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APRIL 24, 1997 AUGUSTA FOCUS
Fvents
Saturday, April 26, from 8 a.m. -
1:30 p.m., the Aiken Mental
Health Association will hold a
Nurture Home Attic Sale at the
O’Dell Weeks Park Shelter next to
the Aiken Playhouse. All proceeds
from the sale will benefit Nurture
Home. If you would like to make a
donation or want more informa
tion, call Pat Spezialetti at (803)
641-4164.
Now through August 1997, the
Morris Museum of art will ex
hibit Women Artists in the
South—Selections from the
Permanent Collection, in cel
ebration of Women’s History
Month. Admission is free on all
Sundays. For more information,
please contact Patricia Moore, cu
rator of Education at (706) 724-
7501.
Sunday, April 27, from 5-9 p.m.
join The Cronies, Inc. for Tea
& Jazz, featuring All That Jazz
and jazz trombonist Wycliffe Gor
don at the Old Medical College of
Georgia, 590 Telfair Street. Enjoy
tea and hors d’oeuvres, meet the
musicians, and welcome in spring.
The event is semiformal and tick
ets are $25 per person. For more
information, contact Jean Embry
at 738-5962, Judith Krause at 790-
4614, Jackie McGrady at 863-3508
or L.C. Myles Jr. at 667-7679.
Saturday, April 26, Zetas
Against Drugs will sponsor a
workshop to stimulate youth to
live as drug-free citizens in our so
ciety. Registration fee is $3. Work
shop will be held at Lucy C. Laney
High School. For more information,
call (706) 737-6148.
Tuesday, May 6, Sesame Street
Live will return to the Bell Au
ditorium for three performances
of “Let’s Be Friends.” Tickets are
$10.50. For more information, call
(706) 724-2400
Friday, April 25, The Senior
Group will hold its spring pool
party. Call 826-4480 for info.
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Sunday, April 27, The Augusta
Canal Canoe Cruise and Bar
becue Cookout will be held.
Paddle seven miles of the Augusta
Canal National Heritage Area, then
relax to the oldies on the lawn at
Meadow Garden. Fee is $37.50 per
person and includes canoe, life
Jacket, paddle, souvenir, security,
transportation, launch and landing
assistance, live musical entertain
ment, games, prizes and a feast of
turkey, pork and beef with all the
trimmings. Children eight and up
can canoe accompanied by a parent.
Call Jeanie Allen at (706) 733-2635
for more information.
Friday, May 2 - Sunday, May 4, the
Richmond County Secondary
Gifted Program will hold is an
nual Academic Sharing Fair at
Augusta Mall. The fair rewards stu
dents for their academic accomplish
ments, encourages academic excel
lence in students, and promotes com
munity awareness of the gifted pro
gram in Richmond County. For more
information, call Barbara Fitzgerald
or Sibyl Kellam at 731-8787.
Saturday May 3, The Great Sa
vannah River Duck Race begins
at Ninth street Plaza. Get your
ducks now! For more information, call
(708) 826-4700.
Saturday, May 3, The Fort Gor
don Officers’ Wives Club Spring
Flea Market will be held on En
gineer Field from 9 a.m. - 4 p.m. For
more information or for an applica
tion, call (706) 791-7556 or (706) 791-
3653.
Sunday, April 27, The Bud Light
Mountain Bike Classic will be
held at Fort Gordon. The race begins
at Fort Gordon’s Leitner Lake and is
sanctioned by the National Off-Road
Bicycle Association. Categories are
expert, sport, beginner, clydesdale,
youth and law enforcement. Fee is
S3O/adult and sl3/youth. For an en
try form, call (706) 791-3722.
Saturday, April 26, The Augusta
Jazz Project presents a concert
at the Imperial Theatre at 8 p.m.
For information, call (706)
736-22 g T vt
During the month of April, the
Gertrude Herbert Institute of
Art will have art exhibits at lo
cations throughout Augusta. At
the Columbia Augusta Medical
Center, 3651 Wheeler Road—water
color paintings by Teresa Mullen;
at the offices of Dr. Scott Balogh and
Dr. Gayle Rozantine, 3740 Walton
Way Extension—pen and ink and
watercolor paintings by Diane
Davis; at the Evans Government
Complex, 630 Washington West
Road, Evans—oil portraits by
Jenny Johnson; at Georgia Bank
and Trust, 3530 Wheeler Road—
watercolor and oil paintings by
Arleigh Masfield; at Meybohm Re
alty, 646 North Belair Rd, Evans—
scratchboard portraits by Michele
Ashe; at Shepeard Blood Center,
1533 Wrightsboro Rd.—photogra
phy by Angelika Selman-Bondar; at
St. Joseph Hospital, 2260
Wrightsboro Rd.—watercolor
paintings by Susan Childs; at
United Way of the CSRA, 630 Ellis
Street—oil paintings by Karen Per
due-Davis; at the University Hos
pital Professional Office Building 11,
818 St. Sebastian Way—watercolor
and acrylic paintings by Willie
Lawrence Lynn.
Sunday, April 27, at 2 p.m., The
Morris Museum of Art will
present a lecture by Randall
Floyd on the Last Frontier.
