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ABAC President David Bridges visits the
college's oldest
alumnus Ethel Talley on her 106th birthday last Friday, Jan. 22.
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TIFTON'S ETHEL TALLY
MARKS 106th BIRTHDAY
Tifton's
Ethel Arnold Talley celebrated her
106th birthday last weekend with two
birthday parties.
On Friday, Jan. 22, she was honored at Southern Care Assisted Living; and on Saturday was another
birthday party at the Family Life Center Atrium at Tifton's First Baptist Church.
The 2015-2016 Student Alumni Council at
Abraham
Baldwin Agricultural College visited Mrs. Talley, sang her a special birthday song and shared birthday cupcakes.
Born Jan. 22, 1910, in Irwin County, Mrs. Talley has lived in Tift County all her life, including residing in the same house in Chula for about 75 years. Since 2009, she has lived at Southern Care in Tifton.
The oldest American currently is said to be
Susannah Mushatt Jones
, age 116 years, an Alabama native who lives in New York.
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TIFT SWIM TEAMS TAKE REGION ... AGAIN
The Tift County High
School
boys and girls swim teams both won
the Region 1-AAAAAA championship on Friday, Jan. 22, at Darton State College for the second consecutive year. For the girls team, it was actually the third consecutive region title.
The
boys team had a total score Friday of
205 points;
Valdosta High was second with
90. The
girls team garnered 211 points; Valdosta was second with 97.
The "Last Chance Meet" is scheduled today, Jan. 26, at the Tiftarea YMCA for swimmers to make the final cut for the Georgia High School Association state swimming and diving championships Feb. 4-6 in Atlanta.
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LOCAL STUDENT SPOTLIGHTED ON
STATE EDUCATION WEB SITE
Catherine Brenneman, a senior at Tift County High School, is
the
focus of a "Student Spotlight" on the Georgia Department of Education's "Educating Georgia's Future" web site.
Brenneman, 18, competes in the Special Olympics, volunteers at children's homes in Brunswick and Jacksonville, Fla., and teaches in the Backyard Bible Club along with a Special Friends class at Northside Baptist Church's Vacation Bible School. Her teachers describe her as a student who has overcome obstacles while staying positive.
Her birth mother was a drug abuser, and Catherine was born weighing just 3 1/2 pounds. She has cerebral palsy, a condition that did not deter Tim and Joy Brenneman from
adopting
her. Tim is a plant pathologist at the UGA Tifton campus
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"We thought about it a lot and prayed about it a lot, and we felt like that was the child we were supposed to have," Tim Brenneman told The Albany
Herald in 2013.
Catherine has thrived. She is computer savvy and has made the honor roll. She is well-loved by her classmates and was crowned Tift
County
High homecoming queen last September.
On the state web site, Catherine said she is "applying to Warm Springs Rehabilitation Center to learn skills to prepare me to go to college independently. Then I would like to go to Valdosta State University to further my education in counseling."
Her
advice to other students?
"Don't ever give up. Trust God each day to help you. Study hard. Do all your homework and turn it in on time. Have a positive attitude. Be a good friend to others."
You can read her full story on the state web site by
Clicking Here.
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UGA TO LEAD TEAM LOOKING TO
CURB JOHNSONGRASS WEED
A team of researchers led by faculty at the University of Georgia have received a $5 million grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture to find new ways of combating Johnsongrass, one of the most widespread and troublesome agricultural weeds in the world.
Native to the
Mediterranean region,
Johnsongrass has spread across
every continent except
Antarctica. It was introduced to the
U.S. in the
1800s as a
forage crop, but it quickly spread into surrounding farmland and natural environments, where it continues to
cause millions of dollars in
lost agricultural revenue each year, according to the USDA.
"Weeds like
Johnsongrass are a
major challenge for agricultural producers around the world," said Andrew Paterson, regents professor, director of UGA's
Plant Genome Mapping Laboratory and principal investigator for the project. "To make matters worse, widespread adoption of herbicide-resistant crops has been associated with a dramatic increase in herbicide-resistant weeds. With 21 genetically similar but different types of Johnsongrass known to be resistant to herbicides, it will only become more problematic in the future."
Apart from its
resistance to herbicides, the naturalization of Johnsongrass across much of the U.S. has also allowed the plant to develop attributes-such as cold and drought tolerance, resistance to pathogens and the ability to flourish in low-fertility soils-that make it particularly difficult to control.
Over the course of their five-year project, the researchers will work to develop a better understanding of the weed's capabilities and the underlying genes that make Johnsongrass so resilient.
