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Vicki DeGraw
Vicki DeGraw is nominated as
Outstanding Young Woman
by Carla Hill
Former Taylor Count ian little
league coach and resident Peach
County artist, Vicki DeGraw, has been
nominated as an Outstanding Young
Woman of America
DeGraw said she was ‘shocked”
and "very surprised” to receive the
nomination and added that she "was
thrilled to death that someone thought
that highly of me.”
She was nominated for the honor by
Harold Lee Cox, a former Peach
County High School basketball coach
who now lives in Alabama. Cox and his
family were friends of the DeGraws,
Vicki said. "We were all good friends
and I helped them out a lot with their
kids, because mine were older than
their's,” she explained.
Vicki said she had no idea that Gix
had nominated her until he called
several days before she was notified
and asked if she had "gotten anything
in the mail." The official notice arrived
shortly after that, she said.
She taught math in Taylor County for
several years and described the job as
one thai she "just loved.’’ She became
a full-time homemaker and Mommy
with the arrival of her first child,
six-year-old Trey. He was followed by
four-year-old Victoria, or Tory as she is
called
"I loved teaching, but all my life I
wanted to be a gixxl mother and be at
home with my children. Children come
first to me," Vicki said. So, alter the
arrival of her children she remained at
home for several years
Although she had left her teaching
post. DeGraw’s work with children
continued. She coached a midget-sized
team of T-ball players and following
that endeavor, site helped coach
several little league teams Flits was
more fun than work for her. she said,
because all her life she loved playing
baseball and football. Coaching gave
her a chance to combine her love for
athletics with her love for children into
one ideal job
Vicki's other, and probably better
known love, is art She was a math
major in college and never had any
formal art lessons until she enrolled in
a class at the Jailhouse Aliev Arts
Center (JAAC). Eight months later she
was the second highest seller at the
center's art show
She mentlv inaugurated a very
Police report
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caliber rifle had been taken There are
some suspects in the case
The office of Doctors lack F Duke
and V J. Grantham w as burglarized on
September 25 Officer Leon Smith
found a window broken on the north
side of the building He summoned Dr
Duke, who found a Radio Shack TRS-80
model! computer valued at $ l .000 and
a typewriter valued at $400 missing
A burglary occurred at Peach County
High School during the weekend
Someone apparently came down
through the skylight on the cafeteria
wing of the building and entered the
only unlocked interior room off the
half A small vending machine
containing ball point pens and pencils
was removed
The Leader Tribune, Fort Valley, Georgia, Thursday, September 29, 1983
JAAC's program — children’s art
classes, ”1 started it so my children
could be involved. I don't like to leave
them and I enjoy working at the
center,” she explained. Even though
she has sometimes had as many as 60
children in class ar one time, "for a
solid hour I have no problems with
them whatsoever,” she said.
Vicki also volunteers in many other
areas at theJAAC. "it really isn’t work
to me,” she said, “Hove every minute
of it,”
Vicki and her husband, Al, are
members of ihe First Baptist Church
where she is the director of the nursery
department As with all of her other
activities involving children, this is one
more she says she thoroughly love," enjoys.
"It’s exactly what I she
laughed.
As a nominee for Outstanding Young
Woman of America, she is a c andidate
for the state as well as national titles
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Civil War is theme of Andersonville Historic Fair
The War Between the States
will be fought again October 1
and 2 when more than 200
‘‘Yankee” and "Rebel” soldiers
reenact two realistic battles as
part of the 8th annual Anderson¬
ville Historic Fair in the Civil War
village of Andersonville.
“The South will win these bat¬
tles,” says Jay Reakirt of Albany,
Andersonville’s oldtime
blacksmith and a member of the
reenactment of Company C. 2nd
Georgia Cavalry, who is in charge
of arrangements for the two bat¬
tles to be staged Saturday, Oc¬
tober 1, at 5.00 p.m. and Sun
day, October 2, at 3:30 p m.
