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Monroe 4-Hers
earn awards
at district
Seven Monroe County
4-Hers participated in the
District Cloverleaf Project
Achievement competition,
and all seven placed!
First Place: Performing
Arts-Instrumental - Aniya
Smith; Rabbits - Adriana
Leon
Second Place: Wildlife -
Abel Jones; International
- Grade Jones; Bicycle
- Kayli Whatley; Sports-
Team - Emma Temple;
Historic Places and Events
- Cassidy Scandrett.
Project Achievement
is one of the largest and
most exciting, challenging
and rewarding programs
offered by Georgia 4-H.
4-Hers choose a project
area of interest, research a
topic, then write and pres
ent an oral presentation to
others.
Monroe County 4-H
worked on a Community
Service Project in collabo
ration with Butts County
4-H. The group made
homemade budget-friendly
laundry detergent and
donated it to the Senior
Center. The 4-Hers made a
total of 55 bottles of laun
dry detergent.
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Pictured top right are
the winning Monroe
County Cloverleaf
4-H ers with Monroe
County Extension agent
Rachel Frisbie (standing).
Pictured right are
4-H ers and bottles of
budget-friendly laundry
detergent they made.
MONROE IN COLLEGE
Preston
Kennedy
of Monroe
County grad
uated with
honors from
Clemson
University
In December
2021 with
a degree in
Biological
Sciences. He
will be attend
ing medical
school. He is the son of Joel
& Dawn Kennedy.
Preston Kennedy
The fol
lowing area
residents were
among nearly
500 students
who earned
an under
graduate or
graduate
degree from
Georgia
South
western
State
Univer
sity during the Fall 2021
Commencement Cer
emony on Dec. 17: Han
nah Wilder of Forsyth
earned a masters degree
in business administration
(MBA); Lauren Hick
man of Forsyth earned a
specialist degree in elemen
tary education; Brit
tany Phillips of Forsyth
earned a specialist degree
in elementary education.
Georgia Southwestern
State University, located
in Americus., is a public,
four-year unit of the Uni
versity System of Georgia
with approximately 3,000
students.
Jones earns perfect OSHA score
Zoe Jones who had a perfect score on her Occu
pational Safety and Health Administration 10-hour
training course grade. This means that Zoe did not miss
a question on any of the 17 module exams or the final
exam.
Mary Persons Construction students recently com
pleted the OSHA 10-hour training course and re
ceived OSHA 10 credentials. The OSHA 10 credential is
a nationally recognized construction industry credential
that is required by all large-scale commercial contrac
tors as a condition of employment and covers safety
topics such as Materials Handling, Welding and Cut
ting, Electrical Hazards, Emergency Action Plans and
Fire Protection. OSHA 10 credential holders routinely
start their construction employment at a higher wage
than those who have not yet been through the OSHA
10 training.
Zoe Jones
Did you know?
Snapshots from
Monroe County's
History
D id you know
that, despite
the tendency
of some writ
ers to describe Monroe
County soldiers always as
being men of bravery, they
haven't always been that
valiant. Evidence such as
the Battle of Turner's Cot
ton Field generates ques
tions about the behavior at
times of Monroe County
men in military service.
The Battle of Turner's
Cotton Field was a con
frontation during the Sec
ond Creek War on June 16,
1836 between the Culloden
Volunteer Cavalry under
Captain Enos R. Flewellen
and Alabama Creeks who
had crossed the Chatta
hoochee River into Geor
gia.
Thomas J. Stell and Samu
el H. Luckie provide caustic
accounts of the behavior
of the men from Monroe
County in the cavalry unit
who would not so much as
form a line of battle.
After an initial encoun
ter with some twenty or
twenty-five Creeks near
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EST. 1821
excuse for a battle I ever
saw." According to Stell,
when "the Monroe men
retreated in confusion,
the Indians came out in
plain view and followed
on along the cross fence
through the cotton field
and burned the dwelling-
house, cotton houses and
corn of Mr. Turner, and
then burned the new
Methodist church," all
done without interference
from the Culloden Volun
teer Cavalry who outnum
bered the Creeks.
The men of the Culloden
Voluntary Cavalry could
hardly be said to have
acted valiantly at the Battle
of Turner's Cotton Field.
P. S. Captain
Flewellen s defensive ac
count, found in the August
9, 1836 issue of the Federal
Union, is significantly dif
ferent.
Fort Jones
in Stewart
County,
Georgia,
Captain
Flewellen
ordered a retreat to a
nearby bottom. The order
was pointless: Most of his
men had already fled there
before he issued the order
to fall back.
When Flewellen him
self got to the bottom, he
had no control over his
insubordinate men. He
ordered them to form on
foot. Some of them openly
objected. He then ordered
them to form on horses, to
which they also objected.
Many began to advise the
young captain to retreat
and form on a hill some
forty or fifty yards in their
rear, but when they got to
the hill, Captain Flewellen
was unable to get them to
form the line there either.
One of the sources for
this incident, Stell, had
some experience in battle
with the Creeks. He wrote,
"This battle of Turner's field
was decidedly the poorest
The following Forsyth-ar-
ea students were named to
the LaGrange College
Fall Semester VPAAs List:
Stephanie Nix and
Alexander Rivera. To
be eligible for this honor,
students must maintain
a cumulative grade point
average of at least 3.6 while
taking a minimum course
load of 12 hours. Georgias
oldest private institution of
higher learning, LaGrange
College is consistently
ranked among the Souths
top colleges by U.S. News &
World Report.
