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PAGE 8A —THE MADISON COUNTY (GA) JOURNAL. NOVEMBER 12, 2009 School News MILE FUN RUN WINNERS Mile Fun Run winners pictured with Travis Tankersley and Zena at the recent Hull-Sanford Elementary School Fall Festival include: Lucy Davis-Hancock, third place girl; Angel Cochran second place girl; Janie Williams, first place girl; Peter Faulkner, first place boy; Bill Campbell, second place boy; and Cameron Brown, third place boy. HULL SANFORD 5K WINNERS Pictured are Idita’run’ South 5K winners with Travis Tankersley and Zena at the recent Hull-Sanford Fall Festival: Catherine Thompson, first place 18 and over female, 27:03; Dalford England, first place 18 and over male, 19:45; Sam Williams, first place 11-17 male, 23:36; Pressley Burroughs, first lace 11-17 female, 26:40. Other top finishers were Lauren Michalak, sec ond place 18 and over female, 28:57; Joy House, third place 18 and over female, 29:42; Michael Williams, second place 18-and- over male), 21:05; Ian Sherrer, third place, 18 and over male), 25:26; Jaime Feagan, second place 11-17 female, 34:45; Anna McCarty, third place 11-17 female, 37:54; Tyler Moon, second place 11-17 male, 26:04. J Aw - s- • DANIELSVILLE CELEBRATES ‘CHARACTER DAY Danielsville Elementary School celebrated book “Character Day” Thursday, Oct. 29. Students and teachers dressed as book characters to celebrate reading. Characters ranged from Pippi Longstockings to Skippyjon Jones. “Everyone who particpated had a great time and did a great job!” teach ers said. Grade level winners were as follows: Amber Queen, pre-K; Ethan Bond, kindergarten; Brady Bates, first grade; Jaycelen Sexton, second grade; Emily Austin, third grade; Konner Jones, fourth grade; and Cammie Tittle, fifth grade. GRAND CHAMPION BARROW The swine show team traveled down to Perry on Thursday October 16 for the Georgia National Fair market pigs and breeding gilt show, the last and the largest swine show for the fall show season, with over 750 head of swine in the event. Zack Taylor showed the grand champion barrow of the entire show. Pictured are the grand champion barrow — Mr. Flemming (breeder); Zack Taylor, junior at MCHS FFA member, Blake Taylor and Jerry Taylor FINE TIME AT SWINE SHOW The Madison County swine show team traveled to Perry Oct. 16 for the Georgia National Fair market pigs and breeding gilt show. Pictured is Colton Searcy who showed the junior and division reserve champion. HULL BEST ATTENDANCE WINNERS Cari Keller’s fifth grade class was recently awarded a trophy and banner for having the best attendance at Hull Sanford Elementary School for the month of October. Pictured are: (first row, L-R) Yossi Ramirez, Byron Wilhite, Chad Williams, Mrs. Keller, (second row) Fernando Sigala, Noah Tittle, Herald Villacorta-Tello, Sarah Sallee, Christie-Marie Shupe, (third row) JaLien Lumpkin, Mitchell McCarty, MaKenna McElroy, Brook McLeroy, Emily Moore, (fourth row) Aneliz DeJesus, Denise Hall, Paulo Fernandez, Amber Lapczynski, Hannah May, (fifth row) Heather Allred, Haley Barker, Destiny Bond, Zac Collins and Angel Cochran. We Buy All Gold & Silver Ym Including: Class Rings • Wedding Bands • Coins • Broken Jewelry • Dental Gold .Gamesmffe Cfl 770-532-2592 1020 Jesse Jewell Pkwy. • Gainesville, GA Mon. - Thurs. 10-6:30 • Fri. - Sat. 10-7 We're Celebrating Our Name Change & Holiday Open House! Nov. 14th, 2009 from 9 am - 5:30 pm Prizes o Refreshments o Holiday Music TANGLES & TAN & th ePURPLE DOOMfl [Mil 706.677.1555 1359 Historic Homer Hwy • Homer, GA miJiimuiimui EXPERIENCED PIANIST NEEDED Royston Baptist Church is looking for an experienced pianist for traditional Sunday morning 11:00 worship services and Wednesday evening 7:00 choir rehearsals. Candidates will play for an experienced choir, accompany hymns, anthems, and seasonal cantatas, and provide bi-weekly offertory music. Pay is $425.00 per month with 2 weeks paid vacation per year. Resumes and inquiries may be sent to Dr. Deborah Stark at dstark@ec.edu or contact Sheila Moncrief at Royston Baptist Church, phone: 706- 245-9701 for more information. Forty-five fifth and sixth grade students presented five- minute demonstrations on topics that they had researched or gave four-minute talent performances during the com petition in County Project Achievement. 