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(Eift Aiiuancg The ADVANCE, May 12, 2021/Page 2A OUTSTANDING CADET — Dianne Quinn, Regent of Vidalia Chapter Daughters of the American Revolution, presented the Junior ROTC Award to the outstanding cadet at the Honors Ceremony for the Thunderbolts Regiment held on May 5. Award winner Jade Kight is pictured above with Captain DeCarlos Ware, who is in charge of the JROTC at Southeastern Early College and Career Academy. Jade, who was com mander of the regiment this year, is a junior at Montgomery County High School. tu«-TeadkabLe MorvteKf: How is the Hiawatha Belt connected with the phrase “bury the hatchet”? The Hiawatha Belt was named for Hiawatha, a precolonial Native American leader who persuaded the Senecas, Cayugas, Onondagas, Oneidas, and Mohawks to make peace and become the Five Nations of the Iroquois Confederacy. When the Confederacy was formed, each nation had its own coun cil to govern its people, but under one com mon law, one heart, and one mind. The Hiawatha belt consists of five symbols joined together. The first represents the Mohawk, the Eastern Doorkeeper. The next indi cates the Oneida, the People of the Standing Stone. The third, which identifies the Onondaga tribe, is the tree, and legend records that the Tree of Peace was uprooted and the leaders buried their weapons of hate, jealousy, and war beneath it as a symbol of a truce. The fourth represents the Cayuga, the People of the Swamp. The fifth belongs to the Seneca, the People of the Great Hill, the Western Doorkeeper. When there is a Grand Council of the Haudenosaunee (the Iro quois), the Hiawatha Belt is present to remind the leaders to maintain the peace and to make decisions not only for to day, but for fu ture Haudeno saunee citizens yet unborn. The Belt is extremely old. It records when these five warring nations bur ied their weapons of war to live in peace. Today, the Hiawatha Belt has been fashioned into a flag that has been flown in many places around the world. Because of Henry Wad sworth Longfellow’s famous 1855 poem “The Song of Hiawatha,” by the end of the nineteenth century “burying the hatchet” was a cliche for peacemaking on both sides of the Atlantic. Vidalia City Schools Kindergarten Registration Now Underway Fuel continued from page 1A Kindergarten registra tion for students who are new to Vidalia City Schools started on Monday, May 3, 2021, at J.D. Dickerson Pri mary School. Hours to reg ister are Monday through Friday, 7:30 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. The following forms are required for Kindergar ten registration: • Birth Certificate • Social Security Card • Proof of Residency - Current water bill, power bill, or lease agreement/ mortgage statement in the Crossword Puzzle Solution, page 12A 35 36 38 41 48 53 57 ■ ggM63 64 CLUES ACROSS 1. Large, flightless birds 38. A peninsula between the Red Set 5. Lifts and moves heavy objects and the Persian Gulf 10. Hyundai sedan 40. Actor Damon 12. Wear away by erosion 41. King Cole, musician 14. Arranged alphabetically 42. Company that rings receipts 16. Top prosecutor 44. Scatter 18. -de-sac: Dead-end street 45. Basics 19. Digital audiotape 48. Part of a door 20. Linguistics pioneer 50. Indicates silence 22. Singer DiFranco 52. Moved quickly on foot 23. Arms of the sea 53. Monetary units 25. Near-reach weapon (abbr.) 55. A place to crash 26. Ballplayer’s accessory 56. Many subconsciousses 27. You get one at the beach 57. Group of countries 28. U.S. founding father 58. About line of latitude 30. W. Australia indigenous people 63. Female follower of Bacchus 31. Amounts of time 65. A dentist can treat it 33. Put on the shelf 66. Dull brown fabrics 35. Russian dynasty member 67. Int’l nonprofit 37. City along the Elbe River CLUES DOWN 1. Midway between northeast 29. Murdered in his bathtub and east 32. Tease good-naturedly 2. Partner to cheese 34. Morsel 3. One from Utah 35. Cause persistent resentment 4. A way to move 36. A radioactive element 5. Playing cards 39. Perform in a play 6. Baseball stat 40. Witty remark: Bon 7. Long river in western Asia 43. A great place to kayak 8. Grandmothers 44. Conclude by reasoning 9. Entertainment legend Sullivan 46. In an unfavorable way 10. Steam bath room 47. Complex of nerve tissues (abbr.) 11. One who kills 49. Machine for making paper 13. Food 51. Feline 15. Swiss river 54. Yugo’s hatchback 17. Fleet 59. Check 18. Taxi 60. Press against lightly 21. Working class 61. Wind-pollinated plants 23. More (Spanish) 62. compoop 24. High schoolers’ test 64. Commercial 27. Heavily built goat antelope parent’s name. If the par ent lives with someone, we must have a current utility bill of the person you live with, along with a nota rized letter stating that you live with the person at that address. • Georgia Certificate of Immunization - Form 3231 • Georgia Certificate of Vision, Hearing, Dental, and Nutrition Screening - Form 3300 The first three items listed are required at the time of registration. How ever, all forms must be on file before your child will be considered to be regis tered for school. For more information, contact Shawn McLemore (SIS Information Special ist) at 912-537-3421. Ransomware attacks have become a growing problem for both govern ment and private sector computer systems. In ran somware attacks, hackers block access to an orga nization’s computers and threaten to keep them blocked and/or publish sensitive private informa tion unless a ransom is paid. In one example, a ran somware attack in 2018 affected nearly 3,800 city of Atlanta computers, forc ing the city to shut down its court system and delay many other services. Alpharetta-based Co lonial Pipeline reported Friday that it was the victim of an attack involving ran- ^ \j\X)(D KM Solution ’ page 12A Fun By The Numbers Like puzzles? Then you’ll love sudoku. This mind-bending puzzle will have you hooked from the moment you square off, so sharpen your pencil and put your sudoku savvy to the test! Level: Intermediate Here’s How It Works: Sudoku puzzles are formatted as a 9x9 grid, broken down into nine 3x3 boxes. To solve a sudoku, the numbers 1 through 9 must fill each row, column and box. Each number can appear only once in each row, column and box. You can figure out the order in which the numbers will appear by using the numeric clues already provided in the boxes. The more numbers you name, the easier it gets to solve the puzzle! 8 3 5 8 2 9 9 7 3 7 4 1 3 5 2 1 2 4 4 2 3 9 3 4 someware that forced one of the largest fuel transport systems in the nation to halt most of its operations. Colonial’s 5,500-mile pipe line runs from Texas to New Jersey. Woodland Oil ofVida- lia, which has approximate ly 700 to 800 customers in Toombs and Tattnall coun ties (including farmers and trucking companies but ex cluding area convenience stores) has been receiving updates from its supplier, Colonial Pipeline, several times a day. Early Tuesday, the local company received the following notice: “Colonial Pipeline is continuing to work in part nership with third-party cybersecurity experts, law enforcement, and other federal agencies to restore pipeline operations quick ly and safely. While this situation remains fluid and continues to evolve, the Colonial operations team is executing a plan that in volves an incremental pro cess that will facilitate a re turn to service in a phased approach. “Shipper nomination, scheduling, and inven tory systems are down, and nomination changes and additions cannot be accepted at this time. Co lonial will advise shippers when nominations can be updated and new sched ules produced. As Colonial resumes operations on de livery, stub lines, and main lines, the system will be op erated based on the sched ules currently in Transport 4 (a branch line supplier). “We can now report that Line 4, which runs Please see Fuel page 4A Proud of our Good Neighbor Amy D |Xon Teacher of the Year Otis J. 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