Friday, April 17, 2020
Tifton, Georgia
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Photo by Jack E. Bryan
Trees were snapped Monday morning by a brief EF-1 tornado near Ty Ty.
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WEATHER SERVICE CONFIRMS TORNADO IN TIFT, WORTH
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By FRANK SAYLES JR.
Tifton Grapevine
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The
National Weather Service
(NWS) has
confirmed
that an
EF-1 tornado
touched down briefly in
Tift
and
Worth
counties
Monday
morning as
deadly storms
roared through the
South
.
The
NWS
said the
tornado
had estimated winds of
90 mph
. An
EF-1
rated tornado has wind speeds between
86
and
110 mph
. There were
no injuries
associated with the
Tift-Worth tornado
, which caused
minor structural damage
with a
widespread
area of
trees uprooted
and
snapped
, the NWS said.
At
5:36 a.m. Monday
, the
tornado
touched down in
Worth County
just
southwest
of
U.S. Highway 82
west
of
Ty Ty
. The tornado then
continued
for
3.17 miles
northeast, crossing
Highway 82
, with
damage
reported on
Little River Road
and
Whiddon Mill Road
, according to the Weather Service.
The tornado
lifted
one mile north/northeast
of
Ty Ty
in
Tift County
at
5:40 a.m.
and had a maximum
width
of
100 yards
, the NWS reported.
The
Weather Service
previously confirmed a brief
tornado
in
western Irwin County
on
Monday
morning. That tornado was also an
EF-1
at
90 mph
and had a
width
of
50 yards
. It touched down at
5:59 a.m.,
north of
Five Bridges Road
,
five miles
east/southeast
of
Harding
.
It traveled a total of
3.96 miles
, crossing
Five Bridges Road
near
Palm Road
and lifting at
6:04 a.m.
near
Palm
and
Peach roads
,
four miles west/northwest
of
Gladys
. There were
no injuries
, but "
many trees
were
snapped
," the NWS said.
The
storms briefly left more than
5,100 customers
without electricity in the
Tiftarea.
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COOK COUNTY HAS FIRST COVID-19 DEATH
MORE DEATHS IN TIFT, TURNER, DOUGHERTY COUNTIES
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By FRANK SAYLES JR.
Tifton Grapevine
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The
Ga. Department of Public Health (DPH), South Health District
, on
Thursday
reported the
first confirmed COVID-19
related
death
in
Adel/Cook County
.
The health district also reported
additional
virus-related
deaths
of residents in
Tift
and
Turner
counties.
The
Cook County individual
was a
77-year-old female
with underlying medical conditions, the DPH said. There have been
11
confirmed cases in
Cook
.
The
Tift County death
involved a
91-year-old male
with underlying medical conditions; the DPH reported that as of
6:30 p.m. Thursday
,
four Tift County residents
have
died
from
COVID-19
, with
79
confirmed cases involving
Tift
residents.
The
Turner County death
was a
75-year old female
with underlying medical conditions; there are
49
cases in
Turner County
.
“It is
critical
that the
residents
of our district
take
this
disease seriously
so we can try to
prevent
more individuals from
contracting
this
devastating disease
,” said Dr.
William R. Grow
, district health director.
Phoebe Putney Health System
in
Albany
on
Thursday
reported
nine additional deaths
of positive COVID-19 patients.
"That equals the
highest number of deaths
we have reported on
any single day
since this public health emergency began," the hospital system said in a press release. "That fact alone should be a
wakeup call
to
anyone
who
thinks
he or she is
safe
from this virus."
Phoebe Putney
noted that "while the
number
of
coronavirus cases
has
plateaued
for now,
most
of the
COVID patients
coming into our
ER
are
critically ill
. No one is safe from this virus as it
continues
to
claim lives
in our
community
. We need to
take
this virus
seriously
and
continue
to
shelter in place
."
Albany/Dougherty County
leads
Georgia
in the number of coronavirus
deaths
with
88
. It has had a total of
1,358
confirmed cases.
Worth County
has had
four deaths
and
114
confirmed cases.
Valdosta/Lowndes County
has had
three deaths
and
79
cases.
