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IN THE STATE
GLYNN COUNTY
CAMDEN COUNTY
EATONTON: Body of missing elderly woman believed
ST. SIMONS ISLAND: U.S. Senate candidate David
WOODBINE: House race between Jason Spencer,
to have been discovered in lake, 5A
DAYBREAK
Your weekend in Brunswick
and the Golden Isles
The Weather
Perdue stops in county to cast early ballot, 2A
COASTAL CLAIMS NATIONAL TITLE
Men’s golf team captures college’s ﬁrst championship
The Brunswick News
Saturday
Going low when it mattered most,
the College of Coastal Georgia men’s
golf team lapped the ﬁeld Friday and
made history in Daytona Beach, Fla.
At LPGA International’s Champions
course, the Mariner men ﬁred a tournament-best 4-under 284 in the ﬁnal
round of the National Association of
Intercollegiate Athletics tournament
to earn the school’s ﬁrst-ever national
championship in any sport.
“It feels surreal,” said senior Dylan
Freeman, who carded a ﬁnal round of
HIGH
80
LOW
60
Sunday
HIGH
84
LOW
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Nancy Stasinis among most anticipated in primary, 1A
73 and was named a ﬁrst-team NAIA
All-American. “It took a while for it all
to sink in, but it’s an awesome feeling.
“I’m happy that I’m part of the team
that did that. Coming in as a freshman,
that was a goal of ours, and to make the
dream come true is pretty special.”
Led by Allen Bradford’s 3-under 69
in Friday’s ﬁnal round, the Mariners
ﬁnished in ﬁrst place at 1-over 865,
four shots better than defending NAIA
champion Oklahoma City.
The tournament, which began Tuesday, was reduced to 54 holes from the
scheduled 72 after rain washed away
play on Thursday.
Johnston & Wales University and
William Woods tied for third at 10
over. Faulkner University, which won
the Southern States Athletic Conference tournament where Coastal Georgia was the runner-up, entered the ﬁnal
round with a six-shot lead but faltered
and ﬁnished with a 13-over 301.
Individually, Bradford, a junior from
Elberton, ﬁnished in fourth place in
the 156-player ﬁeld at 3-under 213, just
two shots behind new NAIA champion
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Provided photo
The College of Coastal Georgia men’s golf team
won the NAIA national championship Friday,
topping Oklahoma City University by four shots
at LPGA International in Daytona Beach, Fla., to
claim the school’s first-ever national title.
Clear skies, sunshine
prevail for weekend
ELECTION 2014
Primary
to decide
county
contests
Clear skies and sunshine
will dominate most of the
weekend with a slight chance
of a shower arriving late
Sunday night. Tides and fiveday forecast, back of this
section
Worth doing
Group hosting free
electronics recycling
Keep Brunswick-Golden
Isles Beautiful is hosting a
free electronics and more
recycling event from 9 a.m.
to 1 p.m. today in the parking lot of JCPenny at Glynn
Place Mall, 219 Mall Blvd.,
Brunswick.
Voters heading
to polls Tuesday
Worth knowing
By KELLY QUIMBY
The Brunswick News
Sarah Lundgren/The Brunswick News photos
Brunswick High spring game
Football squads close
spring with games
Brunswick High and Glynn
Academy wrap up spring
football practice with scrimmages. Sports, 9A
Online poll
Summer movie results
are in, new poll is up
The News asked readers
at www.thebrunswicknews.
com what summer movie has
them excited. The results:
15.79 percent can’t wait for
“Transformers: Age of Extinction” while “X-Men: Days of
Future Past” and “Godzilla”
each received 13.16 percent.
Most have their attention
focused elsewhere with 57.89
percent saying none of the
listed above. This week’s poll
asked if you think children
are starting school too early.
Do you think Kindergarten
(age 5) is early enough, pre-k
(age 4) should be mandatory,
pre-k should remain voluntary
or ﬁrst grade (age 6) is early
enough?
Frederica Academy fourth-grader Justus Irwin, from left, enjoys his food Friday as classmate Sydney Ritola takes the food
order of Roy Boyd. Below, Frederica Academy lower school Spanish teacher Roxanna Bush, left, chats with fourth-grader
Cole Lawrence during “Restaurant Day” in their classroom.
SPANISH DISH
Class becomes restaurant for a day
By SARAH LUNDGREN
T
The Brunswick News
eachers at Frederica Academy on
St. Simons Island found a unique
way to teach Spanish to fourthgraders.
The fourth grade classroom at Frederica Academy turned into a bustling
Spanish restaurant Friday.
Anyone who happened to be in the
vicinity were treated to the scent of delicious food, which wafted in the air as
little waiters and waitresses took orders
and a busy chef prepared meals.
Standing at the blackboard, lower
school Spanish teacher Roxanna Bush
asked the students to list out the foods
featured under certain categories – carne,
vegetales, frutas, bebidas, a la carta and
postres – meat, veggies, fruits, drinks,
sides and dessert.
The students followed her lead, ﬁlling
out paper menus.
They then took orders for each other,
speaking in Spanish.
Donning a chef hat and apron, Bush
assembled the orders for the students,
who walked away with a “gracias.”
Pollo – aka chicken nuggets – were a
popular hit among the children, but there
were plenty of other options like las uvas
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VOTER’S GUIDE
See pages 2A-4A and 7A-8A for candidate questionnaires and other info:
2A: Glynn County Commission At-Large
3A: Glynn County Commission District 3
4A:Board of Education At-Large
7A:Board of Education
8A: Glynn County Commision District 4
Coming Monday: Superior Court, State
House 167, State House 180
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Former ofﬁcer’s name lives on
at Howard Cofﬁn baseball ﬁeld
Brunswick policeman Eddie Willcox honored during park ceremony
Inside The News
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Lotteries 7A
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Comics 7B
Obituaries 4A
Crossword 7B Sports 9-13A
Editorial 6A
State 5A
Graham 6A
Sudoku 7B
Local 2-4A
Television 5-6B
With only one Democrat on the local
ballot this year, all but one political race
exclusive to Glynn County voters will be
decided in the Republican Primary election Tuesday, barring anyone qualifying
as an independent candidate in June.
Polls open at 7 a.m. and close at 7 p.m.
Three seats on the Glynn County
Commission and two seats on the Glynn
County Board of Education, all with Republican incumbents and challengers,
will be decided in the primary.
In the District 3 county commission
race, incumbent Richard Strickland is
being challenged by Mark Drury; in District 4, incumbent Mary Hunt is facing
William “Bill” Brunson; in the At-Large
District Post 1, incumbent Clyde Taylor is
being opposed by Valerie Scriven, Mark
Stambaugh Jr. and Robert Tucker.
By MARTIN RAND III
The Brunswick News
Martin Rand III/The Brunswick News
People gathered Friday as a baseball field at Howard
Coffin Park was named for former Brunswick police
officer Eddie Wilcox, who died in 2008. Among those in
attendance was Brunswick Mayor Cornell Harvey, City
Manager Bill Weeks and Willcox’s wife, Eunice.
Brunswick Mayor Cornell Harvey
proudly did something Friday the
City Commission has been meaning
to do for a long time.
Harvey dedicated baseball ﬁeld
No. 3 at Howard Cofﬁn Park to Eddie
Willcox, a former Brunswick police
ofﬁcer who died in 2008 at the age
of 86.
After retiring from the police force
in 1991, following a 23-year career,
Willcox helped organize and direct the Brunswick Police Athletic
League, or PAL, program.
One of the primary goals of the
league, which was for children, was
to help build and strengthen the community’s relationship with the police
force, Harvey said.
“This dedication is important because (Eddie Willcox) was one of the
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guys involved in building community involvement,” he said. “This is a
tribute to Mr. Willcox.”
About 40 family members, city and
county ofﬁcials and business leaders
attended the dedication at the park,
situated at the corner of Gloucester
Street and U.S. 17.
Eddie Willcox’s wife, Eunice Willcox, attended the dedication cerPlease see FIELD, 5A
2A PROCESS
Saturday
May 17, 2014
The Brunswick News
Local & State
2A
Glynn County Commission candidates divulge stances
Glynn County Commission
At-Large
Name: Clyde
A. Taylor (incumbent)
Party: Republican
Age: 81
Address: 262
St James Ave.
St. Simons
Island
Marital
Status: Married 55 years, three
children
Occupation: Retired former business owner
Education: Master of Science
degree in management Georgia
Tech
Awards/Recognitions: Distinguished Military Graduate Georgia Tech; Greater Birmingham
Junior Achievement Leadership
Award; Association of County
Commissioners Basic and Advanced Certification
Veteran? U.S. Army 8 years
active and reserve (final rank
captain)
Clubs/Organizations: St. Simons Island Rotary Club; Rotary
International College of Governors; Association of County
Commissioners of Georgia;
Brunswick-Golden Isles Chamber of Commerce; Golden Isles
Presbyterian Church
Q. What do you think is the No.
1 issue facing Glynn County
and how would you approach
the issue if elected to the
board?
Taylor: The No. 1 issue is how
to accommodate the demands
placed on the county’s infrastructure and environmental
assets and maintain the lifestyle
enjoyed by all in the face of the
economic growth and development which is occurring and
will continue to accelerate.
Glynn County has grown to over
82,000 residents. Add to this
the two million plus visitors annually, and we have an equiva-
lent population which exceeds
most of the other counties in
Georgia.
Parking is a problem on St.
Simons during tourist season
and may become an almost
year-round experience. Our environmental assets which attract
residents and visitors alike are
threatened by the demand for
buildable property. The Jekyll Island renovation when completed
will attract even more visitors to
the county.
On the other hand, the city
of Brunswick has not benefited
from this economic growth.
The Gloucester and Newcastle
business districts continue
to lose tenants. Vacant storefronts abound. This trend must
be reversed. Brunswick must
once again be the county’s
commercial center with banks,
government offices, shops and
restaurants catering to tourists
and residents alike. Infrastructure – water, sewer, drainage,
roads – have not kept up with
the area’s growth. Much of this
is World War II era or older.
Priorities must be established
and money allocated to deal
with these deficiencies. Water
and sewer service should be
expanded to minimize new well
and septic systems. If re-elected
I would convene a task force
of government, business and
civic leaders to prioritize these
needs. Both the City and County
must allocate the necessary
funds to deal with the critical
items. A SPLOST may be necessary.
Q. Under what condition would
you support another SPLOST
and do you see the need for one
now?
Taylor: I would support another SPLOST that was focused
exclusively on infrastructure:
drainage, water, sewer, roads,
etc. Countywide growth is
outstripping the ability to provide
for these basic needs in an
environmentally friendly manner.
Neither the city nor county can
fund all the necessary projects
from general tax revenues.
Bonds would be an alternative to
a SPLOST. However with SPLOST
30 percent to 40 percent of
revenues come from nonresidents. I would begin planning
for a SPLOST in early 2015 with
perhaps a citizen vote later in
the year.
Name: Mark
Stambaugh Jr.
Party: Republican
Age: 50
Address: 117
Trawler Court,
Brunswick
Marital status: Married,
two children
Occupation: Co-owner Stambaugh Aviation
Education: Bachelor’s Degree in
political science
Awards/Recognitions:
2011-2014 Taste of Glynn
Presenting Sponsor Award;
2011-2014 Relay For Life
Presenting Sponsor Award;
2013-2014 Rodeo At The Beach
Presenting Sponsor
Veteran? No
Clubs/Organizations: Lakeside United Methodist Church;
Exchange Club; Glynn County
Airport Tenants Association
Q. What do you think is the No.
1 issue facing Glynn County
and how would you approach
the issue if elected to the
board?
Stambaugh: I believe the
single biggest issue we face as
a community is the continuing
lack of industrial growth here. In
order to correct this condition,
we need to review our situation and start the process of
planning for potential growth.
This means we need to set the
groundwork for investment in infrastructure and then market the
assets we have at our disposal
once the preparation is moving
forward. I also believe we need
to do this in a coordinated effort
with the city of Brunswick. Although a separate entity per se,
as a county we can all benefit
from the assets the other has in
terms of development potential.
With a coordinated effort, we
can assure that we are not working against each other during the
process. Further, the oversight
of this process should rest at
the feet of the commission. It
is our duty and responsibility to
work closely with the EDA, the
city counsel, planning boards,
water and sewer etc., to assure
we are working as a team toward
a common goal. Each step
should be set forth, prioritized
and then tackled one at a time
with all our energies to complete each step of the over-all
process.
