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Vol. 126 Issue No. 10 500 Peach County's Newspaper KABCH 7 ,2012
Legal Organ For Peach County, City of Byron Fort
Board of Ed
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By Victor Kulkosky
Newt Editor
Students and parents - you might
be getting a piece of August back, but
don't book that extra week at the camp¬
site just yet.
At the regular monthly study session
last week, Superintendent of Schools
Joe Ann Denning presented the Peach
County Board of Education with a pro¬
posal for a school calendar featuring a
return to a five-day week.
The proposal was put together by
school district staff after ”a lot of work
looking at finances," Denning told the
board. She said the BOE would prob¬
ably need to have a called meeting to
go over personnel issues and in-depth
discussion of the financial issues. That
meeting was held last week and includ¬
ed a three-hour closed session on per¬
sonnel questions. The BOE did not
vote at that meeting.
The BOE held its regular meeting
Tuesday evening after the Leader
Tribune went to press. Check Facebook
and our website for updates.
Last Tuesday. Denning told the BOE
the proposed calendar includes an Aug.
13, 2012 first day of school for stu¬
dents, with 170 days of instruction.
That is still short of the 180 days rec¬
ommended by the state, she said.
The proposed calendar includes a
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Classifieds 18
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Local Weather
Forecast
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a balance that reduces unwonted bow movement. Photo by
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By Victor Kulkosky
News Editor
Lee Ford-Faherty has already deter
mined she will be the Gold Medal
winner in women’s archery at the 2012
Paralympic Games in London this
summer.
Kay Center's Louis Maxwell
Sets Another Record
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Light Turnout for Early
Primary, SPLOST Vote
By Victor Kulkosky
News Editor
Just 493 Peach County voters cast their ballots in
early voting for the Presidential Preference Primary
and SPLOST renewal, according to data from the Peach
County Board of Elections & Registration That equals
about 3% of the county's 14,536 registered voters The
turnout is a little more than half of the 903 early votes in
the 2008 Presidential Preference Primary.
The Democratic Primary is still taking place, but with
President Barack Obama the only candidate, party voters
have little reason to vote. The Republican Primary is
part of a 10-statc contest known as Super Tuesday, which
many elections watchers say could be a make-or-break
day for GOP contenders. Thirteen more states and ter¬
ritories have primaries scheduled in March, with a grand
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The Perry resident made this cheeky
pronouncement to the Fort Valley
Kiwanis Club last week, while also
recounting her numerous spinal sur
geries, the result of nutritional defi
ciencies stemming from auto-immune
diseases including arthritis, Crohn’s
Disease and Celiac.
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And one more thing: She’s only been
shooting since 2008.
Her “issues” - she refuses to use
the term “problems" - and astounding
confidence inspire many people to ask
if she’s crazy.
“I usually answer yes," Lee said.
Like many people back in 1976,
5-year-old Lee was inspired by the
achievements of Romanian gymnast
Nadia Comaneci in the Summer
Games. She tried to follow in the foot¬
steps of her first idol and tried gym¬
nastics, along with dance and speed
skating, but her then undiagnosed ill¬
nesses limited her ability to perform.
“Autoimmune is the gift that keeps
on giving,” Lee said.
Life went on and “11 years of college
and one daughter later,” Lee was living
in Buckhead. Atlanta in 2005 when her
back gave out.
“1 felt like I’d been shot,” she said.
Malnutrition from her digestive prob¬
lems had contributed to a herniated
disk that paralyzed Lee’s left leg and
required emergency surgery.
About three years later, a friend
talked Lee into going out for a session
of archery. She’d been pretty good
with compound bows, but this style
uses recurve bows, which require more
physical effort from the shtxiter. But
for someone with Lee’s issues, archery
proved much less strenuous, and she
developed a passion for the sport,
enough of a passion that Jim White,
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On Jan. 21, 2012, Louis Maxwell
began his quest to set another unof¬
ficial record in the powerlifting field.
It would not take long to see how the
day was going to go, with the squats
being first. Earlier in the year, Louis
had squatted 660 lbs. in a USAPL
event. After the second squat of 611.5
lbs., the decision was made to attempt a
new record. On the final lift of the day,
Louis would attempt 666 14 lbs.
The lift would take place in front of
USAPL-certified head judge to make
sure the lift was good. Louis had to get
the right depth without moving his feet
and wait on the judges' signals for the
lift to be good. He had to get two out of
three judges to give him a white light
to the lift to set a new record. With
his lifting suit on and knees wrapped,
Louis approached the bar and had a
good set-up to begin the lift. When the
signal to squat was given he took a big
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Peach Schools
Contribute
to Record
Reading Day
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Keyshawn Brown shows intense
focus os he fakes an Accelerated
Reader quiz on "Top JO Football
Rushers" at Fort Valley Middle
School last Friday. Keyshown
joined his schoolmates and K-8
students throughout Peach County
and the nation in Read the MosI
From Coast to Coast. Students
tested on 3.5 million books in one
day. Photo by Victor Kulkosky
By Victor Kulkosky
News Editor
They grabbed their books. They
read their books. They tested on their
books. Some went back for seconds.
By the end of the day. students at
Peach County Schools had played their
part in setting a nationwide record of
over 3 million books read in a single
day.
The reading frenzy held last Friday
was part of Read the Most From Coast
to Coast, sponsored by Renaissance
Learning, a company that provides
electronic learning support tools and
services to schools. Their most famil¬
iar product is Accelerated Reader
Enterprise, which encourages students
to read books and take online quizzes
about those books, with instant results.
To participate in Read the Most,
individual teachers registered on the
sponsors Renaissance Place Real
Time platform. Students signed in
and took their AR quizzes, which were
immediately tallied both school-wide
and nationwide.
At Fort Valley Middle School,
Media Specialist Marla Sellers was
busy with eager readers from Vanessa
Harvey’s class. She dealt with com¬
puter glitches, along with checking
books in and out.
Jaylon Simmons, wearing a birthday
tiara, read and tested on “Miss Mary
is Scary,” while Jessica Lopez kept
informed on current events with a book
on Pakistan. Frederick Smith pre¬
ferred culinary matters with “How to
Eat Fried Worms.” Keyshawn Brown,
nattily attired in red shirt and matching
tie, displayed scholarly intensity as he
penised “Top 10 Football Rushers."
Sellers said registered teachers could
receive prizes. The schools were also
offering prizes for students.
At around 10 a.m. On Friday, about
140 FVMS students had already taken
290 AR quizzes, starting at 7:30 a.m.
The nationwide tally was at around
464,000
By the end of the day, Peach County
students in grades K-8 had helped
their fellow students around the nation
shatter the Read the Most record The
nationwide tally was 3,581,992 AR
quizzes The previous year's record
of 2,177,586 was passed at 12:15 p.m.
CST, according to the Read the Most
From Coast to Coast website.
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