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FROM THE EDITOR Established March 1, 2000

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n this special issue of Statesboro Magazine, we’re featuring several ladies who have inspired us by their indomitable spirits and their outstanding accomplishments. They are our Inspiring Women. Meet Statesboro’s version of the Steel Magnolias, a special group of gracious ambassadors who volunteer their time and talents with our Chamber of Commerce. We also highlight Devra Walker, Statesboro’s Business Leader of the Year. Read inside about this woman of many talents, who along with her husband Lindsay owns several area businesses including Walker Pharmacy & Boutique, Walker Home Medical, and Brooklet Drug. Emily Eisenhart is doing great things for students at the Center for Addiction Recovery, part of the Jiann-Ping Hsu College of Public Health at Georgia Southern. Her program is making a real difference in the lives of many young people.

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You don’t want to miss our feature on Laura Lanier, entrepreneur extraordinaire and her unique lady’s boutiques or the story about Betty Franklin the writer and teacher who inspires future writers through her workshops. Regular columnist Ric Mandes has a special feature this issue on Joey Sanders – the county’s animal whisperer or maybe a better description is “Alligator Hunter!” We’re grateful to these inspiring women and the contributions they make to our community. Statesboro is a wonderful place because of the many dedicated ladies who have chosen to work and serve here. Enjoy!

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About the Cover Inspiring! Four beautiful women who volunteer time and talent as Statesboro’s ambassadors at the Chamber of Commerce: Meet (L-R) Margie Denmark, Mary Reddick, Kathryn Olliff, and Bennie Herring, surrounding very lucky local businessman Alex Brown, Sea Island Bank Treasury Management Services representative, and area sports writer. Captured by award winning photographer Frank Fortune.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

Features Womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Issue

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These Steel Magnolias Blossom Wr i t t en b y J e n n y S ta rl i n g F o s s Phot og r a p h y b y F ra n k F o rtu n e

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30 Betty Franklin Writing a Life Wr i t t en b y Ly n n L i l l y

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The Animal Whisperer Wr it t en by Ric Ma ndes

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4 Calendar of Events.............................................................. 8 The Spiritual Pathway News & Notes................................................................ 10 Written by Rev. Dr. H. William Perry............................................ 59 Look Around.................................................................... 62 The Write Place Written by Lois Griffin.................................................................. 61 Transitions........................................................................ 66 The Garden Gate

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Calendar

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Tremendous Tuskers Exhibit

Daylight Savings Time Spring Forward!

Saint Patrick’s Day

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7 Up With People! Statesboro High School 7:30 PM March 8 & 9

Harlem Globetrotters Statesboro High 6 PM – 8 PM

Ogeechee Tech iGot Fundraising Campaign

14 Lunch & Learn Garden of the Coastal Plain 12 PM – 1 PM

GSU Spring Break March 18 – 22

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Kiwanis Fairgrounds March 8 – 10

15 Chris Schenkel Golf Tournament FHCC March 15 – 17

22 Mill Creek Park Spring Season Opening 5 PM – 9 PM

26 VA Clinic Dedication 412 Northside Drive East 10 AM

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12Angry Jurors Emma Kelly Theater March 1 – 3

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28 Taste of Statesboro Belle House 5 PM – 7 PM

29 Garden of the Coastal Plain Spring Festival & Plant Sale 10 AM – 2 PM

GSU Museum Benefit Nessmith Lane Bldg. 7 PM

16 Chamber Gala GSU Nessmith Lane Bldg. 7 PM

23 Splashy’s Egg Dive Splash in the Boro 10 AM – Noon

30 2nd Annual Pink Power Run GSU RAC 7 PM

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Thursday 4 Lunch & Learn Garden of the Coastal Plain Noon – 1 PM

8 Bulloch County Public Schools Spring Holidays April 8 – 12

Splashy’s Fun Swim Splash in the Boro April 8 – 12 2 PM – 5 PM

Averitt Arts Center 6:30 PM

Wine Moonlight & Magnolias Garden of the Coastal Plain 7 PM – 9:30 PM

Earth Day

Splashy’s Youth Triathlon Splash in the Boro 2 PM

Kiwanis Rodeo April 5 & 6 7:30 PM Fairgrounds

6 ARtsFEsT @ GSU Sweetheart Circle 11 AM – 5 PM

Emma Kelly Theater, 7:30 PM

Relay for Life Kiwanis Fairgrounds 7 PM

Exchange Club Shoot-Out @ Hacker’s April 25 – 27

SBCPRD Summer Camp & Sports Registration Day Honey Bowen Bldg 3:30 PM – 5:30 PM

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GSU Spring Game & EFAA Raffle 6 PM

