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The Led County Ledger Your Hometown Source Of Local News Hometown Newspaper ofElby and Betty Williams Volume XXXIV - Number 6 Leesburg, Georgia - - September 28,2011 Fifty Cents Lane Named Ninth Grade Campus Teacher of the Year Mia WSjjS&m wm WB&ggSo \KgaSfgal fefj Special to the Ledger 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. 600 ■V*: 4V7 LCHS 9th Grade Campus Teacher of the Year Marcia Lane 2011-2012 School bus driver picks up $10,000 win BANK of LEE COUNTY A Division of Bank of Terrell To Subscribe Call 229-759-2413 Doherty, Duggan & Rouse Insurors 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 Home • Auto • Business • Life/Health P.O.Box 71628 (229)888-2040 Albany, GA 31708-1628 800-628-2040 2301 Dawson Road (31707) Fax (229) 435-3036 www.ddrins.com 3000 N. Slappey Blvd., Albany (229) 446-0102 FDll www.bankofleeco.com hmssi 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, Page 5A