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THURSDAY. JUNE 2. 2022 PICKENS COUNTY PROGRESS PAGE 5A
4-Hers selected as state ambassadors
Ryan Johnson is involved in the swim team, Beta Club, has helped with the Toy Run
and was selected to be a Georgia 4-H Healthy Living Ambassador.
This month the Pickens
County 4-H program was no
tified that five local 4-Hers
were selected to represent
Georgia in the 4-H Ambassa
dor Program. 4-Hers all over
the state were allowed to
apply indicating their desire
to be a part of the program
and their plans to learn and
share information in their
area of study over the next
year.
With approximately fifty
4-Hers being selected after
application screening, Pick
ens County is proud to have
10% of the state’s selection
coming directly from our
local program.
Once again, our youth are
being recognized as stand
outs in leadership, citizen
ship, and knowledge in their
field of study as compared
with their peers across the
state.
The Georgia 4-H Ambas
sador Program has a rich his
tory of success and impact.
The inaugural program
launched in 2005 and fea
tured more than 30 youth
working in their communities
to make the best better!
Today, selected 4-H Am
bassadors are making a one-
year commitment to the
program, which includes at
tending the Ambassador
Training Summit, engaging
in self-directed learning, de
veloping individualized plans
for sharing their knowledge,
and reporting ambassador ac
tivities on a quarterly basis.
Each 4-Her must select a spe
cific area of study (healthy
living, wildlife, STEM, and
pollinators) that they will ex
plore more by studying, in
terviewing experts, and then
teaching the community,
their peers, and younger 4-
Hers about what they
learned.
Pickens County 4-H fo
cused on having students that
will be in 9th-12th grades in
the 2022-23 school year to
try out for these prestigious
positions. The local students
selected were Reese Davis,
Molly Hooker, Ryan John
son, Mica Newton, and
Sophia Scott. Over the next
few weeks we will do a high
light spot on one of these out
standing 4-Hers.
4-Her Spotlight:
Ryan Johnson
Ryan Johson is the son of
James and Debra Johnson.
He’s a 10th grade 4-Her at
Pickens High School and en
joys a wide variety of activi
ties. In addition to being the
Senior VP of Pickens County
4-H, he competes with the
PHS ESports team, is a mem
ber of the PHS Beta Club,
and the PHS Swim team.
He also competes with the
Sea Dragons swim team year
round. He was chosen as the
Community Service/Citizen
ship award this year for 4-H
because of all the hours he
commits to helping his com
munity.
He was recognized by the
Jasper Lions Club in particu
lar for all his help with the
Toy Run. He helped cook for
the riders and collected the
toys. He even was there to
distribute the bags of toys on
family night. He is also in
terested in mask making and
special effects. He will be
doing an apprenticeship
under a professional mask
maker this summer.
Ryan was selected to be a
Georgia 4-H Healthy Living
Ambassador. Ryan had
proven his interest in this par
ticular area as he studied
health and nutrition this year
in his project area of Food
For Health and Sport. He in
terviewed dieticians from the
UGA sports nutrition depart
ment, took a class on nutri
tion for swimmers, and made
displays about good nutri
tion.
He taught various lessons
to local younger 4-Hers and
was chosen to teach at a dis
trict conference for younger
4-Hers. This spring he at
tended the district competi
tion where he placed first and
will be headed to the state
level competition in July.
As an ambassador, he will
be asked to educate the com
munity about how cultivating
healthy habits around food,
nutrition, and physical activ
ity is essential for ensuring
your own health and the
health of your community.
Healthy Habits ambassadors
learn and share about food
and nutrition, food access
and security, preparing
budget-friendly meals and
snacks, and general health
and well-being.
He will be required to pro
vide quarterly reports about
how he learned more about
this area and subsequently
how he shared what he
learned.
JUNE II, 2022
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Commission recommends
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ATLANTA - A commis
sion created to rename mili
tary bases currently named
for historical figures with ties
to the Confederacy is recom
mending renaming Fort Gor
don near Augusta for former
President and World War II
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Eisenhower.
