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April 4,2012-April 10,2012 • Vol. 41 No. 5* 912-233-6128 • Fax: 912-233-6140
President
Obama
Mayor Jackson and Counsel Welcome
Israeli Consul General and Delegation
Challenges
Budget
Proposal
President Barack
Obama plans to challenge a
Republican budget proposal
embraced by front-running
GOP presidential candidate
Mitt Romney.
In a speech to a media
luncheon, Obama will call
the measure prepared by
House Budget Committee
Chairman Paul Ryan, R-
Wisconsin, and passed by
the House a "Trojan Horse"
that is disguised as a deficit
reduction plan but actually
imposes a "radical vision"
amounting to "social
Darwinism," according to
excerpts released by the
White House.
"It's antithetical to our
entire history as a land of
opportunity and upward
mobility for everyone who's
willing to work for it — a
place where prosperity does
n't trickle down from the top,
but grows outward from the
heart of the middle class,"
Obama will say, according to
the excerpts. "And by gut
ting the very things we need
to grow an economy that's
built to last — education and
training; research and devel
opment — it's a prescription
for decline."
The remarks signal
Obama's full engagement in
his re-election campaign for
the November general elec
tion.
So far, the president has
generally avoided direct
comment on the Republican
nomination race, which
Romney leads by a wide
margin.
However, he has
increasingly framed the
upcoming election as a
choice between maintaining
his policies and vision for
continued economic recov
ery and investment in future
growth versus what he calls
failed Republican policies of
the past based on deep
spending cuts and lower
taxes intended to benefit the
corporate class.
"In this country, broad-
based prosperity has never
trickled down from the suc
cess of a wealthy few,"
Obama said "It has always
come from the success of a
strong and growing middle
class."
Mayor Edna Jackson presents Consul General Opher Aviran with a picture of Savannah’s City Hall and a globe
representing the working relationship between Savannah and Israel
n Monday, April 2,
2012, Mayor Edna
B. Jackson and
members of Savannah City
Council were joined with
Israeli Consul General
Opher Aviran and members
of the Greater Savannah
International Alliance and
Savannah Jewish Federation
for a news conference to
release information on a new
international partnership
with Israel.
Consul General Opher
Aviran is the Consul General
of Israel to the Southeastern
United States, and was here
on an official visit to
Savannah.
The Greater Savannah
International Alliance,
referred to as GSIA, was cre
ated by Mayor and Council
in 2010 to advance Greater
Savannah’s position as a
global community by foster
ing international relation
ships and initiatives that ben
efit the region through com
merce, culture, tourism and
education. The visit by the
Israel Consul General of the
Southeastern US helps to
support this effort.
During this official
visit Consul General Opher
Aviran and his delegation
met with a wide variety of
entities representing com
merce, culture/tourism, and
education including:
Facility Tour of
Gulfstream Aerospace and
Security Briefing; GA Port
Tour and Homeland Security
Briefing with Lunch;
Meeting at Savannah
Economic Development
Authority and World Trade
Center Savannah with
Steven Weathers, President
and CEO, Meeting with City
of Savannah Police Chief,
Willie Lovett as well as
Meeting with the African
American Community at
Savannah State University
New Student Center
Ballroom and Meeting with
Jewish Community at
Jewish Educational Alliance
and Adam Solender, CEO -
Jewish Educational Alliance.
For info on Consul
General Opher Aviran, con
tact the Public Information
Office at 912-651-6410.
Local Business Host Awards Luncheon for AASU
Moot Court Team
AASU assistant professor of criminal justice Becky da Cruz, center, accepts a special Recognition of Achievement
H unterMaclean, a
leading business law
firm with offices in
Savannah and Brunswick,
recently hosted a special
award luncheon for members
of Armstrong Atlantic State
University’s Moot Court
Team.
The luncheon, which
took place at
HunterMaclean’s Savannah
Award on behalf of the unh
office in early March,
included the presentation of
a Recognition of
Achievement Award to the
students for all their hard
work during the 2011-2012
season.
“We’re delighted to
honor these hard-working
students at Armstrong
Atlantic State University,”
said Andrew H. Ernst, a part-
rsity’s Moot Court program.
ner at Hunter Maclean.
Armstrong students
Phil Parham, Melissa
William, Dwayne Crispell
and Mathew Bryarly com
peted in the National Moot
Court Championship at
Chapman Law School in
Orange, California on
January 13-14, 2012.
Becky da Cruz,
Armstrong Atlantic State
University assistant profes
sor of criminal justice,
serves as lead coach for the
teams representing
Armstrong.
HunterMaclean helps
sponsor the Armstrong Moot
Court program, making it
possible for students to com
pete regionally and national
ly-
Savannah
Children’s
Choir Holds
Auditions
On Saturday, April 28
from 9 a.m. to 10:30 a.m., the
Savannah Children’s Choir
will hold a Financial Aid
Audition in the SCC choir
room at St. Paul’s Episcopal
Church, 34th & Abercom.
Financial Aid may be used
for SCC’s 2012 Summer
Camp, held July 16-27, 2012
at Asbury Memorial, 1008
Henry Street (at Waters
Ave.).
This year’s camp theme
is “Singers are Storytellers”,
and campers will have the
chance to dance, sing and act
at the End of Camp Show on
Friday, July 27 at 7 p.m. at
Asbury Memorial.
“Our Summer Camp
pairs college student instruc
tors earning advanced
degrees in music education
with kids who are excited to
learn,” comments Emmy
Williams, SCC Director of
Education. “This year’s
instructors are from
Northwestern University,
University of Nevada,
Florida State, University of
Georgia and SCAD,” she
explained.
“The instructors bring
the latest theories and tech
niques in music education
and gain real-life teaching
experience working with the
brightest, most musical kids
in Savannah!”
“Summer Camp serves
as the only audition into the
Savannah Children’s Choir,”
explains SCC Artistic
Director and Co-Founder
Roger Moss.
At the audition, the stu
dent will be assessed on basic
musical skills; the ability to
consistently match pitch and
follow directions. “We don’t
need a child to come with
anything prepared,” com
ments Roger Moss. “The
audition process is short, fun
and painless!”
If you would like to
apply for financial aid, sim
ply send an email to
info@savannahchoir.org
with “Financial Aid” in the
subject line, and you will be
sent the Financial Aid appli
cation along with a
Registration Form.
For more information
about the camp, go to
www.savannahchoir.org
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