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Library celebrates Children’s Book Week
By Sharon Blank,
Special Contributor
for
The Times
May 1 through May 6 is Children’s
Book Week. It’s a perfect excuse to
bring your kids and grandkids to the
library and see them light up as they find
the perfect book.
The best time to bring your child to the
library is Tuesdays at 3:30 pm, when we have our wonderful Storytime! During Storytime,
we will not only read the children a book (or maybe two) but there will be a fun activity or
craft related to the story that they can do with us. Not only is it fun, but a great way to help
children improve their reading skills and develop a love of reading. Plus, it’s a terrific way
for the kids to find their new favorite story!
The touring exhibit from the Georgia Center for the Holocaust, called “Georgia’s
Response to the Holocaust: Survivors and Liberators” is currently on display in the library’s
multipurpose room. It will remain on display until Tuesday, May 16. This exhibit is made
available through a partnership between the Georgia Center for the Holocaust and the
Georgia Public Library Service.
The Jenkins County Memorial Library Board will meet at 10:30 am on Thursday, April 27
at the library. The Screven-Jenkins Regional Library Board will meet at 4 pm on Thursday,
May 11 at the Screven County Library.
Want to know more about what’s happening at the library? Head over to www facebook.
com/jenkinscountymemoriallibrary and see what’s up!
New at the library
3 DAYS TO LIVE by James Patterson. It’s three novels in one book!
In “3 Days to Live” a CIA-agent bride and her husband are poisoned,
leaving her 72 hours to get revenge. In “Women and Children First”, a
tech executive in Washington D.C. turns death threats against his family
into a chance to relive his military glory days. In “The Housekeepers”,
an LA doctor trusts her two housekeepers, but when she turns up dead,
the two fight for control of her estate, and wind up facing the Russian
mob.
Well, that’s all for now - see you at the library!
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Georgia State Trooper Trent Kirchhefer stands with K-9 officer Vilma as Gov. Brian Kemp signs a bill clarifying
penalties for harming a police dog, Kemp also signed a number of public safety bills including one stiffening
penalties for gang crimes and recruiting gang members.
Governor signs bill stiffening
Georgia gang penalties
Special to The Times
Gov. Brian Kemp signed
tougher penalties for gang
crimes into Georgia law on
Wednesday at a gathering
of county sheriffs, marking
the passage of one of his top
legislative priorities of 2023
after the Republican put
fighting crime at the forefront
of his reelection campaign last
year. "We specifically chose
this venue today to sign a few
pieces of legislation to let you
know that we're in the fight
with you as partners," Kemp
told members of the Georgia
Sheriffs' Association meeting at
Lake Lanier Islands.
Senate Bill 44 adds a
mandatory five years to
prison sentences for anyone
convicted of a gang crime and
10 years for anyone convicted
of recruiting minors into a
gang."We're helping to disrupt
their recruitment efforts, and
we will not let up until gangs
in Georgia are completely gone
because their members are
behind bars and are unable to
bring new members to replace
them," Kemp said.
The law, which goes into
effect July 1, reverses a trend in
Georgia championed by Kemp's
predecessor, fellow Republican
Gov. Nathan Deal, of reducing
mandatory sentences or
refusing to add new ones.
Democrats opposing the
measure said long prison
terms would be expensive for
taxpayers, despite little proof
that they sway anyone from
committing a crime. Critics also
said the bill puts unreasonable
restrictions on judges in
sentencing.
Under Georgia's previous
anti-gang law, anyone convicted
of criminal gang activity can
be sentenced to an additional
five to 20 years in prison, but
a judge has the power to waive
extra prison time.
Judges could order less
prison time if they list specific
findings, including that a
defendant didn't have a gun or
has no prior felony conviction.
Those convicted of recruiting
minors into gangs would be
sentenced to at least 10 years of
prison time unless a prosecutor
asked the court to cut the
sentence because a defendant
provided substantial assistance
against other criminals.
The measure also mandates
that judges require cash bail
from defendants who in the
previous five years had been
convicted of skipping out on
bail or had an arrest warrant
issued for missing a court date. It
also requires judges to consider
a person's previous criminal
history before releasing them
without requiring cash bail.
Supporters argue the state
needs to lock up prior offenders
before trial to prevent further
crimes, although judges are
already supposed to deny bail
to people they determine to be
dangers to public safety. Kemp
said the rules will "address the
revolving door of the criminal
justice system."
"I know you all, like our state
partners, are tired of chasing the
same people day after day and
night after night," Kemp said.
The governor also signed
seven other bills, including:
— House Bill 227, making
it a crime to use electronic
or physical means to attack
infrastructure,
— Senate Bill 155, clarifying
the state law making it a crime
to harm a police dog or a search
and rescue dog.
— Senate Bill 215, allowing
police officers to remove their
own or their spouse's home
address and phone number
from all property records
on a county government's
website.
— Senate Bill 60, making
it harder to buy or sell
automotive catalytic
converters in an attempt to
reduce thefts.
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