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PIKE COUNTY
JOURNAL REPORTER
ONE DOLLAR
www.pikecountygeorgia.com
WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 2021
PIKE'S PEEK
Register
to vote at
upcoming
events
IN ZEBULON:
A Pike County voter
registration drive will
be held at the Pike
County National POW/
MIA Recognition Day
Program on Sept. 17 on
the south side of the
courthouse square.
Voter registration
will be offered from 10
a.m. to 3 p.m.
“If you have not
registered and are in
the courthouse area,
please visit, check out
the POW/MIA memo
rial activities and
register to vote,” said
Bryan Richardson of
American Legion Post
197.
IN CONCORD:
The Concerned
Citizens for Pike and
the NAACP will hold a
Voter Registration Drive
for Pike County citizens
Saturday, Sept. 18 from
10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at
Concord City Park.
The next general
election is Nov. 3 and
the deadline to register
is Oct. 4.
“If you are not
registered to vote, you
are invited to come out
Sept. 18 at the Concord
City Park to get reg
istered,” said Renee Pe
ters. “All are welcome
and the event is free
and open to the public.
If you can’t make it,
learn how to register
to vote at registerto-
vote.sos.ga.gov.”
For more informa
tion, contact Edward
Alexander at 678-544-
9406 or email Renee
Peters at rhpeters@
bellsouth.net.
COVID-19 cases drop in county, schools
As of Sept. 13, there
were 256 confirmed cases
of COVID-19 in Pike Coun
ty, down slightly from 261
for the previous two week
period, according to the
Georgia Department of
Public Health.
Confirmed cases in
the Pike school system
dropped significantly from
183 total cases on Friday,
Sept. 3 to 49 total cases
as of Monday, Sept. 13, ac
cording to pike.kl2.ga.us.
As of Sept. 13, there were
only 87 students and staff
in quarantine, down 61
from Friday, Sept. 10 and
down 749 from Sept. 3.
There were eight posi
tive students and three
staff at the elementary
school, eight positive stu
dents and one staff mem
ber at the high school,
four positive students
and one staff member at
the middle school, seven
positive students and one
staff member at the Ninth
Grade Academy, one
positive student and one
staff member at the pre-K
and four positive students
and seven staff at the
primary school as of Sept.
13. There were also three
non-school staff mem
bers who tested positive.
There are 69 students and
18 staff who are currently
quarantined.
The COVID-19 vaccine
is available for everyone
12 years old and up and
28% of Pike citizens are
fully vaccinated at 5,209
residents with 33% having
at least one dose of the
vaccine. The vaccine is
available at retail loca
tions, doctor’s offices and
the Pike County Health
Department on Tuesdays.
See COVID-19 page 2A
Wendy Adams
adds a mem
ory to the twin
towers photo
memorial at
Georgia Mili
tary College
in Zebulon.
She is in her
first term at
Georgia Mili
tary College in
Zebulon and is
the first work
study student
to serve at the
college. She
is majoring in
business.
9/11 remembered at GMC
Students and staff
at the Georgia Military
College Zebulon campus
took part in several 9/11
memorials last week,
including essays, inter
views with students, dis
plays around the campus
and a special tribute by
Georgia Military College
executive director Rock
Donahue.
PHOTO BY RACHEL McDANIEL / PIKE COUNTY JOURNAL REPORTER
James Daugherty looks into the Face of Hope Mirror as he holds one of the many Community
of Cranes displayed around the college. The paper crane is a symbol of peace, love, hope and
healing. James is a junior who is taking senior courses at Zebulon High School and is also dual
enrolled at GMC and is majoring in criminal justice.
POW/MIA program
is Friday, Sept. 17
American Legion
Post 197 will conduct
the Pike County Na
tional POW/MIA Recog
nition Day observance
Friday, Sept. 17 at 10
a.m. on the courthouse
square with several
items on display until 3
p.m., including a POW/
MIA table and chair
memorial, as well as
a POW/MIA fact sheet
and the
military
biographies
of the Pike
County for
mer POWs
and current
Ml As.
“The Na
tional Pris
oners of
War (POW)
and Missing
in Action
(MIA) Rec
ognition Day Obser
vance Program honors
our current MlAs, and
past and current POWs
around the Nation,”
said Post 197’s Bryan
Richardson. “Currently,
Pike County has four
known MIAs: Seaman
2nd Class David E. Led
ford, Staff Sergeant Joel
M. Matthews, Private
Marion B. Smoot from
WW11 and Chief Petty
Officer Willie L. King
from the Vietnam War.