Chamber of Commerce Business After Hours, Citizen’s Bank, 5 PM

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Main Street Farmers Market Opens April 6 th Each Saturday 9 AM-12:30 PM Sea Island Bank Parking Lot Downtown March/April 2013 • 9

NEWS & NOTES

GSU Marching P r i d e D r umm e r s on Letterman’s Show March 14 th

Four drummers from the Georgia Southern University Southern Pride Marching Band will accompany country music singer, songwriter, and Georgia Southern alumnae Elizabeth Cook when she performs on the Late Show with David Letterman on March 14, 2013. The show will air that evening at 11:35 p.m. ET/10:35 p.m. CT on CBS. The Marching Band members who will perform with Cook include: Sergio Arreguin, junior, Music Education (Baxley, GA); Trey Exley, senior, Exercise Science (Rincon, GA); Jose Morales, senior, Communication Arts (Richmond Hill, GA); Jimmy Rotureau, junior, Nursing (Guyton, GA). Cook currently hosts, “Apron Strings”, weekday mornings on Sirius XM’s Outlaw Country channel. Her latest EP, Gospel Plow, is some of her favorite Southern Gospel songs (well, six Gospel songs and a cover of Velvet Underground’s “Jesus”). Cook is a 1996 graduate of Georgia Southern with dual degrees in Accounting and Computer Information Systems. The Georgia Southern band members will depart for New York on March 12 and will rehearse with Cook on March 13. Cook recently traveled back to Statesboro for an initial rehearsal with the drummers at Allen E. Paulson Stadium. While in New York, the band members will attend a Broadway show and visit some historical sites to add an educational component to the trip. For more information about Elizabeth Cook, visit: www.elizabeth-cook.com. For more information on the Late Show with David Letterman, visit: www.cbs.com/shows/late_show. 10 • Statesboro Magazine

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On Thursday, January 17th, National Multiple Sclerosis Society Georgia Chapter President Roy Rangel visited the Sigma Nu house on Georgia Southern’s campus to thank fraternity members and to participate in the ceremonial hand-off of a check for over $4,700 raised at a benefit concert organized and sponsored by the Theta Kappa Chapter last fall. The ∑nd MS Benefit was coordinated by Brian Griffin with help from members and friends. The concert featured Orange Constant, Luzana Flores, and the Wally Brown Band. “This was the event’s first year, but based on the success and popularity we plan on making this an annual event,” said Robbie Brannen, GSU junior and chapter Commander for Sigma Nu fraternity.

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Statesboro Bulloch County Parks & Recreation Department’s season opener, Spring into Spring will be held on Friday, March 22nd from 5:00 P.M. – 9:00 P.M. at Mill Creek Park. Opening ceremonies for baseball, softball, and soccer will be held during the celebration, along with a fabulous fireworks display. A parade of teams and exhibition games will also be held. An outdoor movie feature will be shown after the fireworks. www.bullochrec.com

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Elephants and Their Extinct Relatives of the Coastal Plain & Beyond

Visit the Ice Age, when mastodons and mammoths roamed Georgia. Learn why tusks are so special and what scientists can learn from them. Explore the fascinating animals that lived alongside these titans. Investigate what caused their extinction, whether our ancestors had any part in it and meet some of their more unusual relatives at the Georgia Southern Museum. Curated by Dr. Katy Smith, Georgia Southern Museum Curator of Paleontology. The exhibit is featured February 5th – May 5th. ceps.georgiasouthern.edu/museum/

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Receives Top Hospital Recognition

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East Georgia Regional Medical Center has been ranked once again, as a top hospital. Georgia Trend, The Magazine of Georgia Business, Politics and Economic Development Since 1985, ranked East Georgia Regional as one of the top 20 medium-sized hospitals in the state of Georgia. The hospital groups were assembled by similar size and mission, and then compared with their peer institutions. The data that was used to compile the rankings is based on publically reported information about the hospital’s quality of care, patient satisfaction, mortality and readmission statistics, and quantitative data on hospitalacquired infections and conditions. Other recognitions East Georgia Regional Medical Center received within the last year for their quality of care include “Top Performer” recognition from the Joint Commission (one of only 244 hospitals nation-wide to receive this distinction two years in a row), and the Georgia Hospital Association’s Quality Honor Roll placement in the Chairman’s Category (one of only 17 hospitals in the state). www.eastgeorgiaregional.com

