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Page 6 - Wednesday, June 29, 2022
The Sylvania Times
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News
-Wade Parker
Interim County
Extension Coordinator
“Rain Deficit Continues”
The rain deficit in Jenkins, Screven, and
surrounding counties continues to plague thearea. As
I write this article, the rain chances for the week look
promising. In fact, one media outlet has 2.12 inches
accumulative moisture through Wednesday and
Thursday. Let’s hope this transpires.
UGA has several weather stations across the state.
These weather networks record temperature, rainfall,
soil conditions, and wind. They are very helpful in
keeping extension agents and farmers informed on
current and historical weather data (Georgia Weather
- Automated Environmental Monitoring Network
Page). Our nearest weather station is located at the
Midville Research Facility only 13 miles away. To
no surprise according to the weather station, we
have only received 5” of rain since May 1. This is
over 2” lower than the previous year. Yes, it could
be worse, and the number could have been 1 ”. I do
think we have areas inside Jenkins County that have
only received .5” of rain or lower, especially in the
southern sections, south of the river.
What does all this mean? The main impact to this
deficit is our crops are behind. The dryland corn
is all but history, unless it was lucky enough to be
in a small pocket of rain. I visited a dryland corn
field that you could literally put a match on it, and
it would bum. Even our irrigated corn has suffered
some pollination issues, as pollination suffers with
+95-degree weather with last week surpassing this
number by a long shot. Cotton is a crop that thrives
in hot weather if it has available moisture. The first
part of its life, cotton does well with limited rainfall
but will eventually fall behind once it gets this bad.
Once again, our cotton crop is not progressing like it
should and we are losing days of maturity with each
passing day. Peanuts and soybeans are hanging on
pretty good, but they will also need some water soon.
I wrote an article on watering lawns a few weeks
ago. When I wrote the article, the rain deficit was
not as bad as it is now. Well, that article is more
important now than ever. It is important because it
can assist in the planning of your lawn irrigation
scheduling. Having a plan in place will help in
conserving water. Lawns are like any other crop or
plant, over watering wastes water and increases the
presence of disease, while under watering will cause
your grass to be stunted and die.
Hopefully by the time you read this article; we will
have already received a good soaker and are in way
better shape than we were before. Pray for rain!
NO FINES WHILE
LIBRARY CLOSED
Sharon Blank
Contributor
We thought the only sparks we were going to see flying
this week were at Red, White and Boom, but looks like we
were wrong! Due to a nearby fire, we are closed for a little
while. Rest assured, the library is fine, and you will not
pay overdue fees for while we are closed. Thank you all
for your patience and support.
The library will be closed on Monday, July 4 for
Independence Day.
Our next Summer Reading event will be a fun one, with
the folks from Georgia Farm Bureau coming to talk about
the importance of agriculture and how to have fun on the
farm. They will be here on Tuesday, July 12 at 10 am!
You’ll have a lot of fun coming to the library on
Wednesday, July 13 at 2 pm - that’s when we’ll have our
next weekly in-person Craft Time, where you can have fun
with friends and family making creative crafts!
Our next Paint @ the Library will be on Saturday, July
16 at 2 pm. We will be painting a celestial sun and moon!
This adult painting class is free, but space is limited so
sign up soon!
Have you been reading a lot this summer? Well, the more
you read the more prizes you can win! Summer Reading
ends on Saturday, July 23. You have until Saturday, July
30 to pick up the prizes that you have earned.
Want to know more about what’s happening at
the library? Head over to www.facebook.com/
screvencountylibrary for all the latest news and events,
plus the first look at new books, and much more.
New at the library
THE MAGNOLIA BAKERY HANDBOOK: A
COMPLETE GUIDE FOR THE HOME BAKER by
Bobbie Lloyd, Chief Baking Officer at Magnolia Bakery.
After 25 years in business. Magnolia Bakery shares some
of their favorite award-winning recipes and gives excellent
tips for home bakers to elevate their baking from ordinary
to amazing! From the tools of the trade to recipes for
everything from cakes to pies to banana pudding, this will
do wonders for your celebrations and show you how to get
wows at your next potluck party.
Well, that’s all for now - see you at the library!
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home and check your
smoke alarms to make
sure they work and also
discuss with your family
about deciding on a
meeting place outside that
everyone can gather in
case there is a house fire.”
Summer reading is every
Tuesday at 10 a.m. Next
week’s program is hosted
by Farm Bureau.
