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Page 6A,The Lee County Ledger, Wednesday, November 9, 2016
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3001 Sylvester Road, Albany 229-496-1061
Traveling Tips & Trips
Special to the Ledger
By Bland Cleesattle
GA National Fair
grounds has wonderful
events for the entire
family to enjoy and fall
offers one of the best
schedules starting with
the Fall 2015 Perry Au-
A-1 Pools,
For all your Pool needs
Build Pools And
^ Replace Liners!
We Offer Financing On
Inground & Above Ground Pools!
• Inground Construction
Vinyl Liners/Fiberglass
• Above Ground Pools/Decks
• Liner Replacement/Repairs
• Repair Service/Maintenance
Above Ground Pools
starting at $1,500.00
Inground Pools
starting at $15,000.00
Liner Replacement
starting at $2,000.00
Owner: Joey Wilkinson
Leesburg, GA (229) 344-4419
tofest & Swap Meet that
takes places
November 11
to Novem
ber 12 and
is hosted by
Five Guys
Automotive
Ventures in
the Carnival
Midway from
8 a.m. to 6
p.m. either
day. Admis
sion is $5
and under 5 is free with
adult.
Autumn Classic Char
ity Horse Show hosted
by Dougherty County
Saddle Club will show in
Sutherland Arena on No
vember 12 and 13 begin
ning at 8 a.m. each day.
Free for spectators with
benefits going to Albany
Humane Society. This
show has something for
everyone including the
breed classes for Paso,
Walking Horses, Quar
ter Horse and Arabians.
Horses will be shown in
halter classes, hunt seat
classes, jumping classes
and many more.
Also November 12 tol3
you will find the East
man Gun Show in the
Bland Cleesattle
Lee County
Farm Bureau Members
Annual Meeting & BBQ
Monday, November 14, 2016 at 7:00 pm
Bring Unwrapped Toy & Help Us Collect Toys For BFCS
First Baptist Church of Leesburg
Fellowship Hall
135 Main Street
Plates: $3.00 per person
All other plates:
A I I $8.oo/See Mr. Harrell
longleaf
dental
Center for Oral Health, Implant and Aesthetic Dentistry
The stockings are
hung by the chimney
with care
T NEED TO BE FILLED
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Don’t let the Elf on the Shelf
have all the glory, come see us
for the perfect end to your
Christmas story
ZOOM
WHITENING
Must be purchased by 12/22/2016
McGill Marketplace at 9
a.m. to 5 p.m.
on Saturday
and Sunday
10 a.m. to 5
p.m. Admis
sion is $8 with
under 12 free
with adult.
Mistletoe
Market is
hosted by Bal-
vaunuca Club
at the GA
National Fair
Miller-Murphy-Howard
Exhibit Hall on Friday
November 18 from 9
a.m. to 7 p.m.; Saturday
9 a.m. to 6 p.m.; or Sun
day noon to 5 p.m. with
Admission $5 with kids
under 10 free with adult.
Also November 18 - 20
in the Sutherland Arena
you will find the GA
Fall Classic Saddlebred
Horse Show beginning
Friday at 6 p.m.; Satur
day 9 a.m. and 7 p.m.;
and Sunday at 9 a.m.
Free for spectators.
The Georgia National
Fairgrounds and Agri
center is in Perry, Geor
gia, is a state-owned,
multipurpose, 1,100+
acre rental complex
which is open year-round
located at 401 Golden
Isles Pkwy, Perry, GA
31069. Call (478) 987-
3247 for fairgrounds
information.
These are a few of the
events on line for the GA
National Fairgrounds.
If you are interested in
joining my travel club
please call me at 229-
435-2316 or email me at
bcleesattle@att.net.
The First
Proclamation
Jeffery R Singleton, DMD - Charles L. Claris, Jr., DMD - Martin B. Claris. DMD
602 Pointe North Blvd. I Albany. GA 31721 I longleafdental.com I 229-T32-6751
Special to the Ledger
by Gail Drake
There was a time when
government proclama
tions meant something.
In English law, a royal
proclamation was a
formal an
nouncement,
made under
oath and seal,
of a signifi
cant matter
the King and
his Council
wanted to
make known
to his people,
such as a
declaration
of war. Part
of the executive power
of the Crown, these
laws were binding on
subjects where they did
not contradict old law
or create new law, but
merely executed an ex
isting law, like the war
rant for, or apprehension
of, a criminal.
In contemporary
America, many proc
lamations are largely
ceremonial and social.
A cursory review of the
White House calendar
includes National Forest
Products Week and Safe
Boating Week. Each
year at Thanksgiving,
the President is pre
sented with the national
turkey and its alternate.
President Reagan was
the first to officially
“pardon” the turkey,
named “Charlie” that
year, and the tradition
has continued through
last year with the par
doning of “Abe” and its
partner “Honest.”
The first proclama
tion in the United States
came in the seed-plot
of our nation, written
by Governor William
Bradford of Plymouth
Rock fame. Though the
story is well known, it
is worth the re-telling.
The Pilgrims, from the
Calvinist/Separatist
faith, had faced dis
crimination and even
imprisonment in Eng
land for practicing their
religious beliefs that dif
fered from the Church
of England. After
emigrating to Holland,
they arranged to start
a new colony in North
America. 102 individu
als crossed the Atlantic
Gail Drake
in the Mayflower, land
ing at Plymouth Rock in
November 1620.
The first winter was
brutal. With no shelter
or food, or medicines
for disease, only 47
colonists
survived.
The follow
ing spring
the Pilgrims
were be
friended
by Native
Americans
Samoset and
Squanto,
who taught
them how
to plant, fish
and otherwise live in
their new homeland. In
November 1623, Gov
ernor Bradford issued
our nation’s first known
proclamation.
“Inasmuch as the great
Father has given us
this year an abundant
harvest of Indian corn,
wheat, peas, beans,
squashes and garden
vegetables, and has
made the forest to
abound with game, and
the sea with fish and
clams, and inasmuch
as He has protected us
from the ravages of the
savages, has spared us
from pestilence and
disease, has granted
us freedom to worship
God according to the
dictates of our own
conscience, now I, your
magistrate, do proclaim
that all ye Pilgrims,
with your wives and ye
little ones, do gather
at ye meeting house,
on ye hill, between the
hours of 9 and 12 in the
daytime, on Thursday,
November 29, of the
year of our Lord 1623,
and the third year since
ye Pilgrims landed on
ye Pilgrim Rock, there
to listen to ye pastor and
render thanksgiving to
ye Almighty God for all
His blessings. Williams
Bradford, Ye Governor
of Ye Colony.”
We all have something
to be thankful for. “Oh
give thanks unto the
Lord, for He is good,
for His mercy endures
forever!” Psalm 107:1
Gail Drake practices
probate, adoption and
juvenile court law in
Lee County.