Q, Under what condition would
you support another SPLOST
and do you see the need for one
now?
Stambaugh: I am not a fan
of SPLOST as it seems to drag
out for a lengthy period of time
and becomes difficult to track,
and even budget for. Costs
increase over time. A project
that costs X in 2014 may in fact
cost Y in 2016. Thus, we find
ourselves under-funded and the
projects waning and not coming
to fruition. I have discussed
this issue with many people in
our community. I have found
a general sense of distrust to
outright opposition to any form
of SPLOST. Before even considering a SPLOST I feel we should
look at our current budgets and
departmental efficiency. I have
found it true that every entity –
private or governmental – has
room for streamlining costs.
Whether that comes through
spending outright or through
increased productivity the result
is the same. Further, I believe
we should make a concerted effort to obtain additional funding
for our needs through increasing
our tax base – not taxing what
we have more. I would want this
to occur before I’d even consider supporting any SPLOST,
and even then, I feel we need
to find a way to limit its scope
and duration to reduce the risk
of what we have been seeing in
past years.
Name: Robert
E. “Robbie”
Tucker
Party: Republican
Age: 40
Address: 1900
Townsend St.
Brunswick
Marital status: Single, one
daughter
Occupation: businessperson
Education: Brunswick High
School graduate
Awards/Recognition: EMT certification 1 (2011) from Altamaha
Tech
Veteran? No
Clubs/Organizations: First
United Methodist Church
Q. What do you think is the No.
1 issue facing Glynn County
and how would you approach
the issue if elected to the
board?
Tucker: Wasteful spending;
conservative fiscal responsibility, and allowing tax breaks
for current and potential new
businesses (within reason). This
includes educating the current
workforce to be able to compete
in current market trends/technology and allowing students,
veterans and out-of-work parties
to enter the workforce and forgo
college; coordinating with the
Board of Education, college and
employers to create a desirable
energetic environment. There is
far too much property-purchasing and non-utilization of existing
property/buildings; too many
duplicative services currently
exist; contraction equals less
spending.
Q. Under what condition would
you support another SPLOST
and do you see the need for one
now?
Tucker: Probably would not
vote (for this) unless citizens
vote on particular “projects” and
(the county) sticks to the voters’
will, (and does) not proceed to
use funds in an unsound fiscal
way by allowing the government
to utilize SPLOST in a way not
voted upon.
Name: Valerie
Scriven
Party: Republican
Age: 52
Address:
1914 Wilson
Ave. Brunswick
Marital
status: single
with two chil-
dren
Occupation: Unemployed
Education: Completed 12 years
of school
Q. What do you think is the No.
1 issue facing Glynn County
and how would you approach
the issue if elected to the
board?
Scriven: (Answer unrelated to
question)
Q. Under what condition would
you support another SPLOST
and do you see the need for one
now?
Scriven: If the definition of the
SPLOST is what I believe the
definition is, yes, I will support a
SPLOST.
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Senate candidate begins campaign trail
By SARAH LUNDGREN
The Brunswick News
Republican candidate for U.S.
Sen. David Perdue began the last
day for early voting bright and
early on St. Simons Island Friday.
The Sea Island resident, hoping
to succeed retiring Sen. Saxby
Chambliss, arrived in style with
his campaign staff and wife,
Bonnie, in an RV bearing his
name.
Perdue and his wife walked
hand in hand into Glynn County
Fire Station No. 2 on Demere
Road to cast their ballots in the
Republican Primary.
Party primaries and the nonpartisan election are Tuesday.
“We’re out here pumping up
the energy, making one ﬁnal
push to close this thing out,” Perdue said.
St. Simons Island was the ﬁrst
stop on the Republican candidate’s campaign trail. Perdue said
he planned to stop in Waycross,
Thomasville and Tifton before
settling in Newnan for the night.
Sarah Lundgren/The Brunswick News
David Perdue, Republican candidate for Senate in the May 20
primary, posed with several employees of Island Automotive Care
during a visit Friday to St. Simons Island, in which he also voted
across the street at the island fire department.
The Macon-Warner Robbins
native and long-time businessman says he’s kept his message
consistent throughout the cam-
paign and hopes those who aren’t
happy with what’s going on in
Washington will consider him as
a candidate when they vote Tues-
day.
“We’ve been hearing a lot that
there are many people who are
very concerned with what’s going on in Washington,” Perdue
said.
Part of Perdue’s platform includes his concern with the rising
national debt and the direction
career politicians have pushed
the country in, according to his
website.
He made a name for himself
in the business world over his 40
year-tenure with companies like
Reebok and Sara Lee, and says
he is “uniquely qualiﬁed to help
get our economy growing again
and get government spending under control.”
Other Republicans seeking
their party’s nomination in the
Senate race are Jack Kingston,
Karen Handel, Phil Gingrey and
Paul Broun.
• Reporter Sarah Lundgren
writes about education and
other local topics. Contact her
at [email protected], on Facebook or at
265-8320, ext. 322.
Experience & leadership
RE-ELECT
Richard Strickland
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Retired Military Veteran & Retired Law Enforcement Officer
Each of us has a part in better government.
Vote May 20th - Republican Party
Richard brings experience and leadership to our County government:
He offers a balance of common sense and wisdom to go
with his years of experience in local government.
*Representation begins with listening and an open mind at all times.
*Fiscal responsibility is a must.
*Cooperation and a working relationship with all agencies in Glynn County.
**Plain and simple - government of the people, by the people, for the people.
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GLYNN COUNTY CONSOLIDATED SAMPLE BALLOT
On Glynn’s ballot
Depending on the party ballot chosen and the district,
Glynn County voters can expect to see most of the following candidates in federal,
state and local races:
Democratic Ballot
• U.S. Senate candidates
Steen Miles, Michelle Nunn,
Branko Radulovacki, Todd
Anthony Robinson
• Gubernatorial candidate
Jason Carter
• Lieutenant Governor candidate Connie Stokes
• Secretary of State candidates Gerald Beckum and
Doreen Carter
• Attorney General candidate Greg Hecht
• Commissioner of Agriculture candidate Christopher
James Irvin
• Commissioner of Insurance candidates Keith Heard
and Liz Johnson
• State School Superintendent candidates Tarnisha
Dent, Marion Spencer Freeman, Jurita Forehand Mays,
Alisha Thomas Morgan, Rita
Robinzine and Valarie Wilson
• Commissioner of Labor
candidate Robbin Shipp
• Public Service Commissioner candidate Daniel
Blackman
• U.S. House Representative District 1 candidates
Brian Reese, Marc Smith and
Amy Tavio
• Glynn County District 4,
board of education candidate
Dorothy Stewart
Here are straw poll questions on the Democratic ballot that ask for a Yes or No
response:
• Should Georgia raise the
state minimum wage above
the current $5.15 an hour?
• Should Georgians’ federal
tax dollars be returned to
Georgia to fund Medicaid
expansion and relieve the
indigent care burden on our
hospitals?
• Should the Constitution of
Georgia be amended to create
an independent ethics commission, not tied to the Governor’s office, legislature, or
other elected office, to more
effectively police potential
ethics violations by elected
officials?
• Should the Constitution of
Georgia be amended to make
the education budget Georgia’s first funding priority?
• Should the federal government stop providing or subsidizing flood insurance and
leave flood insurance to the
private market?
• Are you in favor of decriminalizing the use of marijuana
in Georgia for medical purposes?
• Are you in favor of decriminalizing the use of marijuana
in Georgia for recreational
use?
Republican Ballot
• U.S. Senate candidates
Paul Broun, Art Gardner, Phil
Gingrey, Derrick Grayson,
Karen Handel, Jack Kingston
and David Perdue
• Gubernatorial candidates John Barge, incumbent
Nathan Deal and David Pennington
• Lieutenant Governor
incumbent candidate Casey
Cagle
• Secretary of State incumbent candidate Brian Kemp
• Attorney General incumbent candidate Sam Olens
• Commissioner of Agriculture incumbent candidate
Gary Black
• Commissioner of Insurance incumbent candidate
Ralph Hudgens
• State School Superintendent candidates Mary Kay
Bacallao, Ashley Bell, Mike
Buck, Sharyl Dawes, Allen
Bowles Fort, Nancy Jester,
Fitz Johnson, Kira Willis and
Richard Woods
• Commissioner of Labor
incumbent candidate Mark
Butler
• Public Service Commission incumbent candidate
Doug Everett
• Public Service Commission candidates Douglas Kidd,
Craig Lutz and incumbent
Lauren “Bubba” McDonald
• U.S. House Representative District 1 candidates
Darwin Carter, Buddy Carter,
Jeff Chapman, Bob Johnson,
Earl Martin and John McCallum
• Georgia Senator District
3 incumbent candidate William Ligon
• Georgia House Represen-
tative District 167 candidates Jeff Jones and Tony
Thaw
• Georgia House Representative District 179 incumbent
candidate Alex Atwood
• At-large County Commission Post 1 candidates
Valerie Scriven, Mark Stambaugh, incumbent Clyde Taylor
and Robbie Tucker
• At-large County Board of
Education Post 1 candidates
Sandy Dean and incumbent
Mike Hulsey
• In Glynn County District
3, county commission candidates Mark Drury and incumbent Richard Strickland
• In Glynn County District 4, county commission
candidates Bill Brunson and
incumbent Mary Hunt
• In Glynn County District
2, board of education candidates incumbent Millard Allen
and Gloria Burns
• In Glynn County District
4, board of education incumbent Hank Yeargan
Here are straw poll questions
on the Republican ballot:
• Should the federal government stop providing or subsidizing flood insurance and
leave flood insurance to the
private market?
• Are you in favor of decriminalizing the use of marijuana
in Georgia for medical purposes?
• Are you in favor of decriminalizing the use of marijuana
in Georgia for recreational
use?
Commission candidates talk SPLOST
Glynn County Commission
District 3
Name: Mark
Andrew Drury
Party: Republican
Age: 25
Address: 121
Kala Court,
Brunswick
Marital status: Not married, one son
Occupation: Network engineer/IT consultant
Education: High school
Awards/Recognitions: None
Veteran? No
Clubs/Organizations: None
Q. What do you think is the
No. 1 issue facing Glynn
County and how would you
approach the issue if elected
to the board?
Drury: Our economy is our
No. 1 issue. I believe as an expert in communications and a
history of successful team coordination, I can help bring our
county and city governments
to work closer together. I believe together as a community
we can perfect our county’s
marketable assets, expand
our industrial profile by marketing them out so business
will come here. Our county
doesn’t just need to be beautiful to attract industry, it needs
to be competitive. We need to
attract industry here, not just
form and grow businesses.
There is a huge difference between business and industry.
Our current leadership claims
we’ve created numerous jobs.
I’d beg to differ. They have
brought very little in the way of
industry driven careers to this
town. I intend to work with the
leadership and citizens of this
county to make our county
more competitive and see it
grow. This will not only create
jobs, but careers. Our talent, our children, our college
graduates, and our skilled are
leaving because there are no
careers here for them. My first
son was born Dec. 6, 2013.
One of the reasons I am so
determined to be one of your
seven commissioners is to
see that in 18 years, my son
will be able to live here because there will be a future for
whatever career he chooses
here in these Golden Isles.
Q. Under what condition
would you support another
SPLOST and do you see the
need for one now?
Drury: I believe that a
SPLOST should be used only
when it is absolutely necessary. If we could learn to
manage our budgets correctly,
learn how to turn over a dollar a few times in our local
economy before sending it
elsewhere, and learn how to
set money aside for special
projects, our town would grow
and we would never need a
SPLOST. Only under circumstances where the money
absolutely cannot wait and
it becomes an urgent matter
of public safety or potentially
costing our county’s citizens a
tremendous amount of money
than we would have spent
otherwise will I ever support
another SPLOST. I cannot
stress enough that I do not
believe in raising taxes unless
absolutely necessary. As I
already stated, if we would
learn to handle our money
correctly, set money aside,
and focus on growing our
economy far more than it has
been, there would be no need
to burden the people of Glynn
County with more taxes. As a
fiscal conservative, I simply
do not currently see the need
for one as of now, because it
is fiscally irresponsible. Our
people deserve better. Find
another way.
