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4 - The Savannah Tribune • Wednesday, Octoberl4, 2009
SOCIAL AND COMMUNITY NEWS
Savannah State to Observe
Shannon Sharpe Day on Oct. 17
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Shannon Sharpe
Savannah State
University (SSU) will
observe Shannon Sharpe
Day on Saturday, Oct. 17,
prior to the 5 p.m. Tiger
football game against
Bethune-Cookman
University.
SSU President Earl G.
Yarbrough Sr. will preside
over the jersey retirement
and unveiling ceremony,
which will take place at 3
p.m. in Tiger Arena. At 4:45
p.m., university officials
will present to Sharpe his #2
jersey during pre-game cer
emonies at Wright Stadium,
prior to the kickoff against
Bethune-Cookman
University.
A native of Glennville,
Ga., Sharpe entered the NFL
out of Savannah State in
1990.
His NFL career
spanned 14 years: 12 sea
sons with the Denver
Broncos and two with
Baltimore Ravens.
A three-time Super Bowl
champion, Sharpe holds the
NFL post-season record for
longest reception, a 96-yard
catch and run for a touch
down in the 2000 AFC
Championship Game.
He played in 12 post
season contests as a Bronco,
all starts, and ranks No. 2 in
franchise playoff history in
receptions (47) and No. 3 in
receiving yards (505).
Sharpe is a member of
the Colorado Sports Hall of
Fame, Georgia Sports Hall
of Fame and the Broncos
Ring of Honor.
The former NFL tight
end joined CBS Sports in
2004 as a studio analyst for
the CBS Television
Network's NFL pre-game
show, THE NFL TODAY.
Hungry Club Forum Explores
Fostering Accountable Community
At its October 3, 2009
breakfast, The Hungry Club
Forum of Savannah,
Inc.(HCFS) heard from the
last the community-wide study
groups involved in an exami
nation of Tavis Smiley’s The
Covenant With Black
America.
The Covenant IV Study
Group, chaired by Zaphon
Wilson, PhD., chairman of the
Political Science Department
at Armstrong Atlantic State
University, and co-chaired by
Larry Stokes, PhD., chairman
of the Criminal Justice
Department at Savannah State
University, made its prelimi
nary presentation on Fostering
Accountable Community-
Centered Policing.
By the year’s end, and
after public input the presenta
tion will be one of ten that will
be compiled into a local action
plan for community improve
ment tentatively titled, The
Covenant With Black
Savannah.
The gist of the presenta
tion centered around the com-
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munity taking a more proac
tive role in maintaining a safe
and secure environment and
law enforcement rethinking
and retraining for working for
and with the community to
accomplish these goals.
Other presenters for this
study group included Maj.
Mark Gerbino of the
Savannah-Chatham Metro
Police Department, Rev.
Thurmond N. Tillman, Pastor
of First African Baptist
Church, who also has a back
ground in criminal probation,
former prosecutor Lloyd
Johnson, Esq. (ret.), communi
ty developer Dr. Barbara
Allison-Simpson and Fr. J.
Lloyd Angus (ret.), HCFS
Board member.
The next Hungry Club
Forum will be held on
Saturday November 7, 2009,
at 9:30 AM, in the West Broad
Street YMCA Annex, and fea
ture a presentation on opportu
nities for community develop
ment and pride afforded in the
proposed W. W. Law Plaza, a
housing, hotel and retail com
plex, to be located on Martin
Luther King, Jr. Blvd.
The public is invited.
For more info., call Julia
Wright at 233-0855 or Diana
Harvey Johnson at 927-8425.
Williams to Keynote Second Saint
John’s Men’s Day Program
The officers and mem
bers of Second Saint John
Missionary Baptist Church
invite the entire community
to come and celebrate their
Annual Men’s Day Program
at 11:00 a.m. October 18,
2009.
The guest speaker for
this grand occasion will be
the Honorable A1 Williams.
Representative
Williams is the former chair
man of the Georgia
Legislative Black Caucus,
the largest state black leg
islative caucus in the nation.
His active memberships also
include the National
Association of State
Rep. A1 Williams
Legislators, the National
Association of Black State
Legislators, and the Georgia
Association of Black Elected
Officials. He is also a dedi
cated Christian, AI serves as
chairman of the Deacon
Board of the Calvary Baptist
Church of Richmond Hill
and president of the Laymen,
Zion Missionary Baptist
Association. Representative
AL Williams has a word to
bring, that is suitable for this
day and time and we invite
you to come and reach the
message.
