Oconee County, GA Politics

Local filmmaker Curtis Krick's mocumentary "Something Blue," is set to headline the Dixie Film Festival taking place in Athens, Georgia, October 16-18, 2009. The film follows the weeks leading up to a marriage between a beautiful Caucasian bride from an upper class suburban family and a blue-collar groom from the fictitious blue-skinned Antarctica Polar-American race. Co-directors Krick and long time collaborator Sean Dillon developed the film as a way of exploring a lot of weighty issues - race, class, gender, culture and age to name just a few - in a humorous yet insightful way. Krick, currently based in Los Angeles, grew up in Georgia. "I have a deep affinity to Athens and the local area," he says. "I lived in the city from the age of eight to 13, then in Watkinsville through high school. As a teenager I was heavily involved with various local theatre companies including Athens Creative Theatre and the Town and Gown players." The 90-minute feat...

The Greensboro massacre occurred on November 3 , 1979 in Greensboro, North Carolina , United States . In the shoot-out, five marchers were killed by members of the Ku Klux Klan and the American Nazi Party while in a protest. It was the culmination of attempts by the Communist Workers Party to organize industrial workers, predominantly black, in the area. [1] The protesters killed were: Sandi Smith, a nurse and civil rights activist; Dr. James Waller, president of a local textile workers union who gave up his medical practice to defend workers; Bill Sampson, a Harvard University graduate in the school of divinity; Cesar Cause, an immigrant from Cuba who graduated magna cum laude from Duke University ; and Dr. Michael Nathan, chief of pediatrics at Lincoln Community Health Center in Durham, NC , a clinic that helped children from low-income families. From Wikipedia Woven brightly, Daniel J. Matthews, Jr. From: fishlabs@bellsouth.net Date: Sat, 4 Oct 2008 19:14:14 -0400...

Please attend this watershed cinematic gala here in our lovely county. Woven brightly, Daniel J. Matthews, Jr.  To: oconee@yahoogroups.com  Subject: [oconee] Movie Night -- in Oconee!    Dear Oconee Democrats (and friends),    Let's get together to see a movie in our neck of the woods this time!    There's an award-winning documentary about sustainability showing this  Tuesday that's part of a series sponsored by the Southern Arts  Federation. The documentary's producer will be at the screening to  answer questions.    See the information below.    Hope to see you!    Pat Priest      * Producer to show 'Ripe for Change'*    Jed Riffe, an independent film producer, will present his film, "Ripe  for Change," at 7 p.m. Tuesday in the North Oconee High School  auditorium. The film is part of the 2008-09 Southern Circuit of the  Southern Arts Federation. Admissi...

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Lee Becker < lbbecker@mindspring.com > Date: Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 9:39 PM Subject: Epps Bridge Centre To: lbbecker@mindspring.com Dear Friends, On Tuesday night, the Board of Commissioners will vote on a major commercial rezone planned for beside and behind Lowe's on Epps Bridge Parkway. The project will greatly change the amount of traffic in the area, will pave over streams feeding into McNutt Creek, will create a large amount of impervious surface, and will generate a lot of tax revenue for Oconee County. This is a very big project. When it is built out--and it almost certainly will be approved--it will greatly change the nature of the part of Oconee County where it is located. Think of a 16-screen movie theater and seven restaurants. Think if retail space rivaling Georgia Square Mall. It is safe to say Oconee County will never be the same. And this is only the beginning of what is planned. For details of the projec...

Come see the film "In the Shadown of the Moon" Monday As for the movie -- we've hastily put this together because we thought this stirring documentary would be especially heartening in these depressing times of war, torture and drought. In the Shadow of the Moon is about the dogged scientists and courageous astronauts who reached the moon. Join Oconee County Democrats and others from around the region to see a fine movie, discuss the film and other matters with new and old friends, and support Ciné. We'll meet inside around 7; the movie starts at 7:15. Please forward this to your friends! Hope to see you! Pat Priest --------- IN THE SHADOW OF THE MOON http://www.intheshadowofthemoon.com/ [ UK 2006, 35mm, 100min, Dir: Duncan Copp ] Winner: 2007 Sundance Film Festival Audience Award The excitement, majesty and extraordinary human accomplishment of the American lunar program of the '60s and early '70s is rousingly captured in IN THE SHADOW OF THE MOON, a new docu...