Name: Richard Strickland
(incumbent)
Party: Republican
Age: 70
Address: 124 Wood Crest
Circle, Brunswick
Marital status: Married,
six children
Occupation:
Retired
Education:
Attended
Brunswick
Junior College
Awards/Recognitions: Numerous awards
from Navy and Law Enforcement
Veteran? Navy 20 years
Clubs/Organizations: Chamber of Commerce
Q. What do you think is the
No. 1 issue facing Glynn
County and how would you
approach the issue if elected
to the board?
Strickland: After serving
three and a half years of my
first term as District Three
commissioner, my most important responsibility continues
to be the public safety of this
community. I take this duty
and obligation very seriously.
I will continue to work for the
best public safety resources
that are available. Secondly is
balancing county needs and
services with our financial
resources. This includes providing the manpower that is
needed to entice industry and
jobs to this community. This
can be accomplished through
the excellent education opportunities that are provided
here. In order to accomplish
this duty,s we first need to be
judicious with what and where
we commit our resources.
However, living in a growing
and desirable community
requires growing the county’s
revenue base. While we have
taxing authority for property,
sales, and other sources of
fees, I feel the most responsible and desirable way to
provide services is to grow
our business community. This
means new jobs and more
revenue, resulting in an overall
increase in our economy. We
need to be proactive with all
entities charged with bringing
new industry to Glynn County,
but also and equally important, we must provide legislation that permits and encourages our existing businesses
to prosper. If re-elected, I
will continue my practice of
balancing county needs with
current and future sources of
business related revenue.
Q. Under what condition
would you support another
SPLOST and do you see the
need for one now?
Strickland: Glynn County
has used SPLOST dollars to
achieve many worthwhile projects over the years. However,
over this same period of time
the SPLOST list became a
wish list instead of a needs
list. I would support a SPLOST
that is very concise and only
covers essential projects
that otherwise would have to
be funded with property tax
dollars. We have several fire
stations that need replacing
because of age and staffing
requirements. We need to
continue to repave at least 20
miles of county roads a year.
For this county to continue to
grow we have to keep up with
our infrastructure. SPLOST is
certainly a fair way of accomplishing this. A SPLOST must
be no more than two to three
years in duration. I would
support town hall meetings
to receive public input before
a SPLOST is put before the
voters. I would also support a
citizen’s committee to oversee
the SPLOST projects similar
to what the Board of Education has in place, if the Glynn
County voters approve another
SPLOST. The Board of Commissioners must maintain
the public’s faith and trust in
managing their tax dollars,
including SPLOST. SPLOST
done correctly is an advantage
to the community and results
in the entire consumer community contributing, not solely
property owners.
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Obituaries
Local
Veronica McCloskey
Veronica Marie Monti McCloskey, known to her friends
and family as “Roni,” died on
May 14, 2014. She was born in
New York City on Feb. 1, 1927.
Roni was a resident of St. Simons Island for 30 years. She
loved driving around the island
in her little red sports car.
For the past eight years, Roni
has been living in Atlanta, Ga.,
at Wesley Woods Towers. Roni
had a loving and giving nature
and found new friends wherever
she went.
One of Roni’s friends described her as “the epitome of
optimism and surrender to the
God of all circumstances. She
modeled for many the determination to make the most of the
cards she was dealt and to love
and help others along the way.
Her sense of humor was a delight; her laughter, contagious;
her generosity, unprecedented.”
She was predeceased by her
husband, Bill McCloskey (1987),
and her daughter, Annette McCloskey (1985).
Survivors include her brother,
Lou Monti (Vickie), residents of
Brunswick, Ga. Her four daughters will miss her very much,
Lauri Hunter, Lisa Alexander
(Jack), Joy Drew (Jim) and Nan-
cy Herbert (Mark).
She was a proud grandmother
to Jacob Hunter, John, Kurt and
Matt Alexander, Sarah, Stephen,
Julie and Kate Drew, Amelia
and Kylee Herbert and Joanna
Allen. Her great-grandchildren,
James and Will Alexander and
Devan Allen knew her as Gigi
Mama.
A celebration of Roni’s life
will be at Wesley Woods Towers, 1825 Clifton Road, Atlanta,
GA 30329 on June 7, 2014, at
3:30 p.m.
In lieu of ﬂowers, please make
a donation in her memory to the
Foundation of Wesley Woods/
Chaplaincy Fund 1817 Clifton
Road, Atlanta, GA 30329 or to
the Canine Assistant’s Program,
3160 Francis Road, Milton, GA,
30004.
Family-placed obituary
The Brunswick News May 17, 2014
Sarah Haisten
Sarah E. “Sadie” Haisten, 87,
died peacefully on Tuesday, May
13, 2014. She was born in Dublin,
Ireland, on Oct. 27, as the fourth
child of seven to the late William
Kilfoyle and Sarah Usher Kilfoyle.
Sadie was a devoted wife, beloved mother and friend who
was known for her kindness and
generous spirit. As a longtime
resident of St. Simons Island, Ga.,
she had been employed at Roberta’s, both in Brunswick and on St.
Simons. She was a member of St.
Williams Catholic Church.
In addition to her parents, Sadie was preceded in death by her
loving husband, Howard Haisten.
Following the death of her husband in 2008, Sadie resided at
her youngest daughter’s family
home in Waterford, Va., where
she passed away peacefully on
Tuesday.
She is survived by her two children, Kathy Haisten Parmelee
of Brunswick, Ga., and Norma
Haisten Kaehler (husband, David) of Waterford, Va.; three
grandchildren, Michelle Parmelee Putman (husband, Ryan) of
Round Rock, Texas, Sarah Kaehler Sprinkle (husband, Adam)
of Fort Rucker, Ala., and Laura
Kaehler of Washington, D.C.;
a great-granddaughter, Emma
Putnam of Round Rock, Texas;
a sister, Maureen Lawlor of Dublin, Ireland; and many nieces and
nephews in Ireland and Georgia.
A funeral Mass is planned for
May 19 at St. Francis de Sales
Catholic Church in Purcellville,
Va., at 10:30 a.m. Burial will follow at the Culpepper National
Cemetery at 2 p.m.
Funeral services will be provided by Hall Funeral Home,
Purcellville, Va. Please visit
www.hallfh.com to express online condolences to the family.
tea rooms and they made several
trips to England. She enjoyed
French Gourmet cooking and
ﬁne dining. She was a lover of
Poodles.
She is survived by a daughter, Robin McMillan(Mike) of
Newark, Del.; son, Richard Ginn
of New London, Pa.; brother:
Charles Duling (Mable “Sue”)
of Wilmington, Del.; grandchildren, Dawn Costa of New London, Pa., Megan Torello (Greg)
of Elkton, Md., Holly Woodall
(Ben) of Seattle, Wash.; three
great-grandchildren,
Alexa
Costa, Michael and Mia Torello;
niece, Christine Tharby (Robert)
of Newark, Del.; and two nephews, Mitchell Duling (Ann) and
Ian Duling (Carleen Burth), all
of Wilmington, Del.
She was preceded in death by
her husband, Edwin Ginn; parents, William and Icis Duling;
sister, Gloria Hynson; and two
brothers, Frank Duling and Guy
Duling.
A memorial service will be
held Thursday, May 29, 2014, at
Historic Riverview Cemetery at
11 a.m. in Wilmington, Del.
In lieu of ﬂowers, contributions may be made to Folkston
Park Nursing Home, 36261 Okefenokee Drive, Folkston, GA
31537, Attn: Jennifer Young SS
Director.
Condolences may be expressed
by signing the guest book at
www.shepardfh.com.
Arrangements are under the
direction of Shepard Funeral
Home, Folkston, Ga.
Family-placed obituary
The Brunswick News May 17, 2014
Mary Ginn
Mary Elizabeth Ginn, 80,
of Folkston, Ga., passed away
May 5, 2014, after an extended
illness. Mary “Betty” was born
in Wilmington, Del., to William and Icis Duling on Nov. 7,
1933. Betty grew up in Wilmington, and upon graduation
from Wilmington High School
in 1951, went to work as a secretary at the law ﬁrm Richards,
Layton and Finger. She later was
secretary to Carroll Carpenter.
She married Ed Ginn in 1966,
and they resided in Chadds Ford,
Pa., until 1977, when they retired
to St. Simons Island, Ga. Betty
loved antiques and at one time
was a co-owner of an antique
shop, ”The Collector” in Greenville, Del. Betty and Ed enjoyed
traveling, especially to Charleston, S.C., where she loved the
Deaths elsewhere
MAPLEWOOD, N.J. — A
41-year veteran of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey praised for his leadership after the Sept. 11 terror attacks has
died. Ernesto Butcher was 69.
The Port Authority says Butcher
suffered a heart attack while walking near his Maplewood, New Jersey, home and died Thursday.
Butcher retired in 2012 as the
Port Authority’s chief operating
ofﬁcer, a title he’d held since 2000.
Before that he had held numerous
positions including director of
tunnels, bridges and terminals. He
began as a management trainee in
1971.
Port Authority executive director Patrick Foye in a message to
employees praises Butcher’s role
in the rescue and recovery efforts
at ground zero and his work ensuring Port Authority facilities
remained open and secure following the 2001 attacks.
COLUMBUS, Ohio — Jeb
Stuart Magruder, a Watergate
conspirator-turned-minister who
claimed in later years to have
heard President Richard Nixon
order the infamous break-in, has
died. He was 79.
Magruder, a businessman when
he began working for the Republican president, later became a minister, serving in California, Ohio
and Kentucky. He also served as a
church fundraising consultant.
He spent seven months in prison for lying about the involvement
of Nixon’s re-election committee
in the 1972 break-in at Washington’s Watergate complex, which
eventually led to the president’s
resignation.
Magruder said he was at peace
with his place in history after he
pleaded guilty to reckless operation of a motor vehicle following a
2007 car crash.
— Associated Press
Annie Carswell
Annie Louise Carswell, 97,
died Friday morning with her
family by her side.
Graveside services will be at
11 a.m. Monday, May 19, 2014,
at Brunswick Memorial Park
Cemetery with the Rev. Darrell
Joiner ofﬁciating.
She is survived by two daughters, Frances and Vernon Harris
of Brunswick, and Diane Carswell Cook and husband Cary
of Austin, Texas; two sons,
David and Cindy Carswell and
Mike and Janet Carswell, all of
Brunswick; 11 grandchildren;
14 great-grandchildren; one
great-great granddaughter; and
several nieces and nephews.
She was predeceased by her
husband, C.D. Carswell.
A native of Sandersville, Mrs.
Carswell had been a resident
of Brunswick since 1945. She
was a member of First United
Methodist of Brunswick and
was a homemaker.
The family asks memorial contributions be made to
Heartland Hospice.
Brunswick Memorial Park
Funeral Home is serving the
family of Mrs. Annie Louise
Carswell.
Please sign the online guest
book at www.brunswickmemorialpark.com.
Family-placed obituary
The Brunswick News May 17, 2014
Wistar Goodhue
Wistar Evans Goodhue, 92, of
Sea Island, died Thursday.
A memorial service will be at
11 a.m. Wednesday at St. Simons
Presbyterian Church.
Edo Miller and Sons Funeral
Home is in charge of all arrangements.
The Brunswick News May 17, 2014
Family-placed obituary
The Brunswick News May 17, 2014
Joanne Roberts
Joanne Joyce Roberts, 87, of St.
Simons Island, died Friday. The
family will receive friends from
3 to 4 p.m. Tuesday at Wesley
United Methodist Church on St.
Simons Island. A celebration of
life service will immediately follow visitation.
Edo Miller and Sons Funeral
Home is in charge of all arrangements.
The Brunswick News May 17, 2014
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preparing students are No. 1 issue
Board of Education At-Large
Name: Sandy
Dean
Age: 55
Address: 1127
Union St.,
Brunswick
Marital status:
Married to
Greg Dean; two
children and a
granddaughter
Occupation: Information technology
Education: High school
Awards/Recognitions: Vice chair
Joint Water Sewer Commission;
chair of communication Joint Water Sewer Commission; member
City of Brunswick Audit Committee; Taste of Glynn volunteer
coordination chairman
Veteran? No
Clubs/Organizations: Brunswick
Historic Seaport; Brunswick Historic Foundation; chair Magnolia
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Q. What do you think is the No. 1
issue facing Glynn County’s Public School System today and how
would you approach the issue if
elected to the board?
