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Matthew Strother | Daily NewsTroup County Association of Beekeepers president Terry Williamson adds a piece of honeycomb to a pile taken from the wall. The honeycomb was more than three feet wide, the biggest the beekeepers had seen in a residence’s wall.

Endangered insects can infest, but should be handled with careMatthew StrotherNews editor

When Natalie Knight-Hale’s family moved into their new rental home on Lakewood Drive, the moving crew told her there was something she should check out. On the wall outside the garage was a cluster of honeybees, and inside the faint hum of buzzing from the walls.

“I had just taken a continuing educa-tion class on pests and knew they were kind of endangered,” Knight-Hale said. She called her real-estate agent, who contacted the Troup County Association of Beekeepers.

Association president Terry Williamson and his wife, association secretary Alicia Williamson, came out

Wednesday to uncover and extract the honeybees from inside the garage wall. What they found was a honeycomb more than three feet wide embedded behind the wall’s studs.

“This is the biggest we’ve ever seen in a wall,” Alicia Williamson said. “… They ate through the aluminum (covering of the insulation). They have three stom-achs, but they don’t actually eat, they just chew and spit out.”

Although they pulled piles of honey-comb from the wall, Alicia Williamson said the honey is not edible. It contains pieces of the fiberglass insulation and other debris from inside the wall that the bees have gathered.

The Williamsons use a low-powered

vacuum with special attachments to gather the bees without harming them and take the insects back to their bee farm. Once they find the queen, they can get the rest of the bees to come willingly, although they still were searching for the yellow-and-black monarch Wednesday afternoon.

Alicia Williamson said honeybees are declining in number, so preserving them is important. Also, if an exterminator comes in to kill all the bees, the honey-comb and bee carcasses will stay in the wall, which can begin to decompose and smell.

A single queen bee also can lay up to

Alicia Williams of the Troup County Association of Beekeepers shows a box full of honeybees, one of a few that were extracted from the wall of a home on Lakewood Drive. The beekeepers were gathering the endangered insects from the home to take out to their bee farm.

Policearrestman forburglaryNicole EmmettStaff Writer

A teenaged suspect was arrested on burglary and theft charges Wednesday during a reported burglary in progress in the 300 block of Baileys Way.

Police sur-rounded the home after a neighbor said she saw someone enter the home through a win-dow. Officers sent a canine inside to apprehend the suspect.

Police arrest-ed Anquavious McFarland, 17, of Brookstone Drive in the burglary. He was taken to Troup County Jail and investigators later searched his home, finding an iPod that was reportedly stolen during an entering auto incident in May.

McFarland was charged with burglary and theft by receiving.

Chamber TSPLOST forum held tonightStaff report

The LaGrange-Troup County Chamber of Commerce’s Public Policy Division will present five informational and candidate forums in an effort to inform local voters prior to the July 31 election.

“Earlier this year, we conducted a public policy survey,” said Perrin Alford, legislative committee chairman. “Almost 40 percent of our members requested more information about the upcoming TSPLOST referendum and about those running for local and state office.”

The first forum is tonight, featur-ing Jason Rourke from Connect Georgia and Robert Hiett of the Three Rivers Commission. They will discuss TSPLOST, a referendum that would add 1 percent transportation tax if approved by the voters. The panelists will discuss the overall transportation initiative, spe-cific Troup County projects, and the impact of the 1 percent sales tax on the average voter.

Four additional forums are offered to allow voters to get to know candidates and their positions.

The schedule is as follows:July 10: Georgia House of

Jennifer ShraderStaff Writer

It went unnoticed in a grove of trees and thorny plants for years, tucked next to the city’s sewage spray field.

Now Hogansville officials and members of the Troup County Historical Society are looking for people who may have a connection to someone buried in the lost cemetery.

When the spray field was built in the early ’90s,

the city put a barbed wire fence up around it. The area around the spray field hasn’t exactly been a hot-bed of development, so even if officials saw it then, it was soon forgotten.

To find the cemetery now, a person has to head down South Lee Street, which is off Mobley Bridge Road, taking her chances when the pavement turns to dirt. The other option is a ride with a city employee through the spray field to

get to the graves from the other side.

City Manager James Woods found the cemetery in May with city employees who were doing an inspec-tion of the spray field. It’s within the Hogansville city limit, so now he’d like to find out more about it.

The problem is, there’s not much information to be found.

Hogansville officials looking for people linked to lost cemetery

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on September 13, 1923 tothe late Joe and BeatriceTucker Hammett. She wasa lifelong resident ofLaGrange. She lived in theHillcrest community whereshe was known for herfriendliness. She acceptedChrist at an early age andshe became a member ofRocky Mount BaptistChurch where she servedfaithfully on the MotherBoard, the choir and theusher board. She was mar-ried to the late John HenryDelaney.Survivors include a

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2,000 eggs per day, which then are sealed by wax in the honeycomb, protecting them from poison. When those bees reach maturity in a couple weeks, the hive will be revived.

Hale-Knight is just happy to see the insects go, but was struck with how mas-sive the infestation was when the Williamsons began to uncover the hive.

“It was really amazing,” she said. “It was just ooz-ing honey, and the amount of bees – I couldn’t believe that.”

Matthew Strother can be reached at mstrother@lagrangenews.com or 706-884-7311, ext. 229.

“No one seems to be very familiar with it,” he said.

There are four or five headstones, but just two with readable names: Patsy Gates and Emma Long. Woods said police Chief Moses Ector, who grew up in Hogansville, heard a story during his childhood that Long had drowned in her youth.

Other than that, there are few clues to how the graves got there, whether it was a small church cem-etery or a family cemetery. Some believe a church was on the property, but went away in the 1930s or 1940s. The graves date prior to that.

“My family owned prop-

erty in that area,” said Ricky Thrash, owner of Thrash and Sons Funeral Home in Hogansville. “It’s possible I even have rela-tives out there.”

Woods contacted the Troup County Historical Society, which keeps track of local cemeteries. Volunteer Don Flynn, who has been working on a data-base of local cemeteries, believes he had visited the cemetery before Woods’ discovery, and called the plots “Gates Cemetery.”

The cemetery is not listed, however, in the book “Family, Church and Community Cemeteries of Troup County,” written by Dorothy McClendon in

1990.“We would love to be

able to identify more peo-ple who are buried there,” said Kaye Minchew, Troup County Archives director.

Woods would like that, too.

“At some point, some-thing needs to be done to acknowledge it,” he said. “We don’t want to disturb it by accident.”

Anyone with informa-tion on the cemetery should contact Hogansville City Hall at 706-637-8629 or the archives at 706-884-1828.

Jennifer Shrader may be reached at jshrader@lagrangenews.com or at 706-884-7311, Ext. 236.

The cemetery graves are spread throughout a grove of trees and other thorny plants and vegitation.

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Duffey announces D3 county commission runStaff report

Tim Duffey announced his qualification as Republican to seek election for County Commission District 3.

Duffey previously served as County Commission chairman from 2003 to 2007. Duffey was employed by Langdale Mill in Valley, Ala., as a teenager and said the loss of the mills several years ago, which “raised us and supported our lives” was “a devastating loss.”

