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HOPE changes could be made less stringent
By Brandon Larrabee
Morris News Service
ATLANTA - Reserves for
the HOPE Scholarship pro
gram would have to drop by
at least 10 percent before
students would be hit with
potential cuts, under a bill
sponsored by three influen
tial House Republicans.
The legislation is spear
headed by key lawmak
ers who deal with the
state’s budget and its net
work of colleges and uni
versities: Appropriations
Chairman Ben Harbin, R-
Evans, Higher Education
Chairman Bill Hembree, R-
Douglasville, and Rep. Bob
Smith, R-Watkinsville, who
heads the legislative panel
that oversees the university
system’s budget.
HOPE, which stands for
Helping Outstanding Pupils
Educationally, currently
pays tuition, most fees and
a book allowance to scholars
graduating high school with
a B average.
House Bill 229 would
make it harder to set off
the “triggers” approved by
the Legislature three years
ago, when a review of HOPE
touched off concerns that
the lottery funding used to
bankroll the scholarships
might not keep up with an
explosion in college enroll
ment.
One of the key reforms
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would begin slicing pay
ments for books and fees
when the program’s reserves
dropped. Half of the S3OO
book allowance would be
eliminated after the first
year the fund lost money,
funding for books would be
abolished the second year
of falling reserves, and the
payments for fees would end
after a third drop.
“What we realized is that
if we fell just $1 short /E/ the
trigger mechanisms would
go into place,” Hembree said.
“When you look at that, it
looks little harsh.”
After a few years, with no
drop in the revenues, law
makers saw an opportunity
to be less tough, Smith said.
“It’s like zero-tolerance
right now,” he said. “We’re
allowing a little bit of lee
way.”
Harbin, the measure’s
lead sponsor, said the new
measure would still protect
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the program’s reserves by
going ahead with the cuts if
the fund falls by 10 percent.
“But at the same time, we
don’t punish the students
just because of a minor fluc
tuation,” he said.
House Minority Leader
Dußose Porter, D-Dublin,
said he was willing to con
sider the measure. Porter, a
harsh critic of some of the
HOPE cuts despite serving
on the House-Senate panel
that hammered out a com
promise on the measure,
said the books and fees trig
gers were approved to pro
tect the program.
“Ten percent may be rea
sonable,” he said.
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Obituaries
MARY FRANCES VAUGHN ___ _
WARNER ROBINS - Mary Frances Vaughn, 88, passed
away Wednesday. Vaughn was born May 16, 1918 in
Talladega, Ala. Her husband, Earl Vaughn, parents, Howard
Terry and Allie Bonnie Terry, and siblings, Lucie Eddins,
John H. Terry and Eugene S. Terry, all preceded her in
death. Survivors include three children, a sister and several
grandchildren. Services will be private.
MARIE ,1. KIEFER
Warner Robins - Marie J. Kiefer, 81, went to be with
the Lord on Thursday February 1, 2007. The funeral
mass will be celebrated at 11 a.m. Monday at Sacred
Heart Catholic Church. Burial will follow in Andersonville
National Cemetery. Father Fred Nijem will officiate.
Mrs. Kiefer was born in New York to the late Harold W.
and Sophie Biesenger Lewis. She was a member of Sacred
Heart Catholic Church. Her husband, Arthur J. Kiefer Jr.,
daughter Jeannette Kiefer, and grandson Michael Kiefer, all
preceded her in death.
Survivors include her sons: John Kiefer of Atlanta, Jim
(Carol) Kiefer, Jeff (Regina) Kiefer, Joe (Donna) Kiefer
all of Warner Robins, Jay (Tammie) Kiefer of Princeton,
Wisconsin and Justin (Kristi) Kiefer of Panama City, Fla.
Brothers: John C. Lewis of California and Harold W. Lewis,
II of Florida. 17 grandchildren.
A Rosary will be said at 4 p.m. Sunday in the chapel of
Heritage Memorial Funeral Home followed by a time of
visitation until 6 p.m.
Georgia's groundhog sees no
shadow, predicting early spring
LILBURN (AP)-Georgia’s
groundhog is predicting an
early spring.
Awoken by the ringing
of bells, TV camera lights
and cheering, General
Beauregard Lee emerged
from his antebellum man
sion at 7:35 a.m. Friday,
went around to the back of
his house before a crowd
of 100 people and saw no
shadow. Beau’s northern col
league, Punxsutawney Phil,
saw no shadow either.
Tradition holds that it
means spring will come early.
If the groundhog had seen
his shadow, Georgia would
have been in for six more
weeks of winter.
“It’s hard to believe we’ll
have six weeks of not bad
weather,” said Art Rilling,
owner of the Yellow River
Game Ranch where the
Georgia groundhog lives.
“But that’s what he says,
that’s what we’re going to
live with.”
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 2007 ♦
Rilling said “Beau” comes
out of the mansion on his
own, but just before the
annual forecasting event, a
“scattered and smothered”
supper dish of Waffle House
hash browns is placed before
his door to entice him to
come out.
The warm winter prompt
ed one change for the
Georgia groundhog _ for the
first time, he’s been sleep
ing in a hole that he dug in
front of his house instead
of inside his straw-filled
mansion, Rilling said. But
the groundhog moved back
inside the mansion when
weather turned cold again
earlier this week.
No official records of
Beau’s forecasts have been
kept. His owners claim a 94
percent accuracy rating.
But one miss can be a big
gie. Beau called for an early
spring in 1993 and the worst
blizzard in decades blasted
the South
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