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The ADVANCE, December 28, 2022/Page 2A
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Dr. Oliver Whipple
Oliver Whipple returned
to his hometown to make
history at Meadows Hos
pital as he performed the
first bariatric surgery there.
In July Meadows Hospital
was named by Newsweek
as one of the nation’s top
maternity centers, and in
August, Meadows once
again made history as Dr.
One of the biggest is
sues of the year in the area’s
religious community was
“The Methodist Divide,”
as on August 20, the South
Georgia Annual Confer
ence of the Methodist
Church met and officially
approved the disaffiliation
of 62 churches, including 8
area churches. At issue was
some 70 churches in the
North Georgia Confer
ence also left the UMC,
and the issue continued
with more departures over
the next few months.
While the area, like
almost everywhere else in
the country, saw its share
of crime and heartbreak,
there was also a lot of good
news to report. Vidalia
hosted its most success
ful Onion Festival ever as
the Blue Angels returned
to put on a spectacular air-
show in April, with 30,000
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new school, and transpor
tation corridors. In April,
the Greater Vidalia Cham
ber and Toombs County
Development Authority
celebrated the announce
ment by East Georgia Plas
tics (EGP) of plans to put
down roots at the Toombs
Corporate Center. EGP,
one of the largest horticul
tural container manufac
turers in North America, is
investing $4 million in the
new Lyons facility.
Also in 2022, a re
gional center for rural en
trepreneurship to be based
in Vidalia was announced,
broadband expansion got a
boost via a state grant, and
a deal was sealed for a ma
jor solar farm in Montgom
ery County.
Memorial Health
Meadows Hospital, which
serves a multicounty re
gion, continued making
great strides in providing
healthcare close to home.
Meadows announced
a new partnership with
Low Country Cancer Spe
cialists to expand cancer
treatment, and in January,
the first robotic-assisted
surgery was performed at
Meadows. To date, over
200 such surgeries have
been completed locally us
ing Intuitive Surgical’s da
Vinci robotic surgical sys
tem. In June, surgeon Dr.
Dr. Ryan Lingo
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a disagreement between
the individual churches
and the UMC on the mat
ter of homosexuality and
a few other doctrines that
differ from the original de
nomination. At that time,
people attending the air-
show alone. And record-
breaking crowds attended
Lyons’s 11th annual Real
Squeal barbecue extrava
ganza in October. Both
events drew visitors from
across the state and beyond
and demonstrated how ea
ger people were to get back
to enjoying life after the
pandemic.
Toombs County
The year 2022 came in
with a punch — literally —
as a violent storm blew into
Photo by Daniel Ford
DOME GOES UP - The dome for the new Toombs County Courthouse was hoisted in place this year. The project is
expected to be completed by Spring 2023,
Ryan Lingo, the hospital's
first neurosurgeon, joined
the staff.
In the General Primary
on May 24, T-SPLOST
passed with flying colors.
Throughout the 17-county
Heart of Georgia Altamaha
Region, which includes
Toombs, Montgomery
and Wheeler counties, vot
ers supported the 10-year
Transportation Local Op
tion Sales Tax with a yes
vote of 65.55%. The pas
sage of the measure will
ensure completion of 580
transportation infrastruc
ture projects in the area.
Vidalia on January 2 and
heavily damaged the city’s
Fire Station Number 1 on
Aimwell Road. The storm
also caused a major power
outage, with approximately
5,000 Altamaha EMC cus
tomers impacted.
The community was
shaken by a double ho
micide that occurred on
January 6 in a quiet Vidalia
neighborhood. A mother
and daughter were gunned
down by a suspect who fled
in a vehicle belonging to
one of his victims. The sus
pect managed to evade law
enforcement as he made his
way across several states.
Joshua Magual Sanders, 27,
of Birmingham, Alabama,
was arrested by U.S. Mar
shals in Flagstaff, Arizona,
and was brought back to
Toombs County to face
charges for the murders of
Denise Harden, 24, and Pa
mela Harden, 42.
In early January,
ground was broken for the
new Dr. Mark and Tonya
Spivey Public Library on
Jackson Street. The library
is expected to be complete
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