Governor Deal Honors Georgia Southern’s ROTC Eagle Battalion

Georgia Southern’s ROTC Eagle Battalion was recently honored at the State Capitol by Georgia Governor Nathan Deal and Statesboro area lawmakers. The cadets were recognized for winning the 2013 Ranger Challenge which tests physical endurance and mental agility. The two day competition in January included marksmanship and land navigation and a 13-mile course testing their technical and tactical skills. Georgia Southern President Brooks Keel, Ph.D., Russell Keen from the University’s Office of Government Relations and Community Engagement, Eagle Battalion Commander LTC Gary Morea and the cadets were congratulated by Gov. Nathan Deal, Sen. Jack Hill, Rep. Jan Tankersley, Rep. Jon Burns and Rep. Butch Parrish. Lt. Gov. Casey Cagle, who attended Georgia Southern, said it was an honor to recognize the ROTC cadets for winning the Ranger Challenge. The Eagle Battalion also received resolutions from lawmakers in the state House and Senate. The Eagle Battalion will compete in the International Sandhurst Competition at the U.S. Military Academy in April. www.georgiasouthern.edu.

2 0 1 3 R o y F. P o w e l l A wa r d s f o r C r e at i v e Writing Announced by Department of Writing & Linguistics at GSU

Named for the first creative writing teacher at Georgia Southern, the Roy Powell Awards for Creative Writing are offered by The Department of Writing and Linguistics to encourage and recognize excellence in creative writing. Winners of the Roy F. Powell Awards receive $ 100, a framed award certificate and recognition at the University’s Honors Day ceremonies on April 3rd. In addition, their work is published in Miscellany, the campus literary arts magazine.

This year’s winners are : Jared Sharpe— poetry Jared Sharp is the winner of the Poetry category with his poems “To Grow”, “Sleep Them Off” and “What Dream he Gave,” judged by Department Professor Emma Bolden. Efadul Hug — fiction Efadul Hug is the winner of the Fiction category with his piece “Ghosts,” judged by Department Professor Laura Valeri.

Taylor Tyson — creative nonfiction Taylor Tyson is the winner of the Creative 2nd Annual Pink Power Run Nonfiction The Statesboro-Bulloch County Breast Cancer Foundation category with will sponsor the second annual Pink Power 5K Run on Saturhis piece “3.5 day, March 30th at the Georgia Southern RAC Pavilion located Pounds,” judged off of Old Register Road. Participants have until March 23rd to by Department register early for a reduced rate plus commemorative t-shirt at Professor Theresa Welford. www.active.com. Race day onsite registration begins at 7:00 A.M. Race starts at 8:00 A.M. The awards ceremony will begin For more information on the at 9:30 A.M. For more information contact Race Chair Pat Roy F. Powell Awards visit http://class.georgiasouthern.edu/writing/ Patterson at 912.764.PINK. March/April 2013 • 11

For the Statesboro Bulloch County Chamber of Commerce, these Steel Magnolias are always in bloom.

by Jenny Starling Foss photos by Frank Fortune

Peggy Chapman, former President of the Statesboro Bulloch County Chamber reflected, “2006 was one of the busiest years the Chamber and Development Authority ever had. We had over 1,000 business members in the Chamber and the staff needed some help and support with our business meetings and events. I always loved the movie, Steel Magnolias, and when I would think of a true “Steel Magnolia” in Statesboro, Ms. Libba Smith always came to mind. Ms. Libba and all of her friends were very active and involved in everything in the community and most of all they were fun! I made several phone calls to some of Ms. Libba’s pals and presented the idea of them becoming the welcoming committee at all our events. They loved the idea! “When I told them we wanted them to dress alike at out events, the fun started. Oh my goodness, it took them f-o-r-e-v-e-r to decide on the color of those first outfits. Being true “Steel Magnolias” they are all very opinioned and not at all shy about voicing their opinions, especially to each other. They finally worked out the best color and the Steel Magnolias were born! They were an immediate hit with everyone. Kathryn Olliff, Mary Reddick, Margie Denmark and Bennie Herring were involved from the very beginning and others have joined along the way. They are the true ambassadors of the Statesboro-Bulloch Chamber of Commerce and have done so much to help the organization better serve the business community. These women love life and continue to have fun….lots of fun!” Southern Hospitality ‹‹ March/April 2013 • 13

Margie Denmark “In 2006, when Roxanne Kibler was doing membership, she got together several ladies who were retired to form a group. Once a month we met and discussed all the calls we had made on Chamber businesses. We were assigned different businesses. I had to drop out for awhile when my husband was sick but I recently came back to take Mary Demmond’s place.”

