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PAGE 8A —THE MADISON COUNTY (GA) JOURNAL. THURSDAY. AUGUST 13. 2009
School News
Teen Parent Support Group
To end last school term, the Teen Parent Support Group celebrated the high school
graduation of four of its members: Samari Cooper, Jessica Sheridan Free, Courtney
Johnson and Brandy Barrett Smith. This group meets once each month of the school
year with mentor Melanie Berryman and high school counselor Angelia Bruce. With
support, guidance, and encouragement from Berryman and Bruce, the students
work to stay in school as they meet the responsibilities of parenting. This group is
under the umbrella of the Madison County Mentor Program which pairs students in
all county schools with mentor friends. As the new school year begins, more mentors
are needed. To volunteer or to learn more about the program, call 706-338-3689 or
email mcmentor@madison.kl2.ga.us. Pictured (L-R) are Angelia Bruce, Jessica Free,
Courtney Johnson with her child, and Melanie Berryman.
Teacher Reuse Store set for Sat.
August Student Spotlight:
Stephanie Hilburn
Stephanie Hilburn
The annual Teacher Reuse
Store will be held Saturday,
Aug. 15. from 9 a.m.-noon at
the Athens-Clarke Recycling
Facility, located at 699 Hancock
Industrial Way, Athens.
Tire store is open for any
teacher in Madison, Athens-
Clarke, Oconee and Oglethorpe
counties, according to organiz
ers, and will provide a variety
of free items to local educators.
These items have been donated
from local businesses and indus
tries, that might have otherwise
been sent to landfills, organizers
said. Items include binders, file
folders, paper, ait supplies, file
cabinets, etc.
Items are available while sup
plies last.
Public and private school
teachers as well as homeschool
teachers are welcome, organiz
ers said. All teachers are required
to being official documentation
to verify teaching status, such
as a school district photo I.D.
or a letter on school letterhead
signed by the principal for entry.
“Only teachers will be admitted
into the store, no helpers please,"
organizers said. No children of
any age will be allowed in tire
reuse store.
For your shopping pleasure
and safety, organizers also ask
that you leave bags, suitcases,
wagons and carts at home. The
only bags allowed in the store
will be provided and should be
returned to the reuse store once
items have been placed in your
vehicle.
Contact the Keep Madison
County Beautiful office for addi
tional information at 706-795-
5151.
By Savannah Roberts
Freshman Academy Reporter
Stephanie Hilburn a Freshman
Academy FFA member has been
every busy this summer.
Hilburn is very involved with
agriculture and when you are
involved the possibilities are end
less. Some of the activities that
have kept her busy were plant
ing and growing a garden, which
she turned into a roadside market,
breaking her own heifer for this
show season, caring for her show
steer, assisting her family with the
hay operation and growing out
dairy calves, as well as day-to-day
farm cleaning and maintenance.
Hilburn started her garden at the
beginning of the summer. She has
successfully grown com, tomatoes,
okra, watermelon, squash, cucum
bers, bell peppers, jalapeno pep
pers, and cantaloupe. She sold over
250 dozen ears of com and sold a
five gallon bucket Hill of squash.
Her goal is to have a roadside
market next year. Her mom helped
with publicity in making the signs
for the roadside market.
Another summer project that
has kept Hilburn busy is working
with her show calves. She has a
Limousin steer that is 11 months
old and at the end of the show sea
son this show steer well be sold for
meat. She also has a commercial
heifer that she is working with for
this show season.
“This is the first show calf I
have broken on my own," said
Hilburn. ‘This calf also came off
of my show heifer from two show
season ago."
Some of the things that she has to
do to get ready for her show season
are breaking the calves, feeding the
calves correctly, maintaining good
quality and clean hair, and practic
ing lining their feet up correctly for
the show ring. Hilbum’s days start
at 6 a.m. and end after 8 p.m. work
ing with her animals and main
taining the farm upkeep. Hilburn
has already put over $3,000 into
these animals and will continue to
do what it takes to care for them
throughout the show season. As a
Freshman Academy FFA member,
Hilburn will also be involved in
career development events, leader
ship conferences and convention
throughout her ninth grade year.
She will also be involved in her
church, community activities and
babysits on the side!
Hilburn could not do this with
out the support of her family, her
father and mother Jeff and Teresa
Hilburn and brother Eddie Hilburn
of Danielsville.
Savannah Roberts is a Madison
County Freshman Academy stu
dent.
Class of 1959 reunion set for August 29
The Madison County High School Class of 1959 McElroy, Ophelia Whitley Payne, Henry Wheeler
reunion will be held on August 29 and organiz- and teacher Ed Hemphill. If anyone has the address
ers are still seeking information on the following: or contact information for any of these, contact Jean
Patricia Lester, Lawanna Hicks Mangleburg, Gene Strickland Ginn at 706-789-2330.
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