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Coastal Georgia Golf League - FINAL Results

Sunday, September 20th, 2009

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“Prudential Georgia Intracoastal Properties
2009 Coastal Georgia Golf League Champions
PLACE Week # 13 Results — Sept. 19
1 Prudential Georgia Intracoastal Properties 60
2 Gulfstream 61
3 Emerald Princess II Casino 61
4 Longhorns 61
5 Jekyll Island Authority 61
6 Ingalls Inc.** 62
7 Suzie’s Friends 63
8 Allgood Pest Control 64
9 Scientific Turf 64
Year - To - Date Standings Week #12 Week #13 Total
1 Prudential Georgia Intracoastal Properties 150 150 1815
2 Gulfstream 135 128.75 1733.25
3 Longhorns 122.5 128.75 1640.75
4 Jekyll Island Authority 112.5 128.75 1583.75
5 Emerald Princess II Casino 122.5 128.75 1558.75
6 Ingalls Inc. 135 115 1499.7
7 Suzie’s Friends 112.5 110 1482.5
8 Scientific Turf 102.5 102.5 1446.2
9 Allgood Pest Control 102.5 102.5 1312.7
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Coastal Georgia Golf League - Week #12

Monday, September 14th, 2009

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PLACE Week # 12 Results — Sept. 12
1 Prudential Georgia Intracoastal Properties 59
2 Ingalls Inc. 60
3 Gulfstream 60
4 Emerald Princess II Casino 61
5 Longhorns 61
6 Jekyll Island Authority 62
7 Suzie’s Friends 62
8 Allgood Pest Control 63
9 Scientific Turf 63
Year - To - Date Standings Week #11 Week #12 Total
1 Prudential Georgia Intracoastal Properties 130 150 1665
2 Gulfstream 140 135 1604.5
3 Longhorns 117.5 122.5 1512
4 Jekyll Island Authority 117.5 112.5 1455
5 Emerald Princess II Casino 125 122.5 1430
6 Ingalls Inc. 150 135 1384.7
7 Suzie’s Friends 110 112.5 1372.5
8 Scientific Turf 102.5 102.5 1343.7
9 Allgood Pest Control 102.5 102.5 1210.2
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Coastal Georgia Golf League Week #6

Saturday, August 1st, 2009

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PLACE Week # 6 Results — Aug. 1
1 Scientific Turf 59
2 Gulfstream 59
3 Prudential Georgia Intracoastal Properties 60
4 Ingalls Inc. 60
5 Jekyll Island Authority 71
6 Longhorns 71
7 Emerald Princess II Casino 71
8 Suzie’s Friends 72
9 Allgood Pest Control 72
Year - To - Date Standings Week #5 Week #6 Total
1 Prudential Georgia Intracoastal Properties 150 127.5 822.5
2 Gulfstream 130 140 800
3 Longhorns 110 115 790
4 Emerald Princess II Casino 110 115 710
5 Jekyll Island Authority 125 115 705
6 Scientific Turf 140 150 686.2
7 Suzie’s Friends 110 102.5 670
8 Sanctuary Cove GC 140 90 647.5
9 Ingalls Inc. 94 127.5 630.2
10 Allstate Insurance (Rob Dunagan Agency) 120 90 626.2
11 Coastal Regional Commission 94 90 610.2
12 Dan Vaden Chevrolet 94 90 610.2
13 Allgood Pest Control 94 102.5 592.7
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Coastal Georgia Business League - Week #1

Monday, June 29th, 2009

Year - To - Date Standings Week #1 Week #2 Total
1 Longhorns 150 150
2 Gulfstream 140 140
3 Dan Vaden Chevrolet 130 130
4 Prundential Georgia Intracoastal Properties 125 125
5 Suzie’s Friends 117.5 117.5
6 Emerald Princess II Casino 117.5 117.5
7 Jekyll Island Authority 110 110
8 King & Prince Seafood 100 100
9 Sanctuary Cove Golf Club 100 100
10 Summer Waves Water Park 100 100
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Jekyll Island Welcomes Back Rotary!

Thursday, April 2nd, 2009

wh-2s-u-ol_fmtThe mission of Rotary International, a worldwide association of Rotary clubs, is to provide service to others, to promote high ethical standards, and to advance world understanding, goodwill, and peace through its fellowship of business, professional, and community leaders.

The Object of Rotary is to encourage and foster the ideal of service as a basis of worthy enterprise and, in particular, to encourage and foster:

* FIRST. The development of acquaintance as an opportunity for service;

* SECOND. High ethical standards in business and professions, the recognition of the worthiness of all useful occupations, and the dignifying of each Rotarian’s occupation as an opportunity to serve society;

* THIRD. The application of the ideal of service in each Rotarian’s personal, business, and community life;

* FOURTH. The advancement of international understanding, goodwill, and peace through a world fellowship of business and professional persons united in the ideal of service.

