Friday, Nov. 2, 2018
Tifton, Georgia
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GA ELECTION ATTRACTS BIG NAMES
OPRAH STUMPS FOR ABRAMS; PENCE FOR KEMP
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The
nation's attention
was focused on
Georgia's gubernatorial
race
Thursday
as
Oprah Winfrey
and Vice President
Mike Pence
made dueling
appearances
in the
Peach State
–
Winfrey
for Democrat
Stacey Abrams,
and
Pence
for Republican
Brian Kemp.
Abrams
and
Kemp
are in a
statistical dead heat
, according to polls.
Winfrey
campaigned in
Marietta
and
Decatur
, and went door-to-door for
Abrams;
in the photo below are
former Tiftonites Leon and Caroline Benefield
with
Oprah,
who visited their
Marietta
neighborhood
.
Pence
meanwhile held rallies in the
Dalton, Augusta
and
Savannah
areas. In the photo above,
Pence
campaigns for
Kemp
with state Rep.
Barry Fleming
, R-Harlem.
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And this
weekend, former
President Obama and
President Trump are scheduled to
campaign for their respective candidates in
Georgia.
Meanwhile,
early voting continued
strongly across the
state, including in
Tift County. On
Thursday,
518 people voted in
Tifton for an early-voting total of
6,807 Tift countians.
Early voting ends at
5 p.m. today, and polls don't reopen until
Election Day on
Tuesday, when polls will be open from
7 a.m.-7 p.m.
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Tift County Schools Food Service Director Vanessa Hayes, center, accepts the Golden Radish Award recently at the Georgia Freight Depot in Atlanta. At left is Ga. Agriculture Commissioner Gary Black and second from right is State School Superintendent Richard Woods.
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TIFT SCHOOLS GET TOP HONORS AT GEORGIA'S GOLDEN RADISH AWARDS
Tift County Schools
won
platinum-level
recognition at the 2018
Golden Radish Awards
ceremony last week in
Atlanta
.
The
Golden Radish Award
recognizes Georgia
school districts
for
best practices
in
farm-to-school
programs, such as
local food usage
, exposing students to
new foods
through taste tests, and incorporating
gardening
and
cooking
activities in curriculum.
The
Tift County School District was recognized for the following:
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- The nutrition director is a certified chef, and the district superintendent and Career, Technical and Agricultural Education (CTAE) director are farmers; all staff constantly learn techniques to incorporate farm-to-school at their respective facilities, with ongoing professional training.
- School nutrition employees participated in farm-to-school culinary training, creating and preparing dishes with locally grown items.
- School staff presented at least 73 taste tests this year, including salad tastings with kindergartners for the first time.
- Fifteen acres of school system-owned land is used to teach young farmers to plant, maintain and glean crops. Tift County also has a state-of-the-art canning plant, where it processes fresh green beans and tomatoes for homemade marinara sauce.
Tift County Schools
was one of
84
school districts
recognized
at the awards.
The
Golden Radish Award
is presented by
Georgia Organics, Georgia’s agriculture, education, and public health departments
, and the
University of Georgia Cooperative Extension Service.
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This Saturday & Sunday: Browse. Buy. Enjoy!
Surprising and beautiful works by 30 ARTISTS.
Potters, painters, photographers, woodcrafters,
glass artists, and more!
Plus indulge in
A SWEET TASTE OF TIFTON!
Delightful baked goodies by local groups & entrepreneurs!
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GOBLINS DESCEND ON DOWNTOWN
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Hundreds
of folks filled both sides of
Main Street
on
Halloween
for the annual
Downtown Tifton trick-or-treat
with downtown
businesses
.
Balmy weather
brought out the
ghouls
and
goblins
in abundance.
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Pre-Sell for Charity Day Today!
See any associate for details.
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Still Accepting Charities!
Sign up for your organization today. See store for details.
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TIFTON-TIFT COUNTY CHAMBER OF COMMERCE
RIBBON CUTTING
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Don Julio's Mexican Restaurant
211 S. Main St., Tifton
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This event is nearly sold out; get your tickets
HERE!
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STORM CANCELS CLASSES,
POSTPONES CHORAL CONCERT
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Because of the possibility of
inclement
weather
Thursday
afternoon across
Southwest Georgia
,
Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College
canceled
afternoon and evening
classes
and all
scheduled events
at its sites in
Tifton, Moultrie, Bainbridge, Donalsonville and Blakely.
