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Lee County High School VOCA members meet with Tech Prep Coordinator, Jenny
Williams, as she goes over job interviewing procedures. These student’s semester
final was as an actual job interview, plus preparing a portfolio which included
documents like a resume, letter of application, letters of recommendation and
several other papers. Pictured from left to right: Holli Phillips, Ivey Kimbrell,
Jenny Williams, and Landon Poulsen.
Lee County Health Care Receives
Excellence Award
Lee County Health Care
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received a Gold Center of
Excellence Award at the Ethica
Health & Retirement Communi
ties’ annual awards meeting on
Thursday, December 4. Accept
ing the award for the 60-bed
skilled nursing center were
Laura Amos, Administrator, and
Jonnie Owens, director of nurs
ing. The awards were presented
by Mark Waldrop and Lucy
Rogers with the Ethica Organi
zations.
The Centers of Excellence
Award is presented to those
nursing centers and retirement
communities that exhibit out
standing quality in many differ
ent ways. These include family
satisfaction, first impressions,
associate satisfaction, state and
federal surveys and quality
measurements.
“We are proud of our as
sociates who are committed
to providing high quality care
and services to our patients and
their families,’’ said Waldrop.
Many of the centers recognized
this year have received state
and national quality awards in
recent years.
“I am very proud of each of
our associates at Lee County
Health Care. They deserve
the credit for this outstand
ing ratings we received in so
many areas and for their part in
winning this gold award,’’ said
Laura Amos.
Pictured are are Lucy Rogers,
Laura Amos and Mark Waldrop.
All Christmas
Merchandise
What will you
do with your
Christmas tree?
By Mike Isbell
University of Georgia
There were plenty of presents
under our Christmas tree. But I
can’t recall anybody getting one
from Santa. Maybe he didn’t
stop at our house.
Maybe he didn’t like our
artificial tree. Well, it almost
looked real to me. And I don’t
have to keep the thing watered
to keep it looking fresh. When
we take it down. I’ll just put it
back in the box for next year.
Now don’t get me wrong. I
like real Christmas trees. We
just don’t have one. But if you
do, what are you going to do
with it when you take it down?
I hope it won’t end up stripped
of its holiday frills and dumped
on the side of the road or next to
the garbage can.
Your tree doesn’t have to meet
this fate. Instead, its branches
can become home to fish or
wildlife, or you can use parts of
it to help beautify your house
or yard.
Submerged Christmas trees
in ponds make excellent homes
for fish. Small insects and
other natural food collect on the
needles and boughs of the tree.
This attracts small fish to feed,
then the small fish attract bigger
fish.
You can simply toss the tree
into the water, but you’ll get
better results if you weight it
down and submerge the tree
upright. Just make sure it’s
completely under water.
If you don’t have a pond, use
your tree to help out little crea
tures on land. Christmas trees
can be stacked in the woods as
brush piles for rabbits and small
rodents to use for cover.
Trees can be turned into
mulch, too, and the mulch add
ed to a compost pile. Compos
ted for eight months to a year, it
can then be used to improve the
soil in your garden. Or you can
use the chips and needles now
as a mulch around shrubs and
flowers.
And if you can’t or don’t want
to do that, at least put the tree
someplace where it can help
prevent erosion.
What you do with your tree
may have little to do with what
Christmas really means to you.
But being a good steward can’t
hurt anything.
(Mike Isbell is the Heard
County Extension Coordinator
with the University of Georgia
College of Agricultural and
Environmental Sciences.)
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Page 8A, The Lee County Ledger, Thursday, January 1, 2004