When Kia came to Troup County, Duffey said it was “truly a blessing in my sight and certainly a tremendous boost to our local economy as well as to our surround-ing neighbors.” He said when Kia’s tax abatement ends, it will help readjust the tax burden, which Duffey said is heavy on senior citi-zens in Troup County.

“However, we still have many unemployed people who cannot work in a plant environment,” Duffey said. “So, jobs will always be a priority with me.”

Duffey was the first county commissioner to serve on the LaGrange Development Authority when it helped secure Kia in Troup County. Duffey, a

former fire chief, co-wrote a grant with other firefight-ers to help secure a GEMA grant to add fire and Haz-Mat services nearby as part of the deal.

Duffey said he is very familiar with budget man-agement and county gov-ernment from his years as a department head and commission chairman. He worked in public safety in Troup County for more than 37 years.

“Major accomplishments in my years as fire chief was the actual building of a volunteer/paid combination fire department,” Duffey said. “In the early years, 300 volunteers manned the fire stations in each unincorpo-rated community. Later on, volunteers slowly dropped in numbers and 62 paid fire-fighters were employed.”

Duffey said insurance

premiums for homeown-ers and businesses were lowered because of the increased ISO rating. As chairman, he helped secure a grant for LaGrange to upgrade radio towers and infrastructure and wrote a grant through GEMA to obtain a mobile command post for all emergency agencies in the county.

Duffey attended school in the Langdale and Fairfax communities in Valley, Ala., and graduated high school at Walker Air Force base in Roswell, N.M. He served in the air force and later graduated from the De Vry Institute in Chicago, Ill., with a degree in electron-ics communications, and attended one year at the University of Cincinnati in fire science.

Duffey and his wife Linda Duffey have been married for 50 years and have two grown children and two grandchildren. Tim Duffey and his wife live in Heritage Hills and have lived in Troup County since 1965. They attend Gray Hill Church of God.

Duffey can be reached at 706-884-5157, t d u f f e y @ c h a r t e r . n e t .

Boyd announces probate judgere-election runStaff report

Probate Judge Donald Boyd announced his intent to seek re-election as Troup County Probate Judge.

Boyd has been probate judge since August of 2000.

“I have thoroughly enjoyed serving Troup County in the Probate Court,” Boyd said. “The Probate Court handles a wide variety of services for the citizens of Troup County, and I strive to deliver a compassionate and efficient experience for every person who walks through our door. I have performed thousands of marriage ceremonies since I was first elected in 2000, and I have issued thousands of marriage licenses, gun permits and passports.”

During his 12 years as probate judge, Boyd said he has focused on making the court more accessible to anyone needing its ser-vices, from attorneys to regular residents.

“I try to make the unpleas-ant task of filing a will for probate as easy as possible, which means providing a professional, friendly and caring atmosphere,” Boyd said. Boyd has served as director of the probate judges of District 4 for six of his 12 years in office. He is currently a member of the Georgia Council of Probate Judges’ executive committee and is the vice chair of the training council for the Georgia Council of Probate Judges.

Boyd is a certified men-tor for training newly elect-ed probate judges. He has completed the University

of Georgia training for pro-bate judges and fulfilled more than 64 hours of train-ing to become a certified elections superintendent. Boyd serves as chairman of the legislative commit-tee for the Georgia Election Officials Association, and is a member of the GEOA executive committee. In addition, he has been part of the Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Disability Planning Board – Region Six for the last four years.

Boyd is a lifelong resi-dent of Troup County, where he attended Troup’s public schools. He has been married for almost 40 years to Gayla Stewart Boyd, who also is a lifelong resident of Troup County. They have three children and five grandchildren.

Boyd attends Northside Baptist Church in LaGrange, where he has been a member for more than 50 years and current-ly serves as a deacon and church secretary-treasurer. Boyd and his wife also run a local Christian min-istry called “The Gospel Connection.” Sundays at 6 a.m..

Boyd can be reached at 706-402-1947 or dboyd@troupco.org.

Representatives and Superior Court judge can-didates

July 12: County Commission and Tax Commission candidates

July 17: Board of Education candidates

July 19: Sheriff, probate judge and solicitor general candidates

All sessions will be held 6 p.m. at the Callaway Conference Center of West Georgia Technical College, 220 Fort Drive.

The general public is invited to attend and par-ticipate. Questions may be submitted in advance by email to pestes@lagrang-echamber.com or fax to 706-882-8012.

If time allows, audience members will be able to ask additional questions.

“I encourage as many Troup County voters as possible to attend these forums,” Alford said.

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Police were investigating an armed robbery where the victim said a suspects put a gun to his side and demanded money.

The victim said the three robbers approached him from behind in the 600 block of Juniper Street. He gave them the only items he had with him – a cell phone and knife, and the suspects then ran toward Dallis Street.

Anyone with information about the incident is asked to call LaGrange Police at 706-883-2603 or Crime Stoppers at 706-812-1000.

Burglaries, thefts

• A 2012 Kia Sorento containing a briefcase, lap-top and golf clubs was sto-len at Keum Soo Kang Jan at 1515 Lafayette Parkway,

the owner reported.

• A woman said a thief took a water tank valued at $200 from the side of her home in the 800 block of Williams Street.

Arrests

•Taeryong Hwang, 41, whose address was unavail-able, was charged with DUI and following too closely after an accident at the intersection of Davis and Hogansville Roads. Police said the suspect rear-ended another vehicle that was stopped at a red light.

• Johnathan Mitchell, 18, of Hogansville was charged with alleged child molestation and failure to appear in court.

Video shows Zimmerman’s account of fatal altercation

SANFORD, Fla. (AP) — A newly released video shows Florida neigh-borhood watch volunteer George Zimmerman at the scene of Trayvon Martin’s fatal shooting a day later giving police a blow-by-blow account of his fight with the teen.

In a video posted on a website by Zimmerman’s defense team, Zimmerman said Martin saw his gun and reached for it as the two scuffled on the sidewalk at a gated apartment community in Sanford. That’s when Zimmerman said he pulled the gun and shot the teenager.

The tape shows two butterfly bandages on the back of Zimmerman’s head and another on his nose. There are red marks on the front of his head.

On the tape, Zimmerman did a reenact-ment of the scuffle with Martin in the moments before he shot the 17-year-old from Miami. Zimmerman said Martin kept “slamming and slamming” his head on the sidewalk. “It felt like my head was going to explode,” he said.

Zimmerman told police the confronta-tion began when he saw Martin walking toward him on the evening of Feb. 26.

Zimmerman had already called 911 after spotting the teen in the neighbor-hood. Police say Martin was staying at his father’s girlfriend’s townhome in the Retreat at Twin Lakes, a gated commu-nity in Sanford.

The teen was walking back to the home after going to a nearby convenience store.

EventsToday

Beginner ballroom dance lessons for all ages are given from 7:30 to 8:30 p.m. at the Active Life center on Ragland Street. 706-884-5857

Friday

Vendors sell fresh pro-duce, cheeses, honey, boiled peanuts and other items at Callaway Gardens Farmer’s Market from 4 to 7 p.m. at the Gardens’ Robin Lake Beach in Pine Mountain. Admission is free to the market through the beach entrance.

