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handleader resigns
By Rhonda Jones
AUGUSTA FOCUS Staff Writer
AUGUSTA
“Mr. Barnes?”
“Yes,” came Richmond County schuol board
trustee Marion Barnes’ stoic answer.
Superintendent Charles Larke
moved down the line. “Mrs.
Curtis? ... Mr. Echols...?”
One after another, the seven
trustees present gave their as
sent. It could havebeen any meet
ing of the body of 10 who make
the tough decisions for the school
system. Usually those derisions
have to do with which schools are
upgraded this goaround,and who
is left out. Usually thereis lively
discussion, and disagreement.
But this motion, to accept the
change in responsibilities and
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Charles Smith:
resignation
effective May
30,2002.
ultimate resignation of a member of the school
system’s faculty, was passed with grim certainty.
In April, it was announced that T.W. Josey band
director ur. Charles Smith had been accused of
sexually harassing students. This announcement
proved the beginning of the end of a career at the
high school that spanned just under a quarter of a
century, in which Josey’s marching band was
rocketed into prominence as the “Sonic Boom of
the South.”
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Conservative talk show host Rush Limbaugh
speaks during the radio luncheon at the Na
tional Association of Broadcasters’ annual
convention, in this April 7, 1998 file photo, in
Las Vegas. Radio commentator Rush Limbaugh
told listeners Monday, Oct. 8, 2001 that he’s
virtually deaf butthat he wants to continue his
nationally syndicated talk show. AP Photo/Lennox
McLendon, File
Good o)hings Happen Cln Augusta
Georgia Fatherhood Program provides a way to provide
By Rhonda Jones
AUGUSTA FOCUS Staff Writer
AUGUSTA
Thereisaway toturn deadbeat dads
and moms into upbeat non-custodial
parents, and the Georgia Fatherhood
Program has found,it:
Put ‘em to work. ;
But before you put ‘em to work, you
have to train ‘em. And that is the
purpose of the program.
According to director Harry
Goodman, the Georgia Fatherhood
Program started in 1997 as a pilot
program in eight technical schools
Serving Metropolitan gAulgusm, South Carolina and the Central Savannah River Area
throughout the state. “It was a deriva
tive of welfare reform,” he said, sup
ported by the Department of Human
Resources and Child Support Enforce
ment Agency at the state level.
“Noncustodial parents were referred
through technical colleges to assist in
assessing parents whowere u..craployed
and under-employed, and who were be
hind on their child support payments,”
Goodman explained.
Job developer Charles “Champ”
Walker gets to the heart of the program’s
importance. “The Georgia Fatherhood
Program deals with the root cause
rather than the symptoms. We don’t
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Atfghans clear away the remains of a destroyed home Monday morning, Oct. 8, 2001,
following military strikes, in central Kabul, Afghanistan. The U.S. and Britain launched
military strikes in Afghanistan on Sunday. AP Photo/Amir Shah
By KATHY GANNON and AMIR SHAH
Associated Press Writers
KABUL, Afghanistan
In the biggest attack so far against.-Kabul,
U.S. jets pounded the Afghan capital Wednes
day, and explosions thundered around a Taliban
military academy, artillery units and suspected
terrorist training camps. Buildings miles away
shook with the fury of the attack.
With the United States claimingair supremacy
in its campaign to root out Osama bin Laden’s
terrorist network, American jets roamed across
the skies for more than two hours, seeking out
targets on the fringes of this war-ruined city of
1 million. :
The private Afghan Islamic Pressin Pakistan
said U.S. jets and missiles also attacked the
Taliban’s southern stronghold of Kandahar for
the second time in a day and a Taliban military
base at Shamshaad, about four miles from the
Pakistani border.
Before the latest bombardment began after
sunset, the United Nationsreported that Taliban
loyalists have been beating up Afghans work-
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want people to go tojail,” he said. “We
understand that there are daily stres
sors, such as not getting paid enough
money, not having adequate skills and
just hard luck.
“Wedonot consider our participants
criminals,” he said. He stresses that
fathers are the stabilizing agent in the
family and that they are needed by
their children.
What the program does, is gets them
into technical school to study a course
of study designed to get them working
right out of school.
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Osama bin Laden is seen at an undisclosed
location in this television image broadcast
Sunday, Oct. 7,2001. Bin Laden praised God
for the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks and swore
America ‘will never dream of security’ until
“the infidel’s armies leave the land of
Muhammad,” in a videotaped statement
aired after the strike launched Sunday by
the United States and Britain in Afghani
stan. Graphic attop right reads “Exclusive to
Al-Jazeera.” At bottom right is the station’s
logo which reads “Al-Jazeera.” At top leftis
“recorded.” AP Photo/Al Jazeera
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Anthrax scare
no reason for
concern, MCG
researcher says
By Letitious Welcher
SPECIAL TO AUGUSTA FOCUS
AUGUSTA
Onemonthafter the tragic Sept.
11 attacks on the World Trade
Center, the Pentagon and the
deadly highjacking of the plane
that crashed, many Americans
are still sitting on edge awaiting
more attacks. As the U.S. and
Britain retaliate against the
Taliban the fear of more attacks
grows. But instead of airplane
fuel and aircrafts loaded with
innocent passengers, bacteria
may be the new weapon of choice.
Prospects of biological warfare
became even more pressing this
week when in Boca Raton, Fla.
evidence suggests that a deadly
biological agent had been inten
tionally released in a Florida of
fice building leaving one man
dead, one man hospitalized and
at least one other person being
treated. ;
The substance, anthrax, or Ba
cillus Anthracis, is an infectious
disease that normally afflictsani
mals, especially cattle and sheep
and is considered a very lethal
biological agent. Transmission
to humans normally occurs
through contact with infected
animals but can also occur
throughbreathingairladen with
the spores of the bacilli.
Anthraxisnot spread from per
son to person. Symptoms of inha
lational anthrax include fever,
muscle aches and fatigue that
rapidly progress to severe sys
temic illness. ‘
While anthraxis most common
in agricultural regions where it
occursinanimals, it hasoccurred
in wild livestock in the U.S.
The scarein Florida has raised
the question of whether or not we
arenowindanger of bioterrorism.
Dr. Keith Woeltje, hospital epi
demiologist for the Medical Col
lege of Georgia, specializesin in
fectious diseases and doesn’t feel
that the incident in Florida is
cause for national or local alarm.
“What has happened in Florida
does not pose a national threat.
But bioterrorism could happen.
Only time can tell whether it will
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