“I was born in 1935 at the old Bulloch Hospital. I graduated from Statesboro High School in 1953 and went to Georgia Southern for a year and a half. My first job out of high school was with the ASCS (Agriculture Stabilization and Conservation Service) agency. Miles Frank Deal was the chair. I worked for him five or six years. “My husband Gene, (Eugene L. Denmark), grew up in Denmark, GA. He graduated from Nevils High School in 1950. He worked as a car salesman for Franklin Chevrolet for 22 years. He worked for Altman Pontiac for 10 years then he went to work as a bailiff with the Bulloch County Sheriff’s Department for 10 years. He passed away in 2008. 14 • Statesboro Magazine ›› Southern Hospitality

“We lived in Statesboro until 1995, in Bel Air for 35 years. They allowed me to keep my health insurance until Medicare. We also had a farm in Denmark with a cabin. It got to be where It’s one of the top companies in the nation.” If there was any aspect of the job Margie loved more than Gene wanted to spend more and more time at the cabin and it was hard keeping two homes going, so we built a house out her banking family, it was her customers. “I’ve been retired for 15 years and I still have dear friends from the bank days who there in 1996 on Denmark Lane,” Margie said. When Margie left the ASCS office, she worked for Southern call me. One lady brings me a cake every Christmas,” she said. “That’s the main thing I missed when I retired,” Margie Discount Finance Company for 15 – 20 years. You may remember her from Sea Island Bank where she served in various continued. “I’m a people person. I like to be around people.” As a Steel Magnolia, Margie gets to keep in touch with positions from 1971 until 1997. “I was a loan secretary, an auditor, and a new accounts clerk,” she said. “I worked with banking friends and make new ones at chamber functions where Harriett Cavendar, Everitt Williams, and Hal Averitt. I worked she greets guests and registers them for drawings and prizes. One of the original group of ladies who started the Steel with Wayne (Akins) when he first got out of college.” Margie said she survived four computer conversions during Magnolias, Margie recently returned after having taken leave for her career, and she felt she was doing the bank a favor by leaving so a couple of years to care for her husband. “I’m glad to be back. I’ve never lived anywhere else. This is younger minds could take over. She loved her job and the people she worked with so much she could have worked on and on. She a wonderful town to live in and to retire in too,” Margie said. It’s easy to see why people are still drawn to Margie; her rule remembers Chad Wiggins teasing her when she finally retired, “I was about to think you never would give up and go home!” for making friends is simple: “Do unto others as you would have She didn’t really want to leave, “We had a fabulous banking them do unto you.” family, excellent benefits, great profit sharing and retirement.

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Bennie Herring

“It started in 2006, Peggy Chapman got us together. We gave ourselves the name Steel Magnolias. We gave calculators as gifts for Chamber members. We took them around to businesses for hospitality and to show the members our appreciation.”

“It was 1956 and Rockwell was coming to town. I don’t remember the chamber being a big deal then. Statesboro had apartments and office buildings. There was a house where Ag South is now. I leased it from Mrs. Cromartie. Then we moved to Zetterower Avenue in 1958 where Teresa’s Alterations was located. (Editor’s note: Teresa’s Alterations was destroyed by fire in May of 2012). Just before Rockwell arrived, my husband came back from the Nic Nac Grill. He said for me to write a check for $200 to the Chamber of Commerce. Office visits were $3.00 then and $200 was a lot of money. He said it would be the best money we would spend except for our tithe. He said the chamber put people to work. Since then I have always been a chamber member,” she said. 16 • Statesboro Magazine ›› Southern Hospitality

Bennie Hinson Herring attended school in Louisville, GA. She graduated from the Georgia State College for Women in Milledgeville, GA, in 1950 and did her practice teaching at Peabody, and then student taught in Soperton, GA. She moved to Commerce to attend graduate school at UGA and commuted. She taught in Eastman, GA, too, and there a good friend tried to get her to go out with Dr. Ken Herring. They dated and immediately hit it off. Bennie is a big kidder with a good sense of humor and a great sense of fun. “I was a kidder, but I would have run to Timbuktu for him.” They married six weeks later with rings Ken bought on sale in Indianapolis on a business trip. Bennie said, “That didn’t matter. I would have worn it through my nose.” They moved to Statesboro and opened K. R. Herring Chiropractic Clinic. For 35 years Bennie worked beside her husband as his assistant with the patients, plus she ran the front office. Dr. Herring sold the practice to Dr. Ben Odom in 1990. The Herrings continued to work along with Dr. Odom until 1997, when illness brought about Dr. Herring’s retirement.

