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Wednesday, April 10, 2024 - Page 7
A Ward from
Senator Jon Dssoff
Sen. Ossoff Announces Funding
Increase for Border Security
U.S. Senator Jon Ossoff last week announced a funding boost to purchase new
border security technology.
Sen. Ossoff announced this year’s bipartisan government funding bill, which
passed Congress and has now been signed into law, includes a 23% increase in
funding to purchase and deploy next-generation technology to help strengthen
border security, combat human trafficking, and prevent illegal drugs from
crossing the border.
The funding will help purchase new surveillance towers, new tunnel detection
technology, mobile surveillance technology, and more.
“Illegal fentanyl trafficking is devastating Georgia families and putting our
kids at risk. I helped bring Republicans and Democrats together to fund new
border security technology that will help improve detection of illegal fentanyl and
narcotics at points of entry and will help secure the border,” Sen. Ossoff said.
Sen. Ossoff continues working to strengthen border security and has worked to
advance bipartisan legislation to hire and retain more border security officers.
Earlier this month, Sen. Ossoff introduced the Deploy Fentanyl Scanners Act
of 2024 to help deploy scanners at ports of entry to better identify contraband,
including fentanyl, being smuggled across the border through personal vehicles.
Last month, Sen. Ossoff joined a group of Senators calling on President Biden
to include robust Federal funding for U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP)
drug trafficking prevention initiatives in his FY2025 budget.
Last year, Sen. Ossoff helped pass the bipartisan Securing America’s Ports of
Entry Act through the U.S. Senate Homeland Security & Governmental Affairs
Committee, which would require U.S. Customs and Border Protection to hire,
train, and assign no less than 600 additional CBP officers a year, until the
agency’s staffing needs are met, to secure ports of entry across the country.
In October 2023, Sen. Ossoff delivered $700,000 in additional funding for the
Georgia Bureau of Investigations (GBI) to supplement their evidence analysis and
efforts to clear GBI’s criminal investigation backlog related to fentanyl.
Get your holiday
books now
Hurry as fast as you can to the library - because we’re having a nice long
Christmas break this year! The library will be closed from Thursday, December
21 through Tuesday, December 26, and will reopen on Wednesday, December 27.
We will also be closed on Monday, January 1 for New Year’s Day.
This of course means that if you’re addicted to reading like so many of our
patrons, you’ll want to come in and check out plenty of books and/or movies to
keep yourself and your family members happy over the long weekend. If, however,
you should happen to run out of reading or watching materials, you’re in luck! We
have two wonderful apps available for free with your library card that will help
you enjoy yourselves while the library is closed.
First off is Libby, where you can borrow ebooks and audiobooks and download
them to your phone, tablet, or computer without ever leaving your couch.
Second is our newer service, Kanopy! You can watch streaming videos,
documentaries, and TV shows from any location that has internet service, and
they’re all amazing. Whether you would like an Oscar-winning romance or a
class on cooking healthy (especially important with all the goodies you’ll find
everywhere this time of year) you can settle in and enjoy quality entertainment
and information. Got kids that are bored? There’s loads of award-winning
children’s programs and movies as well, ranging from Sesame Street to read-along
storybooks to lessons in science, math and languages!
Want to know more about what’s happening at the library, and what
that inventive elf Daniel is up to now? Head over to www.facebook.com/
jenkinscountymemoriallibrary and find out!
New at the library
LL COOL J PRESENTS THE STREETS WIN: 50 YEARS OF HIP-HOP
GREATNESS by LL Cool J, Vikki Tobak & Alec Banks. In the past few decades,
hip-hop has exploded in popularity. Learn how hip-hop went from block party
performances to one of the most well-known yet controversial musical styles of
modern times. Also included are rare photos from historic moments in hip-hop
history, and stories from the people who were there, including legends who rarely
appear talk to journalists any more.
Well, that’s all for now - see you at the library!
Today is the 99th day of 2024 and the 21st day of spring.
TODAYS HISTORY: In 1904, Britain and France signed the Entente Cordiale, a
series of agreements that formalized peace between the two countries.
In 1935, Congress approved the Emergency Relief Appropriation Act, establishing
the Works Progress Administration (WPA).
In 2005, more than 4 million mourners gathered in Rome for the funeral of Pope
John Paul II.
In 2010, President Barack Obama and Russian President Dmitry Medvedev
signed the New START nuclear arms control treaty.
TODAYS BIRTHDAYS: Harvey Cushing (1869-1939), surgeon; Mary Pickford
(1892-1979), actress; Sonja Henie (1912-1969), ice skater; Betty Ford (1918-
2011), first lady; Shecky Greene (1926-2023), comedian; Kofi Annan (1938-2018),
diplomat; Gary Carter (1954-2012), baseball player/sportscaster; Robin Wright
(1966-), actress; Patricia Arquette (1968-), actress; Katee Sackhoff (1980-),
actress; Felix Hernandez (1986-), baseball player
TODAYS FACT: Dutch physicist Heike Kamerlingh Onnes discovered
superconductivity during experiments with mercury wire immersed in liquid
helium on this day in 1911.
TODAYS SPORTS: In 1975, Frank Robinson of the Cleveland Indians made his
debut as Major League Baseball's first African American manager. Robinson also
continued to play for the team, hitting a home run in his first at-bat of the day.
TODAYS QUOTE: "Often we mistake stability, in terms of security and economic
activity, to mean a country is doing well. We forget the third and important pillar:
rule of law and respect for human rights." — Kofi Annan
TODAYS NUMBER: 755 — career home runs for Hank Aaron, second only to
Barry Bonds' all-time record of 762. Aaron hit his 715th career home run on this
day in 1974, breaking the record previously held by Babe Ruth.
TODAYS MOON: New moon (April 8).
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(EDITORS: For editorial questions, please contact Josh Peres at jperes@
amuniversal.com.)
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