A monthly silent social for people with hearing loss is at the LaGrange Mall food court starting at 5 p.m. for any one who is deaf or hard of hear-ing, or any person inter-ested in learning more about sign language. Nancy Smith, 706-402-2205

Saturday

Local vendors sell homegrown and home-made foods and products at Glass Bridge Road Farmer’s Market from 8 to 10 a.m. at the pavil-ion across from Loyd Presbyterian Church, 550 Upper Glass Bridge Road.

Local growers sell produce, cheeses, baked goods, plants and other locally made items at Market on Main from 8 to 10 a.m. in the park-ing lot behind Carmike

Theater. Troup County extension agents Celeste Garrett and Randy Drinkard will be at the market to answer ques-tions about food preser-vation, canning, garden-ing and summer horti-culture.

The City of Lagrange Animal Shelter and the LaGrange-Troup County Humane Society hosts a Summer Blast Adoption Day from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the animal shel-ter at 1390 Orchard Hill Road. All cat adoption fees will be half price, ranging from $8 to $25. There also is a list of available dogs available for $18.50.

West Point Fire Department hosts Community Day from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. at 1700 Safety Way off Kia Parkway.

A motorcycle ride is 1 p.m. at FatDaddy’s, 1310 Hogansville Road, and concert 5 p.m. to raise funds for Kirk Abernathy, who frac-tured his spine in a car accident in October.

Cost is $25 per rider and $5 per passenger for the ride and concert, and $10 for the concert only, which is at the former Kirk’s Country Store, 33 Kirk Road, in Franklin. Bands are Trap County,

The Barstool Prophets and 82mm. Raffle tick-ets for a 50/50 drawing are available for $5 now until drawing.

Randy Powell, 706-594-8029 or trap-coun-ty@hotmail.com; Celest Powell, 706-333-6861

MeetingsToday

The Troup County Board of Education meets at 5:30 p.m. at the Administrative Services Center at 100 N. Davis Road.

Rehearsals for the LaGrange Civic Chorale are from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. in the Troup High School chorus room. cho-ralsociety@charter.net, 706-882-2734

The Troup County Sportsman’s Club meets at 7:30 p.m. at the club-house on Roanoke Road.

Friday

The Troup County Commission meets for a work session at 9 a.m. on the third floor of the Government Center.

ChurchesToday

Celebrate Recovery, a faith-based recovery program, meets at 6 p.m. with a fellowship meal and worship at the welcome center of First Baptist Church on Church Street. 706-884-5631

Immanuel Ministries

and Worship Center at 75 Patillo Road holds Bible study at 6:30 p.m.

True Life Christian Ministries, 500 S. Lee St., hosts Bible study at 7:30 p.m. for adults and youth.

Today-Friday

Reeds Chapel Baptist Church in West Point holds vacation Bible school “Space Quest” for children in pre-k through sixth grade from 6 to 8:30 p.m. Activities include crafts, Bible study, rec-reation and supper each night.

Friday

True Life Christian Ministries, 500 S. Lee St., hosts movie night from 7 to 9 p.m. Sylvia Cameron, 706-402-6670

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Dear Annie: I am engaged to a man who was divorced 20 years ago. He has three grown sons. The first two are doing well, but the third is still not financially responsible at the age of 30. His father has to pay off his auto-mobile and credit cards. My fiance also helps out his siblings, who seem to be quite irresponsible and

alcoholic.I come from a large fam-

ily, and we each were told that at age 21, we were on our own. We all obtained professional degrees and now help our parents.

At what age does a par-ent allow a child to grow up and become responsi-ble?

It appears to me that my future will be forever intertwined with relatives who are begging us for money. My fiance won’t discuss this matter with me. What should I do? — Engaged but Having Second Thoughts

Dear Engaged: Children should be encouraged to support themselves as soon as they are finished with their education. Those who go on to obtain advanced

degrees should find some type of part-time job or take out student loans. It is OK to help a child with tempo-rary financial difficulties, but not to the extent that the child becomes depend-ent on the parents.

Once you marry, deci-sions about money should be made jointly. If your future husband will not discuss these things with you now, he is not likely to consult you later. You are smart to recognize the problem. We recommend premarital counseling.

Dear Annie: My grand-daughter is getting mar-ried in September. After 31 years of marriage, her parents were divorced nine years ago (his infidelity) in a nasty battle over money.

Her father, who remar-

ried two years ago, insists that his new wife’s name be on the wedding invitation. This suggests she raised my granddaughter, which she didn’t. My granddaugh-ter is distraught over this.

I’ve checked the eti-quette books, and in case of divorce, the bride’s mother’s name and father’s name should be on sepa-rate lines inviting guests to attend the wedding. The father’s new wife doesn’t appear anywhere. I believe my ex-son-in-law is trying to somehow punish my daughter, but he is actually hurting his own child. My daughter told my grand-daughter that if Dad will not relent, she should have the invitations go out under the names of the bride and groom without mentioning the parents at all.

What is the appropri-ate thing to do? Is the bride wrong to want only her mother’s and father’s names on the invitation? — Maria from Ohio

Dear Maria: If Mom and Dad are sharing the costs of the wedding, both of their names and, yes, those of their spouses should appear on the invitation. If Dad is not contributing, his name need not appear at all.

However, many brides want both parents’ names on the invitation regardless of who is hosting the event, in which case, the spouses of the parents should be included.

Dear Annie: I’d like to comment on the letter from “Texas,” who is con-

cerned that her husband wants to take their kids to visit his parents in Mexico.

I am a single woman, 81 years old, and I lived most of my life in Southern California. When the cost of living got too high, I moved near Tijuana. I still don’t speak Spanish, but I never have felt in danger. There are large sections of Tijuana that could be picked up lock, stock and barrel and set down in the middle of Santa Monica and be right at home. I don’t go into the questiona-ble parts of town, but then, there are a lot of places in Los Angeles where I wouldn’t go, either.

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Motorcycle ride for Kirk Abernathy

A motorcycle ride and concert begins with reg-istration at 1 p.m. June 23 at Fat Daddy’s, 1310 Hogansville Road. Cost for the ride is $25 per rider and $5 per passen-ger and includes entrance to the concert. The ride ends at the former Kirk’s Country Store, 33 Kirk Road, Franklin. The concert is at 5 p.m. next to Kirk’s Country Store and features the bands Trap County, The Barstool Prophets and 82mm. Concert tickets are $10. Raffle tickets for a 50/50 drawing are $5 and other raffles will be held. For information or to purchase raffle tickets, contact Randy Powell at 706-594-8029 or trap-county@hotmail.com, or Celest Powell at 706-333-6861. Proceeds will be used for medical expens-es for Kirk Abernathy, who fractured his spine in a car accident in October.

Lobbin’ for Literacy tennis tournament

Lobbin’ for Literacy, an annual tennis tour-nament that provides resources for a summer reading program in the local housing authority, will be Friday through Sunday at McCluskey Tennis Center. Any level tennis player is welcome to play. To register, go to www.troupclcp.org or call 706-756-4645.

Cat adoption day

The City of LaGrange Animal Shelter and the LaGrange Troup County Humane Society will host “Summer Blast Adoption Day” from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday at the animal shelter at 1390 Orchard Hill Road. All cat adoption fees will be half price, ranging from $8 to $25. There will also be a list of dogs available for $18.50. Bruster’s will sell food, drinks and ice cream.

