics to the free event, at which food and drink will be available. However, patrons can also purchase a table for 8 for $100, which includes swag, two bottles of wine and food. Live music will include Augusta Big Band Aggregate and Doc Easton & Friends. For more information, visit gardencityjazz.com.

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- Preston

What’s Tonight?

Chevy’s Nite Club - Karaoke Cocktails Lounge - Karaoke Coyotes - Electric Daze Fishbowl Lounge - Karaoke Fox’s Lair - Trivia, Soup and Suds Helga’s Pub & Grille - Trivia The Highlander - Butt Naked Trivia Joe’s Underground - Trivia The Loft - Karaoke MAD Studios - Open Mic Poetry and

Word w/ Tai Allen

Spoken

Mi Rancho (Downtown) - Karaoke par ty with Carolina Enter tainment Mi Rancho (Evans) - Karaoke The Playground - DJ Rana Shannon’s - Karaoke Sky City - ‘90s Night w/ DJ Richie Rich Soul Bar - DJ Mikey Surreal at Surrey - College and F&B Night Tavern at the Bean - Ladies Night Villa Europa - Karaoke Wooden Barrel - ’80s Night Karaoke

Saturday, August 31 Live Music

100 Laurens - Brent Lundy The Acoustic Coffeehouse

Friday, August 30 Live Music

Bean Baskette - The VaudeVillains Country Club - The John King Band Doubletree - Jazz MAD Studios - Dignity PI Bar & Grille - Live Jazz Polo Tavern - Pretty Petty Sky City - Shaun Piazza Somewhere in Augusta - Brandon Reeves Stables at Rose Hille Estate - Brent Lundy Stillwater Taproom - Mountain Express

Acoustic

Surrey Tavern - Stereotype Tavern at the Bean - Ar tist

Cody Jung

Wild Wing

- Dave Firmin and Whiskey Run

What’s Tonight?

Contest

Eagle’s Nest

Dance Par ty

Moseley

Mi Rancho (Washington Road)

Barnes

DJ

- Free Salsa Lessons; Latin

The First Round - Mix Masterson Fishbowl Lounge - Karaoke Iron Horse Bar & Grill - Karaoke Mi Rancho (Downtown) - Karaoke with

Chevy’s - DJ Dougie Club Argos - Saturday

and Show

Night Dance Par ty

The Loft - The Evil Streaks Savannah Rapids Pavilion

Road

Shannon’s

- New Holland

- Open Mic Night

What’s Tonight?

Applebee’s (Evans) - Trivia Chevy’s - Trivia Club Argos - Karaoke Joe’s Underground - Poker Mi Rancho (Downtown) - Trivia The Playground - DJ Rana Robolli’s - Trivia with Mike Thomas Somewhere in Augusta - Poker Wild Wing - Trivia

Tuesday, September 3 Live Music Shannon’s - Karaoke Contest The Willcox - Piano jazz

What’s Tonight? with

Carolina Enter tainment Mi Rancho (Clearwater) - Karaoke with Danny Haywood Mi Rancho (Washington Road) - Karaoke Ms. Carolyn’s - Karaoke Robbie’s - Saturday Night Dance Par ty Tavern at the Bean - Karaoke Wooden Barrel - Kamikaze Karaoke

Chevy’s Nite Club

Lessons

- Shag Night w/ Free

Club Argos - Karaoke Fishbowl Lounge - Dar t League Joe’s Underground - Karaoke

Limelite Cafe - Bottom’s Up Karaoke Mellow Mushroom (Downtown and Evans) - Trivia Mi Rancho - Cornhole Carolina Meeting The Playground - Truly Twisted Trivia with

Big Troy

Polo Tavern - Karaoke Shannon’s - Karaoke with Mike Johnson Somewhere In Augusta - Big Prize Trivia Surrey Tavern - Tubeday Tuesday Movie Night

Wednesday, September 4 Live Music Sky City - Savagist, Wild Wing - Acosta

Red Dir t Empire

What’s Tonight?

100 Laurens - Trivia Night with Moose Armando’s - Karaoke w/ Rockin Rob Chevy’s - Karaoke Cocktails Lounge - Augusta’s Got Talent Cotton Patch - Trivia and Tunes Hotel Aiken - Karaoke w/ Tom Mitchell Laura’s Backyard Tavern - Karaoke The Loft - Karaoke Mi Rancho (Downtown) - Karaoke Mi Rancho (Washington Road) - Karaoke The Playground - Krazy Karaoke with Big Troy Polo Tavern - Karaoke w/ Tom Mitchell Somewhere in Augusta - The Comedy Zone

w/ Kevin Lee and Cindy Pooh Njaa

Sunday, September 1 Live Music Jazz

Ryan

Mi Rancho (Clearwater) - Three J’s Karaoke Ms. Carolyn’s - Karaoke Palmetto Tavern - DJ Tim The Playground - DJ Rana Rebeck’s Hideaway - Open Mic Roadrunner Cafe - Karaoke with Steve

Chappel

What’s Tonight?

5 O’Clock Bistro Augusta Common

- Karaoke with Jeff

Soul Bar - Disco Hell Wooden Barrel - Karaoke

- Open Acoustic Jam Session with Eryn Eubanks and the Family Fold Country Club - McKenzies Mill Coyotes - Joe Olds P.I. Bar and Grill - Smooth/Vocal Jazz Polo Tavern - Jim Fisher Band Rub It In Lounge - The Jeremy Graham Band Sky City - Will McCranie, Bain Mattox, John Krueger Surrey Tavern - Funk You Wild Wing - Robin Dixon and the Midnight Moon Band

Cocktails Lounge - Latin Night Fishbowl Lounge - Karaoke Helga’s Pub & Grille - Karaoke The Loft - DJ Richie Rich Mi Rancho (Downtown) - Karaoke par ty

Showcase w/

100 Laurens - DJ Murl Augustine Armando’s - Karaoke w/ Rockin Rob Chevy’s - DJ Dougie Club Argos - Friday Night House Par ty Cocktails Lounge - Grown-Up Fridays with Cork and Bull Pub - Karaoke Coyotes - All Night Dance Par ty and Bikin

Monday, September 2 Live Music

Cour tland Saxon - A Jazz Thing: Pop-Up

- Sunday Evening Jazz w/ the Not Gaddy Jazz Trio Wild Wing - Hooker Bros The Willcox - Live Jazz Partridge Inn

What’s Tonight?

Mi Rancho (Downtown) - Karaoke par ty with Carolina Enter tainment Mi Rancho (Washington Road) - Karaoke, Salsa Dancing Polo Tavern - Bingo Night Shannon’s - Karaoke with Peggy Gardner

Contest

18 METROSPIRITAUGUSTA’S INDEPENDENT VOICE SINCE 1989

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RAISIN’ KANE IT’S NEVER TOO LATE Is it really September?

Where have the past eight months gone?

I mean, it just seemed like yesterday the calendar flipped to January 1. You remember that day. It was when you told yourself that it was time to get back into shape.

Since then, Adam Scott won the Masters and Miley Cyrus danced with bears on MTV’s Video Music Awards show. At least, that was the G-‐rated part of the performance… I think. Seriously, who is giving Miley career advice these days, Lindsay Lohan?

All right, back on topic.

So, how is that New Year’s resolution of losing weight going? If it’s not going according to plan, don’t worry. You still have plenty of time to whip yourself into shape before those holiday parties roll around.

However, it’s going to take discipline… especially at this time of year!

For me, football season is the toughest part of the year to stick to your workout routine and maintain healthy eating habits. Getting up for those long Saturday runs can get in the way of attending college football games or watching GameDay on ESPN. Trust me, missing Lee Corso donning a mascot head is not an option for this college football junkie.

In order for me to fully enjoy the best Saturdays of the year, I change my game plan just like any coach would. Those 8 a.m. runs turn into 5 or 6 or 7 a.m. runs. If I need to hit the road early and head out of town for a game, I’ll move the long run to Friday or Sunday.

The key for me is to not miss a run during the week.

The routine can be changed, but the runs can’t be missed.

So we’ve figured out the whole running/workout routine around football season, but what about eating habits? That’s a tough one. Last time I checked, most tailgate parties don’t offer many healthy choices. The hot dogs, burgers, nachos, subs and beer are constantly staring at you.

It’s difficult to scale back on consumption when you are hanging with your buddies. How can we count calories when we are too busy breaking down the opposing team’s 3-‐4 defense for three hours?

I could sit here and tell you to substitute that pre-‐ game cheeseburger with flatbread pizza squares and veggie skewers, but I won’t. It’s football season; enjoy everything that comes with it. Just don’t overdo it.

Remember: It’s never too late to reach your fitness goals that you set back in January, even during football season!

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BEER BELLY BE GONE

Beyond the Truffle Shuffle, belly fat is no laughing matter.

“Belly fat is like all fat: It can lead to heart disease, high blood pressure, obesity and diabetes,” says Ryan.

And since heart disease is the No. 1 killer of Americans each year, it’s time to get rid of your spare tire.

Do cardio. “Cardio is the best way to get rid of fat — running, jogging, bicycling, aerobics classes,” says Ryan.

But don’t skimp on strength training, either.

Building muscle helps your body burn fat quicker.

You can’t spot-‐reduce.

“You can’t do 1,000 sit ups and hope your belly’s going to be gone.” And all of those ab-‐this and ab-‐that machines won’t do squat, either, without the aforementioned cardio.

Drink your beer, but ditch the greasy bar food.

Ryan says stay away from chips and salsa, pizza, fried stuff and heavily salted foods — they cause you to retain water — and opt for peanuts instead. “It’d be great to say eat carrot sticks, but you’d probably get beat up in a bar.”

And speaking of water retention… increase your water intake. “When you deny yourself water, your body will retain water — it seems a little backwards,” says our expert. Ryan suggests drinking more water throughout the day and alternating some between

beers — the water will help filter the alcohol through your veins.

Take it easy.

“I think I speak for all guys when I say one of the things about beer is that you can’t just have one. We overindulge — and six packs will not give you six-‐ pack abs,” says Ryan.

He recommends sticking to just a couple of brews a night.

FITTER FASTER

GRIT is a short, intense workout that provides results

Photos by Sally Kolar Photography

When the four Gold’s Gym locations in the CSRA announced that GRIT sessions would begin in July, Sheila Huffman was interested. But she was also skeptical.

“GRIT seems pretty scary, and for the well-‐built and well-‐fit people. Not for me,” she said. “And, as much as I wanted to try it, I was scared off by it.”

Sheila was a Gold’s Gym member who, after experiencing a devastating personal loss, had fallen into a depression that included gaining a lot of weight.

