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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. 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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.] Bryan Lawrence Email: Bryan@Iaithturf.com LANDSCAPING DESIGN & INSTALLATION FERTILIZATION • WEED CONTROL LAWN MAINTENANCE • DEBRIS CLEANUPS & MORE! 770-490-2795 Georgia Mountain Dermatology Now hiring medical assistants Previous training is a plus but on the job training is available Send resumes to gamtndermj ob s @gmail .com
