GC spring dance concert May 21

MILLEDGEVILLE, Ga. — The Georgia College theatre and dance department will hold its 23^rd annual “Community Dance Program Spring Concert” at 1 p.m. Sunday, May 21 in Russell Auditorium.This year’s theme is “Broadway Babes,” featuring music about female heroines from Broadway musicals. The community program has 150 dancers from Georgia College’s noncredit classes, ages three through adult. Georgia College students will perform too. Admission is free. A reception will follow in the Ina Dillard Russell Library atrium.

 

Dalton Police to observe Peace Officers Memorial Day on Monday

DALTON, Ga. — The Dalton Police Department will host a brief ceremony Monday afternoon to observe Peace Officers Memorial Day. The ceremony will be held near the Chief William Hannah Police Memorial on the grounds of the Police Services Center at 3 p.m. In the event of rain, the ceremony will be held inside the Police Services Center. The public is invited. Monday’s ceremony will continue the department’s tradition of observing National Police Week and Peace Officers Memorial Day. This year, department leaders will lay a wreath at the Chief William Hannah Police Memorial, and there will be a recognition of all Georgia law enforcement officers lost in the line of duty in the past year. The Chief Hannah Memorial was dedicated in May 2014 and stands in honor of Chief William “Bill” Hannah, a former chief of the Dalton Police who was killed in the line of duty in 1899. The marker also bears the name of Officer Maurice William Phillips Sr. who was killed by an accidental gunshot during training in 1956. The memorial marker stands near the intersection of Jones Street and Waugh Street. May 15 was declared to be National Peace Officers Memorial Day by President John F. Kennedy in 1962. President Kennedy further declared that the week in which Peace Officers Memorial Day falls is to be National Police Week. This year, Police Week runs from Sunday, May 14, through Saturday, May 20.

 

South Georgia donates 125 tons of food

VALDOSTA – South Georgians stepped up to the plate and the mailbox Saturday by donating more than 125 tons of food during the annual Stamp Out Hunger food drive. The early numbers surpassed the 2016 postal food drive, said Eliza McCall, Second Harvest chief marketing officer. Weather deterred neither donations nor collections. “Our staff and volunteers did get caught in the rain a few times but we didn’t mind knowing that our neighbors to the east and firefighters need it badly,” McCall said, referring to the swamp fire in the Okefenokee area. National Association of Letter Carriers postal workers collected more than 250,000 pounds of food Saturday for Second Harvest, the regional food bank for 30 South Georgia counties, McCall said. The amount could rise. Traditionally, area postal workers and Second Harvest collects more food during the following week. With the innovation of providing the blue donation bags in area mailboxes, Valdosta-Lowndes County and South Georgia repeatedly donate more than other regions in the state and across the nation.

 

Mental Health coalition to meet Wednesday

MOULTRIE, Ga. — The Colquitt County Mental Health Coalition will meet Wednesday, May 17, at Sunset Country Club. The schedule is: Dutch treat buffet lunch noon-12:30, program 12:30-1:15, and business 1:15-1:30. The speaker will be Crystal Moore, assistant chief community supervision officer with the Moultrie Department of Community Supervision (DCS) office. Moore will explain the function of the DCS, which was created by the recent merging of parole and probation. She will address how the department handles coordination of services depending on the individual’s needs, and how the department facilitates transition to help ensure individuals are best prepared to integrate successfully back into the community. The public is invited.

 

Vince Dooley to speak at Elks Lodge

TIFTON, Ga. — Coach Vince Dooley will present his newest book, “The Legion’s Fighting Bulldog” from 11 a.m.—1 p.m. at the Elks Lodge, May 17. The book is the war correspondence of William Delony, lieutenant colonel of Cobb’s Georgia Legion Cavalry and Rosa Deloney, 1853-1863. It is the story of a lawyer turned Confederate officer and a window into the struggles of life on the battlefield and at home. Dooley graduated from Auburn and has always had a passion for history. Dooley will discuss the book and offer a book signing as well. Dooley, who coach the University of Georgia Bulldogs football team for 25 years, previously wrote a memoir, “Dooley: My 40 Years At Georgia.”