The action forced the
rescheduling
of ABAC's
Fall Choral Concert
, which will now be held at
7 p.m. Monday, Nov. 5,
in
Howard Auditorium
in
Tifton
.
“We always look forward to this
concert
because it involves so many of our
students
who have worked extremely hard over the past several months,” said Dr. Susan Kirby
Roe,
head of the
Department of Fine Arts
and conductor of the event
“The
community
is very gracious in its
support
of these students, and we promise to give everyone who attends a
night of music
that will be quite pleasing to their ears.”
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'SURF AND TURF' FOR EDUCATION
The
Tift County Foundation for Educational Excellence held its
third annual Lobsterfest on
Oct. 25 at UGA's
Blackshank Pavilion in
Tifton.
The
menu
included freshly cooked
lobster
and
steak
.
The
fundraiser generates money for the foundation's
programs supporting
teachers and
students in
Tift County public schools.
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ABAC EMERITUS PROF GIVING PRESENTATION AT SITE OF SAND CREEK MASSACRE
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"I tell you, Ned, it was hard to see little children on their knees have their brains beat out by men professing to be civilized."
Capt.
Silas S. Soule, who refused to participate in the actions, wrote these words to a friend in
1864 soon after what became known as the
Sand Creek Massacre of
Native Americans near
Eads, Colo.
Soule's letters led to
investigations by
congressional committees and an
Army commission. Soule was
shot dead on the streets of
Denver just weeks after he
testified.
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"
At
dawn
on the morning of
Nov. 29, 1864
, Col.
John Milton Chivington
gave the
command
that led to
slaughter
of
230
peaceful
Cheyennes
and
Arapahos
— primarily
women, children and elderly
— camped under the
protection
of the
U.S. government
along
Sand Creek
in
Colorado Territory
and flying both an
American flag
and a
white flag
," writes Dr.
Gary L. Roberts, history professor emeritus at
Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College in
Tifton.
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The
Sand Creek Massacre
seized
national attention
in the winter of
1864-1865
and generated a
controversy
that still excites
heated debate
more than
150
years later,"
Roberts
writes in his
2016
book,
"Massacre at Sand Creek: How Methodists were involved in an American Tragedy."
Roberts, an acknowledged
authority on the
history of the
American West, is giving a
presentation on the
massacre next
Thursday in
Eads, Colo., part of a
lecture series hosted by the
Sand Creek Massacre National Historic Site.
Roberts has written
several books, including one on Western gunslinger
Doc Holliday, who
grew up in what became
Valdosta. His family's
home still stands there.
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The
82nd Annual Coastal Plains Agricultural Fair is in town through this
Sunday, Nov. 4, at the
fairgrounds on
U.S. Highway 84 E.
Hosted by
American Legion Tift County Post 21
, fair proceeds help
support local
veterans and
youth programs. Along with
carnival rides, the fair includes
contests for locally grown
produce and locally made
baked goods.
The
Tifton fair dates to
1936 and is the
longest active fair in the region.
The
Coastal Plains Agricultural Fair is open
6 p.m.-midnight today (Friday);
2-10 p.m. Saturday; and
1-7 p.m. Sunday.
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(COOKIE) WALK THIS WAY....
Peace Lutheran Church
is hosting its annual
Cookie Walk and Yard Sale
from
9 a.m.-1 p.m.
Saturday, Nov. 17
, at the church's
Fellowship Hall, 604 Tennessee Drive, Tifton.
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Church members have been busy
baking different kinds of
cookies, cakes, breads, candies and German pastries, and making
holiday candies and homemade
peanut brittle.
Also available will be homemade
Christmas ornaments and many new gifts.
Proceeds will be used to purchase
phone cards for
armed forces personnel. A donation will be made to
Lutheran Services Disaster Relief Fund.
Supplemental funds have been received from
Thrivent Financial.
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Tifton native Caitlin Carmichael, second from right, with some of the cast of ABC-TV's "The Good Doctor." Carmichael guests on the primetime series on Monday, Nov. 5, at 10 p.m.
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TIFTON NATIVE TO APPEAR
ON ABC-TV MEDICAL DRAMA
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This coming
Monday's episode of the medical drama
"The Good Doctor" on
ABC-TV guest stars
Tifton native
Caitlin Carmichael.
