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The Led County Ledger
7owr Hometown Source Of Local News
Hometown Newspaper of Bob and Mary Wilson
Volume XLII- Number 5
Leesburg, Georgia - - October 2, 2019
Fifty Cents
Lee County High School Homecoming To
Honor 2019 LCHS Distinguished Alumni
Special to the Ledger
As the Lee County
High School Trojans
prepare to take on
Thomson High School
Bulldogs for homecom
ing, the LCHS Distin
guished Alumni com
mittee is preparing the
final touches to welcome
our seven Distinguished
Alumni back to LCHS
and our community.
The purpose of this
program is to recognize
outstanding alumni
who have maintained a
high standard of excel
lence and distinguished
themselves through their
work, personal accom
plishments, or in the
lives of others. These
individuals exemplify
the ideals of the Lee
County School System
serves, and serve as role
models for current and
future Lee County High
School students.
The 2019 Class of
Distinguished Alumni
are listed in alphabetical
order:
Ms. Linda Henderson
Coston, Class of 1969
Ret. Lt. Col. Mary
McCray DaSilva, Class
of 1987
Rev. Lorenzo L. Heard,
Class of 1981
Mr. Billy Mathis, Class
of 1978
Colonel Timothy Chris
Owens, Class of 1989
Ret. Lt. Col. Robert
“Bob” E. Usry, Class of
1962
Mr. James Patrick
Vann, Class of 1988
Schedule of Events for
nnr 901Q T fttS Dictin-
guished Alumni Festiv
ities:
Thursday, October 3,
2019 - Homecoming
Parade in downtown
Leesburg at 5:30 pm.
The Distinguished
Alumni will serve as the
Grand Marshals of the
Parade.
Thursday, October 3,
2019 - Distinguished
Alumni Banquet
Location: The Bind
ery at Oakland Library
(Leesburg, GA)
Time: 7:00 pm
Tickets: $10 per person
(Available at Lee County
Chamber of Commerce,
Lee County High
School and Lee County
Board of Education).
Friday, October 4, 2019
- School Presentations
Ms. Linda Henderson
students at LCHS9 -
1:20 pm
Ret. Lt. Col. Mary Mc
Cray DaSilva will speak
with students at LCHS
- 9:00 am
Rev. Lorenzo L. Heard
will speak at LCMS
West - 8:45 am
Mr. Billy Mathis will
speak at LCHS - 9:00
am
Colonel Timothy Chris
Owens will speak at
Lee County Utilities
Authority has imple
mented water restriction
guidelines for its cus
tomers. According to the
Utilities Authority press
release, their custom-
LCMS East - 9:40 am
Mr. James Patrick Vann
will speak at LCMS
East - 9:40 am
Friday, October 4, 2019
- Homecoming Foot
ball Game
The 2019 LCHS Dis
tinguished Alumni will
be recognized from the
Football Field during
Pre-Game festivities
and then will enjoy the
football game with their
ers are not to use their
water service for outdoor
watering between 10:00
a.m. and 4:00 p.m. This
requirement is in effect
every day.
Due to high water
guests.
The Lee County High
School Distinguished
Alumni Program selects
7 recipients every year.
For more information on
how you can nominate
your LCHS Distin
guished Alumni, please
email ldavis@lee.ga.us
or shirleypa@lee.kl2.
ga.us. Applications are
available year-round.
demands, high tempera
ture and without rain in
the immediate forecast,
it was necessary for the
Utilities Authority to es
tablish these guidelines.
Watering Restrictions For
Utilities Authority Customers
Historical Marker Honors Leesburg Stockade Girls
Special to the Ledger
The Georgia Historical
Society, in conjunction
with many individu
als and organizations,
dedicated a Civil Rights
Trail Historical Marker
Friday, September 27 to
recognize the Leesburg
Stockade and the girls
held there in 1963. This
is the first marker on the
Georgia Civil Rights
Trail located in Lee
County.
The marker shows the
role of mass media in
sharing the struggle for
civil and human rights
across the country and
the world, including pho
tographs of the stockade
girls showed throughout
America.
Program participants
included Jason Miller
Lee County Schools
Superintendent, Albany
Mayor Dorothy Hub
bard, Leesburg Mayor
Jim Quinn, Shirley
Green-Reese, one of the
stockade girls, Danny
Lyon and Georgia His
torical President CEO
W. Todd Groce. The Lee
County Middle School
Girls Choir performed.
.GHS’s Georgia Civil
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Homecoming
Parade -
5:30 PM
October 3,
2019
For information
email
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Rights Trail initiative
focuses broadly on
the economic, social,
political and cultural
history of the civil rights
movement. Specifical
ly, roadside historical
markers tell the story of
the movement in Georgia
by guiding audiences to
the sites where history
happened, inviting them
to stand on the ground
where struggles and
events took place.
The Leesburg Stockade
marker states “In July
1963, a group of adoles
cent African-American
girls were incarcerated in
the Lee County Stockade
following arrest during
the Civil Rights Move
ment. The girls were held
in a single cell lacking
proper plumbing, run
ning water, bedding, and
sanitary supplies. Be
cause their families were
not initially told their lo
cation and the girls never
faced formal charges,
they became known as
the Leesburg Stockade
Stolen Girls. Their plight
was captured and shared
through the photogra
phy of Danny Lyon of
the Student Nonviolent
Coordinating Commit
tee (SNCC). SNCC’s
distribution of the
photos in Jet magazine
and the SNCC newslet
ter, Student Voice, led
to the girls’ release in
mid-September 1963.
The use of photojournal
ism and mass media in
the Movement allowed
Americans on a broad
scale to witness and
empathize with the
struggle for human and
civil rights.”
The marker was
applied for by Colby
Pines, of California who
grew up in the local
area. He learned about
the stockade and its
history two years ago
from a Georgia Public
Broadcasting story on
the stockade and wanted
to help preserve a civil
rights landmark.
In the summer of 1963,
15 girls, ranging from
12-15 years old, were
held in the stockade as
a result of a peaceful
protest in Americus. In
the stockade, they lived
in poor conditions with
roaches, no toilet tissue
and without running wa
ter. They were held with
out their parents know
ing where they were.
They were transported
by a truck to Dawson
before being brought to
Leesburg because the jail
in Americus was full.
Eight of the 1963 Lees
burg Stockade Girls are
still living.
Photo by Lee County Chamber of Commerce
On Tuesday, September 24,2019 the Lee County Chamber of Commerce hosted a Ribbon
Cutting for Benchmark Physical Therapy located at 1204 U.S. Hwy 19 S. Ste. B, Leesburg,
(229) 496-2342, www.benchmark.urpt.com/locations/leesburg/. Their hours of operation are
Monday and Wednesday: 7:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m., Tuesdays and Thursday 8:00 a.m. - 6:00 p.m.,
and Friday 7:00 a.m. -1:00 p.m. Their therapist is certified in Dry Needling. He specializes in
vestibular and post concussion therapy. He has traveled all over the country teaching other
therapists and certifying them in treating these conditions. He is thankful and blessed to be
back in SOWEGA and excited to get plugged into the community. He hopes to be someone
who can provide a service that makes a difference.
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