This “guest post” is written by Angel Ratcliffe, a local PR/Marketing guru who started her Savannah tenure right here at TCCa, serving as the Marketing Manager between 2006 and 2008. She is also the former Marketing Director for Paragon Design Group. She is awesome, we love her and she is currently pounding the pavement right here in the SAV.
Those of you in the job market like I am can probably relate to the job search process being a tedious, irksome, and slow-moving one. Over the past couple of months, I feel I’m becoming more and more proficient with the endeavor, and have noticed some differences from my first experience in Savannah’s job market in 2006. Back then I used the traditional methods of job hunting by rifling through e-classifieds and uploading my resume on several humongous job sites like Monster.com or CareerBuilder.com. It is extremely drudging and repetitious after a while.
Being in the movies ain’t all it’s cracked up to be. It’s hard work. It demands patience, thick skin and endurance. It’s unglamorous. Above all, it’s unappreciative.
I got a call at 6 am on Tuesday. It was Patrick, a persuasive crew member on the set of Miley Cyrus’s hot new flick “The Last Song.” He wanted to know if I was coming. The day before I received a forward from “thelastsong@gmail.com”. They needed extras for the wedding scene, being shot July 20 and 21 at Wormsloe. Being that I am a Gemini and fancy myself famous (call me Stevie Nicks’ unsinging protege) and being that I really wanted to see the house at Wormsloe, I sent in my photo, age and contact information as requested. Not 2 minutes later I received a call. I made the cut. I was on my way.
Scottish poet and essayist Alexander Smith once said, “Trees are your best antiques.” That sentiment rings true in Savannah, a city characterized by her avenues and squares lined in stately, hundred years old oaks. Our trees are as antique as our buildings, our city plan, our legacy.
So when it came time for the City to landscape the newly renovated Ellis Square, they had to consider the competition: majestic, centuries-old hardwood canopies mere blocks away. To keep in step with that glorious aesthetic (and the ambitious nature of the Ellis Square project as a whole), the decision was made to import mature oaks to help populate the park.
Photograph by Steve Bisson, Savannah Morning News
The tree-relocation project became somewhat more symbiotic given that five trees along the Truman Parkway, each about 30 feet tall, had hampered maintenance of a drainage canal. Those five trees are being planted yesterday alongside two older oaks and eight younger to complete the canopy of Ellis Square.
Posted by Fitz Haile on April 22, 2009 at 03:00 PM
Tuesday night, two delegates from the Swedish American Chamber of Commerce Entrepreneurial Days Conference were struck by a car after leaving a dinner we co-hosted in Madison Square. Horribly, one of them died. Gratefully, while the other sustained serious injuries, we understand she is in stable condition.
TCCa and SEDA extend sincere condolences to our many Swedish partners and friends for the tragic loss of Nils Eric Svensson, an economic development official from southern Sweden. We also express our deepest hopes for the full recovery, emotional and physical healing of Christine Bjarkby. Ms. Bjarkby, still in the hospital, works for the Invest in Sweden agency to attract investment into western Sweden.
Many in the Savannah community have contacted us in an effort to offer sympathy and support to all involved, and we are providing the comment section of this post for this purpose.
For more information or to offer condolences directly to our friends at SACC Edays, please visit their blog where they have posted a video message from the volunteer chairwoman and the president of SACC USA.
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