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First Jordan Grove Missionary Baptist
working to support school board
By Matthew J. Permar
Kenneth Adkins, the Pastor at the
First Jordan Grove Missionary Baptist
Church in Brunswick has only been
here about a year or two, but is already
very active in helping school kids in
this community.
Adkins routinely attends local
school board meetings and last week
told board members that he is excit
ed about the progress being made in
Glynn schools.
Adkins also told the board about
plans he and his church have for help
ing school kids get ready for class this
fall.
Last year Adkins and the members
of First Jordan Grove Missionary Bap
tist Church gave book bags filled with
school supplies to over 600 Brunswick
children.
"This year," Adkins told the school
board last week, "we have increased
the number to 1,000 bags with sup
plies for the kids thanks to assistance
from local businesses like Quantam
Communications, Liberty Harbor and
Wal-Mart."
In addition, on Friday, August 1
Adkins and his church are sponsor
ing a Broadway production at the Ritz
Theater in downtown Brunswick for
students in the Risley Middle School
Early College program. The students
will all receive back packs with school
supplies the night of the show.
Then on Saturday, August 2, Adkins
and his membership have invited chil
dren from Risley Middle and Bur
roughs-Mollette Elementary Schools
and the McIntyre Corut public hous
ing complex to attend an event at the
church during which book bags and
supplies will be handed out the to
young students.
Adkins told The Islander, "We will
have a lot of stuff happening on Satur
day. Kids will be able to get their I.D.s,
we'll have some folks from the police
department there to talk to the kids.
We're going to make it a fun, carnival
type of atmosphere."
And then, closing the weekend out
on Sunday, August 3 at 11:00 a.m.,
the First Jordan Grove Missionary
Baptist Church has invited all Glynn
County school teachers and personnel
to attend as they "say Thank you" and
salute local educators for a "job well
done" and pray for a successful upcom
ing school year.
Adkins said the School Superinten
dent Dr. Michael Bull will host the
event and Mike Kemp, the newly hired
Assistant Superintendent of Student
Achievement will be the guest speak
er.
The First Jordan Grove Missionary
Baptist Church is located at 2004 Mar
tin Luther King, Jr. Blvd. in Bruns
wick. □
Kids catch reading bug
The St. Simons Library Summer
Reading Program, Catch the Reading
Bug, held a wrap-up party Thursday
July 17. Certificates of completion and
awards were given to many of the 150
children enrolled in the program.
Curious Moon Puppets presented
the Grasshopper and the Ant from
Aesop’s Fables. More party favors priz
es, and refreshments were available
for the children on the porch after the
program.
The summer reading program is one
of the many projects funded by the St.
Simons Library League. Sue Cansler,
League president, said, ‘We had more
children sign up for the reading pro
gram this summer than ever before
and that’s just what we were hoping
for.” □
Lottery Officials
announce milestone
• Event marks the transfer of
$10 billion to education
Earlier this month Governor Sonny
Perdue joined Georgia Lottery Cor
poration President and CEO Marga
ret DeFrancisco at Georgia Lottery
headquarters to announce that it has
transferred a total of $10 billion for
education to the state of Georgia since
the lottery’s inception in 1993.
We mark $10 billion in total that
the Lottery has contributed to educa
tion in Georgia since it was launched
in 1993,” said Gov. Perdue. “In those
15 years, we’ve seen record payouts,
record ticket sales and, now, this stag
gering contribution to the future of
Georgia’s children and our state as a
whole.”
The Georgia Lottery has experienced
extraordinary success as one of only
two traditional lotteries in the nation
to experience 10 consecutive years of
growth in profits.
“The Lottery Corporation has a
success formula that works and deliv
ers results for Georgia’s students and
families,” DeFrancisco said. “Lottery-
funded HOPE Scholarships and Pre-K
Programs have made a fundamental
difference in the fives of so many Geor
gians. The transfer of our $10 billionth
dollar to education is a tremendous
accomplishment that we can all cel
ebrate.”
DeFrancisco presented Gov. Perdue
with an oversized check for $10 billion
made payable to “Georgia Students”
during today’s ceremony.
The Georgia Lottery’s fiscal year
2008 profits transferred to the State
Treasury’s Lottery for Education
Account amount to $858,355,000, sur
passing last year’s record transfer by
more than $4.8 million.
Georgia Lottery sales for fiscal
year 2008, which spanned from July
1, 2007 to June, 30, 2008, totaled
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would touch it with a ten-foot pole - even
though the book was a bestseller and
many Americans obviously thought the
topic important.
The exception was Tim Russert, who
spent an hour interviewing Goldberg on
CNBC. Russert declared that “if there’s
a liberal bias or a cultural bias [in the
newsroom], we have to sit up and tackle
it and discuss it. We have got to be open
to these things.”
Peggy Noonan, the former speech-
writer for Ronald Reagan and the first
George Bush, now writes commentary
for the Wall Street Journal. There, she
agreed with Goldberg: Russert was
eager to give non-liberal points of view
a hearing when other broadcast journal
ists turned a deaf ear.
Wouldn’t it be a good thing, Noonan
reflects, if many of the journalists gener-
ically praising Russert for his open-
mindedness and fairness paid more
attention to the implications of their
own words?
I’m Paul Jacob. □
$3,519,341,000 - the highest in the
lottery’s 15-year history and more than
$97.6 million ahead of the previous
sales record of $3.42 billion in fiscal
year 2007.
The mission of the Georgia Lottery
Corporation is to raise revenue for edu
cation in Georgia. Since its first year,
the Georgia Lottery Corporation has
returned over $10.1 billion to the state
of Georgia for education. All Lottery
profits go to pay for specific educational
programs including Georgia’s HOPE
Scholarship Program and Prekinder
garten Program. More than 1 million
students have received HOPE, and
more than 860,000 4-year-olds have
attended the statewide, voluntary pre
kindergarten program.
For more information, visit the
Media Center on the Georgia Lottery
Web site at: www.galottery.com. □
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