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The Savannah Tribune • Wednesday, April 12, 2023 9
Healthy Savannah Calls on Chatham Co. to
Weigh in on Nutrition and Food Insecurity
“EYE CARE” FOR YOU
Allergy Season Is Here
Healthy Savannah is
scheduling three listening ses
sions to receive community
input from residents of Garden
City, Thunderbolt and George
town in helping redesign the
Savannah-Chatham Food Pol
icy Council. The first upcom
ing meeting, which is free and
open to the public, is planned
for Tuesday, April 12, from
6:00-7:30 p.m. at Garden City
Cooper Center, 700 Davis Ave,
Savannah GA 31408.
Details for the
Georgetown and Thunderbolt
meetings will be announced on
Healthy Savannah’s Facebook
page [https://www.facebook.
com/healthysav] and website
[https ://healthy savannah .org/].
The Georgetown meeting is
tentatively scheduled for 6:00
p.m. on Tuesday, April 19 and
the Thunderbolt meeting is
tentatively scheduled for 6:00
p.m. on Tuesday, April 26.
Healthy Savannah
advocates and partners are
working to re-establishing the
Food Policy Council as more
of a local and regional food
system that provides improved
access to a variety of afford
able, nourishing foods.
“The Food Policy
Council should become more
community-led in order to be
more effective and inclusive,”
said Armand Turner, physical
activity program manager. “It
should serve across sectors
and be capable of advancing
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meaningful policy change and
accomplishing major improve
ments in our local food sys
tem.”
Last summer,
Healthy Savannah held its first
three sessions to receive input
from eastside, westside and
southside residents of Savan
nah. The upcoming meetings
will gather input from Chatham
County residents living beyond
Savannah’s city limits.
It is estimated that
35,000 people in the Savannah
area live more than a mile from
a grocery store. In Chatham
County, 17.6% of all residents
are food insecure and 21.8% of
children are food insecure.
“Food insecurity per
sists in the metropolitan areas
of Savannah but also through
out less populated areas of
Chatham County,” said Paula
Kreissler,” executive director
of Healthy Savannah.” This is
why we need a Food Policy
Council that is trusted by, con
nected to, and empowered by
community residents.”
Approximately
45% or 129,698 of the al
most 290,000 people living
in Chatham County live more
than a mile from the closest
grocery store, according to a
2021 study, “Food Deserts in
Chatham County, Georgia.”
[https:// storymaps .arcgis .com/
stories/c83952703ddf40848d-
b72c2a5e8440c7] The United
States Department of Agricul
ture (USDA) defines a food
desert as a region where the
people who live there have
limited access to healthy and
affordable food, such as fresh
fruits and vegetables. The
USDA considers urban areas
where 33% of the population
lives more than 1 mile from
the nearest large grocery store
as food deserts. [https://www.
georgiaruralhealth .org/blog/
what-is-a-food-desert/]
“Our hope is to re-es
tablish a Food Policy Council
that can really weigh in on the
issues and barriers that deter
access to healthy foods,” said
Turner. “It might mean ensur
ing healthier options for chil
dren at area schools or provid
ing more options at the corner
stores in our communities.”
Already, many of us
love this season but dread go
ing outdoors. The pollen count
is elevating, and the itchy red
eyes and sneezing has begun.
Many people suffer from aller
gies all year, while others have
symptoms only seasonally.
Prescription medications and
allergy shots are often required
to relieve many symptoms of
allergies, but when it comes to
ocular allergy symptoms, eye
drops are sometimes required
to reduce the symptoms.
Common signs of eye
allergies include red, swollen,
tearing or itchy eyes. These
symptoms can often trigger a
conjunctivitis (or “pink eye”).
The best treatment for ocular
allergies related to pollen is to
avoid the allergen. This means
staying indoors and wearing
protective eyewear when out
doors. In addition, antihista
mines, decongestants, mast
cell stabilizers, and sometimes
steroid eye drops are also re
quired. Several drops are sold
over the counter, but if the
symptoms do not relieve after
3 days you should see your eye
care provider. Although this
form of “pink eye” is not conta
gious, you should always take
extra precautions and wash
your hands regularly.
Antihistamines re
lieve symptoms caused by al
lergens, such as itchy, watery
eyes, runny nose and sneezing.
When shopping, you will find
ocular decongestants which
clear up redness and burning,
but they do not resolve the al
lergen. And mast cell stabiliz
ers help to block the release of
histamines that trigger itching,
redness, tearing, and swelling;
these are beneficial for reduc
ing the allergy symptoms. Your
eye doctor may prescribe ste
roids to reduce inflammation;
these can be used alone or in
combination with other treat
ment options
If you are a contact
lens wearer, daily disposable
contacts are most beneficial
when allergy symptoms do not
allow you to be comfortable in
your contacts because having
a clean lens every day reduces
the risk of continuous contam
ination to the eyes.
The best part of the
springtime season is welcom
ing the spring flowers and
warmer temperatures. The
worst part (for some) is suffer
ing from the allergies it brings.