Raffle to benefit West Georgia Hospice

LaGrange Newcomers’ Club is selling raffle tickets to benefit West Georgia Hospice. Tickets are $5 to win one of three prizes: the grand prize, a 42-inch Vizio HD TV with wi-fi, valued at $600; second prize, a garden-ing gift basket; and third prize, a spa gift basket. For tickets, call Mary at 706-880-7087. The draw-ing will be Aug. 2.

Bracelets to raise funds for Kyle Czarnonycz

Lime green “Kicking it for Kyle” bracelets are available for $5. Kyle Czarnonycz, a 2011 graduate of Callaway High School, was recently diagnosed with Hodgkin’s lymphoma. The slogan “Kicking it for Kyle” reflects his love of soccer and also the bat-tle he is fighting against this disease. Proceeds from the bracelet sales will be given to the Czarnonycz family for medical expenses. They can be purchased at the LSPA office at 214 Bull St., at First Presbyterian Church in LaGrange, or from Matt Leonard at Callaway High School. For updates, join the Facebook page “Kyle Czarnonycz, You are Not Alone.” For information, contact Terri Codlin at terricodlin@charter.net.

5K run/1 mile walk in memory of Ray Stewart

The second annual “Ray’s Run” will be held July 14 beginning at Troup County Parks and Recreation on Lafayette Parkway. Registration is $25 before July 10 and includes a T-shirt; cost is $50 after that date and a T-shirt is not guaran-teed. Proceeds from the

run benefit the Georgia Firefighters Burn Foundation in memory of Deputy Chief Ray Stewart. Registration forms are available on Facebook from the group “Ray’s Run (in memory of Deputy Chief

Ray Stewart, LaGrange Fire Department).” For information, call Pete Thrailkill at 706-333-0955.Fur Ball

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West Georgia Health recently received the American Heart Associat ion/American Stroke Association’s Get With The Guidelines–Stroke Silver Quality Achievement award.

The award recognizes West Georgia Health’s commitment and success in implementing a higher standard of stroke care by ensuring that stroke patients receive treatment according to nationally accepted standards and rec-ommendations, staff said.

“Having access to emer-gency care neurological services can mean the dif-ference between survival and death for someone who is having a stroke,” said Ashley Orr, M.D., medical director of the emergency department. “For a com-munity this size, we are very fortunate to provide neurological services 365 days a year. This would not have been possible without the dedicated team of professionals on our stroke team, who established the Telestroke Program with the Medical College of Georgia (MCG) in Augusta, which provides neurological services when local coverage is unavail-able. It is very gratifying that the American Heart Association has recognized our team for their hard work and dedication to sav-ing lives.”

West Georgia Health has developed a compre-hensive system for rapid diagnosis and treatment of stroke patients admitted to the emergency depart-ment. This includes always

being equipped to provide brain imaging scans, hav-ing neurologists available to conduct patient evalua-tions and using clot-bust-ing medications when appropriate.

To receive the Get With The Guidelines-Stroke Silver Quality Achievement Award, West Georgia Health consist-ently complied for at least one year with the require-ments in the Get With The Guidelines–Stroke program. These include aggressive use of medica-tions like tPA, antithrom-botics, anticoagulation therapy, DVT prophylaxis, cholesterol reducing drugs and smoking cessation. This 12-month evaluation period is the second in an ongoing self-evaluation by the hospital to continually reach the 85 percent com-pliance level needed to sus-tain this award.

“The American Stroke Association commends West Georgia Health for its success in imple-menting standards of care and protocols,” said Lee H. Schwamm, M.D., chair of the Get With The Guidelines National Steering Committee and director of the TeleStroke and Acute Stroke Services at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston. “The full implementation of acute care and secondary prevention recommenda-tions and guidelines is a critical step in saving the lives and improving out-comes of stroke patients.”

Get With The Guidelines–Stroke uses the “teachable moment,” the time soon after a patient has had a stroke, when they

are most likely to listen to and follow their healthcare professionals’ guidance. Studies demonstrate that patients who are taught how to manage their risk factors while still in the hospital reduce their risk of a second heart attack or stroke.

Through Get With The Guidelines–Stroke, cus-tomized patient education materials are made avail-able at the point of dis-charge, based on patients’ individual risk profiles. The take-away materials are written in an easy-to-understand format and are available in English and Spanish. In addition, the Get With The Guidelines Patient Management Tool provides access to up-to-date cardiovascular and stroke science at the point of care.

“The time is right for West Georgia Health to be focused on improving the quality of stroke care by implementing Get With The Guidelines–Stroke. The number of acute ischemic stroke patients eligible for treatment is expected to grow over the next decade due to increas-ing stroke incidence and a large aging population,” said Orr.

According to the American Heart Associat ion/American Stroke Association, stroke is one of the leading caus-es of death and serious, long-term disability in the United States. On average, someone suffers a stroke every 40 seconds; someone dies of a stroke every four minutes; and 795,000 peo-ple suffer a new or recur-rent stroke each year.

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President Obama’s latest polit-ical ploy — granting new “rights” out of thin air, by Executive Order, to illegal immigrants who claim that they were brought into the country when they were children — is all too typical of his short-run approach to the coun-try’s long-run problems.

Whatever the merits or demer-its of the Obama immigration policy, his Executive Order is good only as long as he remains president, which may be only a matter of months after this year’s election.

People cannot plan their lives on the basis of laws that can sud-denly appear, and then suddenly disappear, in less than a year. To come forward today and claim the protection of the Obama Executive Order is to declare publicly and officially that your parents entered the country ille-gally. How that may be viewed by some later administration is anybody’s guess.

Employers likewise cannot rely on policies that may be here today and gone tomorrow, whether these are temporary tax rates designed to look good at election time or temporary immigration policies that can backfire later if employers get accused of hiring illegal immi-grants. Why hire someone, and invest time and money in train-ing them, if you may be forced to fire them before a year has passed? Kicking the can down the road is one of the favorite exercises in Washington. But neither in the economy nor in their personal lives can people make plans and commitments on the basis of government policies that suddenly appear and sud-denly disappear.

Like so many other Obama ploys, his immigration ploy is not meant to help the country, but to help Obama. This is all about getting the Hispanic vote this November. The principle involved — keeping children from being hurt by actions over which they had no control — is one already advanced by Senator Marco Rubio, who may well end up as Governor Romney’s vice-presidential running mate. The Obama Executive Order, which suddenly popped up like a rabbit out of a magician’s hat, steals

some of Senator Rubio’s thun-der, so it is clever politics.

But clever politics is what has gotten this country into so much trouble, not only as regards immigration but also as regards the economy and the dangerous international situation.

When the new, and perhaps short-lived, immigration policy is looked at in terms of how it can be administered, it makes even less sense. While this policy is rationalized in terms of children, those who invoke it are likely to do so as adults.

How do you check someone’s claim that he was brought into the country illegally when he was a child? If Obama gets reelected, it is very unlikely that illegal immigrants will really have to prove anything. The adminis-tration can simply choose not to enforce that provision, as so many other immigration laws are unenforced in the Obama admin-istration.

If Obama does not get reelect-ed, then it may not matter any-way, when his Executive Order can be gone after he is gone.

