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Kinchafoonee Primary School Honor Roll First Six Weeks (front row) Preston Andrews, Jordyn Cox, Tyler Deese, Chas Dyer, Wesley McMillan, Morgan Miller, Kimberli Moody, and Alex Paulk. Second row: Hasten Dingus, Abby Morgans, Caleb Pines, Aubrey Riggins, Steven Rogers, Michelle Sanders, Stephanie Stewart, and Kari Butenschon. Third row: Tenisha Ross, Trey Brown, Adam Flynn, Arnold Gray, Megan Hauber, Paige Rathel, and Sha'von Terrell. Lee County Elementary School announces its Third Grade Students of the Month for September. Pictured are (back row L-R) Chris Anthony, Ryan Horne, John Austen Russell, Anna Hardin, and Kenny Harris; (front row L-R)Tervorris Hayes, Carley Lightfoot, Emily Butts, Brooks Archer, and Stephen Cravey. Not pictured is Kelsey Broadhead. l — 1 M 7 V 1 Lee County Elementary School announces its Fifth Grade Students of the Month for September. Pictured are (back row L-R) Kelsi Bass, Chandra Persaud, Merrit Smith, Bianca Waters, April Bailey, Lawanda Trent, Emily Glass, Taylor Warren, Kari Todd. Local High School Newspaper Expands The official voice of Lee County High School, The Panoptic, is seeking to broaden almost every aspect of its publi cation this year - its audience, its frequency, and its coverage. Moving from a format that pub lished five publications a year to one that offers a monthly news paper and a twice yearly literary news magazine, the Panoptic staff is attempting to include par ents, alumni, and the community in its realm of service. The Panoptic, originated by Mrs. Sue Variant's Journalism Class in 1998-99, is now a prod uct of Mrs. Coni Grebel's Ad vanced Composition class. Every issue is entirely planned, re searched, written, proofed, ed ited, and laid out by students in the classroom and is carried cam era-ready to a printer for publi cation. “The really educational aspect of the Panoptic is not merely the writing, although that is certainly a large part of the course,” says Grebel. “The real learning comes through the fact that students must constantly re-evaluate whose voice the paper should be and what audience it should ap peal to so that they may then de termine what articles should be included. Then the learning pro cess continues into the writing and publication stages right on to the marketing aspect of newspa per production.” The reasons behind the change in frequency of publication are simple. It was difficult to include much real school news if the pa per was only printed every eight or nine weeks. “News isn’t al ways news by then,” continued Grebel, “so the staff was forced to include more feature articles and to omit school news that re ally needed to be published. While feature articles are fun to write, school news is really im portant to the reader.” The solu tion was to divide Panoptic cov erage into two separate publica tions: a monthly newspaper that covers school happenings and in terests, and a feature-filled maga zine that showcases student tal ent from across the student body and also provides a source for features covering a varied range of interest. In addition to increasing the fre quency of publication, the Panoptic has also made other changes. One of the first assign ments for the staff was to iden tify the voice that the paper would be speaking for and the audience to which it would speak. Both groups included not only the stu dent body, but also the faculty and staff of the school, alumni, parents, and the community. “And of course, identifying adults as part of our audience does mean that we’ve got to in clude articles that appeal to adults in the community, and that those articles better have some meat to them,” continued Grebel. “It re ally does keep the ‘advanced’ in the course title Advanced Com position!” The staff of twenty-four stu dents recently released their first issue of the newspaper for the year. If sales figures are any in dication of success, then success is certainly the prediction for the Panoptic’s future. Past sales have usually been around 360, or at twenty-five cents an issue, an in come of about $90. This year's first issue has already passed 590 sold copies, and sales are still continuing. Senior Betsy Jones and Junior Justin Flowers are sharing the job of editor-in-chief. Under their tu telage, students hold positions as layout editors, page editors, and staff reporters. By the end of the year, each student will have ex perienced several different jour nalistic duties, including sports reporting, review writing, inter viewing, marketing, copy setting, lay out and photography. Second year journalism students also carry the added responsibility of instructing newer students in nec essary skills such as the use of the desktop publishing program. Advanced Composition students also cover high school sports for the Lee County Ledger each