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Some long distance calls may
soon be going ’local'
By Kevin Osborne
The Byron City Council presented
a resolution to its' members last
Monday, October 5, from Repre¬
sentative Robert Ray that would
extend the toll free phone call range
from a 16 mile radius to a 25 mile
radius.
Calls have been toll free from
Fort Valley to Byron for a while
now, but this resolution would
make all calls between Fort Valley,
Byron, Perry, Marshallville, Rober¬
ta and Lizella toll free. The council
voted unanimously to support the
resolution and every one signed it.
Brett Thompson, principal of
Byron Elementary appeared before
the council to request that Linda
Drive be made a one way street at
certain hours of the day due to the
increase in children that are picked
up and dropped off at the school
every day. He said, "The enrollment
at the school has grown about 100
students per year in the three years
I've been here. We have about 350
children who are picked up every
day by parents or grandparents."
He continued to say that the
police department has done an
excellent job in helping direct and 1
Pizza Hut September
Employees of the Month
Sharon Rumph and Elam
(Bam) Uganda have received the
honored status of September
Employee of the Month at the Fort
Valley Pizza Hut.
Employees are chosen on
V their job performance, customer
service and customer satisfaction.
Congratulations on a job well
done! s ■0i
Grant new coordinator boost GA Folklife
Folklife in Georgia will get a
boost from a new grant program
and a new Georgia Council for the
Arts Folklife Program coordinator.
Designed by the Georgia Coun¬
cil for the Arts (GCA) and the Geor¬
gia Humanities Council, the Geor¬
gia Folklife Grant Program will
support the documentation and pre¬
sentation of the state’s traditional
arts and folk artists. The grant pro¬
gram and other folklife activities
will be managed by Maggie
Holtzberg-Call, who was hired fol¬
lowing a national search to recruit a
state folklife coordinator.
According to Holtzberg-Call,
Georgia’s folklife is as varied as the
state’s geographic terrain: North
Georgia fiddle tunes, swamp lore,
Sea Island basketry, Hmong-Ameri
can story cloths, and even hot
boiled peanuts and turkey calling
are all examples of Georgia folklife.
“One of the main things that
needs to be done is fieldwork, docu¬
menting traditions through recorded
interviews, still photography, or
documentary film projects, giving
voice to folk artists that have tradi¬
tional skills, bringing those skills
and expressions to the general pub¬
lic. All that takes money and that’s
where grant support can help,”
Holtzberg-Call said. “So I’m
delighted that the GCA and Human-
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• Mac and his wife, Julie, have been married for 27 years and have four children. Mac
and Julie are active members of the Jackson United Methodist Church;
• Mac is the President of Collins Trucking Company, Inc., and has been meeting a payroll for 30 years.
• During his two terms as a State Senator, Mac sponsored and passed welfare reform,
DUI and anti-drug laws, and ethics legislation.
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and co-payments tax deductible. Simplify claim filing and make insurance
transferable from job to job.
Come and meet Mac and Julie at the Evans-Cantrell House
Wednesday, October 21, from 6 to 8 p.m.
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The Leader-Tribune Wednesday, October 14,1992
control the flow of traffic around
the school. However, he noted that
there was an accident last year and
he doesn’t want to see a child get
hurt
The matter was turned over to Ed
Dunbar, who will look into it
In other business, the council
voted to change the job title of Util¬
ity Superintendent to Director of
Public Works, and also voted to
eliminate a job position at the
police department. The job title of
Crime Prevention Officer will be
done away with.
The job's main purpose is to teach
things like the D.A.R.E. program
and work with drug prevention.
Mayor Williams said, "It’s not that
we don't need those jobs, but they
can be filled by people already in
the police department." The sherif¬
fs office is currently handling the
D.A.R.E. program for the Byron
police department. Williams was
also given the authority to set up a
committee to set up rank structure
in the police department.
The police department may final¬
ly have a policy. The council adopt¬
ed a policy, subject to change,
effective January 1,1993.
ities Council have joined forces to
support projects that document and
present community-based tradi¬
tions.
The Georgia Folklife Grant Pro¬
gram will fund nonprofit, tax
exempt organizations to support:
• Projects that document and
present community-based traditions
• Festivals that celebrate and
interpret regional folklife
• Sound and print media projects
featuring Georgia folklife (film,
video, sound recordings, radio, pub¬
lications)
• Presentation of traditional arts
and folk artists through exhibitions
and performances
The GCA Folklife Program will
administer the joint project. The
first application deadline is Oct. 15.
This deadline will award grants up
to $2,500 for a project cycle extend¬
ing from Dec. 1,1992, through June
30, 1993. Maximum grants will
increase to $5,000 in the next dead¬
line, April 1, 1993, for a full project
year.
“We are pleased to be working
hand in hand with the Humanities
Council,” GCA Executive Director
Betsy Weltner said. “This joint pro¬
ject is the first in a series of initia¬
tives our new folklife coordinator
will develop to revitalize the GCA’s
folklife efforts.”
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Photo by Hallie Rigdoin
Hands-on learning is learning remembered!
Students in Mrs. Teece's fourth grade class in Hunt Elementary School created "pioneer" projects after:
studying the "olden" days. Most of the students opted for Indian villages and projects, pictured above.