Irwin, Ben Hill
and
Berrien
counties have had
no deaths
and have,
respectively
,
13, 10, and 10
cases. There are a total
617
deaths in
Georgia
as of
Thursday night
with
16,368
confirmed cases of
COVID-19
.
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Dr. Melinda Knight with some of the art work displayed along the “Hall of Hope.”
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UROLOGIST, ARTISTS CREATE 'HALL OF HOPE' AT TRMC
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Dr.
Melinda Knight
, a
Southwell
urologist who practices with
Tift Regional Urology
, had an idea to create an
art wall
to honor
healthcare workers
and the important work they are doing.
Through a
community effort
, the artwork was installed at
Tift Regional Medical Center
on the third-floor
corridor
that
connects
the two
units
where all of Southwell’s
COVID-19 patients
are being
treated
.
Knight worked with several
community groups, including
Plough Gallery in
Tifton, to create the
“Hall of Hope,” which contains
70 pieces of
art from people throughout the community.
“I wanted to take this initiative because I really felt that it would
help
to
brighten
up the space at the
hospital
and hopefully
bring a smile
to the faces of
staff
and
patients
,”
Knight
said. “I also thought this would be a great
opportunity
for
local artists
to
showcase
their
work
in a unique way.”
Some of the art features
messages
of
appreciation
; some depict
images
of
healthcare workers
on the
front lines
.
“Art has the
power
to
inspire
us, to
motivate
us, and to
keep us going," Knight
said
.
I think that is what we
need
in the midst of this
pandemic
, and my hope is that this installation is able to bring
inspiration
and
encouragement
to our patients, visitors, and frontline staff.”
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LENDING A HAND (SANITIZER)
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With
hand sanitizer being a premium commodity these days,
Moon's Pharmacy of
Tifton on
Tuesday donated
10 gallons of
hand sanitizer to
Tift County EMS to support
local first responders. Pharmacy Director
Floyd Moon, pharmacist
Catherine Moon Maraman and their team stand with members of the
Tift County Fire/Rescue Paramedic Unit.
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Former ABAC Stallion Kyle Farnsworth during one of his stints with the Atlanta Braves.
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CHICAGO RECALLS KYLE FARNSWORTH FROM ABAC, A CUBS 'LEGEND'
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With
major league sports
on hold because of the pandemic, sports writers are searching for
topics
upon which to opine. The other day,
On Tap Sports Net
in
Chicago
decided to remember
Chicago Cubs
"legend"
Kyle Farnsworth
, a
former baseball player
for
Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College
.
Farnsworth
, who attended
ABAC
in
1994-95
, had a
15-year career
in major-league baseball as a
pitcher
with a multitude of teams – the
Cubs
, the
Atlanta Braves
, the
Detroit Tigers
, the
New York Yankees
, the
New York Mets
, the
Kansas City Royals
, the
Tampa Bay Rays
, the
Pittsburgh Pirates
and the
Houston Astros
.
The Chicago writer noted that
Farnsworth
was a
Chicago Cubs legend
, "but
not
for the
same reason
many
other former Cubs
are now
considered legends
. If you grew up in the
’90s
, odds are you remember
Kyle Farnsworth
for a multitude of skills: His ability to
anger
other teams
, his
100-plus mph fastball
, and his
perfect form tackle
on
Paul Wilson
" of the
Cincinnati Reds
.
Drafted by the
Cubs
in the
47th
round in the
1994
draft,
Farnsworth
began his career as a
starting pitcher
with the
Cubs
. "A
solid reliever
throughout his career ... he was
most well known
for his
aggressive antics
," the Chicago sports site noted.
In
2003
, he
tackled
the Reds'
Paul Wilson
to the
ground
, bringing both
benches
to the field. "In
2004
, Farnsworth decided a
cooler
in the
Cubs dugout
would be his
next victim
. Unfortunately for #44, the
cooler won
that battle;
Farnsworth
ended up with a
hairline fracture
in his
leg
after that bout," the website noted.
While with
Detroit
in
2005
, he was
involved
in another
bench-clearing brawl
. He also
tackled
a
Royals pitcher
and was
ejected
from a game. In
2009
, Farnsworth
hurt his hand breaking up a fight
between his
two American bulldogs
.