week. The new school literary news magazine is scheduled for its first release date in November. Stu dents and faculty from the high school have been invited to sub mit their own poetry, prose, pho tography, or artwork for inclusion in this showcase of Lee county High talent. The magazine will also include feature articles writ ten by the Panoptic staff, cover ing everything from relevant health issues to the history of Lee County High. Copies of the September edi tion of The Panoptic are available at the front desk at Lee County High School. It includes an over view of school clubs and activi ties, an introduction to new fac ulty and student government of ficers, and coverage of the school’s reaction to the national tragedies of September 11. In addition to its coverage of other school news, the October edition will feature a special report on the upcoming one-act drama produc tion, introduce Homecoming Court representatives, and an nounce Senior Superlatives and Class Favorites. House Approves Farm Security Act of 2001 The Lee County Ledger, Thursday, October 11,2001 - Page 5A George (Smitty) Johnson Home and Lawn Maintenance, also Pressure Washing "PROBLEMS SOLVED" The United States House of Representatives passed the Farm Security Act of 2001 by a vote of 291 to 120. This happened after the Bush administration at tempted to defer House action on the bill. "We are pleased by the decision of the House of Representatives to approve the Farm Security Act," says Armond Morris, chair man of the Georgia Peanut Com mission. "The House version of the peanut program will help align us with other commodities like cotton and corn. The market ing loan program will benefit all peanut farmers, young and old." Representative Saxby Chambliss, (R-Ga.), chairman of the House Subcommittee on Gen eral Farm Commodities & Risk Management, today applauded action in the House to pass the Farm Security Act of 2001. "Ag riculture is the backbone of our society, and I believe that it is vi tally important that especially in these difficult times we do every thing we can to preserve that vi tality of our farming communi ties." The Farm Security Act of 2001 will replace the Federal Agricul ture Improvement & Reform Act, passed by Congress and signed by President Clinton in 1996. Guys and Dolls Dance Guys and Dolls dance to be held at the Ramada Inn Oc tober 12 at 8:00 p.m.. Live music will be performed. The public is invited to attend, for more information call 432- 7108. No Job Too Small 120 Jayne Street Leesburg, Georgia 31763 Office: (912) 759-0126 Fax: (912) 759-0126 Pager: (912) 431-3704 COME GROW WITH US! On October 14th we are starting a second morning worship service to accommodate our growing congregation. Leesburg Church of God 375 Hwy. 19 South New Schedule of Services: 1st Morning Service 8:30 a.m. Sunday School 10:15 a.m. 2nd Morning Service 11:00 a.m. Sunday Evening Service.. 6:00 p.m. Nursery & Children's Church will be provided for both morning services. 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Exact legal descriptions of the above amendments are on file at the Lee County Planning Commission Office, 108 Leslie Highway, and may be reviewed along with any other information regarding these requests between 8:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m., Monday through Friday. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Lee County/Leesburg/Smithville Planning Commission will conduct a public hearing on these re quests at its regular meeting on Tuesday October 23 at 7:00 PM in the Administration Building assembly room in Leesburg, Georgia. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Lee County Board of Commis sioners will conduct a public hearing on these cases, at its work shop meeting on Monday November 5, 2001 at 6:00 P.M. in the Administration Building assembly room in Leesburg, Georgia. Meetings of the Planning Commission and the County Commission are open to the public. NOTE: Georgia Low requires that oil parties who have made campaign contributions to any member of the Board of Commissioners/City Council in excess of two hundred and fifty dollars ($250.00) within two (2) years immediately preceding the filing of this request, who desire to appear at the public hearing in opposi tion or support of the application, shall, at least five (5) days prior to the public hearing, tile a campaign contribution rebort with the Lee County/Leesburg/ Smithville Planning Commission. As set forth in the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1992, the Lee County/City of Leesburg/City of Smithville Governments do not discriminate on the basis of disability, and will assist citizens with special needs given proper notice of seven (7) working days. The meeting rooms and buildings are handicap accessible. For information, please call (229) 759-6037. Oct. 11 and 18