You don’t have to suffer. See
your eye care provider. If you
need eye care, I invite you to
EnVision Eye Care.
321 W. Montgomery
Crossroads, Savannah
(near Hunter Golf Course)
For appointments, call (912)
927-0707 and visit us at:
www.envisionsavannah.com
Metro Savannah Rotary Donates $10,000,
Volunteer Support toBrightside Child & Family
Advocacy — Savannah CASA
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Through its Annu
al Service Partner program,
Metropolitan Savannah Ro
tary Club donated $10,000 to
Brightside Child & Family
Advocacy — Savannah CASA
on Wednesday at Brightside’s
second Bright House home,
929 Wheaton Street. Metro
Rotary volunteers helped reno
vate Brightside’s second Bright
House location with painting
and building furniture during
the summer of 2022, which al
lowed for more families to be
served in the community.
The con
tributions from Metro Rotary
provided the necessary tech
nology, repairs, furniture, sup
plies, and manpower to prepare
Brightside’s second location to
serve families in need of a nur
turing, supportive environment
for court-mandated visitation.
Club members spent around 60
volunteer hours at the house.
Metro Savannah Ro
tary President Will Gruver said,
“The Brightside/CASA organi
zation has always been on my
radar. Everyone involved from
the executive director to vol
unteers, the work done to keep
families together in our com
munity is priceless. My parents
were both social workers at
one point in their professional
career, so I learned early on the
importance of family. Bright
side’s advocacy continues to
impress me and in the manner
which they present their or
ganization to the community
as ‘What is raised here, stays
here.’ There is never a question
that local dollars serve local
needs.”
“Our new Bright
House location was made pos
sible by Metro Rotary. They
contributed volunteer hours,
ideas, and resources so our
families would have a beautiful
and comfortable home to vis
it with each other,” said Kate
Blair, Executive Director of
Brightside Child & Family Ad
vocacy. “Bright House 2 will
accommodate 6 visits per day,
7 days a week. Approximately
25 families are served monthly
- a total of more than 50 fami
lies per year.”
Each year through
a competitive process, Metro
Rotary selects an annual ser
vice partner. Past partners in
clude Girls on the Run, Urban
Hope, Bike Walk Savannah,
Coastal Empire Habitat for Hu
manity, Ogeechee Riverkeeper,
Loop It Up Savannah, Fresh
Air Home, Forsyth Farmers
Market’s Farm Truck 912, and
Greenbriar Children’s Center.
The Savannah Tribune Celebrates The Life of
Mrs. Eloria Sherman Gilbert
Submitted by Earthell Wittlinger
Continued fom Page 1
During a three-week tour in
the summer of 1946, Rev. Gil
bert recorded that “he divided
the territory between the wife
and my self... I took the new
and weaker branches and got
the Madam to take the strong
and better establishments”.
She alone was responsible for
founding the [National Asso
ciation for the Advancement
of Colored People] NAACP
branch in Hazlehurst, Georgia,
and she gave a series of human
rights speeches in cities along
the Atlantic Coast on her way
to meet her husband in New
York.
Mrs. Gilbert returned
to New York after her husband
died in 1956 and continued her
service as a Christian work
er. She served as a deaconess,
trustee, and director of Chris
tian Education at Union Bap
tist Church. She was a princi
pal of Mt. Pleasant Christian
Academy, and was appointed
chairman of Area 2 Churches
of Metropolitan, New York and
vice president of the Manhat
tan Division of Churches.
Mrs. Gilbert funeral
services will be held on April
17, 2023 at the Union Baptist
Church, New York, New York.
In lieu of flowers send dona
tions to Mt. Pleasant Christian
Academy/Eloria S. Gilbert
Scholarship Fund, 126 West
119th Street, New York, NY
10031.
Republicans Feeling Heat In
Tennessee as Councils Poised
On Wednesday, May 10th, 2023
The Savannah Tribune will publish a
Special Edition to honor Mothers.
To Re-Seat Ousted Legislators
By Stacy M. Brown, NNPA Newswire Senior National
Correspondent @StacyBrownMedia
Continued from Page 1
This is going to build and grow.
You can’t do this, it’s not sus
tainable. I’m not sure that if
the two Justins are re-seated
the movement will stop. This is
bad for the national Republican
party.”
Phyllis Qualls, who’s
covering the proceedings for
the Tennessee Tribune, said
the G.O.P. leadership miscal
culated in expelling Jones and
Pearson. “Republicans had
no vision as to the aftermath
of what they can do,” Qualls
said. “Mom has always said,
‘what’s done in the dark will
come out in the light.’ The Re
publicans took a major issue
like gun control and reduced
it to decorum. It’s almost like
children in the car complaining
that ‘Mom, he’s looking at me.’
The crimes don’t equate, and to
do this during holy week, you
crucified these men, and they
are rising to a level that nobody
expected. They have become
leaders of the gun control issue,
and it was the Republicans who
caused that.”
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