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Volume 56 - issue 10
Hollywood ' Conjures' up Carrollton locations
By Larry Peel
News Editor
larry@ ioncinema .com
A touch of Hollywood
has come to the West
Georgia area as Clint
Hutchinson brings his new
project The Conjurer to
the area for production.
The film, a low budget,
independent production,
has attracted investors
and a great deal of local
interest. The second
credited production for
California based Red
Five Entertainment, the
film will film primarily
in Whitesburg; however,
other locations throughout
the county will also be
utilized.
The premise for the
film, penned by newcomer
David Yarborough,
follows a couple that
Gunn Hall hosts St. Patrick's Day Cafe for charity
By Tracy Ammons
Staff Writer
tammons l @my.westga .edit
St. Patrick's Day,
amidst its shamrock
splendor, is often
associated with luck.
A celebration of the
holiday, UWG students
from the Advanced
Academy as well as
Honors College brought
luck to disabled families
in the community with
their annual event, the
St. Patty’s Day Cafe.
The event took place
Thursday, March 15,
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PFC Albert Jumper of the USMC, serves his country and himself as a UWG student.
Georgia Military Initiative
helps soldiers earn degrees
UWG Press Release
The University System
of Georgia is stepping up
efforts to make it faster,
friendlier and easier for U.S.
military personnel to earn a
college degree by launching
the Georgia Military
Education Initiative (MEI).
This coordinated and
synchronized system-wide
approach will expand the
degree programs, courses
and support services
the West Georgian
recently suffered a
devastating loss after the
wife miscarried. They
return to the area where
she was raised and move
into an isolated farmhouse
with a small cabin in
back. Unbeknownst to
them, the cabin was once
occupied by an old witch,
or “conjurer”, and when
the couple begins talking
about tearing the cabin
down, the terror begins.
Director Clint
Hutchinson, whose
previous work At a Glance ,
garnered him the Special
Gold Jury Award at the
1991 World Fest Houston
Film Festival is helming
the project. Conjurer
will be Hutchinson’s first
credited feature length
film. The film represents
only the second major
project for Red Five as
from about 6 to 8 p.m. in
Gunn Hall, the Academy
and honors residence
hall. A crowd of nearly
60 students each paid
$1 to eat some festive
foods —green scrambled
eggs, green pancakes,
green biscuits, and green
drinks. After the meal,
students placed bids in
an auction for various
donated items.
At the end of the
night, the St. Patty's
Day Cafe collected over
S4OO, which went to a
charity selected by the
Gunn Hall Residence
available to every branch of
the military.
The University of West
Georgia is one of many
universities in the system
that will be coordinating the
launch and implementation
of the MEI. Jeff Rooks, a
lecturer in management
and business systems
in the UWG Richards
College of Business and
a lieutenant colonel in the
Marine Corps Reserve, will
represent the university
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well, with the company’s
first project Terror Track
unable to attract domestic
distribution , but distributed
in South America, Asia
and European markets.
Producers Lance Dreesen
and Richard Mix hope
that the current project
will gain a domestic
distributor, although plans
are in place for a direct-to
video release in the event
no theatrical deal can be
made.
As the film’s
Executive Producer,
Mix is looking not
only to bring attention
to the project, but also
to establish the west
Georgia area as a hub
for future film projects.
Riverwood studios,
near Peachtree City, has
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Council. This year, the
council chose to send the
money to a local chapter
of The Arc, formerly
known as the Association
for Retarded Children.
Founded in 1950,The Arc
is the oldest and largest
advocacy organization
dealing with intellectual
and developmental
disabilities in both adults
and children.
Items in the auction
were mostly donated by
the students, but Quest
Comics donated SSO
worth of merchandise to
the event, such as action
during program planning
and implementation. “The
soldiers, sailors, airmen and
Marines living in Georgia
deserve every opportunity
to pursue their educational
goals in the University
System of Georgia,” said
Rooks.
North Georgia College &
StateUniversity(NGCSU)
has been designated as
the lead institution in
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Like many other UWG students over Spring Break, Sophmore and Mass Comm student
John Anderson lent a hand on the set of the new film "The Conjurer", due to begin filming
in Whitesburg and Carrollton.
figures, card games, and
starter decks.
Nic Marino, a
Resident Ad\isor in
Gunn Hall,donated some
of his own items lor the
auction —a SIOO poker
table, an MP3 alarm
clock radio, and anew
poker chip set.
Acad e m y
Residential Coordinator
Justin Barlow auctioned
off the use of his up-close
and-personal parking
space for one week. “As
the hall coordinator, 1
think it's important to set
an example by donating
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On March 13th, the Tuesday before Spring Break, emergency crews were called to
Cobb Hall after a fire erupted from the basement of the building. No one was injured
and the cause of the fire is still under investigation.
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my own items,” Barlow
said.
Other students
donated a television and
a dorm-sized refrigerator.
Others donated services,
such as carrying around
another's books for a
day, or cooking dinner
for them one evening.
The item to receive
the highest bid? An after
curfew trip to Waffle
House for two. Since
Gunn Hall residents
are under curfew from
11 p.m. to 6 a.m., this
excursion was golden.
It sold for almost forty
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dollars, according to
Marino.
“1 hope the event,
which just finished its
eighth year, shows the
community that we care
about those in need of
assistance,” Barlow
said. “The Academy
and Honors students
have a long history of
helping others. Academy
students are required to
do community service,
and this cafe allows
our students to flex
their leadership muscle
while also donating to a
cause.”