Dean: Of the board’s three
responsibilities – setting budget,
employing a superintendant and
setting policy – I worry most
about the budgetary issue. Seventy-six percent of the local property taxes we pay go directly to
the Glynn County School System.
How we spend that money concerns me, because not enough of
it finds its way to the classrooms.
A great example of questionable
spending is in the amount we
compensate our board members.
We spend $11,280 per board
member, when the comparable
average is $3,200. And this does
not include travel. Why shouldn’t
more of this money be spent in
the classroom?
Q, Under what condition would
you support another ESPLOST
and do you see the need for one
now?
Dean: I would only consider
voting for another ESPLOST if it
were specific – one project only
and for a stated amount, expiring
when that dollar goal had been
reached. I don’t see a present
need for another ESPLOST.
Name: Mike
Hulsey
Age: 39
Address: 1322
Fairway Road,
Brunswick
Marital status:
Married, four
children
Occupation:
Co-owner Atlantic
Irrigation Supply
Education: BA in communication
Mercer University
Veteran? No
Clubs/Organizations: St. Mark’s
Episcopal Church, Glynn County
Board of Education
Q. What do you think is the No. 1
issue facing Glynn County’s Public School System today and how
would you approach the issue if
elected to the board?
Hulsey: The No. 1 issue facing
our school system is adequately
preparing our students for the
next phase in their lives given
current economic and curriculum
challenges. My sincere hope
is that we can work together
with business leaders, parents,
college professors, teachers,
and others to adopt an effective and consistent curriculum
at the state level that will better
prepare our students for future
life successes.
Q. Under what condition would
you support another ESPLOST
and do you see the need for one
now?
Hulsey: I would support another ESPLOST should we decide
as a community that it’s in our
best interest. I do not believe in
creating projects just so another
ESPLOST can be presented to
the community. The ESPLOST
length should be limited to the
time-frame it takes to complete
future projects.
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Carl Norris collects articles, photos and documents ranging
from Risley High School to Selden Normal and Industrial Institute. Some of the information in his archive dates back to the
early 1900s.
articles and photos highlight
the best that the old Risley
High School had to offer in
amateur athletics. With players
and coaches from the track,
baseball, football and basketball teams receiving recognition, Norris says his archive
binder could be used as a great
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He said he gets calls every
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high school before it merged
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House seekers name issues facing Ga.
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Name: Jason
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Party: Republican
Age: 39
Address: 28
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Court, Woodbine
Marital status: Married, two daughters.
Occupation: Physician assistant
Education: Masters in physician assistant studies, University of Nebraska Medical
Center
Awards/Recognitions: Tribune
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Tea Party’s 2014 Constitutional
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the National Rifle Association
Veteran? No
Clubs/Organizations: Agape
Christian Fellowship; Camden
County finance chair, state
YMCA; executive board of Georgia Association of Physician
Assistants; Camden County
Republican Party; National Rifle
Association
Q. What do you think are the
top three issues facing the
state today and how would
you approach the issues if
elected to the House?
Spencer: The top issue for
any elected official is to protect the God given rights and
liberties of the people of they
represent. I will continue to
work with those in the Capitol
and foster those relationships
to achieve success. I have a
record that proves I can get
this done.
Second, serving and advocating for pressing economic development needs of Southeast
Georgia in the areas of public
education, technical training,
workforce development, space
port development, as well as
transportation infrastructure,
is also an important issue in
order to attract industry to
our area of the state. Making state policies friendlier to
attract more jobs is still an
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this happen. I have already
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The current law in Georgia is
unfair and unjust. As a member
of the Juvenile Justice Committee, I have established relationships with key committee
members in both House and
Senate to advance this reform
legislation next year. I have a
record of getting things done,
and I will apply that experience
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Baptist Church, but sat on the
front row beside senior pastor
Johnny Hunt.
Rep. Jack Kingston is preparing for events Monday after a
rainstorm forced cancellation of a
Sunday picnic with voters.
Former Secretary of State
Karen Handel is scheduled this
afternoon to appear with conservative radio talk show host Erick
Erickson.
Another congressman, Phil
Gingrey, is working the phones
with his family and volunteers,
calling supporters and urging
them to vote in Tuesday’s primary.
A July 22 runoff is expected, with
the GOP nominee facing Democrat Michelle Nunn in November.
Republicans make final
push in Ga. Senate race
WOODSTOCK — Georgia
Senate hopefuls are making a
ﬁnal push in the crowded Republican primary.
Businessman David Perdue
was in suburban Atlanta attending church on Sunday with one of
the state’s largest congregations.
Perdue didn’t speak at Woodstock
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Name: Nancy
Stasinis
Party: Republican
Age: 59
Address:
2410 Isles of
St. Marys Way
Marital status: Married
34 years
Occupation: Real estate broker
Education: Bachelor of science
degree; several designations
particular to real estate
Awards/Recognitions: Chamber
Entrepreneurial Award; recognized for helping to start the
Kingsland Downtown Development Authority.
Veteran? (retired Navy wife)
Clubs/Organizations: Convention and Visitors Bureau,
Kingsland First Baptist
Q. What do you think are the
top three issues facing the
state today and how would
you approach the issues if
elected to the House?
Stasinis: Economic development, and more and better
jobs are two major issues that
go hand-in-hand. We are not
keeping up with neighboring
states like Tennessee and
Alabama that have been able
to attract car manufacturers
like Toyota. South Carolina has
been able to bring in Boeing.
In order to achieve like results
and remain competitive in
Georgia, we have to provide
financial incentives similar to
what the other states have
provided. We need to target
and entice manufacturing and
industrial businesses in states
County tries to recover
from election problems
ATLANTA — Tuesday’s
primary is the largest test yet for a
Georgia county where past voting
problems remain under investigation by state ofﬁcials.
and areas that have high tax
rates and high labor rates such
as the Midwest, where we can
beat the increased costs associated with doing business. We
should also expand the types
of businesses we want to try to
attract.
In District 180, we are supporting efforts to bring in a
Spaceport, which would not
only benefit the district, but
all of Georgia. This unique
business will send a strong
message that we are aggressively vying for new opportunities such as bio-medical and
bio-tech businesses. There is
unlimited potential for strong
job growth by diligently pursuing this path.
To support and attract the
new businesses, we must
ensure that we have sufficient
technical colleges available to
provide the skilled workers that
would be needed to man the
businesses. Money must be
budgeted to provide this key
stepping stone to bring in economic growth and new jobs.
An additional concern for
the state is to make sure that
our teachers are being paid at
a competitive rate at a level
equal to or greater than our
neighboring states. They have
just gone through a long period
without raises and having
furlough days while they have
been charged with educating
our best and brightest. We are
now heading in the right direction as numerous legislators realized we could not continue on
as we have. Our teachers help
shape and form our scientists,
attorneys and accountants and
should be paid accordingly.
Fulton County ofﬁcials say new
leadership, overhauled staff training and extensive checks of the
county’s voter registration records
all will ensure a smooth day at the
polls on Tuesday.
Loud complaints about the way
elections were conducted in 2010
and 2012 put Fulton County under
scrutiny. Accusations of incorrect
ballots, long lines and problems
with provisional ballots are in
the hands of the state attorney
general.
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you don’t know where to look.
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problem. He knows exactly
where everything is.
“Let me show this team. It’s
a 1938 football team,” he said.
“I can get there faster than you
can.”
And sure enough he did.
Norris zipped through the
large blue zipper binder,
ﬁlled with newspaper articles,
photos and documents related
to the old Risley High School,
to ﬁnd a photo of the 1938
Risley state championship
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early 1900s
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Brunswick, collected everything in the binder from doing
research at the public library.
He started the archive project
more than 20 years ago.
The 62-year-old’s binder also
contains information about the
Selden Normal and Industrial
Institute, a school that taught
blacks in the community business, teaching, nursing and
other skills in 1903. It’s one
of the very last pages in the
binder.
“A lady gave me this (information) to keep because she
knew I did archives,” Norris
said. “The same Selden Park
where everyone goes to swim
and play ball at, that used to
be a school. You’ll see the pictures of people, but this gives
you the history.”
Norris’ says his archive
binder is important because it
puts a spotlight on a portion
of black history for the black
community.
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“The goal with our new, morevisible visitor center in the Pier
Village is to captivate guests by
letting them see, touch and truly experience the Golden Isles
community, in a welcoming and
more-inviting setting,” he said.
“The welcome center ... will now
become an interactive and experiential destination. It will provide travelers a dynamic preview
of the Golden Isles in images,
attractions and arts and culture,
demonstrating everything there is
to enjoy here.”
The new center could prove
to be an economic beneﬁt to the
community, he said.
“If we can convince the 40,000
annual visitors to the current welcome center on St. Simons Island
to stay in the area even one extra
night, it would result in a positive
economic impact of close to $18
million for the Golden Isles,” McQuade said.
That could happen if the center is able to persuade overnight
visitors through exhibits to spend
more time here “and day visitors
into becoming overnight guests,”
he said. “We just can’t ignore that
opportunity.”
While the new welcome center
will promote tourism in the Golden Isles, McQuade also hopes it
will become a destination itself
and generate some revenue for
the CVB, something that it is
sorely lacking, he said.
The 200 CVBs studied across
the country showed an average
annual revenue of $16.7 million,
says McQuade. The Golden Isles
CVB currently generates zero
dollars of its own funds and relies
solely on hotel lodging tax revenue to operate.
“We are missing out,” he said.
“We will strive to be more than
what we are today. There’s a lot
more opportunity now.”
The CVB has put down 27 percent of the $1.8 million needed
for the building and expects to
pay off the rest in three to ﬁve
years.
“It won’t be a long term burden
for the CVB,” said McQuade.
“We’ve been preparing for this
day.”
Finding a bigger facility for
the CVB on St. Simons has been
a goal of the tourism agency for
more than a decade and one that
was a top priority for McQuade
Camden Chamber
moving into its new
home this week
By GORDON JACKSON
The Brunswick News
Michael Hall/The Brunswick News
KINGSLAND — The Camden
County Chamber of Commerce
is moving into a new home this
week.
The chamber’s ofﬁce, currently
located in Kings Bay Village shopping center in St. Marys, is moving to the Kingsland North Center
Complex, 531 U.S. 17.
The move, which should be
completed by midweek, accomplishes several goals. The existing
location in St. Marys is tucked in
the corner of a shopping center
under a covered shelter, making it
difﬁcult for people to see.
The new location is on a busy
thoroughfare near downtown
Kingsland with plenty of parking
nearby.
Chamber ofﬁcials say ﬁrst impressions are important when trying to convince a business owner
to move here, and the chamber’s
new location will help accomplish
that goal.
The Kingsland North Center
Complex is a municipal building
that has been converted inside to
replicate an old city block from
more than a half century ago. The
ofﬁce spaces each have signs from
hardware and drug stores, a barbershop and other local businesses
that no longer exist but are still remembered by longtime residents.
The Golden Isles Convention and Visitors Bureau agreed to purchase the building that currently houses the Glynn Art Association
on St. Simons Island.
when he took the job three years
ago. Several buildings were
looked at over the years, but they
ultimately failed to provide the
necessary space, parking or ease
of access the agency was aiming
to achieve.
The CVB will continue to operate at its facilities on Interstate
95 in downtown Brunswick at the
corner of Gloucester and Newcastle Streets and at the Casino
on St. Simons Island.
Glynn Art Association has a
projected $200,000 renovation
cost to its new 4,800-square-feet
facility.
Neither organization will move
into the new buildings until reno-
vations are complete, which more
than likely will be in the fall.
John Bauser, executive director
of the Glynn Art Association, is
also excited by the new marketing opportunity for the Glynn Art
Association.
“We look forward to working
with the CVB to build on the natural synergies between our two
organizations, to bring more visitors to our region and help them
experience all that Glynn Art has
to offer,” he said.
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This month, the commission
voted to reappoint Donna Eskenazi, who originally resigned the
seat earlier this year.
Commissioner Coleman said
Monday it’s time for a change.
“I take offense to the way these
volunteers are being treated and
talked about,” he said. “It’s to the
point where, in my opinion, we
need to wipe out the whole group
and start all over again. That includes staff, the director and putting animal services under a different department. You’re dealing
with a subject matter here that’s
not that complicated. It’s absurd
how far this thing has gone.”
Animal services currently falls
under Glynn County Police Chief
Matt Doering.
