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Page 4, April 8, 2019, The Islander Publisher's Statement THE ISLANDER (USPS 002430), A member of the Georgia Press Associa tion and Glynn Comity’s only weekly newspa- per is published 51 weeks a year for $35 per year in Glynn County and $40 per year in the United States outside Glynn Comity by Permar Pub lications, Inc., 1604 B Newcastle Street, Brunswick, GA 31525. Periodicals post age paid at Brunswick, GA. The Island er is also available to subscribers online at www.theislanderonline.com. Contents of The Islander, including advertising, may not he reprinted or re produced in any form without written permission of the publishers. POST MASTER send address change to The Islander, P.O. Box 20539, St. Simons Island, GA 31522. Publication Deadline Publication Date: Every Monday Deadline: Thursdays, 12 PM for ads and news copy for the following Mon day’s edition. Holiday Schedule On Monday Post Office holidays, The Islander is printed on the Friday before. 2019 Postal Holidays Tuesday, Januaiy 1 New Year’s Day Monday, January 21 Martin Luther King, Jr. Birthday Monday, February 18 President’s Day Washington’s Birthday Monday, May 27 Memorial Day Thursday, July 4 Independence Day Monday, September 2 Labor Day Monday, October 14 Columbus Day Monday, November 11 Veterans Day Thursday, November 28 Thanksgiving Day Wednesday, December 25 Christmas Day Holiday Deadline: Wednesdays, 12 PM for ads and news copy for the following Monday’s edition. Mission Statement: to publish the truth without fear or favor. Established 1972 Matthew J. Permar - Publisher Elise J. Permar - Publisher 1972-2003 Gertrude Bradshaw - Co-Editor 1972-1991 Managing Editor & Advertising Manager Pamela P. Shierling 912-265-9654 Church News Patty Gibson - 912-638-8844 Contributors Ginny Johnson, Jeff Lane, Phone Number 912-265-9654 email: ssislander@bellsouth.net www.theislanderonline.com Award Winning Newspaper 1975 1980 1985 1976 19811992 1982 1999 ^|§|p/l978 1983 2002 19791984 2008 2012, 2016 Letters O.K. ^What is it going to take? Another person has jumped their death off the Sid- n e y Lanier Bridge. This time in a family known to me. A bridge I can see from my house, in my eyes a thing of beauty, a gigantic structure that somehow blends into its surrounding, being used as a instrument of death. Unfortunately, this is not the first time someone has jumped to their death. An article in the Brunswick News dated Jan. 13, 2013 stated that seven people have jumped to their death since the bridge’s completion. Another article dated Jan. 13, 2017 added two more in a week’s time. There may be more. How can this great community continually allow this to happen? It is just too easy a way to let one take their own life. What would I do different, I thought. First, I would put cameras in place so that the bridge could be moni tored and police alerted to a possible jumper. It would also help reconstruct an incident if one should happen. I would put sensors to alert police that a car was stopped on the bridge along with a speaker system that could be used to communicate with a possible jumper until help could ar rive. I would add suicide prevention phones and signage along the bridge. We have all heard of someone being “talked down” in a suicide situation. Lastly I think I would install a low profile lighting system that would light the roadway without lighting the area outside the bridge. The new Wainwright Baseball park has such a LED lighting system that illuminates the park but can hardly be seen when outside of the park. I do not know if lighting would help but it certainly would make monitoring the bridge at night easier. City, County, DOT, Public Heath officials and citizens of Glynn County, we have to do something, we are just to good of a community to let this go on. Hal Hart Brunswick Mr. Hart along with several oth ers spoke to the City Commission Wednesday, April 3 about suicide pre vention measures on the Sidney Lani er Bridge. The City approved a resolu tion that evening requesting that the Georgia Dept, of Transportation insti tute suicide prevention measures on the Sidney Lanier Bridge. The County Commission has ap proved the same resolution.s Calendar -April 11, 2019 630 pm Cinema Gourmet: The Princess Bride. Food. Talk. Film. $18/person - Reservations by 4/8/19 -April 14, 2019 4-7 pm 2nd Annual Penguin Bistro Bash! Support the Golden Isles Penguin Project with a delicious low country boil, silent auction and a sneak peek at Shrek, The Musical JR! $50/per- son @ The Driftwood Bistro on Jekyll Island. -April 28, 2019 3 pm Classic Nashville Roadshow 2: The Sequined Sequel. 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