Ultimately, it does not mat-ter what immigration policy this country has, if it cannot con-trol its own borders. Whoever wants to come, and who has the chutzpah, will come. And the fact that they come across the Mexican border does not mean that they are all Mexicans. They can just as easily be terror-ists from the Middle East. Only after the border is controlled can any immigration policy matter be seriously considered, and options weighed through the normal Constitutional process of Congressional hearings, debate and legislation, rather than by Presidential short-cuts.

Not only is border control fun-damental, what is also funda-mental is the principle that immi-gration policy does not exist to accommodate foreigners but to protect Americans — and the American culture that has made this the world’s richest, freest and most powerful nation for more than a century. No nation can absorb unlimited numbers of people from another culture without jeopardizing its own cul-ture. In the 19th and early 20th century, America could absorb millions of immigrants who came here to become Americans. But the situation is entirely different today, when group separatism, resentment and polarization are being promoted by both the edu-cation system and politicians.

Thomas Sowell is a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305. His website is www.tsowell.com. To find out more about Thomas Sowell, visit the Creators Syndicate Web page at www.creators.com.

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Thomas SowellColumnist

In a few short weeks we will elect four school board members. This represents a majority of the entire board. The composition of the board could change dramatically as a result of the election. Keep in mind it is a mid-summer elec-tion that generally has very low turnout. As few as 800 votes could be cast in any one district. That means as few as four hundred and one voters will decide who serves on the board. Your vote will count.

School board elections usually get very little atten-tion but I would argue that they might be the most important elected positions over the long term for any community. The health and

welfare of a community can be linked directly to the quality of its education system. A strong school board leads to a strong superintendent, that leads to strong principals, that leads to strong teachers, that ultimately leads to strong schools.

With this election in mind I have a few ques-tions (and a little commen-tary) I would like to ask each candidate. I hope you add to this list and ask your own questions. A school board should be made up of leaders who can help the superintendent develop the vision. In addition, they can help develop the local framework on which the system will be measured. Hopefully these questions can serve as a primer as you think about who you want to support and vote for in a few short weeks.

What is the purpose of the school board? I hope the answer sounds a lot like this: A school board is not another layer of man-agement. A school board’s only employee is the Superintendent of Schools. The Board hires and man-ages the superintendent by setting the goals for the district (school system)

and for the superintendent. It is the superintendent’s responsibility to create the strategies and initiatives necessary to accomplish those goals. The board governs, and the superin-tendent manages.

Our school system has shown some improvement over the last few years. That is commendable. However, at the end of the day, we are at or near the state average, in the 49th worst state in the country in the country ranked 23rd (among 35 industrialized nations) in overall educa-tion. That is nothing to rest on. Every year, LaGrange High, for example, sets a goal for its self — to be the next state champion, number one. Do they reach that goal every year? Of course not, but over time they have developed a program that consistently ranks among the best in the state. Do you think that would happen if their goal each year was to be slightly better than the state aver-age? At the end of the day the team performs better because of a unified and aspirational goal. What is your goal for our system? Specifically, how can we do better? What will you do to

significantly improve our performance? Why can’t we be number one?

Based on financial pro-jections the school budget will see deficits for years to come.

Declining property val-ues, reduced state fund-ing and increased spend-ing mandates will further erode projected revenues.

These reductions will far exceed any cuts to the administrative staff. I am sure every candidate will state they will cut these roles. Every politician cites waste and fraud as the plac-es to cut.

However, according to the projections that will not be enough, in fact it will not be close. Given this fact, what areas will you cut to balance the budget? What is off limits? What is needed but we can no longer afford?

At what point, if any, would you consider an increase in the tax millage rate to offset the budget shortfall?

Several of the candidates are proposing a reduction in school property taxes for senior citizens? Do you support this proposal? If so why? One could argue while this is a compassion-

ate thing to do, it is bad policy. Education benefits the entire community. It seems unfair to pick and choose who pays for it. The consumer of education is sporadic (school aged children) but the benefit is a lifetime. Following that logic, would you exclude parents without children? I would argue that the best support government — in this case the school system — can give our senior citi-zens is a vibrant, growing, low crime community, all of which are direct benefits of a strong education sys-tem. The leveraged effect of this type of community would far offset a small reduction in the school tax.

What is the significance of .5 percent? That is one-half of one percent. That is the number of teachers that were terminated for low performance in the years 2010-11. That represents approximately six teach-ers out of the entire school system of 1,100+ teachers. That number is no fluke. It was .5 percent in the 2009-10 year and only .3 per-cent in the 2008-09 year. While we have many, out-standing teachers, every organization has employ-ees, in this case teachers

that under perform to the extent they must be let go. I would argue no high per-forming organization has forced turnover that low. Teaching is real time. A child never gets that year back. We must ensure that we put the best teachers possible in front of our stu-dents every day. What is your reaction to this num-ber? What would you do as a school board member to remove under performers from the school system?

These are but a few of the difficult issues our school board will face. Each school board member will play a key role in how well we respond to these challenges. This role is much more than ex-teach-ers, long time members of the community and people with good intentions. It requires outstanding lead-ership and vision. We have some very capable board members. There are some capable candidates running against them. Now is the time to educate yourself to make an informed decision this July. Our community depends on it.

Kirk Hancock is a LaGrange resident and former member of the LaGrange Writers Group.

A few questions for our school board candidates

Kirk HancockColumnist

The immigration ploy

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Jim Kuhnhennand Steve PeoplesAssociated Press

ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — No longer a backburner issue, immigration is roiling the pres-idential contest as President Barack Obama and Republican Mitt Romney seek to court the nation’s swelling Hispanic population. The outcome could influence political battle lines and shape American politics for generations.

By week’s end, both candi-dates will address the same Latino political convention in Florida, showcasing contrast-ing political ideologies at a piv-otal time. The Supreme Court is about to render judgment on a get-tough Arizona law, and just last week the Democratic president announced plans to ease deportation rules for some children of illegal immigrants.

With Election Day less than five months away, Hispanic voters are energized and pay-ing close attention, said Arturo Vargas, executive director of the National Association of Latino Elected and Appointed Officials, which hosts this week’s convention.

“There’s a lot at stake. We’re talking about a significant share of the American electorate that could well decide this election,” Vargas said. “It’s only now that both candidates are turning their attention to the Latino vote.”

Indeed, both sides are craft-ing aggressive strategies to appeal to a demographic that is by no means monolithic but has supported Democrats in recent elections. Some Republicans fear — and Democrats hope — that Obama could capital-ize on this moment to help solidify Hispanic voters as pre-

dominantly Democratic this fall and for years to come, much as President Lyndon Johnson hardened the black vote for Democrats as he pushed the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

The stakes are high not only for states with larger Hispanic populations such as Florida, Nevada and Colorado, but for a growing number of other battlegrounds — Ohio, North Carolina and Virginia, among them — where even a mod-est shift among Latino vot-ers could be significant. The United States’ Latino popula-tion surged from about 35 mil-lion in 2000 to 50 million in 2010, according to the Census Bureau.

As the presidential candi-dates head to the Florida con-vention, Obama is riding a wave of Latino enthusiasm over his decision to allow hundreds of thousands of illegal immi-grants to stay in the country and work. Under the adminis-tration plan, illegal immigrants can avoid deportation if they can prove they were brought to the United States before they turned 16 and are younger than 30, have been in the country for at least five continuous years, have no criminal history, gradu-ated from a U.S. high school or earned a GED or served in the military.

