Friday, Dec. 7, 2018
Tifton, Georgia
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TIFTON'S PARADE
TODAY
RESCHEDULED CHRISTMAS PARADE BEGINS AT 6 P.M.
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Tifton's Christmas Parade, with the theme
"Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree," has been rescheduled for
6 p.m. today.
The
parade was initially set for last Saturday but was
postponed because of
inclement weather. The
Hometown Holiday Christmas Celebration's carnival rides, vendors and live entertainment have been postponed until sometime after the first of the year.
Today's
parade check-in
begin at
4 p.m.
at
Third Street
and
Magnolia Drive
. The
parade route
begins at
Second Street
and
Magnolia
, then travels east along
Second Street
, turns left on
Main Street
and ends at the corner of
Eighth Street
and
Love Avenue.
At
4 p.m.,
Magnolia Drive will be
closed at the
parade route.
Second Street and
cross streets along the parade route will not be
blocked until the parade begins at
6 p.m.
Parents are reminded to
watch their children closely and to keep them from getting into the road during the
parade as the event is
after sunset this year.
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TORNADOES HIT OMEGA, SYLVESTER, NWS CONFIRMS
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The
National Weather Service
(NWS) in Tallahassee
confirmed
that a
tornado
touched down
Sunday morning
near
Omega
in
Tift
County,
and
another one landed
just
north
of
Sylvester
in
Worth
County.
In
Tift, the NWS reports that an
EF-0 tornado
touched down at
9:19 a.m. Sunday
near
Ty Ty Sparks Road
north of
U.S. Highway 319
and traveled northeast across
Flat Ford Road
and
Keith-Fletcher Road
.
The tornado lifted just after crossing
Ty Ty Omega Road
. Damage was primarily confined to
irrigation systems
and
trees
. A
substation
sustained some
damage
, and at least one
private
shed
was
destroyed
. No injuries were reported.
The NWS said e
stimated
peak windspeed
was
85 mph
, and the
Omega tornado's
path had a width of
600
yards and a length of
1.86
miles.
The
tornado that hit
Worth County landed at about
2:45 a.m. Sunday
and was classified as an
EF-1
with
105 mph
winds, the
NWS
said.
That tornado touched down just south of
Hobby Hill Road and moved northeast across
Medders Road and
Hilltop Road before dissipating at
Highway 33. Several
trees were struck, several
out-buildings were
destroyed, and
minor damage occurred to a couple of
manufactured homes.
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MEDICARE PENALTIES HIT MOST GA NURSING HOMES
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Three out of four
nursing homes
in
Georgia
, including one in
Tifton
, have received
penalties
from
Medicare
for
"avoidable hospital readmissions"
of nursing-home patients, according
to
Georgia Health News.
The
federal government
gave
bonuses
for lower readmissions to
23
percent of the
373
nursing homes in the state
,
Georgia Health News
reports
.
Two
percent had no change under the new penalty program.
The financial incentives and penalties are determined by how often
nursing home residents return to
hospitals within
30 days of leaving.
Rehabilitation Center of South Georgia in
Tifton will lose
1.38 percent of
Medicare payments in the current fiscal year,
Kaiser Health News reports.
The program of
bonuses
and
penalties
is intended to
discourage
nursing homes from
discharging
patients too
quickly
.
Medicare
fully covers only the first
20
days of a stay and generally
stops paying
anything after
100
days,
Kaiser Health News
reported.
The
Georgia Health Care Association
, which represents
nursing homes
in the state, said it
supports
the
Medicare readmission program
.
“We are pleased to see that almost a
quarter
of Georgia
nursing centers
are receiving
quality incentive payments
through the program,’’ said
Devon Barill
, a GHCA spokesman, told
Georgia Health News
.
She said the penalty
program
“was designed to
reduce overall payments
to skilled nursing centers through a
redistribution
of funding. The very nature of this design
reduced funding
for
significantly more centers
than those that received the additional incentive payment,’’ according to
Georgia Health News.
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Marion Curry, center, receives award in Portland, Ore.
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TIFTON'S MARION CURRY RECEIVES NATIONAL AWARD FOR AIDING DISABLED RESIDENTS WITH EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES
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Marion Curry
of
Tifton
has received a
national award
for making a "
significant contribution
to
increasing access
to community, integrated
employment
for
persons
with
significant disabilities
."
Curry
, the
retired director
of
Diversified Enterprises
in
Tifton
, received the
National Marc Gold Employment Award
at the
TASH
conference last week in
Portland, Ore.
"I was so
surprised
and
honored
to receive the National Marc Gold Employment award,"
Curry
said.
