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Michael Neugebauer/ Contributed PhotoWorld-renowned primatologist, conservationist and humanitarian Dr. Jane Goodall plans to share stories of her work with chimpanzees.

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Young Harris College will wel-come Jane Goodall, Ph.D., DBE, founder of the Jane Goodall In-stitute ( JGI) and UN Messenger

of Peace, to campus on !ursday, Feb. 18.2010 marks a monumental milestone for

Dr. Goodall and JGI. Fifty years ago, Good-all, who is today a world-renowned prima-tologist, conservationist and humanitarian, first set foot on the shores of Lake Tang-

anyika, in what is now Tanzania’s Gombe National Park. !e chimpanzee behavioral research she pioneered there has produced

a wealth of scientific discovery, and her vi-sion has expanded into a global mission to empower people to make a di"erence for all living things.

Dr. Goodall’s evening lecture, titled “Gombe 50: Celebrating Dr. Jane Good-all’s Extraordinary Legacy,” will include fascinating stories about her groundbreak-ing work with chimpanzees. In addition, she will discuss information about the

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and campers attend this annual event to celebrate the great outdoors, learn about the Appalachian Trail, listen to AT hik-ers share their experiences, and discover what it takes to make the 5-million step journey across 14 states. !ere is no registration required… just come to Amicalola Falls State Park March 6-7, 2010, and seize the opportunity!

Saturday – Authors Gene Espy (!e Trail of My Life), David Miller (AWOL on the AT & 2010 North-bound - !e A.T. Guide), J.R. Tate (Walkin’ on the Happy Side of Misery & Walkin’ with the Ghost Whisperers), and Bill Walker (Skywalker) will do their presentations on Saturday, March 6, 2010, joined by !e Georgia Appala-chian Trail Club, the Benton McKaye Trail Association, the Appalachian Trail Conservancy and Dane and Connie Ward, a husband and wife thru-hiking team. With an hour break for lunch at noon, and a dinner break at 6:00 p.m., programs will be presented every hour from 9 a.m. until 8 p.m.

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JGI’s innovative community-centered conservation projects in Africa and its global environmental and humanitarian youth program, Jane Goodall’s Roots & Shoots. Roots & Shoots engages young people from preschool through col-lege as they take positive action in their communities and beyond. Young Harris College currently has its own student-led Roots & Shoots program on cam-pus.

Dr. Goodall’s lecture will begin at 7 p.m. in Glenn Auditorium of the Clegg Fine Arts Building on the Young Har-ris College campus. A limited number of tickets will be available to the public. Tickets for the general public are $10 (reserved seating) and are on sale now at www.yhc.edu/tickets. Tickets will be available by phone at (706) 379-4307 or in person at the Young Harris College Box O#ce beginning Monday, Feb. 8. Box o#ce hours are Monday-Friday, 3-5 p.m.

A book signing will follow the lecture in the auditorium lobby. Dr. Goodall’s books, as well as JGI merchandise and memberships, will be available for pur-chase at the book signing.

In July 1960, Jane Goodall began her landmark study of chimpanzees in what is now Tanzania under the men-torship of famed anthropologist and paleontologist Dr. Louis Leakey. Her work at Gombe Stream would become the foundation of future primatological research and redefine the relationship between humans and animals.

In 1977, Dr. Goodall established the Jane Goodall Institute ( JGI), which continues the Gombe research and is a global leader in the e"ort to protect chimpanzees and their habitats. Today, the Institute is widely recognized for establishing innovative, community-centered conservation and development programs in Africa, and Jane Goodall’s

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Mountain, folk, bluegrass and old-time country music will be fea-tured in a concert by Buck and Nel-son at 7:30 p.m. Friday, February 12 at the John C. Campbell Folk School in Brasstown. Admission is free. Donations are welcome.

David “Buck” Buchanan and Nelson !omas have been perform-ing together for more than 20 years at concerts, barbecues, folk societ-ies, co"ee houses, state parks, polit-ical rallies and festivals.. For several seasons they were also featured as musicians and actors in !e Reach of Song, Georgia’s o#cial historical drama.

David Buchanan sings and plays guitar, mandolin, fiddle, and old time clawhammer banjo,. He lives near Baldwin, Georgia with his

wife and two daughters. Nelson !omas performs on guitar, blue-grass banjo, harmonica, jaw harp, washboard, spoons and more. He also sings, tells stories and lives in Blairsville, Georgia with his wife and three children. Buchanan and !omas feature old time mountain, bluegrass and country music along with a goodly dose of jokes and sto-ries.