The new policy could help anywhere from 800,000 young immigrants — the administra-tion’s estimate — to the Pew Hispanic Center’s estimate of 1.4 million.

The move was politically timely, in the heat of the cam-paign and with Obama needing to energize a key part of his base of supporters — many of whom had grown disenchanted over the past three years. While the direct beneficiaries of the

directive can’t vote for Obama, his action has widespread sup-port among American Latinos.

In fact, Obama has long enjoyed support among Hispanics — he won 67 percent of the Latino vote in 2008.

But he risked losing their enthusiasm, partly because Hispanics have been among the hardest hit by the economic slowdown. Obama also lost some support because he hasn’t fulfilled promises of a compre-hensive overhaul of the immi-gration system and because his administration has been aggres-sively deporting illegal immi-grants. A December poll by the Pew Hispanic Center showed that 59 percent of Latinos dis-approved of the president’s handling of deportations.

Obama senior adviser David Axelrod predicts that the presi-dent could exceed his 2008 per-formance with Hispanics this year, noting that his opponent then was Sen. John McCain, who had initially pushed for an overhaul of the immigration system.

Axelrod contends that Romney is “hopelessly twisted up on this issue.”

Obama had troubles of his own before the administration announced the recent initia-tive. Supporters of many illegal immigrants — students as well as workers — had been mount-ing protests at Obama cam-paign headquarters this month in places such as Denver and Los Angeles.

The Romney campaign has struggled to offer a consistent response to the president’s move. Romney has assailed Obama’s “broken promises” on immigration in recent days but has focused on the new policy’s temporary status as his prime criticism.

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Thursday, June 21, 2012 - 7LeisureBLONDIE Dean Young/Denis Lebrun

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HAGAR THE HORRIBLE Chris Browne

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HAPPY BIRTHDAY for Thursday, June 21, 2012:

This year you choose to walk away from negativity, as it could impact your personal or domestic life. You will succeed, but much of what is on your plate involves seeing things through to completion as opposed to launching new beginnings. If you are single, you might meet someone quite special in several months. Take your time get-ting to know this person. If you are attached, spend more one-on-one time together. LEO can help you make and spend your money.

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ARIES (March 21-April 19) HHH You choose to weigh mat-

ters carefully without expounding or discussing the issues with others. You see the negatives and wonder if it is worth your effort to continue on this path. You alone can decide, though you certainly could seek out feedback from a respected authority. Tonight: Unwind with some fun.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20)HHHH You are open to conversa-

tions, but what happens when you hear something you don’t want to? Do you close down? You might want to nix that response. Use your innate creativity, and you just might come out with positive results. Tonight: Make it early.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20)HHH You might be questioning

whether the saying “Money is the root of all evil” could be true. Be careful if you are about to take a risk. Right now, though a scheme might seem good, you need to pull back if you feel any negativity surrounding it. Tonight: Head home. Return calls.

CANCER (June 21-July 22)HHHHH Your charisma and high

energy attract many people, despite an underlying issue that you choose not to address. Make an important call with the full expectation of seeing results. Reach out to the right person, and you might get a lot of feedback. Tonight: Be spontaneous.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22)HHH Stand back, and let others

reveal their true colors. You could feel negatively about one person you do not see in his or her true light. Question how much you project onto this person. Make it a point to say little and not trigger reactions from others. Isn’t that the goal? Tonight: Rethink what you observed today.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22)HHHH A meeting or get-together

helps you zero in on what you want. Let a moment of insecurity be just that — fleeting. You have a strong drive and a lot to offer. Unexpected happen-ings surrounding a key person make you smile. Tonight: Out with friends.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22)HHH Pressure builds, and you feel

as if you cannot see the light of day. Don’t worry — you will. Be aware of your feelings as you start to wade through the day’s trials. A boss or authority figure is very demanding. Must you meet this person’s expecta-tions? Tonight: Take a break. Visit with a friend.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21)HHHHH Sometimes you see

clearly, but other times a haze invades. Understand that you might need to detach more to understand a personal matter. Meanwhile, schedule a trip for the near future. It can be just to the beach or to the mountains. Tonight: Choose something different.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21)HHHH Get together with a key

person who makes a difference in your life. You could be disappointed by a certain situation. Let go, and do not dwell on the negatives. Work with oth-ers to organize an important event or project. Tonight: Start thinking “week-end.”

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19)HHHHH Continue to defer to oth-

ers, and allow them to do what they want. This attitude is not your normal approach, which at times can be quite controlling; however, it allows others to see what life might be like without you. Tonight: Chat and visit over dinner.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18)HHH When you are focused, no

one can complete a job as you can. A partner or dear friend really wants your attention. Indulge this person as soon as you can. Verbalize more of what you need. Don’t make someone guess, because that person might guess wrong. Tonight: Run errands first.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20)HHHH You are already thinking

about a loved one and how you might like to spend some time with him or her. Sort through calls and make a point of listening to suggestions and invitations. Weigh the pros and cons of a decision with the help of others. Tonight: Enjoy the moment.

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SubmittedRuben Hairston cuts the ribbon on his new business, Ruben’s Tires at 2264 Hamilton Road, with members of his family and the LaGrange-Troup County Chamber of Commerce. The business provides new and used tires, car accessories and flat tire repair.

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In today’s competitive job market, employers can receive literally hun-dreds of responses to a posted job.

A resume often cre-ates the first impression a prospective employer will form about each can-didate – and that first impression forms quick-ly. According to Business Insider, a career website, research shows “recruit-ers spend about six sec-onds before they make the initial ‘fit/no fit’ deci-sion.”

“When it comes to mis-takes on resumes, I’ve seen it all – grammati-cal errors, misspelled words and even omit-ted credentials,” said Amanda Rajotte, direc-tor of Career Services at Brown Mackie College – Hopkinsville. Rajotte helps students and grad-uates prepare for profes-sional job searches and conducts workshops on the fundamentals of writ-ing resumes.

“I cannot stress enough that the resume is a gate-way to an interview,” she said. “It’s worthwhile to put time and effort into creating it. If a resume contains mistakes, all the effort after that is wast-ed, no matter how many you send out.”

A resume is an impor-tant marketing tool that introduces you to a pro-spective employer in the professional world.

Rajotte likens it to a 30-second commercial for yourself.

It’s all about the prop-er sequencing of infor-mation relevant to the employer.

“You want to highlight the good qualities and attributes that employ-ers want to see, things that tie into the specific opportunity,” she said.

To this end, the objec-tive is a good place to start.

“This is a brief over-view of what differenti-ates you from others,” Rajotte said. “It should be a brief, concise sum-mary of your experience and education – just one or two sentences.”

The objective should clearly identify the type of position you qualify for and provide a suc-cinct statement of your goal.

Think carefully about, and always double check, spelling.

“Incorrect spell -ing worries potential employers. Candidates should spell check and double check their work by proofreading,” Rajotte said.

It can help to let some-one else proofread the resume. An extra set of eyes often finds mistakes.

What do spelling errors tell an employer about you? Monster says it tells them, “This person obvi-ously doesn’t care.”

Grammatical errors also throw up a red flag.

