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Jenkins County Elementary School staff members nominated students for the December
“FLY Student of the Month” to reward academic excellence and behavior. These students
are great representatives of the school discipline model: “FLY” (F- Fly straight, L- Love of
Learning, Y- You are responsible for YOU).
Students received a Planters Electric Student of the Month t-shirt and a lunch provided
by our local Dairy Queen.
Congratulations to the following students:
Back Row: Chanlee Conway, Na’Ziah Brinson, Emmalyn Forehand, Lilyana Currington,
Isabelle Barber, O’mari Lane, Bernard Thompson
Front Row: Tanner Royal, Millie McClain, Lucas Weathersby, Laken Hammock,
Heartlyn Parker, Retta Ray Lee, Wyatt Purvis,
Back Row: Adrianna Bessent, Kyleigh Roberts, Chandler Tootle, Jaylin Lockett, Raleigh
Hendrix, Brantley White, Millie Kate Burch
Front Row: Irvin Martinez, Brannen Scott, Savannah Bennett, Lamonte Carrie, Erec
Stites-Wilson, Marlee Shanklin
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The Year
What can be said in New Year rhymes,
That’s not been said a thousand times?
The new years come, the old years go,
We know we dream, we dream we
know.
We rise up laughing with the light,
We lie down weeping with the night.
We hug the world until it stings,
We curse it then and sigh for wings.
We live, we love, we woo, we wed,
We wreathe our brides, we sheet our
dead.
We laugh, we weep, we hope, we fear,
And that’s the burden of the year.
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Bazemore Receives Award
-Dess Smith
The Brier Creek Chapter held its monthly meeting, Thursday night, December 5,
2024, at the American Legion Center at 6:00. With President Wayne Howard presiding,
we had 29 in attendance. This was our annual Christmas banquet, and the awarding of
our 5th SGT John R McKinney Brier Creek Chapter Distinguished Service Medal. An
incumbent Chapter President may present one medal during each year's term of office to a
compatriot in recognition for that Compatriot's conspicuous service to the Chapter during
the past year. No other approval is needed. A compatriot may receive this medal only
once. No oak leaf clusters are authorized. This year's recipient is Don Shelby Bazemore.
Congratulations Don. President Wayne also presented Bernard Martin II and Benjamin
Martin with their membership medals. After that Registrar Lee Herron presented Sgt-at-
Arms Don Bazemore with the Chapters Streamer for presenting the Chapters wreath at
the "236th Anniversary Siege of Fort Morris "Come and Take It" event held on November
23, 2024. In attendance was also the President of the Georgia Society Ed Rigel, Jr. who
brought greetings from the Georgia Society
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*S Happy New
; Isaiah 43:18-19 - “Remember not the former things, nor consider the things of I
old. Behold, I am doing a new thing; now it springs forth, do you not perceive it? I
will make a way in the wilderness and rivers in the desert.