LAWTON
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was approximately a 50
percent reduction in rice,
and thirty percent reduction
in beef. Furthermore, this
is largely supported by the
archaeology: almost no
animal bones have been
found inside the stockade,
of any species, and the few
that are in existence are
fragmentary, low quality
off cuts in small quantities
that are heavily charred
and broken, indicating that
all potential calories were
wrung from them before
they were discarded. Despite
the rapidly deteriorating
conditions, by this point
inside the stockade, as had
been the case at all the
other prisons, the illicit
markets of trade between
guards and prisoners, and
prisoners themselves sprang
into fruition, with candy,
tobacco, potatoes, salt,
peppers, beer, and soap
available for purchase or
trade and barter. And with
the prison economy, so too
sprang up that other pastime
of prisoners. Escape. As
Lessel Long writes, within
a week or so of his arrival
in Camp Lawton, there was
already an existing escape
tunnel mostly complete,
with the entrance hidden
in a shebang. These at
tempts at resisting control
and confinement would only
increase as conditions inside
the prison deteriorated, with
almost riots to come, and a
presidential election, and
finally, evacuation, and for
some, freedom. For others,
a dark Christmas. But we’ll
follow those stories next
week. As men flooded
into Lawton on this day in
1864, they slept their first
night on the south bank
of Mill Creek, where the
parking lot for the visitor’s
center sits now. Satiated,
and lulled into at least
content by larger rations,
they still felt the foreboding
of the coming winter, as
the pleasant October days
turned to cool, damp, and
dewy nights. Winter and
frost, disease and death
was around the comer, and
it would quickly become a
case of fight or succumb.
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Talbert's Motel, known earlier as Johnson's Motel, was on
301 North just past the fork between it and Highway 24
(Waynesboro Highway). It was also next to the Pine View
Motel, which was in the fork of the two highways. Both are
still there but totally overgrown.
Glimpses of
Yesteryear
ScREUEN C0UNTV
- The cotton crop has been badly damaged by the
continuous rains for the past week. It has been estimated
that at least one-half of the present crop of cotton and that
the bolls have been punctured by the weevil.
- While the recent rains have been general throughout
the county, they have been heavy around Newington.
Subsequently, the branches and creeks have overflowed
into the weeds, and we have it on reliable authority that
many large fish are being caught by the boys rambling and
floundering around in the wiregrass. Some of these fish
are from a foot-and-a-half to two-feet long.
- The N.A.A.C.P. help its annual session in Washington,
DC last week. This important and helpful meeting closed
Sunday afternoon, with the nations’ President, Mr. Harry
Truman, addressing this body on “Civil Rights and
Democratic Freedom.” Those of you with radios who
didn’t hear this powerful address given by our President,
missed the treat of your lives.
- Miss Mary Helen Lawton, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
W. S. Lawton, is at home after spending a very pleasant
school temi at Fort Valley State College.
- Now that the canning plant in Sylvania is open and
persons are there to help you with your canning problems,
bring your products and helpers to the plant. Many of us
rejoice because we aren’t worried about ration points, but
your worries are not all over. You may not be able to buy
canned products all the time, so why not use the plant and
those willing and happy to help you can your vegetables?
You can save money.
- Colonel Howard L. Strohecker, District Engineer of
the Corps of Engineers at Savannah, is slated to come to
Augusta to explain the Savannah River Channel situation
with shippers and potential shippers. According to
Strohecker, not only is more tonnage needed on the river
to make economically feasible the 12-foot channel depth
being studies, but also more is needed to justify even more
maintenance on the present nine-foot navigation channel.
- Rickets, scurvy, beriberi, marasmus, and kwashicker are
common diseases in underdeveloped countries, but recent
government surveys revealed the shocking fact that these
and other forms of malnutrition are also present in Georgia
and other areas of the Southern United States.
- Of all Georgia’s valiant Patriots during the Revolution,
none was more dreaded by the Tories than the daring
Robert Sallette, who seems to have been a roving
character, fearless, and who harassed the Loyalists in many
ingenious ways. At one point during the Revolutionary
War, a reward of one hundred guineas was offered to
anyone bringing in Sallette’s head.
- For as long as most folks can remember, hundreds of
gallons of fresh water bubbled continuously into Blue
Springs. It was one of a very few local public swimming
areas in Screven County, and it’s clear, cool waters drew
scores there on summer days. Nowadays, things are
different as the old diving board stands idle above reeking,
stagnant, algae-infested waters. Screven County resident
Ricky Smith thinks that he has a solution, in which has
plans to rent a special pump to clear out areas of the
springs.
- Changes to Georgia’s driving laws too effect this month.
The biggest change comes with the implementation of
the Teenage and Adult Driver Responsibility Act which
provides and intermediate driver’s license for 16 year
old’s, limits on their driving privileges, zero tolerance
on underage drinking, and tougher DUI penalties on all
drivers.
- The Screven County Board of Commissioners passed a
Flood Prevention Ordinance at their last public meeting.
The new ordinance enables county residents to obtain
certain types of flood insurance and will create flood plain
mapping.