“Bad sentence struc-ture and incorrect word usage are common mis-takes people make,” Rajotte said. “These

decrease your level of competency in the employer’s mind, and they move on to the next resume. Other typical resume blunders include incorrect capitalization of words, and failure to spell out acronyms. Not everyone knows what acronyms mean. Each one should be spelled out the first time it appears.”

The format of the resume is the next con-sideration.

“The goal is to create a visually pleasing page,” Rajotte said.

She recommends using a legible typeface and a readable point size.

“This means scrap the script font, and stick to 10-point or 12-point type,” she said. “Alignment is another big one. Always print a copy to see how it looks on paper. Don’t just look on screen.”

Once the resume is in top form, you have a better chance of landing an interview. After the interview, it is appropri-ate to send a thank you note.

“Not everyone sends a thank you. It can set you apart from other appli-cants,” Rajotte said.

Quintessential Careers found that just 5 percent of job applicants follow through with a thank you note.

“It’s a nice way to build a relationship,” she said. “You never know when you might run into that person again.”

She advised applicants to write a draft of the note before writing on a card.

“Grammar and spelling matter here just as much as they matter on the resume,” she said.

When looking for employment, every step tells prospective employ-ers about your communi-cation skills.

Whether you’re speak-ing on the phone, or sub-mitting a resume, you are conveying a message about your knowledge and ability.

Putting your best effort into the search can pay off with the job you are pursuing.

Tips for preparing, proofreading the perfect resume

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By Kevin EckleberrySports EditorCody Sheffield is part of of an exclu-

sive club.Sheffield, a recent graduate of Troup

High, is a member of the Team Georgiabaseball team that is competing in theeight-team Heartland Baseball Classicthis week in Norman, Okla.The team is made up of some of the

top baseball players from the class of2012.Through the first two days of compe-

tition, Team Georgia has a 2-2 recordand has four games remaining in poolplay.Team Georgia plays two games today

and two more games on Friday, and itwill participate in a place game on Sat-urday.Sheffield earned his spot on the roster

with a phenomenal senior season.Sheffield hit 11 home runs and drove

in 41 runs, and he also had nine wins onthe mound in helping lead Troup to thesemifinals for the first time since 1986.Sheffield is the third Troup baseball

player to make the prestigious TeamGeorgia, joining Daniel Watts and LukeBailey, both of whom are now playingprofessional baseball.Sheffield is set to play at Chatta-

By Kevin EckleberrySports EditorKeith Butler likes what he’s seen.Butler is the head coach for the Troup

County American 9-10-year-old all-starbaseball team, and he has watched the teamcome together nicely since it was formed atthe beginning of June.On Saturday, the team is hoping the good

work it has done in practice will translateinto a solid showing in the Dixie YouthBaseball District 1 tournament at theGeorge F. Harris Baseball Complex.“We’re starting to look really good as a

team,” Butler said while watching his play-ers go through the paces at practiceWednesday afternoon at TroupHigh. “We’re

probably not themost talented team, but wemake up for it with effort.”Troup will begin play in the six-team tour-

nament on Saturday when it plays PikeCounty at 10 a.m.If Troup wins that game, it would play ei-

ther Troup National or Manchester at 2p.m. on Sunday.The top-two finishers in the double-elim-

ination tournament will advance to the statetournament.“Everybody’s expecting (Troup Na-

tional), because they’ve been together, totake it, but we’ll give them a run for theirmoney,” Butler said.

By Kevin EckleberrySports EditorThey were on the doorstep a year ago.This year, they’ll look to cross the threshold.In 2011, the Troup County National 9-10-year-

old all-star team advanced to the Dixie YouthBaseball state-championship game before fallingshort.Beginning Saturday, Troup National will begin

its quest to capture the state title it came so close

to winning a year ago.Troup National will take on Manchester at 10

a.m. in the opening round of the Dixie YouthBaseball District 1 tournament at the George F.Harris Baseball Complex.The top-two finishers in the double-elimina-

tion tournament advance to state.Kyle Crawford, who returns as the Troup Na-

tional head coach, said the team isn’t lookingahead to a possible state title.

“We’re going to take it one game at a time,”Crawford said. “Our first focus is against Man-chester. We’ll play our best and pitch our bestand get after it.”There’s no doubt expectations are high for this

team, though.Nearly all of the players on the team have all-

star experience.

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Kevin Eckleberry | LaGrange Daily NewsTheTroupNational 9-10-year-old all-star teamhuddles between innings during a scrimmage onWednesday.Troup begins play in the district tournament on Saturday.

Kevin Eckleberry | LaGrange Daily NewsCole Crawford of theTroupAmerican 9-10-year-old all-star team looks to avoid getting tagged during a drillduring practice onWednesday atTroupHigh.

Kevin Eckleberry | LaGrange Daily NewsFormerTroupHigh pitcher CodySheffield is playing forTeamGeorgia in theHeartland Baseball Classic in Oklahoma.

TroupAmerican coach Keith Butler keeps an eye on things during practice onWednesday.

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By Kevin EckleberrySports EditorThe road to state will run

through Thomaston for apair of Troup County base-ball teams next week.The Dixie Youth Baseball

11-12-year-old district tour-nament will be held inThomaston beginning onJune 30, with the top twoteams advancing to the statetournament.Troup National and Troup

American will be among theteams competing in the dou-ble-elimination tournament.On the tournament’s

opening day, a Saturday,Troup American will playThomaston at noon, andTroup National and Man-chester will face off at thesame time.The top two teams will ad-

vance to the state tourna-ment in Lee County, withthe winner of that tourna-ment qualifying for the DixieYouth Baseball World Series.In Dixie Boys Baseball,

the Troup County 13-14-year-old all-star teamwill by-pass the district stage andhead straight to the state

By Kevin EckleberrySports EditorThe Atlanta Braves cele-

brated the first day of sum-mer with an offensiveexplosion Wednesday after-noon in the Bronx.With Jason Heyward stay-

ing red-hot with a pair ofhome runs, the Braves out-slugged the Yankees 10-5 totake two-of-three in the se-ries.The Braves hit five home

runs in the game, with Fred-die Freeman, David Ross

CHICAGO (AP) – Col-lege football has always re-lied on polls and bowls tocrown a national champi-onship. It is an inexact sci-ence that has left many fansfrustrated and wonderingwhy they can’t settle it onthe field – like every othersport – with a playoff.Finally, the people in

charge agree with the peo-ple in the stands.A major college football

playoff, albeit a small one, iscloser than ever to becom-ing a reality.The BCS commissioners

have backed a plan for afour-team playoff with thesites for the national semifi-nals rotating among themajor bowl games and a se-lection committee pickingthe participants. The planwill be presented to univer-sity presidents next weekfor approval.Once the presidents sign

off – and that seems likely –major college football’schampion will be decidedby a playoff for the firsttime, starting in 2014.The Bowl Championship

Series is on its death bed.Even the name is likely to

go away.The commissioners have

been working on reshapingcollege football's postseason

since January. The meetingWednesday was the sixthformal get-together of theyear.