"The Good Doctor," which airs at
10 p.m.
Mondays, is about a young
surgeon with
autism and
Savant syndrome who is recruited into the surgical unit of a
prestigious hospital.
Carmichael, a veteran of several
television shows and
films, is currently in
Utah filming a new
TV series for
BYUtv entitled
"Dwight in Shining Armor."
Carmichael has the
female lead in that
series, playing a
sleeping gothic warrior princess who is
awakened in
modern-day times. The series is expected to
debut early
next year.
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TIFTON NATIVE PRINCE A NOMINEE FOR NATIONWIDE AUTO DEALER HONOR
Tifton
native
Jay Prince
, vice president of
Prince Automotive
of
Valdosta
, is one of
51
auto dealers
nationwide
nominated for the
2019 Time (magazine) Dealer of the Year
award.
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Prince and the other
50 dealers will be honored at the
102nd annual National Automobile Dealers Association show
Jan. 25 in
San Francisco.
The
Time Dealer of the Year award is one of the
automobile industry’s most prestigious honors. Recipients are among the nation’s most
successful auto dealers who demonstrate a
commitment to
community service.
Prince, 47, was chosen to represent the
Georgia Automobile Dealers Association in the national competition.
A
1989 graduate of
Tift County High School, Prince earned an accounting degree from the
University of Georgia in
1993. He is the son of
John and B.J. Prince of
Tifton.
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YOUR WEEKEND
...at a Glance
FRIDAY, NOV. 2
- Coastal Plains Agricultural Fair, 6 p.m.-Midnight, Fairgrounds, U.S. Highway 82 E., Tifton
- Tiftarea Academy Football Panthers (Senior Night) vs. Southland Academy Raiders, 7:30 p.m., Chula
- Tift County High Blue Devils Football @ Camden County High Wildcats, 7:30 p.m., Kingsland
SATURDAY, NOV. 3
- Belk Charity Sale, 6-10 a.m., Belk, Tifton Mall, Tifton
- Wiregrass Farmers Market, 9 a.m.-Noon, Ga. Museum of Agriculture, Tifton
- Cane Grinding & Syrup Cooking, 9 a.m.-4 p.m., Ga. Museum of Agriculture & Historic Village, Tifton
- Arts Showoff & Sale, 10 a.m.-5 p.m., Museum of Arts & Heritage, Downtown Tifton
- UGA vs. Kentucky Watch Party & Tailgate, 1 p.m., UGA Tifton Campus Conference Center, Tifton
- Coastal Plains Agricultural Fair, 2-10 p.m., Fairgrounds, U.S. Highway 82 E., Tifton
SUNDAY, NOV. 4
- Arts Showoff & Sale, 1-4 p.m., Museum of Arts & Heritage, Downtown Tifton
- Coastal Plains Agricultural Fair, 1-7 p.m., Fairgrounds, U.S. Highway 82 E., Tifton
- Service of Remembrance: Bowen-Donaldson Home for Funerals, 3 p.m., Sanctuary, First Baptist Church, Tifton
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SEE THIS WEEKEND'S
TIFTAREA YARD
SALES
are being held
this weekend
in
Tifton
.
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OCT. 26
Lynda Dean Bass, 71,
Sylvester
Travis Greg Raffield, 49,
Irwin County
Preston Augustus Wells, 95,
Ashburn
Benny Stanley, 81,
Arabi
Jackie Elaine Brown, 69,
Ashburn
OCT. 27
Laura Nell Hill Schlumbrecht, 90,
Blackshear
J.B. Keen, 80,
Fitzgerald
OCT. 28
Makensleigh Renee Brown, infant,
Fort Gordon
Tanner Allen Tennison, 25,
Nashville
Benjamin “Ben” David Rainey, 53,
Turner County
OCT. 29
Leon Jeffery "Jeff" Kent, 73,
Nashville
Billy J. Hampton, 82,
Ashburn
James Roy Jefferson,
Sylvester
John Henry Ward, 74,
Valdosta
OCT. 30
Otis L. McClendon,
Tifton
Thomas Edward Mitchell III, 86,
Irwin County
OCT. 31
Earl LeFaite “Erkie” Barnes, 78,
Enigma
Floreece D. Ross, 84,
Ocilla
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