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The Lee County Board of Commissioners is the fiscal agent of the grant, which the state provides to involve Georgia stu dents in reducing traffic crashes, injuries and deaths of teen drivers. The GOHS grant will enhance Lee County High School’s existing SADD chapter with the idea that student input into the solution will help alleviate the problem of teen driver fatalities in Georgia. SADD’s unique ap proach involves young people delivering education and preven tion messages to their peers through school and community-wide activities and cam paigns responsive to the needs of their particular locations. “Lee County is now in its second grant year with us and we’re excited to see what 2019 brings both for their students and teen drivers across Georgia,” said GOHS Communi cations Manager Robert Hydrick. So far this year the LCHS SADD chapter has helped to provide suicide prevention awareness, started an ongoing project to make blankets for youth in lo cal shelters, conducted a student-driver seatbelt check, and sponsored a school-wide assembly with Bobby Petrocelli, a motivational speaker who shares with people of all ages about the power of their deci sions and how to build a strong foundation for their lives. For more information on this grant program, contact GOHS at 404- 656-6996 and for more information on GOHS and its other highway safety programs, visit www.gahighwaysafety. org. Page 6A,The Lee County Ledger, Wednesday, February 6, 2019 SW Georgia claims drop in December Special to the Ledger Georgia Labor Com missioner Mark Butler said Thursday that Southwest Georgia’s initial claims went down during December. The 16-county region lost employed residents and numbers in the la bor force for December. 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The organiza tion has approximately 90,000 members in 18 member countries arounds the world. years: $2.46/g in 2018, $2.18/g in 2017, $1.71/g in 2016, $2.03/g in 2015 and $3.18/g in 2014. Including the change locally during the past week, prices yesterday were 35.9 cents per gal lon lower than a year ago and are 6.8 cents Submitted Photo Ninth Grade Campus Best Buddies attended the Future Georgia Educators Day at Georgia Southwestern in Americus. or Email: The unemployment rate for December, at 4.4 percent, was up 0.4 per cent over the previous month. A year ago, the rate was 4.9 percent. The labor force in Southwest Georgia went down by 1,780 in De cember to reach 150,744. That number is down by 1,584 over the past year, an average monthly loss of about 130. Southwest Georgia lost 2,317 employed residents in December, bringing the total to 144,117. The number is down 787 for the year, or about 65 per month. Claims for unemploy ment insurance fell by 39 percent in December. They were up by 16 percent when compared to the same month a year ago. Employ Georgia, the GDOL’s online job list ing service at employ- georgia.com showed 975 active job postings in metro Southwest Geor gia for December. The Southwest Geor gia Region includes Baker, Calhoun, Colquitt, Decatur, Dougherty, Early, Grady, Lee, Miller, Mitchell, Seminole, Terrell, Thomas, and Worth counties. Average Gas Prices Drop Slightly Special to the Ledger Gasoline prices in Georgia have fallen 2.4 cents per gallon in the past week, averaging $2.10/g, according to GasBuddy’s daily survey of 5,883 stations in Georgia. This compares with the national average that has fallen 0.8 cents per gallon versus last week to $2.25/g, accord ing to GasBuddy. Average gasoline prices on February 4 in Georgia have ranged widely over the last five per gallon higher than a month ago. 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