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Column - The first ‘Dancing with the Statesboro Stars’

Jim Healy and Juthika Golder perform a dance from India called the "Chuni Chinari" at the Dancing with the Statesboro Stars inaugural event in October 2011 at the Averitt Center for the Arts.

dancing column — Jim Healy and Juthika Golder perform a dance from India called the "Chuni Chinari" at the Dancing with the Statesboro Stars inaugural event in October 2011 at the Averitt Center for the Arts.

On a summer day in 2011, I had just finished lunch in my office at the Statesboro Herald when Laurie Bradford knocked on my door. I had met Laurie several times previously in her role at the Safe Haven women’s shelter, so I figured she was stopping by to give me a story idea or let me know about something to do with Safe Haven.

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