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WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 2016 BARROW NEWS-JOURNAL PAGE 13 A -M-M wa-FidihF Hi " n t u ;li : t . : BARROW COUNTY FARM BUREAU RECEIVES DISTRICT AWARDS Barrow County Farm Bureau was recognized for its outstanding member programs during the Georgia Farm Bureau 4th District Annual Meeting on Oct. 25. Pictured, left to right, are: BCFB president Ray Fowler; BCFB office manager Staci Hubbard, who received the 4th District Outstanding Office Manager Award; GFB president Gerald Long and BCFB Legislative Committee Chairman Terry Hollifield, who accepted the 4th District Outstanding Legislative Program Award. (Photo courtesy of Georgia Farm Bureau) Farm Bureau receives District Awards The Barrow Coun ty Farm Bureau (BCFB) was recognized for its outstanding member pro grams during the Georgia Farm Bureau 4th District annual meeting, held Oct. 25 in Greensboro. Ray Fowler is the BCFB president. The BCFB Legislative Committee, chaired by Terry Hollifield. received the GFB 4th District Out standing Legislative Pro gram Award. Among its other activi ties, the committee planned a legislative meeting with elected officials from the local and state levels. The meeting, attended by 65 people, allowed area farmers to interact with county commissioners, state representatives and senators. Farmers were present ed with the opportunity to raise concerns about pub lic policies affecting their farms. BCFB office manager Staci Hubbard received the 4th District Out standing Office Manag er Award. Hubbard has worked for BCFB for the past three years and was promoted to office manag er in 2015. As office manager, she coordinates all of BC’FB's agricultural advocacy and literacy activities. Founded in 1937. Geor gia Farm Bureau is the state's largest general farm organization and has 158 county offices. Its volunteer members actively participate in local, state and national activities that promote agriculture awareness to their non-farming neigh bors. GFB offers its members a wide variety of bene fits. including insurance, but enrollment in member benefits is optional and not a requirement for mem bership. NGMC offers new treatment for heart patients Northeast Geor gia Medical Center (NGMC) now has a device smaller than a dime that can help keep heart failure patients from being admitted to the hospital. Approved in late May by the U.S. Food and Drug Administra tion (FDA), the Car- dioMEMS HF System is a miniature, battery-free implantable sensor/mon itor. A catheter delivery system deploys the sen sor permanently within a pulmonary artery. The CardioMEMS system continuously measures the patient's heart rate and artery pressures. On October 19, Chris topher Leach, MD. implanted the system in a patient for the first time at NGMC Gaines ville. “The CardioMEMS HF System is an innova tive technology and has the ability to treat and improve the outcome for heart failure patients,” said Dr. Leach, an inter ventional cardiologist with The Heart Center of NGMC. “Once implanted, the wireless sensor sends pressure readings to a monitoring system. We are now able to get real numbers and measure ments in real time.” Heart failure is a dis ease that leaves patients in a dangerous state, in which symptoms can worsen at any time - usually resulting in extended hospitaliza tion. The CardioMEMS system allows a patient’s cardiologist to monitor their symptoms both day and night. “When a patient has increased artery pres sures, it's the first sign that there is an abnor mality,” said Bren da Hott, MD. medical director of Heart Fail ure at NGMC. “If those symptoms are detected when it is happening, we can change the patient’s care plan and therapy - which thereby reduc es the likelihood that they would progress to requiring hospitaliza tion.” You can request an appointment to speak with a cardiologist by visiting www.heartng- mc.org or calling 770- 534-2020. Attend The Church Of Your Choice This Week! Smith Memory Chapel Funerals • Cremations 755AtlannHwy.SE | Winder,GA30860 770-867-4553 | www.smithmernorychapel.com — I ft © BENTLEY Assisted Living at CzA c yt/tmiivifey 50 Sumner Way Jefferson i87i 706-687-7000 Chiropractic 19373 Dr. Matthew W. Ryan Neck & Back Pain Headaches Sciatica Sports Injuries Auto & Work Inujuries Mon-Fri 206 E. 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Acts 2:44-45 A ristotle claimed that humans are political animals, meaning that we live in a political society or community, remarking further that only a beast or a god would live by himself away from others. One implication of this view is that our minds are part and parcel of the social fabric. Our minds develop socially, by being raised to speak a particular language in a particular culture. And we are literally connected to other people's brains in that the smile on our face will register in their brain and cause their brain to make them smile, and their smiles will have the same effect on us. We have been taught the message of individualism for so long that we don't often see the many ways in which we are connected. Our minds truly are social, think of how often we complete each other's sentences or feel each other's joys and sorrows. But, the philosophy of individualism emphasizes our separateness and makes us think that we can be just as fully human as distinct individuals, as we can when we are part of a larger group like a family or a society. Since we live in a world where it is possible to live alone, and more people are choosing to do so, it appears that at times we hold up the individual as more important than the collective. (Jnited HOSPICE (800) 943-4089 or (706) 552-1699 www.united-hospice.com 435 Hawthorne Ave., Ste. 200, Athens Lie# 029-0269-H • Services provided regardless of patient's ability to pay • Volunteers to assist with patient and caregiver support and/or to offer companionship are always welcome Tim’s Appliance Service 678-863-3676 jTim Aaron, Owner Appliances Water Heaters M Disposals Specializing in Whirlpool, Maytag, Frigidaire & GE 21542 WAL-MART SUPERCENTER 440 Atlanta Hwy. 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