Entries by Staff Writer
ACES Show Choir sets dates for December concerts
The ACES Show Choir is one of the important Fine Arts at Appling County Elementary School. The ACES Show Choir is composed of 63 singers with Director Songja Cain. It is supported by Dr. Areatha Virgil, principal, Mrs. Debra Crosby, assistant principal, ACES faculty, staff, Show Choir parents, and the Appling County community. Each year the ACES Show Choir performs five or six concerts for the community and schools. This year the ACES Show Choir will be performing concerts for the community on Thursday, December 13, at 7:00 p.m. and for the school on Friday, December 14, at 8:30 a.m. The Spring Concert date will be announced later. The ACES Show Choir gives thanks for your support throughout the year.
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ACA Eagle basketball begins
The Appling Christian Academy Eagle (4-0 overall) basketball team started the season defeating Bible Baptist, non-varsity opponent, 67-5 on November 15. Leading scorers for the Eagles were Bryce Livingston 13 points, Dylan Colson 11 points, Luke White 10 points, Hunter Kicklighter nine points, Rex Cox eight points, Jordan Bland six points, Austin Carter six points and Wyatt Nail four points. Leading the team in assists was Cox with six with B. Livingston leading the team in rebounds with nine.
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Lady Eagles start season 3-0
The Appling County Lady Eagles (3-0 overall) basketball team started the season against Bible Baptist, non-varsity opponent, winning 50-3. Leading scorers for the Lady Eagles were Deanna Johnson 10 points, Lauren Beasley six points, Ambrasis Mims six points, Bethany Rivers six points, Victoria Cox four points, Sarah Dhaliwal four points, Alyssa Livingston four points, Samantha Mims four points, Sarah Wade four points and Sarah Brock two points. Leading the team with four assists were Beasley, Cox and Livingston. Leading rebounder was Johnson with eight.
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The things we do for our children
It wasn’t too long ago that I shared with you a story about coaching my son Jacob’s baseball team. Coaching was not necessarily something I aspired to do again, especially with my schedule. However, it worked out and I had a great time coaching again.
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Looking like Christmas
It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas around the City of Baxley. Sounds like it, too. I don’t know about the rest of you, but I love it. I love the lighted snowflakes on poles all around town. I love the church chimes playing Christmas carols. When I’m alone in my car, I love singing every Christmas song I know, including “Good King Wenceslas,” at the top of my lungs. I do have quite a repertoire because I’ve been memorizing songs for many Christmases now. (By the way, I don’t subject other people to my singing. I believe it’s okay to entertain myself, but not to make other folks suffer for my efforts.)
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Good intentions
My wife works for a company that requires her to travel often and it turned out she had to make a trip to Thomasville on the next Saturday morning and be there early to train a new hire. She asked if I would like to accompany her and that if I did we would go on Friday afternoon, go out on a date at a fancy restaurant and spend the night, sort of a mini-honeymoon. I do not like her to travel so much but there is little I can do about it and I could tell she wanted me to go with her so I agreed, and besides, it’s not often we get to go anywhere together overnight without the kids.
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Mamie Lou Ahl
Mamie Lou Ahl, 89, passed away Tuesday, November 27, at Pigeon Forge Care and Rehabilitation Center in Pigeon Forge, TN. She was a native of Appling County and a member of Bethesda Baptist Church in Dublin. She was preceded in death by her husband, James F. Ahl; parents, William E. and Lela Carter; four sisters, Zeda Carter, Bea Carter McClain, Molly Carter Holton and Audrey Carter Calloway and three brothers, Staten Carter, Willis Carter and Wade Carter.
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REVEREND BURLESTER “JUNIOR” LAMAR TILLMAN, JR.
On Nov. 19, 2012 the Lord called The Rev. Burlester “Junior” Lamar Tillman, Jr. home. He was born Nov. 25, 1944 in Baxley. He attended the public schools of Appling County and later went on to The Fort Valley State College, in Fort Valley. Furthering his education, he also attended Nursing School and Emory-Candler School of Theology of Atlanta. Burlester was one of the first EMT’s and Bus Drivers of Appling County.
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Luther Gordon “L.G.” Beecher
Luther Gordon “L.G.” Beecher, 80, passed away Sunday, November 18, at Candler Hospital in Savannah after an extended illness. He was a native and lifelong resident of Baxley. He was a Charter Member and Trustee of Faith Baptist Church where he taught the Senior Saints Sunday School Class since 1993. He was a former Deacon and Sunday School teacher for over 30 years at Friendship Congregational Christian Church. He loved his family, gardening, growing flowers with Mrs. Christine and riding his tractor. He enjoyed supplying friends and family with watermelon. He was an avid deer hunter and fisherman and he loved the Lord.
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Ruth Campbell
Ruth Campbell, 75, of Perry, died Wednesday, Nov. 28, 2012. Ms. Campbell was born Oct. 30, 1937 in Lakewells, FL to the late Clarence Malone Dawson and the late Corine Bundy Dawson. She was a member of The Refuge Assembly of God. Ruth was preceded in death by a daughter, Elizabeth Ann Campbell; two sons, Michael Lee Campbell and Anthony Wayne Campbell; one brother, William Earl Dawson and a former husband, Floyd Lee Campbell.
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Michael Rodney Tillman
Michael Rodney Tillman, 53, of Surrency, died Nov. 24, 2012 in a car accident in Baxley. Tillman is the son of the late James and Della Mae Tillman. Michael Rodney was born Nov. 16, 1959. He was a life long resident of Appling County. Michael was a graduate of the Journeyman Ironworkers and was a Union member of the local 709. In addition to his parents, his brother, Jimmy Tillman, preceded him in death.
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Freddie Lee Reynolds
Freddie Lee Reynolds died Nov. 20, 2012 at Wayne Memorial Hospital in Jesup. Freddie was born Oct. 3, 1941 in Jeff Davis County to the late Odell Bryant and Maggie Thomas-Reynolds.
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Seventeen indicted in local court
Judge E.M. Wilkes, III opened seventeen indictments in Appling County Superior Court on Nov. 20. The following subjects were indicted:
Chandler R. Byrd – 1. Aggravated assault. 2. Aggravated assault. 3. Possession of firearm during commission of a felony. 4. Discharge of gun near highway or street. 5. Reckless conduct. [Full Story »]
Chandler R. Byrd – 1. Aggravated assault. 2. Aggravated assault. 3. Possession of firearm during commission of a felony. 4. Discharge of gun near highway or street. 5. Reckless conduct. [Full Story »]
USDA Rural Development closing Baxley Area Office
On November 27, State USDA Rural Development Director Quinton Robinson announced the closure of the Baxley Rural Development Area Six Area Office which, has served the Southeast region of Georgia for over three decades. The closure is projected to be complete by Friday, December 7. Area Six operations will continue uninterrupted as the region’s sub-area offices in Statesboro, Blackshear and Douglas will remain open. The USDA Service Center located at 703 East Ward Street, Douglas, Georgia 30533 will be the new Area Office for Area Six.
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Premier of new television show to focus on murder of Nikki (Orvin) Bamberg
Acclaimed film production company Cosgrove Meurer Productions, established by John Cosgrove and Terry Meurer in 1987 with the creation of Unsolved Mysteries, will unveil its new television show, The Family That Slays Together, on Thursday, December 6 at 10:00 p.m. on the Biography Channel. The premiere episode, Let’s Play Pirate, will focus on the murder of Nikki (Orvin) Bamberg, only 28 at the time of the murder, of Baxley. The murder transpired in Jeff Davis County in January 2008 near the Altamaha River on Georgia Highway 135.
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