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Week of November 4,2009 - November 10,2009 • Vol. 37 No. 37 • www.savannahtribune.com • 912-233-6128 • Fax: 912-233-6140
Senate Confirms
Benjamin as
Surgeon General
Dr. Regina Benjamin
The Senate has con
firmed Dr. Regina Benjamin
to be the U.S. surgeon gener
al.
Benjamin was approved
by voice vote.
Benjamin was the first
black woman to head a state
medical society, received the
Nelson Mandela Award for
Health and Human Rights
and just last fall received a
Mac Arthur Foundation
"genius grant."
In nominating
Benjamin, President Barack
Obama cited her experience
with patients at the lower end
of the socio-economic spec
trum and her commitment to
prevention and wellness pro
grams as a way to head off
diseases and complications
that could be prevented.
Benjamin is the third black
surgeon general, following
Dr. Jocelyn Elders, and Dr.
David Satcher.
"My hope ... is to be
America's doctor, America's
family physician," Benjamin
said when Obama announced
her nomination in July. As
we work toward a solution to
this health care crisis, I
promise to communicate
directly with the American
people to help guide them
through whatever changes
may come with health care
reform."
Corporate Breakfast Kicks Off 2009
100 Celebrity Men Who Cook
Maurice Jenkins - UNCF Senior Vice-President Southeast Region; Thurbert Baker- GA. State Attorney General;
Carol Bell, Chairperson
The 2009 United Negro
College Fund (UNCF)
Corporate Kick-off Breakfast
was held Thursday, October
22, 2009 at the First City
Club.
The event was the offi
cial kick-off of the 2009
Savannah's 100 Celebrity
Men Who Cook. Bert
Tenenbaum, Corporate
Chairman, thanked the cor
porate and professional com
munities and officially
announced this year's event.
Tenenbaum offered a strong
challenge to the corporate
community to come on board
and support this year's cam
paign. Business profession-
Local 100 Celebrity Men W
als, elected officials, and
clergymen were all on hand
for the breakfast.
Also present were
Maurice Jenkins, UNCF
Senior Vice-President
Southeast Region and mem
bers of the sponsoring soror
ities - Alpha Kappa Alpha,
Delta Sigma Theta, Sigma
Gamma Rho, and Zeta Phi
Beta.
Thurbert Baker,
Georgia State Attorney
General was the speaker for
the Corporate Breakfast. The
Attorney General empha
sized the urgent need to sup
port the United Negro
College Fund because there
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is an increase in enrollment
at historically Black colleges
and universities but a
decrease in funding, and that
students must be prepared
when those “windows of
life” open.
Please mark your calen
dars and save the date for this
year's UNCF “Savannah's
Celebrity Men Who Cook” -
Sunday, December 13, 2009
- 3:00P.M. -5:00P.M.
Donation is only $25.00
and are on sale now from
members of the sponsoring
sororities or by calling (912)
232-6048. All proceeds will
benefit The United Negro
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College Fund (UNCF).
Savannah's 100 Celebrity
Men Who Cook 2009 event
chairman is Dr. Thomas B.
Lockamy, Superintendent -
Savannah Chatham County
Schools.
If you are interested in
becoming a Celebrity cook
this year, or if you are one of
our previous Celebrity
Cooks, and you have not
received your packet please
call (912) 232-6048. If you
have received your packet
and have not returned it,
please do so. Please support
this very worthwhile event.
AASU Foundation Granted $75,000 for
Educational Outreach Program
Patricia Wachholz, AASU dean of the College of Education; Camille Russo, regional manager
for AT&T Georgia, Linda Bleicken, AASU president; and Wendy Marshall, director of the
AASU Educational Technology Center.
anthropic arm of AT&T*, to in Chatham County develop
support “Let the Games
Begin,” a two-year outreach
program designed to help 60
at-risk high school students
The Armstrong Atlantic
State University (AASU)
Foundation has been award
ed a $75,000 grant from the
AT&T Foundation, the phil-
introductory computer pro
gramming skills.
The pilot program is a
See AASU, page 11
Authorities to Crack Down
on Housing Fraud
Larry Chisholm
District Attorney
A new joint investigative effort which could lead to the
arrest of public housing residents and Housing Choice Voucher
(Section 8) participants who make false statements about their
income to obtain or continue receiving housing assistance, was
announced today during a press briefing by the US Department
of Housing and Urban
Developments Office of Inspector
General (HUD-OIG), the Eastern
Judicial Circuit/Chatham County
District Attorneys Office (DAO)
and the Housing Authority of
Savannah (HAS).
Public housing and Housing
Choice Voucher Program resi
dents who under-report their
household income could face
charges of theft and making false
statements about their income to
obtain or continue receiving hous
ing assistance through the
Housing Authority of Savannah.
Public housing residents and
Housing Choice Voucher partici
pants who are not in compliance
should contact the Housing
Authority of Savannah's
Management Offices or the
Section 8 Office to update their
See Housing Fraud, pg. 11
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