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Fleas, Fleas and More Fleas!
by Sharon Hoffman, Groomer The Canine Cottage
Pictured above is Harry Robertson.
Lee County Men Lead Reenacting
For 26 Years in Andersonville
The Lee County Ledger, Thursday, August 2,2001 - Page 5A
Fall Foliage Tour
You have found fleas on your
dog! This is not what you needed
to make your day! For every one
flea found on your pet, there can
be hundreds to thousands in the
house and yard. Fleas can lay
eggs for over a year, and the egg-
laying female is usually attracted
to dark areas like in-door crev
ices, or outdoors in shades bushes
and high grasses. The eggs are
rarely seen or recognized. Adult
fleas actually spend very little
time on your pet. They spend
most of their time in the environ
ment, including in the carpet, un
der furniture and under furniture
cushions. They can also hide un
der the refrigerator and outdoors
under the house. One female flea
can lay hundreds of eggs. The
eggs hatch into small larva, which
molt into a cocoon and then
emerge as adult fleas. Eggs are
resistant to insecticides. They lay
dormant until conditions are more
favorable. This explains the in
crease in flea population in late
spring. Fleas can survive several
months without a blood meal.
Fleas can do two things to your
dog: cause local skin irritation at
the site of each bite, causing itchi
ness; or produce an allergic reac
tion, causing severe generalized
itching. Fleas can also bite people
and cause the same problems!
Effective flea control always
Fort Valley State
University’s Educational Op
portunity Center is offering
workshops in Smithville. An
gela Murtagh, the Educational
Specialist from Fort Valley
State University, will be in
Smithville, July 26, August 2
and August 16. She will be at
the Smithville Depot from
10:00 a.m. until 1:00 p.m.
Free services offered include
academic tutoring to prepare
for college, vocational school
or GED, admissions counsel
ing for college or vocational
school, personal counseling,
career counseling, financial
On the evening of Aug. 1, the
Georgia Department of Revenue
will begin moving to its new lo
cation at 1800 Century Center
Boulevard in Dekalb County.
"That evening we discon
nected the communication lines
in the Trinity Washington Build
ing. which link to the servers
that hold much of the state's tax
payer database," explained Rev
enue Commissioner T. Jerry
Jackson.
"We are taking actions to mini
mize any degradation of service
to taxpayers on Thursday. Aug.
2. and Friday, Aug. 3," Jackson
said. "We anticipate that the
lines will be in place and fully
requires three fields of battle: the
pet, the house and the yard. You
must control fleas on you pet and
all pets in the household but also
control the fleas in the environ
ment (your home and yard). This
is why it is important to spray
these areas with insecticides ev
ery seven to ten days for three
times and then once a month
thereafter during flea season or
after flea infestation. Why so of
ten? Because you are attempting
to break the flea breeding cycle.
On the first attempt, not all fleas
may be in the adult stage.
It is also important to have your
dog dipped the same time as you
do the house. Your dog may be
dipped once every seven to ten
days. Your Vet or Groomer can
use products that are best for your
dog. Fleas dips can contain
chemicals which can adversely
effect you dog so after a dip no
tify your Vet should the dog start
vomiting or become very lethar
gic (laying around and not re
sponding to you normally). The
Canine Cottage Groomers use an
alternative to chemical dips, pre
ferring to use Herbal and Citrus
products that also work well for
fleas but do not produce possible
side effects that chemicals can.
It's a lot of work to get rid of
fleas but I think you and your pets
are worth the effort.
aid counseling, assistance
with admission and financial
aid applications and GED re
ferral services.
Free workshops include goal
setting, decision making, test
taking - study skills, defaulted
loans, choosing a career, and
building self-esteem.
The educational Opportu
nity Center program is feder
ally funded by the U.S. De
partment of Education. The
federal government requires
that persons served be aged 19
or over.
For additional information,
call 1-800-862-9455.
operational on Aug. 6.
Information will be available
on the Department's Internet
web site at www2.state.ga.us
however, the e-mail links will
not be operational.
Jackson encouraged anyone
who believes they might nor
mally need the Department's as
sistance Aug. 2-3 to do so in ad
vance if at all possible.
Approximately two weeks af
ter the communication lines are
relocated, the Department will
begin a phased movement of the
remaining equipment and per
sonnel to the new facility. All
elements should be moved by
late December.
by Peggy Sheppard
Civil War reenacting has been
a crowd-pleasing highlight of The
Andersonville. Georgia Historic
Fair for more than a quarter of a
century. The popular festival
came into being in 1976 as a sup
posedly one-time United States
bicentennial event, but was so
successful that it has been con
tinued the first weekend of each
October ever since.
