Savannah Lexicon – Guest list for June

6/20     First City Network – Michael Ploski & Rich Walczak – Savannah Pride. June is LGBT Pride Month and the new Savannah LGBT Center is officially established and offers a new safe haven for the namesake community

6/22     Eastside Concerned Citizens – Freddie Patrick, Exec. Dir. The neighborhood assoc. is a consortium of three neighborhoods – Eastside, Benjamin van Clark and Live Oak. Discussion about most prominent issues of concern for residents in these neighborhoods

6/27     Thomas Square Historic District/Starland – Jason Combs & Clinton Edminster. Discussion about most prominent issues of concern for residents in these neighborhoods.

6/29     Savannah Citizen Advocacy – Tom Kohler. The mission of the Savannah Citizen Advocacy org. is “to promote personal relationships between two people where one is a person excluded from community life because of prejudice toward disability and the other is a person living a good, ordinary life in our community.” Just how does that work? And what other organizations and activities is Tom Kohler involved with?

7/4       Happy Independence Day! What better way to spend the morning of the Fourth, before all the celebration begins, than to hear a talk about the historical events and cultural elements that pushed the nascent American colonists to collectively and officially declare their Independence from Great Britain with Dr. Christopher Hendricks, colonial and revolutionary America scholar and Interim Head of the History Dept. at Armstrong State University. There are reasons for all the fireworks, music and balloons, y’all.

7/6       City Alderman District 3 John Hall. Discussion of issues of most importance to residents of this Eastside district