“I not only lost hope in myself, but I lost me. I stopped believing in me,” she explained. “Yes, I went to the gym, but never fully recovered emotionally from the events of March 2013. My clothes did not fit, and I was wearing yoga pants. I had lost my confidence that I would ever slim down. Depression had taken over.”

Then, she had a chance conversation with Amber Smith. Smith taught Sheila in Les Mills RPM classes and explained to her how she could benefit from GRIT, a 30-‐minute, high intensity interval training session from Les Mills.

“Little did I know how much that conversation would change my life,” Sheila said. “I still have my challenges, but GRIT has empowered me, and has taken me to the next level. GRIT is challenging both mentally and physically. It pushes your body and mind. It exhausts you. But after the workout it makes you feel amazing.”

Sheila isn’t the only one who fell instantly in love with GRIT. Participants and coaches alike at Gold’s Gym can’t stop raving about it.

Smith, who serves as coach for GRIT sessions in North Augusta and at Bobby Jones, says she and others on her team have noticed the workout’s positive effects.

“I’m training for the Half Ironman (Ironman 70.3 Augusta) in September, and I’ve noticed a difference as far as the progress I’ve made with running,” she said.

“And I have another girl in my session who is training to do a half marathon and she’s noticed her run time is quicker than it used to be. And it’s just crazy because she’s only been doing it for two weeks. So it’s all about getting fitter faster.”

So how does GRIT deliver such incredible results?

The program, Smith explained, is broken down into three formats: plyometrics, cardio and strength training.

A half-‐hour plyo workout, done to six tracks of music, works on agility movements through exercises like weighted squats with overhead presses, lunges and mountain climbers. The strength workout focuses on squats, but also incorporates cleans and presses, jumping lunges, pushups, deadlifts and more. The cardio workout incorporates agility training, intervals, propulsion training, anaerobic interval training and a core workout.

Each of the three workouts relies on relatively short bursts of explosive movement interspersed with short recoveries.

“There are short periods of intense work and then short recoveries that are just put in there to bring it down and then you shock your body again,” she explained.

Sound intimidating? Just the opposite, say many of the eight women who participate in GRIT at Gold’s Gym’s North Augusta location.

“I loved it. I was hooked,” Holly Work said of her thoughts about GRIT after her first session. “It’s definitely hardcore and it’s a really tough challenge, but you feel the results. You feel yourself getting stronger.”

Shatia Green, who, before starting GRIT, had been going to group fitness classes at Gold’s Gym for three months to lose weight, said she knew after only a free GRIT demo that it would be a permanent addition to her fitness routine.

“Well, I was doing other classes at the gym but I didn’t want my body to get used to doing the same thing over and over again,” she said. “So after I did the demo with GRIT, I got addicted. I was sore, but it was a good sore. Sore, but stronger. I’ve been doing it ever since.”

Even those who’ve suffered injuries can participate in GRIT. “I actually shattered both of my heels when I was 18 and don’t have full range of motion,” said Jennifer Ives, another North Augusta GRIT participant. “I have never been able to have balance. Like, I couldn’t do a jumping lunge, not one, and I can handle at least half now and that’s just in two weeks.”

According to Coach Smith, GRIT is for just about anyone. The only exceptions are pregnant women and those who have just begun a fitness routine after a long period of being sedentary. Everyone else can benefit

from GRIT, and not just because of the exercises. The format of GRIT is also different.

GRIT, for instance, is not a group fitness class, but more like a personal training session in a small group setting. Those interested canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t just walk into the workout room and claim a spot; they must sign up for a monthâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s worth of GRIT sessions (not classes). And for that little bit of extra money, participants will get a coach (not an instructor) who, because of the small group size, is able to give each member personalized attention. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We go out there and correct your technique, help to motivate you, get in your face, drive you, and tell you that youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re doing good,â&#x20AC;? Smith said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;And weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll give you a hand to help you up at the end of your workout.â&#x20AC;?

To start a GRIT session, there must be at least four participants. The maximum session size is 10, but Smith said she likes to keep her sessions at eight. And because participants are working out with the same group of people twice a week, the group becomes close. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve created our own little private group on Facebook and weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re swapping recipes and nutrition tips, talking about technique and videos and stuff,â&#x20AC;? she said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;So it really becomes like its own group inside of a group. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s own little club.â&#x20AC;?

Besides the challenge of taking their fitness to the next level, most of Smithâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s North Augusta participants say that it is this camaraderie and personal attention that keeps them coming back to GRIT. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I definitely like the team aspect of it and having the coaches. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a lot better than doing a workout video on your own because theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re watching your form and making sure youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re doing it the right way,â&#x20AC;? Holly Work, whoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s training for the Disney Princess Half Marathon next February, said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re going to push you if you want to quit. Or if you want to do a lighter weight, they know you can do more so theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re going to push you and the members of the team push you.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;My coaches, I love them,â&#x20AC;? Shatia Green said when asked what she liked most about GRIT. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re so motivational because GRIT is challenging. But the coaches make it that much easier to push forward and go on to the next track. Theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re good about going around helping you with your technique. If youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re not doing it right, theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re correcting you. And trust me, you know if youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re doing it right because youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll feel it the next day.â&#x20AC;?

Participant Lesli Bolick agrees. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We have formed an amazing group of women, of all levels of fitness and goals,â&#x20AC;? she said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We push each other and motivate each other every single day. We really have gained an amazing bond throughout the past three weeks. Each and every women in the group brings something different to the group that one of the others may not have known, which can grow you as a person and your goals.â&#x20AC;?

Sheila, who has now lost weight, changed her eating habits and learned to focus on the positives in life, agrees, adding that she recommends GRIT to everyone she meets. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I am glad I joined GRIT, and I have never looked back since,â&#x20AC;? she said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It was the best decision I have made for myself. It has mentally and physically changed me. It is indescribable what GRIT had done for me. I wish everyone would just try it, and I guarantee they would be hooked for life.â&#x20AC;?

For more information on getting started with GRIT, email goldsgymaugusta@gmail.com.

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Woggles, Hate Bombs, Muck and the Mires

- Star Bar, Atlanta August 31

Upcoming

Allman Brother Band, Grace Potter & the Nocturnals

- Augusta Common September 6

Muse

Border Bash w/ Blackberry Smoke, Joe Stevenson Band

- Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre, Alpharetta September 2

Ritz on the Pavilion

- Evans Towne Center Park September 6

- Convention Center at Gwinnett Center, Duluth September 4

- Sky City September 7

- Georgia Theatre, Atlanta September 4

- Imperial Theatre September 13

- Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre September 7

- Stillwater Taproom September 13

Keith Sweat, Silk

- Cobb Energy Performing Ar ts Centre, Atlanta September 9

People Who Must, Tim Brantley

- The Earl, Atlanta September 9

The Big Local

- Centennial Olympic Park, Atlanta September 10

Brothers, Easter Island

- Georgia Theatre, Athens September 11

J Cole, Wale

- Aaron’s Amphitheatre at Lakewood, Atlanta September 12

Craig Waters & the Flood, Lingo, the Favors

Dumpstaphunk

Mountain Heart, Lera Lynn

Steely Dan

Jackaroe

The National, Frightened Rabbit

- Bell Auditorium September 14

- Imperial Theatre September 14 - Evans Towne Center Park September 14 - Sky City September 14 - Bell Auditorium September 15

Dirty Dozen Brass Band, Funk You

- Imperial Threatre September 16 The Politix, DJ Lee, DJ Bizzo

Chelsea Wolfe

- Aaron’s Amphitheatre at Lakewood, Atlanta September 14

Pet Shop Boys

Donald Merkle and the Blacksmiths

Lotus

Rodney Carrington

- Stillwater Taproom September 27

Midtown Music Festival w/ Red Hot Chili Peppers, Journey, Queens of the Stone Age, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Imagine Dragons, Phoenix, Jane’s Addiction, Weezer, 2 Chainz, Kendrick Lamar, Cake, Tegan and Sara, Artic Monkeys, the Black Lips, North Mississippi Allstars, the Neighbourhood, Capital Cities, ZZ Ward, Drivin N Cryin, the Mowglis, Mona, Reignwolf

- Sky City September 28

Paleface

- Sacred Hear t Cultural Center October 2

30 Seconds to Mars

-The Masquerade, Atlanta, September 15

- Sky City September 21

- Atlanta Symphony Hall, Atlanta September 14

- Stillwater Taproom September 21

- Georgia Theatre, Athens September 19

- Evans Towne Center Park September 26

- Stillwater Taproom September 26 Paleface

Radiolucent, Thomas Wynn, The Believers

- Piedmont Park, Atlanta September 20-21

Body/Head

- The World Famous, Athens September 26

Johnnyswim

- Tabernacle, Atlanta September 27

Super Bob, Blameshift

- Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre, Alpharetta September 28

- Old Academy of Richmond County October 3 - Sky City October 3 T. Hardy Morris

- Old Academy of Richmond County October 4 The Swanee Quintet

- Bell Auditorium October 6

38 Special

Fall Out Boy, Panic at the Disco

Jack Johnson

- Fox Theatre, Atlanta October 1 Fun, Tegan and Sara

- Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre, Alpharetta October 8

- Evans Towne Center Park October 18

Montgomery Gentry

- Imperial Theatre October 18

Rod Stewart, Steve Winwood

- Stillwater Taproom October 18

Lewis Black

The Grascals, Audie Blaylock, Redline

- Georgia Theatre, Athens October 12

The Mason Jars

- Philips Arena, Atlanta October 19

Blair Crimmins and the Hookers

- Cobb Energy Performing Ar ts Centre, Atlanta October 19

- Stillwater Taproom October 19

Bucktown Kickback

Austin Mahone

Mad Margritt

Switchfoot

- Stillwater Taproom October 25

- Tabernacle, Atlanta October 20

- Sky City October 25

- Center Stage, Atlanta October 20

- Sky City October 31

- Philips Arena, Atlanta October 24

- Stillwater Taproom November 2

- The Buckhead Theatre, Atlanta October 24

- Stillwater Taproom November 7

- Philips Arena, Atlanta October 26

- Stillwater Taproom November 8

- 40 Watt Club, Athens October 30

- Stillwater Taproom November 9

- Masquerade, Atlanta November 9

- Imperial Theatre November 15

- Arena at Gwinnett Center, Duluth November 22

Moon Taxi, Funk You

Nine Inch Nails

Band of Opportunity

Neko Case

Celia Gary

Selena Gomez

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- Stillwater Taproom September 19

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Depeche Mode

Turf War

Craig Morgan, Country Line, the Daniel Johnson Band

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The Cheaters

Between the Buried & Me, The Faceless, The Contortionist, The Safety Fire

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love to laugh at parents this time of year. Okay, I like laughing at most parents most of the year. Right now, though, we’re all trying to figure out what after-‐school activities we’re willing to commit to, which ones our kids want to participate in, and how we’re going to afford it all.