Sunday-Wednesday, April 27 - 30,
Shepeard Community Blood
Center will hold blood drives
at the following places: April
27—Trinity on the Hill Church
from 9:30 am. - 1 p.m.; April 28—
Milton Ruben Chevrolet from 1
p.m. - 3:30 p.m. and National Plaza
from 4:30 p.m. - 7:30 p.m.; April
29—Lakeside High School from 7
am.-Ip.m., DFACSfrom 11a.m.-
2:30 p.m. and Shepeard West Cen
ter from 4 p.m.-8 p.m.; April 30—
Augusta State Medical Prison
from Ba.m.-11a.m.and Ip.m.-
3 p.m., Martin Color Fi, Trenton,
SC from 8:30 a.m. - 11 a.m., Mar
tin Color Fi, Edgefield, SC from 1
p.m. - 5 p.m. and Hamburg Trailer
Train from 1:30 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.
and 6:30- 9:30 p.m. :
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Sunday, May 3, Augusta Care
Pregnancy will sponsor Walk
For Life at Eighth Street Plaza
from 8 a.m. - 12 p.m. For details,
contact Mike McGowan at (803)
649-7963.
Saturday, April 26, the Gertrude
Herbert Institute of Art will
hold a family workshop titled
“This is the House that YOU
can build” from 10 a.m. - 12 noon.
Workshop is free and open to pub
lic. Reservations, please. Call 722-
5495 for reservations or more in
formation.
Beginning Monday, April 28, St.
Joseph Hospital will teach a
smoking cessation course
called Fresh Start. The pro
gram is designed to help you stop
smoking in two weeks. To regis
ter, or for more information, call
St. Joseph Family Life at 481-
7604.
Wednesday, April 30, ASU Con
tinuing Education will start
Internet for Beginners. Find
out what the Internet can do for
you. This three-session class will
be held at 7:30 p.m. Fee is slls.
Call Augusta State University
Continuing Education at 737-1636
for information.
Tuesday, April 29, ASU Con
tinuing Education will hold a
workshop called Finding
Calm in a Sea of Change. This
workshop will assess recent
changes and ways of responding
to them. Class meets from 7 - 9
p.m. Fee is $29. Call ASU Continu
ing Education at 737-1636 for in
formation.
Beginning Saturday, April 26,
ASU Continuing Education
will hold a course called Com
puter Literacy in Two Week
ends. The course is two sessions
April 26 and May 3 from 8:30 -
5:30 p.m. Fee is $l6O. Call ASU
Continuing Education at 737-1636
for information.
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#1
3084 Deans Bridge Rd
Across from
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736-1006
#4
2022 Gordon Hwy.
Across from
Bob Richards Chevrolet
Monday, April 28, ASU Con
tinuing Education will hold a
course called Home-Based
Business. It focuses on your suit
ability to run your own business,
opportunities, marketing, business
plans, taxes, how to get started,
plus a one-hour private consulta
tion with the instructor. The four
session class starts at 6:30 p.m. Fee
is $59. Call ASU Continuing Edu
cation at 737-1636 for information.
Saturday, April 26, at 11 a.m.,
former residents of Savannah
Place will hold a meeting in the
Community Center on 11th Street.
All former residents are invited to at
tend to make plans for a reunion. For
information, please call Augustus C.
Thurmond at (706) 738- 6425.
Tuesday, April 29, from 6-8 p.m.,
the CSRA Transition Center
Board of Directors will meet at
409 Watkins Street. For more in
formation, contact Alicia Sapp at
738-5060.
Sunday, April 27 - Thursday, May
1, the Savannah River Chapter
and the Robotics and Remote
Systems Division of the Ameri
can Nuclear Society will co
host the seventh annual topi
cal meeting on robotics at the
Radisson Riverfront Hotel and Con
ference Center.
Every Second Monday of each
month, St. Joseph Hospital
sponsors a support group meet
ing for parents of children with
a neuromuscular disease at 7
p.m. For more information, call 738-
8543.
Every Sunday night at 8 p.m., a
support group for family and
friends of members of Narcot
ics Anonymous meets at St. Jo
seph Hospital. For more informa
tion, call 278-7339.
Tuesday, May 13, Augustans for
Nonsmokers’ Right will meet at
Wings, 3412 Wrightsboro Rd.
- CALL
TODAY!
722-9444
#2
453 Broad St.
Old Town Plaza
Across from Days Inn
737-6060
#5
3217 Wrightsboro Rd.
Across from
Pizza Hut
The last Wednesday of edch
month, Heart Matters Suppeért
Group, a support group for pé:
sons with a heart conditigr
their families and loved oné:
meets at St. Joseph Hospital a§ 3
p.m. Please call 481-7359 for mdre
information. :
Monday, April 28, Growth §n
Grief, a course to help thdbe
mourning the death of a lovgd
one, will meet at Summerville
Professional Center on the secapd
floor. The program is sponsored®y
St. Joseph Hospital. .
Every fourth Sunday of eagh
month, The Augusta Lupus Sup
port Group meets at 2:30 p-m.
The group is for Lupus patients and
their families to help them learn
how to cope with the disease. For
additional information, please call
Angie Newton of the Augusta Lu
pus Support Group at 863-5447. :
Tuesday, May 6, Aiken Tech
nical College will administ:F
the Health Occupations Basi?
Entrance Test from 1 - 5 p.m.
The HOBET is required for en
trance into certain health occupa.L
tions. Students must have an ap}
plication on file at Aiken Tech té
be eligible for the test. Fee is S2O
payable only with a money ordet
made out to: Midland Technical
College. For more information, cal]
Dr. Rita Melton at 593-9231 ext!
1393. : |
Friday, May 2, and Wednesdayi
May 7, Aiken Technical Colle,
will administer the Practicfi
Nursing Entrance Exam at 1
p.mand 5 p.m. in room 113. Fee ie’
S2O payable only with a money ory
der made out to: Psychological
Corporation. To make arrange 4
ments for testing, call 593-9231,
ext. 1223. il
Place your local events in
the Augusta Focus calendar.
560-0350
#3
2603 Tobacco Rd.
Windsor Spring Rd.
Across from Video Whse.
863-0060
#6
3836 Washington Rd.
In front of '
K-Mart Pharmacy