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The Wiregrass Farmer, December 28,2016 - Page 3
REVIEW
(Continued from Page 2)
Week 4
Sewage spilling from City
sewer on the west side of town
is a continuing concern. An un
usually wet winter means the
Ashbum sewer system has ex
perienced unusually high
flows. The sewer department
has run more spill notices than
ever before. Trash in the lines
are making things worse. Work
is underway to find where the
rainwater is getting into the
lines.
Kayland Winter is this
year’s STAR student and she
chose Millie Puckett as her
STAR teacher.
Turner County Elementary
School will get some needed
work over the summer break.
The school has about $660K in
renovation funds. $545K is
from the state and requires
matching funds of $ 114K from
the school system. The Special
Purpose Local Option Sales
Tax (SPLOST) will cover this
expense.
With the victories by The
Lady Rebels and The Rebels
they advance to the quarterfi
nals which will be held on the
campus of Valdosta State.
A tree was planted at the
Ashburn Park as Ashburn is
once again designated as a
Tree City USA.
March
Week 1
The school closing due to
severe weather expected by the
National Weather Service was
the right decision according to
the school superintendent Dr.
Jeff McDaniel. The safety of
our children and staff is the
most important thing we can
do he says.
A report released last week
looked at poverty around the
nation based on zip code.
Turner County doesn’t fare
very well in the report. The re
port was compiled by the Eco
nomic Innovation Group,
EIG.org.
Longtime Sales Manager
for The Wiregrass Farmer,
Linda Sellars is retiring. The
new sales manager is Bethany
Couch.
Chief Bill Ryder is sworn in
as the new Sycamore Police
Chief. In other Sycamore
news, Auditor Mike Sirmons
gave Sycamore a clean bill of
health in the annual audit, but
did throw in a word of caution.
The City’s Water Department
is barely keeping its head
above water. Also the basket
ball court will go ahead as
planned, construction is given
the go ahead.
In sports the Lady Rebels
head to state! They were victo
rious against Telfair County
57-44. Mylashia Yancey
breaks the school record of
total career points for basket
ball with 2250 points currently.
The previous record holder
was the late Ronalda Pierce
with 2210 points.
In a very close game the
boys lost in their quarterfinals
match against Hancock Cen
tral, 68-66
The Find the Fire Ant con
test begins.
Week 2
Lady Rebels are State
Champions! The undefeated
Lady Rebels won their first
state championship since 1956
(when Ashburn won) by de
feating Terrell County 55-38.
The girls were honored with a
parade through downtown
Ashburn and a gathering at
Elrod Park for signing auto
graphs and posing for pictures.
Also in sports, Lorenzo Bolden
recently signed with Albany
State University to play foot
ball.
With just about 38 percent
of registered voters turning
out, the Board of Education
sales tax referendum, E-
SPLOST, sailed through, tak
ing 77.23 percent of the vote.
In the Presidential Primary
Turner County voters chose
Republican candidate Donald
Trump by a wide margin both
in the Republican primary and
across the board.
Liberty Tax business was
broken into.
Week 3
Ashbum Police Chief James
Davis is retiring. At the Ash
burn City Council meeting
three candidates were an
nounced. They are Shane
Benefield, Clifford Jordan and
Joseph Ezekiel.
Candidates are announced
for local offices with only two
having competition. Probate
Judge Penny Thomas (D) will
be facing a challenger Sandra
Raines Hill (R) and Board of
Education District 4 Chairman
Phillip Crawford will face
challenger Erik Soliday, for
mer TCHS football coach.
Grassroots Counseling, on
E. Washington, held a ribbon
cutting and grand opening.
The JROTC Drill Team
members are on their way to
State Competition. The
JROTC Color Guard earned
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TRACK & FIELD
Sophomore Jalavion Boone running the 300 Intermediate Hurdles al a
track meet at the high school last week.
UDC holds meeting Fitzgerald
The Ben Hill Chapter #
1137 United Daughters of the
Confederacy, Fitzgerald held
their Christmas Luncheon Dec.
14 at noon at the 1st Presby
terian Church.
Due to our President
Marlyn Nelson having trouble
talking, Mary Jane Espinosa
welcomed all the members and
guest present and thanked for
coming. Mary Jane asked Rev.
Don Woeltjen to have grace,
after which we had a delicious
meal that the ladies at the
church had prepared. After the
meal we were asked to go into
the sanctuary for the program
that had been prepared for us.
Boy! Were we blessed with
the trio, Rev. Don Woeltjen,
Eulalie Woeltjen and Patricia
Walker, Rev. Woeltjen giving
the story of the Christmas
Carol and Eulalie and Patricia
playing the carol on the same
piano and they were GOOD.
