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The Lee County Ledger, Thursday, August 9,2001 - Page 3A Grace Rhodes A thought to remember! “What soap is for the body, tears are for the soul.” Hardee’s is the place to go on Tuesday a.m. There, you meet and enjoy having a cup of hot coffee or a cold coke! Boy Scout Troop #210 meets each Monday at 7 p.m. at the Leesburg United Methodist Church Learning Center. The American Legion meets each first Monday at 7 p.m. at the American Legion Building. The Lee County Historical Society meets each second Thursday at 7 p.m. The Rhodes Reunion was held last Sunday at the Chehaw Lodge Building at 11:30 a.m. A nice crowd attended with de licious food and fellowship. They will meet again at the same place next year. Christian Hartman, Youth Di rector for the past year, will be leaving for college soon. This past Sunday was her last day here. The Leesburg United Meth odist Church has been on a summer change of services. The last one was this past Sun day. They will return to the regular services next Sunday. Promotion Sunday will be next Sunday, August 12 at the 11 a.m worship service. Make plans to be there as they will promote the third graders. This will be at the Leesburg United Methodist Church. The Awana Club of the First Baptist Church will have a Pizza Night Wednesday, Au gust 15. Registration at 5:30 p.m. Pizza at 5:45 p.m. O.K. boys, girls and parents! The day and time has come for school days to begin! Say, it’s Friday, August 10! Are you ready? Have a good school year, now! Mr. Johnny Myers, Grace Rhodes’s cousin, passed away on Monday. Mrs. Dorothy Forrester treated Mary Johns, Marion McAfee and Grace Rhodes to a very delicious luncheon at Magnolia Manor last Wednes day. Summer will soon be gone what may, but for us will you please pray: Katherine Amann, Hunter Barfield, Joshua Bar nes, Dorothy Bell, Belle Betton, Kitty Bohler, Bob Boney, John Bond, Billy Bowl ing, Annie Kate Bradley, Bill Bradley, Pat Bradley, Patsy Busey, James Cannon, Joey Cannon, Ed Callahan, Joyce Callahan, Nancy Carson, Ryan Chaffin, Frank Christmas, Lisa Collins, Buddy Cook, Court ney Cook, Maggie Cox, Dean Craig, Helen Crotwell, Brenda Davis, Janie Davis, Richard Davis, Virginia Davis, Ann DeWitt, Darion DeWitt, Ron Dillard, Loraine Edwards, Chase Eubanks, Jackie Eu banks, Jack Fore, Dorathy Forrester, Lois Forrester, Shirley Gana, Bob Gibbs, Cecil Gibbs, Hoot Gibson, Mary Lou Gibson, Dot Gill, Dora Lou Goforth, Shanna Golden, Frank Gosa, Tammy Gregory, Elaine Griffin, Jim Griffin, Voncil Griffin, Chris Hale, Jim Hall, Shirley Hall, Robert Hammack, Lewis Har ris, Annette Hart, Bob Hartley, Flora Hartley, The Gene Hatcher Family, Linda Hauts, Charles Hill, Frankie Houston, Pam Hughes, Barbara Hunt, Elaine Jacobs, Roy Jones, Lucille Kearse, Fred Knowles, David Johnson, Dolly King, Lee Lamb, Fay Langford, Virgil Lee, Bertie Long, Willene Malone, Billy Man ning, Pat Manning, Rusty McDonald, Marion McAfee, Bonnie McCoy, Lucia Morrison, Andy Miller, LaVerne Moorman, Ethan May, Buford Newman, Esther Newman, Alma Newell, Nora Norris, Lucile Oxley, Jean Pace, Belle Pate, Lutrelle Perry, Bonne Patat, Martha Powell, Katibel Prisant, Deanie Ramers, Del Ramers Jr., Delmer Ramers III, Bobbie Roberts, Pauline Roberts, Kourtney Rouse, Jennifer Ruffin, Monica Seegar, Pete Smith, Estoria Spiders, Debra Swann, Thomas Swann, Page Tharp, Danielle Tolbert, Dustin Tolbert, Aug Torrellas, Jay Tucker, Ernest Ware, Eric Watson, Dan Wentezell Jr., Mary Williams, David Wilson, Mary Wilson, Veta Wise, Beverly Weatherly, Cassie Whittle, Carolyn Worthy, Patricia Zublionis, and World Peace. See You Next Week! Domestic Violence By Hugh Morris DOMESTIC VIOLENCE BATTERY Paul is a hard working insur ance salesman. Maggie, his wife, has a full time job raising three children. Paul demands that din ner be ready when he walks through the door. Maggie must understand her position in the re lationship. She tries her best to please Paul, but with three chil dren it is often difficult to have dinner ready on time. Paul warned Maggie of the conse quences. She suffers the penalty this week when dinner is not even close to being ready. Paul hits and slaps Maggie to teach her a les son. The blows chip her tooth and give substantial bruises. She is emotionally stunned and physi cally injured. Witnessing the abu sive behavior their dad displays terrifies the children. Their lives are in disarray each time the abuse happens. Jerry can not handle his alco hol. Like many people, alcohol changes his personality. Jerry gets angry and abusive, especially at the most convenient person, his wife Tina. They go out to the lo cal pub. Jerry is wasted. He no tices another man looking at his wife. Jerry demands that they go home. He is ranting and raving over the man looking at her. He yells, “it is your fault, you will not disrespect me like that.” He accuses Tina of provoking the man and even liking him looking at her. Jerry pushes Tina into the wall. He kicks and tells her if it ever happens again he will kill her. This is not the first time this has happened. Tina finally had all the abuse that she can take. She decides to take the law into her own hands. She pulls a knife from the kitchen drawer and stabs Jerry in the hand. They struggle for a while and Jerry looses his bal ance. Tina stabs Jerry 13 more times for the thirteen years she has put up with his abuse. Do you live in an abusive rela tionship? If so, you have the right to live without terror. Abuse stems from a broad spectrum of reasons. Some of these abusive behaviors include economic, psy chological, sexual and physical abuse that one partner often in flicts on the other. As a result, the abusive partner feels a sense of power and control, which fuels his or her behavior over and over again. Statistics show that ninety to ninety-five percent of batterers turn out to be male and their vic tims are female. These are the in juries that