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Early Voting information November 18 - November 21,8AM • SPM Voterflegislrnlion office - 1117 Eisenhower Dr.,SuiteE Runoff Election: December 2 n * 2008 PRSRT STD U.S POSTAGE PAID Savannah. GA Permit No. 923 ‘GEORGIA’S BEST WEEKLY” afcannaf) tribune Week of Nov. 19,2008 - Nov. 25,2008 • Vol. 36 No. 39 • www.savannahtribune.com • 912-233-6128 • Fax: 912-233-6140 Important Voter Information Advance voting week will be held Monday, November 24 through Wednesday, November 26, 2008. To find early and advance voting locations in your county, please contact your county registrar's office. Contact information can be found on the Secretary of State's website: http://www.sos.ga.gov/elections/. On Election Day December 2, polls will be open from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. Voters can request a mail-in/absentee ballot from their county registrar's office through the close of business on Wednesday, November 26, 2008. All absentee ballots must be received by the county reg istrar by close of polls on Election Day, December 2, 2008. Photo identification is not required when vot ing by mail. Mail-in/absentee ballots must be received by the appropriate county registrars' office by close of business on December 2. Given the short timeline leading to the deadline, voters choosing to vote by mail are urged to submit their application as soon as possible and, upon receipt of the ballot, to return the ballot immediately in order to ensure its receipt by the deadline. Voters will be required to show photo identification when voting in person. For more information on the requirements for photo ID, please call 1-877-725-9797 or visit www.GaPhotoID.com. Democrat Jim Martin will face Republican Saxby Chambliss in the run-off election on December 2nd. Additionally, Sara Doyle will face Mike Sheffield for a seat on the Georgia Appeals Court. CtuWMl 9 Curbside Recycling Cart Delivery Begins The City of Savannah made history Friday, Nov. 14, when it began door-to-door delivery of the new curbside recycling carts to Savannah household cus tomers. The first 3,000 of the roughly 48,000 recycling carts that will be delivered throughout Savannah have been mobilized next to the Savannah Recycling Center and Education Complex at 14 Interchange Court. A contractor departed the complex with the first batch on Friday. Those with Monday garbage pickup will be the first to receive carts, starting with the Coffee Bluff area Friday. The 96-gallon, black and yellow recycling carts are citizens' connection to Savannah's state-of-the-art curbside system, called "single-stream recycling." Single-stream recycling, a new technology, is the most user-friendly of all recycling systems. It allows resi dents to drop a variety of recyclables — plastic and glass bottles, metal cans, paper and cardboard — into one recycling container, with no sorting required. Cart delivery to all 48,000 households in Savannah is expected to take about a month. Curbside recycling collection, which will occur twice a month, will begin the week of Jan. 5, 2009. As citizens await the start of curbside recycling collection, they are encouraged to familiarize them selves with the process, and create a system within their homes for separation of household trash from recyclable materials. All Savannah households will receive a packet with a handy recycling guide, a pick up schedule, and other useful information. Residents can leam more by visiting savannah- ga.gov or calling 311. Transition Begins at the White House President-Elect Barack Obama and Michelle Obama meet with President George Bush and First Lady Laura Bush. By. Zenitha Prince Special to the NNPA from the Afro-American Newspapers WASHINGTON (NNPA) - Already elected under historic circumstances, President-elect Barack Obama’s transition to power seems to be moving at unprecedented speed, beginning with his appointment of Rep. Rahm Emanuel, D-I1L, as his chief of staff two days after the Nov. 4 election. “He's beaten a lot of records during the course of the campaign,” said Obama Transition Team Co-chair John Podesta on “Fox News Sunday.” “I think people proba bly don't know this, but with the exception of President Bush 41, which was an intraparty transition, no new president has named a cab inet secretary before December, going back through the Kennedy administration.” While Obama and his team have balked from getting too involved, insisting that “the United States only has one government and one president at a time,” the ailing economy See Transition Begins, page 8 Local NAACPto hold Obama Victory Celebration Breakfast Atty. Lester B. Johnson, III Keynote Speaker The Savannah Branch NAACP and the Ralph Mark Gilbert Civil Rights Museum will present an Obama Victory Celebration Breakfast at the new annex of the Civil Rights Museum, 460 Martin Luther King Boulevard (Alice Street Entrance), 9:00 to 11:00 a.m. on Saturday, December 13, 2008. These two civil rights organizations played leading roles in carrying Chatham County for President-Elect Obama in the November 4, 2008 general election. They are especially connected by the NAACP leadership roles played in Savannah by the late Dr. Ralph Mark Gilbert and Dr. Wesley Wallace Law. See Celebration, page 8 EBONY Magazine Recognizes Chef Joe Randall Charlotte Lyons, Ebony Magazine's Food Editor & Chef Randall Atlanta, Georgia - The third annual "TASTE OF EBONY," a culinary extravaganza that recognized the expertise of leading African American chefs and food-industry experts, was held on Thursday, October 30, 2008 at Mason Murer Arts in Atlanta. Linda Johnson Rice, President and CEO of Johnson Publishing Company kicked off the event and comedian Bill Bellamy of NBC's “Last Comic Standing” and TV One's “Who's Got Jokes” was the host for the evening. Chefs from across the country, including Savannah's own Executive Chef Joe Randall - Chef Joe Randall's Cooking School, Charlotte Lyons - Ebony Magazine Food Editor (Chicago), Executive Chef Dwight Evans - Highly Regarded (Chicago), Executive Chef/TV Host G. Garvin - TV One's “Turn Up the Heat”, Executive Chef Rahman “Rock” Harper - Winner of Hell's Kitchen 2007, Executive Chef Tony Morrow - The Pecan (Atlanta), Chef Allan Vernon - Vernon's Jerk Sauce (NYC and Atlanta), Personal Chef Jamika Pessoa - Life of the See Chef Joe Randall, page 2 arver ■new branch and a proud tradition of service 7110Skid3wa\ Road Savannah- Geonna 31406 .) FDIC