The First Christmas song
was Blue Christmas written by
Billy Hayes and Jay W. John
son which was most famously
performed by Elvis Presley. It
is a tale of unrequited love dur
ing the holidays and is a long
favorite of the holidays. It was
first recorded by Doye O’Dell
in 1948. Elvis Presley ce
mented the status of the song in
his 1957 recording.
The second song was The
Christmas Song (Chestnuts
roasting on an open fire) was
written by Bob Wells and Mel
Torme in 1944. The Christmas
Song was recorded in 1946 by
Nat King Cole. The song was
written in the summer with
thoughts of cool weather. Mel
Torme saw four lines that Bob
Wells had written down on a
piece of paper, so he sat down
and forty five minutes later he
had finished a song. Nat King
Cole fell in love with the song
but it took him one year before
he was able to record it.
The third song was Rudolph
the Red Nose Reindeer. The
song was created by Robert
Lewis May for Montgomery
Ward, the department store,
and first appeared in a 1939
booklet. Rudolph the Red
Nose Reindeer of course is a
fictional reindeer known as
Santa’s 9th reindeer, who leads
Santa’s sleigh on Christmas
Eve. A postage stamp featuring
him was issued on November
6, 2014 by the United States
Postal Service.
The fourth song was “Santa
Baby” it was written by Joan
Javits (the niece of Senator
Jacob K. Jarvits) and Philip
Springer, sung originally by
Eartha Kitt. The song is about
a Christmas list addressed to
Santa Claus by a woman who
wants extravagant gifts such as
sables, yachts and decoration
from Tiffany’s. The song is
heard in films such as “Driving
Miss Daisy” 1989, Mixed Nuts
in 1944, Elf in 2003 and Roys-
ton Beach Club in 2005.
The fifth song was “Up on
the Housetop” which was writ
ten by Benjamin R. Hanby, son
of Bishop William Hanby, a
young minister who was strug
gling in the year 1864 to make
a living and later made a living
running a singing school also
writing music for the John
Church Music Publishing
Company. In his lifetime he
would publish 80 songs. The
song was first performed in
part at a children’s service at
Christmas, 1864 and later at a
dinner for poor children spon
sored by the Society of
Friends. "Up on the Housetop"
may have been the first Amer
ican song of importance which
elaborates on the theme on
Santa Claus. Hanby died in
1867 of tuberculosis.
The sixth song was We
Wish You A Merry Christmas.
It comes from the greeting “a
merry Christmas and a happy
New Year” is recorded from
1740, the English custom of
performing inside and outside
the home in return for food or
drink. The origin of this
Christmas carol lies in the
English tradition, wherein
wealthy people of the commu
nity gave Christmas treats to
Carolers on Christmas Eve
such as "figgy pudding”.
Figgy Pudding is a British
style pudding or dessert con
sisting of butter, eggs, sugar,
milk, extract, apples, dried
figs, lemon and orange peel,
nuts, dried bread crumbs,
bacon (optional). Mixed and
put in a pan half full of water
and steamed in an oven.
We all enjoyed the stories
by Rev, Don Woeltjen and the
beautiful music by Eulalie
Woeltjen and Patricia Walker.
THEY WERE GREAT!
Those attending were: Pres
ident Marlyn Nelson, Theresa
and Thomas Williamson, Mary
Jane Espinosa, Dianne and
Gene Brown, Barbara Bailey,
Rev. Don and Eulalie Woelt
jen, Patricia Walker, Maria
Denney, Martha and Ronald
Glover, Evelyn Pankratz, Mary
Moore, Preston and Imogene
Beard Wells.
Helicopter rescue now in Tift County
Air Evac Lifeteam is in
creasing its coverage in Geor
gia with a new base in Tift
County. Officials said the new
base, which opened on Dec,
20, will ensure even more res
idents in the region will have
access to lifesaving emergency
medical care.
Air Evac Lifeteam is the na
tion’s largest independently
owned and operated air med
ical service, and its crews pro
vide on-the-scene medical
care, rapid medical transport,
and transfers between medical
facilities. An Air Evac
Lifeteam crew, which includes
a registered nurse, paramedic
and pilot, is on call at each
base 24 hours a day, seven
days a week.
Seth Myers, president of Air
Evac Lifeteam, said he is
grateful for the support of
Tifton and Tift County offi
cials, first responders and
health care officials.
“We are proud to be a part
of Tift County, and especially
to work with area hospitals and
EMS agencies,” Myers said.
Carol Smith, chief nursing
officer at Tift Regional Med
ical Center, said helicopter air
ambulances are important, es
pecially for patients with major
trauma, and those who require
neurosurgery.
"Air Evac supplies air am
bulance services to our hospital
flying critically ill patients to
tertiary facilities that provide
services not available in our
community,” Smith said. “This
service is an asset to the com
munities we serve.”
Kayland Danielle Winter (front, magenta dress) is the 2016 STAR Student. She
selected Millie Puckett (Back, left) as her STAR Teacher. Also pictured, Cassidy
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