After 10 years in Statesboro, I've seen change happen every day. After I moved here, the bypass opened, the Statesboro Crossing shopping area bloomed, residents got Olive Garden, Cracker Barrel, Steak and Shake (debatable improvement, but signs of the times), Panera, Parker's convenience stores, and 5,000 more university students. But no change has been as uplifting as the one I saw today. I attended the ribbon-cutting and opening of the newest location of the Averitt Center for the Arts. The new location, which serves about 500 children over the course of a week, holds a black-box theatre, named for distinguished director and actor Mical Whitaker; a ballet studio, named for ballet director Jurijs Safonovs, and an impressive new gift shop. Located at 41 West Main, about a block from the Averitt Center's Emma Kelly Theatre and the galleries, the new site is designed to nurture the children in Statesboro and the surrounding counties through art classes, dance classes, thea...