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♦ TUESDAY, AUGUST 1, 2006
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Local teachers take to stage
By KRISTY WARREN
Journal Staff Writer
Northside High School
teachers have lead roles in
community plays this sum
mer.
Jenny Carroll, drama and
dance teacher at NHS, will
has the lead role in “Kiss Me
Kate” which started July 28
and runs through Sunday at
the Macon Little Theater.
“Kiss Me Kate” takes place
in the 1940 s at a Baltimore
community theater, in which
Carroll plays Lois Lane. The
Baltimore Theater is put
ting on a performance of
Shakespeare’s “Taming of
the Shrew,” in which she
plays Bianca. The play is
about the behind the scenes
goings-on of the production
of “Taming of the Shrew”
and how “the behind the
scenes relationships affect
the play,” says Carroll.
Having graduated from
Columbus State College
with a degree in Theater
Education, Carroll also
arranged the choreography
for the play.
Last summer, she played
Erma in the theater’s pro
duction of “Anything Goes.”
Northside High School
senior Carlos Strudwick also
has a role in the production.
He plays Paul, who works in
the Baltimore theater behind
the scenes. Strudwick sings
“Too Darn Hot,” “the big
gest dance number in the
show,” says Carroll.
According to Carroll, he is
“real talented in the arts.”
He was first chair trumpet
in the All State Jazz Band;
however he has just gotten
his start in the theater.
Brian Barnett, Director of
Theater at NHS, also played
the lead role in Theatre
Macon’s production of
Titanic. The play, in which
he played Thomas Andrews,
PARODY
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a young Princess Leia.
The commercial promotes:
“the wholesome goodness
of Tatooine’s Bantha Blue
Milk, which is soooo much
better for you than that
nasty Imperial Blue Milk.”
(A Bantha in the Star Wars
saga is a large shaggy animal
with spiraling horns. The
desert world of Tatooine is
its home world). It made its
debut in the 1977 Star Wars
movie.)
According to Grammer,
“Blue Milk” was tailor-made
for the category and was
shot in Wrightsville at Dance
Explosion Studio.
The three actors playing
enforcers from the Empire
and their costumes were sup
plied from the national 501st
organization, which supplies
costumes and staff for occa
sions like Grammer’s.
The director, producer,
writer, editor and camera
man owns two production
companies, Fone Booth
Productions and Goat in a
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DDA leaders have said that
proceeds from the sale would
go toward the beautifica
tion of Commerce Street as
the main entry to down
town, a project which would
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and inquired about a storage
unit then pointed a hand
gun at the employee and
demanded money.
The suspect fled the area
on foot with an undeter
mined amount of money.
There were no injuries in
this incident.
Described as a white male,
5-feet, 10-inches to 6-foot, 1-
inch in height, with a medi
um build, close shaved hair
and light colored eyebrows,
and tattoos on both arms
from the middle of the bicep
to the wrist, the suspect was
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Northside High School drama and dance teacher Jenny
Carroll.
architect and builder of the
Titanic, ran through July
Saturday.
In the past, Barnett has
played Henry Jekyll and
Edward Hyde in Theater
Macon’s “Jekyll and Hyde”
and has also been in produc
tions in Atlanta.
Boat Productions,
The former mainly includes
Grammar's independent
films, such as “Blue Milk.”
The latter produces his and
partner Thomas Gilleland’s
local television show, “Solid
Ground.”
“Solid Ground” is
Grammer’s day job, a project
contracted with Cox.
He uses his own equip
ment and shoots the show
around Warner Robins
and in a condo owned by
Gilleland.
The pair did a casting call
at the Warner Robins Little
Theater and had a good
response.
Recording the antics of a
group around town, the show
consists of a cast of four: a
detective and his sidekick, a
golfer and a secretary. The
first show, Grammer said,
will air some time in August
on Cox Channel 15.
Recently, Grammer com
pleted his first profession
al film under Fone Booth
Productions. “Don’t Talk
to Strangers,” like “Blue
Milk,” stars his daughter.
Grammer refers to the piece
as a dark comedy that deals
include new parking spaces,
pedestrian paths and land
scaping on the opposite side
of Commerce from the pro
posed Walgreen’s site.
