***TOWN HALL MEETING THURSDAY 1/30 @ 6pm***

Citizens of Decatur County

Town Hall Meeting

Thursday, January 30, 2025

6:00 - 7:00pm

Joe L. Sweet. Community Center

601 Potter St., Bainbridge, GA 39817

Concerned citizens, it has been just over a year since we first became aware of SHM and their ill conceived idea that they could build a 30K monkey facility in our quiet and beautiful town without severe pushback from the citizens.  

So much has happened in a year!  So much has happened since the last Town Hall meeting last spring!  If you are like most in the county, you have questions and a lot of them!

Are you wondering what has transpired in a year?  

Did you receive a marketing flyer from SHM?

What is happening with the legal battles we hear so much about?

Is the citizens movement StandUpBainbridgeGA.com making a difference ?

What is happening on Capitol Hill (Washing DC) with legislation to end animal testing for big Pharma?

Is the monkey facility battle already over and coming anyway?

The short answer is NO, IT IS A VERY LONG WAY FROM BEING OVER!   The citizens that are standing up ARE making a difference and we need to work even harder in 2025 to be re energized, resilient and strategic in this fight.

We just celebrated Martin Luther King's birthday, so let us be reminded of two famous quotes that he stated for the rights of not only people, but animals as well.

"The time is always right to do what is right!" 

and 

"In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends."

Please, JOIN US and decide for yourself where you STAND!