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Find Romance at Poach Public Libraries
Looking for a little romance this summer? Check out these siz
zling summer reads available at Peach Public Libraries!
• Sleeping with Strangers by Eric Jerome Dickey
• Lean Mean Thirteen .. by Janet Evonovich
• Wildly Winston by Lori Foster
• Do You Take This Woman? ... A Novel by RM Johnson
• Captive of My Desires by Johanna Lindsey
• Natural Born Charmer by Susan Elizabeth Phillips
• Innocent in Death by J.D. Robb
•Love and Lies ....... by Kimberla Lawson Roby
• Bungalow 2 ......... by Danielle Steel
• Lethally Blond ...... by Kate White
• Love is Never Painless by Zane
And remember, these books are so hot, so they’re not staying on
our shelves long! Use your PINES library card number along with
your personal PIN number to place reservations on any book from
home. Simply click on the PINES logo at our website, www.peach.
public.lib.ga.us. Place a hold on the book you would like to read,
and you will receive an email or phone call as soon as your book is
available to pick up at the library.
Visit or call one of your Peach Public Libraries for more infor
mation. Thomas Public Library, 478-825-1640, is located at 315
Martin Luther King Jr. Drive in Fort Valley. Byron Public Library,
478-956-2200, is located at 105 West Church Street.
'Harry Patter' release party
How will you pass the final hours prior to the release of Harry
Potter’s last chapters, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J.K.
Rowling, scheduled for release July 21?
Why not join other muggles and Harry Potter fans at Thomas
Public Library on Friday, July 20 from 7 to 9 p.m.?
Remember how Harry had to wear Uncle Vernon’s old yellow
socks and how he freed Dobby by giving him a sock? Well, dig
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Library and pick up a blank mask to decorate before the party. Win
prizes for the most unique, most creative and most artistic.
Come dressed in costume if you want. We’ll play some ghoulish
games, eat fantastical food, and mix up a few potent potions.
Now Accepting Pre-K Apps
Little People Pre-K & Learning Center is now accepting Pre-K
applications for the 2007-2008 school year. This FREE program
is available for children who will be 4 years old on or before Sept.
1, 2007. Come sign up now. Space is limited. We also offer a
non-state funded 3-year-old program with limited spaces available.
Children enrolled in our 3-year-old program are guaranteed a slot in
our 2008-2009 Pre-K program.
Water Report Available
City of Fort Valley Water Quality Report for the year 2006 is
available upon request from the Utility Commission. Every com
munity water system is required to provide a Consumer Confidence
Report, also called a Water Quality Report, to its drinking water
customers by July 1 each year. Additionally, the report can be found
at www.fvutil.com <file://www.fvutil.com>.
Project WINGS Sign-Up
The Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) announces
the 2007 Wildlife Incentives for Non-Game and Game Species
(Project WINGS) sign-up, which will run until July 15, 2007.
Project WINGS is a rights-of-way management program developed
to create a new wildlife habitat along electrical transmission and gas
lines. Grants are determined by the amount of rights-of-way to be
managed with payments of $50 per acre (10 acres maximum). To
request an application please contact the NRCS at (478) 956-6490.
Picnics Postponed
The Promotions Committee of Fort Valley Main Street/Downtown
Development Authority has voted to suspend its series of Picnics in
the Park during the hot summer months. At last year’s six-month
series of picnics, attendance was down significantly through June,
July and August. The picnics will resume on September 27 with
music provided by local legend Bruce Brookshire. They will contin
ue on October 25 and November 15. Join us again when the weather
cools for a relaxing lunch in historic Fincher Park from noon until
1:30 in downtown Fort Valley!
Memorial Bricks
Bricks are on sale to complete the Memorial Plaza to surround the
Veterans Monument at Fort Valley’s Everett Square Park. Purchase
a brick to honor or memorialize an area veteran, past or present. Up
to three lines, each of .which can have 18 spaces (letters, commas,
spaces, etc.) may be engraved with the veteran’s name, military
branch and/or dates of service. Bricks are $30 each. Order form
available in this issue of The Leader-Tribune.
Cub Scouts
Come join Pack 59 Cub Scouts for camping, popcorn, fishing,
crafts, sports and more. Call Kimberly at (478) 967-1148 or Tammy
at (478) 822-9791.
CLCP/LEAP
Peach County GED graduates are raising the literacy levels and
the quality of life for all area residents. LEAP is very proud of
their accomplishments. If you are serious about making a change in
your future, get started today by enrolling in our free classes (ABE,
GED prep or ESL). Become a student, partner, volunteer, tutor or
supporter of CLCP/LEAP. Call 825-9072, 956-7621 or 973-00170
for more information or visit our Web site at www.freewebs.com/
leap-inc.
