Donkey Basketball game coming to Lafayette High School

MAYO, Fla. — The Donkey Basketball game sponsored by the Lafayette High School Quarterback Club is Saturday, April 29, at the LHS gym at 6:30 p.m. Advanced tickets are $6 and gate tickets cost $8.

Volunteer recognized for her conservation efforts

DALTON, Ga. — Georgia Adopt-A-Stream recognized Whitfield County resident Gretchen Lugthart with the Outstanding Outreach and Partnership award. The award is given to a group or individual that has demonstrated skill in effectively implementing Adopt-A-Stream outreach efforts and has created a strong network of community partnerships. A passionate volunteer, Lugthart is the leader of the monitoring group “Lugthart AAS Clan” and has faithfully monitored a section of Mill Creek for several years. In addition to her monitoring activities, Lugthart actively seeks ways to improve water quality in the Conasauga River watershed. For example, she recently helped two neighboring landowners plant several hundred seedling trees along their sections of creek bank, which previously had no buffer. The funds to purchase the trees came from a 319 grant administered by Limestone Valley RC&D, and students from Dalton State College helped with the planting. Also, for the past 22 years Lugthart has been one of the organizers of the annual Conasauga Watershed Cleanup.

Band wrestles for new uniforms 

LAKELAND, Ga.  — A marching band isn’t just wrestling with the dilemma of how to raise money for new uniforms. It’s hosting a wrestling match fundraiser for new uniforms. Sunbelt Wrestling and Lanier County High School Marching Band sponsor “BulldogMania” this weekend as a way to raise money for band uniforms, said Matt Elder, LCHS Marching Band director. Last football season, the marching band fielded 81 students playing instruments and 12 color guards, Elder said last summer. The band will begin rehearsing for the 2017 football season this summer. The band has typically fielded about 90-some students the past few years. The professional wrestling event features members of Sunbelt Wrestling Entertainment and features SWE Champion Less Fortunate, Southern Heritage Champion Grimey Kantrell, tag-team champs K9 Karnage. Bell time is 7 p.m. Saturday, April 22, Lanier High School Gym. Admission: $12, ringside; $8, general. More information: Visit Sunbelt Wrestling Entertainment on Facebook.

Pegasus Launch Party April 28 at Georgia Museum of Agriculture

TIFTON, Ga. – The editors and advisors of the Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College literary magazine, Pegasus, invite the public to join them for the launch party of the 44th edition on April 28 at 6 p.m. in the Peanut Museum of the Georgia Museum of Agriculture and Historic Village at ABAC. This event is free of charge. Copies of the magazine will be available, and light refreshments will be served during the launch party. Publishing work from students all over the Southeast, Pegasus has been in continuous print publication for 43 years. This year’s issue features the works of ABAC students, faculty, and alumni, as well as undergraduate writers from the ABAC neighbor waiver states of Alabama, Florida, and South Carolina. As a student organization, Pegasus solicits submissions of poetry, art, and prose during the school year and provides its student staff members training in evaluating and choosing submissions to be used in the publication. Student editors and staff acquire knowledge in the process of laying out the book and prepping it for publication, valuable experience they can list on resumes and scholarship applications. For over 40 years, Pegasus has maintained a high degree of excellence as a student publication, winning awards and regional recognition. Dr. Jeff Newberry and Brandi Arrington are the faculty advisors for the magazine.

UGA’s Science Night scheduled for Monday

TIFTON, Ga. — The University of Georgia Tifton campus will again host Science Night. Tift County fifth-grade students are invited to attend. The event is set for Monday, April 24, from 6–8 p.m. at the Tifton Campus Conference Center. UGA-Tifton students who aspire to be agricultural educators are hosting the event. Science Night allows UGA-Tifton agricultural education majors to practice teaching and organizing a community event. All 12 students who will make presentations at next week’s event are juniors majoring in agricultural education. They provided supplemental teaching in Tift County’s middle schools this semester. The students add an agricultural component to the STEM concepts that middle school students are already learning. A sound laboratory with tuning forks is among the six different learning stations at Science Night. Students will learn how sound waves work, which is a science standard for fifth-graders. Another learning station will focus on the physical properties of mass. Students will build their own barges and see who can carry the most kernels of corn. Students will rotate through the 15-minute-long activities in groups and then complete a group activity at the end.