Shooting event sets record to fight cancer
The 11th annual Candler Clays Charity Shoot and Auction raised more than $77,000 for cancer research. The previous record was $57,000 in 2008.
Money from last month’s event will support cancer research at the Nancy N. and J.C. Lewis Cancer & Research Pavilion at St. Joseph’s/Candler.
Candler Clays is a two-day event combining a charity auction and a clay shooting competition at the Forest City Gun Club. This year 230 shooters on 58 teams competed. The Rives E. Worrell Company was the presenting sponsor.
Winners of the shooting event were:
• Top Gun (Female), Anne Hagin;
• Top Gun (Male), Charles Upchurch;
• Top Team Class A, Southern Metals Recycling;
• Top Team Class B, Yates Astro;
• Top Team Class C, Bouhan Falligant LLP.
Each event honors a cancer survivor or someone who died of cancer. This year’s honoree is Gaines Gregory Sewell, the husband of Peggy Sewell, a long-time nurse at St. Joseph’s/Candler and father of Candler Clays Committee Chairman Ryan Sewell.
Grant will help pay for history online
The Georgia Historical Society has received a $150,000 grant from The Frances and Beverly DuBose Foundation to create expanded online access to the organization’s collections and educational resources for teachers.
The money will be used to develop and implement an online searchable database of the historical society’s archival collection.
The grant also will underwrite a web resource guide for educators and researchers to serve as a directory of publications, collections, historical markers and online educational resources created by the historical society.
The DuBose grant is part of the society’s $7.5 million campaign to share Georgia history.
Online wedding sites put Savannah in top 20
Savannah continues to be recognized as one of America’s top wedding destinations. Last week, the city showed up in a top 20 list on wedding websites TheKnot.com and WeddingChannel.com.
XO Group Inc., creator of TheKnot.com and WeddingChannel.com, released results of its annual Real Wedding Survey that covered more than 17,500 U.S. brides married in 2012. Savannah ranked No. 17 among the “Most Expensive Cities to Get Married” with wedding spending in 2012 averaging $30,618.
“It will come as no surprise to the many, many couples that come to Savannah each year to get married that our romantic and beautiful city is on this distinguished list,” said Visit Savannah President Joseph Marinelli.
Savannah is slightly above the national average wedding cost and well below No. 1 New York City with its average cost at $76,687 and is the only southeastern city in the top 20.