Upcoming Folk School concerts include !e Rosin Sisters (Feb. 26) and Jerry and Paul Wilson (March 5). !e Folk School concert sched-ule is available on the world wide web at: http://www.folkschool.org. For further information call the Folk School at 1-800-FOLK-SCH or 837-2775.

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If you think the idea of the make over is modern, you are sadly mis-taken. Although it has become popular in recent years on television and other locations, the idea goes back to the days of Greek mytholo-gy. Pygmalion, the King of Cyprus, either hires a sculpture or does the work himself creating an image of a beautiful woman. According to the stories she is supposed to be his idea of the perfect female. After Pygmalion prays to Aphrodite, the statute comes to life.

!is story has been retold a number of times including a tale by Shakespeare in A Winter’s Tale. About 1912 George Bernard Shaw, an Irish playwright, retold the story in a stage play. !e play was pro-duced a number of times in di"er-ent places. Finally, producers began to make movies based on his play. In 1938 Leslie Howard made a

movie called Pygmalion based on Shaw’s stage play with additional material by the playwright.

In 1956 the play was brought to the stage as a musical and eight years later Warner Brothers brought it to the screen as the delightful My Fair Lady (1964). A number of actors had done the roles on Broadway including Rex Harrison who would reprise his role as Henry Higgins in the movie.

Shaw’s version tells the story of a Cockney girl, Eliza (Audrey Hep-burn), who meets Professor Henry Higgins while selling flowers to people waiting for a taxi after at-tending the opera. When Eliza learns that Higgins is taking down everything she says, she becomes terribly upset raising a row with him.

But later she visits him want-ing him to teach her to speak like a lady so she can work in a flower shop instead of selling flowers on the street.

Egged on by his new acquain-tance, Col. Pickering (Alfred Hyde White), Higgins accepts the chal-lenge of turning Eliza into a lady by transforming her speech. !e conflict between Higgins and Eliza is delightfully done with musical interludes expressing each other’s feelings. Finally Eliza is tried out in polite society where she makes a hit when she falls into her Cockney accent.

Higgins is triumphant when he succeeds in passing Eliza o" as a Romanian countess at a royal ball.

But Eliza is crestfallen when she realizes that she no longer fits into her old society. Angry with Higgins she makes plans to exclude him from her life. But the story ends with the suggestion that they get together again.

!e show contains many delight-ful songs--some of them performed by Alfred Doolittle (Stanley Hol-loway), Eliza’s father. His two songs are among my favorites, With a Little Bit of Luck and Get Me to the Church on Time.

Today we give a reel memories salute to the cast and crew of My Fair Lady.

William V. Reynolds is the author of “Murder in the Okefenokee” avail-able at McCaysville Public Market and Pat’s Country Kitchen in Mc-Caysville; Parris Pharmacy, !e Book Nook and Ingles in Blue Ridge; Book Nook in Blairsville; and Phillips and Lloyd in Hayesville.

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Friday Master Class Workshops are returning to the Bear on the Square Mountain Festival in Dahlonega, Ga., on April 16, 2010. !ese in depth, two-hour long music workshops will include some of the music in-dustry‘s top bluegrass and old-time musicians and instructors and are designed to be practical and very hands on.

!e SouthEastern Bluegrass Association (SEBA) Education Committee has signed on as sponsor of the Master Class Workshops.

!e instructors include the Nashville-based Da-vid Peterson and the 1946 Band, which includes Da-vid Peterson (Vocals), Mike Compton Intermediate/Advanced Mandolin), Charlie Cushman (Bluegrass Banjo), Johnny Warren (Bluegrass Fiddle), and Ron Shu#er (Upright Bass). In addition, there will be old-time music greats Beverly Smith (Old-Time Fiddle) and Carl Jones (Clawhammer Banjo). Rounding out the list of instructors will be guitar wizard Curtis Jones (Intermediate/Advanced Guitar) and the national teaching team of Jim Pittman (Beginning/Intermedi-ate Guitar) and Patsy Kline (Beginning/Intermediate Mandolin).

A total of 20 di"erent Friday workshops are avail-able to choose from, and these will be held on campus in a classroom setting in partnership with the Friends of Music at North Georgia College & State Univer-sity’s Music Department. Workshop times are from 10 a.m.-noon and from 1-3 p.m. Friday, April 16.

!e cost for the Master Class Workshops, which were a popular feature of the festival in past years, are $45 for one class or $75 for two classes, and partici-pants can mix classes according to their preference and availability. Pre-registration is available and encour-aged. However, participants can also sign up the day of the workshops as well.