Coleman said he’s received no
response from other commissioners on a request to meet to discuss
the topic.
Commission Chairman Mike
Browning said Monday he has
had discussions with the Humane Society, which is not part
of animals services, and is planning to add a presentation from
the nonproﬁt organization on the
commission’s June work session
agenda. He said the commission
has stressed to county staff that
the animal shelter must be clean
and orderly. The rest of the advisory board’s requests, he said,
will take more time.
“I understand why some people
are impatient,” Browning said.
“But we’ve got three more advisory board appointments coming up in the next month or two.
That will be a good time for (the
commission) to sit down with
them and work toward a common
goal.”
New appointments will be
made to ﬁll the vacancy created
by Wright’s resignation, as well
as to the seats of vice advisory
board chairwoman Ashby Nix
and advisory board member Lee
Bledsoe, which expire June 30.
Nix, upset with all that’s been
going on, indicated Monday she
will not seek reappointment to
the advisory board.
“(Animal shelter staff) seem
content to just take (animals) in
and put (animals) down,” Wright
said. “That’s what led me to resign. If I resign, I can be vocal in
the way that I want to be. I’ll be
able to speak my mind without
the county being able to control
what I say or do. I’ll still be able
to provide a voice for these animals, who have no voice.”
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about it,” Voight said.
The problems do not stop there.
Voight said mud has accumulated
to the point in areas like Piney
Bluff that creeks are impassable at
mid and low tides.
Riding in a boat with Voight on
Monday down Umbrella Creek
from the dock at Dover Bluff Club,
Voight pointed out where old boathouses now sit on marsh mud.
“It’s not only shallow, it’s ﬁlled
in and growing marsh grass,” Voight said.
Satilla Riverkeeper Ashby Nix
said the cut disrupts the tidal
ﬂow in Dover Creek and creeks
connecting to it, changing the
natural habitat so that many of
the natural chemical cues ﬁsh get
through water salinity are altered.
Fish rely on those cues for things
like how far upstream to go to
spawn.
“This (estuary) system is not
doing that,” Nix said. “By closing
Noyes Cut, we believe we can restore the salinity gradient.”
The Riverkeeper organization is
working with the Dover Bluff River Committee and others to seek
the funding needed to match what
the corps is asking for, Nix said.
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about public safety, environment
and other local topics. Contact
him at [email protected], on Facebook or at
265-8320, ext. 320.
Board: Volunteer treatment offends Coleman
Continued from 1A
nothing else we can do to change
the most minor of situations.”
Tensions have been high at the
animal shelter since the county
commission ﬁrst publicly aired
complaints about the volunteer
advisory board in February.
Commissioners heard complaints
about advisory board members
operating outside the boundaries
of their prescribed roles and accusations of improper behavior
by county staff.
In April, the situation was compounded with more controversy
when the commission voted
against appointing Sherry Coleman, the wife of Commissioner
Bob Coleman, to the advisory
board, despite it being an unpaid,
volunteer position for which
Sherry Coleman was the only respondent.
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Continued from 1A
plenty of work to do to raise the
$500,000 in matching funds the
corps will need to supplement the
$1 million it is putting up to study
how to properly close the cut and
restore a habitat Voight said is out
of whack.
The salinity level in places like
the back end of Umbrella Creek
near where it connects to Dover
Creek is so low that anglers rarely
catch much of anything, he said.
When they do, the ﬁsh are not
what’s expected.
“You can catch freshwater catﬁsh out there right now, and that’s
Nunn skirts question on health care vote
By BILL BARROW
and CHRISTINA A. CASSIDY
Associated Press
ATLANTA — Democratic
Senate hopeful Michelle Nunn in
Georgia declined to answer questions Monday about whether she
would have voted for President
Barack Obama’s health care overhaul, as candidates in six states
went through the ﬁnal paces of
bruising primary campaigns for
congressional and statewide ofﬁces.
Seven Georgia Republicans —
all of whom have called for repeal
of the law Republicans deride as
“Obamacare” — are in their own
scramble ahead of a Tuesday
primary vote that is expected to
whittle the ﬁeld to two runoff candidates.
In Kentucky, Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell was
poised to put away tea party challenger Matt Bevin and turn his attention to the fall.
There are gubernatorial primary
contests on the ballot in Pennsylvania, Arkansas, Idaho, Georgia
and Oregon on the busiest day of
the primary season to date.
Besides Kentucky and Georgia,
Senate races are atop the ballot in
Arkansas, Idaho and Oregon on
Tuesday — preliminary contests
that will shape a fall campaign
in which Senate Republicans aim
to gain six seats, a Senate majority, and a more muscular say over
Obama’s ﬁnal two years in ofﬁce.
Republicans can’t afford to lose
in Kentucky or Georgia. Democrats view Kentucky’s Alison
Lundergan Grimes and Nunn as
their best — and perhaps only —
opportunities to swipe seats held
by Republicans.
In GOP-leaning Georgia, Nunn’s
smooth glide to the Democratic
nomination bumped up against
her awkward refusal in a weekend
interview with NBC News to say
whether she would have voted for
the Affordable Care Act. When
asked if she planned to answer the
question and why she refused to
do so, Nunn said in an interview
with The Associated Press that she
plans on “continuing to answer the
question by talking about where
we need to go in the future and
how we need to move forward.”
Nunn has previously said she
believes states, including Georgia,
should agree to expand Medicaid
insurance eligibility as part of the
law. Georgia Republican Gov.
Nathan Deal, who also faces a pri-
mary Tuesday, has refused.
Nunn’s rhetorical dancing on the
issue underscores her challenge as
she tries to pull an upset in a state
Obama lost twice, even if by single-digit margins. And the quick
reaction among political observers
reﬂects the high-proﬁle nature of
the race amid the struggle for Senate control. Nunn also dismissed
criticism from her primary opponents that she has not been strong
enough in embracing Democratic
ideals as she crafts a centrist campaign.
“I believe that people in Georgia want somebody who will be
an independent voice for Georgia,
who is going to take account of
the facts and listen to the people
of Georgia and try and get things
done that matter to them, and
reach across the aisle and be willing to actually work in a bipartisan
fashion,” Nunn said.
Georgia has been a reliably Republican state in recent years and
the federal health care law as a
whole remains unpopular.
A recent poll by The Atlanta
Journal-Constitution found that 61
percent of voters believe it needs
major modiﬁcations or should be
eliminated. Just 9 percent said it
was working well.
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the center of the building features
open space large enough to accommodate large crowds.
Leslie Hamerick, the chamber’s
president, said much of the work,
such as moving furniture and wiring the computers, phones and
other electronics, has already been
completed. It should be a relatively simple process to complete the
move before the end of the week,
she said.
“After that, it’s a matter of moving a few ﬁles,” she said. “We’re
very excited.”
Kingsland Mayor Ken Smith
said the move by the chamber
is one of many planned that will
consolidate the chamber, Camden
County Joint Development Authority and Downtown Development Authority in Kingsland and
St. Marys in one building.
“We will have everything in one
center now,” he said. “We think it
will be one-stop shopping.”
Smith said the building, which
was renovated just before the burst
of the housing bubble seven years
ago, has plenty of ofﬁce space
ready to be occupied.
• Reporter Gordon Jackson
writes about Camden County and
other local topics. Contact him
at gjackson@thebrunswicknews.
com, on Facebook or at 4647655.
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Page One, Part 2
Coastal: Rallies for ﬁrst national title
Coastal, the fourth-ranked
team entering the event, led after Round 1 after shooting a 285
but found itself tied for third after a 296 in Wednesday’s second
round.
Miller, who struggled in the
ﬁrst two rounds with a 75 and
74, turned in a 2-under 70 for the
Mariners on Friday. Sophomore
Trevor Smith shot back-to-back
rounds of 76 before shooting
even-par 72.
“They were due,” Freeman
said. “They had a rough ﬁrst two
days. I think they wanted to put
in a good round when it counted.
They showed up (Friday) and
played their game, and that’s exactly what we needed.”
Mariners coach Mike Cook
was named the NAIA National
Coach of the Year.
“I can’t believe that they really
did it, but I knew what these guys
were capable of doing,” Cook
said.
“With only 18 holes left, they
just took of business. They knew
what they had to do.”
Election: House race drawing attention
Continued from 1A
In the school board District 2
race, incumbent Millard Allen is
facing challenger Gloria Burns,
and in the At-Large District Post
1 incumbent Mike Hulsey is being opposed by Sandy Dean.
Only the District 4 Board of
Education race — which pits
incumbent Hank Yeargan, a Republican and current chairman of
the school board, against Democratic challenger Dorothy Stewart
— will be decided in the general
election in November.
At the close of the early voting period Friday, Glynn County
Elections Superintendent Tina
Edwards reported that 1,666 had
cast ballots at the elections ofﬁce on the mainland and another
1,796 had voted at the elections
ofﬁce on St. Simons Island.
Glynn County Republicans
casting ballots in the race for the
District 167 seat in the Georgia
House of Representatives will
decide between Jeff Jones and
Tony Thaw. The incumbent, Jeff
Chapman, is running for the U.S.
House of Representatives.
In Camden County, voters in
the Republican Primary will cast
ballots in just one contested race –
Georgia House of Representatives
District 180 seat. Incumbent Rep.
Jason Spencer will square off with
challenger Nancy Stansinis.
Glynn and Camden voters will
join residents in Wayne, Jeff Davis and Appling counties, which
make up the Brunswick Judicial
Circuit, in casting ballots in one
contested race on the Nonpartisan
ballot. Incumbent Superior Court
Judge Roger Lane is being challenged by Mary Helen Moses.
Tony Wege, professor of political science at the College of
Coastal Georgia, said the Camden House race might prove to
be a boost for participation in the
180th District.
“The Camden County race for
House 180 may be an exception
(to average turnout) because of
some pretty committed local voters, but that race is likely to be an
outlier,” he said Friday.
In state-level races, Republicans
and Democrats will have a number of candidates to choose from.
Contested races for governor, lieutenant governor, attorney general,
and commissioners of agriculture,
insurance and labor, in addition
to state school superintendent,
secretary of state and two public
service commission seats, will appear on Democratic and Republican ballots.
U.S. Senate and the 1st District
U.S. House of Representatives are
also being largely contested in the
state this year.
Wege is predicting a turnout of
under 50 percent in the prima-
ries.
“I really don’t see any unusually large (voter) turnout,” Wege
said. “Somewhere between a
35 and 40 percent voter turnout
statewide would be predictable.
The so-called ‘civil war’ within
the Republican Party is having the
effect of normalizing Republican
turnout numbers.
“Likewise, popular enthusiasm
for extreme conservative candidates has waned. ... In the environment of normal politics, economic issues are most relevant,
and those issues will get people
out to vote.”
In the nonpartisan election,
three unopposed candidates are
vying for the Georgia Supreme
Court. There are also ﬁve candidates for State Court of Appeals.
St. Marys voters will also vote
on a referendum question asking
if they support giving the city the
authority to create tax allocation
districts under the Georgia Redevelopment Powers Law.
Voters in the primary election
are required to bring an acceptable form of photo identiﬁcation
before casting a ballot. Those
without a valid photo I.D. may
obtain a voter identiﬁcation card
from the county registrar’s ofﬁce
or at the Department of Driver
Services.
A complete list of Glynn County precincts can be found by visit-
appreciate all of you who came to
stand with me and celebrate this
moment.”
Howard Cofﬁn Park is owned
by the city and managed by the
county, but Harvey is working
to change that. He wants the city
to begin managing the park
again.
City and county ofﬁcials are expected to meet together to discuss
that very issue in the near future.
If management of the facility
returns to the city, Harvey will
look into resurrecting the PAL
program.
“We want to make that connection between the police and community again,” Harvey said.
• Reporter Martin Rand III
covers local news. Contact him
at mrand@thebrunswicknews.
com, on Facebook, or at 2658320, ext. 324.
Field: Ofﬁcer popular in city
Continued from 1A
emony along with the couple’s
children, grandchildren and other
relatives, as well as friends of the
popular ofﬁcer.
Eunice Willcox was moved by
the ceremony and the moment.
“I’m so happy to see all of my
friends here today,” she said to
the crowd before taking a brief
pause to hold back tears. “I just
Spanish: Students use skills
Continued from 1A
(grapes), pescado (ﬁsh), pure de papas (mashed potatoes) and more.
