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Sports
Locals fare
well at Smarr
Turkey Shoot
SEE PAGE 1B
Deaths
Derrick Demone Davis
Frankie Lavon Evans
Autumn Marie Payton
McKinzie-Conkle
Patsy “Nana” Maddox
Smith
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Have you seen this man?
Still no arrest one week after DQ shooting
BY WILL DAVIS
Authorities have set up a
joint task force and
released a composite
sketch of the suspect hop
ing to make an arrest in
the Dairy Queen shooting
and auto theft on Aug. 10.
"This is serious busi
ness," said Sheriff John
Cary Bittick. "This is not
something we need going
on here."
The Monroe County
Sheriffs Office, the
Forsyth Police
Department and the
Jasper County Sheriffs
Office have all committed
investigators to create a
task force to work the
case. The task force has
set up in an office at the
Monroe County Justice
Center.
Meanwhile, Dairy Queen
owner Ronnie Daniel has
put up a $500 reward as
the suspect is still at-large
one week after he shot
Mary Persons graduate
and former football player
Zapareo Glover. The shoot
ing happened around 9:20
p.m. Sunday night as
Glover, 21, returned to his
Chevy Caprice in the DQ
parking lot. The bullet
grazed his heart and
remains lodged in his
spinal cord.
Glover has been moved
from the Medical Center
in Macon to the Shepherd
Spinal Clinic in Atlanta,
but still doesn't have feel
ing below his waist, said
family members. Doctors
See SUSPECT pg. 7A
U is serious business. This is not something we need going on here. - Sheriff John Cary Bittick
BEFORE THE THRONE: In the Rodney Walker era, it’s an MP football tradition to pray after each
game beneath the goal post. A pre-season prayer rally for the team and community, Tuesday
Night Lights, is set for next Tuesday. (File photo/Gina Herring)
God Rush?
Prayer rally set for Tuesday
for team and community
Psyching up players,
coaches and the com
munity for the 2008
Mary Persons football
opener next week will
take on an added
dimension Tuesday. A
spiritual one.
Members of Maynard
Baptist and other local
churches are organiz
ing a Tuesday Night
Lights rally at 7:30
p.m. on Tuesday, Aug.
26 inside Dan Pitts
Stadium. Organizer
Gini Seitz said the
purpose is to seek
God's favor not just for
the football team but
for the entire county.
The idea arose after
more than 36 mem
bers of the MP football
made professions of faith in Christ at a
Fellowship of Christian Athletes rally
earlier this summer, said Seitz.
TUESDAY
NIGHT LIGHTS
What:Tuesday Night
Lights - Prayer service
for the football team
and the community
When: 7:30 p.m., Tues
day, Aug. 26
Where: Dan Pitts Stadi
um at MPHS
Admission: Free, and
open to the public
For more information:
Call Gini Seitz at 361-
8291
Offensive line coach
Grant Chestnut, who
attends Maynard, told
fellow church mem
bers about the conver
sions, and they decid
ed to do something to
encourage the young
people in their new
faith.
"God is moving on
the football team and
in this community,"
said Seitz. "We want
to show them we sup
port them."
The Rev. Marvin Lee
of Maynard Baptist
will lead the prayer
service, which will
last about 20 minutes,
said Seitz. She said
they plan to pray not
only for the football
players and coaches but for all stu
dents, teachers and administrators and
See RALLY page 7A
Hubbard
parents
urged:
No peanut
products
u
It's insane for the school to expect 900
sets of parents to change
their child's diet...
- Marci Blackwell, Hubbard parent
BY WILL DAVIS
Lunchrooms at Monroe
County's elementary
schools are no longer serv
ing peanut products, and
one school is even
asking parents
not to send
things like
peanut
butter
with their
child's
lunch.
It's all in
response to
an increasing
number of young
sters with allergies to
peanuts.
Hubbard Elementary
School sent a note home to
parents last week asking
them not to bring peanut
products to school because
of three kids with severe
peanut allergies. A number
of students at both T.G.
Scott and Hubbard elemen
tary schools suffer from
serious peanut allergies, to
the extent that the scent of
peanut products can cause
seizures.
It's a local problem with
a national scope. An
increasing
number of schools in the
U.S. are ordering peanut
bans as the number of stu
dents diagnosed with
peanut allergies goes up.
Between 1997 and
2002, the rates
of peanut
allergies in
children
under
age five
doubled,
Dr. Hugh
A.
Sampson,
president of
the American
Academy of Allergy,
Asthma & Immunology,
told the Associated Press.
Today, there are 400,000
school-age children with
peanut allergies, reports
the AP.
Angie Dillon, principal at
Hubbard Elementary, sent
letters home to parents of
all 900 students on Aug. 8
"respectfully requesting"
that they not send peanut
products to school with
their child. The school has
three children with severe
peanut allergies.
But Marci Blackwell, the
See PEANUT page 7A
The winner is..
New Hwy. 83 school named
for first female superintendent
BY GINA HERRING
The newest Monroe County
elementary school, under con
struction on Hwy. 83 North,
is beginning to take shape.
Walls are going up, electric
lines are being installed,
water and sewer lines are
being put into place and the
faculty parking lot has been
paved. And now the place
finally has a name. The
Monroe County Board of
Education voted last Tuesday
to name the elementary
school after the county’s first
female superintendent,
Katherine B. Sutton.
Sutton led the county school
system during a difficult time
on the heels of the great
depression and through
World War II, serving as
superintendent from 1932 to
1946. It was also a time when
See SUTTON page 2A
.Sutton Elementary
FROM SILO TO SCHOOL: Sutton Elementary will open next August. (Photo/Gina Herring)