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May 4, 2022
Everyday Hero: Davenport keeps Ingles stocked
These days, it’s difficult to
keep the store shelves full
Just ask Christine Daven
port, a stock clerk at Ingles
Market on Tift College
Drive. Christine has been
working at the store for
nearly a year after working
at the Forsyth Walmart for
nearly a decade. She says she
loves the atmosphere of the
family-oriented store over a
big box store where values
are different. She added that
in her new position, she
never has to worry about
losing her job due to some
family emergency or sudden
illness.
Christine was bom in
Compton, California, and
was raised on the west coast
before coming to Monroe
County from Florida ten
years ago. She has four
daughters, Haley 19, a Mary
Persons graduate who also
works at Ingles in the deli
customers will be able to
take advantage of curbside
pickup service.
She works 5 days a week
and says she is fortunate to
have a job where she can
spend time with her family
on the weekends. She also
likes to work in the yard with
her chickens and rabbits and
spend time with her crafting
hobby. She is also a skilled
motorcycle rider.
When asked what the best
thing about her workplace
was, Christine said without
hesitation it was the man
agement, coworkers, and
the customers. She said her
advice to kids would be, “Do
your job, be respectful to
the customer. And give it all
you’ve got.” Like any every
day hero would do.
Christine Davenport
department, another MP
student Emily, 15, Mia, 10,
and Taylor, 7 who go to TG
Scott Elementary. Christine’s
mother, Paula St. Clair, also
lives in Forsyth.
She spends her work hours
pulling carts loaded down
with charcoal bags, dog food,
and every possible item it
takes to stock a store and fills
the gaps on empty shelves.
Although small in stature,
she lifts heavy bags and cases
with ease and stacks them
neatly, making sure to rotate
the stock in the process.
Even with all the construc
tion currently going on
at Ingles, Christine said it
hasn’t slowed business. She
said customers and all her
coworkers are excited about
what is going on around
them. There will be a new
pharmacy, Starbucks, and
Diane Soule
School Board District 1
• Parents should be able to parent, and
schools should be able to teach.
• Parents should make choices for their children
on issues like masks.
• Extracurricular activities should have access
to fundraising
• Critical Race Theory has no place in elementary,
middle or high school. It belongs at the college level.
Vote May 24th
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Dr. Rick Lanford for School Board
DISTRICT 7
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• Has lived in Monroe County
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• Has 2 children who graduated
from Mary Persons
• Has 4 grandchildren in Monroe
County, 2 in T.G. Scott
• Is an ordained United
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Monroe County Sheriff’s Office
• Serves on numerous boards
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MONROE COUNTY BOE DISTRICT 5
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Three reasons
to re-elect
George Emami
1. Stopped a planned tax
increase last year
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to hike property, m
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increase.
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of agriculture property an
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3. Delivered County-Wide Internet
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county-wide fiber internet
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vithont internet arrp.es “To me, it's a slam dunk.”
Commissioner Larry
Evans, however, said he is
concerned that Reynolds
isn’t having to put up any
funds for the project, that
taxpayers are taking all the
“How much cash are you
putting into this?” Evans
asked Reynolds.
“I’m putting my life into
it,” said Reynolds
Reynolds, whose father
sold their family’s Boling-
broke cable company to
Zito, said he does have skin
in the game because he’ll
no internet access at a cost spend two years building
of $5 million. While details the network and won’t have
are being hammered out, revenue if he doesn’t get
the Dlan calls for the countv customers.
may have fiber internet
within two years after corn-
forward with a $5 million
project on Thursday.
By a 4-1 vote, commis
sioners authorized county
manager Jim Hedges
and county attorney Ben
Vaughn to begin negotia
tions with Davy Reynolds,
a Bolingbroke resident
whose family owned Reyn
olds Cable. Reynolds had
submitted a plan to extend
fiber internet to 4,476
homes that currently have
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George is willing
to do hard things
to help our county.
Love him or
hate him, but you
have to respect him.
RE-ELECT GEORGE EMAMI DISTRICT 4 COMMISSIONER