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14 - The Savannah Tribune • Wednesday, May 13, 2009
Sports with Walter Moore
Reid Brought Savannah Stimulus
News It Could Use
Joseph Reid addresses the crowd during the Hungry
Club Forum Breakfast.
Walter Moore
Jones Wins 2nd At
UGA Meet
Amara Jones placed second in
the women's 400m race for
Savannah State at the Georgia
Invitational Track Meet in
Athens on May 9. Amber
Hughes was 4th in the triple
jump, Mekela Martin was 6th
in the 400m, Hughes was 7th in
the long jump and Jones was
10th in the 200m race. For the
SSU men, Chris Blount placed
3rd in the triple jump, Shawn
Sovnenir was 5th in the triple
jump, Vernon Williams was 5th
in the 400m, Marcus Stallworth
was 6th in the 400m hurdles
and 7th in the 110m hurdles,
Blount was 9th in the long
jump, Eric Plump was 9th in
the 200m and Rubin Isreal-
McBee was 10th in the 1500m
race. SSU assistant track coach
Rephel Martin was 2nd in the
men's long jump.
AUegretti Pitches One-
Hitter
Michael AUegretti pitched a
one-hitter as Savannah State
defeated Albany State 8-0 in
the first game of a double-
header at Tiger Field on May 8.
AUegretti struck out four and
walked one in the victory. At
the plate, Darien Campbell and
Julius Green drove in two runs
each while Tristan Smith and
Dexter Kelley scored twice. In
the second game, SSU (24-25)
scored twice in the first inning
but the Rams scored four times
in the sixth to earn a 4-2 win.
Kelley had three hits for the
Tigers while Smith and Brett
Pointer collected two each.
SSU Golfers Finish 7th
The Savannah State men's golf
team finished in 7th place at the
PGA Minority College Golf
Championship in Port St.
Lucie, FL May 8-10. SSU had
a team score of 907 and were
led by Tripp Walker who shot a
223 and Corey Brown's
224.0ther SSU golfers were
Riley Baxter (228), Jamie
Montgomery (239) and Ricky
Williams (243). Vonetta Epps
finished 13 th in the women's
competition with a 287.
SSU Athletes Earn
Degrees
Nineteen former Savannah
State student-athletes received
college degrees during com
mencement exercises at Tiger
Arena on May 8. Receiving
graduate degrees were
LaTeisha Barnett (women's
basketball), Jon Lattimore
(football) and Tracey Modeste
(women's tennis). Earning
undergraduate degrees were
Victoria Burch (women's
track), O'Bryan Clemons
(men's track), Bernard
Coleman (football/track),
Dalisha Crowder (women's
track), Shmika Jones (women's
basketball), Chris Linton
(men's basketball), Rondrick
Parker (men's track), Amber
West (women's basketball),
Joshua Marshall (football),
Brandon Emerson (men's bas
ketball), Para Malden
(women's tennis), Tristan
Smith (baseball), Kiana Smith
(women's basketball), CaLisha
Crowder (women's track),
Shamice James (women's bas
ketball) and Robert Ramsdale
(baseball).
Economic and Human
Resource Developer Joseph
R. Reid, CEO, Reid
International, Inc. of Atlanta,
delivered a comprehensive
update on the status of
President Barack Obama’s
American Recovery and
Reinvestment Act, common
ly known as the Stimulus
Package.
Reid was the keynote
speaker on the occasion of
the 3rd Annual Community
Appreciation Reception and
Luncheon of the Hungry
Club Forum of Savannah,
Inc. (HCFS), on Saturday
May 2, 2009, in the Joe
Addison Banquet Room of
Geneva Geneva’s
Restaurant.
The Obama Stimulus
Package provides significant
funding increases for a num
ber of human services,
health, employment and
other safety net programs.
This additional support
is intended to provide relief
for lower-to- moderate
income families and others
hardest hit by the recession.
Churches are in a very
unique position to play a
pivotal role in being of
greater service to their com
munities.