This information may lead to new management strategies that target and curb its growth, providing farmers with a more robust toolkit to combat the invasive plant.
But the researchers also hope that learning more about the fundamental structures that give Johnsongrass its
unusual resilience will pave the way for new genetic tools to improve useful plants, such as
sorghum, a close relative of Johnsongrass that is grown widely for food, animal fodder and as a source of biofuel.
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Don Branch
Columbus Ledger-Enquirer photo
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TIFTAREA NATIVE LOOKS BACK AT
GOLF COURSE CAREER
Don Branch, who
grew up just outside Tifton, i
s profiled in a recent article in the Columbus Ledger-Enquirer, calling him "the top of Georgia's crop of golf course superintendents."
The newspaper says the retired superintendent's tenure at Columbus' Green Island Country Club has made him a "legend among his peers." Branch says he grew up on a farm, and
his family had plenty to eat:
"We didn't know we were poor."
His first paying job was on a nearby golf course where he caddied for an avid golfer.
He graduated from Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College, where he studied agronomy and briefly worked at the nearby Coastal Plains Experiment Station under one of the pioneers of turfgrass science. Later, in the Army, a colonel
learned that Branch had studied and worked with turfgrass, and he was then assigned to work on golf courses.
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IT'S A 'BEAST FEAST' AT ABAC
The ABAC Wildlife Society will hold its fourth annual Beast Feast on Feb. 27 at the Georgia Museum of Agriculture and Historic Village at Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College.
Doors will open at 6 p.m. with dinner beginning at 6:30 p.m. Tickets are $10 in advance and $13 at the door.
The
wildlife supper will allow patrons to sample a variety of dishes prepared from
venison, wild hog, alligator, bobcat, various fish species and more. A number of raffles will also be held during the event for items including a shotgun, a chartered fishing trip for four in Florida, artwork from wildlife artist and former Atlanta Falcon
Jose Portilla and limited-edition framed prints.
For information, call
Dr. William Moore, associate professor and department head of forest resources, at 229-391-4805 or Dr. Jason Scott, assistant professor of forest resources, at 229-391-4806.
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A SWEET EVENT!
LITERACY CHOCOLATE TASTING SET FOR FEB. 2
"Choc-It-Up for Literacy," the
Literacy Volunteers of Tifton-Tift County's premier chocolate tasting event, is back for its fourth annual February observance at
6:30 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 2, at the
Hilton Garden Inn.
Not only will participants sample fabulous
chocolate desserts and vote for their favorites, but also they may bid for a trip to Historic Charleston and a relaxing
mountain vacation to
Dahlonega, among other exciting treasures.
The event will showcase up to 10
local vendors and their
chocolate creations. Each vendor will creatively display their
chocolate dessert with
samples for party-goers to taste. Merrymakers may sip
milk, coffee, wine or
champagne while voting on
Best Taste, Best Presentation, and
Best in Show.
"It's a great way to kick off the month of love with an elegant date night with your special love, your best
friend, or your family," said board member
Liz Carson Keith.
Tickets are
$10 each and entitle the bearer to tastes of all the chocolate samples plus beverage. Children are free.
"If you have always yearned for the
incredible chocolate dessert from your favorite restaurant,
now you have no excuses," Keith said. "You can feel good about indulging, because it is helping people better their lives."
"Choc-It-Up 2016 will benefit programs that
Literacy Volunteers sponsors," explained
Sharonda Murphy-Henton, LV president. LVTTC helps
adults improve their reading and math skills and prepare for the
GED test. It also has scholarships to help eligible students pay for GED test fees. In addition, LV offers twice-weekly
English language classes at
Our Divine Savior Catholic Church twice each week.
"Whenever we are able to help a student increase his or her educational level, we benefit our community," Keith said. "Each person who gets a GED credential can continue with job training at
Southern Regional Tech or
ABAC. This enriches us all."
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GEORGIA COTTON COMMISSION MEETING IN TIFTON
The
Georgia Cotton Commission's 9th
Annual Meeting will be held on
Wednesday, Jan. 27, at the
UGA Tifton Campus Conference Center. The annual meeting is held in conjunction with the
UGA Cotton Production Workshop conducted by the Research & Extension Cotton Team.
The meeting speakers will be
Reece Langley, vice president of Washington operations for the
National Cotton Council;
Berrye Worsham, president and CEO of
Cotton Incorporated; and
Mike Quinn, president and CEO of
Cotton Growers Cooperative.
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