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Page 6 - Wednesday, April 17, 2024
The Jenkins County Times
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High Winds
Cause Power
Outages
-Randy Hill, Special Contributor
The service territory of Planters Electric
Membership Corporation (EMC) was pummeled with
heavy rain and high winds early Thursday morning.
Member-owners experienced outages in 6 of the 7
counties served by the cooperative. At 7:45 a.m. on
Thursday, April 11, 2024, the Planters EMC Online
Outage map showed 4,760 meters affected out of the
17,896 meters served by the cooperative.
Randy Hill, Planters EMC Member Services
Manager, stated, “The winds really struck our service
territory fast and hard. The damage was sporadic in
location, with power lines mangled in one place, trees
tangled in wires in other places, some trees breaking
the lines, and several trees breaking poles. Still, in
other locations, there was no damage at all.”
Planters EMC rigorously maintains a fifty-foot
right-of-way, minimizing outages during powerful
storms or high-wind conditions. Despite this effort,
tall trees just outside the right-of-way still manage to
damage the system.
Linemen follow a time-tested and proven
procedure for restoring power, starting with main
feeders, followed by taps, and then individuals. All
power was restored around noon on Friday from the
Thursday storm, but the cooperative responded to
other isolated outages throughout the day and into
the night on Friday.
Hill adds, “No one wants the power to be restored
more than the linemen performing the strenuous
work, but we must work safely and as efficiently as
possible to get the lights back on. The employees at
Planters EMC want to thank our members for their
prayers, patience, and kind words of encouragement
shown during this recent storm event; we really
appreciate it.”
Planters EMC is a member-owned cooperative
providing electricity and related services to more
than 13,200 members in Bulloch, Burke, Effingham,
Emanuel, Jenkins, Richmond, and Screven counties.
For more information visit www.plantersemc.com.
Picture Caption: Linemen work to restore power
to a main feeder line for member-owners after
high winds wreak havoc on Planters EMC electrical
system.
LANK
Sharon Blank, Library News
Spring is thriving, and we’ve seen so many
yards full of beautiful blooms! If you’d like to
know how to make the most of your flowers,
come in and check out some of the books we
have on how to create spectacular bouquets and
floral displays. Whether your goal is to create
something lovely for your dining table or a
corsage for a young lady’s prom, you’ll find just
what you need to make it gorgeous.
One of the best things you can do for your child is
to teach them the wonders of reading, and the best
way to do it is to read to them from an early age.
Bring your child to the library on Tuesdays at 3:30
pm for our storytime, and we’ll not only read them
a wonderful story but we’ll show them how to do
a fun activity or craft related to the story as well.
Another great way to encourage reading is
to volunteer as a reader during our Reading Is
Fundamental program, to be held this Wednesday,
April 17 from 9:30 am until 10:30 am. It’s a
wonderful way to share a love of reading with
local youngsters by reading them a book that they
choose andget to keep, one-on-one. But to make
it a success we do need people to come in and
read to the kids, so if you have just half an hour
or an hour to spare in the morning, come in and
volunteer!
Our Crafts to Go are still going strong! All you
need to do to get them is come to the library and
pick them up, and take them home to make them
on your own schedule. Or, if you’d like to make
them in the library, stop in on Wednesdays at 3:30
pm for our craft times! Remember, new children’s
crafts are available weekly, teen crafts are
available monthly, and adult crafts are available
monthly.
Our monthly in-person Teen Craft will be on
Thursday, April 26 at 3:45 pm. It’s open to teens,
older kids, and any adults who care to participate.
This month’s craft will be decorating wooden
eggs.
Have you checked out Kanopy yet? It’s our
library’s new streaming video service, foil of
everything from classic movies to documentaries
to wonderful kids’ programs, all for free. All you
need is a library account, and a way to access the
internet! Every month, there’s a focus on new
parts of the Kanopy collection, such as Women’s
History in April, and Mother’s Day movies
coming up in May.
The Screven County Library Board of Trustees
will meet at 4 pm on Thursday, April 18 in the
library. The Screven-Jenkins Regional Library
Board will meet at 4 pm on Thursday, April 25 at
the Screven County Library.
Want to become a Friend, or to find out what
new ideas they have to help support the library?
Come to the Friends of the Library meeting at
5:30 pm on Thursday, April 18 in the library.
Well, that’s all for now - see you at the library!
Spring Cleaning: Don’t Toss That
4 Junk,’ It May Be Valuable!
(StatePoint) From baseball cards and sports
equipment to postcards and photographs, is that
“junk” in your attic or basement dusty treasure or just
dusty? We’ve all heard of families getting rich from
the sale of rare memorabilia they found when spring
cleaning.
A little time spent determining if items are valuable
and where to sell them can pay off in the long run.
