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State Briefs
Games struggle for
funding
ATLANTA (MNS) - The
Georgia State Games has
run out of state money for
the first time since the ama
teur athletics competition
began 17 years ago.
Now officials with the
largely volunteer-based
organization are scrambling
to raise enough money to
ensure the games will con
tinue next summer.
The Legislature meet
ing earlier this year did not
set aside any funds for the
group, which has seen its
budget appropriation dwin
dle in recent years as sup
port from the governor’s
office waned.
“We did have a little bit of
a reserve built up for a rainy
day,” Eric Pfeifer, executive
director for Georgia State
Games Commission, said
about the group’s finances.
“Unfortunately, that rainy
day has lasted for over five
years.
“We’re talking month to
month right now.”
This year’s games, which
feature Olympic sports rang
ing from boxing to diving,
wrapped up this weekend in
Marietta.
The month-long state
championships drew about
8,000 youth and adult com
petitors for 33 events.
The games cost about
$2 million each year, with
most of that coming from
corporate sponsorships and
in-kind donations like vol
unteers or supplies.
The state in previous years
had given up to $350,000
for the games, which the
Legislature created decades
ago as part of the effort
to lure the Olympics to
Atlanta.
When Gov. Sonny Perdue
topk office, he recommend
ed cutting funding for the
games each year, but legisla
tors repeatedly added some
amount back into the bud
get though at much smaller
levels.
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Perdue’s press secre
tary Bert Brantley said the
games have not been consid
ered a high priority in the
governor’s budget.
“We have numerous
requests for funding, and
we have to pick and choose
based on what our priorities
are,” he said. “I think at
some point the hope was that
they would be self-sustain
ing and that they wouldn’t
rely on public support.”
Perdue also has not
appointed the majority
of the games’ commission
members he is responsible
for, leaving only four of the
17 seat filled.
Steve Anthony, who is one
of the appointed members,
said game organizers have
applied for federal dollars
for the first time and will
kick up fund-raising efforts.
Anthony, who once worked
for former House Speaker
Tom Murphy and helped
write the legislation creating
the games in the late 1980 s,
said he does not know why
the program never makes
the cut for Perdue’s budget
recommendations.
“It dovetails nicely with
his and the First Lady’s
(Mary Perdue) initiative on
health,” Anthony said. “It’s
served Georgia for 17 years.
Literally tens of thousands
of people have participat
ed.”
One of those participants
this year was Kim Ohlsson,
a speech therapist in Athens
who also owns Black Sheep
Farm, a horse riding acad
emy in Bogart.
Ohlsson and four of her
students competed in Pine
Mountain this weekend in
the games’ equine events.
“It bring people from all
over the state of Georgia
so you get to meet a lot
of different people and peo
ple who wouldn’t normally
come out and compete,” said
Ohlsson, chair of the eques
trian championships.
She added that national
competitions often can be
too expensive for some rid
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ers and that the annual state
games give her students a
training goal.
“It keeps the kids motivat
ed because there’s so many
kids that don’t have a sport
to do,” she said. “We’re get
ting got be such a fat nation
that if we take the emphasis
off athletics it’s not going to
be a good thing.”
Anthony said he is opti
mistic that the Legislature
will restore funding next
year.
He said he spoke with
budget chairmen Rep. Ben
Harbin, R-Evans, and Sen.
Jack Hill, R-Reidsville, was
encouraged that the law
makers still support the
project.
Anthony said he was told
the money this year - a pro
posed $50,000 - mistakenly
got left out during last-min
ute budget negotiations.
“The games will continue
to operate, and we’re doing
what we can to keep it going
between now and January,”
he said.
But Tammy Stout, execu
tive director for the Greater
Augusta Sports Council, said
she thinks it will become
more difficult to loosen the
state’s purse strings for such
events.
“The state dollars are
shrinking for non-essential
activity,” she said. “Tourism
is growing for the state, but
you definitely have to prove
that return on the dollar.”
Augusta hosted the state
games in 1999 and 2002.
Officials estimated that the
2002 events brought a $3
million economic impact to
the local economy, through
competitors and their fami
lies staying in hotels to spec
tators eating out in restau
rants.
“Projects such as sport
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roads and bridges,” Stout
said, pointing out Georgia’s
growing population needs.