JiJarconon of Georgia offers outpatient help for drug and alcohol
addiction. For more information call Narconon of Georgia at 1-877-
413-3073. Narconon offers referrals, assessments, drug education
and outpatient rehabilitation.
JULY 11,2007
out your oldest, smelliest, yuckiest socks
and join us for THE ODDEST SOCK
CONTEST. Prizes will be awarded for
the most mismatched pair, most revolt
ing color, worst fit, greatest number on
each foot, smelliest, most Dobbyesque,
and the closest match to Uncle Vernon’s
old yellow ones.
Do you recall hearing about the Death
Eater masks worn by “he who must not
be named” followers? You can create
your own disguise to fool his followers
by entering the DEATH EATER MASK
ART CONTEST. Stop by Thomas Public
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July II, 1804: Burr slays Hamilton in dual
In a duel held in Weehawken, New Jersey, Vice President Aaron
Burr fatally shoots his long-time political antagonist Alexander
Hamilton. Hamilton, a leading Federalist and the chief architect of
America’s political economy, died the following day.
tuly 12,1957: Eisenhower takes
first presidential ride in a helicopter.
On this day in 1957, Dwight
D. Eisenhower becomes the first
president to ride in the newest
advance in aviation technology:
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Kennedy nominated for presidency
In Los Angeles, California,
Senator John F. Kennedy of
Massachusetts is nominated for
the presidency by the Democratic
Party Convention, defeating
Senator Lyndon B. Johnson of
Texas. The next day, Johnson
was named Kennedy’s running
mate by a unanimous vote of the
convention.
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the place. One young woman,
Corazon Amurao, managed to
escape with her life by hiding
under a bed; Speck had lost
count of his victims.
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outside his Miami mansion.
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JFK JR. KILLED IN PLANE CRASH
On July 16, 1999, John F.
Kennedy, Jr.; his wife, Carolyn
Bessette Kennedy; and her sister,
Lauren Bessette, die when the
single-engine plane that Kennedy
was piloting crashes into the
Atlantic Ocean near Martha’s
Vineyard, Massachusetts.
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Leader Tribune Weekly Crossword Puzzle
ACROSS
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goods
6. Italian auto
10. Jets or Sharks, in
"West Side Story"
14. Usher’s beat
15. Poet Pound
16. Perform perfectly
17. Geology?
19."... lamp_my
feet"
20. Short on cash
21. Gives the slip to
23. Bargain
basement abbr.
24. Web spinners
25. Unfed
29. Witness's place
30. Make amends
31. Blacken, in a way
32. Fridge foray
36. Smallville’s Lang
37. Be skeptical of
38. Inner: Prefix
39. Attempted to
score
40. Cultural doings
41. Autumn bloomer
42. Pawnbroker's ball
count
44. Slacks measure
45. World’s largest
living thing
48. Since 1/1, to a
CPA
49. Ralph of fashion
50. Made another
dupe of
55. Narc Eddie
(Popeye)_
56. Angriest city in
America?
58. Sommer on
screen
59. Rickey flavor
60. First name in TV
taflt
61. Use a spyglass
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My 17, 1996: Right 800 explodes over Long Island
Shortly dfter takeoff from New York’s Kennedy International
Airport, a TWA Boeing 747 jetliner bound for Paris explodes over
the Atlantic Ocean, killing all 230 people aboard. Flight 800 had
just received clearance to initiate a climb to cruise altitude when it
exploded without warning. Because the plane was loaded with fuel
for the long transatlantic journey, it vaporized within moments, cre
ating a fireball seen almost all along the coastline of Long Island.
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1. Bellhops' burdens
2. "And that
hay!"
3. Tech's customer
4. Essayist's alias
5. Take in air
6. Not so many
7. Shirt label name
8. Sheet music
abbr.
9. Join in
10. Serengeti?
11. “Biography”
network
12. Gunpowder
component
13. Lip cover
THE LEADER TRIBUNE
18. Full of pep
22. Auto registration
fig
24. Guesstimates
25. Dutch painter
Frans
26. D-Day beach
27. Toddler's taboo
28. Lathe-operating
bug?
29. "On the Beach"
novelist Nevil
31. Jazzman Chick
33. Gaming table fee
34. Think tank nugget
35. Panty raid site
37. In a risky manner.
41. Phillips Academy
site
43. Weeder’s need
44. Result of an
insect bite
45. Catch some Z’s
46. Links feat
47. Seismograph
detection
48. Toadies' replies
50. Moving van
feature
51. Carpet surface
52. Sorry situations
53. Gen. Robert_
54 Door ding, e.g.
57. Actress Vardalos