It’s a tricky balance. We want our kids to do fun things with their friends. It’s important to expose them to team sports, winning and losing, and a variety of cultural experiences. Blah, blah and blah.

It’s also good for them to have free time.

We’ve gone through phases when soccer has overlapped play rehearsal, which overlapped piano lessons. For about two weeks of the year, I think I might go crazy. For those of you with really, really involved kids, I don’t know how you do it. If you have a lot of really, really involved kids, you must drink a lot of wine.

Since he was about four, The Boy played soccer. For many reasons, he isn’t this season. I felt the need to replace the time slots once occupied by practices and games. Talking to The Boy, though, he’d like to ride his bike after school. Sounds good to me.

The Girl put all eggs in one basket.

One day per week, she takes two dance

classes. In the past, she’s played tennis, done swim team and acted in a play.

She loves dance. Otherwise, she wants to play in the yard. I’ve asked if she still wants to play tennis, to be sure we aren’t shortchanging her or anything. She says she’s fine for now.

They aren’t lazy kids. It may sound like they are, because we are much less involved than most of their friends. If they don’t want to be on a soccer team, so be it. The last thing I want is to pay a bunch of money to drag a kid to an activity that I have to watch after scarfing down Chick-‐ fil-‐A in the car. They love to play in the yard and go home with friends. We like sitting down to dinner as a family. They need time to do their homework.

Speaking of that, homework sucks. It’s repetitive busy work. From what I can tell, it’s probably creating good after-‐ school study habits; otherwise its benefits are lacking. Writing and rewriting spelling words can take a normally happy family and turn us into miserable fools.

Many of your kids are really talented.

She’s the star keeper on the soccer team. He has the highest ERA in Little League. The other daughter made dance company and travels for the tennis team.

As long as they actually like it, they should be doing it. We need to be careful about making them too busy. Being a kid

Hero Racers are encouraged to wear their favorite action hero costume! (pets as well!)

Awards for top racers, top fundraisers and best adult, child and pet costumes.

is important, too. I think it’s actually good for them.

Today, mine are outside racing cars on a chalk-‐drawn track. They won’t win any Olympic medals or scholarships for it, and that’s okay.

Last week, I got the nicest message from one of The Girl’s dance teachers.

I’d sent her one, telling her that we loved dance so much, and we couldn’t wait for classes to start back up again. She replied saying she was glad, and with The Girl’s concentration and drive, we might have a little star on our hands.

Now, I’m sure she says that to all parents. It’s a really nice thing to say.

I’m more interested in finding things

my kids truly enjoy doing. They don’t need to be stars. Most of them won’t be anyway. Maybe we can learn something from Miley.

JENNYWRIGHT lives in Summerville with

her husband, who she calls The Man, and two kids, who she affectionately calls The Boy and The Girl. She enjoys taking photos, cooking and playing tennis.

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Bennett Rhoads, Stephanie Weigle, Cassie Magill and Jay Weigle at Wild Wing.

Michael Balducci, singer Amy Christian and singer/songwriter Will McCranie at the Mother’s Finest concert at Sky City.

Caroline Floyd, Olivia Jackson, Danielle Layman and Sydneyanna Boyd at Coyotes.

Anna Goolsby, Callie Doyle and Erin Rollins at Surrey Tavern.

Dakota Bailey, Mother’s Finest’s Jerry “Wyzard” Seay and Erin Brands at Sky City.

Alicen Minyard, Gigi Garcia and Kristin Hilliard at the Country Club.

Scott Penland, Katelin Starnes, Chelsea Robinson and Cuylor Leverett at Takosushi.

Amanda Andrews, Brooke Jackson and Lauren Eubanks at the Indian Queen.

Iheanyi and Megan Usoh with Belinda and Chad Krueger at the Indian Queen.

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Sand Hills String Band practices Sundays through December 8 from 2:30-4:50 p.m. at Georgia Regents University’s Summerville Campus at the Fine Arts Center. Open to guitarists, mandolin and fiddle players. $59.

Call 706-731-7971 or visit gru.edu.

The Salvation Army School of the Performing Ar ts holds classes each Tuesday.

Included is instruction in piano, drums, guitar, voice and brass. Call 706-364-4069 or visit krocaugusta.org.

Sinatra Forever, an interpretive performance

by Rick Michel, is Thursday, August 29, at 7:30 p.m. at the Jabez Sanford Hardin Performing Arts Center. $30-$35.

Visit augustaamusements.com.

Live Country Music at the Fraternal Order of Eagles, 1999 Scott Road, is every Saturday night at 8:30 p.m. Admission is $5.

Call 706-790-8040.

Literary

Maxwell Morning Book Club meets Thursday, August 29, at 10 a.m. to discuss “The Alienist” by Caleb Carr. Call 706-7932020 or visit maxwellbookclub.wordpress.com.

Neka Doe Book Signing is Saturday, August 31, from 1-3:30 p.m. at the Headquarters Branch Library. Call 706-821-2600 or visit ecgrl.org.

Arts

Collage Your Life is Tuesday-Wednesday, September 3-4, and Thursday-Friday, September 10-11, from 6-8 p.m. at the Kroc Center. 2011 Ar tist of the Year Malaika Favorite will lead this collage workshop, which will teach par ticipants to use everyday items as inspiration for mixed media paintings.

All experience levels are welcome. Preregistration required. Call 706-922-1071 or visit krocaugusta.org.

Dollar Dog Days run through the month of August at the Augusta Museum of History.

All month, admission is $1. Call 706-7228454 or visit augustamuseum.org.

Day of Art, hosted by the Nor th Augusta Ar tists Guild, is each Tuesday from 11 a.m.-3 p.m. at the Ar ts and Heritage Center of Nor th Augusta and includes a group of ar tists painting in the center who will answer questions or allow visitors to join in. Call 803-441-4380 or visit ar tsandheritagecenter.com.

Corks & Canvas painting classes for adults 21 and over are held every Tuesday and Thursday night beginning at 7 p.m. and last 2-3 hours. Painting materials provided. Bring your own wine and clothes to paint in. $30; $25 with military I.D. Pre-registration required. Call 706868-0990 or visit pstudio.com.

Exhibitions

Mary Alice Lockhart and Marjorie Milne will exhibit their ar t August 30-September 30 at the Kroc Center’s Community Wing. Free. Call 706-922-0171 or visit krocaugusta.org.

GRU Department of Art Faculty Exhibition shows through September 20 at the Mary S. Byrd Gallery of Ar t at the 30 METROSPIRITAUGUSTA’S INDEPENDENT VOICE SINCE 1989

Summerville Campus. Ar tists include Kristin Casaletto, Tom Crowther, Suzette H. Hollins, Alan C. McTaggar t, Jennifer Onofrio Fornes, Randy Pace, Raoul Pacheco, Rosanne Stutts, Brian Rust, Joseph M. Tolber t, Chadwick Tolley, Janice Williams and more.

Visit gru.edu.

Mascaro’s Studio Artists will exhibit through the month of August at the Kroc Center. Ar tists include David Mascaro, Sharon Fausnight, Linda Lavigne, Miriam Katz, Linda Hardy, Alford Yong Ae, Gwen Urbanik, Terry Smith, Bonnie Lowery and Nancy Tussey. Call 706-364-KROC or visit krocausuta.org.

Exhibition for Harrisburg Outreach Photography Camp will run through the month of August at the Morris Museum of Art. Call 706-724-7501 or visit themorris.org.

Exhibition for artists Cathy Armstrong, Linda Hardy and Susan Porterfield will be on display through August 30 at Sacred Hear t Cultural Center. Free. Call 706-826-4700 or visit sacredhear taugusta.org.

Augusta’s African-American Pioneers will exhibit through August 31 at the Lucy Craft Laney Museum of Black History. The exhibit will feature many of the personalities that make Augusta special, from Lawrence Fishburne to James Brown, the Pilgrim Health and Life Insurance Company to the home of John and Rosa Tutt, and captures much of Augusta’s African-American heritage. Call 706-724-3576 or visit lucycraftlaneymuseum.com.

The Godfather of Soul James Brown exhibit is on display at the Augusta Museum of History. Call 706-722-8454 or visit augustamuseum.org.

Blast From the Past is on display at Augusta Museum of History to celebrate the museum’s 75th anniversary. Call 706-7228454 or visit augustamuseum.org.

Local Legends is a permanent exhibit highlighting Augusta notables on display at the Augusta Museum of History. Call 706722-8454 or visit augustamuseum.org.

Protect and Serve, an exhibit highlighting the stories of CSRA law enforcement officers, is on display at the Augusta Museum of History. Call 706-7228454 or visit augustamuseum.org.

Delightful Decanters is a temporary exhibit on display at the Augusta Museum of History featuring colorful bottles used to sell products as late as the 1970s. Call 706-7228454 or visit augustamuseum.org.

Music

Sinatra Forever, an interpretive performance by Rick Michel, is Thursday, August 29, at 7:30 p.m. at the Jabez Sanford Hardin Performing Ar ts Center. $30-$35. Visit augustaamusements.com.

Pop-Up Jazz is Sunday, September 1, at 6 p.m. at the Augusta Common. For one night only, Augusta’s downtown public park will be transformed into a pop-up jazz club, featuring live music from Augusta Big Band Aggregate and Doc Easton & Friends. Guests are invited to bring their own seating and picnic baskets, or reserve a table for 8 for $100, which includes swag, food and two bottles of wine. Visit gardencityjazz.com.

USC-Aiken Faculty Artist Recital is Thursday, September 5, at 7:30 p.m. at the Etherredge Center. Free. Visit usca.edu/ etherredge-center.

Kroc Book Club is the four th Wednesday of each month from 6:30-8 p.m. at the Kroc Center. Selections come from award lists such as the National Book Award, the Pulitzer, or the Critics Circle Award. Free. For the current book, call 706-364-KROC or visit krocaugusta.org.

Nook tutorials at Barnes and Noble in the Augusta Mall are each Saturday beginning at noon, followed by a Nookcolor tutorial at 12:30 p.m. Free. Call 706-7370012 or visit bn.com.

Dance

Augusta Christian Singles holds dances every Saturday night, beginning at 8 p.m., with free dance lessons at 7 p.m.