“We’re forced to rely more
on sponsorship dollars and
local governments.”
Fire burning out on
Wassaw Island
SAVANNAH (MNS) - A
large fire on Wassaw Island
has consumed about 930
acres on the wildlife refuge
there.
The fire started from light
ning strikes Thursday and
about 25 firefighters and
helicopters carrying water
buckets have kept the fire
under control.
It’s burned slowly but has
created a lot of smoke, said
Pat Metz, supervisor refuge
ranger for the Savannah
Coastal Refuges.
Nearby residents on
Skidaway Island have
noticed the fire, but Metz
said there is no danger of it
spreading. Large swaths of
marshland separate Wassaw
from neighboring islands.
There are a few homes on
the island, but Metz said
those structures are in a
safe area. She said the fire
appears to be burning itself
out with the help of the fire
fighters. Wassaw Island ref
uge includes 10,053 acres,
but only 1,700 acres are con
sidered dry land. The rest is
mostly marsh.
Though the fire has dis
rupted a good bit of that
usable land, it’s not all bad
news, Metz said, because
it clears the way for new
growth and knocks out
undergrowth dust.
“It’s really beneficial,”
Metz said. “The fire is doing
the work we probably would
have done at some point in
the future.”
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Obituaries
FURNEY H. Ml SHOE. SR.
WARNER ROBINS - Furney H. Mishoe, Sr., 78, passed
away Monday. Services will be held at 11 a.m. today at
Gateway Fellowship Church of God with interment follow
ing in Magnolia Park Cemetery. Go to www.mcculloughfh.
com to sign the Online Registry for the family.
LOIS SHERFIELD GIBSON
PERRY - Lois Sherfield Gibson, 86, died Tuesday at
Serenity Gate. Funeral services will be today at 11 a.m. at
First Baptist Church in Perry with interment in Woodlawn
Cemetery in Perry. Visitation was hefd Wednesday at Watson-
Hunt Funeral Home. Born in Ellittsville, Ind., Gibson grad
uated from Spencer High School. She worked as a lab tech
nician in the Biological and Pharmaceutical Department at
Eli Lilly Blood Bank. She was a homemaker and a member
of First Baptist Church in Perry for 55 years. She was a
member of the Dorcus Sunday School Class. She was also
a former member of the Perry Business Women’s Club.
She is survived by her husband of 61 years, Alvin B. Gibson;
children, Bonnie Bozeman (Bert), Michael A. Gibson, and
John R. Gibson (Lorie); grandchildren, Angie, Natalie, and
Blake, Bruce, Megan and Jared; siblings, Donna Dorsett
(Fred), Barbara Withem (Benny), Patty Sarkin (Harry),
John Sherfield (Earnestine), and Gary Sherfield (Patty).
Please sign the online register at watsonhunt.com.
Auditor: No evidence
of 'cooking books'
ATLANTA (MNS) - Gov.
Sonny Perdue and the
Georgia Department of
Revenue apparently didn’t
intentionally lowball tax col
lection numbers to justify
Perdue’s veto of a property
tax rebate, according to a
report issued by'the state
auditor.
“There was no evidence to
suggest that the Department
of Revenue deliberately
delayed cashing income tax
checks to reflect artificially
low April 2007 revenues,”
Auditor Russell Hinton said
in a brief report issued by
his office. “An analysis of tax
deposit patterns was con
sistent with the patterns of
recent years.”
Hinton was out of the
office Tuesday and could not
be reached for comment, an
employee said.
The probe into the tax
numbers began after the
governor’s office and the
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revenue agency reported an
unusual surge in income tax
collections in May. The jump
offset disappointing num
bers from March and April,
which Perdue had cited as a
reason to strike a $142 mil
lion one-time property-tax
rebate the General Assembly
passed as part of a midyear
spending bill.
Revenue Commissioner
Bart Graham blamed the
peculiar numbers on tax
returns delayed by slow
postal service and the fact
that a weekend and federal
holiday allowed taxpayers to
file their taxes on April 17,
two days later than normal.
But some lawmakers were
suspicious of the May num
bers after a legislative ses
sion that featured a brutal
budget showdown between
Perdue, a Republican and
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