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Ms. Sarah Mitchell of the Gray’s Reef National Marine Sanc
tuary (NMS) in Savannah, Ga. holds a model loggerhead sea
turtie during one of two lectures held at the Fort Discovery
Science Center on Sat., Jan. 10. The Gray’s Reef NMS has a
satellite tagging project which monitors the endangered
loggerhead sea turtle. Photo by Lillian Wan
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Martin Luther
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King Jr. area
celebrations
The Augusta Department of
the Veteran Affairs Medical
Center will hold its annual Mar
tin Luther King Day Program on
Thursday, Jan. 15, 1998, at 1 p.m.
in the auditorium of the Uptown
Division of the Medical Center lo
cated off Wrightsboro Road. The
program will feature Dr. Johnny
Hatney as guest speaker. Dr.
Hatney is the pastor of Good Hope
Missionary Baptist Church in Au
gusta, Georgia. This year’s mis
tress of ceremonies will be Ms.
JaQuitta Williams, news anchor
for WRDW Channel 12.
The local higher institutions of
education —Augusta State Uni
versity, Medical College of
Georgia and Paine College —
will jointly sponsor their annual
celebration of Dr. King’s birthday
. witha programon Friday, Jan.-16,
at 11 am.. The theme for this
year’s event is “A Dream Remem
bered: The Legacy of Dr. Martin
Luther King Jr.” The program
will be held at Paine’s Gilbert-
Lambuth Memorial Chapel. Key
note speaker will be Rev. Otis Moss
111 of Tabernacle Baptist Church.
Fort Gordon’s Equal Oppor
tunities Office and the Greater
Augusta chapter of Blacks in
Government will sponsor the
annual Martin Luther King Jr.
luncheon on Friday, Jan. 16, at
11:30 a.m. at the NCO Club on
19th Street on post. Luncheon
speaker will be Dr. Yvonne Shaw,
chair of the Division of Education
at Paine College. Luncheon tick
ets are $7.50. For more informa- |
tion, please call (706) 791-2014.
The Augusta-Richmond |
County branch of the NAACP |
will sponsor their 24th annual |
Freedom Fund Banquet and Raffle
on Monday, Jan. 19, at 7 p.m. at
Pullman Hall, 560 Walton Way in
Augusta. Guestspeaker Dr. James
Carter 111 will speak. Theme will
be “And Still We Rise.” A new
color TV and door prizes will be
raffled off at 9:30 p.m. For cost
and other information, call the
local NAACP.
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Griffin wants to increase Georgia minimum wage
State Senator and candidate for
Lt. Governor Floyd Griffin an
nounced last week that he will
make increasing Georgia's state
minimum wage one of his top pri
orities in the 1998 legislative ses
sion and as Lt. Governor.
“One of the most important ac
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1998 is to increase the state mini
mum wage,” Griffin said. “Many
Georgians will be shocked to learn
that there are people around our
state that are working for below
the federal minimum wage because
the company they work for is not
subject to the federal minimum
wage law. We need tochange that.”
Griffin will sponsor legislation
that will amend Georgia's mini
mum wage law O.C.G.A. Section
34-4-3 which sets the state mini
mum wage at $3.25. The state’s
minimum wage law was last
amended in 1984.
Griffin’s bill will call for an in
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wage over the next three to five
years until the state level matches
the federal level of $5.15 per hour.
Griffin said, “The minimum
wage issue transcends legislative
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Senator Floyd Griffin
politics, transcends racial issues
and transcends Republican or
Democratic party politics. This
modest minimum wage increase
will fairly increase the earnings of
people in our state.”
“Opponents of minimum wage
increase often argue that even a
reasonable increase in the mini
mum wage will hurt the economy,”
Griffin said. “That argument
doesn’t hold water. Common sense
tells us that a gradual increase in
the minimum wage over a couple
of years will not hurt the economy.
There is no proof that the federal
increases in the minimum wage
have done anything but help our
economy.
“I know this will be good for our
economy and it will be good for
those working for the minimum
wage.”
Griffin said he has not released
all of the bill’s details, such as
when the incremental increases
will be effective, because he is still
building consensus for the final
bill.
“I know we can pass legislation
that is agreeable to private busi
nessand labor people and to Demo
crats and Republicans,” Griffin
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portance of increasing the min
mum wage in light of recent state
actions on welfare reform.
Griffin said, “As the state helgs
move more people from welfage
roles to private sector payrolls, we
need to make sure minimum
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increase in the minimum wage is
crucial to making welfare reformaa
success in Georgia.”
The current state exemptions
fmmthom:nininmmwrnd
as those for farm owners, for emy
ployees compensated primarily
from tips, for newspaper carriess
and for employers with sales of
$40,000 or less will be preserved ip
Griffin’s bill.
Griffin said, “Taking actions likp
this is what state governmemt
should be in the business of doing.
Thisis the right thing to do for ous
workers, for our economy and fog
economic fairness in Georgia.”
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