“The reenactment battles at
last year's Andersonville Historic
Fair proved so popular that the
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The reenactment of Company C. 2nd Georgia Cavalry, poses in
Andersonville ready for action in the two up-coming battles Oc¬
tober l and 2.
Last call for exhibitors
Can you paint, draw, sculpt, whittle,
sew or do any other ty pe of art or craft
work? If you do and you live in Peach
county, now is your chance to earn that
extra Christmas money you'll be
needing all too soon, The second
annual Byron Jaycettes Arts and
Crafts Bazaar is slated for Saturday,
October 8 and booth space is still
available Even if you have never
exhibited before, you are welcome to
join your friends and neighbors as they
exhibit their wares There is no booth
space fee, however there will be a
small (less than five dollars)
advertising fee The festival will Ik*
advertised in several area newspapers
In addition to the exhibits, there will
be musical entertainment, a dunking
booth and plenty of refreshments
available All proceeds raised will go to
the Byron Library Building fund
According to the J aycettes. there w as a
Andersonville Guild and the
Andersonville Town Council,
much to our delight, decided to
enlarge the battlefield and build
a permanent barracks for visiting
Civil War reenactment troops,”
says Reakirt.
"I take part in numerous Civil
W'ar reenactment battles and
skirmishes in the Southeast, and 1
am not exaggerating when 1 say
that the new battlefield area in
Andersonville is the most realistic
and affords the best view for the
audience as the terrain forms a
natural amphitheatre,” says
Reakirt. “The Andersonville
1983 Civil War reenactment bat¬
tle will undoubtedly be the best
staging of Civil War battles in
Georgia and good entertainment
large crowd at last year's festival and
they are expecting even more people
this year For more information contact
I ran Cooper at 956-2651
Byron aldermen
will resign
Councilmen James Williams and
William Z Peeler have submitted their
resignations effective December 31.
198.3. Both men have announced their
intention to run for mayor of the ciry of
Byron in the December election,
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Southern Railroad's “Best Friend of Charleston," replica of America's first
passenger train, will be taking visitors for free rides October 1 at the Anderson¬
ville Historic Fair,
staging of Civil War battles in
Georgia and good entertainment
for the whole family,' ‘ he said
Free rides on Southern Railroad's
“Best Friend of Charleston,” an exact
replica of the first steam passenger
train in America, will be offered from
noon until 4:00 p.m. Saturday, Oc¬
tober 1. The fair will be kicked off
with a 30-unit parade Saturday at
11:00 a m Other features are 15
oldtime craftsmen demonstrating
their arts, 250 flea market dealers sell¬
ing everything from fine antiques to
handmade items, and live entertain¬
ment including The Sugar Cane Clog-
To get to Andersonville, just take Georgia 49 south, through Mar
shallville and Montezuma, and you can't miss it. It is about a
45-minute drive from Fort Valley if you observe the speed limit.
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Mullet Dinner............................... $2.50
Flounder Dinner............................ S3 25
FAMILY SPECIALS
Shrimp Dinner ... (Free 6 pc. Chicken Nuggets) S3 95
BEST IN TOWN
Chic-Filet (Buy 1 - Get 1 Free) $1,40
it SUNDAY DINNER
Baked Chicken & Dressing or Chicken & Dumplings $2.50
(Choice of 2 vegetables)
Child’s Plate .. $1,50
Carter’s Fried Chicken
315 East Main St. Fort Valley
gets, national clogging champions,
The Soul Cowbow and His Singing
Saxaphone, The Reserve Generation
Band, and two performances of "The
Andersonville Trial,” Saul Levitt’s
stage play about the fate of Captain
Henry Wfrz, commandant of Ander¬
sonville’s Confederate prison.
The Andersonville Historic Fair is
sponsored by the Andersonville Guild
and the Andersonville Town Council
to finance restoration projects in the
Civil War village of Andersonville.
Admission is $2 for adults and $1 for
children under 12.