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April 26, 2010
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Vol 38 Issue 17
Earth Day 1990
On hand last week in the St. Simons Elementary School's gymnasium to review the
contents of the school's 20 year old, Earth Day Time Capsule were: (left to right) Bootie
Wood, 1990 Gifted Program teacher; Bobbi Blachke, 1990 Kindergarten para pro; Rose
Darby, 1990 5th grade teacher; Abbey Marrs, 1990 4th grade student; Linda Chitty,
1990 4th grade teacher and 2010 kindergarten teacher, who has been at SSI Elemen
tary for 37 years; Alice Lane, 1990 4th grade teacher and 2010 5th grade teacher; Kim
Richardson, 1990 3rd grade student and 2010 5th grade teacher and Ernest Knight,
who is the parent of a 1990 student. Islander Staff Photo -
St. Simons Elementary looks back 20 years
By Matthew J. Permar
Epworth says
'No' to gym
By Matthew J. Permar
As I listened to Glynn Coun
ty officials discuss a sports-
community center for Epworth
Park with the Epworth
Acres Homeowners Associa
tion (EAHA) last week, I was
reminded of a similar situation
a few years ago when the coun
ty wanted to turn a portion of
Demere Park over to the Boys
and Girls Club of Glynn for
their teen center.
While there are many dif
ferences between the two, the
one glaring similarity was the
opposition from area residents
to both proposals.
On Tuesday, April 20, Comi
ty Commissioner Tom Sublett
(Dist. 2), Assistant County
Administrator Paul Chris
tian and Recreation Director
Wesley Davis met with the
EAHA to discuss the possibil
ity of building a gymnasium
in Epworth Park that would
serve as a community cen
ter for senior citizens during
the day and be available for
the recreation department’s
middle school age basketball
league at night.
Christian said, ‘We wanted
to get out in front on this and
let you know what we’re con
sidering and not spring it on
anyone.”
Christian said he had
already met with Joel Wil
lis, the director of the nearby
Epworth By The Sea Method
ist Center, and he supports the
project.
Christian even said that
the Epworth Methodist Center
has no facility like this and
this one would help them with
some of their needs.
Sublett said the project is
only a concept right now and
would be funded with SPLOST
4 (Special Purpose Local Option
Sales Tax) funds.
The project is listed in Tier
II-III of SPLOST 4 as SSI Sport
Complex improvements to the
time of $1,050,000. No specific
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Epworth gym
Standing around a six foot
cafeteria table covered in 20
year old elementary school
artifacts - photographs, small
toys, poems, stories, baseball
cards, a lot of baseball cards,
sunglasses, drawings and
a D.A.R.E. program bumper
sticker, - it takes Abbey Marrs
less than 10 seconds to find a
Polaroid® of her and some of
her 4th grade classmates from
1990.
That's the year, on Friday,
April 27, the school, under the
direction of former Principal
Gene Tomberlin, buried a time
capsule.
The 1990 event marked the
end of a week of study and cel
ebration of the Planet Earth,
a week that started on Earth
Day, April 22.
The brain child of Bootie
Wood, who taught the gifted
program in 1990, the time cap
sule was dug up last week in
honor of Earth Day 20 years
later.
According to Wood, her hus
band, Royce, used a compass
and what they thought would
be two fixed points to locate a
spot to bury the capsule.
The capsule was original
ly located a 18 ft. 9 inches
from the flagpole at North 75
degrees East from the pole and
40 ft. 5 inches from the front
doors of the cafeteria at South
20 degrees West of the doors.
In the last 20 years, the
school has undergone a reno
vation that included the relo
cation of one of Royce Wood's
points to find the capsule, the
flagpole.
Current Principal Suzanne
Clements laughingly said, "We
had to get the maintenance
guys out here to help us find
it, because our flagpole got
moved."
Sadly much of the time cap
sule contents were damaged
by moisture.
Clements said, "The capsule
was buried out in front of the
school and during the renova
tion there was a lot of heavy
equipment moving around on
the front lawn, and we think
that may have disturbed the
capsule. It wasn't buried very
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Time capsule
Two parents
speak out about
school bullying
By Pamela Permar
Shierling
At last week's Glynn Comi
ty Board of Education (BOE)
meeting, Tuesday, April 20,
Shaun Oakes and Lisa Schultz
spoke to the board about prob
lems their children had experi
enced with bullying.
Ms. Oakes, who spoke first,
became very emotional in tell
ing board members that her
son gets bullied daily in school
and that the bullying has gone
on for four years. Her son
attends Golden Isles Elemen
tary School.
Ms. Oakes said both she
and her sister are pulling their
three children out of public
school and will home school
them.
According to Millard Allen,
Chairman of the Glynn County
Board of Education, the Oakes
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Bullying
City moves on
College Park
drainage problem
By Matthew J. Permar
Earlier this year, during a
period of unusually heavy rain
fall, storm water backed up so
far in the College Park neigh
borhood in Brunswick that
several houses were flooded.
Located near the intersec
tion of Altama Ave. in Bruns
wick and SPUR 25, this was
not the first time the neighbor
hood has had drainage and
flooding problems.
The problem is twofold.
One issue is the pipe that
drains the area is too small
where it runs under Carteret
Rd.
The other problem, accord
ing to City Commissioner
James Brooks, is residents
who throw trash and debris
over their back yard fences
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College Park drainage
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