Are you the next Alice in Wonderland? 

VALDOSTA – Gingerbread Players is looking for Alice. Auditions are scheduled for a production of “Alice@Wonderland: The Musical,” said Pauline Player, a representative of Theatre Guild Valdosta. Gingerbread Players is the children’s theatre branch of the Guild. The play is by Jonathan Yukich, Bill Francoeur and Scott Deturk, based on the novel by Lewis Carroll. It is modern retelling of “Alice in Wonderland.” Guild synopsis: “The folly of the 21st century collides with the madness of Wonderland in this rocking musical adaptation that remains faithful to Lewis Carroll’s original tale. Alice is a texting, tweeting, and Googling girl of the modern digital era, yet she finds herself in the Wonderland of old. With all of the characters you know and love including the Mad Hatter, the White Rabbit and the Queen of Hearts, this musical imagines a present-day Alice encountering the Wonderland so many of us treasure.”  The show is scheduled to run Sept. 29-Oct. 1, Oct. 6-8. A variety of roles are available for children 6 years old and older, Player said. “Auditions will consist of readings from the script. No prior preparation or experience needed,” she said. Auditions are scheduled for 6-8 p.m. Monday and Tuesday, Aug. 7, 8, The Dosta Playhouse, 122 N. Ashley St. More information: Email the show’s director, Bethanie Bass, bethanie0716@gmail.com.

 

Driver charged with DUI after car strikes tree

MOULTRIE, Ga. — A motorist suspected of being drunk when he struck a tree Tuesday in a southwest Moultrie yard didn’t mince words when asked how much alcohol he’d consumed prior to the accident. “Enough for you to take me to jail,” he responded, according to the Moultrie Police Department report, then he placed his hands behind his back for the officer to handcuff him. When police were called at about 9:30 p.m. to 1208 11th St. S.W., they found a Chevrolet Malibu that had left the roadway and struck a pine tree, Moultrie Police Department reports said. Bennie Lee Jackson was standing next to the car and smelled of alcohol, police said. After he gave his response to the officer about the amount he had consumed earlier, a test administered by police indicated that his blood alcohol content was above the legal limit of 0.08. Jackson, 47, 1520 11th St. S.W., was charged with driving under the influence and failure to drive within single lane.

 

Denver Bierman to hold concert at First United Methodist

LIVE OAK, Fla. — Denver Bierman is coming to town for a concert with members of the Gateway City Big Band of Lake City on Tuesday, Aug. 15, at First United Methodist Church. The high-energy concert will be full of timeless hymns and scripture songs. This is also a free concert, a perfect event for the whole family.  There will be a love offering taken.   According to their website, https://denvermho.com/, Denver generally plays with the Mile High Orchestra. Blending a red hot horn section, along with jazz and big band roots, Denver and the Mile High Orchestra have created a power funk sound that defies description and is unlike any other.  With the band’s recent release called “Mile High Hymns” to their Dove Award-winning children’s album “Groovy” they should ensure their fan base far into the future, without disappointing those who have come to love their unique style over the years. The concert starts at 7 p.m. FUMC is located at 311 Ohio Ave. S, Live Oak.

 

State medical board suspends Dalton doctor’s license

DALTON, Ga. — A Dalton doctor has had his licensed suspended by the Georgia Composite Medical Board for the second time following complaints he touched two female patients inappropriately. According to the order, the board received complaints that Dr. Narendra Patel had touched the patients inappropriately in February. The state medical board concluded that allowing Patel to continue to practice medicine would pose “a threat to the public health, safety and welfare.” Patel has until Aug. 14 to file an expedited appeal of his suspension. This is not the first time Patel’s medical license has been suspended. According to the order, the board suspended his license in July 1997 after he entered a guilty plea, under Georgia’s First Offender Act, to sexual battery. A copy of the 1997 order says the board had received information concerning eight other patients, suggesting Patel had a “pattern of sexual misconduct involving female patients.” Later that year, the board signed an agreement with Patel suspending his license for six months, then giving him five years probation and requiring him to enter therapy and to see no female patients without a chaperone. In addition, the agreement called for him to spend two weeks observing an obstetrician/gynecologist to “gain understanding” of the “appropriate way to conduct a physical examination of female patients.”