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V Thg 500 JSLAND€R_ • Dave Barry - 8 • Editorial Back Talk - 20 • Health -14 • Movie Review Watchmen -12 • Pew News -18 Surfin’ the News Published by Permar Publications • P.O. Box 20539 • St. Simons Island, Ga. 31522 • 912-265-9654 • ssislander@bellsouth.net March 16, 2009 Established 1972 Vol 37 Issue 11 Glynn dispatcher named best in State The Glynn-Brunswick E- 911 Communications Center announced last week that Communications Officer Addie Snyder received the “2008 Communications Officer of the Year” award from the Georgia Chapter of the Association of Public Safety Communications Officers, (APCO). Snyder was honored for her outstanding performance with the local law enforcement dis patch agency. The State chapter has over 360 active members in its organization, and is affiliated with the nationwide APCO organization. The APCO honored C.O. Snyder and presented her with an award and certificate for being the “2008 Communica tions Officer of the year” on March 10 dining the organi zation's Spring Training con ference held at the King and Prince Beach Resort on St. Simons Island. Her nomination came about from a call she handled in October of 2008. According to Glynn County Assistant Police Chief Scott Trautz, the events of that call Turn to Page 7 Dispatcher of Year School system works to tighten 09-10 budget • CFO taking conservative approach By Matthew J. Permar Unlike our federal govern ment in Washington - that is throwing billions of tax dol lars at everything from cat fish research to tattoo removal - Andrea Preston, the Chief Financial Officer (CFO) for the Glynn County School System, is looking for ways to reduce the system’s budget for the next fiscal year, which begins on July 1. Preston has already pre sented two draft versions of the FY 2009-10 budget to the Board of Education (BOE) dur ing recent finance committee meetings. The last was dining the Tuesday, March 10 meet ing. The main budget working point for Preston right now is an estimated $4.9 million shortfall, but she does not see it as an insurmountable hur dle. Preston told The Islander in an interview last Thursday, March 12, “We’re continually Turn to Page 5 New School system budget John Ashcroft, Emergency Resources; (left to right) Brian Burgamy, Vice President GAAPCO; C.O. Addie Snyder, G-B E911 holding her Tear Drop Crystal Award; and Kyle Burgess, Emergency Resources, at the Georgia APCO Spring Conference at the King and Prince Beach Resort on St. Simons Island, March 10. Photo courtesy of GC Assistant Police Chief Scott Trautz, Teen Center open for summer Above: Construc tion on the Boys and Girls Club of Glynn's (B&GC) new teen center is on track, according to Execu tive Director Brian Dolan, who said he expects the facility to be open by late May or early June. The teen center, which is visible from the inter section of Community Rd. and SPUR 25 next to the former Toyota dealership in Bruns wick, is located just off Coral Park Dr. The teen center will include a full restaurant, digital lab and learning center, theater, college training classroom, movies, guest speakers, a full gym with a stage for dances and concerts, an arts studio for all visual arts and outdoor athletic fields. Bottom: Standing in front of what will be the DJ booth and recording studio review ing plans for the sound and phone systems are: (left to right) Dayton Austin, B&GC Dir. of Operations; Jammy Hiers of Ratel Communications; B&GC board member Jonathan Havens of Qantum Communications; independent broadcast engineer Dick Boekeloo; and B&GC Exec. Dir. Brian Dolan. The center will be named in honor of Elizabeth F. Terrell. Dolan said it will be open to all kids from 8th through the 12th grades from all over Glynn. "We are really trying to encourage all kids to come to this center," said Dolan, "We want diversity. "We want kids from Brunswick and out in the county. We want kids from St. Simons and from both high schools to feel welcome here," Islander Staff Photos