Private individual Saturday lessons are also available with many of the Master Class Workshop Instructors, and these can be scheduled directly with the instructor using their contact info at the Master Class Workshop page on the Bear on the Square website.

!e festival schedule will also include a group of workshops on Saturday and Sunday, with many of these conducted by this year's Bear on the Square per-formers. Some of these workshops, which are free of charge, will be held in the Workshop Tent sponsored by LVS Homes and located on the Conner House lawn, while others will be held at Hummingbird Lane Art Gallery.

!e 14th annual Bear on the Square Mountain Fes-tival will be an incredible weekend of music and art held in the foothills of the North Georgia mountains. During that weekend, old-time and bluegrass music will fill the Historic Public Square in Dahlonega. !ere will be on-stage performances by local, regional, and national musicians on Saturday and Sunday, and a jur-ied traditional mountain crafts market both those days. Extensive music workshops, a Sunday morning Gospel Jam, an old-time Mountain Dance on Saturday eve-ning, a Live Country Auction on Friday night, fam-ily activities, a heritage focus demonstrating mountain traditions, and food complete the o"erings. For more details, visit www.bearonthesquare.org frequently for updates as the time for the festival approaches.

Bear on the Square Mountain Festival, Inc., which stages the show each year, is a 501(c)3 not-for-profit cultural arts organization whose mission is to preserve and celebrate the culture of the Southern Appala-chians through the presentation of music, traditional craft, and folkways. Tax deductible donations are wel-come and can be sent to P.O. Box 338, Dahlonega, GA 30533.

Roots & Shoots, JGI’s global envi-ronmental and humanitarian youth network, which has almost 150,000 members in more than 120 coun-tries.

Dr. Goodall travels an average 300 days per year, speaking about the threats facing chimpanzees, other environmental crises, and her reasons for hope that humankind will solve the problems it has im-posed on our planet.

She continually urges her audi-ences to recognize their personal responsibility and ability to e"ect change. “Every individual counts,” she says. “Every individual has a role to play. Every individual makes a di"erence.”

Dr. Goodall’s scores of honors include the Medal of Tanzania, the National Geographic Society’s Hubbard Medal, Japan’s presti-gious Kyoto Prize, Spain’s Prince of Asturias Award for Technical and Scientific Research, the Benjamin Franklin Medal in Life Science, and the Gandhi/King Award for Nonviolence.

In April 2002, Secretary-Gener-al Kofi Annan named Dr. Goodall

a United Nations Messenger of Peace, and she was reappointed in June 2007 by Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon.

In 2004, in a ceremony at Buck-ingham Palace, Dr. Goodall was invested as a Dame of the British Empire, the female equivalent of knighthood. In 2006, Dr. Good-all received the French Legion of Honor, presented by Prime Min-ister Dominique de Villepin, as well as the UNESCO Gold Medal Award.

Her list of publications includes Hope for Animals and !eir World: How Endangered Species are Being Rescued from the Brink, two over-views of her work at Gombe — In the Shadow of Man and !rough a Window — as well as two autobi-ographies in letters, the best-selling autobiography Reason for Hope and many children’s books.

!e Chimpanzees of Gombe: Patterns of Behavior is the defini-tive scientific work on chimpan-zees and is the culmination of Dr. Goodall’s scientific career.

Dr. Goodall has been the subject of numerous television documen-taries and is featured in the large-screen format film Jane Goodall's Wild Chimpanzees (2002).

She also has been featured in five Animal Planet specials—Jane

Goodall’s Return to Gombe, Jane Goodall’s State of the Great Ape, Jane Goodall’s Heroes, When Ani-mals Talk and most recently, Al-most Human.

About Young Harris CollegeFounded in 1886, Young Harris

College is a private, baccalaureate degree-granting college located in the beautiful mountains of north Georgia.

Historically a$liated with !e United Methodist Church, Young Harris College educates, inspires and empowers students through the highest quality liberal arts edu-cation.

Long known for nurturing stu-dents during the first two years of college, Young Harris College received accreditation in 2008 to grant bachelor’s degrees.

!e College currently has ap-proximately 700 students across four divisions—Fine Arts, Human-ities, Mathematics and Science, and Social and Behavioral Science—and plans to increase enrollment to 1,200 over the next few years.

!e historic campus in Young Harris, Ga., is currently undergoing major campus improvements to ac-commodate the College’s growth.

For more information, visit www.yhc.edu.

End all: Master Class workshops return to square festival

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!e Cherokee Trail Decorative Painters had their first meeting of the new year on January 23.

!ree new members were wel-comed to CTDP at the Janurary meeting. !e new members are: John Casbarro, Kathy Cutlip, and Pat Tom-linson.

