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The Led County Ledger
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Volume XXXIV - Number 6 Leesburg, Georgia - - September 28,2011 Fifty Cents
Lane Named Ninth Grade Campus Teacher of the Year
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Marcia Lane has been
chosen by her colleagues at
the Lee County Ninth Grade
Campus as their Teacher of
the Year for the 2011-2012
academic year.
Marcia Wright Lane is
the daughter of Rev. Lem
and Mrs. Marie Wright.
She comes from a family of
educators. Her mother, Marie,
retired from Lee County High
in 1999. Her sister teaches
in Crisp County, and she has
several aunts, uncles, and
cousins that are employed as
educators as well.
Marcia graduated with
honors from Lee County High
School in 1997. After gradu
ation she married her high
school sweetheart, Christo
pher Lane, and moved away to
Virginia. While in Virginia,
she attended Old Dominion
University. After Chris was
deployed overseas, Marcia
returned home and graduated
with a BS in Mathematics
with a teacher certification
from Georgia Southwestern
State University.
Marcia is entering her 7th
year of teaching this year. All
of her teaching experience
has been with the Lee County
School System. She worked
for 2 years teaching 8th grade
math at LCMS. She then
worked a year teaching Alge
bra at LCHS. She currently
teaches Math 1 at the Ninth
Grade campus. She has been
with the Ninth Grade campus
since it opened.
She has a daughter, Kam-
ryn, an upcoming 5th grader
at Twin Oaks Elementary
School and a son, Alex, who
will be in kindergarten
this year at Kinchafoonee
Primary School. In her spare
time, Marcia loves to cook,
bake cakes, and travel.
Marcia finds, like most
educators, that the greatest
challenge is getting students
to become motivated about
their education. She often
feels as though she cares
about her students more than
they care about themselves.
Her greatest reward came
last year when EOCT scores
came in and she had a student
to exceed the Math 1 exam
when he had failed the Math
CRCT the previous year. The
look on his face alone let
her knew that the countless
hours of planning, prepar
ing lessons, and time spent
giving afterschool help to her
students was all worth it.
Marcia doesn’t have any
plans to do anything else
other than teach. She feels
as though she has the best
impact on students while
working directly with them in
the classroom.
She would like to be
remembered as a teacher
who genuinely cares for her
students and their educa
tion. Marcia believes that if
the student sees that you are
interested in them, they will
be more likely to work harder
for you.
The faculty and staff of
the Ninth Grade Campus are
proud to have Marcia Lane
serving as their 2011-2012
Teacher of the Year.
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LCHS 9th Grade Campus
Teacher of the Year
Marcia Lane
2011-2012
School bus driver picks up $10,000 win
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Special to the Ledger
A Lee County school
bus driver has stopped to
pick up a $10,000 Georgia
Lottery prize. Shelly Mc-
Burnett, 39, won the prize
in the Sept. 5 Decades of
Dollars drawing.
“I stopped and got gas,
and checked my tickets,”
she said. “I jumped for joy,
and I screamed.”
McBurnett, a resident
of Leesburg, claimed her
prize Friday at the Georgia
Lottery’s Tifton office.
She plans to use some of
her winnings to pay bills.
“And if my husband is
nice enough, I might get
him a motorcycle,” she
added with a laugh.
Winning numbers for the
Sept. 5 Decades of Dollars
drawing were: 4-14-19-29-
30-35.
McBurnett randomly
selected the lucky com
bination. She purchased
her ticket at Express Lane
#0064, 275 U.S. Highway
19 S. in Leesburg.
Decades of Dollars is a
multi-state game played
in Georgia, Kentucky,
Virginia and Arkansas.
The game offers a top prize
of $250,000 a year for 30
years and a $10,000 second
prize. Drawings are held
at 11 p.m. Mondays and
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Downtown
Leesburg
Development
Authority of
Smithville will
meet
at the
City Hall
at 7 p.m.
on Monday,
October 10
Photo by Jim Quinn
Lee County Sheriff Reggie Rachals (left) presented Dusty Pressley (center) an award for his
heroic actions on July 4,2011, when he was able to get Terry Willis (right) the medical attention
Terry needed. Terry started having seizures and Dusty carried him inside to his parents. If
it had not been for Dusty’s quick thinking the outcome could have been worse. Dusty and
Terry are both fifth grade students at Twin Oaks Elementary School. After suffering from his
first seziures, Terry is now on medication.
City
Council
will meet
Tuesday,
Oct. 4 at
6:00 p.m.
at the
Leesburg
City Hall
Shelly McBurnett
Thursdays. Tickets cost $2 Since its first year, the
per play. Georgia Lottery Corp.
has returned more than
$12.7 billion to the state of
Georgia for education. All
Georgia Lottery profits go
to pay for specific educa
tional programs, including
Georgia’s HOPE Scholar
ship Program and Geor
gia’s Pre-K Program. More
than 1.3 million students
have received HOPE, and
more than 1.1 million
4-year-olds have attended
the statewide, voluntary
prekindergarten program.
School Board Prepares
Agreement For New School
During their meeting
Monday, September 26,
the Lee County Board of
Education approved sepa
rate agreements with the
City of Leesburg and Lee
County.
The letter of intent with
Leesburg involves the
installation of water and
sewer lines to the new
elementary school which
will be constructed at the
intersection of Lovers
Lane Road and Robert B.
Lee. The maximum cost of
the project which involves
running the lines from
their current location near
the railroad crossing to the
school site will not exceed
$1,000,000. The City of
Leesburg will reimburse
the school board one half
of the final cost.
The second letter of in
tent approved by the school
board is with the county
concerning the installation
of acceleration and decel
eration lanes at the site of
the new school. The maxi
mum cost of installing the
lanes will be $750,000.
The county will reimburse
the board of education for
the total cost.
The board approved a
resolution to refinance
the 2003 A Bonds that is
currently finance at three
percent. The proposed rate
on the bonds is one percent
or less. It is anticipated that
the school system will save
approximately $90,000
over the years remaining
on the bonds. The proposal
to refinance was approved
only if the final sale of the
see Board,
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