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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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