Dances are held at Ballroom Dance Center, 525 Grand Slam Drive (off Evans to Locks Road) in Evans. $10. Admission includes light meal or heavy refreshments, desser ts, soft drinks and coffee in an alcohol/smoke free environment, and music includes country, shag, oldies and more. Dress is casual (jeans are fine). All singles 18 years old and up are welcome. Visit christiandances.org.

Belly Dance Class is held every Tuesday at 6 p.m. at Euchee Creek and Wallace libraries. Pre-registration required. Call 706556-0594 (Euchee Creek), 706-722--6275 (Wallace) or visit ecgrl.org.

Augusta International Folk Dance Club meets Tuesday nights from 7:30-9:30 p.m. at the Augusta Ballet Studio on 2941 Walton Way. No par tners needed. First visit free. Call 706-394-5535 or 706-399-2477.

Zumba with Sohailla is held every Saturday from 10-11 a.m. at the Ballroom Dance Center in Evans. Call 706-421-6168 or visit zumbawithsohailla.blogspot.com.

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Theater

“Here on the Flight Path,” a production of the Aiken Community Playhouse that contains adult situations and humor, shows Friday-Saturday, August 30-31, at 8 p.m. at the URS Center for the Performing Ar ts in Aiken. $7-$20. Call 803-648-1438 or visit aikencommunityplayhouse.us.

Flix

Family Movie Night is Friday, August 30, at 6 p.m. at the Kroc Center. Limited seating; concessions available. Showing is open to the public. Visit krocaugusta.org.

Outdoor Movie Night is Saturday, August 31, at dusk (approximately 8 p.m.) at Reed Creek Park. Par ticipants are invited to bring blankets, beach chairs and snacks to watch “Ice Age: Continental Drift” on the big screen, and are encouraged to come early to stake ground and enjoy the pre-movie dance contest. $2 per person. Call 706-210-4027 or visit reedcreekpark.com.

Special Events

Fort Gordon CSRA Community Expo is Thursday, August 29, from 10 a.m.-2 p.m. and includes information and displays for both military and civilians. Free. Call 706821-1312 or visit for tgordon.com.

Labor Day Sidewalk Sale is ThursdaySaturday, August 29-31, in downtown Aiken. Call 803-649-2221 or visit downtownaiken.com.

Kiss Family Reunion 2013 is Saturday, August 31, from 1-7 p.m. at the Augusta Exchange Club Fairgrounds and includes vendors, recreation, a health and wellness pavilion, a car and bike show, live enter tainment by Marshall Thompson & the Chi-Lites, Hi-Five, Theodius Ealy, the Klass Band Brotherhood, Eric Mayweather and more. $12; $10 for groups of 10 or more.

Visit 963kissfm.com.

Fifth Annual Hard Labor Day BBQ Cook-Off is Monday, September 2, at 11 a.m. on Aiken’s Newberry Street. A benefit for the United Way of Aiken County, food will include ribs, Boston butts, baked beans, slaw and iced tea. Tickets are $8 in advance, $10 at the gate and $4 for those ages 6-13. Call 803-642-7661.

Hamburg: The Forgotten Town, a presentation by the Center for Ar ts & Heritage in Nor th Augusta’s Lauren Virgo and Milledge Murray, is Tuesday, September 3, at 7 p.m. at the Nor th Augusta Community Center. Free. Call 803-270-9400 or visit ar tsandheritagecenter.com.

First Thursday is September 5 from 5-8 p.m. in Summerville at the Midtown Market, 2113 Kings Way, and includes tours of the fire station, childcare provided by Hill Baptist Church, shopping, snacks, live enter tainment and more. Call 706-733-1788.

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Library each Thursday through October 24 from 4:30-7 p.m. All meats, eggs, dairy and produce will be from local and sustainable farms. There will also be cooking and fitness demos, as well as education, local ar tisans with handcrafted goods, live music, local food vendors and weekly events. Visit evanstownefarmersmarket.com.

classes help people give up all forms of tobacco. Registration is required. Free. Call 706-774-8094 or visit universityhealth.org.

Weekly Wine Tastings at Vineyard Wine Market in Evans are held 4:30-6:30 p.m.

Fridays, and 1-6 p.m. Saturdays. Call 706922-9463 or visit vine11.com.

Childbirth Education is Tuesdays beginning September 3, from 7-9:30 p.m. at University Hospital. This three-week series of classes is designed to inform and prepare all expectant parents regardless of bir th plans.

Class topics include various stages of labor, breathing and relaxation, and how to care yourself and your new baby. Free. Call 706722-9011 or visit universityhealth.org.

Saturday Market at the River is each Saturday through November 23 from 8 a.m.-2 p.m. at the 8th Street Bulkhead downtown and features vendors, food, drinks, enter tainment and a group run that begins at 8 a.m. Visit theaugustamarket.com.

Spine Education class is Wednesday, September 4, from 1-2:30 p.m. at University Hospital. This class is for those patients preparing for or considering spine surgery and includes a Q&A session. Free. Call 706722-9011 or visit universityhealth.org.

Wine Tastings are the first Friday and third Thursday of each month from 5-8 p.m. at Wine World in Nor th Augusta. $5. Call 803279-9522 or visit wineworldsc.com.

Natural Family Planning is Wednesday, September 4, from 7-9 p.m. at Trinity Hospital. This class provides information to couples who desire a more natural approach to family planning. Free. Call 706-481-7604 or visit trinityhospitalofaugusta.com.

Health

Mobile Mammography Screenings will be on the following dates and locations, from 8 a.m.-3 p.m.: Thursday, August 29, at Edgefield Medical Center; Friday, August 30, at Internal Medicine Par tners, 3121 Peach Orchard Rd.; Tuesday, September 3, at Belk in Nor th Augusta; Wednesday, September 4, at the Augusta Chronicle; and Thursday, August 5, at University Hospital. Free through Medicare. Appointment required. Call 706774-4149 or visit universityhealth.org.

Cribs for Kids, a safe sleep environment class for caregivers hosted by Safe Kids Greater Augusta, is Thursday, September 5, from 5:45-8 p.m. at the Safe Kids Office, Building 1010C, 1225 Walton Way. Families who can demonstrate a financial need will receive a por table crib, fitted sheet, sleep sac and pacifier for $10. Pre-registration

required. Call 706-721-7606 or visit grhealth.org/safekids.

Breastfeeding Class is Thursday, September 5, from 6:30-9:30 p.m. at Doctors Hospital. Getting star ted, latching on and positioning are discussed for a smooth star t to breastfeeding. Call 706651-2229 or visit doctors-hospital.net.

Center for Women Tour is Thursday, September 5, from 7-8 p.m. at Doctors Hospital. The tour, designed for attendance by both par tners, will help get par ticipants acquainted with the hospital and answer any questions about labor and delivery or Family Centered Maternity Care. Call 706651-2229 or visit doctors-hospital.net.

Beginning Sign Language Class is Thursdays, September 5 through October 24, from 7-8:30 p.m. at University Hospital. $45, plus $45 for the textbook. Call 706774-8559 or visit universityhealth.org.

The Living Well Workshop, a program designed to enhance the health and wellbeing of those struggling with a chronic illness or for those caring with someone who does, meets Wednesdays through September 18 from 1-3:30 p.m. at the Kroc Center. Free. Call 706-364-KROC or visit krocaugusta.org.

Weight Loss Surgery Seminar meets

Sleep Disorders Talk is Thursday, August 29, at 6 p.m. at Woodside Country Club. Dr. Nicholas Sanito, a pulmonologist, will discuss the diagnosis and treatment of sleep disorders. A free, light dinner will be served.

Reservations required. Call 800-882-7445.

The Happiest Baby on the Block Educational Session is Thursday, August 29, at 7 p.m. at Doctors Hospital. This class teaches moms, dads and other family members the techniques they can use to calm a fussy baby and to help baby sleep better. Call 706-6512229 or visit doctors-hospital.net.

Parents Healing Together is Monday, September 2, at 7 p.m. at University Hospital.

This class is for parents, families and friends who have lost infants through miscarriage, death, ectopic pregnancy or stillbirth. Free. Call 706-722-9011 or visit universityhealth.org.

Weight Loss Surgery and You is Tuesday, September 3, from 6-7 p.m. at University Hospital’s University Hear t and Vascular Institute. Par ticipants will learn more about weight loss surgery and options available at University Hospital. Reservations required. Free. Call 706-774-8931 or visit universityhealth.org.

Fresh Start Smoking Cessation Classes are Tuesdays, September 3-24, from 6-7 p.m. at the University Hospital Cafeteria.

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the second Thursday of each month at 7 p.m. at the Columbia County Library. Surgical options for weight loss available at Georgia Regents Medical Center, including gastric bypass, sleeve gastrectomy, adjustable gastric banding and body contouring, will be discussed. Call 706-721-2609 or visit grhealth.org/weightloss.

Yoga Class is offered by the Kroc Center every Saturday at The Augusta Market downtown, 10-11 a.m. Free. Bring your own mat. Call 706364-5762 or visit krocaugusta.org.

Yoga I offered at the Weeks Center in Aiken 8:45-9:45 a.m., Tuesdays and Thursdays; Yoga II is offered 8:45-9:45 a.m., Fridays; Evening Yoga is offered 5:30-6:30 p.m., Mondays and Wednesdays. $41 for 10 tickets.

Call 803-642-7631.

Tai Chi for Boomers is held at 6 p.m. every Tuesday and Thursday. Call 706 3940590, email sbeasley@augustameditation.com or visit augustameditation.com/taichi.html.

Stress Management Classes are held at the University Hospital Hear t & Vascular Institute at 8:15 a.m., 9:15 a.m. and 1:45 p.m. each Wednesday. Call 706-774-3278 or visit universityhealth.org.

Breastfeeding Class meets the third Tuesday of each month from 7-9 p.m. at Georgia Regents Medical Center. Led by an international board-cer tified lactation consultant, this class helps expectant mothers gain knowledge and suppor t to ensure successful breastfeeding. Call 706721-9351 or visit grhealth.org/classes.

Child Safety Seat Inspections are the first Friday of each month at the Safe Kids Office. Call 706-721-7606 for an appointment or visit grhealth.org/safekids.

Multiple Sclerosis and Parkinson’s Disease Aquatics Class meets every Monday and Friday at noon at the Wilson Family Y. Members, free; non-members, $5.

Pre-registration required. Call 706-922-9664 or visit thefamilyy.org.

Heart Attack and Stroke Prevention Orientation is held every first and third

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Monday at 6 p.m. and every second and four th Tuesday at 2 p.m. at University Hospital’s Hear t & Vascular Institute (Classroom 3). The class will explain some of the causes of vascular disease as well as early warning signs. Vascular diagnostic exams as well as advanced metabolic and genetic lab work are offered to develop a personalized plan. Free. Call 706-774-5548 or visit universityhealth.org.

