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The True Citizen, Wednesday, January 13, 2021 — Page 3
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EBA releases honor roll for second nine weeks
WHAT'S NEXT?
MLK Legacy Banquet and Commemorative Parade
The scheduled January 2021 MLK Legacy Banquet and
MLK Commemorative Parade sponsored by Burke County
Improvement Association have been canceled.
Book signing on Saturday
A+ HONOR ROLL
Seventh grade: Grace Fel
lows, Matthew Hood, Leila
Eastmead and Dailey Sylvester
Eighth grade: Caleb Fel
lows, Addison Riggs, Camryn
Adams and Morgan Mont
gomery
Freshmen: Avery Chance
and Hannah Posey
Sophomores: Mary Benton
Sylvester, Braxton Myers, Lil
lie Brown and Grace Tsakonas
Juniors: Cole Mobley, May
May Fu, Christine Eberly and
Editor:
As a woman of God, I have
great love for all of the citizens
of Waynesboro and Burke
County. My goal in writing
this letter is to focus on Unity
and Togetherness through the
use of humility and love for
God. Let us use the opportunity
before us to bring about "True
Unity" for all of the people of
Waynesboro. Let us demon
strate a time of inclusion.
This letter is in response to
Sheriff Williams's theme for
the Martin Luther King Jr's
Holiday March. We celebrate
King's Holiday with a parade
every year. This year our Sher-
Avery Wallace
Seniors: Brandon Fu, Karlee
Small, Malana Williams, Kent
Thompson, Lennox Wilson,
Claudia Eastmead, Katelyn
Walker, Lexi Seay, Morgan
Clark and Anslie Glisson
A HONOR ROLL
Seventh grade: Mailyn Mc
Gill, Rylan Miles and Asher
Hammett
Eighth grade: Trey John
son, Clayton Gunter, Braelyn
Reeves, Mallorie Meeks, Nash
Parker, Kensy Felix, Rylee
iff wants us to focus on Unity.
"Great"!!. The world is faced
with problems of double stan
dards in all types of systems
across the entire world. We
all need "Unity". Real unity is
needed to plan for the progress
needed for a better future for
all people. All men (including
women) are created equal. This
is what people of God believe.
There is a Tale of Two Cit
ies in Waynesboro and Burke
County. One for Blacks and
one for Whites. I was born and
raised in Waynesboro. We need
to be better united. I know that
unity requires "Togetherness".
Let us March together (walk
Myers, Carleigh Woods, Blake
Reddick, Owen Redd, Amelia
Thomas, Ava Timms and Ma
de MacMillan
Freshmen: Connor Syms,
Jasi Lynn Oglesby, Morgan
Tedder, Jackson Griffin, Astrid
Soto, Grant Mobley, Zaylie
Baker, Dawson Chandler and
Sydney Coble
Sophomores: William
Hood, Mary Joyce James,
Jordan Giles, Kathryn Taylor,
Averie Thomas and Noah
Christian
together) as men and women
of God. Let us look at this as
an example of the potential for
lineup for the Martin Luther
King's Day parade this week
end. 1. All those who sit at the
head of the tables, those who
make decisions for the people
of this great city and County,
2. All those in the churches
and their church family mem
bers, 3. All those of the Courts
and our legal systems, 4. The
First National Bank and Its
families, The Queensborough
National Bank and families,
the Southern Bank and fami
lies, 5. All families and friends
of Waynesboro and Burke
Juniors: Luke Timms, Em
mie Bowen, Ryan Dixon, Evan
Hirschauer, Caroline Gunter
and Avery Wiggins
Seniors: Gray Gunter,
Hayden Oliver, Carson Woods,
Brantley Jones, Samantha
Prieto-iKop, Caitlin Tedder, JC
Ellison, Eason Waters, Jessy
Weaver, Rachel Tsakonas,
Braxton Hopper and Samantha
Dixon
County. Just a little bit of us
truly united as a people of
God, not just as a token of a
small group of mostly black
people who continue to march
to celebrate King's holiday.
Happy New Year Everyone!. I
can imagine seeing us waving
signs of unity and demonstrat
ing "Togetherness.
Thank you Sheriff Williams
for the idea and Theme for the
March to focus on "Unity".
What a wonderful and power
ful opportunity we all have!!!
Love you all in
the spirit of Christ,
Rev. Doris Tongo
Cinnie Samantha New-
some Boddiford will be hon
ored this Saturday, Jan. 16,
with a book signing of her
recently published cookbook
“A Century of Recipes.”
