GA-FL At a Glance

Published 3:18 pm Monday, April 24, 2017

By Staff reports

Dalton State Singers to perform

DALTON, Ga. — The Dalton State Singers perform at 7:30 p.m. Thursday in Goodroe Auditorium on the college campus. This event is free and open to the public. The concert is supported in part by a grant from the Dalton State Foundation to the School of Liberal Arts.

 

Free meals to children June 5-30

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MOULTRIE — The Colquitt County School Nutrition Department will offer meals free of charge via the Seamless Summer Feeding Program to all children in Colquitt County 18 years of age and younger. Seamless Summer Feeding Program dates will be June 5-30 at Cox Elementary School, Stringfellow Elementary School, and C.A. Gray Jr. High School.   Organizations that are participating in the Seamless Summer Feeding Program can be found at the following web site starting in June: http://ga.nokidhungry.org/free-summer-meals. More information pertaining to Colquitt County sites can be obtained by calling the School Nutrition Office at 229-890-6228.

 

Georgia College presents spring concert

MILLEDGEVILLE, Ga. — The Georgia College Small Ensembles will perform their “Spring Concert” at 7:30 p.m. Monday, April 24 in the Max Noah Recital Hall.Coordinated by Dr. Maureen Horgan, the concert features the university’s brass ensemble, saxophone quartet, string quartet and woodwind duo.Join us to hear these talented performers play music from the 1500s to today.Admission is free but a $5 donation is encouraged.All proceeds benefit music scholarships or the GC Department of Music through the GCSU Foundation, Inc. For more information go to gcsu.edu/music or call 478-445-8289.

 

Tift Regional Health System celebrates National Laboratory Professionals Week

TIFTON, Ga. — Every year, Tift Regional Health System (TRHS) celebrates National Medical Laboratory Professionals Week, which is April 23 – 29. This week is set aside to pay tribute to hardworking, dedicated laboratory professionals.  There are approximately 300,000 practitioners of clinical laboratory science in the United States and laboratory personnel are key members of all health care teams across the nation. TRHS has over 80 certified laboratory professionals employed within its network. These unique professionals tirelessly provide around the clock laboratory support for all of TRHS and its surrounding communities.  As team members of one of the largest industries in the United States, the dedicated efforts of laboratory professionals often go unnoticed by the general public. For more information about the laboratory or other services offered by Tift Regional Health System, visit www.tiftregional.com. 

 

Hamilton County deputy airlifted after hitting deer

JASPER — A Hamilton County deputy was airlifted to Shands at the University of Florida after his patrol car hit a deer Saturday night. According to a Florida Highway Patrol report, Deputy Benjamin Burnam hit a deer at 9:21 p.m. Saturday just west of Jasper on U.S. Highway 41. Burnam was responding to a call when he was traveling south on U.S. 41 when the deer ran out in front of him, the report states. The deer was hit by the left front of the 2014 Chevrolet Caprice and the front and left side of the patrol car was damaged, according to the report.

The report states Burnam was airlifted to Shands with non-life threatening but serious injuries.

 

Warm weather approaches

VALDOSTA, Ga.  — More warmer-than-usual weather is on the way for South Georgia, according to forecasters.

The heat starts building Tuesday. The National Weather Service forecast calls for highs through most of the week in the upper 80s under sunny or mostly sunny skies. Strait said highs in South Georgia could hit the low 90s by Friday.

Humidity during the week should be pretty dry, said Don Harrigan, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service’s Tallahassee, Fla., office. With humidity levels between 30 and 40 percent, “it will be about what you keep in your house,” he said. The next chance of rain should be late Thursday, Strait said, and it’s not much of a chance at that. Whether South Georgia gets any rain that day depends on if a cold front pushes this far south, and Strait doubted it would.  “It’s likely to stall farther north,” he said. Harrigan didn’t foresee any severe weather this week, while Strait said the only slim chance was connected to the possible cold front Thursday.

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