Though there was certainly a
lot of English chatter going on, the
students made an honest effort to
utilize their lessons under Senora
Bush.
Fourth-grade teachers Jan Payne
and Jennifer Waters watched and
helped when needed, thankful for
an interesting twist on a traditional
lesson, especially this close to
summer break when students have
trouble focusing.
“It creates excitement and gives
a real-life approach to their learning,” Waters said. “It also gives
them ownership in what they’ve
learned. They know all these
words and have spent time study-
ing them, but now they actually
get to pick and choose and use
them how they want.”
It was a yummy and educational
way to end the week.
• Reporter Sarah Lundgren
writes about education and other
local topics. Contact her at [email protected],
on Facebook or at 265-8320, ext.
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other local topics. Contact her
at kquimby@thebrunswicknews.
com, or at 265-8320, ext. 321.
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“I think the biggest thing was
trying to stay focused and stay
calm, not get ahead of myself,”
Bradford said about the ﬁnal
round. “I was conﬁdent. I think
we were all conﬁdent. We just felt
good about it for some reason.”
Freeman tied for 12th with an
even-par 216, and Chase Miller
and Hunter Cornelius tied for
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Freeman, a senior from Athens and the SSAC tournament
champion, became the ﬁrst College of Coastal Georgia athlete to
earn All-America distinction at
the NAIA level. Freeman joined
Bradford on the NAIA’s all-tournament team for their play this
week.
“We knew we had to put together a good round,” Freeman
said. “We tried to make sure every shot counted. We made sure
we hit good shots and played
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EATONTON — Investigators
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decapitated in the couple’s home
earlier this month, Putnam County
Sheriff Howard Sills said.
A crime laboratory will de-
ﬁnitively determine whether the
remains are those of Shirley Dermond, and establish a cause of
death in a case that has perplexed
investigators in central Georgia.
The body matches the general
description of Dermond and has
similar surgical scars, Sills told
a news conference. He described
the case as a homicide, but he said
investigators could not see any
obvious signs of trauma on the
remains. Authorities suspect the
couple were killed May 2 or May
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that Shirley Dermond was murdered, and we’re no longer, unfortunately, seeking to rescue her,”
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The Brunswick News / Saturday, May 17, 2014 7A
Local & Nation
Board of education candidates give thoughts on ESPLOST
Board of education District 2
Name: Millard
Allen (incumbent)
Party: Republican
Age: 80
Address:
1410 South
Windward
Drive, St. Simons Island
Marital status: Married 57
years, 4 children, 10 grandchildren
Occupation: Retired
Education: BS U.S. Naval Academy; graduate work Georgia
State University, Harvard Business School
Awards/Recognitions: Leadership certificate, U.S. Naval
Academy, several business and
civic Awards
Veteran? Navy, five years regular and 15 reserves, retiring as
commander.
Clubs/Organizations: Director
Georgia School Boards Association; vice chairman and board
member Brunswick Golden Isles
Chamber of Commerce; director
Coastal Symphony of Georgia;
former director Military Officers
Association; and Rotary Club of
St. Simons.
Q. What do you think is the No.
1 issue facing Glynn County’s
Public School System today
and how would you approach
the issue if elected to the
board?
Allen: The single biggest challenge is to continue to manage
financial resources to reduce
class sizes thereby increasing
teacher employment and compensation.
Q. Under what condition would
you support another ESPLOST
and do you see the need for
one now?
Allen: I will support an
ESPLOST 3 for finishing renovations to Glynn Academy,
completing athletic fields at both
high schools, building a Performing Arts Center in concert
with the college and a possible
replacement elementary school.
Name: Gloria
Burns
Party: Republican
Age: 50
Address: 117
Shore Rush
Drive, St. Simons Island
Marital status: Married to
Allen Burns III, two children.
Occupation: Small business
owner and principal of planning
and development firm
Education: Master’s degree in
city and regional planning, College of Architecture, Clemson
University
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Man pleads not guilty
to arson in Calif. fire
SAN DIEGO — A 57-year-old
man has been charged with arson
in one of 10 wildﬁres that swept
the San Diego region this week.
Alberto Serrato pleaded not
guilty Friday in connection with
a 105-acre ﬁre in suburban Oceanside — one of the smaller ﬁres.
The ﬁre started Wednesday and is
fully contained.
Tanya Sierra, a spokeswoman
for the San Diego County district
attorney’s ofﬁce, says Serrato
wasn’t seen igniting a ﬁre but
witnesses saw him adding dead
brush onto smoldering bushes that
ﬂamed up. The spokeswoman says
he has not been connected to any
other ﬁre.
The spokeswoman says Serrato
was arrested Thursday in Oceanside and faces up to seven years
in prison if convicted. She didn’t
know if he has a lawyer who could
comment.
GM is fined $35 million
over deadly defect
WASHINGTON — Federal
safety regulators slapped General
Motors with a record $35 million
ﬁne Friday for taking more than
a decade to disclose an ignitionswitch defect in millions of cars
that has been linked to at least 13
Lottery picks
Winning numbers Thursday
in Georgia were Cash 4 Midday, 4-2-6-9; Cash 3 Midday,
1-7-2; Georgia FIVE Midday,
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Awards/Recognitions: General
Thomas D. White Award for Individual Excellence in Community
Planning
Veteran? No
Clubs/Organizations: Trustee
and Strategic Planning Committee chair; Marshes of Glynn
Libraries; Parent Leadership
Council, Oglethorpe University;
Leadership Development chair;
Georgia Federation of Republican Women
Q. What do you think is the No.
1 issue facing Glynn County’s
Public School System today
and how would you approach
the issue if elected to the
board?
Burns: I am running for the
District 2 seat on the Board
of Education based on the
belief that a quality educational
system is the foundation for
achieving both individual and
community economic potential.
Improving the quality of our
schools requires higher expectations that value educational
quality over quantity, promote
college readiness and ensure
safe schools for our students
and teachers. To accomplish
this, we must raise system and
community expectations not
only for academics, but also for
student behavior, school safety,
and community involvement.
Raising expectations must
be supported by responsible
resource management that
restores classrooms as our
top funding priority and honors
ESPLOST I and II commitments
that improve the daily learning
environments for our children
and teachers. I will call for greater transparency in the budgeting
process, along with an efficiency
audit of our system. Higher
expectations will also rely on
informed decision-making by the
board. We must back taxpayer
investments in education with
sound planning and evaluation
that stops our system’s fire,
aim, ready approach in quickly
adopting the latest educational
fad without knowing if it works,
how much it will cost in the
long-term, or even with a plan
to measure if it is working. Too
many new programs have been
cast aside over the last eight
years after substantial investments of time and resources.
This diverts valuable resources
away from our classrooms.
Our students and our teachers
deserve better.
Q. Under what condition would
you support another ESPLOST
and do you see the need for
one now?
Burns: I believe the board
must honor unfulfilled ESPLOST
I and II commitments to voters.
Renovation of Glynn Academy’s
historic Sidney Lanier building
was approved by voters in 2007
deaths.
Under an agreement with the
Transportation Department, GM
admitted it was slow to inform
regulators, promised to report
problems faster and submitted to
more in-depth government oversight of its safety operations.
The ﬁne was the maximum the
department can impose.
Safety advocates said the ﬁne,
which is less than a day’s revenue
for GM, is too small to deter bad
behavior by automakers.
Officials ask N.H. police
commissioner to resign
WOLFEBORO, N.H. — The
town manager and board of
selectmen in the predominantly
white New Hampshire town of
Wolfeboro have ofﬁcially joined
residents in demanding the resignation of a police commissioner
who uttered a racial slur about
President Barack Obama.
Wolfeboro town manager David
Owen posted a message on the
town’s website calling on 82-yearold Robert Copeland to resign
the post he was re-elected to in
March.
Copeland has said he won’t
apologize for using the racial
slur at a local restaurant, saying
Obama meets his criteria for it.
New Hampshire has no recall
provision for elected ofﬁcials.
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Cash 3 Evening, 5-0-4; Play 4
Evening, 6-2-8-1; Fantasy 5,
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under ESPLOST I. The $5.3
million allocated to the project,
slated to start in 2010, was
re-directed to the new bus yard
and the defunct RECA that now
houses administrative offices.
The only work completed on the
Lanier project is a $217,000
set of drawings. The renovation
is now pushed to 2018, a full
decade after voter approval in
ESPLOST I. The only ESPLOST
improvements made at the
Glynn Academy campus to date
are concrete ramps with railings
to meet ADA requirements, with
construction of tennis courts
to begin this summer. Most
Glynn Academy improvements
approved by voters are now delayed until after the 2015 end
of ESPLOST II, with some proj-
ects dropped from the funding
list altogether. ESPLOST revenues should be used to address
the legislative intent of the tax –
to improve the learning environments of Georgia’s children. I
do not agree with our board’s
decision to redirect funding
away from school renovation
projects to fund facilities that
are not used on a daily basis by
students. Before approaching
voters with another ESPLOST,
the board must prepare a detailed needs analysis of facility
improvements and how much
they will cost not only to build,
but to operate and maintain.
The proposal must also prioritize
projects and define how each
will advance the goal of creating
a quality educational system.
A Special Message to Voters
in State House District 167.
Dear Friends and Neighbors,
Over the past several months, I have visited with voters throughout State House
District 167 discussing the many issues affecting us all. I have listened to your
concerns and the challenges we face.
Most of the people I have spoken with are looking for conservative leadership
and sound decision-making. As a father, businessman, avid outdoorsman and
strong proponent of education, I am aware of the need for tax relief, economic
development, strengthening education, creating new jobs, protecting our natural resources and helping seniors.
If I am honored to serve as your next state representative, I will never compromise what I believe in – hard work, families first, safe streets and government accountability. I will have an open-door policy and listen closely to your concerns.
I have run a positive campaign and I want to make a difference for Glynn, McIntosh and Long Counties. With your help, we will have a strong voice in Atlanta.
Sincerely,
TonyThaw.com
Pro Education • Pro Industry • Pro Ports • Pro Jobs • Pro 2nd Amendment • Pro Life
People who know Tony best all agree:
He will stand up for us in Atlanta.
“Tony Thaw is a true Republican who will put
conservative values and taxpayers first. His experience as a businessman and former county
commissioner will be invaluable as Georgia progresses in the years ahead.”
Kathy Strickland
Brunswick
“It seems that every day, there are new challenges for senior citizens. Tony listens to us and
he knows that quality healthcare and lower taxes
are a concern for people on a fixed income. We
need his leadership in Atlanta.”
Joan Wilson
St. Simons Island
“Tony will be a driving force in Atlanta and he
will be a strong supporter of legislation for education, economic development and help for our
seniors.”
Rick and Terri Smith
Mudcat Charlie’s / Kash Gas
Darien / Brunswick
“Tony’s experience and leadership are important. His passion for education and economic
growth for Coastal Georgia is critical to our future. We need a representative like Tony Thaw.
He will make a difference for our district.”
“I make my pizza from scratch using only the finest ingredients. And believe me, Tony has all the
ingredients to be an effective state representative. He is a successful businessman and served
for six years as the county commissioner from my
district …We need someone like Tony who will
stand up for us in Atlanta. I have no doubt Tony
Thaw is the man for the job.”
Sal Cenicola
Sal’s Pizza
St. Simons Island
“I have known Tony for more than 40 years. He is
a strong, conservative voice who will bring jobs
and economic development to our area. He did a
lot for Glynn County including the Career Academy, the State Patrol facility and the new Driver’s
Services Office… plus traffic improvements and
expansion of parks and recreation. He has always
been a great friend of law enforcement.”
Wayne Bennett
Retired Sheriff of Glynn County
“I have a job with Gulfstream that would not be
possible without Tony Thaw and his commitment
to technical education. Tony believes in education and I believe in him.”
James Miller
Student of Golden Isles Career Academy
Tonya Brown
Tonya’s Treasures
Brunswick
“Tony Thaw is committed to recruiting new industry to Coastal Georgia. He was instrumental
in bringing the Career Academy to Brunswick,
and he is a strong proponent of technical education initiatives that will help us build a strong
workforce. Tony knows how to get the job done.”
