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The ADVANCE, November 17, 2021/Page 11A
RTCA Announces Students of the Month
Carter Tomberlin
Mandy Johnson
Ansley Akins
Robert Toombs Chris
tian Academy has an
nounced Students of the
Month for October. RTCA’s
lower school Student of the
Month is kindergartner
Carter Tomberlin, mid
dle school Student of the
Month is 8th grader Mandy
Johnson, and high school
Student of the Month is
sophomore Ansley Akins.
Altama Museum of Art&History
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MUSEUM RECEIVES DONATION — The Second Century Project of the Altama Museum
of Art and History/1911 Brazell House receives funds from members of the Vidalia Wom
an's Club, The Museum will use the donation to continue renovations and updates to
the historic building, including a new sign. L to R, Dan Brown, Altama Board of Trustees
President, and Jennifer Martinez, Director of the Museum, accept a check from VWC
members Bonnie Brown and Rebekah Arnold.
Photo by Deborah Clark
HONORING THOSE WHO SERVED — Alamo City Administrator Jeff Floyd, left, and Ala
mo City Councilman Thomas J. Lott, stand next to the city's Veterans Monument fol
lowing a ceremony at the site on November 11. Additional names were added to the
monument recently and were read during the ceremony.
Names of 16 Veterans
Added to Monument
By Deborah Clark
Regional Editor
dclarkadvance@gmail. com
A ceremony held on
Veterans Day in downtown
Alamo honored the sacri
fices of Wheeler County
residents who served the
United States in times of
war, but the occasion was
made even more significant
as an additional 16 names
were added to a monument
erected several years ago in
a tribute to these service
members.
Alamo Mayor Pamela
Lee officiated at the 9:30
a.m. ceremony during
which City Administra
tor Jeff Floyd and Alamo
City Councilman Thomas
J. Lott, Jr., explained how
a project initiated over the
summer updated the names
on the monument that were
unveiled on Veterans Day.
After Floyd and Lott
announced their campaign
to solicit the names of veter
ans who served in Afghani
stan and Iraq for inscription
on the city monument, local
citizens responded with ad
ditional names for service
during other wars as well.
Contributions made the
inscriptions possible, Floyd
said, as he thanked the com
munity for its support of the
project.
As a group of local
dignitaries and families of
service members who were
being honored assembled
at the Veterans Memorial
in the Alamo flower garden
on Main Street, Lott read
the names of veterans who
served in wars extending
from World War II to Iraq:
World War II — Gor-
sieur T. Bryant, Sr., Russell
B. Harrelson, William M.
Hood, and Allen Oliver.
Korean War — Willie
C. Thomas and Samuel H.
Pittman.
Vietnam — James L.
Burkhalter and Donald W.
Wooten.
Lebanon and Grana
da — Alton Holloway.
Persian Gulf — D.
Bryant Dallis, James C. Lee,
Jr., Chandalier M. Rivera,
and Lorenzo Simmons.
Iraq — Joe. D. Bryant,
Thomas J. Lott, and Shawn
A. Murray.
The monument to
Wheeler County veterans
records the names of ser
vice members dating from
World War I to 21 st century
conflicts. It was dedicated
on May 27, 1996, by the
Jenkins-Patterson Post # 193
of the American Legion and
its Ladies Auxiliary.
