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The Jenkins County Times
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New Yorkers bike
across country
By Tyler Busch, Podcast Director
& Staff Writer
for
The Times
Honoring Moms dates
to ancient times
By Joe Brady, Editor
for
The Times
The celebration of mother’s
dates to the ancient Greeks and
Romans. These civilizations
held festivals in honor of the
mother goddesses Rhea and
Cybele. However, the modem
precedent for Mother’s Day is
the Christian festival known as
Mothering Sunday.
Over time. Mothering
Sunday shifted into a more
secular holiday, and children
would present their mothers
with flowers and other tokens
of appreciation. This custom
merged with the American
Mother’s Day in the early 1900’s.
In the 19th century, Ann Reeves Jarvis of West Virginia helped start Mothers’ Day
Work Clubs to teach local women how to properly care for their children. These clubs
later became a unifying force in the south, still divided over the Civil War. In 1868 Jarvis
organized Mothers’ Friendship Day, in which mothers gathered with Union and confederate
soldiers to promote peace.
In 1870, abolitionist and suffragette Julia Ward Howe wrote the “Mother’s Day
Proclamation,” a call to action that asked mothers to unite in promoting world peace. Howe
even campaigned in 1873 for a “Mother’s Peace Day” to be celebrated on June 2.
After Ann Reeves Jarvis’ death in 1905, her daughter, Anna Jarvis promoted Mother’s
Day as a way of honoring the sacrifices mothers made for their children. The first official
Mother’s Day celebration was held at a methodist church in Grafton, West Virginia in May
1908.
Woodrow Wilson officially signed the holiday into law for the second Sunday in May.
On a late Wednesday
afternoon, as we were
working on getting the new
issue of Jenkins County
Times “put to bed”, Kevin
Boyle and his friend Rick
Karan came walking in.
Kevin tells us that “I saw
the sign saying Times
Building and had to stop
in.” Kevin, as it turns out,
is a former local newspaper
publisher back in New
York City. Kevin was the
publisher of the Rockaway
Times for over 8 years.
The Rockaway Times is
in the Rockaway Park
neighborhood of Queens,
NY. Kevin recently retired
and his friend Rick “is in
between what he does at
work” but have been riding
bicycles together for many
years.
The two did not end up
in Sylvania randomly, they
had picked Sylvania as
one of their pit stops since
it was roughly 50 miles
from their previous stop in
Tillman, S.C. There they
stayed on a farm in a tiny
house.
With Kevin retired, and
all the free time you have
when you retire, he got the
idea to do something like
biking cross country. The
idea stemmed from a couple
of years ago when both
hiked from South Carolina
to Florida, roughly 600
miles, and both enjoyed
that biking trip greatly and
came up with the idea of
them biking cross country,
coast to coast.
They started their current
cross country biking trip
in Bluffton, S.C., and as
Kevin states, “we put our
bike wheels in the Atlantic
Ocean at Hilton Head and
the plan is to do the same
when we reach the Pacific
Ocean in about 80 days.”
If you are wondering how
they got to Sylvania, they
hiked all the way here from
Hilton Head Island!
The two chose to start
their cross-country biking
adventure in S.C., due to
warmer weather as well as
geographically, the South
Carolina coast is closer to
the west coast than New
York. Kevin says, “it's the
lazy way to get to the west
coast”.
Kevin and Rick try to
bike about 50 miles a day
or 5-6 hours a day to reach
their deadline of reaching
Oregon’s Pacific coast in
roughly 80 days. They have
a “rough route” planned for
how they will be biking to
Oregon and as Rick says,
“each individual day we’re
trying to figure out where
we’re headed that night,
where we’re going to sleep,
etc.” Rick continues stating,
“it's going to be a mixture
of motels, Airbnb’s, and
camping.” Their next leg
of their cross-country
adventure is taking them
through Louisville, GA.
Their plan is to bike to
Covington, then go south of
Atlanta, then to Nashville
and then head to Missouri.
Once they get to Missouri,
they want to go on the Katy
Trail which is a 200+ mile
trail dedicated to bicycles.
That trail is the longest
continuous recreational
rail trail in the US. “The
path is all uncertain due
to weather, " Kevin states.
The path they are taking is
to mimic Lewis and Clark’s
expedition.
I was even interviewed
on this podcast episode, so
if you want to hear a little
bit about how I ended up
choosing journalism, and
my future, take a listen.
We did not let them leave
empty handed, so they both
took some Sylvania Times’
merchandise with them.
Safe traves guys!
Give MOM
the gift
of NEWS
Minor leads deputies on chase
By Joe Brady, Editor
for
The Times
Jenkins County Sheriff’s deputies thought
they were initiating a traffic stop Thursday,
April 20 but got more than they bargained for
as the red ford Crown Vic led officers on a
brief vehicle chase. Officers were initiating
the traffic stop for an improper tag but instead
it turned into a chase as the driver, identified
as Zy’kece Alford, 17, tried to elude officers
before getting stuck. At which point, Alford
fled on foot before deputies apprehended
him on Winthrope and B&T’s. Alford was
arrested without incident and charged with:
Fleeing or attempting to elude police
officer; Obstruction of an officer
(misdemeanor); Failure to stop at stop
sign x3; Failure to maintain lane; Reckless
driving; Child restraint x3; Failure to register
vehicle/no tag; No insurance; Improper left
turn; No driver’s license.
Zy'kece Alford
Celess Deal Sharon Blank
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