Russell Kent
Workforce Development
Harris Neck
Republican for
House District 167
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The Brunswick News / Monday, May 19, 2014 7A
Obituaries
Joanne Roberts
Longtime St. Simons Island
resident Joanne Joyce Roberts died May 16 at Southeast
Georgia Health System hospital in Brunswick, Ga., after a
fall at home. She was the wife
of James M. Roberts.
Mrs. Roberts (and her
husband) was a very active
member of United Methodist
Church at Frederica. She also
served several years as a docent at Fort Frederica, focusing on the herb gardens.
Gardening, especially wildﬂowers, was a lifelong passion.
Years ago, she could often be
spotted digging up wildﬂowers at building sites ahead of
the bulldozers to be carefully
replanted elsewhere.
She and her husband raised
seven daughters, Deborah,
Amy, Anne, Jennifer, Martha,
Laura and Sarah. She is preceded in death by Laura and
Sarah.
Born in Lake Forest, Ill., on
March 3, 1927, to Eunice and
Alfonse Joyce, Mrs. Roberts
lived much of her life in that
area. She was a graduate of
Lawrence University in Appleton, Wis.
In her professional career,
she served as personal assistant to the editor of a publishing company, grant writer
for the Portland Cement Association, where she obtained
support and funding for early
prison work-release programs,
and head of professional recruitment for Abbott Laboratories. In her last professional
assignment at Abbott, she traveled throughout Europe and
North America conducting
week-long management training seminars.
She also maintained an active interest and participation
in Republican politics.
In retirement, she and her
husband built a home on St.
Simons Island and continued
to spend summers at a second
home in Sturgeon Bay, Wis. A
popular and talented hostess,
her homes were often ﬁlled
with laughter and friends.
Mrs. Roberts will be greatly
missed by friends and family,
including her beloved granddaughter Betsy and grandson
Virgil.
A memorial service will be
held Tuesday, May 20, at UMC
at Frederica, with the Rev.
Wright Culpepper ofﬁciating.
There will be a reception from
3 to 4 p.m., with services beginning at 4.
A second service will be
held at Bay Side Cemetery,
Sturgeon Bay, Wis., in July,
where her remains will be interred.
Condolences may be expressed at www.edomillerandsons.com.
Edo Miller and Sons Funeral
Home is in charge of all arrangements.
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Judge hopefuls say why they should be elected
Superior Court Judge
Name: Roger
B. Lane (incumbent)
Age: 67
Address: 123
Shipmaster
Drive, Brunswick
Marital status: married
to Leigh Ann
Eason Lane; three children, 13
grandchildren
Occupation: Judge of Superior
Court, Brunswick Judicial Circuit
Education: Juris Doctor
Awards/Recognitions: Georgia
Regents Hall of Fame Award,
Association of County Commissions of Georgia Outstanding
Legislator of 2010 session,
Outstanding Freshman Legislator during first term
Veteran? No
Clubs/Organizations: Glynn
County Bar Association, Georgia
Bar Association, Darien United
Methodist Church, Council of
Superior Court Judges, Brunswick-Glynn County Chamber of
Commerce
Q. What qualifies you to be a
Superior Court judge?
Lane: I was appointed to the
Superior Court bench for the
Brunswick Judicial Circuit in
May 2012 and have served two
years presiding over complex
criminal and civil cases, including murder, rape, child molestation, child custody and complex
civil lawsuits. My appointment
came after extensive investigation and vetting by the Judicial
Nominating Commission,
composed of 20 lawyers and
judges from around the state of
Georgia. This process included
the commission seeking input
from lawyers and community
leaders within the Brunswick
Judicial Circuit. The commission
after this extensive investigation and interview of each
candidate selected me and two
other applicants out of 18 who
applied as the most qualified
to be submitted to the governor
for his consideration. After the
governor’s interviews, I was
selected for the appointment to
fill the vacancy.
I have assumed a leadership
role with the Council of Superior Court Judges, a council
composed of the 290 Superior
Court Judges for the state of
Georgia. I was selected to serve
on the Legislation Committee
and appointed as vice chairman
of the Public Outreach Committee. Additionally, the council
selected me to serve as Judge
of the Week during the last legislative session and in this role,
I attended Judiciary Committee
meetings of both the Georgia
House of Representatives and
the Georgia Senate and monitored legislation that was being
proposed in those committees.
I was selected for the appointment to the Superior Court
bench because of my extensive
experience as a trial lawyer and
extensive public service involvement in Glynn County, including
eight years of service as state
representative for portions of
Glynn and Wayne counties. I
opened a law office in Brunswick in 1976 and maintained
my law practice in the Brunswick Judicial Circuit until being
appointed as Superior Court
Judge. I have presided over
100 jury trials, both within the
Brunswick Judicial Circuit and
throughout the state of Georgia, trying a diversity of cases,
including criminal, domestic and
complex civil cases.
Additionally, as a member of
the Georgia House of Representatives for eight years, I have
served on the Judiciary Committee and chaired a subcommittee
of the Judiciary. This committee
vetted many bills that were introduced dealing with the judicial
system, including criminal, domestic, and other civil lawsuits.
The Superior Court for the
Brunswick Judicial Circuit
handles all felony criminal cases
which involve potential sentences to prison of greater than one
year and include capital crimes
which involve the death penalty,
handles all domestic relations
cases, including child custody
and child support and handles
complex civil lawsuits.
I have the experience necessary to preside over these
serious cases, have tried many
cases within the Brunswick
Judicial Circuit, and have held
elective office in Glynn County
and have shown a commitment
to public service. Experience
counts for this very important
judicial position and I have that
experience and commitment.
Name: Mary
Helen Moses
Age: 60
Address:
1952 Ocean
Road, St. Simons Island
Marital status: Single (divorced). One
son, Andrew
Moses Ruberti, 24
Occupation: Attorney, professor
of law
Education: BA, Furman University, JD, University of Georgia,
LL.M., Georgetown University
Awards/Recognitions: preeminent AV ranking (highest
ranking) of American lawyers;
Kate Stoneman Award; listed as
a Top-Rated Lawyer.
Veteran? no
Clubs/Organizations: Christ
Church Frederica, member of
Adult Choir; Board of Directors,
Vi Fluentis Children’s Choir;
Georgia Bar Association; American Bar Association
Q. What qualifies you to be a
Superior Court judge?
Moses: My demonstrated
leadership and integrity, my 36
years of experience as a practicing lawyer in courts from Florida
to New York, and my 23 years of
law school teaching, make me
the best-qualified candidate in
this race. Since I was sworn into
the Georgia bar in 1978, I have
been admitted to practice full
time to the bars of the District
of Columbia and New York, and
on individual cases in state
and federal courts from Florida
to the Northeast. I am always
ready to learn new subject
areas and have developed an
expertise in a wide variety of
legal matters. My research and
practice reputation has brought
me all kinds of clients: Fortune
500 companies, middle-sized
and small businesses, school
districts, federal agencies, local
governments, nonprofits and
individuals. I have represented
these clients in diverse issues,
including business disputes,
personal injury, constitutional
issues, domestic relations and
child custody, education, discrimination, labor and employment, criminal matters, and
zoning and other government
regulation. I am particularly
proud of briefs I have written
to the U.S. Supreme Court and
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the highest courts in Georgia
and New York on cutting-edge
business and tort reform issues. Based on the quality of
my practice and my integrity, I
have received, along with the
best lawyers in America, the
preeminent “AV” rating, and
have been listed as a Top-Rated
Lawyer in Corporate Counsel,
The National Law Journal and
The Bar Register of Preeminent
Lawyers.
Since 1978, I have taught
literally thousands of law
students in Georgia, New York
and North Carolina, in topics as
widely varying as constitutional
law, ethics, procedure, statutory
interpretation, commercial law,
labor and employment, sports
law, alternative dispute resolution, and trial and appellate
practice. I worked with the New
York State Bar Association and
other businesses and government agencies to define and
implement sexual harassment
policies. In 2000, I was honored
to receive the Kate Stoneman
Award, named for the first woman admitted to practice in New
York in 1886, recognizing me
for demonstrating the “commitment to actively seeking change
and expanding opportunities for
women.”
Since returning to my Georgia
home in 1999, I have supported
a number of civic organizations,
including Harmony Square,
Coastal Coalition for Children,
ACT, the Live Oak Society of the
St. Simons Land Trust, and the
Vi Fluentis Children’s Choir. I
am an active member of Christ
Church Frederica and sing in the
Adult Choir.
I care deeply about our community and its legal system,
and am proud of my record of
employing my legal skills and
experience to hold our government accountable. I brought
the federal lawsuit to prevent
the downtown expansion of the
Glynn County Detention Center,
and challenged Judge Amanda
Williams in the 2010 election. I
believe I am the candidate who
can bring about the necessary
changes to the Superior Court
of the Brunswick Judicial Circuit.
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8A PROCESS
8A The Brunswick News / Saturday, May 17, 2014
Local & World
Candidates: Main issues are
unemployment, development
Glynn County Commission
District 4
Name: Mary
C. Hunt (incumbent)
Party: Republican
Age: 40
Address: 172
Palmera Lane,
Brunswick
Marital status: Married,
two children
Occupational: Realtor and
Glynn County Commissioner
Education: Graduated from
Glynn Academy; attended what
is now known as the College
of Coastal Georgia; Graduate
Realtor Institute designation;
certified by the Association
of County Commissioners of
Georgia; graduate of the Certified Commissioners Advanced
Program.
Awards/Recognitions: YMCA
Tribute to Women Leaders
2013 recipient
Veteran? No
Clubs/Organizations: Golden
Isles Association of Realtors,
General County Government
Committee, Association of
County Commissioners of Georgia, The Chapel, Daughters of
the American Revolution.
Q. What do you think is the No.
1 issue facing Glynn County
and how would you approach
the issue if elected to the
board?
Hunt: While there are a number of significant issues currently facing Glynn County, including
economic development and
crime prevention, I believe
the most important issue that
needs to be addressed is
the limited accountability of
local appointed authorities,
commissions and committees that are funded by Glynn
County taxpayers. I believe
that stronger oversight and
the establishment of higher
productivity, communication,
and cooperation standards
for these entities will produce
marked improvements in terms
of economic development,
job growth and public safety.
Over the last year, I have been
instrumental in passing a key
ordinance designed to promote
the inclusion of new members
to these important bodies to
enhance creativity and function. The county has added
over hundreds of jobs to the
airport community as a result
of leadership changes and this
improved oversight.
Q. Under what condition would
you support another SPLOST
and do you see the need for
one now?
Hunt: Since being elected
I have been the only county
Commissioner that has been
consistently vocal of my opposition of big “wish list” SPLOSTs.
Currently I do not see the need
for another SPLOST until there
is a clear and concise plan to
implement one that is small in
size and limited to infrastructure items in scope.
Name: William F. (Bill)
Brunson Jr.
Party: Republican
Age: 67
Address: 77
Cedar Point
Road, Brunswick
Marital status:
Married, three children
Occupation: Retired
Education: Graduate, University
of Georgia
Awards/Recognitions: Former
Young Man of the Year
Veteran? USAF Pilot and Vietnam Veteran
Clubs/Organizations: Past
chairman Brunswick Port Authority; past chairman Mainland
Planning Commission; past
chairman Glynn County Airport
Commission; former vice chairman Chamber of Commerce;
deacon and Sunday school
teacher First Baptist Church,
Brunswick
Q. What do you think is the No.
1 issue facing Glynn County
and how would you approach
the issue if elected to the
board?
Brunson: The No. 1 issue
facing Glynn County is double
digit unemployment. To reduce
that number, the expansion
of our economic base and
the creation of new jobs must
happen. That can only be ac-
complished by a focused and
unified city and county government. As leaders we must take
advantage of and promote our
“tie-breakers” which include
our port, two airports, a four
year college, a career academy,
a technical college, our intermodal transportation system
and a world renowned vacation
destination. We also have a
valuable asset in the active and
retired CEO’s who as members
of our community are also
stakeholders in our future. We
should actively include their
representation in our economic
development efforts. We must
encourage our labor force to
take advantage of training
opportunities. A skilled and
educated workforce is critical
to job creation and industrial
development. The College of
Coastal Georgia, Career Academy and Altamaha Tech, in collaboration with the State Quick
Start program, can provide a
job force with education and
labor skills that are specific to
local needs. Local labor unions
also provide no-cost training for
specific skills. The combined
resources of our community
should sponsor an annual job
summit in collaboration with
the Georgia Department of
Economic Development which
provides insights for economic
development opportunities from
a state, national and global
perspective. It would also offer
Glynn County the opportunity
to showcase our local assets
to our state economic development partners.