“The sale of older sports cards, postcards and
photographs can yield thousands of dollars, even
tens of thousands or more for the right ones,” says
Al Crisafulli, Auction Director at Love of the Game
Auctions, an internet sports auction house that helps
families identify and sell valuable sports cards and
memorabilia.
Crisafulli has assisted people in selling tens of
millions of dollars of baseball card collections,
autographs, sports equipment and more. Such sales
can be life changing. In one instance, he researched a
family’s old baseball bat and proved it was game used
by Hall of Famer Lou Gehrig. His Love of the Game Auctions sold it for almost half a million dollars, a figure
which would top a million dollars today.
Here are some of his tips to determine if your sports collectibles are valuable:
The Older, the Better with Cards
Vintage sports cards from the early periods of sports are collectible, especially Hall of Famers. Do you have
stars from the 1960s, 1950s or earlier? Look for names like Mickey Mantle, Jackie Robinson, Babe Ruth, Honus
Wagner or Ty Cobb. Even non-star cards can be valuable, especially in nice condition with sharp corners and no
creases.
Really early cards from the 1880s through the 1930s are particularly desirable, such as those by tobacco, gum
and candy brands, such as Old Judge, Piedmont, Sweet Caporal, American Caramel, Goudey or Diamond Stars.
When determining where to sell cards and memorabilia, focus on a specialty auction house, such as Love of
the Game, which employs trained experts in researching sports ephemera, and maintains bidder lists of sports
collectors. More information is available at loveofthegameauctions.com.
Don’t Overlook Memorabilia and Equipment
Cards aren’t the only potentially valuable things. Look for older promotional and advertising ephemera
spotlighting sports stars, especially items that promote sporting goods, food or tobacco brands. Ads from
magazines aren’t valuable, but store displays, signs and premiums can be pricey.
Old sporting goods and equipment, such as balls, bats, gloves and uniforms, can also be valuable, especially
if you had a family member who played minor or major league sports. Note that items from before the 1960s
are highly collected. Also look for equipment endorsed by star players. Condition matters, but game-used
equipment from professionals can be valuable in almost any condition.
Save Postcards and Photographs
If you have old photographs, cabinet cards or postcards of sports stars or ballparks, they should be evaluated.
Those from pre-1960 can be expensive. Look for early “real photo” postcards from the 1900s through the 1940s,
which are photographs printed on postcard backs.
Popular stars are key, meaning original images like Babe Ruth or early ballparks can be valuable, as opposed
to images of your family members playing sports or of popular vacation destinations. When examining
photographs, look for markings on the back, such as photographer, publication and date stamps. Also set aside
cabinet cards, which are photographs from the 1880s through the 1930s adhered to cardboard stock.
“A good rule of thumb is that the older a sports item is, the more valuable it might be, especially from before
the 1950s going back to the 1880s,” says Crisafulli.
This spring cleaning season, don’t rush to haul “junk” to the curb. Examine it first.
Celebrating the
Resilience of
Military Children
(StatePoint) Life in the U.S. Armed Forces can be
challenging, especially for the youngest members
of the nation’s military community: the 1.6 million
children of service members. From constant change
and uncertainty, to being uprooted every few years
and finding their place in a new school with each new
location, to their service member parent deploying
suddenly for months - or even years - at a time,
these realities of military life can take a toll.
Military children go through many experiences
that most children don’t go through,” said military
spouse and mother Jessica McLaughlin. “Having
to leave their friends and everything they know to
move across the world presents a different set of
challenges.”
During April, which is the Month of the Military
Child, the United Service Organizations (USO) is
raising awareness about the specific challenges these
so-called “military brats” face, and is celebrating
them to thank and support them for the invaluable
role they play.
Beyond special events taking place in April,
military families can find year-round support
and entertainment at many of the over 250 USO
locations around the globe, where kid-friendly
activities are designed to help them make friends
with fellow military kids, or bond with their families.
When stationed far from everything familiar, be
that stateside or in distant locations overseas, these
centers are a home-away-from-home, where military
kids are surrounded by a supportive community and
other military children who understand the unique
challenges they face. Programs for military children,
such as arts and crafts, game nights, cooking classes
and scavenger hunts, are designed to offer a little fun
so that they can forget, even briefly, the stress of life
as a military child.
By age 9, Victoria Hegedusich has lived in
California, Maine and Japan, and she’ll most likely
move four or five more times before she graduates
high school, as military families, on average, move
every 2.5 years. Hegedusich and her family are
frequent visitors at the USO Yokosuka Center
in Japan, where they make use of the free Wi-Fi,
comfortable seating, snacks, books and games, as
well as take part in events and programs geared
specifically to families and children.
“The USO is really fun. I like coming here to do the
activities,” Hegedusich said, who has especially loved
any events and programs that involve science.
To learn more about the life of military children
and discover ways you can help support them, visit
https: //www.uso.org.
Military children are resilient, and thanks to
programming just for them, they can feel grounded
and appreciated, wherever they are.
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