They met for four hoursand emerged with a com-mitment to stand behind aplan.

and Martin Prado alsogoing deep.Heyward was also the

star of Tuesday’s gamewhen he had the game-win-ning hit and threw a baserunner out at the plate.“We’re really, really good

when Jason Heyward isswinging the bat this well,”Atlanta catcher David Rosssaid. “You’re talking abouthaving him in the sixth orseventh hole when Chipper(Jones) is in there. We’re re-ally, really deep, and I wouldhate to be the opposingcatcher trying to call a gamewhen Jason Heyward andthose guys are swinging thebat well.”Atlanta started Tommy

Hanson gave up four homeruns as the teams combinedto send nine balls out of thehitter-friendly Yankee Sta-dium.The Braves went up 6-1

before watching the leadtrimmed to 6-5, but they fin-ished the game with a flour-ish to win two straightgames for the first timesince June 9.“The ball was flying

today, there’s no doubtabout it,” Yankees managerJoe Girardi said. “It’s unfor-tunate they had some two-run homers, some three-runhomers. They swung thebats well.”Hanson (8-4) got the win,

even though he didn’t makeit through the sixth inning.As was the case on Tues-

day’s Atlanta’s bullpen did a

terrific job to preserve thelead.“We survived,” Braves

manager Fredi Gonzalezsaid.Atlanta begins a three-

game series at Boston onFriday.

hoochee Valley CommunityCollege next season.Sheffield made an impact

in the Heartland Classic be-fore the first game was

played when he finishedfourth in the home-runderby.Sheffield hit four of his six

pitches out of the park, andhe finished just one homerun behind the finalists.Sixteen players partici-

pated in the home-runderby.

While Troup National hasa number of players whoparticipated in all-state base-ball last year, this is all newfor most of Troup Ameri-can’s players.“They’ve got a group

that’s been together awhile,”Butler said. “These guys, 10

of our players are new to it.”Butler doesn’t expect

nerves to be a problem,though, and he said thescrimmages the team hasparticipated in leading up toSaturday have helped.“We’ve tried to do a cou-

ple of scrimmages to get offthe rust,” Butler said.“Doing that, I think that’shelped them a lot. I can al-ready tell as we do thatmore it’s helped.”

Four of the players, LukeSwann, Charles Crawford,Zach Turner and JordanOgletree, were on last year’sstate runnerup team.A handful of other players

were on the Hogansvilleteam that also advanced tothe state tournament.“We’ve got a lot of experi-

ence on this team,” Craw-ford said. “We’re an oldergroup. We’ve got mostly 10-year-olds. It’s exciting.”To prepare for tourna-

ment play, Troup Nationalhas participated in a num-ber of scrimmages, includ-

ing one on Wednesdayagainst another 9-10-year-old all-star team.Troup was impressive in

notching 10 runs.“The boys played tough,”

Crawford said. “It was ascrimmage, so we mixed upthe lineup andmoved every-body around and had differ-ent kids pitch in differentscenarios. We played gooddefense.”Troup has also scrim-

maged against a team fromRoanoke (Ala.), and it alsoplayed a Troup 11-12-year-old all-star team.“The boys are playing to-

gether well so far, and Ithink we’re sharp going intoSaturday against Manches-ter,” Crawford said.

tournament, which willbegin July 13 in Colum-bus.The tournament winner

advances to the Dixie Boys

Baseball World Series.The team is made up of

many of the same playerswho competed in the 13-year-old state tournamentlast year.That team’s coach, An-

drew Caraway, is coachingthe 13-14 all-star team thisyear.

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MIAMI (AP) – LeBron James hasnever been here before.He’s been in nearly every imagina-

ble situation everything over his nineseasons marked by three MVPawards, three trips to the NBA Finalswith two teams and one decision thatchanged everything.And now this: For the first time,

he’s one win from a championship.“I have a job to do,” James said

Wednesday. “Andmy job is not done.”The job might get done tonight,

when the Miami Heat – up 3-1 in thistitle series – host the Oklahoma CityThunder in Game 5 of the finals. Evenafter leaving Game 4 late with acramp, James is on the cusp of finallybecoming a champ. He was swept inhis first finals trip in 2007, then heand the Heat fell in the 2011 title se-ries in six games.After countless ups and downs, the

804th game of his career may be theone that ends his title quest.“I have no idea what I’ll say before

we go out there,” said James, who gottreatment againstWednesday but saidsoreness that followed the cramps inhis left leg was easing. “It kind of justcomes to me when I’m getting readyto go out there and stand on the floor.But hopefully whatever I say will in-spire our guys to go out and give agood show.”James joined the Heat in 2010 after

Miami convinced him that he wouldhave enough help to win a champi-onship – more specifically, that hewouldn’t have to carry the load byhimself, like he did so many times inCleveland over his first seven seasons.The Heat were keeping DwyaneWade, adding Chris Bosh and fillingout the roster with a mix that wouldbe best described as unconventional.If that axiom – more options are

better – actually needed to be proven,it was done in Game 4. James couldnot finish the game, though he re-turned after the first wave of crampshit and delivered a key 3-pointer.WithJames watching the final minute,Wade and Mario Chalmers helped

close out the Thunder, Miami win-ning 104-98 to move one win awayfrom the franchise's second champi-onship.“This team, I think we understand

that the moment is the biggest thing,”Wade said. “We’re excited about thepossibility of playing better, doingthings better defensively, but also of-fensively. We don’t feel like we'veplayed our best game yet, and we feelthat’s still to come.”The Thunder expect the same from

themselves. At least, they hope that’sthe case.No team in finals history has suc-

cessfully rallied from a 3-1 seriesdeficit, or even forced as much as aGame 7 when presented with thatscenario since the league went to itscurrent 2-3-2 finals format in 1985.But Oklahoma City’s losses in this se-ries – in each of the last three games– have come by four, six and sixpoints, respectively.A play here, a bounce there, this se-

ries might look a whole lot different.And that's why the Western Confer-ence champions are conceding nothing.“We didn’t get here just to make it

here and say we did,” Thunder starKevin Durant said. “Wemade it to thefinals. We want to come in here andwe want to try to get a title. It’s allabout keep competing until that lastbuzzer sounds, and that's what we’regoing to do. That’s the type of city we

play for, a city that never gives up.That’s the type of team we are. We’regoing to keep fighting, keep fighting,and we’ll see what happens tomor-row.”Russell Westbrook scored 43 points

for the Thunder in Game 4 -- and theywere for naught. It was the secondtime in these playoffs that someonehad scored at least that many againstthe Heat. And like Boston’s RajonRondo, who dropped 44 on Miami inthe Eastern Conference finals, West-brook walked off the court with a loss.As for James, he was his usual self

in practice on Wednesday, laughingwith teammates while shooting a fewfree throws, looking at ease. Andmost importantly to Miami, he wasmoving without too much pain.James had to be carried off the

court in the fourth quarter of Game 4,unable to walk to the bench. A lot offluids and rest later, some of thebounce was back in his step onWednesday.“ feel a lot better than I did last

night. That’s clear,” James said. “I’mstill a little (sore) because of the mus-cles just kind of being at an intenselevel, very tight. I’m still sore. I wasable to get some treatment last night.I was able to get some treatment thismorning. ... And also with the gamebeing basically at midnight tomorrownight, I have all day tomorrow, too, toprepare. I should be fine by (tonight).”

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YOU PICK PEACHESGregg Orchards, Hwy 362,

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2002 HARLEY ROADKINGBlack with extras, garagekept, low mileage $10,000

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2011 HARLEY FXSBlack, garage kept,108 miles $15,000

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ROOMMATE WANTED$150 A WEEK

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