turn out to be the worst. In contrast, there are some cases where the batterer turns out to be a woman and the victim is a man. Violence does not only have a place in the heterosexual commu nity. Many cases of domestic vio lence occur in the homosexual and lesbian community. Battered people are of every ethnicity, ranging from white, black, His panic, American Indian, Asian or Muslim. They are old and young. They can be rich or poor. Some are educated and some unedu cated. They are housewives, teachers, doctors, your neighbor, and your friend. The facts are sad, but true. It is up to each and every one of us to put an end to the violence. Cjill Celebrates Second ‘Birthday Taylor Morgan Gill, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Phillip Gill of Leesburg, celebrated her second birthday July 28 at 3:00 p.m. at the home of her grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. George Gill of Lee County. A Scooby Doo party theme was carried out. There were fifty guests that at tended the party. Special guests were Mrs. Reagan Money, Taylor’s grandmother, Ms. Helen Gaskins, Taylor’s great grandmother of Cordele, Geor gia, Mr. and Mrs. James M. Gaskins, Taylor’s great-grand- and Mr. and Mrs. Neil Money and parents of Nashville, Georgia family of Ashford, Alabama. Youth Leadership Forum Scheduled Taylor Morgan Gill by Tom Connelly Years ago, after regaining con sciousness from my brain injury and receiving some physical therapy, I returned to school to attain my high school diploma. After graduation, the Division of Rehabilitation Services sent me to Roosevelt Warm Springs In stitute of Rehabilitation to be evaluated. There, they helped me to determine my career choices. Next stop was college. After that, I was basically left to fend for myself. There were no rehabilitation or educational spe cialists working with brain in jured persons and no game plan to follow. Fortunately for me, my family united around me and the Georgia Division of Reha bilitation Services (DRS) also provided some assistance. After I graduated from college and ex perienced great difficulty in ob taining and maintaining employ ment, DRS assisted me in my efforts to become a successful member of society. Without the help of my family, who undoubt edly sacrificed tremendously on account of my substantial defi cits, and the assistance of DRS, I could not have achieved the degree of success I have. At that time, there were no community resources or support systems in place to aid the brain injured. Fast forward to the new mil lennium and one is able to dis cern that the journey to work for young persons with disabilities has greatly improved. Numerous professionals, organizations, and successful persons with disabili ties are working together to as sist these individuals in entering the workforce. An example of this occurred in the Youth Leadership Forum at RWSIR in July. The event took place over a 4-day period and is Battery If you stay in the relationship the abuse may become more fre quent and severe. If you leave, there may be a greater risk of being killed. You need help. Women have left their abuser to live safe, productive and vio lence-free lives with their chil dren. Domestic violence organi zations develop safety plans, complete temporary restraining orders and provide emergency shelter, food, clothing and tran- an innovative, intensive leader- ship-training program designed to empower high school juniors and seniors with disabilities to learn from one another and from suc cessful adults with disabilities who are recognized leaders and role models. YLF is an initiative of the President's Committee on Employment of People with Dis abilities and is a structured pro gram designed to increase partici pant skills and enable them to become more effective commu nity leaders. As a result of the training, these young adults are able to use the skills to effect more positive change in their lives. The initial discussion stressed the importance of having a per sonal leadership plan. Exploring leadership concepts and miscon ceptions of persons with disabili ties was next accomplished. Fol lowing a group discussion, the delegates listed their assets and strengths and brainstormed ways they could reach their career and independence goals. The participants learned about technology and resources avail able to help them. Hands on ex hibits heightened their under standing. These young adults also traveled to the state Capitol where they interacted with members of the state legislature and/or mem bers of their staff. Each delegate was able to complete his personal leadership plan, and many ex changed e-mail addresses and phone numbers to help network in the future. The YLF conference was not totally focused on training. Wo ven into the schedule were peri ods of recreation and socialization including opportunities for swim ming, basketball, dancing, and various other activities. A pizza See Youth, page 8A sitional support. The law Morris loaded at 506 N. Jefferson St. in Albany. 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Visitors are welcome. • Chehaw Park Authority will meet Tuesday, August 14 at 6:00 p.m. at the Creekside Education Center located at the Parks at Chehaw. • American Legion Post #182 meets each first Monday of the month at 7 p.m. at the American Legion Building. • Troop 210 meets each Monday evening at 7 p.m. at the Leesburg United Methodist Church Youth Center. • Leesburg Civitan Club will meets Tuesday, August 14 at 7:00 a.m. at Post’s Country Restaurant. • Lee County Sertoma Club meets each Wednesday at Grand Island at 12:00 noon. • Lee County Historical Society will met at 7:00 p.m. Thursday, August 9 at the Lee County Library . Items for Security Bank’s Community Calendar can be mailed to P.O. Box 715, Leesburg, GA 31763 or faxed to 229-759-6599. Deadline is Monday at 12:00 noon. ^^1531 U.S. Hwy. 19 South, fat Leesburg, GA 31763 430-5383 EQUAL HOUSING OPPORTUNITY 1