In
2016
, Curry
retired
after a total of
18
years with
Diversified Enterprises
, a community program under the
Tift County Board of Health
with a mission of advancing the
integration, growth and interdependence
of people with
disabilities
within their
home communities
.
Curry
, president of the
Rotary Club of Tifton
, is a member of
TASH
, a
national
organization that has been a
leader
in
disability advocacy
for
40
years. Its
mission
is to promote the
inclusion
and
participation
of children and adults with
significant disabilities
in every aspect of their
community
.
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CBCBank Paves Way For Domestic Violence Victims
Donnie Warren
, executive director of the
Harley Langdale Jr. Foundation
, at left, and
Morris Tankersley
,
CBCBank Tifton
market president, right, present
Ruth’s Cottage and
Patticake House
’s Campaign Chair
Lynn Lovett
with a
$10,000
check
Monday
.
Ruth’s Cottage and Patticake House
is a
non-profit
organization whose mission is to
end domestic
and
sexual violence
, as well as
child sexual and physical abuse
. The organization has a
fundraising
campaign underway for a
new facility
in
Tifton
.
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TIFTON-TIFT COUNTY CHAMBER OF COMMERCE
RIBBON CUTTING
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LTD Designs
318 Main Street South, Tifton
Dec. 4
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New members of the Tifton chapter of the National Technical Honors Society at Southern Regional Technical College gather for their induction ceremony.
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TIFTON SRTC STUDENTS INDUCTED INTO TECHNICAL HONORS SOCIETY
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Recently, three
Southern Regional Technical College (SRTC) chapters of the
National Technical Honors Society
(NTHS) held
induction
ceremonies to welcome new members to the student organization, which seeks to prepare
exceptional students
for careers.
On
Nov. 14
, the NTHS
chapter
in
Tifton
inducted
24
members into the organization. The inductees are:
Teresa Bateman, Alyson Brown, Zechariah Cain, Deborah Collins, Megan Cooper, Deasa Cox, Shanika Dawson, Natalie Zoe Dean, Elisa Dibble, Amy Gonzales, Jessica Harmon, La'Vetta King, Collin Maye, Savannah Owens, Valeria Padilla, Logan Paramore, Nataly Prado, Gabrielle Rucker, Shaniqua Scott, Heather Sullivan, Jan Taylor, Kesha Turner and Chasmine Williams.
Six new members were also
inducted into the
Moultrie chapter of the
National Technical Honor Society, and
eight members were inducted in the
Thomasville chapter.
The
NTHS
promotes honesty, service, leadership, career development and skilled workmanship. The organization rewards
meritorious achievement
in technical education.
“
Induction
into the NTHS is an
incredible honor
for our students. These new members embody everything a successful student should strive to be. Membership into the NTHS is based on several
academic criteria
in addition to several traits exhibited by students outside of the classroom. This group of students can truly be considered
leaders
among their peers, said
Tifton
NTHS advisor
Tiffany Fox
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GOT A FAVORITE HOLIDAY TREAT?
What's your
favorite Christmas
treat?
Egg nog
?
Cookies
?
Fruitcake
?
The website
Offers.com
surveyed more than
1,000 adults across the country, via
Google
Surveys, to see what
treat each
state holds closest to its heart during the
Christmas season. The
website has taken the results and
ranked the
top holiday favorite in each
state.
In
Georgia, according to the site, the
favorite at
Christmas is ...
pumpkin pie! We would have thought it would be
pecan pie.
Nationwide,
pumpkin pie was also the
favorite, with
one-third of Americans who have a favorite
Christmas treat saying it’s their
No. 1 choice.
Egg nog came in
second with
18 percent, and
peppermint bark rounded out the
Top 3 with
16 percent of the vote.
Among
Southern states, here are the
favorites:
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- Alabama - Peppermint Bark;
- Florida - Pumpkin Pie;
- Louisiana - Gingerbread;
- Mississippi - Egg nog;
- North Carolina - Pumpkin Pie;
- South Carolina - Gingerbread;
- Tennessee - Pumpkin Pie; and
- Virginia - Egg nog.
Did any state choose
fruitcake
? Yep,
Vermont
did, although it was
tied
there with
pumpkin pie.
By the way,
Taste of Home
magazine also ranked the
top Christmas Cookie Recipes
from
each state
. In
Georgia, it is "Snow Day Cookies," according to the magazine.
In must be a
recipe from folks in
North Georgia.
"Clear your
pantry
to make these
chocolate-chip
cookies loaded with
goodies
. We add
oats, M&M’
s,
pretzels
and even
potato chips
," the magazine says.
If you're interested in the
"Snow Day Cookies"
recipe,
Click Here!
