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Page 2 —Wednesday, August 19, 2009, The Millen News Applications being accepted for Student Advisory Council State Superintendent of Schools Kathy Cox is accept ing applications for her 2009- 2010 Student Advisory Coun cil. The members of the Student Advisory Council meet three times during the school year with Superintendent Cox to discuss how decisions made at the state level are affecting stu dents throughout Georgia. Members are advisors and act as liaisons between the Depart ment of Education and the stu dents of Georgia. “For several years now, I’ve had the pleasure of working closely with students on my Advisory Councils,” said State Superintendent Cox. “I listen closely to the advice and con cerns of these students and share that information with oth ers as we make statewide policy decisions.” All students in grades 9-12 are eligible to apply. Meeting dates are: Nov. 9,2009; Jan. 25, 2010; and March 8,2010 (dates are subject to change.) Appli cants should be able to attend all three meetings. Applications may be down loaded from the Georgia De partment of Education website: http://www.doe.kl2.ga.us. To be eligible for the Council, ap plications must be received by September 30, 2009. People in the News Stephanie Morgan earns degree A Southeastern Technical College (STC) student was recently honored at the GED Administrators’ Conference awards dinner in Savannah where she received a $2,500 scholarship from the American Nurses Credentialing Center. Stephanie B. Morgan was an honors student in high school who had every intention of graduating on time. She went through a dif ficult time, and after becoming a single mother, was unable to Stephanie B. Morgan is shown complete her high with Larry Calhoun, provost. school education. She worked numerous minimum wage jobs to support herself and her son. She knew that she was capable of more and wanted to prove that she could achieve her goals de spite having dropped out of high school. Stephanie attended daily classes, taught by Elaine Williams, at STC Center for Adult Edu cation in Millen and, after only four weeks, passed the GED tests. Earning her GED credential gave Stephanie a completely new attitude toward life and renewed her sense of self worth. She enrolled at Savannah Technical College and then transferred to Armstrong Atlantic State University (AASU) in January 2007. It has been a long, difficult journey to this point, but Stephanie knows that she would not be where she is today if she had not made the decision to earn her GED credential and continue her education. Stephanie will graduate from AASU in May 2010 with a Bachelor of Science in Nursing and plans to attend graduate school so that she can accomplish her goal of becoming a nurse practitioner. STC has adult education centers located in Glennville, Metter, Millen, Mt. Vernon, Reidsville, Soperton, Swainsboro, Vidalia and Wrightsville. Local nursing students graduate Darton College Students from the Millen area who graduated this summer from the Darton College Nursing/Swainsboro Track with Associate of Science degrees were, from left. Ginger Herrmann, Blythe Brown, Christy Brown and Sherri Roper. They were recognized during the traditional Nursing Pinning Ceremony and are now eligible to take the licensing examination to become registered nurses. (Photo contributed) When you’re between jobs MOVE YOUR 401 (K) to someone you know. Take charge of your future today - by keeping your retirement savings hard at work and close to home. Move your 401 (k) into a State Farm® Traditional IRA. Call me today for help getting started. STATE FARM NSURANCE Billy Valduga State Farm Agent Louisville, GA 30434 Bus: 478-625-7929 Toll Free: 888-625-7929 www.billyvalduga.com LIKE A GOOD NEIGHBOR, STATE FARM IS THERE. ® Providing Insurance and Financial Services P056061 02/05 Consult your tax or legal advisor for specific advice. State Farm Insurance Companies Bloomington, IL • statefarm.com® NOTICE TO KID 1 htf Jenkins CnuMj Bouid ni't'ommissItun.Ts is jsking tin bids nil several county buildings which need various repLiirs Midi as replacement of roof, soffit, fascia. windows, trim, and paint. The following is a list of the buildings which need repair: aj Jenkins County Memoriiil Library-Kcpluce windows on rear of building with insulated windows, replace or repair any rotten trim, Repair or replace fascia and soiTitfc where needed and showing rotten wood. Repair copula With Weal help roof