Readers-At-Risk rated at top
They also discussed a resolution,
in closed session, to forbid nude
and topless dancing, but there was
some discussion about the signs
being protected by freedom of
expression under the first amend¬
ment.
Richard Guynes was appointed to
the planning and zoning commis¬
sion, with his term to expire August
of 1996. Sid Eubanks and Kermit
Watson were re-appointed to the
planning and zoning commission
with terms to last as long.
There was some discussion about
not re-appointing Shirly B lando to
the planning and zoning commis¬
sion because of complaints that
Mayor Williams had heard. It
appears that there were several peo¬
ple who thought a real estate and
building person shouldn't be on the
commission. Steve Edwards said, "I
want to talk to other P and Z mem¬
bers about this."
In the end, the council ended up
re-appointing Blando to the com¬
mission. Mayor Williams said,
"Next time I have any complaints,
I'll refer them to the council."
The Peach Public Libraries’
Readers-At-Risk, county-wide sum¬
mer program, was selected as one
of the six most innovative public
library programs in Georgia by the
Georgia Library Association. Direc¬
tor of Libraries.
Gilda E. Stanbery-Cotney will
travel to Savannah to make a pre¬
sentation on the Readers-At-Risk
program at the state joint-confer¬
ence of Georgia Library Associa¬
tion and Georgia Council of Media
Organizations on November 7,
1992. Stanbery-Cotney implement¬
ed the first Readers-At-Risk (then
called Troubled Readers) program
over ten years ago when she was
the Coordinator of Children’s Ser¬
vices at the Peoria Public Library
(Illinois). “The Readers-At-Risk
program as first implemented was
not really my brainstorm. The Head
of the Children’s Department down¬
town was reporting to me after a
presentation to a parents’ group.
She kept saying the parents wanted
help with their children who were
An experienced folklorist with a
Ph.D. in folklore and folklife from
the University of Pennsylvania,
Holtzberg-Call has done extensive
fieldwork in Georgia, ranging from
recording oral histories of White
County natives in North Georgia to
identifying and documenting artists
in the African-American and
Caribbean communities of urban
DeKalb and Fulton counties.
She also researched, edited, and
annotated a selection of folklore
recordings, “Georgia Folk: A Sam¬
ple of Traditional Sounds,” chosen
by the Library of Congress for a
selected listing of American folk
music in 1990. (Cassettes are avail¬
able for $10 each through the GCA.)
The University of Illinois Press
this year published her book, The
Lost World of the Craft Printer, in a
series by the American Folklore
Society. Her current project is pro¬
duction of a film, “Gandy Dancers,”
about the skills and work calls of
black railroad section crews.
To obtain an application form
for the Georgia Folklife Grant Pro¬
gram, contact the Folklife Program,
Georgia Council for the Arts, 530
Means St., N.W., Suite 115, Atlanta,
GA 30318, telephone 404/651-
7920.
troubled readers. I was very
involved in Laubach literacy train¬
ing and Great Books Foundation at
that point and thought a free sum¬
mer tutoring program might be the
way to meet their needs. Of course,
the program has changed and
evolved over the years, but the main
objective of individual attention and
help from your very own reading
coach, has not.”
Recognizing that being able to
read and understand our language is
the basis of learning in a formal or
informal environment. One of the
elements that makes Readers-At
Risk unique, is that it deals with the
inital problem, not the illiterate
adult or high school drop out, rather
the struggling child. When a child
begins to have difficulties reading,
it is a turning point in his/her moti¬
vation and willingness to learn. The
purpose of Readers-At-Risk is not
to be remedial instruction, rather to
encourage the child to read through
personal attention.
“Showcase For Success: Innova-
tive Public Library Programs in
Georgia” will recognize, in addition
to Peach Public Libraries,
Brunswick-Glenn Regional Library
System, DeKalb County Public
Library System and Coastal Plains
Regional Library System. “I wish I
could take Kitty Harris and Wendy
Paulk, with me. After all, they
worked the program through these
past three summers”, Stanbery-Cot
ney stated. Kitty Harris, a Fort Val¬
ley resident and Macon County
School Teacher coordinated the pro¬
gram the summers of ‘90 and ‘91.
Wendy Paulk, also a Fort Valley
resident and a 1st grade teacher at
Hunt, coordinated the county-wide
program this past summer. “There
are so many people who have made
this program successful, I could not
begin to list them. Believe me, each
and everyone of them is exception¬
al. They are the kind of people who
find the real reward from working
with the child and the difference
they can make for that child.”, said
Stanbery-Cotney.
Our State Senator
Cares About Children
and Education
George Hooks holds the
/A w Friend of Georgia’s Children
Award” for his work to pass
laws to protect Georgia’s
\ children and to pave new roads
of progress for young citizens.
He is a member of the Eagle
i: - Scout Board of Review and the
Boy Scouts of America.
The Georgia Association of F
Educators says George Hooks is \
one of the state’s strongest
supporters of pro-education
initiatives. George Hooks JK
believes lifelong education is
the key to reviving south ifc if 1
Georgia’s economic redevelop¬
ment.
Elect
George Hooks
State Senate
Solid Management
Caring Where If Counts