Cardiopulmonary Rehabilitation covers topics such as coronary ar tery disease, hear t attack and CHF at the University Hospital Hear t and Vascular Institute. Program is held each Wednesday at 8:15 and 9:15 a.m., and 1:45 p.m. Call 706774-3278 or visit universityhealth.org.

Adapted Evaluation, a 30-minute initial and annual evaluation including medical history and water assessment, is offered at the Wilson Family Y. $25. Call 706 922-9664 or visit thefamilyy.org.

Adapted Special Populations classes offered at the Wilson Family Y. Members $11; non-members $22. Call 706-922-9664 or visit thefamilyy.org.

Adapted Wii Special Populations available by appointment at the Wilson Family Y, and feature individual half-hour classes for physically and developmentally challenged individuals of all ages. Members, $10; nonmembers, $20. Call 706-922-9662 or visit thefamilyy.org.

Childbirth Tours are offered the second Tuesday of each month from 7:30-8:30 p.m. and the second Saturday of each month from 10:30-11:30 a.m. at Georgia Regents Medical Center, seventh floor west, Labor and Delivery. The free tour guides expectant parents through the Labor and Delivery and Mother/Baby units. Information includes what to expect during delivery and the immediate days following, an infant security overview and general recovery tips. Advanced registration is required. Call 706-721-9351 or visit grhealth.org/classes.

Support

Moms Connection meets Tuesdays from 1-2 p.m. at Georgia Regents Medical Center,

second floor, Terrace Dining Magnolia Room and is a free weekly suppor t group for new mothers. All new moms and their babies are welcome and an International Board Cer tified Lactation Consultant/Educator/Perinatal Nurse will answer questions and offer resources. Free. Call 706-721-9351 or visit grhealth.org/classes.

Breast Cancer Support Group meets the second Thursday of each month, from 12:30-2 p.m. at the GRU Cancer Center. Call 706-721-4109 or visit gru.edu/classes.

ALS Support Lunch and Learn meets the second Friday of each month from 11 a.m.-2 p.m. at Georgia Regents Medical Office Building, 1446 Harper St., four th floor, room 4306. This suppor t group provides oppor tunities for individuals to share their personal experiences, and learn more about strategies for preserving the independence and quality of life for ALS patients and their loved ones. Lunch is provided. Registration is required. Call 706-721-4109 or visit grhealth.org/classes.

Eating Disorders Anonymous meets Tuesdays at 7 p.m. at Metropolitan Community Church, 557 Greene St. Call 706871-1384 or visit edaaugusta.com.

A-Team (Autism Spectrum Disorder Support and Resource Group) meets 6-7 p.m. the first Tuesday of each month. This free meeting offers education and support for families and friends of children with autism spectrum disorders, including Autism, Asperger’s, and PDD NOS. Parent, educators, community support representatives, caregivers, medical representatives and anyone affected by autism spectrum disorders is invited to attend. Call 706-721-5160.

Blood Cancer/BMT Support Group meets the third Wednesday of each month from 11:30 a.m.-1 p.m. at the Georgia Regents University Cancer Center first floor Community Room. Call 706-721-9134 or visit grhealth.org/classes.

Trauma Support Group meets noon1 p.m. at Georgia Regents Medical Center, four th floor west conference room 4069. Call 706-7219134 or visit grhealth.org/classes.

Look Good, Feel Better meets 1:30-3:30 p.m. on the second Wednesday of each month at Georgia Regents Medical Center, first floor Community Room. This is a suppor t group for female cancer patients. Call 706-721-0466 or visit grhealth/classes.

Overeaters Anonymous meets at St. Andrews Presbyterian Church, 7:30 p.m., Tuesdays and at Covenant Presbyterian Church, 1:30 p.m., Saturdays. Call 907-854-1509.

Multiple Sclerosis Support Group meets the last Monday of each month from 6 7:30 p.m. at Georgia Regents Medical Center, sixth floor. Call 706-721-5219 or visit grhealth.org/classes.

Alcoholics Anonymous meets every Sunday and Wednesday at 7:15 p.m. at Aiken Regional Medical Centers’ Aurora Pavilion, and includes an open discussion. Call 800322-8322 or visit aikenregional.com.

Adult Sexual Assault and Rape Support Group provides group counseling at University Hospital for those who have experienced sexual assault, incest, rape or childhood sexual abuse. Call 706-724-5200 or visit universityhealth.org.

Weight Loss Support Group meets the four th Tuesday of each month at 5:30 p.m. at Georgia Regents University Alumni Center, 919 15th St. Call 706-721-2609 or visit grhealth.org/weightloss.

Alcoholics Anonymous is a suppor t group for those who wish to stop drinking.

Call 706-860-8331.

Beyond the Bars is a suppor t group for those with incarcerated loved ones. Call 706855-8636.

Alcoholics Anonymous open discussion meeting takes place every Sunday and Wednesday, 7:15 p.m. at Aurora Pavilion in Aiken. Call 806-641-5000 or visit aikenregional.com/hospital-services/ behavioral-health-services.

Burn Support Group meets every Tuesday at 10:30 a.m. at Doctors Hospital’s

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Lori Rogers Nursing Library, JMS Building. All burn survivors, and their families and friends are welcome. Call Tim Dorn at 706-651-6660 or visit doctors-hospital.net.

Families Who Have Lost a Baby Support Group is offered by GRU. Call 706721-8299 or visit gru.edu.

Gamblers Anonymous is a suppor t group for those who wish to stop gambling.

Call 800 313-0170.

Celiac Disease Support Group. Open to anyone who has celiac disease, is gluten intolerant or on a gluten free diet. Group meets on the third Tuesday of each month from 7-8:30 p.m. at Trinity Hospital in Room 120 of the Summerville Professional Building adjacent to the Hospital. Visit trinityofaugusta.com.

The Chatterbox Club of Augusta, a suppor t group for individuals and their families who have experienced a laryngectomy, meets the second Sunday of each month at 3 p.m. at Trinity Hospital in the Sister Mary Louise Conference Room. Call 706-481-7359 or visit trinityofaugusta.com.

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Lupus Support Group meets at the Headquar ters Branch Library. Call 706-3946484 or 706-821-2600, or visit ecgrl.org.

Narcotics Anonymous meets Fridays and Sundays at 7:30 p.m. at Trinity Hospital of Augusta. Visit na.org.

Overeaters Support Group meets locally.

Call 706-785-0006 or visit trinityofaugusta.com.

Parents of Hearing-Impaired Children meets locally. Call 706-481-7396 or visit trinityofaugusta.com.

Reach for Recovery is presented locally by the American Cancer Society. Call 706731-9900 or visit trinityofaugusta.com.

Recovery Support Group meets 7:30 p.m. Sundays and Fridays. Call 706-855-2419.

Bereavement Grief Support for Adults meets the first Wednesday of each month from noon-1 p.m. at Aiken Regional Medical Centersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; cafeteria dining room A. Registration is required. Call 803-641-5389.

Alzheimerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Support Group meets the second Tuesday of each month from 11 a.m.noon at the Cumberland Village Library in Aiken. Visit aikenregional.com.

Education

Intro to Computers I is Tuesday, September 3, from 6-7:30 p.m. at the Wallace Branch Library. Call 706-722-6275 or visit ecgrl.org.

Brown Bag History Talk: Business Southern Style is Wednesday, September 4, at 11:30 a.m. at the Augusta Museum of History. Free for AMH members; $3 for non-members. Call 706-722-8454 or visit augustamuseum.org.

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Intro to Computers II is Wednesday, September 4, from 6-7:30 p.m. at the Wallace Branch Library.

Call 706-722-6275 or visit ecgrl.org.

Computer Hardware Basics is Thursday, September 5, from 10 a.m.-noon at the Diamond Lakes Branch Library. Participants will learn about computer hardware inside and out. Prerequisite: Computing for Beginners or comparable computing knowledge and skills. The class is taught in two sessions; the second session is Thursday, September 12.

Registration required. Free. Call 706-7222432 or visit ecgrl.org.

ESL (English as a Second Language) Classes are Wednesdays from 5:30-7:30 a.m. at the Friedman Branch Library. Free. Call 706-736-6758 or visit ecgrl.org.

University Toastmasters Club meets the second and four th Thursday of each month from 6-7 p.m. at University Hospital, Education Wing, third floor, room 3. Visit 9083.toastmastersclubs.org.

Intermediate Spanish Language Class is each Monday from 2:30-4 p.m. at the Friedman Branch Library. Pre-registration required. Call 706-736-6758 or visit ecgrl.org.

Beginner’s Spanish Language Class is each Monday from 4-5 p.m. at the Friedman Branch Library. Call 706-736-6758 or visit ecgrl.org.

Free Tutoring for all ages, offered

by GRU’s Literacy Center, is available by appointment Monday-Thursday, from 4-8 p.m., at the center at 1401 Magnolia Drive.

Appointments required. Call 706-737-1625 or visit gru.edu.

GED Classes are held Tuesdays and Thursdays from 5:30-8:30 p.m. at the Headquar ters Branch Library. Preregistration required. Call 706-821-2600 or visit ecgrl.org.

English as a Second Language (ESL) classes are offered every Tuesday from 6 7:30 p.m. at Headquar ters Branch Library.

Call 706-821-2600 or visit ecgrl.org.

Fort Gordon Toastmasters meets 11:30 a.m. each Wednesday in the Organizational Conference Room (Fish Bowl) on For t Gordon Army base. Open to the public. Visit for tgordon.toastmastersclubs.org.

Adult Hebrew Class is taught at Congregation Children of Israel at 10:30 a.m. every Thursday. Email office@cciaugusta.org or visit cciaugusta.org.

Computer classes are offered every Thursday at 6 p.m. at the Wallace Branch Library. Call 706-722-6275 or visit ecgrl.org.

Guided tours of 1797 Ezekiel Harris House offered by appointment only TuesdayFriday, and Saturday 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Last tours of the day begin at 4 p.m. Adults, $2; children, $1. Call 706-722-8454 or visit augustamuseum.org.

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Historic Trolley Tour of Augusta aboard the Lady Libby boards at the Augusta Museum of History at 1:30 p.m., Saturdays.

See historic sites and hear spooky legends, including the legend of the famous Haunted Pillar. $12, including admission to the museum. Reservations required 24 hours in advance. Call 706-722-8454 or visit augustaga.org.

Tours of the Boyhood Home of President Woodrow Wilson are held regularly. Adults $5; seniors $4; kids K-12 $3; under 5 years free. Reservations required for groups of 10 or more. Call 706722-9828.