Gordon State Col
lege announces that
Mary Anne Fleck-
enstein has been named
to the Deans Merit List for
Fall semester 2021. Deans
Merit List recognizes high
Remember when...
1992
Monroe County's unemploy
ment rate for November was
3.7 percent, down from 4.2
percent in October, with287
members of Monroe County's
7,352 labor force without
jobs.
After accumulating nearly a
foot of surplus rain during the
first half of the year, a dry
fall gave Monroe County a
final two-inch surplus of rain
with 46.88 inches. The high
temperature for 1991 was 96
degrees in July and the low
was 17 degrees, registered in
both February and December.
Monroe Countians recycled
390 Christmas trees, 40
taken for fish habitat and the
rest chipped into mulch for the
Recreation complex.
From January-October 1991
more than $2.3 million in sales
tax collections is disbursed
by the Ga. Dept, of Revenue
to the three governments in
Monroe County, passing the
$2.2 million collected in the 12
months of 1990.
Monroe County is able to
pay off $850,000 of 1991
debt because Georgia Power
agrees to pay $1.4 million
of its tax bill before the due
date.
Hubbard Elementary students
ride buses to the 100-foot
bottom of Davison Mineral
Products Quarry and learn
about its operations.
Monroe County crews clear
land for the new High Falls
trash convenience center. It
is the first of 10 sites to be lo
cated across Monroe County.
It is on state land and leased
to the county for $ 1/year.
The Jan. 2 Community Blood
Drive at Forsyth’s Plantation
Hill $hopping Center brings
in 62 donors and 57 pints of
blood.
The MP JV cheerleaders are
named “Most Spirited” at the
Holiday Classic Basketbal
tournament. Captains & co
captains are D’Edna Hen
derson, Trellis Belknap, April
Gibson & Amanda Jenkins.
Meadow Park subdivision in
Forsyth goes all out with 500
luminaries along its streets for
four days.
2002
Monroe County reports up
to 6 inches of snow from
Jan. 2-3, the most significant
snowfall in Middle Georgia
since 1993.
Oglethorpe Power, which is
owned by 39 of Georgia’s
42 Elective Membership
Cooperatives, pays $2,881,171
in property taxes to Monroe
County, making it the largest
taxpayer in the county. Also,
a large amount of the sales
tax revenue is for coal used at
Plant $cherer.
Russell Pharmacy’s $oda $hop
at 35 W, Main Street, owned
by Lamar Russell, installs
candy-striped awnings as part
of Forsyth's Better Home
town matching facade grant
program.
Emily Crawford, daughter of
Karen & Greg Crawford of
Forsyth, is crowned Georgia’s
Teen $tate Christmas Queen
in Conyers at the state
pageant.
The 5PL05T approved by
Monroe County voters five
years ago expired Jan. 1 and
county businesses should be
charged 6 percent instead of
7 percent sales tax.
Lee Roberts of Forsyth leads
the team upgrading the How
ard Johnson hotel on Riverside
Drive in Macon.
A.J. Stovall of Berner earns
his black belt from the Oki
nawan Karate School, owned
by Michael Brewster.
2012
Monroe County Board of
Education drops plan to move
freshman campus due to feed
back received even before
a meeting attended by more
than 200.
Monroe County commission
ers vote 3-2 in favor on put
ting Sunday alcohol sales on
the July ballot; James Vaughn
and Patsy Miller cast the dis
senting votes.
Commissioners break ground
on a new $3.6 million admin
istrative building with com
mission chair James Vaughn
calling it an anchor to growth
in Forsyth.
Monroe County’s 39.24 inch
es of total rainfall in 2011 was
almost the least since Monroe
County Extension started
keeping records in 2002, with
only the 38.4 inches of 2006
being lower.
In his inaugural address to
about 100 people Forsyth
Mayor John Howard says For
syth's biggest needs are jobs,
a swimming pool and getting
city streets repaired.
Truett Goodwin, Monroe
County's chief registrar, says
his office will be more careful
about checking absentee bal
lots this year as allegations of
fraud linger from Novembers
election.
Monroe County files suit
against secretary of state
Brian Kemp asking to overturn
his decision to reject the
Scarborough survey of the
Monroe-Bibb county line.
Monroe County has already
spent more than $1.2 million
on the dispute with the King &
$palding law firm alone.
Monroe County Board of
Education renews Mary
Persons principal Jim Finch’s
contract for two years. In
2012-12 his gross salary is
$111,333 for a school year
reduced from 230 to 225
days for principals.
Tess Hammock of Forsyth
takes 1st place in the Chicken
Barbecue contest at the 2011
National 4-H Poultry & Egg
Conference in Louisville, Ky.
The Mary Persons class of
1961 holds its 50th reunion.
Commissioners vote to move
their second meeting of each
month to 9 a.m. instead 6 p.m.
They don't give a reason, but
the vote is unanimous.
Forsyth Better Hometown is
seeking new members, with
individual, family, civic group
or church memberships $35
and memberships at $50 for
businesses, professionals and
downtown property owners.
Forsyth's Curt Reynolds has
become well known as “Mr.
$unshine" from the salsa he
distributes made with his own
recipe. His products are in 14
different retail stores around
the state.
Forsyth native and 1985 Mary
Persons graduate Dennis Cle
ments retires from the U.S. Air
Force after a distinguished ca
reer that allowed him to earn
multiple education degrees.
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