The word is still alive
and Second Saint John is still
on the move. Come join us as
we continue our mission and
dedication to God's Word.
Savannah Receives New ATMS
Savannah is the first
city on the East Coast to
receive ATMs developed by
Wells Fargo that can accept
stacks of cash or checks with
out envelopes and even sell
postage stamps around the
clock.
“Envelope-Free ATMs
will save our customers time
and hassle,” said Doug
Fuentes, retail community
bank president for East
Georgia for Wachovia, A
Wells Fargo Company.
“They don't need to write on
an envelope, do any math, or
key-in a deposit amount. The
ATM does all the work."
Chatham County
Commission Chairman Pete
Liakakis hailed the move as
another step toward making
Chatham the “greenest coun
ty in Georgia.”
“This is a valuable addi
tion to the efforts of the
Chatham Environmental
Forum and many others who
have been working for years
on a number of fronts, includ
ing reducing waste,” Liakakis
said. “We congratulate
Wachovia and Wells Fargo
for this step.”
Already, the new ATMs
in other parts of the country
have saved an estimated 255
tons of paper or the equiva
lent of 4,284 trees.
The installation of 19
new deposit-taking machines
across the Savannah area was
scheduled to be completed by
yesterday (Sept. 29). In addi
tion, the company put in 10
ATMs with all the upgrades
except that, as in the past,
these machines dispense cash
but don't take deposits.
The new machines are
the most visible sign of the
conversion under way as a
result of the merger of
Wachovia and Wells Fargo
late last year.
To take advantage of the
new ATMs, customers simply
slip a stack of cash - up to 50
bills in different denomina
tions - into the ATM slot and
the machine sorts, counts and
verifies the amount.
Customers may also
deposit a stack of up to 30
checks into the machine and
the ATM sorts and reads each
check and displays a digital
image of the check on the
ATM screen and on the
receipt. Many other banks
require consumers to feed
checks into the machine one
by one-like vending machines
- which can be slow and cum
bersome.
“The new machines are
a big time saver compared to
primitive machines which
only take one check at a
time,” said Jenny Gentry,
Savannah Market President
for Wachovia.
She noted that Wells
Fargo has just been named
the “greenest” bank by
Newsweek magazine and that
Savannah Magazine named
Wachovia as the best bank in
Savannah.
Other features of the
new ATMs include a “bread
crumbs” function that allows
customers to backtrack easily
to previous steps and make
easy changes.
The machines also have
a “What You Do Most” fea
ture that displays a customer's
top three transactions in order
to go straight to them.
Savannah Chatham Council of PTA’s
Fundraising Campaign to Develop
Scholarahip Program
For the very first time, scholarships. In addition, coupons for 2-for-l pizzas and
the umbrella group that repre
sents all the PTA's in
Savannah and Chatham
County is holding a major
campaign to raise money for a
scholarship program to help
area students.
Students from every
school in the county will be
selling discount coupon
books and the proceeds will
be used to help pay for the
each school PTA will keep a
portion of the money they
raise to pay for special proj
ects at their own school.
The “Enjoy the City”
coupon books that the stu
dents will be selling offer
about $3,000 worth of
coupons in every book. For
example, the book contains
coupons for a free oil change
for your car as well as
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scores of other restaurant
deals.
“This fundraiser has the
potential to greatly assist
PTA's as well as increase the
funding for PTA's that are
struggling financially,” said
Georgette Backman, president
of the Savannah-Chatham
Council of PTA's. “This is
another relevant and function
al tool to assist in fostering
student success and build part
nerships within the communi
ty who serve along side the
PTA to benefit children and
youth and their families.”
The fundraiser kicks off on
October 1 and will last for 10
days. The books sell for $20
and every student in the
Savannah-Chatham school
district will be taking orders,
according to Kelly Powers,
vice president of the
Savannah- Chatham Council
of PTAs. Powers first
broached the idea of selling
the books as a fundraiser last
spring because she thought it
was the best way to raise the
most money for the scholar
ship fund.
For more information,
contact: Georgette Backman
PTA Council President geor-
gettebackman@comcast.net
Kelly Powers PTA Council
Vice President 912 713-
4828 or PTA Fundraising
coordinator David Boul
773 551-6242.