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.net • VOL. 45 NO. 43• USPS 997-840 4 sections, 28 pages • Wednesday, November 9, 2016 • $1
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shooting
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Deaths
Susan Zellner Strong
Lenora Colbert
Wilbert Gartrell
Lillie Mae Moore
Ola Lucille Tucker
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The drought has water levels way down at local lakes and streams, including Lake Juliette,
above. (Photo/John Belknap)
No rain
BY DIANE GLIDEWELL
news@mymcr. net
No rain has fallen anywhere in Monroe
County since at least September and
Forsyth and Monroe County water systems
are urging conservation as the drought lin
gers.
October is normally one of the dryer
months in Monroe County, but rarely have
there been zeros across the chart, of the 14
stations that, monitor rain in the county for
the UGA Extension Service. The county got
2.89 inches of rain in October 2015 (preced
ed by 5.31 inches in September 2015 and fol
lowed by 7.94 inches in November and 12.31
inches in December.)
Monroe County’s rainfall in August aver
aged a more normal 4.05 inches, thanks to 7
inches at Bolingbroke and Dames Ferry and
nearly 6 in. at Juliette Road, but measured
only 1.64 inches in September, with less
than an inch for the month at five stations.
Most of that, came early in the month.
Forsyth city manager Janice Hall told
council on Nov. 7 that, she had included a
request for the city’s water customers to
conserve water in a newsletter with their
bills. She said water use had gone down
see DROUGHT page 7A
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The Mary Persons student section will be ready for the state playoffs Friday. (Photo/Kim Holderfield)
Dogs host N. Clayton in Round 1
Mary Persons vanquishes all region foes for second year in a row
BY RICHARD DUMAS
forsyth@mymer.net
Riding high after the program’s
second straight Region 2-AAAA
championship, the Mary Persons
Bulldogs enter the AAAA state
playoffs with expectations of an
extended postseason run.
The Bulldogs, the top seed from
Region 2-AAAA, will host, the
North Clayt.on Eagles, the No. 4
seed in Region 4-AAAA, for the
first time ever in the first round
of the state playoffs at 7:30 p.m.
on Friday at Dan Pitts Stadium.
The cost for fans is $8 per ticket.
Tickets are available for early
purchase at the Mary Persons
see PLAYOFFS page 6A
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County honors veterans on Friday
Vets Day observance at
11 a.m. on the square
Meet Korean War vet Henry Slocumb
Sgt. Henry Slocumb of
Forsyth graduated from
high school in 1949 and
registered for the draft just,
as all 18-year-old boys were
required by law to do at the
time.
Many of his friends had
already been called into ser
vice but his number had not
yet been called.
“I thought that, they had
lost, my number,” said
Slocumb, that was until his
freshman year at. Georgia
Tech in 1951.
He enlisted in the U.S.
Marine Corps and was
sent to Parris Island, S.C.
for about. 16 weeks of boot,
camp training.
“You spend a few weeks at.
Parris Island a few days,”
said Slocumb, “and it will
change your life.”
see VETS page 7A
Attend
ees
sing
the Na
tional
Anthem
at the
2015
Vet
erans
Day
obser
vance
on the
square.
(File
photo)