material (Hardy Board), Check for and repair any mo (leaks and any interior water damage. Repair columns on side porch. Repair columns ai (fun l windows where needed. Keseu] and paint exierior, esjiedally all new wooden repairs. b: lenkiiw Cmnuy Health DepurtimcnERcjiiove ^jjlgc writ and replace with proper venting ridge cap. e) USIM Fulfil* Service Agency-Repairroot’leaks and ary inicrior water damage. Headslurt Building-Replace sheathing and roof Give bid price fur a shingle and/or nieial molt Bids should be turned into the Commissioners' OITice by 5:00 P. M. on Monday, August 31, 20(19. The hids wilt he opened ul the reiiiikLr monthly meeting on I uCMjav. September i. 2009 aiSSflOA-M. Rotary hears about sports program at JCHS Coaches Chuck Conley, left, and Mark Whitt, right, updated the Millen Rotary Club on the sports program at Jenkins County High School at the Aug. 12 meeting. Coach Conley is beginning his fifth year as head football coach. Coach Whitt is the boys’ basketball coach and was recently named athletic director. Millen’s Wayside Home was oasis for Civil War soldiers Recently, as noted in The Millen News, the Confederate monument on the Jenkins County Courthouse Square was stabilized and rededicated through the efforts of the United Daughters of the Confederacy (UDC). Also on the lawn of the courthouse is a plaque com memorating the Wayside Home Chapter of the UDC. No longer active, this UDC chapter was named for an institution in Millen that was well known by many Confederate soldiers who passed through the town during the Civil War. The Wayside Home is long gone, but in the course of re searching the history of Camp Lawton, the Confederate prison for Union prisoners of war (POW) at Magnolia Springs, East Georgia College history professor Dr. John K. Derden came across the following fas cinating account by one of its patrons: “For the convenience and comfort of the soldiers going to and returning from their com mands, ‘Wayside Homes’ were established at different points in the Confederacy where free lunches were served by the fair and willing hands of patriotic young ladies living in the vicin ity. A uniform of gray was the only passport needed. One of these ‘Homes’ was located at Millen, Ga. Detained there on one occasion, en route to my command in Thunderbolt [near Savannah] I was glad to accept their hospitality. Seated at the table enjoying the spread they had prepared one of these fair maids approached me and asked if I would take some butter on my ‘greens.’ My gastronomic record as a soldier had been like Joseph’s coat, ‘of many colors.’ I had eaten almost everything from ‘cush’ and ‘slapjacks’ to raw corn and uncooked bacon. I had made up dough on the top of a stump for a tray and cooked it on one piece of split hickory for an oven. I had eaten salt meat to which the government had good title, and fresh meat to which neither I nor the gov ernment had any title, good or bad. But butter on ‘greens” was a combination new to my expe rience and as my digestive out fit had, during my school days, been troubled with a dyspeptic trend, I felt compelled to decline such an addition to a dish that had been boiled with fat bacon. “Notwithstanding the absence of my friend Steed the supply of pie that day was short, and with a degree of self-denial, for which I cannot mow account, I asked for none. A soldier next me at the table, however, filed his application and when our winsome waitress returned, she handed the dessert to me and left my neighbor pieless. I could not recall her fair young face as one I had ever seen before, and I had always been noted for my lack of personal comeliness. I was at a loss therefore to understand why the unsolicited discrimina tion in my favor had been made. A few minutes later the problem was solved. Standing on the porch after the meal had ended, this self-same maiden ap proached me a little timidly and asked, ‘When did you hear from your brother Sammie?’ She and my younger brother, it seemed, had been schoolmates, and, as I learned afterwards, ‘sweet hearts’ as well, and the pie busi - See Wayside, page 3 ComnussjontTS reserve tte right !o rejeel any or all bids: Jenkins I'uuuli li.iufd of r CtKimifflknll] EAST GEORGIA COLLEGE Admissions Office 478.289.2017 www.ega.edu A TWO-YEAR UNIT OF THE UNIVERSITY SYSTEM OF GEORGIA EAST GEORGIA COLLEGE IS STARTING AN INSTRUCTIONAL SITE IN BURKE COUNTY! Classes in Waynesboro begin January, 2010! 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