Pat was a charter member of the club when it was begun in 1984.

At the meeting, members painted a variety of garden items – flower pots, trowels, hand rakes, garden stakes, etc.

!ese items will be used to fill a hand decorated wooden wheelbarrow that will be ra"ed o# this Spring. !e club is raising funds for education and continuing community service

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taught by local artist Verlee Jones of Hiawassee. !e subject will be a trot-ting horse done in watercolor on Chi-nese rice paper.

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Zion United Methodist Church proudly announces Bonnie Hayward in her very first Organ Recital to be held at the church, February 13th at 3:00 p.m.

Renown organist and instructor, Dr. Robert Wolfersteig will be assist-ing.

You are cordially invited to come and let Bonnie bless your heart with her God given talent.

Bonnie has always had a love for music. When she was growing up, Bonnie perfected the accordion and the piano. Later she took a genuine interest in the organ that lends itself so well to the sacred music that she dearly loves.

Bonnie has only been taking organ lessons for the past two years and she firmly believes that God inhabits the praise of His people! She is the Minister of Music for Zion United Methodist Church, playing the piano, organ, and dulcimer. At the present time she is also learning to play the violin.

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CCCRA (Clay County Com-munities Revitalization Associa-tion) is pleased to announce that HandMade in America will o"er monthly classes for craft artists and entrepreneurs starting Febru-ary 15, 2010. !e classes will teach craft artists how to use technology tools to market and expand their businesses. !e classes are free and open to the public, but participants must sign up in advance. !e classes are made possible in part by a grant from !e AT&T Foundation.

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For information about the Feb-ruary class (in West Je"erson NC) and the April class (in Bakersville NC), contact the phone number below.

All are welcome to attend, and we look forward to your participa-tion. Remember, these classes are free, but we ask that you R.S.V.P. or direct any questions to Megan

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HandMade in America’s mission is to grow handmade economies by creating tools, markets and part-nerships that honor craft, cultural heritage, and a spirit of commu-nity. !e organization has provided business and marketing workshops for craft artists since its founding in the early 1990s. HandMade has been an important supporter of CCCRA in its e"orts to boost the economic development of Clay County.

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!e Licklog Players will be hosting their first workshop of the 2010 season on Saturday, February 13th.

!is first workshop will focus on lighting techniques, maintenance and operation for productions and other events. Jerome Laux, who has oper-ated lights for several of the Licklog Players productions over the past few years will be instructing this workshop.

!e class is from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. and will o"er a wealth of informa-tion, If you are interested in the behind the scenes workings of lighting mastery, or would like to increase your knowledge of techniques, this class has a lot to o"er.

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Calcium is crucial to the health of our families, but getting enough can be di#cult. Now, families can increase their calcium intake, not with chalky supplements, but with tasty BLTs and PB&Js.

Just consider – despite their milk mustaches, many American fam-ilies, from their youngest members to moms and dads, aren't getting enough calcium. According to the Surgeon General, 75 percent of Americans do not consume enough calcium through their diets.

But now, it's getting easier to find calcium-rich foods. Take the sandwich, a family staple. Sandwiches provide ample opportunity to boost calcium intake. Start out with two slices of either Wonder Classic or Wonder Classic Sandwich bread – two slices contain as much calcium as an eight-ounce glass of milk, plus vitamin D, which aids calcium absorption. Add a slice of cheese and serve some milk on the side, and your family will be well on its way to meeting its calcium requirements.

"Balancing the food your family enjoys while providing the nutri-tion you want them to have can be di#cult," said Rich Seban, chief marketing o#cer at Wonder bread. "With Wonder's added calcium and vitamin D o"erings, giving your family the nutrition they need never tasted so good."

To help families understand the amount of calcium and other nu-trients they are getting, Wonder bread recently launched its Sand-wich Wonder-izer (available as an iPhone and iTouch application at iTunes and at www.wonderbread.com), which gives families a fun way to choose from a list of over 120 ingredients to make thousands of sandwich combinations. With the Sandwich Wonder-izer, as they build their sandwich, they can watch the calcium and other nutri-tional values change with each added ingredient.

For those who would rather follow a recipe, the Sandwich Won-der-izer o"ers dozens of pre-made sandwiches to choose from, or you can try the recipe below. Pair this sandwich with a glass of milk, and you'll already have received over two-thirds of your daily recom-mend calcium intake.

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When children eat sugar, they're not the only ones to get a meal. Sugar feeds bacteria in the mouth. As the bacteria consume the sugar, they pro-duce an acid that causes cavities. And while some sugary culprits prove easy to identify -- soda and candy, for example -- children may also con-sume sugar when they eat burgers, orange juice or pizza.