Based on the Object of Rotary, the Avenues of Service are Rotary’s philosophical cornerstone and the foundation on which club activity is based:

* Club Service focuses on strengthening fellowship and ensuring the effective functioning of the club.

* Vocational Service encourages Rotarians to serve others through their vocations and to practice high ethical standards.

* Community Service covers the projects and activities the club undertakes to improve life in its community.

* International Service encompasses actions taken to expand Rotary’s humanitarian reach around the globe and to promote world understanding and peace.
“We are one of 3 districts in the state of Georgia and cover an area from just north of Atlanta all the way down the western side of the state to the Florida line. We have 71 outstanding clubs with nearly 5,000 Rotarians who are making a difference in their communities, locally and around the world. From supporting local food pantries and school libraries to building hospitals and schools in the Caribbean and South America to providing life-saving polio vaccine to millions of children in India, the Rotarians of D6900 are Making Dreams Real for those who are less fortunate or struggling in today’s tough economic climate. Led by our District Governor Ted Propes, the Rotarians of D6900 will return to beautiful Jekyll Island in April to celebrate another successful Rotary year. When we do, we will be rekindling a tradition of meeting on Georgia’s Jewel that goes back more than 50 years. After being away for five years, D6900 Rotarians AND their families can’t wait to ‘come home’ again for a Rotary Roundup.”— Lauri Young, Rotary District 6900 Rotarian

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Saving the Old Growth

Wednesday, April 1st, 2009

By Andrea Marroquin
 
 
corneliusbliss_cmyk_fmtJekyll Island Club Member Cornelius Newton Bliss, one of the biggest dry goods merchants of New York, was frequently nominated for public office and just as frequently declined the honor, refusing opportunities to be elected governor and mayor of New York and even turning down the opportunity to be President McKinley’s running mate in the 1900 national elections before Theodore Roosevelt accepted the nomination.
 
 
Like Theodore Roosevelt, Cornelius Bliss was a proponent of preserving America’s public lands. Perhaps for this reason, Bliss, famous for refusing public office, did accept the position of 21st United States Secretary of the Interior in President McKinley’s cabinet from March 6, 1897 to February 19, 1899. In this capacity, Bliss focused his attentions, in part, on forest preservation.
“The preservation of public forests. . . is a matter of vital interest to the entire nation,” Bliss proclaimed in November of 1897, in those days before the birth of the United States Forest Service. In his care were an estimated 1,835,017,692 acres of public lands including 19 Forest Reserves which encompassed almost 19 million acres. Bliss reported to the President regarding the need for “adequate laws for their protection and the proper enforcement thereof, coupled with the inauguration of a comprehensive forest system.”
 
 
“It was my intention originally to establish a forest bureau in this department, but the inadequacy of the appropriation for the work precluded my carrying into effect such [a] plan,” Bliss lamented.
 
 
lanierroad_cmyk_fmtBliss had a relatively modest proposal for a beginning Forest Bureau, which he described as a trained corps of 50-60 professional forest agents, supervisors, patrolmen, and assistants to patrol the reserves and enforce regulations. While he was unable to establish a Forest Bureau during his tenure in office owing to a lack of funds, he did go a long way towards establishing a vision for preserving the nation’s forest resources. He spoke of the benefits of such a plan to preserve timber, prevent forest fires, and save the country’s forests for future generations.
 
 
Perhaps his greatest legacy as Secretary of the Interior was made through his hiring of Gifford Pinchot, who was related to Jekyll Island Club Member Amos F. Eno. In 1898, Bliss chose Pinchot as Chief of the Division of Forestry to design an organization to manage the nation’s forests. Pinchot was the nation’s first native professional forester. Under Pinchot, the Bureau of Forestry eventually became known as the United States Forest Service.
 
 
Pinchot advocated the conservation of the nation’s Forest Reserves by planned use and renewal and coined the term “conservation ethic” as it applied to natural resources. It was Pinchot who established the mission of the U.S Forest Service “to provide the greatest amount of good for the greatest amount of people in the long run.” He would run the U.S. Forest Service until 1910.
 
 
Today, the United States possesses a system of 155 National Forests, scientifically managed for multiple uses, including recreation, timber, wilderness, minerals, water, grazing, fishing, and wildlife management. Thanks in part to the enthusiasm, planning, and vision of predecessors such as Cornelius Newton Bliss and Gifford Pinchot, the Forest Service recently celebrated its 100th Anniversary. It is now launching into a new century of service in the United States.
 
 
An active Jekyll Island Club Member, Bliss served on the Executive Committee overseeing Jekyll Island’s management for at least 17 years, from 1892 to 1909, and owned a private flat in the Jekyll Island Clubhouse Annex. Bliss also helped raise funds to build the Jekyll Island Club Stables, purchasing Stall Number Two.
 