Boddiford, 100, a resident
of Screven County, is the old
est member of the Margaret
Jones #27 United Daughters
of the Confederacy, Edmund
Burke 3027 Daughters of
the American Revolution
and NSCDXVIIC Richard
Warren GA26 Chapters of
Waynesboro, and the groups
have joined together for this
event to honor her.
The signing will take place
at the Waynesboro Shrine
Club from 10 a.m.-noon, and
cookbooks are $20 each, with
all proceeds going to a charity
of Boddiford’s choice.
Masks and social distancing
will be observed.
Light refreshments will be
served as takeout only.
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LETTER TO THE EDITOR
Plasma needed to help treat COVID
Shepeard Community Blood
Center has been tasked with
collecting lifesaving COV
ID-19 Convalescent Plasma
(CCP) to help treat patients. To
meet this challenge, Shepeard
has established a CCP Program
to collect products for commu
nity hospitals.
Burke Medical Center will
be hosting its first CCP drive
Saturday, Jan. 23, from 10
a.m.- 6 p.m. Female donors are
asked to attend a pre-screening
drive on Jan. 14 anytime be
tween noon-3 p.m. to ensure
they are eligible to donate CCP.
Every CCP donor will re
ceive a $100 Visa gift card as a
"thank you" for donating.
Want to donate?
To qualify, donors must meet
the following criteria:
• Proof of a positive CO
VID-19 test
• Be symptom-free for 14
days
• Meet FDA eligibility to
donate
• Female donors may require
additional screening before
donating.
Anyone who would like to
donate convalescent plasma or
has questions about eligibility
is s asked to call Jacqueline
Clemmons at 706-339-9970 or
email Shepeard at ccpdonor®
shepeardblood .org.
Bee Happening
') Stephanie Scott
This cold, crisp morning
reminds me of a deep discus
sion we had one day in an
entomology class the at the
university. Do bees hibernate
in the winter? For our region,
the answer is yes and no!
Approximately 542 of the
4,000 species of North Ameri
can bees are native to Georgia
except one: the honeybee
(Apis mellifora). We believe
our beloved honeybee arrived
in the New World in 1622
when Europeans brought hives
to the colonists, although an
archaeologist recently discov
ered a fossil in Nevada from
the Miocene epoch.
If you visit the farm on a
sunny day, you may see the
honeybees are actively fliting
about from tree to grass to
flower. Honeybees do not hi
bernate. They usually fly seek
ing pollen and nectar when the
temperatures reach 50 degrees
or above. Currently, pollen
counts in our area are below
1.0 which is extremely low,
but we do have some lingering
ragweed and our camellias are
in bloom. On cold days, the
honeybee colony, comprised
of 99 percent female bees,
will huddle together form
ing a tight, softball-shaped
cluster around the queen. Like
penguins, the bees take turns
facing the cold on the outside
of the cluster. Those bees in
the center of the cluster can
keep the queen a balmy 81 to
90 degrees by unhinging their
wings and rapidly flexing their
thorax muscles.
Most species of solitary bees
do hibernate. The big fuzzy
bumblebee (Habropoda labor-
rosa) is an example of a ground
dwelling, solitary queen bee
who may hibernate in an aban
doned mouse burrow. Solitary
bees are particularly interesting
because the queen is the only
bee in the colony to survive.
Early in the spring she will
begin to lay eggs which hatch
into the female worker bees
that pollinate a wide variety of
garden flowers in addition to
our tomato plants. In late sum
mer, she will lay infertile eggs
which become male breeder
bees. The queen herself will die
that winter, but her late sum
mer queen offspring will mate
and hibernate until next spring
when their cycle begins again.
Another solitary, hibernating
bee is our southeastern azalea
bee (Andrena cornelli), which
feeds exclusively on the pol
len of the azalea plant. This
dark bee looks comparable to a
small black wasp and becomes
active about 45 days prior to
the Masters tournament. Its
lifecycle is analogous to that of
the bumblebee in that only the
queen survives the winter. The
azalea bee does create a colony
and produces a small amount
of honey. Due to its toxicity,
pure azalea honey is usually
only prescribed by a doctor to
treat high blood pressure. It
is rare and not harvested for
public sale.
You can help our native
Georgia bee population by
planting an early spring flower
garden, setting out shallow
bowls of sugar water and leav
ing fall leaves under shrubbery
until after St. Patrick’s Day. It
is important to use insecticides
sparingly and only late in the
day when most bees have re
turned home. Remember, our
local farmers are depending
on you to help build a strong
population of pollinators so
they can produce a bountiful
crop which in turn has a posi
tive economic impact on our
county.
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