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Wednesday, November 28,2018
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Postal Service again offering ‘Letters from Santa’ program
From staff reports
The U.S. Postal Service is
once again offering personalized
replies to children’s letters to
Santa direct from the North
Pole, and complete with a North
Pole postmark.
Here are the steps for your
child to get a letter back from
Santa:
1. Have your child write a let
ter to Santa and place it in an
envelope addressed to: Santa
Claus, North Pole.
2. Later, when alone, open the
envelope and write a personal
ized response.
3. Insert the response letter
into an envelope and address it
to the child.
4. Add the return address:
SANTA, NORTH POLE, to the
envelope.
5. Affix a First-Class Mail
stamp to the envelope.
6. Place the complete enve
lope into a larger envelope —
preferably a Priority Mail Flat
Rate envelope — with appropri
ate postage and address it to:
North Pole Postmark
Postmaster
4141 Postmark Drive
Anchorage, AK 99530-9998
“Fetters from Santa” must be
received by the Anchorage, AK,
postmaster no later than Dec.
15. Santa’s helpers at the Postal
Service will take care of the rest.
Be sure to share the experi
ence on social media using
#FettersFromS anta.
To save paper, write Santa’s
response on the back of your
child’s letter. If you keep them
together, your child will also be
able to recall what he or she
wrote.
When responding as Santa,
make the response as personal
as possible by highlighting your
child’s accomplishments over
the past year, for example, help
ing around the house, receiving
good grades in a particular sub
ject at school or participating in
community service activities.
The Fetters from Santa pro
gram adds to the excitement of
Christmas and is ideal to interest
children in letter writing, stamps
and penmanship.
A large variety of holiday
themed postage stamps is avail
able for purchase at Post Offices
locations, online at usps.com
and by toll-free phone order at
1(800)782-6724.
The Postal Service receives
no tax dollars for operating
expenses and relies on the sale
of postage, products and servic
es to fund its operations.
Compiled from a USPS press release.
Gov. Nathan Deal reflects on 3 highlights of his administration
Scott Rogers DCN Regional Staff
Gov. Nathan Deal is the keynote speaker Nov. 26
during the Rotary Club of Gainesville's meeting at
the First Baptist Church banquet hall.
By Megan Reed
DCN Regional Staff
Gov. Nathan Deal
returned to his roots
Monday, speaking to the
Gainesville Rotary Club
about his eight-year
administration, which is
coming to an end.
Deal, who spent most
of his adult life in
Gainesville, served as the
president of Gainesville’s
Rotary Club in 1976.
Philip Wilheit of Wilheit
Packaging, a longtime
friend of Deal’s, intro
duced him Monday,
reflecting on Deal’s
involvement with the
Rotary Club and his polit
ical career.
Several Rotarians con
tributed to Deal’s first
State Senate campaign in
1979. Then, in 1995, he
announced at the Rotary
Club that he was switch
ing from the Democratic
Party to the Republican
Party.
“Throughout the years,
Rotary has played a sig
nificant role in Nathan’s
political career,” Wilheit
said. “... I’d like to thank
him for everything he’s
done for our state, the
great state of Georgia,
everything he’s done for
Gainesville and Hall
County. We take great
pride in our relationship
with Nathan and Sandra.”
Deal thanked the
Rotarians for their sup
port before reviewing the
highlights of his adminis
tration.
“Many of you have
been very vital players in
this process,” he told the
club Monday.
Recovering from
the Great Recession
Deal said when he took
office in 2011, the state
was still recovering from
the recession, with a rainy
day fund that would only
allow the state to operate
for about two days.
Boosting the economy
became a focus of his
administration, he said.
“We decided early on
that we wanted to grow
our way out of the Great
Recession, not tax our
way out of it. ... We are a
low tax state, we’re a low
regulatory state, and
we’re a great place to
work, live and do busi
ness and raise a family,”
Deal said.
Statewide unemploy
ment is about a third of
previous levels, he said,
and now sits at about 3.6
percent. For the
Gainesville-Hall metro
politan area, that number
is 2.6 percent, the lowest
of Georgia’s 14 statistical
areas.
Deal said employers
like Kubota and King’s
Hawaiian help keep
unemployment low in
Hall. He said he is excit
ed by new businesses
like Fox, which is relocat
ing its headquarters from
California to Hall later
this year and bringing
800 jobs.
New businesses are
arriving statewide, he said
— Georgia currently has
about 20 prospects with
an average of 850 jobs
each.
Investing in
education
Earlier this year, the
state funded the Quality
Basic Education formula
— which allocates dollars
for Georgia’s public
schools — for the first
time since the program
started in 1985. Deal said
over half the state’s bud
get has been set aside for
education, which he
named as a priority of his
administration.
“I’m proud of the fact
that we have spent so
much money on educa
tion,” Deal said. “That is
truly the future of our
current situation and
every future generation
yet to come.”
He said the state’s bud
get includes $9.8 billion
for K-12 education and
$2.4 billion for universi
ties. And Hall County has
been a focus, too, he said
— Georgia has contribut
ed $130 million to Fanier
Technical College.
“(Fanier Tech) is truly
going to be the hallmark
of technical college edu
cation in the state and
probably in the country,”
Deal said. The college is
opening a new campus in
January.
Deal said technical col
leges are a key part of
workforce development,
and jobs in Georgia still
sit unfilled because of a
shortage of skilled work
ers, a problem his admin
istration worked to fix, he
said.
“My common sense
says that’s a good place to
start,” Deal said. “Instead
of going and spending all
of your effort and going
to get new jobs to come
in, why don’t we try and
fill the ones we already
have with Georgians?”
The HOPE Career
Grant provides tuition
grants to students in
fields where there is a
shortage of skilled work
ers. About 88 percent of
students in the program
get a job in the field they
were trained for, and 99
percent of them get a job,
he said.
Reducing burden on
state prisons
Deal said he decided
early in his administration
that taking on the chal
lenge of criminal justice
reform would be a priori
ty for him.
Prison commitments
dropped by about 20 per
cent between 2009 and
2017, and African-
Americans have seen big
ger drops in commit
ments, Deal said.
“That translates to, you
have an overall lower
prison population,” he
said. “If you’re paying
close to $20,000 per bed
for keeping someone
incarcerated in our sys
tem, and you reduce that
by about 8,000 below
what it was projected to
be back in 2011, we’ve
saved the state a lot of
money.”
Accountability courts
have helped keep people
out of the prison system,
Deal said. His son Judge
Jason Deal’s Hall County
courtroom has been used
as a statewide model.
“What they are doing is
giving people second
chances. I tell my preach
er friends that if you ever
run out of sermon materi
al, just to go to a gradua
tion ceremony from one
of these accountability
courts,” Deal said.
Other programs have
focused on training pris
oners for the workforce
and giving them an
opportunity to get a GED
or high school diploma.
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