“I did all the hiring in the front office, and I hired Dr. Odom before he took his state boards. He made the greatest impression on me. I went to see the Ryans as soon as they came too, because that’s the way you did. We were all connected.” “Statesboro is a good college town. If you’re running any business always do a good job and be good to people and everything works out. Step away from making money and look at the big picture – providing people with good service,” Bennie said. She finds it rewarding to still be an active part of the chamber after so many years, “I like the feeling that I’m helping. I like the comradery with the old businesses and the opportunity to encourage the new ones. It’s a great place and people are always glad to be here,” she said. She’s still a chamber member. Her associate dues are $100 per year. Bennie thinks it is money well spent. “I just personally believe in the chamber. I don’t even shop at stores that aren’t chamber members. People just starting out should definitely join,” she said. “All little towns hurt for business sometimes. The chamber’s a very worthwhile organization.”

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Kathryn Olliff

“It keeps us connected and gets us out into the community. I enjoy the people we meet and the comradery. I also enjoy associating with the many young business men and women.”

“I went to Appling County High School in Baxley, GA, and graduated in 1942. I took some business courses and then I decided to go to nursing school. I worked eight hours a day and studied for four more. After I became a nurse I moved to Statesboro from Atlanta to help my sister, Arlette, who had just had twin girls. They were born weighing 3.5 lbs. and 4.5 lbs. “Arlette and Ken lived on Grady Street. I met my husband, (Sollie Edward Olliff), while I was here helping my sister. Dr. Bird Daniel asked me to work for him at his family practice and Ed and I got married in 1948 while I was working there. I worked there for five years until I was expecting our daughter, Claire. “Ed was in the insurance business and in real estate, too. He was co-owner of Hill & Olliff Insurance 18 • Statesboro Magazine ›› Southern Hospitality

& Realty with Tiny Hill,” Kathryn said. He retired after 35 years of owning the business. The independent agency of Hill & Olliff later merged with Johnston Insurance to become Lee, Hill & Johnston Insurors, now located on Savannah Avenue. For 16 years, Kathryn owned her own needle work business in a shopping plaza across from Crossroads Motel (now Deluxe Inn) on North Main Street. There she taught fine needle work until Amy Floyd purchased the business from her, and later opened The Crafty Lady on Broad Street. Kathryn now volunteers at her church, Statesboro First United Methodist, in the office one day a week. She enjoys an active social life meeting often for lunch with a close group of friends; supporting the arts at the Averitt Center and the Performing Arts Center at GSU; and supporting the Gardens of the Coastal Plain at the university. Kathryn, along with friend Mary Reddick, have both served on the board of directors and been staunch supporters of the Boys & Girls Club since its founding. Kathryn especially enjoys the time she spends with chamber members. “I really enjoy the people I meet and the comradery of the ladies. I especially enjoy the association with the young business men and women. We get to know

them over time and when they walk into an event, it’s nice not to have to ask their names when we’re making their nametag,” she said. Over the years, Kathryn has gotten to know so many community people she feels, “It’s nice to keep seeing these people. They share photos of their families and special events like weddings. I really look forward to it. I’d be disappointed if they didn’t come.” She also enjoys being invited as a guest each year, along with the other Steel Magnolias, to the Chamber of Commerce Annual Meeting and to the Gala each spring. “It makes me feel like I’m still a part of the community,” Kathryn said. Inspiration for Kathryn comes from a poem shared by her friend Alice Christmas: Drinking from the Saucer by John Paul Moore. The first two stanzas: I’ve never made a fortune, And I’ll never make one now, But it really doesn’t matter, ‘Cause I’m happy anyhow. As I go along my journey, I’m reaping better than I’ve sowed, I’m drinking from the saucer, Cause my cup has overflowed.

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Mary Reddick

“Peggy Chapman asked me to help form the group in 2006. I like it because you get to keep up with the new businesses and you get to meet them and talk about Statesboro and Bulloch County.”

