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Jeanie Allen, 60 Years Strong See page 1B The Vidalia Advance Established 1901 The Lyons Progress Established 1894 Your Newspaper - Toombs, Montgomery & Wheeler County, Georgia Shower Mom with Love this Mother’s Day with the Sausage & Hashbrown Casserole See page May 3, 2023 For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong. - H. L. Mencken News BYTES Community Food Drive Boy Scout Troop 933 is collecting canned goods and non-per ishable items for God's Storehouse until June 27. Dona tions may be dropped off at the drop-off box on the front porch of the Vi dalia Boy Scout Hut, located at 102 Stockyard Road be side the tennis courts. For more in formation, contact Scoutmaster Brett Copeland at 706- 476-1684. Art In The Loft A free Student Art Exhibit featuring the work of students at the Art By Gwen Stu dio will be show cased in the loft of the Historic Pal The atre until May 14. The exhibit is open daily from 10 a.m. until 4 p.m. and 6 p.m. until 9 p.m. on weekdays, and from 1 p.m. until 6 p.m. on weekends. National Day of Prayer The Community Na tional Day of Prayer ceremony will be held at 6:30 p.m. on Thursday, May 4, at the Toombs County Courthouse. For more information, contact Vicki Tillery at 912-293-2381. IN THIS ISSUE Editorials Page 6A Obituaries Page 10A From the Record Page 5A Your Mind On Line Page 3A Sports Page 1 B SUBSCRIBE AND SAVE 30% OFF NEWSSTAND IMV Call 537-3131 (or delivery! VHS Students Hit The Big Screen Courtesy of Vidalia High School GOOD IMPRESSION - Sharpe says that it is the good impression which the students left on HOPE GIVERS Founder and CEO Tamlin Hall that helped the students gain the opportunity to create these short television spots, which will be aired on Georgia Public Broadcasting (GPB). L to R: Khaleece Lee, Dottie McDaniel, Jada Clements. Vidalia High School’s Audio Video students recently partnered with Emmy® Award-winning PBS series, HOPE GIVERS, to create hope-inspiring content that will be streamed on Georgia Public Broad casting’s (GPB) streaming service later this year. In the Fall of 2022, Audio Video Instructor Jackson Sharpe, and Sal ly D. Meadows Elementary School Media Specialist Carrie Beth Davis carried a group of five Vidalia High School students to Georgia Public Broadcasting’s studio in Atlanta. Four of these five students were fi nalists in The Hope Film Challenge, a national competition where stu dents produced, filmed, and edited a short video inspiring hope. “Our students made a really good impression with HOPE GIV ERS Founder and CEO Tamlin Please see VHS page 13A Alamo Joins Glenwood And Wheeler County To Support November SPLOST Referendum By Deborah Clark Regional Editor dclarkadvance@gmail. com In its regular session on April 17, the Alamo City Council passed a res olution agreeing to join the Wheeler County Commission and Glenwood City Council in scheduling a No vember referendum to call for a one cent special local option sales tax. The measure, if approved by voters, would take effect on April 1, 2024. City of Alamo representatives had deferred acting on the referen dum at a regular evening session on March 20. The Council had met ear lier that day in a called session about the referendum with representatives of Wheeler County government and Glenwood Mayor G.M. Joiner. Joiner said the Glenwood City Council approved scheduling the referendum in its regular April 4 session. Both the City of Glenwood and the City of Alamo derived about Please see SPLOST page 4A Georgia Power Reduces Fuel Costs Recovery Request By Dave Williams Bureau Chief Capitol Beat News Service Georgia Power has significantly reduced its request to recover higher fuel costs from custom ers. In a filing with the state Public Service Commission (PSC) dated Monday, Georgia Power is seeking to re cover about $6.6 billion, down more than $1 bil lion from the request the company submitted to the PSC in February. As a result, the hit on the average residential bill - for customers who use 1,000 kilowatt-hours of electricity per month - is down from $23 to $15.90. The utility’s request is based on the actual un- Please see Fuel page 2A Pine Crest Cemetery Committee II Kicks Off Fundraising Campaign By Deborah Clark Regional Editor dclarkadvance@gmail.com The future of Vidalia’s historic Pine Crest Cemetery was the focus of a gathering at Brice House in the Charles and preserve Vidalia’s princi pal cemetery and to kick off Phase I of a fundraising cam paign. Among those mixing at the evening event were mem bers of the Committee, City of Vidalia representatives, 4 (0 I 1 PINE CREST CEMETERY community on April 26. The event was sponsored by the Pine Crest Cemetery Com mittee II to create awareness for its mission to improve and those who have ties to the cemetery — either be cause they have relatives bur- Please see Pine Crest page 2A Photo by Deborah Clark FUNDRAISING CAMPAIGN - Harry Moses, one of the Pine Crest Cemetery Committee members, holds up one of the new brochures outlining plans to raise funds to upgrade and preserve Pine Crest Cemetery. A new Trust has been created to receive funds for this purpose. The Committee has also updated a directory of burials begun in 2000 by Mose Coleman, among many other endeavors,