The Naming Commission
also suggested renaming Fort
Benning near Columbus for
Lt. Gen. Hal Moore and his
wife Julia. Moore's 32 years
of service in the Army from
1945 until 1977 included
commanding combat troops
in Vietnam.
Forts Gordon and Ben
ning are among seven Army
bases the commission chose
for renaming.
"Our goal was to inspire
today's soldiers and the local
communities with names and
values that have meaning,"
retired Navy Admiral
Michelle Howard, the chair
of the Naming Commission,
said Tuesday.
The commission visited
the seven bases last year for
listening sessions with mili
tary commanders and com
munity leaders.
During the listening ses
sions and a public comment
period, the panel received
more than 34,000 submis
sions for renaming, including
3,670 unique names.
The push to rename mili
tary bases honoring Confed
erate military and political
leaders has been part of an ef
fort that has included remov
ing statues from public
places in cities across the
South.
Other Army bases being
renamed include Fort Bragg
in North Carolina, Fort
Rucker in Alabama; Fort
Polk in Louisiana, and forts
A.P. Hill, Lee and Pickett in
Virginia.
The new names the com
mission is recommending
will be in its report to Con
gress, which is due by Oct. 1.
Plants of the Southeast
"Bigleaf magnolia,”
Magnolia macrophylla
Photo/ Lynn Yenkey
There are probably 100 or so different species of Mag
nolia around the world including the “bigleaf’ shown here.
Eight of them occur in North America.
By John Nelson
University of
South Carolina
This fantastic flower was
produced on a tree at what we
here in Columbia call the
Belser Arboretum, a 7-acre
(or so) tract of forested land
pretty much in the middle of
the city, and 2 blocks from
my home.
Back to this fantastic
flower of the bigleaf magno
lia. This is a deciduous
species of the genus Magno
lia; it was planted here. There
are probably 100 or so dif
ferent species of Magnolia
around the world. 8 of them
occur in North America, and
of these, two species are
evergreen: M. grandiflora,
“Southern magnolia”, and M.
virginiana, “sweet bay”.
The others are deciduous,
promptly losing their leaves
when the time comes at the
end of the growing season.
Our bigleaf magnolia is a
smallish tree, usually with a
single, slender trunk. It does
n’t seem to be very common
within its natural geographic
range, which seems to be
centered in Alabama and
Mississippi (and Louisiana),
up through Tennessee and
Kentucky, with outlying pop
ulations in the Carolinas,
Arkansas, and Ohio.
It likes to grow on shady,
forested slopes, commonly
near streams. Its leaves are
remarkably large, and it is no
exaggeration to say that of all
the plants of North America
with simple leaves, this
species has the largest, some
times easily over 3 feet long.
The leaves are chalky
white beneath, and the base
of the leaf generally exhibits
two rounded auricle, some
thing like ear lobes. The
flowers are huge, with 6 con
spicuous white tepals, and
they too are the largest of this
continent’s native flora. Plus,
they are very fragrant, a sort
of flowery/peppery/spicy
scent. Each flower lasts but
two days. The first day it is
open, it retains a rather
tightly upright cup shape,
opening widely the second
day, and attracting a variety
of insects. The flower will
start to turn brown on the
third day, soon shriveling up
and falling apart. Its red seeds
will be produced in a
rounded cone.
This species is rather eas
ily available in the trade, if
you have the right place for
it. The way I understand it,
horticulturalists grow it from
seed or from stem cuttings as
ways of propagating it for
sale. As always, when pur
chasing native plant species,
be sure to make sure that they
are sustainably grown and
marketed, and not collected
from the wild.
You can find additional
excellent information of this
plant from the nice people at
the Arnold Arboretum of
Harvard University:
https:// arboretum, harvard, ed
u/plant-bios/bigleaf-magno-
lia /
©JohnNelson2022
[John Nelson is the retired
curator of the A. C. Moore
Herbarium at the University
of South Carolina, For more
information, visit
www.herbarium.org or email
johnbnelson@sc. rr. com.]
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