It has been a very busy month..

The Garrison participated in two DK book launches for the new Star Wars Visual Dictionary in Marietta and Lawrenceville, an event at Pottery Barn at Lenox Mall, a video shoot, two Falcons Games with Cartoon Network, a charity event for animals call Dog Day Afternoon with Georgia Rescue and Rehab, a walk for MADD at the Atlanta Zoo, and for fun a bunch of us went to Netherworld .

Still to come we may be seen at the upcoming Starwars in Concert, Kennesaw Folk Tales Cultures Past and Future, Atlanta Comic Con, and more…

We did meet a special new friend last weekend. Brayden, a seven year old boy battling Leukemia at the Children’s Hospital in Atlanta.

“He’s a huge Star wars and Clone wars fan. He was given box seats to a Braves game, but the day of he informed his mom that he could not go because it was the premier of the second season of Clone Wars. So they stayed home to watch the premier and after switched over and finished watching the braves game on TV”

His energy amazed us and he really brightened our evening.

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The Georgia Garrison will be appearing at the following events in July: 

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We had a great turnout and lousy weather for our 4th. annual appearance at the Georgia Bureau of Investigations headquarters in May 16 in support of the Georgia Child Identification Program. The event got called early because of rain but we managed to have a good time and brighten some faces before the storm. 

 For more information on the CHIPs program..  Georgia Chips

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We had a very successful event at the Sweet Auburn Festival in Atlanta on May 9th with the Cartoon Network, Turner Networks “Shades of our Community” tour. The Garrison provided two Clone Republic Commandos, RC-6247 Boss (Kris) and RC-6234 Scorch (Darrell). The event drew thousands of attendees during the day.

 Sweet Auburn Photos>

Special thanks to Kim & Sophie for making us feel at home and Patricia, and Julian for watching our backs and taking photos.We will be back with the the tour May 28th at CNN Center, come on out and see us.

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The legion will be represented at the Spring Festival & Rummage Sale benefiting Autism Speaks and the Marcus Autism Center on April 25 from 8:00 to 12:00 at 3611 Cobb Parkway, Acworth, GA. 

Coming in May we will once again be joining this Georgia Bureau of Investigation and GCHIP of the GBI Child Safety Day at GBI Headquarters in Decatur. Also look to see us at Spalding High School in Griffin with the Special Olympics on May 7. 

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The Georgia Garrison with help from the Mid-south and Alabama Garrisons will be appearing in the Atlanta St. Patrick’s Day Parade again this year. The parade is March 14th. in downtown Atlanta. 

We will also be appearing in the Macon Cherry Blossom Festival Parade on March 22nd. in downtown Macon.  

The Garrison also has the honor of once again returning to Young Astronauts Day at the Museum of Aviation at Warner Robin’s Air Force Base on March 28.

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The 501st Legion annually runs elections to determine who will head up the various individual Garrisons, Squads and the Legion as a whole.  Georgia just completed ours and we would like to introduce you to our new Command Staff for the rest of 2009 and the first part of 2010.

Kris Kuipers XO (Krkconsult)
Commanding Officer

Jimmy Burns XO (Jedireject)
Executive Officer

Darrell Phillips GML, GWL (Madog)
Garrison Membership Liaison
Garrison Web Liaison

Mike Kavanagh GPR (Caomhanch)
Garrison Public Relations Officer

Steve Vitale GPO (loosetoon)
Garrison Procurement Officer (Merchandising)

Joey Moran GCOG (tk6715luke)
Garrison Captain of the Guard

Izzie Herman (Madhorizons)
Special Web Guru

Jason (TK589)
Web Administrator

As always, feel free to stop by our forums at http://forums.ga501st.com to find out what is going on with your local Georgia Garrison of the 501st Legion.  We’ll try to update here as events come up, but the vast majority of our conversations and event updates happen on the forums.  So get over there and find out what you can do to help the Empire expand its reach across the Galaxy!

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Look for members of the Ga501st out side of the Kennesaw, Ga Best Buy on Dec 20th and 21st.  We’ll be out promoting Toys for Teens and Toys for Tots, so stop by and bring a gift for a needy teen or tot.  Don’t have anything to bring?  There will be a full Best Buy right behind us if you need to do some shopping…perhaps to by some donations?

As an interesting bit of trivia, the Kennesaw Best Buy just happens to be Best Buy’s store location “501″.  Very cool.

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So it appears the Rebel Alliance found a small thermal exhaust port right below the main port on our domain registration yesterday and took down our website.  Fortunately, we learned from past mistakes and we had a couple of wood boards over the hole and were able to redirect their fire so no serious damage was done.  The website, as you can see, is back up and running again.  Our forums will be back up shortly.

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