Sports-Outdoors

Augusta GreenJackets home game is as follows: Thursday, August 29, at 7:05 p.m. vs. the Lexington Legends at GreenJackets Stadium. $1-$15. Call 706-922-9467 or visit greenjacketsbaseball.com.

Action Dash, a benefit for Action Ministries, is 8 a.m. Monday, September 2, at Trinity on the Hill United Methodist Church.

There is a 5K run and a 1-mile run/walk.

Par ticipants are invited to dress as their favorite action heroes and bring their dogs.

Registration begins at 6:30 a.m. $30 for the 5K and $20 for the 1-mile run/walk. Visit actiondash.org.

Couch to 5K Registration at the Wilson Family Y is September 1 for the program that meets Tuesdays and Thursdays at 6 a.m. or 7 p.m. October 9-November 15 in preparation for the Gasping Gobbler 5K on November 17. $15 for Family Y members; $30 for nonmembers. Visit thefamilyy.org.

Augusta Cave Masters meets the first Wednesday of each month at Firestation #15, 1414 Flowing Wells Rd. This group is a local grotto of the National Speleological Society. Call 706-726-7426 or email kfausnight@gmail.com.

Triple 8 Group Run meets at 8th and Reynolds, 8 a.m., every Saturday through October 26. Choose your distance: 3, 6 or 8 miles. Open to everyone. Visit theaugustamarket.com.

Adult swim lessons are offered at the Family Y of Downtown Augusta for ages 13 and up. Days and times vary by branch. Members $55 per month; non-members $85 per month.

Registration required. Visit thefamilyy.org.

Olympic-style Tae Kwon Do, taught by Master Michael L. Weintraub, is each Tuesday and Friday at 5:30 p.m. at the Kroc Center.

Call 706-364-5762 or visit krocaugusta.com.

Tae Kwon Do is offered at the Wilson Family Y, Family Y of Augusta South and Family Y of Nor th Augusta. Registration required. Visit thefamilyy.org.

Kickball League registration is available for a new adult co-ed league at Riverview Park. Call 941-716-3163 or visit augustakickball.com.

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ACTION DASH Action Dash, a benefit for Action Ministries, is 8 a.m. Monday, September 2, at Trinity on the Hill United Methodist Church. There is a 5K run and a 1-mile run/walk.

Participants are invited to dress as their favorite action heroes and bring their dogs. Registration begins at 6:30 a.m. $30 for the 5K and $20 for the 1-mile run/walk.

Visit actiondash.org.

Wheelchair Tennis Clinic, presented by the Walton Foundation for Independence, meets each Monday at 6 p.m. (weather permitting) at The Club at Rae’s Creek. Free and open to the public. Call 706-826-5809 or email alsalley@wrh.org.

Weekly Group Runs include the Monday Metro Run meeting at Metro Coffeehouse at 6 p.m.; Monday Intervals meeting at the Family Y track on Wheeler Road at 7 p.m.; the Tuesday Nacho Mama’s Group Run at 6 p.m.; Wednesday’s Blanchard Woods Group Run at 6 p.m.; Wednesday Stay in Shape Group Run at 6 p.m.; Wednesday’s Post Office Hill Training Run at 7 p.m.; Thursday’s Homer Hustle at 6 p.m.; and Saturday’s Stay in Shape Run at 8 a.m.

Visit augustastriders.com.

Bring a pair of cleats or cross trainers, a mouthguard, gym shor ts and a T-shir t. Visit augustarugby.org or Facebook under the Augusta Rugby Club heading.

Hott Shott Disc Golf is held each Wednesday at 7 p.m. at Killer B Disc Golf in downtown Augusta, and features games and prizes for all ages and skill levels. $2.

Call 706-814-7514 or visit killerbdiscgolf. blogspot.com/p/hott-shott.

Thursday Night Chain Reaction Ride begins at 6 p.m. each Thursday at Patriots Park in Grovetown. For intermediate to fastpaced cyclists, who average 25-32 miles.

Par ticipants should bring their own water and helmet. Call 706-855-2024 or visit chainreactionbicycles.net.

The Augusta Furies Women’s Rugby Football Club practices 6-8 p.m. on Tuesdays and Thursdays at Julian Smith Casino for players 18 and up. Email augusta. furies@gmail.com or visit augustafuries.org.

Riverview Disc Golf League meets each Thursday at 6 p.m. at Riverview Park in Nor th Augusta. Entry fee, $5; ace pool, $1. Call 803-215-8181 or visit augustadiscgolf.com.

The Augusta Rugby Club holds weekly practice sessions at 6:30 p.m. on Tuesdays and Thursdays at the Larry Bray Memorial Pitch in Augusta. Experienced players and newbies ages 18 and up are welcome.

Road Bike Ride meets each Thursday at 6:30 p.m. at Andy Jordan’s Bicycle Warehouse downtown for an approximately 25-mile ride at a moderate to fast pace. Front and rear lights, as well as a helmet, are required. Call 706-724-6777 or visit andyjordans.com.

Guided Trail Rides at Hilltop Riding Stables at For t Gordon are available Saturdays at 9 a.m., 10:30 a.m., noon, 1:30 p.m. and 3 p.m.; Sundays at 9 a.m., 10:30 a.m. and noon; and Wednesday-Friday at 11 a.m. with reservations 24 hours in advance.

All trail rides are on a first-come, first-served basis, and par ticipants should arrive 30 minutes prior to the trail ride star ting for sign in procedures. $23-$30. Call 706-791-4864 or visit for tgordon.com.

Lakeside Rideouts at Hilltop Riding Stables at For t Gordon are each Sunday beginning at 1:30 p.m. on a first-come, first-served basis. The ride, which begins at 2 p.m., is a two-hour guided ride to Wilkerson Lake. $45-$50. Call 706-791-4864 or visit for tgordon.com.

Adapted Aquatics for Special Populations offered at the Wilson Family Y by appointment. Members, $11 per session; non-members, $22 per session. Discount for additional siblings. Call 706-922-9664 or visit thefamilyy.org.

The Augusta Fencers Club is open five nights a week from 5:30-9 p.m. and most Saturday mornings from 10 a.m.-noon.

Visitors always welcome. Call 706-722-8878.

BlazeSports Swim Team, for all ages of physically challenged swimmers who want to train for competition, meets at the Wilson Family Y. Members, $35 a month; non-members, $50 a month. Pre-registration required. Visit thefamilyy.org.

Civil War 150th Canal Tour, “Food, Fabric and Firepower,” is offered by the Augusta Canal Interpretive Center at 1:30 p.m. daily through 2013. Call 706-823-0440 or visit augustacanal.com.

Kids-Teens

Auditions for the Greater Augusta Youth Orchestra is Monday, August 26, from 6-7:30 p.m. at Georgia Regents University’s Summerville Campus in the Fine Ar ts Center. For experienced middle- and high-school string players, those interested

should call or email to schedule an audition appointment. Call 706-731-7971 or email consprog@gru.edu.

Lego Club is Friday, August 30, from 4-5:15 p.m. at the Nor th Augusta Branch Library. Open to grades K-5. Free. Call 803279-5767 or visit abbe-lib.org.

Children’s Matinee: “A Monster in Paris” will be shown Saturday, August 31, at 2 p.m. at the Headquar ters Branch Library. Free.

Call 706-821-2623 or visit ecgrl.org.

School Days Out, for students in grades K-5, is available Monday, September 2, at the following Family Y locations: Aiken, Nor th Augusta, Nor th Jefferson and Wilson. Visit thefamilyy.org.

Early Release Movie: “Robin Hood” will be shown Wednesday, September 4, at 4 p.m. at the Nor th Augusta Branch Library. Free.

Call 803-279-5767 or visit abbe-lib.org.

Watson-Brown Foundation Junior Board needs members. Looking for high school students to spend one evening a month learning about historic preservation, grants and philanthropy. Call 706-595-7777, email mzupan@hickory-hill.org or visit hickory-hill.org.

DuPont Planetarium shows for Saturdays in August are “Mission to Mars” at 7 and 8 p.m. and “Digistar Vir tual Journey” at 9 p.m. Weather permitting, the observatory, housing the Bechtel Telescope, will be available for viewing after each show. General admission $4.50; seniors $3.50; 4K-12 $2.50; valid college or military I.D. gets you a 50-percent discount; USCA faculty, staff and students $1. Kids under 4 not permitted in public viewings. Reservations encouraged.

Call 803-641-3654.

Georgia Connections Academy, a free vir tual public char ter school has spots for 1,000 K-12 students in Georgia. Call 800382-6010 or visit connectionsacademy.com/ georgia-school/enrollment/home.aspx.

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program for kids ages 5-13, meets Tuesdays and Thursdays. Ages 5-7 meet at 4 p.m.; ages 8-10 meet at 5 p.m.; ages 11-13 meet at 6 p.m. Call 706-394-0590 or visit augustameditation.com/ taichi.html.

Preschool Story Time is every Tuesday at Headquar ters Branch Library at 10 a.m.

Toddler Story Time is every Wednesday at 10 a.m. Group registration required. Call 706821-2600 or visit ecgrl.org.

Preschool Story Time is held every Tuesday at 10 a.m. at Friedman Branch Library. Groups of six or more must preregister. Call 706-736-6758 or visit ecgrl.org.

Story Time is every Tuesday at 10:30 a.m. at Harlem Branch Library. Call 706-5569795 or visit ecgrl.org.

Kroc Trotters Running Group, for those ages 16 and older, meets at 6:30 p.m. each Tuesday and Thursday at the Kroc Center to run the trails of the Augusta Canal. $15. Call 706-364-5762 or visit krocaugusta.org.

Story Time is held every Wednesday from 10-11:15 a.m. at Wallace Branch Library.

Pre-registration required. Call 706-722-6275 or visit ecgrl.org.

'[OL[Y`aaRUP[Z ;YH`L 0]L` Tae Kwon Do is offered for all skill levels age 5 and up at the Family Y of Aiken County, Nor th Augusta, Augusta South and the Wilson Family Y. Registration required. Visit thefamilyy.org.

Wacky Wednesday Storytime is Wednesdays at 10 a.m. at Barnes and Noble in the Augusta Mall. Children are invited to join in the fun at this weekly storytime event.

706-737-0065.

Ceramics Class, for ages 14 and up, meets Mondays at 9 a.m. or 6 p.m., Tuesdays at 6 p.m., and Wednesdays at 9 a.m. in the Weeks Ceramics Center. Call 803-642-7631 or visit cityofaikensc.gov.

