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BE A LOCAL KNOW-IT-ALL Local Sports - Local News - Local Education Local Events - Local People - Local Places Subscribe Today! Home Delivery for $49 a year. Call 706-595-1601 ®f)t jfWcBuffte progress Vol. 120, No. 01 www.mcduffieprogress.com Thursday, January 3, 2019 $1.00 The Voice of the Camellia City of The South Pub. No. 335140 Inside Today LEADING EDUCATION Inside Sports DOGS BEAT HANCOCK THS earns a final win of 2018 with a victory at home over Hancock Central. See page 1B. Obituaries Suzanne H. Keck Robert E. Landrum, Sr. Raymond Lawrence Pamela Lindsey Myra Hamilton Pettis Mary M. Reese Charles P. Schell Jr. Kimberly R. Whitten James Lee Wilcher Complete obits on page 3A. Index SUBJECT PAGE Obituaries 3A Arrests 3A Opinion 4A Sports 1B Community 5A Classifieds 3B Legals 3B 7 ""65540 2 A Vital Source of McDuffie County news Since 1898 • Thomson, McDuffie County, Georgia law enforcement seeking why in shootings BY LINDA GREEN lgreen@mcduffieprogress.com The Thomson Police Department, the McDuffie County Sheriffs Office, and the Georgia Bureau of Investigation are investi gating three separate inci dents involving bullets and guns that occurred in Thomson over the week end. “We are seeking to deter mine the why and if there is a relationship,” said Thomson Police Chief Gunshot victim uncooperative with the police investigation John Seay said. The first incident occurred shortly after 5 p.m., on Dec. 28, when a man identified as Amadi Mance of Thomson arrived at University Hospital McDuffie with four gunshot wounds. He was transported to Augusta University Medical Center for further medical care. Seay said all the informa tion the investigation has produced thus far is that Dameon Anderson is the person who took Mance to University Hospital McDuffie. “Mr. Mance has been totally uncooperative about what happened to See SHOOTINGS, Page 3A The McDuffie Progress/Linda Green Crime scene tape extended to the street keeps people from crossing the yard of a home that was shot into on Saturday in the 1100 block of Huntly Circle. 2018 In rovlim, put nut BY LINDA GREEN lgreen@mcduffieprogress.com Thomson-McDuffie lead ership issued a unity state ment in response to shoot ing incidents and violence, a murder suspect was tried and convicted, doctors and people in healthcare busi nesses were penalized by the government and Warren County defeated Lincoln County for the first time in 47 years in stories that captured attention during the latter half of 2018. Those stories are: July 5: A shooting that left a man and woman injured in the parking lot of Spee-Dee Foods on June 27 was the fifth reported shooting in a week. The Thomson Police Department and GBI arrested D’Alviune D. Burnett, 17, of the 120 block of Sills Street, on June 28 and charged him with aggravated assault for the shooting. The search was on for two others— Kadarious Hobbs and Aundra Hanson—who were each wanted for the same offenses. In the mean time, the community came together to discuss the shootings and other vio lence in a stop the violence rally and Thomson’s Mayor Kenneth Usry released a statement call ing for unity and informa tion about the shootings. He said the incidents were See REVIEW, Page 2A The McDuffie Progress/Linda Green Sheriff Logan Marshall and Deputy Barry Whitfield escort murder suspect Chet E. Kent to the jail entrance for booking. The McDuffie Progress/ Correspondent Jim Wallace The players missed dousing first year head coach Michael Youngblood with Gatorade after his first win and he stayed dry to accept a com memorative ball from the team. The McDuffie Progress/Wayne Parham Briarwood Academy’s Lady Bucs celebrate after receiving the GISA AA State Championship trophy in Macon. Kidney donor is Christmas gift to Tudors BY LINDA GREEN lgreen@mcduffieprogress.com The Tudor family received both a Thanksgiving and Christmas gift recently when they learned that a donor had been found to give Steve Tudor a kidney The family in Dearing has been on a jour ney from a diagnosis of kidney malfunc tion, to needing a transplant, to one being found within four years. “I was born three months premature and I only had one kidney I did not find that out until 17 years ago when I was 30 years old,” Steve Tudor said. Placed on high blood pressure medicine 10 years ago, he neglected to take the med icine as prescribed and he enjoyed life. “I learned the hard way that high blood pres sure and your kidneys go hand in hand. I ended up being 24 percent functioning with my kidney” Tudor discovered his kidney failing after becoming ill when he returned home from working his railroad job in Miami, nearly four years ago. “I thought I had the flu. I had never had the flu before, and I was so sick that I thought the ailments were what the flu felt like,” he said. Tudor went to the doctor and discovered that his blood pres sure was significantly high and that his kidney was tremendously impacted. It was at the time that the doctor found one kid ney; the other had not fully formed. “I was not nice to the one kidney I had when I thought I had two,” Tudor said. Tudor was placed on the kidney donor list. “We have been on this journey a long time. I found out at Thanksgiving that I have a donor. We got cleared for the trans plant nearly two weeks ago,” he said. “I am just waiting on a date. Hopefully, I will have a new kidney in me before the end of January” He said he seeks the end of the three times a week dialysis. Things are starting to fall into place and See TUDOR, Page 12A WCHS teacher chose for statewide teacher’s advisory council BYBREANNA DURHAM bdurham@mcduffieprogress.com In November, Warren County High School English language arts teacher and Warren County Teacher of the Year, D’Lee Pollock- Moore was chosen for the state’s Teacher Advisory Council, a group that dis cusses how decisions made at the state level affect Georgia teachers and their classrooms. The council started under former State Superintendent Kathy Cox. It has run for 10 years. “We’ve been trying to get a sense and feel of what is important to our teachers,” State Superintendent Richard Woods said. “We’ve been trying to get a sense and feel of what is important to our teachers.” Currently, 150 teachers make up the council; 50 elementary teachers, 35 middle school teachers, and 60 highschool teach ers. Of the 181 school dis tricts in Georgia, 75 of them have a teacher on the council. Georgia Teacher of the Year final ists and Milken Award teachers are among the teachers chosen for the council. Teachers chosen for the council have no definite time limit they can serve unless defined by their individual school districts. Some have sat on the council for four years. 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