The $16 billion
Weatherization Assistance
Grant, that provides $2500
to $6500 for homeowners to
weatherize their homes pro
vides a dynamic opportunity
for community service and
assistance, training and
entrepreneurship develop
ment.
This is just one of the
pieces of the Stimulus that
makes “shovel ready” proj
ects available.
Savannah Mayor Otis
S. Johnson briefed the audi
ence on the plans and strate
gies of the City of Savannah
in making sure that the local
areas gets the benefit of the
funds available.
City Manager Michael
Brown, Marronde Lotson,
Director of the city’s
Economic Development
Dept., Martin Fretty,
Director of the city’s
Housing Dept, and Leron
Mitchum, Director,
Savannah Land Bank
Authority, attended the
forum.
Ms. Lotson co-moder-
ated with HCFS president,
Rev. Carol Q. King, the
Open Forum.
In the traditional
format of the HCFS, an
open forum followed,
allowing interaction and
questions from the audi
ence.
The Hungry Club
Forum is a non-profit, com
munity-oriented forum, open
to the general public.
It is dedicated to pro
viding quality educational,
community development
and cultural enrichment pro
grams, and to bringing forth
involvement and discussion
of issues facing the commu
nity.
The next meeting of the
HCFS will be held on the
first Saturday June 6, 2009,
in the May Street YMCA
Annex, located at 1110 May
Street, at 9:30 AM, and will
present an update on the for
mation of the Savannah
Stimulus Community
Coalition and a presentation
by the Covenant X Study
Group on “Closing the
Racial Digital Divide.”
For more information,
please call Rev. Carol Q.
King at 656-5378 or Diana
Harvey Johnson at 927-
8425.
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Troy Anthony Davis.
Davis is an African
American from Savannah,
Georgia who was convicted
in 1991 for the murder of
white policeman Mark
McPhail.
Davis’ attorneys are
appealing his case before the
U.S. Supreme Court. He is
currently under a 30-day stay
of execution, but if the high
court rejects the appeal, the
stay will be lifted and Davis
could be executed by lethal
injection sometime later this
month.
There is no physical
evidence linking Davis to the
crime.
No murder weapon has
ever been recovered.
Moreover, seven of nine
witnesses who originally
claimed Davis was the shoot
er have since recanted their
testimony, saying in sworn
affidavits that they were
coerced and pressured by
police to identify Davis.
One of the two remain
ing witnesses who did not
recant their testimony has
been pointed out as a possi
ble suspect.
“The name Troy Anthony
Davis is a name known all
over the world by people
who believe in truth, justice
and fairness,” said Martina
Correia, Davis’ sister.
“That’s all we’re asking
for, fairness.” Despite a
seven-year battle with breast
cancer with its exhausting
and debilitating chemothera
py treatments, Correia travels
extensively to appearances in
Georgia and around the
country, inspiring audiences
to join the growing effort to
save her brother.
Well known human rights,
civil rights and religious
leaders such as South African
Bishop Desmond Tutu have
insisted that Davis should
not be executed.
The Davis case is an
example of one of the many
flaws in the death penalty
and why many are calling for
its end: There are no guaran
tees against wrongful con
victions and executions. A
disproportionate number of
economically disadvantaged
individuals, African
Americans and other people
of color land on death row
because they cannot afford
high quality legal representa
tion, because of prosecutori
al misconduct, and because
of racial bias. Since 1973,
131 men and women have
been exonerated from death
row. The most recent was
Nathson Fields, an African
American death row inmate
from Illinois. Investigative
reporting conducted by The
Houston Chronicle, The
Chicago Tribune, and the St.
Louis Post-Dispatch
revealed that four men, two
Latinos, one African
American and one white,
executed in recent years,
were probably innocent.
Organizers of the day
of action urge people to send
letters to Georgia Governor
Sonny Perdue asking for
clemency.
Additional information
on planned and suggested
activities for the May 19,
2009 Global Day of Action
for Troy Davis can be found
on Amnesty International
USA’s Troy Davis web page
a t
http://www.amnestyusa.Org/t
roydavis.