Creative Arts is offered at the Family Y of Nor th Augusta for ages 5-12 years.

Members, $35 per month; non-members, $55 per month. Visit thefamilyy.org.

Toddler Time, playtime for children ages 5 and under, is each Monday and Wednesday from 9:30-11:30 a.m. at the H.O. Weeks Center in Aiken. $2 per visit; $16 per 10-visit pass. Call 803-642-7631 or visit cityofaikensc.gov.

Little Friends Gym, a parent and child class for those ages 6 months-4 years, is held each Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday from 10 a.m.-1 p.m. at the Warren Road Community Center. Call 706-860-2833 or visit augustaga.gov.

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Story Time is held at the Columbia County Library at 10:15 and 11 a.m. Tuesdays, for kids under 2 years old; at 10:15 a.m.

Mondays, Wednesdays and Thursdays for 2-year-olds; at 11 a.m., Mondays, Wednesdays and Thursdays for preschoolers; and at 4 p.m. Wednesdays for all ages. Call 706-863-1946 or visit ecgrl.org.

Loud Crowd, a supervised after-school program for those ages 4-12, is Monday Friday from 3-6 p.m. at the Warren Road Community Center. Call 706-860-2833 or visit augustaga.gov.

Homeschool PE Time, for elementary school aged kids, meets Monday-Friday, from 9-11 a.m. at the Kroc Center. Members free.

Call 706-364-5762 for non member prices.

Visit krocaugusta.org.

Young Children’s Story Time is Tuesdays from 9:15-9:45 a.m.at the Diamond Lakes Branch Library. Songs, finger plays, and story readings best for children ages 2 and younger. Registration required for groups of 6 or more. Call 706-772-2432 or visit ecgrl.org.

Preschool Story Time is Tuesdays from 10-10:40 a.m. at the Diamond Lakes Branch Library. Come for stories, songs, games, short movies and crafts. Registration required for groups of 6 or more. Best for ages 2-5. Call 706-772-2432 or visit ecgrl.org.

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Story Time is held each Wednesday at 10 a.m. at the Maxwell Branch Library.

Pre-registration required for groups. Call 706-793-2020 or visit ecgrl.org.

Story Time is held each Wednesday at the Appleby Branch Library from 10:05 10:20 a.m. for toddlers age 18-35 months, and from 10:30-11:15 a.m. for preschool kids age 3 and up. An adult must remain with the child. Call 706-736-6244 or visit ecgrl.org.

Story Time is every Wednesday at 10:15 a.m. for pre-K, and either 11 or 11:30 a.m. for preschoolers at Aiken County Public Library.

Call 803-642-2023 or visit abbe-lib.org.

Story Time is every Wednesday from 10:3011 a.m. for toddlers and 11:15-11:45 a.m. for preschoolers at North Augusta Branch Library.

Call 803-279-5767 or abbe-lib.org.

Story Time at the Euchee Creek Branch Library, for all ages, is held each Wednesday at 10:30 a.m. and each Tuesday at 4:30 p.m.

Call 706-556-0594 or visit ecgrl.org.

Homeschool Playgroup meets each Thursday at 10:30 a.m. at Creighton Park in Nor th Augusta. Call 803-613-0484.

Mudpuppies, an ar ts and crafts program for ages 2-5, is held each Thursday at 10:45 a.m. at the Warren Road Community Center.

Call 706-860-2833 or visit augustaga.gov.

The Augusta Arsenal Soccer Club Junior Academy, for boys and girls ages 5-8, meets each Thursday at 5:30 p.m. at the Augusta Soccer Park. Call 706-854-0149 or visit augustasoccer.com.

Fairy Tale Ballet is held at the Family Y of Aiken County. Offered once a week for one

month for a total of four classes. Members, $25 a month; non-members, $35 a month.

Visit thefamilyy.org.

Boy and Girl Scout troops are hosted

by Augusta Jewish Community Center. For Boy Scouts, visit troop119bsa.com or email geoffstew@gmail.com. For Girl Scouts, email sbehrend@bellsouth.net. For Daisy/Brownie Troop, email bdmrev@yahoo.com.

Creek Freaks, a Georgia Adopt-aStream team of middle- and high-school students, meets regularly at Phinizy Swamp Nature Park to monitor the health of Butler Creek. Call 706-796-7707 or visit naturalscienceacademy.org.

Fun-Time Fridays, for ages 2-5, is held each Friday at 10:45-11:30 a.m. at the Warren Road Community Center. Call 706860-2833 or visit augustaga.gov.

Gesher, a teen program for post b’nai mitzvah youngsters (7th-12th grade), meets every other Sunday at Adas Yeshurun Synagogue. Call 706-733-9491.

Seniors

Alzheimer’s Association Education Classes, an educational series on living with Alzheimer’s, meets Tuesdays, September 3 and 10, from 2-4 p.m. at the Kroc Center.

Free, but pre-registration required. Call 706731-9060 or visit krocaugusta.org.

Medicare and You is the second Thursday of every month from 11 a.m.-1 p.m. at the Kroc Center. A free service to seniors, it helps beneficiaries identify and understand Medicare programs and plans including Medicare Supplements Insurance, prescription drug coverage, Medicare Advantage Plans, longterm insurance and other private and public health insurance options. Call 706-364-KROC or visit krocaugusta.org.

Silversneakers strength and range of movement class is offered Mondays and Wednesdays at 9 a.m. and Tuesdays, Thursdays and Fridays at 11:15 a.m., while Silversneakers Yogastretch is offered Mondays and Wednesdays at 11:15 a.m. at the Weeks Center in Aiken. Call 803-6427631 or visit cityofaikensc.gov.

Ceramics Class is offered at 9 a.m. on Mondays or Wednesdays and 6 p.m. on Mondays or Tuesdays at the Weeks Center.

Call 803-642-7631 or visit cityofaikensc.gov.

Computer Classes for Seniors are taught at The Kroc Center Mondays and Thursdays.

Registration required. Visit krocaugusta.org.

Fit 4 Ever is offered at the Weeks Center in Aiken on Mondays, Wednesdays, Thursdays and Fridays from 10-11 a.m. $27 for 10 tickets; free for SilverSneakers members. Call 803-642-7631 or visit cityofaikensc.gov.

Line Dancing is each Tuesday at the Weeks Center in Aiken at 10 a.m. $31 for 10 tickets; free for SilverSneakers Swipe Card members. Call 803-642-7631 or visit cityofaikensc.gov.

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Yoga I and II are offered at the Weeks Center in Aiken on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Fridays from 8:45-9:45 a.m. and on Mondays and Wednesdays from 5:30 6:30 p.m. Call 803-642-7631 or visit cityofaikensc.gov.

Silver Sneakers, a senior exercise class, meets each Wednesday and Friday from 1:30-2:30 p.m. at the Kroc Center. Free. Call 706-364-5762 or visit krocaugusta.org.

Games for Seniors at the Weeks Center in Aiken include Rummikub each Thursday from 9 a.m.-noon, Mahjong each Thursday from 1-4 p.m., Bridge each Friday from 11:30 a.m.-3 p.m., Bingo each Tuesday 9-10 a.m., Pinochle each Tuesday from 10:30 a.m.-2:30 p.m., and Canasta on Tuesdays from 11:30 a.m. 3:30 p.m. and on Fridays from 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Call 803-642-7631 or visit cityofaikensc.gov.

Tai Chi for Seniors is held 11 a.m.noon every Thursday at Augusta Jewish Community Center. Call 706-394-0590 visit augustameditation.com/taichi.html.

Dancin’ with the Young at Heart, an event geared toward those ages 50 and older although anyone is welcome, is each Friday at 7:30 p.m. at the Aiken DAV. In addition to dancing to Yesterday’s Sounds, there will also be prize drawings, snacks and drinks. $6. Call 803-292-3680.

Hobbies

Riverwalk Toastmasters Public Speaking and Leadership Club meetings are Mondays at 7 p.m.at the University Hospital Education Wing, third floor room 3. Call 706-855-1081 or visit 7106. toastmasterclub.org.

Beginner’s Knitting Class is the first Wednesday of each month at the Kroc Center.

This is a free knitting class for beginners.

Par ticipants will need to purchase their supplies for the class, and a $1 donation is recommended. For more information, call 706-364-KROC or visit krocaugusta.org.

Qigong classes are offered at the Weeks Center in Aiken Tuesdays and Thursdays at 4 p.m. and Saturdays at 10 a.m. Ages 13 and up. $10 for residents and members; $12 for

others. Visit facebook.com/experienceaiken.

Bingo at the Fraternal Order of Eagles, 1999 Scott Road, is at 1:30 p.m. on Sundays, and at 6 p.m. on Mondays and Thursdays.

Call 706-790-8040.

Crafters Night is each Monday from 6-8 p.m. at the Kroc Center. Call 706-364-5762 or visit krocaugusta.org.

The Garden City Chorus, the area’s leading men’s singing group and a member of the Barbershop Harmony Society, is seeking new members. Those interested are welcome to attend Tuesday night rehearsals, held at 7 p.m. at Nor th Augusta Church of Christ on W. Mar tintown Road. Visit gardencitychorus.org.

Bingo is held every Saturday at 1 p.m. at American Legion Post 205 on Highland Avenue. Call 706-495-3219.

Spiritual

Sunday activities at the Kroc Center include an adult Bible class at 9:30 a.m., youth Sunday school at 9:45 a.m., and a worship service at 11 a.m. Free. Call 706364-5762 or visit krocaugusta.org.

Volunteer

Dogwood Park Spay and Neuter Clinic, a nonprofit 501(c)3 organization, offers volunteer oppor tunities for those interested in helping animals in need.

Applications available at Dogwood Park, 6100 Columbia Rd. Grovetown, GA, 30813.

Email info@dogwoodparkclinic.com.

Hospice volunteers needed at Alliance Hospice to provide comfor t, companionship and emotional suppor t to patients and families, as well as assisting with chores and clerical duties and using other talents to benefit patients. Training provided. Call 706447-2461, email mwhite@alliancehospice. com or visit alliancehospice.com.

Aiken Regional Medical Centers is looking for volunteers. Call 803-641-5021 or visit aikenregional.com.

The Georgia Regents University Cancer Center is looking for volunteers, especially those who are cancer survivors or caregivers. Adult program for those 18 and older; after-school program open to high-school juniors and seniors who are 17. Applications available at the Children’s Hospital of Georgia. Visit gru.edu/ volunteer or call 706-721-3596.

The Greater Augusta Arts Council offers volunteer oppor tunities for those interested in volunteering for events like Ar ts in the Hear t, First Friday and special concer ts, as well as helping in the GAAC office. Call 706-826-4702 or visit augustaar ts.com.