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In the past, research institutions and government agencies stored data on tapes and hard drives – often with-out backing up the information. To-day, when employees discover dam-age to these tapes and hard drives, they don't assume that the data are lost forever – they simply call data-recovery expert John Bordynuik.

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For music lovers of all ages, the show to see is Hot ‘N Cole, a musical revue of the ever-pop-ular songs of Cole Porter, opening Feb. 19th at the Peacock Playhouse.

A dynamic duo of accomplished pianists Su-zanne Major and Carol Smucker complement the renowned composer’s tuneful repertoire, sung by Licklog Players’ talented songbirds, Keith and Suzy Christensen, Janice Minette, Ja-son Swint and Bob Miller.

As the show’s musical director, Suzanne Ma-jor has the talent, training and special knowl-edge of music as a performing art. Since joining the Licklog Players in 1993, she has directed musical scores for 15 productions.

In the current musical, she’ll play the Clavi-nova, a three-level digital Yahama keyboard piano packed with sounds and styles equal to the tonal qualities and innovative features of an 88-key grand concert piano. An extraordinary instrument, its piano voice ranks among the fin-est in the world.

Major meets these high standards with equally high qualifications. A graduate of Young Harris College and Mars Hill College with a major in

church music, she’s familiar with all elements of musical style—classical, religious, contemporary, country and rock. She’s presently the Director of Music at the First United Methodist Church in Murphy and oversees its repertoire of reli-gious music for 13 choirs, including a hand bell choir, and other vocal groups.

“I have always loved Cole Porter’s music,” she said during a rehearsal of Hot ‘N Cole. “I was born in 1965 and wish I’d been born in the 1930’s so I could have enjoyed his music while he was alive. We don’t have anyone today who compares with his energy and creativity that’s produced such a variety of really good songs.”

Like Major, Carol Smucker is a talented pia-nist, having played music for I Do! I Do!, Some-thing’s Afoot, and Peacock Pride, the Children’s !eatre Workshop. Also like Major, she’s a de-voted fan of the late, great icon’s music.

“I absolutely love it. It’s upbeat, happy and romantic. It was the music I enjoyed when I was in high school in the 60s, and I still enjoy it.”

In this show Smucker’s fingers work magic on the spinet piano, a smaller and lighter version of a traditional piano. In the 1930s, a piano manu-

facturer introduced the spinet piano at a lower price to make pianos more accessible to the populace. A life-long pianist and accompanist, Smucker is choir accompanist at Good Shep-herd Episcopal Church in Hayesville. Retired from a nursing career, she now has more time to use her musical talents and enjoys the new chal-lenge of playing for musical theater.

Together, the voices of the musical cast and the voices of these fine pianos make for an en-joyable evening of great music. Get your tickets early.

Show dates for this delightful musical are February 19-21 and 26-28. Tickets are now on sale at the Peacock Playhouse box o"ce Mon-Fri, 9:00 AM to 1:00 PM. Adults $15, Students and Children $8. Rated PG. For further in-formation, telephone 828-389-8632 or toll free 1-877-691-9906.

Special Note: Donations to the Salvation Ar-my’s Haiti Disaster Relief Fund will be greatly appreciated during the run of Hot ‘N Cole. Also, county food banks continue to be in need of canned and boxed food items. Please place items in the box in the Lobby.

Virginia Kern/ Contributed PhotoAccompanist Carol Smucker at the Spinet piano.

Bonny Herman/ Contributed PhotoMusic Director Suzanne Major at the Clavinova digital piano.

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You box toys and shoes for dis-advantaged children, collect canned goods and donate to your favorite charity every year -- but have you considered leaving a permanent legacy to help support your cause?

Bequeathing money to a charity in your will is one of the best ways to act as a philanthropist through your lifetime and beyond. Many charities rely on legacies to run their programs -- some receive as much as 40 percent of their income from bequests.

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More than 80 percent of Ameri-cans give to charities. But a 2007 survey conducted by Indiana Uni-versity's Center on Philanthropy found that only 8 percent of all Americans include legacies in their wills. Considering 2009's rocky economy, that percentage has surely dropped.

Many Americans worry that, by leaving a charitable bequest, they may put their heirs at a disadvan-tage. But leaving a legacy in your will could reduce the estate taxes that the will's other beneficiaries need to pay. Gifts given to Running Strong and Americans Helping Americans, for example, are free of federal estate taxes, as well as in-heritance taxes in most states.

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