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Dylan the Sea Turtle’s Release Party – Jekyll Island, GA

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Here is the latest information from the Georgia Sea Turtle Center.

Dylan will be receiving her flipper tags, PIT tag and a satellite transmitter on June 29, in the afternoon. If you are at the Center, you will be able to view this through our Treatment Room Window!

The release is now scheduled and being planned for June 30. She will be released on Jekyll Island at the beach in front of the Convention Center. There will be a roped off area for public viewing on a first come, first serve basis.

Our best wishes to Dylan on her new exciting journey!

Click here to read our previous post about Dylan.

In the Service of Others Tour – Jekyll Island, GA

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This special tour will give you a glimpse behind the door so to speak. In the past, not everyone on Jekyll Island enjoyed a life in luxury. Actually hundreds of working class men, women, and children were needed to make the millionaire lifestyle possible. In the Service of Others Tour explores the hidden world of the hired help at the upscale turn of the century resort. [Read more…]

4th of July Festival – St Marys, Georgia

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Come to downtown historic St Marys for a fourht of July festival. We start early with a 5 & 10 K race 7:00,followed by a parade at 10;00 am.
Lots of vendors selling arts & crafts & food at the waterfront. There’s stage entertainment, kids games, pony rides and much more for the whole family. Special fireworks display at dusk to celebrate 40 years of the festival sponsored by the Kiwanis Club.
www.smkiwanis.com

Georgia Sea Turtle Center Celebrates One-Year Anniversary

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Celebrate the one-year anniversary of success and progress with Scoot the Turtle.
The Georgia Sea Turtle Center is hosting its one-year anniversary celebration June 28 from 1-4 pm at the Georgia Sea Turtle Center. Local residents and guest are invited to join Scoot the Turtle and the GSTC staff in this elaborate celebration of success and future progress.

Activities begin with a turtle release at the Beachdeck at 1:00. Guest are then invited back to the Georgia Sea Turtle Center for relaxing musical sounds of Straight No Chaser while touring the facility and visiting the rehabilitant turtles. Kids can enjoy activities ranging from cookie and notepad decorating to reenacting the life of a turtle, shell included.

For more information on the Anniversary Celebration contact the Georgia Sea Turtle Center at 912-635-4444. The Anniversary Celebration is part of a full weekend of activities in connection with the Jekyll Island Foundation’s Sea Turtle Weekend. For more information on Sea Turtle Weekend visit www.jekyllislandfoundation.org or call 912-635-4402.

About the Georgia Sea Turtle Center
The Georgia Sea Turtle Center officially opened June 16, 2007 in Jekyll Island, Ga.’s Historic Landmark District on the site of the original 1903 Power Plant building, which has been preserved and adapted for reuse. The ambitious, $3 million center – offering an outstanding, museum-style learning experience and a state-of-the-art rehabilitation center and veterinary clinic – is the first of its kind in Georgia. For more information about the Georgia Sea Turtle Center and related programs, visit www.georgiaseaturtlecenter.org.

Drum Talk – Savannah, Georgia

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All are invited to take part in “It Takes a Village: Drumming on a Friday Afternoon.” The drum talk lets participants recharge, release stress, connect communally. Bring your own drum if you have it. No drumming experience is necessary.
Free and open to the public.Drum Talk Presented by Savannah College of Art & Design
3 – 4 p.m. in Madison Square (Bull and Charlton Streets)

912-525-6971