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Phoebe Breaks Ground On Parking Facility The Lee County Ledger, Thursday, July 5,2001 - Page 7A Phoebe hosted a groundbreak ing for its new 712-car parking facility on Tuesday, July 3. The parking deck, a $7.2 million in vestment, is part of the north ex pansion at the main campus. The project underwent a revi sion from its original plans from a 500-car to a 712-car facility during the construction phase. It has been designed to include streetscape elements along Sec ond Avenue and will include shell space for future retail develop ment. The new construction is driven Agriculture: Georgia 's Top Industry; My Top Priority By Zell Miller Even though tax cuts have dominated the headlines from Washington the past few months. I have continued to ume. Books For Science Textbook Adoption Available For Review The Dougherty County School System is sponsoring the State wide Science Textbook Adop tion in Albany. Teachers, parents and community members from Dougherty and surrounding counties are invited to examine the textbooks and related re sources for the science textbook adoption list. Textbooks range from kindergarten to twelfth grade. Textbooks can be viewed now through July 13 at 518 West So ciety Avenue (DCSS Teacher Academy) from 9:00 a.m. to 12:00 noon and 1:30 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. For more information, contact Dr. Dorene Rojas or Sherry Maxwell at the Dougherty County School System Science Curriculum Department at 431- 1318. Auditions To Be Conducted For Anything Goes Theatre Albany will conduct auditions for the Cole Porter mu sical Anything Goes, Monday and Tuesday, July 16 and 17 at 7:30 p.m. at the theatre located at 514 Pine Avenue. Anything Goes originally opened on Broadway in 1934, with Ethel Mennan, and ran for over 420 performances. Anything Goes is the most frequently per formed of any show from the 1930s and this can be attributed to a wonderful Cole Porter score, full of wit and merriment, rang ing from old time revivalist num bers, such as "Blow, Gabriel. Blow," to zesty show stoppers - "You 're The Top." "I Get A Kick Out Of You," "Friendship." "Any thing Goes" - and the tender, in tense love songs, including "All Through The Night." The basic plot deals with a group of eccentric characters sail ing on the S. S. American to En- by record growth in patient vol- work steadily on Georgia's top industry: agriculture. I said back in December that I would be "a hard-working advocate for agriculture and an activist for issues that touch rural Americans." With the help of Georgia farmers and agribusinesses, I am proud to report that we're making good progress. I was fortunate early on to obtain a seat on the Senate Agriculture Committee, where Georgia has a legacy of leadership from Senators John Gordon to Herman Talmadge to my predecessor, Paul Coverdell. On that committee, I have tried to provide a Southern voice at the table on issues ranging from foreign trade to regulation of the poultry industry . I am getting a good educa tion from meetings in my office with farmers and agribusinessmen. From peaches to pecans, I now know first hand the many challenges facing an industry as diverse as Georgia agriculture. These challenges reach far beyond the farm to the Department of Labor, Environmental Protec tion Agency, Legal Services Corporation and the Internal Revenue Service. I have learned that Washington has not always been a great friend to our farmers. This spring, we succeeded in winning billions of extra dollars for farmers. Our biggest competitor on the world market, the European Union, regularly subsidizes its farmers at rates five to eight times higher than us. So, I am pleased to report that I helped persuade the Senate and House to increase funding for agriculture by nearly $80 billion over the President's gland. Dashing Billy Crocker is in love with heiress Hope Harcourt. who, in turn, is engaged to the stuffy Sir Evelyn Oakleigh. Billy's endeavors to win Hope are aided by Reno Sweeney, an ex evangelist turned-night club singer, and Moonface Martin, public enemy #13. Director Mark Costello, chore ographer Judy Dabbs and vocal director Kevin Blaise are looking to cast a large number of men and women. All roles are open and auditions are open to everyone in the community. All interested persons should prepare to sing a song of their choosing (up beat, preferably), and either bring the sheet music (an accompanist will be provided) or a cassette tape. Rehearsals are scheduled to be gin July 22 with performances set for September 14 through 29. For further information call the Direc tor at (229) 439-7193. budget for the next 10 years. This extra funding includes nearly $13 billion to help farmers this calendar year with weather and price disasters. The rest will go toward writing an effective and generous Farm Bill next year. Large numbers get thrown around a lot in Washington, but believe me. this is a big win for Georgia farmers. I also have tried to address the concerns of producers who don't always have as loud a voice as traditional crop producers. I support giving tax incentives to poultry farmers and helping to increase their export markets. I support improvements in the disaster relief plans for livestock producers. I want to reign in legal services on the farm and change the woefully inad equate guest worker program for fruit and vegetable grow ers. I am co-sponsoring the Southeastern Dairy Compact Bill. In Georgia, we will hold this year's National Symposium on the Future of American Agriculture at the University of Georgia in mid-August. This annual discussion, started by Senator Coverdell, provides us with the ideas of America's leading