Pike County has four
known former POWs.
Now deceased from
WW11 are Major Marvin
H. Campbell from the
Meansville area and
Corporal John N. Scott
and Private Marion B.
Smoot from the Molena
area and former POW
Specialist Sixth Class
Lenard E. Daugherty
from the Vietnam War
who currently resides
in Williamson, Pike
County.”
Starting
at 10:45 a.m.
and on the
hour every
hour until
2:45 p.m.,
the Post 197
Honor Guard
will set up
the POW/
MIA Table
setting with
an explana
tion of the
significance of each item
on the table. Post 197
will be at an American
Legion/Veteran informa
tion table and the U.S.
Army Recruiting Station,
Griffin will be manning
an Army information
table. Concurrently,
Post 197 will conduct an
American Legion mem
bership drive and voter
registration. The public
is invited to stop by the
memorial and observe
the setting of the formal
POW/MIA table and
chair.
Documentary on President Roosevelt features local actor
Pike County’s James Fowler sits in a 1938 Packard while filming scenes for an award-winning
documentary about former president Franklin Delano Roosevelt. The documentary will air on
Georgia Public Broadcasting at 7 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 21.
A President in our
Midst: Franklin Delano
Roosevelt in Georgia will
air on Georgia Public
Broadcasting on Tues
day, Sept. 21 at 7 p.m.
and the film features a
local actor.
The documentary
describes the mutual
benefits that the friend
ship provided to both the
President and the people
of Georgia.
James Fowler por
trayed four-time presi
dent Franklin Delano
Roosevelt for a documen
tary film. FDR was the
32nd president from 1933
until his death in 1945
and he helped lead the
nation through the Great
Depression as well as
World War 11 - in addition
to bringing electricity to
the south.
The day in Barnesville
in 1938 that FDR “turned
on” electricity for rural
areas in the US with the
Rural Electrification
Administration is one of
the stories shared in the
documentary.
Historic photos from
the Little White House,
Roosevelt Warm Springs
Archives, the FDR
Library, and archives
across Georgia are
featured in the documen
tary as well. Rare film
footage from the Brown
Media Archives at UGA
Libraries and footage
from the FDR Library are
also used.
In January, 2019,
author and screenwriter
Kaye Minchew of La-
Grange and executive
producer Dan White of
Yatesville and Atlanta
approached GPB with a
proposal to create a doc
umentary about FDR’s
life in Georgia based
on Minchew’s book, A
President in our Midst.
With the assurance of a
broadcast platform, ef
forts began to secure the
financing and technical
resources necessary to
complete the film.
“I’m very proud of the
film and was told it will be
made available to school
systems across the state,”
said James who has been
a teacher for more than
40 years, “it’s a wonderful
story and it really needs
to be told. 1 hope young
people will get something
out of it.”
For the documentary,
James spent time being
filmed as he was driven
in a 1938 Packard around
Warm Springs. He also
rode to the Eleanor Roo
sevelt Elementary School
and visited Dowdell’s
Knob at Pine Mountain
in addition to shooting
scenes around the Little
White House and Roos
evelt Institute.
“It was a joy to be
driven around in that
classic car and it just
really took me back in
time,” he said. “Roos
evelt guided the country
through Great Depres
sion and second World
War and his words still
ring true, “The only thing
we have to fear, is fear
itself.’ He was truly an in
spiration to the country.
He didn’t try to hide the
fact that he was crippled
although there was an
agreement with the press
not to show him trying
to walk. However, when
Roosevelt made public
appearances at rallies
and campaign stops, he
had to be helped to the
podium so the crowd
saw that he was in a
wheelchair. Regardless,
his message was always
one of positivity and
achievement. It’s been
very rewarding sharing
that message.”
Fowler also did voice
over work that will be
included in the documen
tary. Dan White, a friend
of Fowler’s from Gordon
College, partnered with
Kaye Lanning Minchew,
the author of A President
in Our Midst: Franklin
Delano Roosevelt in
Georgia and Georgia
State University to film
the documentary.
“President Roosevelt
had just completed an
international journey in
March 1945 and visited
with Joseph Stalin in Yal
ta, Russia and Winston
Churchill from England.
The trip was very ex
hausting and his health
was on the decline,” said
James.
See ROOSEVELT page 2A