“They gave everyone two hours to change voicemail, clean up and secure the buildings,” Amy Ochoa, a ranger at Savannah National Wildlife Refuge.
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The square roots of gratitude
After observing the custom of giving daily thanks throughout November via Facebook, she wanted to create an opportunity to be thankful in person as well as cultivate appreciation of some of the city’s most glorious spaces.
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Bearing the torch for ‘Thanksgivukkah’
From the 1970s to the 1990s, the first night of Chanukah in Savannah meant the Maccabee Torch Relay, a coordinated effort by members of all three of the city’s synagogues.
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Handmade happiness
“After the show came down, a lot of the moms around here at the Y wanted to learn how to make quilts,” she says. “So we started having these weekly get-togethers.”
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Planting the future
These vacant lots had been deemed uninhabitable by FEMA, and the city and STF have partnered to beautify these “disaster sites.”
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Art for vets’ sake
“A lot of the time I’ll be sitting around the house, thinking about the war and stuff. And because of all of that I mostly keep to the house. So when I get in a mood I’ll get out my paintbrush.”
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Vets & PTSD: Healing war’s hidden scars
Savannah joins San Diego, Ann Arbor and Boston as a point where vets can help doctors develop future protocol for PTSD.
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Food for the table…and for thought
Convincing people to exercise more and eat their vegetables will take a cultural shift, and they and other activists believe incorporating social equality into that shift is part of the equation.
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Friends by Fire
“He jumped on me like a spider monkey,” recalls Statts. “He grabbed me and pulled me down … and pressed the gun in my neck. I just instinctively put my hand up, and touched the barrel. And he thought I was going to fight him.”
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Airbnb: Share a room, save the world?
In our Citizens United-flavored dystopia, the only person looking out for what’s left of the middle class as it continues to die a miserable death might be the paying guest lodged in your spare bedroom.
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Savannah’s sustainability headquarters
Some of the cut timber could end up as a fence or paneling for a kitchen remodel across town; other chunks may find their way across the room to Southern Pine Co.’s furniture building studio. One thing is for sure, however: Every piece of wood stacked inside this building originally started out as something else.
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Victims finding closure
Several hundred people traveled from near and far for Victims Visitors’ Day, a day-long program that gives victims of violent crime and their families an opportunity to discuss the parole status of the offenders that have irrevocably affected their lives.