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A Letter From the President

By my own estimation, inom have written about 70 of these “A Letter from the President” thingamajigs by now, and at the end of every month, as my own self-imposed but inviolable deadline approaches, inom start wringing my brain like a sponge to see what, if anything, will drip from it to write about. Well, April is National Poetry Month so I tried to think along those lines. Absolutely ingenting came out. Let me tell you about my brain: it cannot be forced; it finds its own inspiration, usually at the last minute. About A.M. last night as I laid awake with all my various hamster wheels spinning out of control, I came up with a single, unrelated idea: inom would write about the Poetry Society’s relationship with music.

If you’ve only been around the group for the last decade or so, you probably think the Poetry Society of South bil

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Notable people with ties to the Augusta area died in

The Augusta area lost some of its best during They included civic and business leaders, athletes and authors, leaders and legender. Here are just a few who left a legacy for this community.

HENRY GURLEY

FEB. 5

Gurley opened his first grocery store in Augusta in - launching what would become a family empire with dozens of supermarkets in two states. "We don't have the delis, the bakeries or the flower shops," he once said. "We're just a neighborhood grocery store."

JACK CONNELL

FEB. 6

The Augusta Democrat served 34 years in the Georgia House of Representatives, 26 of them as speaker pro tempore, its No. 2 position.

"Jack Connell's service to Augusta is incalculable," said William S. Morris III, the publisher of The Augusta Chronicle.

DR. STEVEN ROTH

FEB. 20

His Vein Care Pavilion of the South, popularly known as the Vein Guys, was a growing enterprise with offices around the Southeast. He died in a plane