 
The historic Club Stables, located on Stable Road, is now the home of the Jekyll Island Museum. It contains exhibits and a Museum Store and is the gateway for daily tours of Jekyll Island’s 240-acre National Historic Landmark District. Call or visit the Jekyll Island Museum at (912) 635-4036 for more information about its many famous Jekyll Island Club Members and its daily tours of Jekyll Island’s historic district.

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We Just Got Back: Jekyll Island Edition!

Monday, August 25th, 2008

The popular family travel website, wejustgotback.com, recently featured a new tip sheet on Jekyll Island and the historic Jekyll Island Club Hotel! Correspondent Nadine Burke, her husband, and three young children stay at the Jekyll Island Club Hotel and described it as “relaxing, comfortable and somewhat luxurious, but not pretentious.”

The Burkes loved that Jekyll Island offers tradition resort activities like tennis and golf, but at wallet-pleasing prices. They were also delighted with the children-friendly amenities like Summer Waves Water Park, bike rentals and trails, and the Georgia Sea Turtle Center. Thanks to Nadine, Tom, Tommy, Sophia, and Isabel, and to We Just Got Back for giving Jekyll Island an A rating!

Read all about the Nadines’ trip!

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August Georgia Sea Turtle Center Update

Thursday, July 31st, 2008

Early Risers Can Enjoy Hatchling Walks

These tours offer a look at the sea turtle conservation efforts and research programs on Jekyll Island. Early morning risers will explore barrier island ecology while visiting the island’s active turtle nests. The tours include opportunities to assist with data recording and to witness a nest excavation of a hatched nest!
Walks will be conducted on Sunday, Wednesday and Saturday throughout August, and September (Walks after mid-September are tentative based on hatching and may be cancelled). Time varies between 7am-10am, depending on the tide. Location will also vary depending on which nest has hatched and is ready to be excavated.
Participants will be asked to meet at the designated site 15-30 minutes prior to the walk to check-in (you will receive a phone call a couple of days before your walk with directions to the site) and gather as a group with the Walk Guide to begin the walk on time. The walk will consist of a 30-minute beach ecology walk/talk leading up to an active nest that has been hatching on its own for a minimum of 5 days. The group will be met by the Turtle Patrol Interns who will conduct the post-hatching excavation on the nest. Group size is limited in order to maximize the experience for participants and in compliance with Georgia Department of Natural Resources permit restrictions.

Cost is $10 adults (ages 13+), $5 children (12 and under). Price does not include general admission to the Georgia Sea Turtle Center)
*Children under the age of 18 must be accompanied by an adult.
For more information, visit www.georgiaseaturtlecenter.org or call the Georgia Sea Turtle at 912-635-4444.

Arribada Adventures

Looking for something fun and educational to do as a family this summer? Come join us for Arribada Adventures at the Georgia Sea Turtle Center! While sea turtle biologists typically use the term “arribada” to describe the mass nesting of hundreds of thousands of sea turtles, the Georgia Sea Turtle Center Education Team is using it to introduce our new summer programs! Arribada Adventures is geared toward families and has been designed for turtle enthusiasts both young and old! These two hour programs will introduce you and your little hatchlings to Georgia’s turtles! Become an expert Turtler through hands-on activities, games, crafts, and outdoor exploration. Space is limited and reservations are required. For registration and location information, please call 912-635-4444.

Cost: $10/adult, $5/child*. Saturdays 9:00am -11:00am
*Please note that price does not include general admission to the Center.
August 2: Lend ‘em a Flipper
Learn how YOU too can help our fine, flippered friends by participating in a beach sweep and creating
recycled sea turtle art.
August 9: Giving Sea Turtles a Chance
Come learn what the Georgia Sea Turtle Center is doing to help sea turtles. Participate in a mock sea turtle rescue and learn what we do to rehabilitate a turtle!

Education and Conservation

Georgia Sea Turtle Center Educators Alicia Marin and Sarah Mathias had the opportunity to attend and present at the National Marine Educators Association Conference, One World, One Water held in Savannah this year. Sarah presented “Swim into Learning with Sea Turtles,” an update on the Georgia Sea Turtle Center and the education programs we offer children. Alicia presented her Masters Thesis, “Sun, Sand and Sea Turtle: Educating Caribbean Youth through Nonformal Environmental Education.”
The Georgia Sea Turtle Center Education Department is proud to announce that during their first year of operation, approximately 4500 children from 78 individual schools! With that in mind we greatly look forward to the upcoming school year and encourage teachers to bring their students to the Georgia Sea Turtle Center for a visit.
If you are an educator interested in arranging a trip and lesson at the Georgia Sea Turtle Center, contact the Center at 912-635-4444.

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BIRD LIST for JEKYLL ISLAND, GEORGIA AUDUBON IMPORTANT BIRDING AREA

Wednesday, June 11th, 2008

This list is for the week starting with Friday May 30 thru Thursday June 5, 2008

76 Species reported.

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