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HORIZONS COMMUNITY SOLUTIONS CEO SPEAKS TO TIFTON ROTARIANS
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Cynthia
George
, chief executive officer of
Horizons Community Solutions
, spoke
Wednesday
to the
Tifton Rotary Club
. The
Cancer Coalition of South Georgia is part of the organization and has been in the
area for
15
years.
The program pays costs of
colon
and
breast cancer screenings
and spreads awareness of early detection. A
colonoscopy could cost
$1,700 to
$3,000 vs.
$117,000 for treatment of
colon cancer.
"You have a
91
percent chance of surviving if you have a
colonoscopy
early on," George said.
She spent
25
years in the
h
ealth
care
field, most of that time as vice president of marketing at
Phoebe Putney Medical Center
in
Albany
. She said the
Cancer Coalition
works with
Tift Regional Medical Center
,
Phoebe Putney
and
Colquitt Medical Center
.
The organization is planning a
fundraising event at the
UGA Tifton Campus Conference Center on
March 21.
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CONGER GAS HOSTS SUNSET TIFTON
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Conger LP Gas
held the first day of its
grand opening
on
Thursday
at its
new location
on
Ridge Avenue
in
Tifton.
Conger
also hosted the
Tifton-Tift County Chamber of Commerce's
"
Sunset Tifton"
business after-hours event on
Thursday
afternoon.
The business
continues its
grand opening today
with
cooking demonstrations
and other
specials
throughout the day.
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Peanuts being harvested on a UGA Tifton farm.
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WEATHER AFFECTING PEANUT QUALITY, YIELD
Three
weather
events this season will likely
impact
the
quality
and
yield
of a substantial amount of Georgia’s
peanut
acreage, says
Scott Monfort
,
University of Georgia
Cooperative Extension pecan agronomist in Tifton.
Three weeks of
steady rainfall
in
May
delayed the
planting
of an estimated
45
percent of Georgia’s
peanut crop
. Because of the later planting, more than
200,000
acres of peanuts were at risk when
Hurricane Michael
moved through the state
Oct. 10.
A
rainy November
added to
harvest problems
for producers.
“When the hurricane came through, it did hurt the crop a little bit, but its main and immediate
impact
was to the industry’s
infrastructure
in
Southwest Georgia
. It caused us to leave
peanuts in the field
longer than normal. We had to leave them in the field to get the infrastructure going again,”
Monfort
said.
Two to three weeks of
rain
in early
November
pushed
peanut harvest
out as much as
four
weeks, he said. Some
peanuts
have been sitting in the
field
, and several
growers
have
lost
a
significant amount
in quality and yield.
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YOUR WEEKEND
...at a Glance
FRIDAY, DEC. 7
- Conger LP Gas Grand Opening, 11 a.m.-2 p.m., Ridge Ave., Tifton
- Tifton Christmas Parade, 6 p.m., Downtown Tifton
SATURDAY, DEC. 8
- Brunch with Santa, 10 a.m.-1 p.m., Hilton Garden Inn, Tifton
- “Aisha: She Who Lives” photo exhibit's opening reception, 5-7 p.m., Carnegie Center, 120 S. Lee St., Fitzgerald
SUNDAY, DEC. 9
- Family Christmas Night, 6 p.m., First Baptist Church, Tifton
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NOV. 29
Peggy Joyce Giddens, 80,
Ocilla
Janet R. Klatt, 55,
Ashburn
NOV. 30
Lawrence “Bo” Young, 82,
Sylvester
DEC. 1
Peggy Davis Jolley, 76,
Sylvester
Weyman Mobley, 81,
Irwin County
Geraldine King, 89,
Fitzgerald
DEC. 2
Loretta Blevins Rutherford, 82,
Tifton
Lori Sue Nelson Walker, 45,
Sylvester
William Jennings “Bill” Nicholson Jr, 91,
Tifton
Edward Leon Godwin Jr., 78,
Sylvester
William Earl Cornelius, 84,
Nashville
Paul Baldree, 92,
Lenox
DEC. 3
James Monroe Fletcher, 90,
Sylvester
Alicia Prida, 88,
Nashville
DEC. 4
Marion Greene, 78,
Tifton
Flo Guest, 67,
Cecil
David Graham, 70,
Adel
DEC. 5
Lillian Hufstetler,
Doerun
Oscar Gomez Gonzalez, 45,
Tifton
Jim Moon, 78,
Oakfield
Geraldine F. King, 73,
Nashville
William Guy Tittle Jr., 83,
Nashville
G. W. Lindsey,
Ashburn
DEC. 6
Clayton Rogers, 96,
Fitzgerald
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