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Opinion.... 4A
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Magnolia ® Moments ..SA
Faith Matters 6A
Billy Powell
Angie Carr
School..... 7A
Local....... 8A
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2007 Trojan Predictions
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Magic from the Kitchen
Easy Eats
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Personnel of Peach Regional
Medical Center unveiled the
sign showing the location of
the new hospital on Highway
247 Thursday afternoon during
a staff 8 e t-*ogether. Hospital
administrator Nancy Peed
thanked her staff saying all
were responsible in helping get
Hambone Jam
wants you!
By Brian Shreve
News Editor
Barbeque lovers are sali¬
vating, judges are ready to
assemble, the band is tuning its
guitars. All the Hambone Jam
needs is you.
More volunteers are needed
for this year’s second annual
cook-off, a weekend event
scheduled for Friday, Sept. 7
- Sat. Sept. 8 in downtown Fort
Valley.
Jana Jones of Fort Valley Main
Street and officer of the newly
established Georgia Barbeque
Association said the upcoming
tournament has already received
an overwhelming response
from all over Middle Georgia
and beyond; thus far, there are
about 15 competitors registered
to cook, 27 confirmed judges
with roughly six or seven vol¬
unteers, staff included.
Jones said she anticipates the
contest to hit a goal of 30 com¬
petitors and that she and her
colleagues would like to acquire
at least five more volunteers for
Saturday.
“Anybody who comes down,
we’ll use them somehow,” she
said. “We need people down¬
town to work as runners for
cooks who have questions or
concerns. And all of our vol¬
unteers will be given a copy
of our rules and procedures.
They’ll be asked to be on the
lookout to make sure those are
being followed, which is really
important.”
Judging for the competition
will take place in downtown’s
historic Austin Theater, she
said, providing an oasis for
those volunteers and partici¬
pants needing to take a break
from the heat.
The highly anticipated event
kicks off with team check-in
at 5 p.m.' ( on Sept. 7; begin¬
ning at 8 p.m., local band Cold
Feat will provide entertainment
at the Fincher Park bandstand.
Judging will begin at 10:30 the
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a new facility.
A groundbreaking will be
held sometime next year, and
the hospital is not expected to
be completed until 2009. There
will be entrances on John E.
Sullivan Road and the Highway
247 connector,
following morning.
This year’s cook sites will
be located in the Peach County
Courthouse parking lot as well
as the vacant lot adjacent to
BB&T bank off of Camellia
Blvd. in Fort Valley.
Snow cones will be served to
children free of charge from 1
to 3 p.m. Saturday afternoon in
Fincher Park.
Once the judging process is
complete, cook teams will have
the opportunity to sell their
prize barbeque to the public.
There will also be an awards
ceremony held at the band¬
stand at 4 p.m. where the new
barbeque champions will be
announced.
Last year’s inaugural .
Hambone Jam exceeded expec¬
tations, Jones said, a success
Fort Valley Main Street hopes
to continue next month and for
years to come.
“We had conceived it as a little
local event and that maybe we
would get four or five cookers,”
she said. “We ended up with 20
applicants and 17 teams coming
to cook. And now we’re really
trying to turn it into something
people will look forward to.”
For more information on how
you can help with this year’s
cook-off, call (478) 825-5986
or visit the event’s Web site at
www.hambonejam.com.
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Byron Mayor Larry Collins and wife Charlotte brave the heat for Saturday’s
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Fundraiser
By Faye Jones
j Tribune Writer
In what was an unprece
dented show of support for
the building of an elementary
school at Kay Road in Byron
and in support of Citizens
for Better Education, the city
of Byron turned out in full
force on Saturday morning in
Jailhouse Alley.
Starting at 7 a.m. Verna
Borders and her helpers had
their hands full with a yard
sale. The tables were stocked
with anything one could want
that was not “junk.” She even
had furniture that had been
donated for the cause. She
said, vyhile wiping her brow in
the sizzling heat, that “people
would buy a one-dollar item,
give a 10- or 20-doliar bill and
tell her to keep the change. At
noon, people were still pouring
in.
Not to be overlooked was the
take sale. Cakes, cookies and
brownies went fast. No one
complained about the prices,
and two ladies commented they
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would gladly pay any price for
a cake to keep from having to
get in the kitchen.
The tailgate market was
taking place in the park at the
same time of the Chickenque
which, of course, was the
drawing point. Every active
person in Byron apparently
put aside their chores to cook,
serve - but best of all - eat from
11 a.m. until 2 p.m. More than
600 tickets sold out within days
and some who procrastinated
thinking they could buy tickets
at the park were left holding an
empty plate. But many waited
around to see if there would be
leftovers,
There were several tables for
those who wanted to eat there
instead of taking their food
home. It was a fun time for
all, but it was also for a serious
cause and all who attended
knew it. The fund-raiser was
held primarily for paying legal
fees that will be incurred in
the ongoing Citizens for Better
Education vs. the Peach County
Board of Education litigation,
There is tremendous support
in the City of Byron for this
group who feels they have wit¬
nessed a gross misuse of power
on the Board of Education.
BOE member Jody Usry sat’
on a bench in the park sharing
his heartfelt concern that the
north end of Peach County is
being overrun by three board
members “whose agenda is not
clear.
They say this is not just a
political spat. The fight for the
proposed and planned school
on Kay Road is serious busi
ness and from the. evident
Ruby Richardson (left) was almost out of cakes
Saturday. John Waters of Miss Edna’s gifts presented
homemade lotions and soaps and also great, locally
grown honey.
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support the Citizens group
received Saturday, it is going
to be downright war.
The leaders of this action say
they are not going to give up and
as Usry said, “If enough inves
tigative bodies are involved,
there is a chance that decisions
that have been proven unsound
may be reversed.”
And the citizens of Byron
are willing to do whatever it
takes to get the school that was
planned for years and already
financed.
The hundreds who gath¬
ered on Saturday were of stout
heart, determined and unwill¬
ing to give an inch as indi¬
cated by their conversations, j
The organizational members
such Roberta Smith, Peter
Whyte, Mayor Larry Collins,
Ben and Mitzi McDaniel and
countless others had one goal
in mind: the fair and equitable
treatment of Byron children as
wqjl as those throughout the
county.
Byron Police Chief Wesley
Cannon was on hand with
members erf his department in
the park gazebo to add their
part to the effort. They finger¬
printed all the kids for ID pur¬
poses free of charge. After alL
this was Kid’s Day at the Park,
and they were all over the park
having a great day on the slide
and in the “bounce house.”
When a cause is just, the
people of Byron and Peach
County have always respond
ed. They could not have done
a better job than the success
ful Chickenque and day in
the park. The work has just
begun.