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Newspaper Page TextPage 10A,The Lee County Ledger, Wednesday, September 28, 2011 Jane Bond Moore and Julian Bond to Speak at ACRI and ASU Special to the Ledger On September 29-30, 2011, civil rights activist and attorney Jane Bond Moore and her brother civil rights leader and historian Julian Bond will appear in Albany to discuss their roles in the civil rights movement. Jane Bond Moore will speak at the Albany Civil Rights Institute’s Monthly Community Night on Thursday, September 29, and Julian Bond will talk at Albany State University on Friday, September 30. Their presentations are sponsored by ACRI, the C.B. King Black Attorneys Association, Albany State University’s Civil Rights Celebration, Hilton Garden Inn Albany, and the Crite rion Club. Jane and Julian Bond grew up in the home of a college president. Their father, Horace Mann Bond, was the first president of Fort Valley State Col lege and later president of Lincoln University. A man ahead of his times. President Bond fought for civil rights long before the modern movement emerged in the 1950s. Dr. Bond was a well-known writer on the social, education, and economic issues that affected the African American com munity. He was noted for writing a stinging critique of white society’s claims about African American intelligence. Nurtured in this rich cultural environ ment, Julian Bond and Jane Bond Moore followed their father’s interest in community, emulated his Hinman Aluminum Screen Rooms Sun Rooms Swimming Pools Pool Enclosures Replacement Windows Metal Roofs Seamless Gutters Eddie Hinman - 229-344-4800 636 Fussell Road - Leesburg, GA Division of LED Inc GA License # RLQA000164 boldness, and continued his struggle for racial progress in America. Jane Bond Moore’s in volvement with civil rights began with her work for the Southern Regional Coun cil monitoring southern racist violence. She later worked behind the scenes at the SNCC headquarters in Atlanta. She started an integrated cooperative nursery school in Atlanta and worked on her broth er’s political campaign for a seat in the Georgia House of Representatives. She is an attorney, teaches law school in California, and is a contributor to Hands on the Freedom Plow: Per sonal Accounts by Women in SNCC. Julian Bond, retired chairman of the NAACP, is a leading national civil rights activist and history professor at the University of Virginia. He was a stu dent at Morehouse College in 1960 when he participat ed in the southern student sit-in movement and helped found the Student Nonvio lent Coordinating Com mittee (SNCC). He served as SNCC Communications Director from 1960 to 1966. In 1965 and 1966 he won a seat in the Georgia House of Representatives but his colleagues refused to seat him because of his opposition to the Vietnam War. After winning his third election to the House, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in his favor and he served the first of four terms in the House and six terms in the Georgia Senate. In 1968, Bond was nominated to run as Democratic candidate for U.S. vice president. He withdrew his name, how ever, as he was seven years younger than the mini mum age of thirty-live. Since leaving his career in Georgia politics. Bond has been involved in history education and civil rights advocacy at the national level in numerous venues. Jane Bond Moore will appear at the Albany Civil Rights Institute, 326 Whitney Ave., Albany, on Thursday, September 29, at 7:30 p.m. There will be a book signing following her talk. Copies of Hands on the Freedom Plow are now available in the ACRI gift shop. Julian Bond will appear at Albany State University’s new student center ballroom on Friday, September 30, at 7:30 p.m. Admission is free and open to the public for both events. The next ACRI Monthly Community Night on Thursday, October 27, will feature historian Danielle McGuire speaking about her new book. At the Dark End of the Street: Black Women, Rape, and Resistance-A New History of the Civil Rights Move ment from Rosa Parks to the Rise of Black Power. ^teesbura Air Heating Air Conditioning Air Quality Ice Machines Refrigeration Commercial Cooking Equipment “One Call Does It All” 229-888-8222 Howard Craven John 3:16 Lee County Students in Grade 8 to Participate in Norm Referenced Testing Re-elect Jerry Myrick Smithville Mayor Smithville, we have come a long way to gether and we still have a long way to go. Before I go any further I would like to thank all the Smithville citizens for allow ing me to serve as your mayor for the previous years. During those years, new homes have been built, several homes have been added to the city sewer, a new com munity building built and a new fire EMS station serves Smithville citizens. During the years that I have served as your mayor, prop erty taxes have not been raised. If I am reelected, I intend to extend the sewer service to the homes were it is not available and work with the Lee County Economic Development Authority to attract new businesses to Smithville. Reelect me as your mayor so we can continue to strive and work together for the best in Smithville. Your mayor Jerry Myrick Special to the Ledger Lee County students will be involved in testing the week of October 4-6, 2011. Students in grade 8 will be administered the Iowa Tests of Basic Skills (ITBS) norm referenced test. All students will take the following: Reading, Language Arts and Math ematics. Students are encour aged to do their very best on these tests. The results are used for evaluation purposes. During the test ing program, please urge students to get plenty of rest. Special Olympics Fundraiser The Lee County Sheriff’s Office is sellling tickets for a Bar-B-Que fundraiser to benefit Special Olym pics Georgia. Tickets can be bought at Lee County Sheriff’s Office or from any Lee County Sheriff’s Office Employee The meal includes Bar- B-Que, 2 sides, bread, & desert, $7.00 each. Pick up; Sat, November 12, 2011. 11:00 - 2:00 at Lee County Courthouse, 100 Leslie Hwy. Pearce Named to Armstrong’s Spring 2011 Dean’s List I was surprised that one of WF Griffin's em ployees in the tax Assessor's office was on the garbage deliquent list, and more than three months. Is Mr. Griffin aware of this? Two reason's Muggridge is so quite about the garbage tax. Duffy won't let him talk and he thinks this will blow over and voters will forget. I may be “just a para", but it would be nice to be treated like and adult. We work hard and de serve the respect from the teachers and admin istrators. So if Social Security is an entitlement then congressional retirements are also, so lets cut them too. As well as their medical benefits make them help pay for them like for Medicare has to. Mr Duffy with all due respect sir. There was a time when your vision for Lee County was much appreciated. However sir your vision has blurred with tenure, as we are pained with a failed golf course and uncollected fees. It is truly time for you to step aside and let a person with unob structed vision take the helm. It would be nice to see you leave with two strikes against you and not see you gain your third on election day. When elections come around, next year, will we hear commissioners claiming, “We balanced the budget —Blah, yatta. No new taxes —blah, blah. We built a library - yatta,yatta. We tried to force a garbage tax on you I" Who is going to take credit for it. Here's a question to ponder: Which commis sioner introduced the idea of enacting the gar bage tax ordinance? Will the commissioner who proposed it please step up and be recognized? I say find a reputable and successful collec tion agency and turn all the delinquent garbage accounts over to him on a 50% fee. That will get results. Special to the Ledger Kelly Pearce has been named to the spring 2011 dean’s list at Armstrong Atlantic State University. Pearce is a Undeclared major from Albany, GA. In order to make the dean’s list, students must be enrolled in at least nine semester hours of course work and earn a grade point average of at least 3.6. For more information, visit www.armstrong.edu. This column is to give praise for what good is going on or comments about what should be changed. 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The Lee County ledger. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1978-current, September 28, 2011, Image 10