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Exhibition and Related Events July 19 - December 16, 2012
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July 11,2012- July 17,2012 • Vol. 41 No. 19 • 912-233-6128 • Fax: 912-233-6140
The Savannah Branch of NAACP to Host
Candidates Forum
McArthur Holmes
On Tuesday July 17,
2012 at 7pm at the Tremont
Temple Missionary Baptist
Church, 1110 Martin Luther
Mike Jones
King Jr. Blvd., The
Savannah Branch NAACP
and the Interdenominational
Ministerial Alliance will
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hold a candidates forum for
chairman Chatham county
commission and Chatham
county sheriff. Chairman
Commission Candidates:
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Walter Crawford,
Eddie Deloach, Billy Hair
and A1 Scott. Chatham
County Sheriff Candidates:
McArthur Holmes, Mike
Jones and A1 St. Lawrence.
For more info visit
www. savnaacp .com
On Saturday July 21,
2012 at the Savannah Civic
Center the NAACP and the
Interdenominational
Ministerial Alliance from
9am-lpm will host a back to
school expose. The event
will offer free school sup
plies, dental screenings and
more. For more
information on the back to
school visit www.RSG.
backtoschool.org
The CME Church to Host Quadrennial
Annual Conference
Rev. Vanessee Burns
Sixth Episcopal
District of the Christian
Methodist Episcopal Church
will host the Quadrennial
Annual Conference. The
Quadrennial Annual
Conference of the Sixth
Episcopal District is com
prised of the delegates, min
isters, pastors, and members
representing over 300 con
gregations from their four
conferences: Central
Georgia, Georgia North,
South Georgia, and West
Georgia. Our Presiding
Senior Pastor Paula White
Prelate is Bishop Kenneth
W. Carter.
The Quadrennial
Theme will be "Experience
God: in worship and praise,
in ministry and mission, in
learning and growing in
preparing and returning to
the mission field for 2012-
2013."
The event will be host
ed by Rev. Da'Henri R.
Thurmond, Sr. and the St.
Paul CME Church and pre
siding will be Elder Donald
R. Jordan, (Fort Valley/
Rev. Aaron James
Savannah District)
Special events are free
and open to the public: On
Monday, July 16 at 7pm is
the Service of Holy
Communion. The speaker
will be Rev. Aaron James,
Pastor, First Bryan Baptist
Church. On Tuesday, July 17
at 7pm the Service of the
Laity will be held. Senior
Pastor Paula White,
reknowned national speaker,
co-founder and pastor of
Without Walls International
Church in Tampa, FL will be
Bishop Kenneth W. Carter.
the speaker. On Wednesday,
July 18 at 7pm the
Missionary Service will be
held. Rev. Vanessee Burns,
Pastor, Carter Tabernacle
CME Church, Orlando FL
will headline this event.
On Thursday, July 19
at 1:30pm a Live Recording
Concert of the Youth Voices
of the Sixth, "Christ in ME"
will be held.
For more information
contact The St. Paul church
office at 233-2849.
W. W. Law
Foundation
Celebrates the Life
and Legacy of
W. W. Law
W. W. Law
passed away on July 29,
On Sunday July 29,
2012 from 5:30pm to 7:30pm
at the Ralph Mark Gilbert
Civil Rights Museum, 460
Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd.,
The W. W. Law Foundation
will commemorate the life
and support the legacy of
Westley Wallace Law “ A
Man For All Seasons.” This
event celebrates the life and
legacy of W.W. Law who
2002.
The gathering will
include a reception with
Mayor Edna Jackson in
attendance bringing greet
ings from the city, one of the
early and leading sponsors of
the evening. The Chatham
County Commissioners are
expected to be in attendance
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Young to Speak
at Bulloch
County Gala
Ambassador Andrew Young
Ambassador Andrew Lane Conference Center.
Young will be the keynote General admission is $50.
speaker at the Bulloch The $75 ticket includes a pri-
County Democratic vate reception with
Independence Gala on July Ambassador Young.
21, 2012 at the Nesmith-
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December 197:
Louis B. loomC}
founder and PrcAidcnl
85 Years of Service, Leadership and Success
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