4-Hers compete in project achievement Cloverleaf 4-H’ers from across the county competed in County Project Achievement (CPA) Oct. 24 at the Colt Academy in Danielsville. Forty-five fifth and sixth grade students presented five-minute dem onstrations on topics that they had researched or gave four-minute talent performances during the competition. To participate in CPA, the youth selected a 4-H project that interested them and prepared an illustrated talk, performance, or demonstration about it. They gave their presentations before a panel of judges and were scored based on subject knowledge, visuals and speech or performance delivery. Noah Dobbs, a fifth grade student at Colt Academy, competed in the performing arts vocal project by performing “One More Chance.” MCMS sixth grade student, Nicole Keyros, presented a demonstra tion on diabetes in the health project and Keith Gantt, a fifth grader at Comer, talked about basketball in the sports project. ‘These are just three examples of the outstanding work completed by these 5 th and 6 th grade students,” organizers said. Angela Gantt, a parent of one of the 4-H’ers said, "I think the CPA program was a good experience for the kids to build up their speaking ability and a way to meet other kids.” Her son Keith said the “When I came to CPA I was very nervous but once I got done, I felt relaxed because it was over—then when I placed second, I felt great!” First place CPA winners included Julia Chitwood, cat care; Chase Dudley, companion animals; Cydney Flanigan, computers: Andra Chandler, conservation and recycling; Breanna Tate and Taralee Runyan, dog care and training; Hannah Smith, entomology: Cristal Saigado, food fare: Aiden Edwards, crafts; Cameron Griffith, general recreation; Holly Glenn, general science; Rory Smith, geology; Nicole Keyros, health, Brett Black, archaeology; Emily Moore, outdoor sur vival skills, Hannah Griffith and Elizabeth Simmons, performing arts (general), Chance Dudley, performing arts (instrumental), Noah Dobbs, performing arts (vocal): Dyson Christian, photography; Chandler Perry, poultry and egg science: Caleb Brown and Chad Williams, safety; Cody Bond, sports; Tyler Carter, target sports; Samantha Watson, veterinary science and Noah Rogers, wildlife. Second place winners included Bulla Grant, Carson Collier, Paige Whitehead, Savannah Smith, Julia Hix, Hannah Bruce, Keith Gantt, Breanna Thomas, Bryan Kerr, and Sebastian McCullough. Third place winners included Cammie Tittle, Emily Kent, Michael Wilbanks, Naomi Person, and Rusty Nelms. Several of these 4-H’ers participate in District Project Achievement Nov. 22 at the Rock Eagle 4-H Center near Eatonton. FOR ONLY $5 PER MONTH, YOU CAN LIST YOUR GROUP'S MEETINGS! Let your members know when your group is meeting! Call (706) 367-5233 to advertise your meeting time, place and date in... • The Jackson Herald • The Commerce News • The Braselton News • The Banks County News • The Madison County Journal = DANIELSVILLE HP AMERICAN LEGION IB Post 39 Meets last Thursday, 7 p.m. November & December American Legion Building Crawford W. Long Street ■p BANKS COUNTY R AMERICAN LEGION Post 215 Meets each 3rd Thursday, 7 p.m. In Homer, GA at the American Legion Building on Historic Highway 441 pd.oe/io v|f| VETERANS OF W FOREIGN WARS Post 4872, Hurricane Shoals Convention Ctr. Each 4th Tuesdasy, 7:00 p.m. Jason Mergele, Commander Phone 706-367-7237 26i JEFFERSON ROTARY CLUB Meets Tuesdays Jefferson City Clubhouse 12:30 p.m. • (706) 367-1109 Gina Mitsdarffer, President 547 UNITY LODGE W F&A.M. No. 36, Jefferson, GA 1st Tuesday of each month, 7:30 p.m. Dwayne Potts • 706-367-4449 Borders St. behind Tabo’s mo JEFFERSON LIONS CLUB Meets 2nd & 4th Monday Jefferson City Clubhouse 6:30 p.m.-(706) 387-1156 Mack Cates, President 542 HO BANKS COUNTY OIamerican legion Riders Post 215 Meets each 2nd Thursday, 7 p.m. In Homer, GA at the American Legion Building on Historic Highway 441 pd.oa/io Georgia Real Estate Investors *™» Association, Inc. - Athens Meets the third Thursday each month 6:30 pm at the UGA Conferen ce Center 1197 South Lumpkin Street, Athens, GA 30601 Tom Hewlett - Chapter President thewlettl@charter.net Pd. 12/09 BANKS COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY, INC. meets first Monday each month 7:00 p.m. in the Banks Co. Historial Courthouse at 105 U.S. Hwy. 441 North in Homer pd.-07/io NORTH EAST GEORGIA AMATEUR RADIO CLUB Meets the 1st Thursday each month at the Commerce City Public Library 1344 South Broad Street www.ne4ga.org pd 12 JEFFERSON HI AMERICAN LEGION Albert Gordon Post 56 Each 3rd Tuesday, 7:30 p.m. Harvie Lance, Commander Phone (706) 654-1274 jio St. Catherine Laboure Catholic Mission Mass Schedule: Sat. 4:00 p.m., Sun. 11:00 a.m., Thurs. 12:10 p.m. First Friday Adoration 9 a.m. - 7 p.m. Website: www.stcatherinelabourega.org 706-335-2622 Pd. 12