Through the years, Civil War
reenactments have been the most
popular things about The
Andersonville Fairs - battle reen
actments. reenactments of Union
and Confederate camp life, reen
actments of starving, tattered
Confederate soldiers and better
equiped Union troops, reenact
ments of Abraham Lincoln' s
Gettysburg Address, reenact
ments of Robert E. Lee's horse
manship, reenactments of Clara
Barton's "Angel of the Battle
field” nursing, reenactments of
the Southern Relief Society’s
14th Georgia Field Hospital, and
even the reenactment of the work
of the Soldier's Relief Society of
Summerville, South Carolina.
Reenactors have come from as
far away as Chicago to take part
in the encampments and mock
battles.
The Albany, Georgia area reen
actments of the 2nd and 4th Geor
gia Infantry have hosted the
battles for more than 20 years
with the late Ed Mercer and his
family of Leesburg as ramrods.
Mercer's stepson, Harry
Robertson of Leesburg, Ricky
Birnham of Albany, and Mark
Hicks who recently moved from
Albany to Savannah, have been
in charge since Ed Mercer's death
in 1998. They invite reenactor
groups and sutlers to participate.
They organize the encampments
and plan the battles, run in true
military order by veterans of
more recent wars. The first battle
this year will be at 3 p.m. Satur
day, October 6 and the second at
2 p.m. Sunday, October 7. Usu
ally more than 600 reenactors
take part in the Andersonville
event. Robertson, Birnham and
Hicks say, "Reenacting is a hobby
which the whole family can en
joy. Wives and children dressed
in authentic period clothing will
be camping in Andersonville."
John Kessel of Orlando, Florida
has been participating in the
Andersonville Historic Fair for 6
years. He portrays a Confederate
foot soldier. He says he wants to
feel what those men felt. He
sleeps on the ground without a
tent in cold rain or sweltering
bug-infested heat. His shoeless
feet are wrapped in old rags. His
food is sparse - field peas, corn
bread, and fatback. He inter-acts
with Fair-goers, telling them of
the deprivations of the Confeder
ate infantrymen.
The ladies of the reenactment
of The Soldiers Relief Society of
Summerville, South Carolina,
who set up a campsite in
Andersonville. are actually from
the Summerville area and are de
scendants of women who served
in the Society, rolling bandages
for the field hospitals, making
shirts, socks, and underwear and
soap for the soldiers. One, Vicki
Evans, when not reenacting, vol
unteers at the Warren Lasch Con
servation Center in Charleston
where the CSS Hunley, famous
46-footlong, 25-ton cigar-shaped
submarine which, in 1864. sank
the 207-foot) 1240-ton USS
Housatonic) never returned from
that mission and was raised from
Charleston Harbor in 1995, is on
display. She says she burns a blue
lantern at the Summerville Sol
diers Relief Society campsite in
Andersonville in memory of the
lost men of the Hunley. This
year's Andersonville Fair will
start with a 60-unit parade featur
ing personalities from Civil War
history such as Abraham Lincoln,
Robert E. Lee, Ulysses S. Grant,
and Clara Barton, led by parade
marshal, Fred Crane, who played
Brent Tarleton, one of Scarlett
O’Hara's suiters in the greatest
movie of all time, Gone With The
Wind.
The hours of the Andersonville
Historic Fair are 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
both days. October 6 and 7. Ad
mission is $4 for adults and $1.50
for children. Proceeds go to his
toric preservation and beautifica
tion in the Civil War Village of
Andersonville. For further infor-
The SOWEGA COUNCIL ON
AGING is sponsoring its annual
trip. This year they will be going
to New England for a Fall Foli
age Tour, on October 4th - 14th,
2001. The trip will include deluxe
motor coach transportation, hotel
accommodations, continental
breakfast, and lunch or dinner.
The trip will include visits to:
a. Washington. Jefferson, and
Lincoln Monuments
b. Arlington Cemetery
c. Smithsonian Museums
d. Cape Cod
e. Martha's Vineyard
f. Edgartown
g. Nantucket
h. Boston Freedom Trail
i. Conway Scenic Railroad din
ner cruise
j. Hershey Chocolate Factory
k. Cabot Cheese Factory
l. Whale watching in Portland
m. L.L. Bean Shopping in
Freeport
n. Norman Rockwell Museum
o. Anheuser Busch Merrimac
Brewery
p. Clydesdale Hamlets
q. Shopping at the Washington
National mall
r. Bethlehem, Pennsylvania
s. Much, Much, More!!!
For more information call
Lynette at (229)435-3015.
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August 2, 3 & 4
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of fishing and Bumble Bee Tennis recently in Pine
Mountain, Georgia.
DOR Begins Move To
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