Hospice Care of America’s Augusta office needs administrative and patient care volunteers. No experience necessary; training will be provided. Call Rich Boland at 706447-2626 or email rboland@msa-corp.com.

MACH Academy is looking for volunteers to provide tutoring, academic suppor t and mentoring services during fall after-school sessions held Monday-Thursday from 3:30-6 p.m. Call 706-796-5046, email mparks37@ comcast.net or visit machacademy.com.

Miracle League Baseball, held by the Family Y, is looking for volunteers. Call 706922-9597 or visit thefamilyy.org.

Reed Creek Park offers oppor tunities to volunteers interested in collecting impor tant data each month on the health of a local stream for the state of Georgia. Call 706210-4027 or visit reedcreekpark.com.

United Hospice of Aiken, which covers Aiken, Edgefield, McCormick, Barnwell and Allendale counties, needs volunteers to visit with patients or work in the office. Training is provided. Call 803-641-0060 or email kathibault@uhs-pruitt.com.

If you would like to see your organization’s events listed in our calendar, please email Amy Christian at amy@themetrospirit.com.

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BOX TOPS

THE EIGHT

“The Butler” serves the competition its ass on a platter for a second week in a row.

RANK

TITLES

WEEKEND GROSS

TOTAL GROSS

WEEK #

LAST WEEK

1

LEE DANIELS’ THE BUTLER

$16,503,812

$51,760,625

2

1

2

WE’RE THE MILLERS

$13,047,119

$91,287,318

3

2

3

THE MORTAL INSTRUMENTS...

$9,336,957

$14,088,359

1

-

4

THE WORLD’S END

$8,790,237

$8,790,237

1

-

5

PLANES

$8,575,214

$59,599,909

3

4

IN THEATERS AUGUST 30 ACTION

DRAMA “Closed Circuit,” rated R, starring Eric Bana, Rebecca Hall, Jim Broadbent, Ciaran Hinds. What happens when two lawyers refuse to join a

“Getaway,” rated PG-‐13, starring Ethan Hawke, Selena Gomez, Jon Voight. This one, about a man who must drive a car while following orders from a man threatening to kill his kidnapped wife, sounds like something that Vin Diesel or Jason Statham might star in. Instead, we get Ethan Hawke as the man under pressure to both rescue his wife and take revenge on her captors. Will the big-‐name actors, Voight especially, elevate this saturated genre? Hey, it worked for Ryan Gosling in “Drive.”

terrorist’s defense team? Pretty much the same thing that happens to the unfortunate souls who refuse mobsters’ “requests,” we’re guessing.

DOCUMENTARY

“One Direction: This Is Us,” rated PG, starring Liam Payne, Harry Styles, Zayn Malik, Niall Horan, Louis Tomlinson. “Super Size Me” director Morgan Spurlock is certainly an interesting choice to helm this one, about the “X-‐Factor UK” boy band sensation’s rise to the top. A word of warning to the uninitiated: You might want to stay away from theaters opening night. Directioners are an extremely loud bunch of mostly tween and teen girls.

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Race for Ella Grace

5K and Family Fun Run

Saturday, September 7 8:00AM Savannah Rapids PArk Proceeds go towards medical expenses for Ella Grace Crandell who was born with multiple heart defects and at five months old has had three major heart surgeries.

ACROSS 1 It may come down in a storm 10 Divider in a musical score 13 Hang-‐out locale?

20 Wrote a couple of letters?

21 Montréal street 22 Chef Boyardee offering 23 Called on the carpet 24 N. Amer./Afr. separator 25 Not finished 26 China’s Chiang ___-‐shek 27 Optimistic 28 Change 30 Visit anew 31 Loop transports 32 “There ___ there there” 33 Like choruses 35 Ready-‐___ 37 A Bobbsey twin 39 Less certain 40 Half-‐___ (coffee request) 43 “Malice N Wonderland” rapper Snoop ___ 46 Trains 48 “Tootsie” Oscar nominee 50 “You want a piece ___?”

53 Main hood in “Little Caesar,” 1931 55 Without face value, as stock 57 Brink 58 Two-‐Face and the Riddler, to Batman 59 French children’s song 61“You Gotta Be” singer, 1994 62 Allen of “Candid Camera” 63 Sister of literature 64 Originates 67 Bank statement abbr.

68 Sea eagle 69 Gray areas, maybe … or a hint to 12 incomplete answers in this puzzle 71 Kind of lab 72 Cpl., for one 73 “What ___ thou?”

74 Island group in the Bahamas 75 Province of Saudi Arabia 76 Susan who wrote “The Volcano Lover” 78 Old-‐fashioned street conveyance 80 Texting while driving, e.g.

81 Comment often followed by “So sue me” 82 Designer Geoffrey 84 Head of une école?

85 Act like a rat, say 86 Supported, as a ballot measure 88 Nothing doing?

90 Being, to Claudius 92 Before, in sonnets 93 Primitive drive

95 Airport info: Abbr.

97 Monotonous routine 101 Hide 103 Virginie, e.g.

106 Ski-‐___ 107 Type units 111 Honor at graduation?

112 Checkbook record 113 Old TV’s Cousin ___ 114 “You can talk to me privately” 116 Ground cover 117 Last chance to strike out?

120 Whitewashed, with “over” 121 Suffix with morph-‐ 122 Jumping-‐off point 123 Supermarket time-‐saver 124 Draw a mark through for cancellation 125 Means of one-‐to-‐one communication DOWN 1 Movie theater sight 2 Represent as a saint, say 3 Act as a go-‐between 4 Figures in Astounding Stories, for short 5 Set (against) 6 Shavings, maybe 7 Old-‐time announcer Johnny 8 “Kinsey” star, 2004 9 Little sucker?

10 “___ yourself” 11 Just going through the motions, after “on” 12 Air-‐conditioning on a hot day, maybe 13 More curmudgeonly 14 Office PC hookup 15 Certain car gears 16 Prong 17 Masonry containers 18 Gen. Robert ___ 19 Hobby activity 29 ’90s commerce pact 32 Skater Midori 33 ___ polymerase 34 Convention closer?

36 Carol starter 38 With 56-‐Down, where to find this puzzle’s 12 theme answers 40 Rants and raves 41 Pope Francis’ birthplace 42 Court stripe 44 Mixture 45 “Michael Clayton” director Tony 47 Hybridized 49 Some fridges 50 Quarterback protectors 51 Like some printing

52 Amish relative 54 ___ Light 56 See 38-‐Down 60 Tour de France season 61 Urges 65 How picnic drinks may be packed 66 Galactic ___ (“Star Wars” setting) 70 Fleur-‐de-‐___ 71 Part of a nativity scene 73 Real pain in the butt?

77 Driving aid 79 Feature of St. Basil’s Cathedral 82 Olympic racers 83 “Fanny” author Jong 87 A swimmer might rightly be scared to see one 89 New Guinea port from which Amelia Earhart left on her last flight 91 Army fig. who knows the drill?

94 Fire extinguisher 96 Go to sleep 98 Cry of victory 99 Posting, say 100 Bottom of a contract 102 Gave up 104 Listening, with “in” 105 Counters 107 Locale for finished works that haven’t yet appeared 108 Big-‐screen format 109 Dogpatch creator 110 A, e.g.

112 Org. in “Monk” 115 Super ___ (old video game console) 118 Driver’s ID: Abbr.

119 Superfund org.

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THUMBS UP

Group 350 Action proposes naming hurricanes after lawmakers who deny climate change and impede its legislation. Genius.

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Have something you want to get off your chest? Send your whines to whineline@themetrospirit.com. If you do so by noon on Friday, you might just see it in the next Thursday’s issue. Oh, and whines may be edited for content but will pretty much be printed exactly as you type them.

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“Thousands are being evacuated as Michelle Bachmann draws closer to land…” Actually, that deserves a thumbs up, too.

THE WHINE LINE “I would love to see people actually standing behind their whines with their real names, as opposed to hiding behind a glowing screen.” - Abraham Lincoln To Too Two, There, Their, They’re, Your, You’re welcome, Augusta.

Austin Rhodes is, at best, an inconsistent has-been, and I will never understand why you maintain his presence in your paper. Didn’t he just write a column about how he hates criminals and murderers, and now he has written one about how a criminal didn’t deserve to be punished for killing someone with her car? I suspect it has something to do with the color of her skin.

According to my neighbors, it’s ok if your child screams bloody murder 24/7. It’s just being a child they say. I hope you forget the bath water is running.

I just read about schools having little money and shuting down!

How sad a commentary: Maybe one way to keep open is to teach basic subjects and discontinue SPORTS! Maybe we should show the students today that English, History, Geography & Arithmetic can make you successful. Let’s not cut classes let’s cut the ball playing and get kids back on track for the real jobs that will be coming in the future.

I’m glad my neighbor’s son has left for college.

Traffic in the cul-de-sac has decreased. He can do his dealing in Athens now.

Love covers a multitude of sin: These words of Jesus were displayed this week to calm a would-be mass murderer in a Decatur, Georgia school. For those of you that believe that arming yourselves will stop violence, this is proof that Godly ways always win out over evil. The woman that talked the gunman down was armed with the love of God in her heart, not a 9 millimeter.

Augusta’s beloved x-weatherman is being hired to do tv commercials because people trust and like him. I once watched him get unjustly mad at a painter when he leaned against a freshly painted door frame and got paint on his jacket. The painter apologized, took the jacket home, got the paint out and brought it back the next day in perfect condition. He inspected the jacket and walked away without so much as a thank you. What a SNOB. Under known laws of physics, is it possible for women on television to apply any more extravagant make-up than they already do? I mean, the human face must have a breaking point with gravity, does it not? Thanks!

Hey, Leftists! How about doing the world an ACTUAL favor and banning Comic Sans instead.

Another hypocritical column from Austin Rhodes.

He “hates criminals” so much that he wants a woman essentially pardoned for killing someone.

What does it matter if she is a talented artist? It doesn’t. And if she had been a talented RAP artist, he’d be throwing Judge Annis a freaking party for putting her behind bars.

I bet you would not hire Dr. Roberson at your company.

It’s absolutely pathetic how the RCSD and Roundtree let things go at the 15th St. Kroger. The cesspool of Augusta. The place is a ghetto landfill where trash covers parking lot, people beg for money, and people park all along the fire lane. All of this across from our supposed top notch hospitals and medical school. This city is an embarrassment to the state. Augusta... the next Detroit.

Why did the daily paper want to ask for anonymous tips about GRU?

With the crap that comes off your pages you insult Sylvia Cooper?

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