agricultural experts and will help us in drafting a new Farm Bill. My principles for the Farm Bill will be as follows: - to protect the peanut and cotton programs -to provide an adequate safety net in times of price and weather disasters -to support specialty crop producers -to provide incentive-based conservation programs that can be adapted to many different regions -to redesign regulatory burdens, realizing that farmers are the best stewards of the land -to repair our broken farm Lee County Health Care News By: J. Long National Nursing Home Week in, May was a blast. The residents enjoyed the festive activities de signed for the staff and good food. The staff also enjoyed the smiles that the games brought to the resi dents. Next year will even be bet ter. Our deepest sympathies go to the families and friends of Josephine Baggs, Amy Yeatts, Venrice Harrell, Grace Rabon, and Fannie Watson. These ladies hold a special place in the hearts of all the staff. We will miss you all. Lee County Health Care would like to welcome Maggie Cheshire, Margaret Lumpkin, Bernice Martin, Elizabeth Crittenden, Opal Roberts and Lucy McPeters as new residents to the facility. Welcome! ! ! Congratulations to Corey Ellis, a junior volunteer at Lee County Health Care, for receiving over 400 hours of service. Corey's goal is to complete 1000 hours by her graduation. She has three years to complete her mission. Good luck Corey! ! Did you know that our residents meet once a month to determine the goals and concerns of the fa cility? It is called Resident's County. The council consists of every resident here at Lee County Health Care. It meets once a month for the purpose of voicing their opinions for community ser vice projects and the type of care that they receive. If your loved one is a resident here at Lee County Health Care. Please en courage him/her to participate in the Resident's Council. It will be worth the effort. Men’s Health In Georgia: Living Longer, But Problems Persist Men in Georgia are living longer than ever before - to an average age of 74 but they still die nearly seven years younger than women. The 2000 Report on the Status of Men's Health in Georgia: A Picture of Men's Health and Well-Being, released by the Georgia Department of Human Resources Division of Public Health, suggests some rea sons for this difference and looks at major health issues affecting men in Georgia. Possible reasons for lower life expectancy include behavior choices that affect men's health; less use of and access to health care; and pressure to live up to society's expectations for men. "We released a report on women's health last year, because many public health services focus on women's problems. We recog nized that we needed to take a similar look at men's health is sues," says Kathleen E. Toomey, M.D., M.P ,H, director of the Di vision of Public Health. "This re port describes the unique health issues affecting men, and offers some ideas about what needs to be done to help men take better care of themselves." The report shows some im provement: For example, more men in Georgia are using seat belts and getting screened for colorectal cancer. Colon and prostate cancer both declined among men during the 1990's. However, several long-standing health issues such as uninten tional injury, homicide, and to bacco use, continue to be major problems for men. Some health issues affect men differently de pending on their age and race. Conditions that occur later in life, such as cardiovascular dis ease, cancer, diabetes and arthri tis are on the rise due to the in crease in life expectancy. Suicide and substance abuse are more common among young white men, while homicide affects more young African American men. H IV / AIDS is the most common cause of death among men 35-44, while pneumonia and influenza are most significant among older men. The report calls for more attention to developing or im proving services, programs and policies that address men's health, and recommends that public health officials work with policy makers, health care providers, community groups and consum ers to see that health care is more specifically tailored to the social, eco nomic and cultural needs of Georgia's men. "We have one excellent opportu nity to do this by as sisting the Commis sion on Men's Health that was es tablished by the 2000 General As sembly ," says Sean Johnson, Men's Health Initiative co ordinator for the Di- vision of Public Health. "We hope to help them develop guidelines that will educate men in Georgia about bet ter health prac tices." For a copy of the 2000 Report on the Status of Men's Health in Georgia, contact Sean Johnson at 404- 651-7441 or on the Internet go to women Remember Family Council? All family members of our residents are encouraged to attend the meetings. The council is held quarterly in the evening at Lee County Health Care. For more information contact. Robbie York at 759-9236. Lee County Health Care would like to thank the volunteers for all the hard work they put forward to help our special ones. Without volunteers our hearts would be incomplete. Special thanks goes to Mr. Jim. Luttrell, Mr. Ralph McGill, Mrs. Wilma Smith, First Baptist Church of Leesburg, Brother Bobby Brooks, Ms. Corey Ellis, Ms. Leann Blanton, Ms. Lacy Barfield, Ms. Bethany Brinkley, and Ms. Cassie Lane. Your hard work and dedication never go unnoticed. labor policies As we wade into the details of the new Farm Bill later this year, I will need the help of our rural communities, farmers and agribusinesses to be successful. I vowed to work on behalf of Georgia agriculture when you elected me in November, and I think we're off to an excellent start. 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