Q. Under what condition would
you support another SPLOST
and do you see the need for
one now?
Brunson: SPLOST, in principle, is a good concept. It
allows tourist and visitors in
Glynn County to participate in
funding infrastructure improvements through their purchases.
However, SPLOST cannot be
a crutch to supplement items
which should be included in the
budget of the county. I would
support another SPLOST only
with strict limitations. It would
need to be limited to a short
time period and specific to a
critical infrastructure need.
effort to banish the pro-Russia
militants from Mariupol, the Donetsk region’s second-largest city
and the site of bloody clashes last
week between Ukrainian troops
and the insurgents.
About 75 miles to the north,
armed backers of Ukrainian unity dressed in black seized control
of a police station in a village just
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The moves, which began Thursday in Mariupol and the village
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to the separatists who have seized
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this city and a dozen others in the
east.
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whether they will be perceived
as liberators or attackers acting
on behalf of a little-liked government in Kiev. The latter could
precipitate civil conﬂict.
Government forces have in recent weeks achieved only limited
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for their regions following contentious referendums. Polls have
shown, however, that a majority of eastern Ukrainians support
unity, though most are too fearful
of the pro-Russian militias to say
so publicly.
That has handed the initiative
to expel the insurgents to forces
acting independently of authorities in the capital, Kiev.
In Mariupol, billionaire Rinat
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group organized citizen patrols of
steelworkers working alongside
police to help improve security
and get insurgents to vacate the
buildings they had seized.
Unrest still rampant in Ukraine ﬁght
By YURAS KARMANAU
and PETER LEONARD
Associated Press
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Steelworkers from plants owned
by Ukraine’s richest man retook
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outside the Mariupol city hall on
Friday, scoring early successes
against the pro-Russian forces,
but threatening to open a new and
dangerously unpredictable cycle
of confrontation.
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12A The Brunswick News / Monday, May 19, 2014
Local, Nation & World
House candidates agree job creation is a main issue in Ga.
State House 167
Name: J.B.
“Jeff” Jones
Party: Republican
Age: 60
Address:
1001 Sea
Palms West
Drive, St. Simons Island
Marital status: Married 25 years to Lisa,
one child, son Brant, graduating
this year from Glynn Academy.
Occupation: President/General
Manager of Express Lubes of
SE GA, Inc., doing business as
Express Lube & Car Wash, a
highly successful small business Jeff & Lisa started from
scratch in 1994.
Education: 1972-73 attended
University of Texas, Austin,
Texas, studying Business Administration; 1986 Production/
Inventory Control Management
certification, Vanderbilt University
Awards/Recognitions: Hamer
(founders) Award, Safe Harbor
Children Center, United Way
“Loaned Executive”, United Way
of Glynn County, Certificate
of Appreciation, Fellowship of
Christian Athletes
Veteran? No
Clubs/Organizations: St.
Simons Community Church;
Dave Ramsey “Financial Peace
University” advisor; St. Simons
Christian School; Glynn County
Republican Party Chairman;
Sea Palms West Community
Association, board chair; Safe
Harbor Children’s Center, former Board Chair
Q. What do you think are the
top three issues facing the
state today, and how would
you approach the issues if
elected to the state House?
Jones: 1. Jobs and the
economy: Georgia’s unemployment rate is the highest of
any Southeastern state; Glynn
County’s unemployment rate is
approaching 9½ percent. Glynn,
McIntosh and Long counties,
and Georgia, can and will do
better. But government does
not create jobs; the private sector does. As your next District
167 State Representative, I
will seek ways to eliminate or
reduce government obstacles
that restrict private sector job
growth. I supported the Aircraft
Parts (sales tax exemption)
Bill originally passed in 2013
and made permanent in 2014.
This law helped Gulfstream and
Stambaugh Aviation grow their
businesses and create jobs.
The average aerospace worker
in Georgia makes approximately
$65,000 a year. This is the kind
of job growth effort I will work
hard to advance as your next
state representative. We have
an economic engine sitting on
idle. It’s time to rev up that
engine.
2. Overly burdensome taxes:
State income, auto and hospital
bed taxes are too high. I will
work to reduce these taxes
and Georgia’s income tax with
the goal of completely eliminating our state income tax, like
Florida, Tennessee and Texas,
whose economies are performing better than Georgia’s.
Georgia should implement the
Fair Tax, a consumption tax system that encourages hard work
and savings. Fair Tax has the
additional advantage of taxing
Georgia’s huge “underground”
economy – people who pay little
or no income taxes because
they’re paid cash. The Fair Tax
will return billions of dollars
to the pockets of hard working citizens of Georgia which
will stimulate our economy. I
personally worked to defeat the
2012 T-SPLOST which would
have taken money out of Southeast Georgia and transferred
it to DOT projects elsewhere in
the state. I personally worked to
defeat the 2013 one-mil school
property-tax increase that ultimately passed. These are the
kinds of tax reduction efforts I
will fight for as your next state
representative.
Associated Press
By DESMOND BUTLER
ISTANBUL — In the face of
widespread anger over Turkey’s
worst mining disaster, prosecutors arrested three people, including a company manager, on
charges of negligence Sunday.
The three were also accused
of causing the death of more
than one person, a charge that
doesn’t imply intent, prosecutor Bekir Sahiner said at a news
conference in the western town
of Soma, where 301 coal miners
were killed in Tuesday’s tragedy.
The arrests follow allegations
by miners that the company
failed to heed safety concerns
and that government inspections
had been superﬁcial. The disaster has provoked anger at a critical time for Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, as he mulls
running in August’s presidential
election.
A total of 25 people were initially detained for questioning
and six were later released, Sahiner said. Prosecutors will now
decide whether to charge or release the remaining 16 people in
custody.
Sahiner said one of those arrested was the company’s operations manager. The manager
is Akin Celik, though Sahiner
didn’t identify him by name.
The charges can lead to sentences of between three and 15
years in prison, according to the
Turkish penal code.
Other company executives
were among the detained as
Turkish ofﬁcials investigate the
mining disaster. Sahiner said
they included the mine’s technical supervisor, its head of operations, it safety manager, duty
managers and a high ranking
company executive. The Dogan
news agency reported earlier
that Ramazan Dogru, general
manager of the mine owned by
Soma Holding was detained.
Government and company ofﬁcials have insisted that the mine
Name: Tony
Thaw
Party: Republican
Age: 57
Address: 403
West St.,
Darien
Marital status: Engaged,
two boys
Occupation: Electrical contractor
Education: Master Certified
Electrician
Awards/Recognitions: Honorary Degree (Altamaha Technical
College); Southern King Fish Association Angler of the year and
two-time national champion,
2005 Commissioner of the year
by Glynn County Republican
Party.
Veteran? No
Clubs/organizations: Wesley
United Methodist, Cowboy
Church in Darien, Two Way
Sport Fishing Club, former
board member of Golden Isles
Career Academy, McIntosh
Chamber of Commerce, Golden
Isles Chamber of Commerce
Q. What do you think are the
top three issues facing the
state today, and how would
you approach the issues if
elected to the state House?
Thaw: 1. Education: Fight
Common Core and federal
unfunded mandates that hinder
our teachers’ ability to teach
their students in a way that’s
best for them. I will support
other communities who seek to
open their own Career Academy and use the Golden Isles
Career Academy as the flagship
example. I will work to fund all
school systems and colleges
throughout District 167 to the
best of our ability.
2. Job Creation and Economic
Development: Many of the community’s goals can be achieved
by starting with education.
Creating a strong educational
system will bring a strong workforce. With a strong workforce,
you attract businesses and
tourism opportunities, decrease
crime, and you are able to create more enrichment opportunities for all our citizens.
3, Infrastructure: Georgia is
one of the top states in the
country for logistics, but you’d
never know it based on its
infrastructure, according to the
state’s civil engineers, whose
recently released report gives
Georgia’s roads, rail, ports,
bridges and other infrastructure an overall grade of C,
unchanged from the group’s
report five years ago. From the
Atlanta airport to the Port of
Brunswick, Georgia is a major
player in the global economy.
This report card shows that our
connections to that economy
are hurt too often by underfund-
ing and increasing congestion.
The engineers found the bulk of
GPA’s facilities, infrastructure
and maintenance programs exceeded the evaluation criteria,
also noting that the port has
undertaken a number of projects in recent years to improve
cargo-handling capabilities,
operations and maintenance
for the eventual servicing of
Post-Panamax vessels. But a
lack of parallel state and federal investment in intermodal
AP
Several hundred members of
the Union of Turkish Youth wear
miner’s helmets during a march
on Sunday to commemorate
the Soma coal mine victims, in
Amasya, Turkey.
was inspected regularly and negligence wasn’t a factor in the explosion and ﬁre at the mine. But
reacting to anger and sympathy
for the miners, government ofﬁcials promised to investigate and
pledged that any mine ofﬁcials
found to be negligent would be
punished.
But anger has been mounting
in Turkey, leading to protests
and clashes in several cities.
About 2,000 people, who were
angry at perceived insensitivity
on how the disaster and its aftermath were handled by Erdogan
and his government, marched in
Istanbul chanting “Damn AKP’s
dictatorship!” referring to the
ruling Justice and Development
Party, known by its Turkish initials AKP.
Previous protests in Soma and
other cities have turned violent
as police have used tear gas and
water cannons to disperse rockthrowing protesters urging Erdogan’s government to resign.
DALLAS — AT&T Inc. on
Sunday agreed to buy satellite TV
provider DirecTV for $48.5 billion, or $95 per share, a move that
gives telecommunications company a larger base of video subscribers and increases its ability to
compete against rivals.
AT&T currently offers a highspeed Internet plan in a bundle
with DirecTV television service.
The acquisition would help it further reap the beneﬁts of that alliance. AT&T could also use the
deal to improve its Internet service
by pushing its existing U-verse TV
subscribers into DirecTV’s videoover-satellite service, freeing up
bandwidth on its telecommunications network.
“This is a unique opportunity
that will redeﬁne the video entertainment industry and create a
company able to offer new bundles
and deliver content to consumers
across multiple screens - mobile
devices, TVs, laptops, cars and
even airplanes,” AT&T’s Chairman and CEO Randall Stephenson said in a statement.
With 5.7 million U-verse TV
customers and 20.3 million DirecTV customers in the U.S., the
combined AT&T-DirecTV would
serve 26 million. That would make
it the second-largest pay TV operator behind a combined ComcastTime Warner Cable, which would
serve 30 million under a $45 billion merger proposed in February.
AT&T and DirecTV expect the
deal to close within 12 months.
Under the terms agreed to Sunday,
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and job creation. I will work with
the U.S. Congress to pass a reauthorized multi-year transportation bill that targets federal
dollars toward economically
strategic freight transportation
infrastructure of national and
regional significance. This is
particularly acute for the southeastern United States, which
will become one of the major
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Panama Canal is completed.
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3. Growing federal government intrusion into our state: I
believe in pushing government
down to the lowest level that
makes sense. The federal
government believes just the
opposite. For example, we must
allow local school systems to
run local education programs
– not the Feds. We don’t want
Georgia’s public education
to look like California’s. The
federal government’s “Common
Core” education standards
and curriculum are a classic
example of federal over-reach.
Sen. William Ligon tried but
unfortunately failed to stop
Common Core in 2014. When
elected, I will work with Sen.
Ligon and others to stop Common Core in Georgia. I support the Healthcare Freedom
Act, sponsored by Rep. Jason
Spencer, Camden County, and
recently signed into law by Gov.
Deal, which establishes that no
Georgia governmental department will use money or human
resources to advance the expansion of the Affordable Care
Act, aka “Obamacare.” I will
work to introduce, support and
pass legislation that pushes
back on Federal intrusion into
the lives of Georgia’s citizens.
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DirecTV shareholders will receive $28.50 per share in cash and
$66.50 per share in AT&T stock.
The total transaction value is $67.1
billion, including DirecTV’s net
debt.
The deal could face tough scrutiny from the Federal Communications Commission and antitrust
regulators at the Department of
Justice.
Unlike Comcast Corp. and Time
Warner Cable — which don’t
compete in the same territory —
AT&T’s U-verse, offered in 22
states, competes directly for TV
customers with DirecTV, which is
available nationwide.
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