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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
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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
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