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Stand-off ends without incident
By Joe Brady, Editor
for
The Times
Sunday evening, April 2nd, saw
Millen Police Department officers
requesting help from Jenkins
County Sheriff’s Deputies and
SWAT from Burke County.
Andrew Dean Wilson of Sylvania
was apprehended after holding
authorities at bay with a knife for
several hours. Wilson barricaded
himself inside an abandoned
home on East Winthrope Ave,
across from Dollar General.
Wilson was allegedly being
disorderly inside the Dollar
General store, prior to the
standoff. Employees with Dollar
General Stores notified law
enforcement and as officers
approached the defendant, he
fled on foot. Brandishing a knife
and threatening officers, Wilson
barricaded himself inside the East
Winthrope Avenue home.
Unable to get Wilson to exit
Burke
County
SWAT
the dwelling, officers set up a
perimeter and requested SWAT
and additional law enforcement
to the scene. After two hours,
authorities including SWAT
were able to make entry into the
structure and remove Wilson
without incident. He was charged
with aggravated assault on a
police officer and obstruction of a
police officer. He is currently in
the Jenkins County Jail.
Andrew Dean Wilson
Southeast Produce Council
Welcomes the Big Idaho®
Potato Truck to Headquarters
By Anna Burch, Special Contributor
for
The Times
Millen, GA - The Southeast Produce Council welcomed the Big Idaho
Potato Truck to its headquarters in Millen. SEPC members and staff
hosted an Idaho Potato Bar, serving fresh, baked potatoes with toppings
for the community to celebrate the Big Spud’s arrival.
The Big Idaho® Potato Truck is on its 11th cross-country journey! It
began in 2012 as a one-year campaign to celebrate the 75th Anniversary
of the Idaho Potato Commission and quickly g ee POTATO page 3
Millen Primary Care
welcomes Gilmer
Jodie and her husband Richard when not running after son Rafe, are avid hunters,
fishers, and hikers. They also own a wedding venue, The Copper Barn, in Portal. Jodie is
currently accepting new patients at Millen Primary Care, (photo contributed)
By Hannah Derriso, Reporter
for
The Times
Jenkins County continues to
grow in the medical field as
it welcomes Board Certified
Physician's Assistant, Jodi
Gilmer, as the newest addition
to Optim Primary Care with Dr.
Chandra Patel. Jodi will be seeing
patients, walk-ins, DOT physicals
and sports exams. A graduate of
Portal High School, Jodi received
her bachelor’s in chemistry with a
minor in Biology, and then went
on to earn her Masters of Science
in Physician's Assistant Studies.
Jodi is currently accepting new
patients and welcomes walk-ins.
She and her husband, Richard,
and spunky son Rafe, spend their
time with their 3 dogs, cat, goats,
and chickens, and enjoy living the
farm life. Avid hunters, fishers,
and hikers, they love spending as
much time as possible outdoors,
where Jodi also has a green thumb
and puts it to use in her vegetable
garden. When they aren't outside
enjoying mother nature, you can
find them cheering on the Georgia
Bulldogs and Atlanta Braves. In
addition to providing medical
care, Jodi and her husband also
own The Copper Bam, a classic,
farm-chic wedding venue located
right outside of Portal. Stop
by and welcome Jodi to the
neighborhood!
By Joe Brady, Editor
for
The Times
The deadline for seniors to
make application for the MLK
Scholarship is Friday, April 21.
Seniors may pickup an application
from the school counselor’s office
at the high school.
Since it’s inception in 2009, the
MLK Scholarship Committee has
awarded over sixty high school
seniors the scholarship.
The funding for this scholarship is
based entirely on donations. “The
goal is to provide scholarships
to deserving students of Jenkins
County,” Ms. Johnnie Mae
Sherrod explains. The amount
awarded to each student is based
on the number of approved
applicants and the amount of
money raised. The Scholarship
funding drive is currently in
process until April 30 and
businesses as well as individuals
are encouraged to help change a
life. “In addition to donations, the
scholarship committee also has
several fund raisers throughout
the year,” Sherrod says.
The scholarship is also known
as the MLK, Jr/Charles Beale
MLK
scholarship
deadline
rapidly
approaches
Memorial Scholarship after
prominent Jenkins County native
Charles Beale, a member of
Morrison Grove Baptist Church,
member of Jenkins County
Laymen’s Association, and a
member of the Millen Optimist
Club.
In addition to organizing the
Jenkins County Martin Luther
King, Jr. celebration, Beale also
organized the Landrum High
School Alumni Association,
Millen Community Youth Sunday
Services, and the Jenkins County
Baccalaureate Services.
By Tyler Busch, Podcast Director
& Staff Writer
for
The Times
If you have stepped foot recently,
in B&T’s Fresh Food Mart in
downtown Millen, you will be
surprised to see, literally, a small
red plane on top of a display of
potatoes at the entrance of the
store. Bobby Inman, manager
of B&Ts participates in these
contests throughout the year. This
is not his first win. This contest
is the Idaho Potato contest. The
Idaho Potato Commission Board,
this year put out an image of a
potato, flying a small red plane.
We had to create a display to
show Idaho grown potatoes and
related products. Bobby says,
“the display includes over 200
potatoes”.
You may be familiar with the
Idaho potato truck that travels
around the country, with the
legendary 6-ton potato. In fact,
it rolled into town Wednesday.
Inman says, “it’s like pulling teeth
trying to get like the Oscar Meyer
mobile or Johnsonville big grill
to come to your town”. We can
thank Bobby and David Sherrod,
from the Southeast Produce
Council for bringing the Idaho
Potato truck to Millen.
Bobby has done similar
attention-grabbing displays at
stores across Georgia. He talks
about when he put a 1946 Farm
All tractor inside a BI-LO grocery
store in Washington, GA. For that
display he, “drove the tractor
inside, to the produce section,
and put hay bales around it and
attached a wagon”. That display
was the start in his pursuit to
make grocery stores and his
displays more attention-grabbing.
The displays bring in people, and
Bobby has said for the current
display, folks are coming from
“Twin City, Garfield, Statesboro,
Waynesboro, Sardis, Sylvania,
Swainsboro, just because there’s
a plane in here”.
In addition to the grocery
store operations manager and
display creative designer, Bobby
is a mechanic. Bobby says his
creative abilities “come from
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Millen manager brings plane inside
grocery store
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