"The
man
has a
sixth sense
for
brawls
," the
Chicago sports site
wrote.
He most recently took his
tackling skills
to the football field, playing
defense
for the
Orlando Phantoms
in the
Florida Football Alliance
between
2015
and
2018
, having
11 sacks
one season.
Farnsworth
just celebrated his
44th
birthday this past
Tuesday, April 14
, in typical style –
tackling
the
weights
in his
gym
. "When it’s your
44th birthday
, you
squat 225 lbs 44 times
, right?!!" he wrote on social media accompanied by a
short video
of him
weightlifting
.
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TIFTONITE RECEIVES ABAC'S 'OUTSTANDING YOUNG ALUMNUS AWARD'
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Alma Young
from
Tifton
has been named the
2020 Outstanding Young Alumnus Award
recipient by the
ABAC Alumni Association
at
Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College.
The award is usually presented at the
Alumni Awards Luncheon
at
Homecoming
each April but was
postponed
because of the pandemic. The event will be
rescheduled
.
The
Outstanding Young Alumnus Award
recognizes young alumni,
40
and
younger
, who have
distinguished
themselves through
professional achievement
,
community service
and
service
to ABAC.
A
2005 ABAC graduate
, Young received her
associate degree
in fashion merchandising. She earned a
bachelor’s
and
master’s
degrees in higher education administration from
Georgia Southern University
.
Young serves as director of the
College Assistance Migrant Program
(CAMP) at
Valdosta State University
, managing a
$2 million
grant budget to help students from
migrant
and
seasonal farm-working backgrounds
succeed in college.
Earlier in her career, Young served as the
CAMP
associate director at
ABAC
as well as the
Goizueta Scholarship
coordinator and as an academic advisor.
Young is a volunteer at the
Casa Colibri hospitality home
, is a board member for
Mission 3E
, and is a member of the
South Georgia Immigration Support Network
. She served three years as a member of the
University System of Georgia Regents Advisory Committee for Hispanic/Latino College Completion
.
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TIFTON GRAPEVINE'S PET OF THE WEEK
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The
pooch
pictured here is among several animals recently
rescued
by
Tift County Animal Control
. If this is your pet, please call the
animal shelter
to claim,
229-382-PETS (7387).
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Pets of the Week are sponsored by:
Branch’s Veterinary Clinic
205 Belmont Ave., Tifton, 229-382-6055
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CORONAVIRUS CLEARINGHOUSE
Important Phone Numbers & Web Sites
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APRIL 9
Mary Martin York, 86,
Ty Ty
Susie Tompkins Pendley, 76,
Warwick
Alice DeVane, 75,
Valdosta
Melisa Haws, 39,
Lowndes County
APRIL 10
Bobby Ray Hamilton, 77,
Fitzgerald
APRIL 11
Edwin King, 83,
Tifton
Danielle Membrives Jernigan, 76,
Enigma
Franco Grava, 41,
Norman Park
Mary Beth Harris, 91,
Nashville
Bonnie Joe Parker Nix, 77,
Nashville
Clara Evelyn Weeks Shivers, 89,
Nashville
Bobby Gene Logeman, 58,
Fitzgerald
Rhonda Renee Watts, 47,
Enigma
APRIL 12
Tony McDonald, 82,
Sylvester
APRIL 13
Joseph "Joe" Ray
Ledlow,
54, and Jane Broadway Ledlow, 64,
Tifton
Joan Latrelle Barksdale Brooks, 82,
Tifton
Mary Lee Palmer Fox, 87,
Tifton
John P. McGowan Sr., 81,
Tifton
Melody Jane Mitchell, 53,
Rochelle
George Herman Connell Jr., 75,
Atlanta
Tracy Lee Weaver, 55,
Albany
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APRIL 14
Lawrence Clayton Mauldin, 80,
Tifton
APRIL 15
Foy Lee Harrell, 91,
Tifton
Patricia J. Adkison, 81,
Rebecca
APRIL 16
Ida Mae Stephens Kilcrease, 95,
Sylvester
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