Baldwin superintendent recognized

MILLEDGEVILLE, Ga. —  Baldwin County School District Superintendent Dr. Noris Price received three service and achievement awards this month from the Boy Scouts of Central Georgia, Nova Southeastern University and the Sons of the American Revolution. Most notably, Price is the 2017 recipient of the Whitney M. Young Service Award, presented by the Boy Scouts of America.  The Whitney M. Young Service Award recognizes outstanding service by an adult individual or by an organization for demonstrated involvement in the development and implementation of Scouting opportunities for youth from rural or low-income urban backgrounds. Nova Southeastern University also awarded Price the 2017 Distinguished Alumni Achievement Award, the highest and most prestigious honor that NSU bestows upon its graduates. The program recognizes alumni who have realized their potential around the world by demonstrating a record of distinguished service and extraordinary achievement in a particular profession, discipline, organization or community cause. Price was also the recipient of the John Milledge Chapter of the Sons of the American Revolution Good Citizenship award.  The organization cited her tireless commitment and dedication to our community through her service to public schools here in Baldwin County.

 

Rotary Club donates to Shop With a Cop

DALTON, Ga. — The Dalton Police Department thanks the members of the Carpet City Rotary Club for their generous support of the Shop With A Cop fundraising effort. The club members recently presented a $1,000 donation to the effort, which will help officers take children in need shopping for Christmas gifts next month. The children will be selected by Dalton Public Schools staff. The fundraising effort so far has brought in approximately $7,500 to make the holiday season brighter for kids in need. The bulk of that money was raised by officers in exchange for the right to grow beards in October. This month, officers have continued raising funds for the right to keep their beards going through “No Shave November” with donations to the GreenHouse child advocacy center. The Dalton Police Department thanks the Carpet City Rotary Club and everyone else who has donated to this cause.

 

Rainy days may lay ahead 

VALDOSTA, Ga. — The frontal system that brought the first genuinely cold temperatures of the season to Valdosta should boomerang in the next few days and bring a sizable chance of rain, according to forecasters. A cold front moved south through South Georgia during the weekend, said Katie Nguyen, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service’s Tallahassee, Fla., office. After a fairly dry day Monday with a high in the mid-60s, Valdosta should see the front reverse course and head north as a warm front Tuesday, bringing a 50 percent chance of showers, she said. The rain chance is good news for the region, since the city is in a dry spell, said Frank Strait, senior meteorologist for the private forecasting firm AccuWeather.com. “(Valdosta) hasn’t had rain in three to four weeks,” he said. Another frontal system forming in the Gulf of Mexico should move north Wednesday and Thursday, bringing more rain chances, Nguyen said. How much rain this front brings depends on the track it takes getting to South Georgia, Strait said. “If it moves to Valdosta’s east, the city shouldn’t get much rain,” he said. “If it moves closer, we’re talking about one-half to one inch of rain.” The next chance for a blast of chilly air should come early next week, Strait said. High temperatures in South Georgia should remain in the mid to upper 60s all week, according to the weather service’s forecast. Strait said Valdosta’s usual daytime high for this time of year is about 72 degrees. Overnight lows should rise to the lower 50s by the middle of the week, only to drop off to the lower 40s by the end of the week, according to the weather service forecast. Neither forecaster saw much of a chance of severe weather this week. 

 

Woodworker’s Shop now open at Georgia Museum of Agriculture

TIFTON, Ga. – Visitors can immerse themselves into the life of an early 20th century woodworker in a new permanent exhibit at the Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College Georgia Museum of Agriculture and Historic Village. Formerly a storage room located in the Variety Works Shop, the students transformed the area into an exhibit depicting the modest living quarters of a woodworker in the early 20th century. The new exhibit features the worker’s room in the back of the shop that includes books, artifacts and furnishings from the late 1800s. The exhibit will be open from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Saturday when the Museum will also feature a Native American encampment, the running of the Cotton Gin, and train rides featuring the 1917 steam engine. The Wiregrass Farmers Market Holiday Market will also be open on Saturday from 2-6 p.m. behind the Country Store. For more information on this exhibit or other events and activities, interested persons can contact the Museum at (229) 391-5205.

 

Keeping Christ in Christmas Festival set for Dec. 9

BRANFORD, Fla. — The Branford Area Inter Church Ministries’ annual Keeping Christ in Christmas Festival and Parade are set for Saturday, Dec. 9 in downtown Branford.  Vendor booths will be open from 10 a.m. until 6 p.m.  Children’s activities, crafts, food and music will continue throughout the day, then the lighted parade will line up at 5 p.m. at Buccaneers Stadium on Governor Street (Don Odom Drive) and begin at 6 p.m. For information on participating in the festival as a vendor, contact Marsha Ward at 386-208-6187. To participate in the parade, contact Jim Hollis at 386-688-7269. Following the parade, the Greater Branford Community Association will host a post-parade party at Hatch Park with food, music, crafts and other activities.