Mayor Jim Worrall said
that while he and the coun
cil will consider the request
tonight, “It’s not a done
deal.” Worrall said that while
he had no objections to the
not wearing a shirt, and had
on blue jean shorts, white
socks and dark shoes and
was last seen running into
a wooded area north of the
business, towards the Vicki
Drive area.
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Barnett is a graduate of
NHS and returned to the
school to teach with his men
tor, Ray Horne.
with a stranger attempting
to get Corinne’s character to
go with him, but repeatedly
being shot down.
The stranger offers the
little girl candy and she
responds with the idea that
candy is bad for her teeth;
the stranger offers her a
Barbie and she claims to
already have that doll.
“Yeah, I really already had
that Barbie doll,” chimes in
Corinne from her seat next
to her dad.
Grammer will submit the
film to Fox’s On the Lot,
a show produced by Steven
Speilberg’s Amblin TV,
Dreamworks TV and Mark
Burnett.
“It’s like ‘Survivor’
with film makers,” says
Grammer.
As for “Blue Milk,” the
idea, says Grammer was
that of his friend Charles
Hansel.
“I just took the idea and
ran with it,” he said.
“I’m just comforted to
know that with ‘Blue Milk,’
George Lucas - the guy who
made Star Wars - has seen
‘Blue Milk’ and ‘Speeder’
and that’s enough for me.”
DDA handling the transac
tion, he had some questions.
“My concern is that the
sale be handled in such a
way that the property
reverts back to the city if
Walgreen’s doesn’t come
here,” he said, noting that
Walgreen’s has never been
in touch with city officials
about locating here.
information regarding this
incident is encouraged to
contact Det. Shane Mann
with the Warner Robins
Police Department at 478-
929-6909, or the Criminal
Investigations Division at
478-929-6911.
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2005-2006 Teacher of the Year Susan Hambrick announces the 2006-2007 Teacher
of the Year, Nicole Brewer. Finalist are seated on the stage. From left, Meredith
Fletcher, Lisa Barnett, Liz Carroll and Dawn Hardy.
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performance based curricu
lum and the priority of the
“professional learning com
munity.”
According to the board,
this community “has a com
mon mission, vision, values
and goals. It is teacher
leaders working with
administrators to solve the
challenges of the school.”
For the first time, teacher
leaders attended the leader
ship retreat with the super
intendent.
Gov. Perdue says he has
made education his top
priority since he has been
in office and this year he
has allocated $lO million
of the budget to give every
teacher in Georgia a SIOO
classroom gift certificate to
use during tax free shop
ping next weekend.
The gift is a “token of
appreciation for all the
effort and money (teach
ers) put into (teaching),”
said Perdue.
The county-wide teach
er of the year honor went
to Nicole Brewer from
Thomson Middle School.
Finalists included Lisa
Barnett from Kings Chapel
Elementary, Liz Carroll
from Perry Middle, Dawn
Hardy from David Perdue
Primary, and Merideth
Fletcher from Tucker
Elementary.
2006-2007 teachers of
the year for the county are:
Jeanie Vining, Matt Arthur
Elementary; Linda Crego,
Bonaire Elementary; Dana
Bell, Bonaire Middle;
Angela Terry, Centerville
Elementary; Mary Coffee,
Eagle Springs Elementary;
Suzanne Web, Feagin Mill
Middle; Terri Me Coy,
HC Career & Technology
Center; Barbara Rodgers,
HC Crossroads Center;
Bill Schmitz, Houston
County High; Gwenever
Young, Huntington
Middle; Gina Hammons,
Lake Joy Elementary;
Tami Goldman, Lindsey
Elementary; Laurie Trice,
Linwood Elementary;
Linda Patterson, Miller
Elementary; Holly Torok,
Morningside Elementary;
Northside Elementary;
Jane Wilson, Northside
High; Patricia Bolden,
Northside Middle;
Ellen Scott, Parkwood
Elementary; Mary May,
David Perdue Elementary;
Joe Sendek, Perry High;
Karen Jones, Perry
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