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Thursday, November 27,2008
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DECEMBER 2 nd
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‘GEORGIA’S BEST WEEKLY”
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Week of Nov. 26,2008 - Dec. 2,2008 • VoL 36 No. 40 • www.savannahtribune.com • 912-233-6128 • Fax: 912-233-6140
Jim
Martin for
the Senate
Jim Martin
On November 4, the vot
ers of the United States took the
first step toward putting our
country on a better path when
Senator Barack Obama was
elected President. However, the
elections are not over and we
must do everything possible to
give President Obama as many
supporters in Congress as pos
sible, if he is to be successful in
his efforts to improve our
national economy and change
the attitudes and policies for
our nation. We can send
Democrat Jim Martin to the
Senate. Martin has promised to
help the new president imple-
See Jim Martin, page 18
Boule Men Treat Students to an
Evening of Art and Banking
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The Young Men of Honor and the program’s founder, Mrs. Diane Jackson, are pictured with members of
the Social Action Committee of Alpha Lambda Boule, Jepson Center staff and other chaperones.
T he men of Alpha
Lambda Boule of
Sigma Pi Phi
Fraternity, Inc. treated the
students at Spencer
Elementary School who
participate in the Young
Men of Honor Program to
an evening of art and bank
ing on November 19, 2008.
The outing was part of the
mentoring program coordi
nated by the Social Action
Committee of Alpha
Lambda Boule.
The twenty-two stu
dents were taken to the
Jepson Center for the Arts
in four, chauffeur-driven
limousines at the end of the
regular school day with a
police escort befitting
President Barack Obama,
or the head of a visiting
nation. At the museum,
they were divided into two
See Boule Men, page 17
Sara Doyle
for the
Georgia
Court of
Appeals
Attorney Sara Doyle
Attorney Sara Doyle is in a
run-off with Attorney Mike
Sheffield of Lawrenceville to fill
a vacant seat on the 12-member
Georgia Court of Appeals. The
vacancy was created by the
retirement of Judge John H.
Ruffin, Jr. The court, which is
one step below the Georgia
Supreme Court, handles both
criminal and civil appeals. We
See Sara Doyle, page 16
UNCF Holds Animal
Corporate Breakfast
Bert Tenenbaum
The 2008 UNCF
Corporate Kick-off
Breakfast was held
Tuesday, November 18,
at the First City Club.
The event was also a part
of the official kick-off of
Savannah's 100 Celebrity
Men Who Cook. Bert
Tenenbaum, 2008
Corporate Chairman,
thanked the corporate
and professional commu
nity and officially
announced this year's
event. Tenenbaum
offered a strong chal
lenge to the corporate
community to come on
board and support this
year's campaign.
Among the busi
nessmen present were
event chairman, Dr.
Thomas B. Lockamy,
School Superintendent,
County Commission
Chairman Pete Liakakis,
WTOC-TV General
Manager - Bill Cathcart,
former Corporate
Chairman - Dicky
Mopper, City Manager -
Michael Brown,
Chamber of Commerce
President - Bill Hubbard,
and several local busi
ness representatives,
including Cathy Hill,
Roy L. Jackson, Joe
Marianelli, and Jody
McIntyre.
Savannah State
See UNCF, page 5
Jackson Elected to
2009 National League
of Cities’ Board
Washington, D.C. -
Savannah, Ga., Mayor
Pro-Tern and Alderman-
At-Large Edna Branch
Jackson was elected to
the 2009 Board of
Directors of the
National League of
Cities (NLC) during its
Congress of Cities in
Orlando, Fla.,
November 11-15.
Jackson was one of
18 new Board members
elected at the meeting.
The Board meets
throughout the year and leads the organization by shap
ing priorities and directing the advocacy, research, and
membership activities of NLC.
The election concluded NLC’s 2008 Congress of
Cities, attended by nearly 4,000 delegates. The dele
gates also elected new officers for the coming year,
including Northglenn, Colo., Mayor Kathleen M. Novak
as President; Riverside, Calif., Mayor Ronald O.
Loveridge as 1st Vice President; and Charlotte, N.C.,
See Jackson, page 5
Edna Branch Jackson
Passenger Streetcars Return
to the Rails of Savannah
On Wednesday,
November 19, for the
first time in more
than 60 years, pas
senger streetcars
returned to the rails
of Savannah.
City-hired con
tractors in
Pennsylvania spent
the past year restor
ing an authentic
1930s-era Melbourne
streetcar, making it
ADA accessible and
retrofitting it with a
state-of-the-art, environmentally friendly propulsion system. After
more than a month of testing, the streetcar was turned over to
Savannah.
The 47-foot-long streetcar, delivered by flatbed truck, arrived at
the Railroad Roundhouse Complex west of Martin Luther King Jr.
Boulevard on Wednesday.
The Melbourne streetcar will spend the next few weeks at the
Roundhouse rails, where conductors will be trained on its operation. It
is scheduled to ride the rails of River Street beginning mid-December.
The two-sided streetcar will ride back and forth along the length of
River Street, picking passengers up at seven stops along its route.
Streetcars were Savannah's first mode of public transportation,
See Passenger Streetcars, page 5
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