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"County-Wide News Read County-Wide JSIAND€R_ Surfin’ the News • Dave Barry -12 • Editorial Back Talk - 20 • Football Contest - 8 & 9 • Health -11 • Movie Review Whiteout -14 • Pew News -18 Published by Permar Publications • P.O. Box 20539 • St. Simons Island, Ga. 31522 • 912-265-9654 • www.theislanderonline.com • ssislander@bellsouth.net September 21, 2009 Established 1972 Vol 37 Issue 38 Washington Tea Party With the U.S. Capitol building in the background, an estimated million and a half Americans marched on Washington D.C. on Friday, Sept. 12 to protest President Barack Obama's spending and big government policies. Commenting on the photo, the photographer said, "Realize this is only a very small part of the crowd as camera can't take a 360 degree shot. I was standing, facing the Capitol, on the steps up to the statue of Gen. Ulysses S. Grant in front of the Reflecting Pond. Behind us on Madison and Jefferson Avenues the crowd stretched to the Washington Monument - that's 1.9 miles." Georgians at forefront of Washington Tea Party march • Participants reflect on Washington trip 'Terror Time' - Red that is... Very few high schools can claim 100 years of football, but 221 year old Glynn Academy can. On Friday, October 2, GA's Homecoming, 100 years of Red Terror football will be celebrat ed in a very special way. Before the game a giant Glyn Academy Alumni tailgate party will kick off at 5:30 p.m. at the Glynn County Stadium. GA Booster Club members will be grilling hamburgers, hotdogs, and Brats plus all the fixings. All GA alum have to do is show up with a couple of lawn chairs and enjoy. At approximately 6:10 p.m. when the football buses pull up, alumni will form the first ever 'Terror Walk.' Players will walk between the fans all the way to the locker room. Then as the players come on to the football field former players will form an exten sion of the Band's traditional tunnel to welcome the 2009 Terrors onto the field. Play ers forming the Terror Tunnel will include those who played football for Glynn Academy back to the 1940s. Hopefully 65 years of GA football will be represented on the field. Spe cial captains will be chosen for that night to lead the players on to the field. Organizers want as many former football players as pos sible to participate. For ques tions and information call Ron Scarboro at 912-399-6586. Two hundred reserved seats have been blocked off for GA alumni and many more are available in reserved seating. To purchase reserved seating call the GA ticket office at 912- 267-4100 and ask for Rhonda. The response so far has been tremendous. In fact one organizer plans to bring a bucket of pine resin and a bat tery powered fan to blow that old familiar smell across the area. We'll think we're back at Lanier Field with Hercules just across the way! □ A number of Brunswick res idents made the trip to Wash ington D.C. a week and a half ago to join what turned out to be millions of Americans in a Tea Party protest of President Barack Obama's spending and other big government polices. Several of them, including one from Alabama, submitted their thoughts about the trip to The Islander for publica tion and since not many in the media seem to be reporting this, we were happy to do so. Sandy Dean I left on Friday Sept 11 and drove to Washington DC. I was not sure what to expect when I got there. I just knew I wanted to let my government know I was not happy. So far, I have been to all the tea parties that were held here and also the one town hall meeting. I still felt my voice was not getting to Washing ton; maybe that’s why I felt such a need to be there. Well apparently so did a million or so others. I had never seen or experi enced anything like this in my life. I stood in Freedom Plaza at 8 a.m. and just looked at what seemed like a never-end ing stream of people. Georgia sent more people to D.C. than any other state, so we got to march down Penn sylvania Ave first. I was very honored to represent the state of Georgia. Marching down Pennsylva nia Ave. and listening to a mil lion people recite the pledge to the flag was absolutely amaz ing, but when they starting singing our national anthem my eye’s filled with tears. I have always been proud to be an American and on Sept 12, 2009 I was so proud of America. The voice of the peo ple was heard that day and I am proud to say that one of them was mine. The crowd was peaceful, but you could see the anger, and you could also feel the pride that we all have in this wonderful county that we call our home. It was not a Republican or Democrat thing, nor a black or white thing; it was an Ameri can thing. It was our rights Turn to Page 6 Washington tea party City to get SPLOST funds By Matthew J. Permar It's unclear if a lawsuit was threatened or not, but whatev er the case, the Glynn Comity Commission agreed last week to begin releasing to the City of Brunswick and Jekyll Island, their respective shares of Spe cial Purpose Local Option Sales Tax 5 (SPLOST) funds. In addition, the county will release their own funds. And since the county fund ed several SPLOST projects from the General Fund dur ing the months that the tax revenue was frozen, some of the SPLOST money will go to reimburse the General Fund. Instead of borrowing, the city put their SPLOST projects on hold and apparently have been discussing the release of the funds with the county for several weeks. The comity receives 74.4% of the SPLOST funds, while the city gets 23% and the remain ing 2.6% goes to Jekyll. Turn to Page 5 SPLOST 5 Frederica Rd. 'limbo lot' rezoned By Matthew J. Permar Every so often the Glynn County Commission gets a request to rezone one of those pieces of property that seems to be stuck in limbo between two incongruous land uses. That was the case last week when Monkey Wrench bicycle shop owner Chris Beaufait applied to have the 25,000 sq. ft. lot at 1708 Frederica Rd. on St. Simons Island rezoned from R-9 One Family Residen tial to Planned Development. Being immediately north of the entrance drive to Barnes Plantation condominums, the property is located between a single family residence to the north and a commercial shop ping center to the south. With the area already home to a lot of commercial develop ment, the lot just no longer seemed suited to a residential use. About a year or so ago a Turn to Page 5 Monkey Wrench