“Carl and I moved here in 1963 from Pavo, GA, with Farm Bureau. Janet was four at the time, and Chuck was ten. We lived on Grady Street next to Inman and Jackie Foy, Ruby McElveen, the Olliffs, and Helen Mathis. We had good neighbors; no fences. We lived close to Sallie Z. for one year then we moved to Edgewood Acres. “I didn’t work for the first three years then Mr. Wallis Cobb, Carl’s Sunday school teacher and the president of Bulloch County Bank, asked if I might be interested in a part time job. The part time job soon became fulltime. I had some banking experience from my hometown. At Bulloch County Bank, which became First Bulloch, I worked my way up from a teller position to public relations and I retired as Vice President in August of 1995 after 30 years in banking,” she said. 20 • Statesboro Magazine ›› Southern Hospitality

At First Bulloch Bank, Mary was in charge of community relations, creating customer promotions and events for the downtown main office and all the bank’s branches, which at that time included Fair Road, the Statesboro Mall, and Portal locations. Mary planned the annual Christmas celebration and Emma Kelly played the piano in the bank’s main office. She organized a downtown Halloween festival each year including a pumpkin parade for children down South Main Street. She planned pig pickin’s and hayrides; anniversary celebrations and customer appreciation events. Throughout her banking career, Mary represented the bank at chamber functions as well. Back in Pavo, GA, Mary dated Carl for seven years before they married. She affectionately refers to Carl as a “card.” He loved to tease Mary and he loved to tell her that if she really loved him she would give him the combination to the bank’s safe. Carl Reddick opened Carl Reddick Insurance Agency at #7 Simmons Shopping Center in 1968, a successful independent insurance business still operating today in its 45th year under managing agent Whit James. “I didn’t know what I wanted to do when I retired.

Chuck and Whit James bought the insurance business. I took an accounting course from Cindy Mills at Ogeechee Tech. Now I do the accounting for this office and Chuck’s law office in Homerville, GA.” Mary related. “I just love accounting. My first job right out of high school at 16-years-old was with Greene Banking Company. We tellers double posted every transaction with a debit and a credit.” Mary said, “We were blessed to move to Statesboro. We were told back then that Claxton was the center of Carl’s territory. Carl and I rode to Claxton, but I told him I didn’t want to live where a train ran through the middle of town. So we checked out Statesboro. We met Sarah and Stan Miller and Mary Bennett and J. Robert Smith, Carl and Camilla Boyd, John and Kate Martin, a lot of good people. We decided to move here.” Mary has a couple of favorite sayings about how to live life in general: ““We should plan and work as if we will live forever. We should live as if we will die tomorrow.” And another favorite: “We do not stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.”

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“This is my daughter, Devra, and she can do anything she wants to do,” Uldene Proctor said as she introduced her daughter to a hospital visitor. When Devra Proctor Walker was 19 years old, she came home to Wayne County from the University of Georgia for one quarter to care for her mother who was in the hospital in Savannah with terminal breast cancer. Devra took her mother’s words to heart and has always tried to live up to the faith Uldene placed in her abilities. Devra said of her mother, “She gave me the desire to do my best.” Devra grew up in Jesup, GA, the daughter of Emerson and Uldene Proctor, distant relatives to the Bulloch County Proctors. She remembers visiting nearby Stilson as a child, both parents having been reared there. Devra met her husband, Lindsay Walker, in junior high school in Jesup, childhood sweethearts; they started dating while attending Wayne County High School. Lindsay graduated from WCHS in 1977 and Devra followed in 1979. Both left Jesup to attend the University of Georgia in Athens, Lindsay graduating from Pharmacy School in 1982 and Devra graduating with a degree in Accounting from the Terry College of Business in 1983. Devra was a university scholar graduating summa cum laude with a 4.0 GPA and being honored as a First Honor Graduate,

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one of only ten in the graduating class to be individually recognized. She continued her education in graduate school maintaining her perfect GPA and earning a Masters of Accountancy. She and Lindsay were married in 1984 and had passed their state boards and were looking for a location to open a family pharmacy. Both felt that Jesup was too small of a town for them; Lindsay liked Athens and wanted to remain there, while Devra preferred something in between. Debra was familiar with Statesboro from her childhood visits to Stilson so they compromised and moved to Bulloch County. In the first year of their marriage, Lindsay worked with one carpenter to open the first Walker Pharmacy on Northside Drive West, while Devra worked as a CPA at a local accounting firm. Devra served as the new store’s buyer and the chief financial officer while Lindsay served as head pharmacist and store manager. Devra continued to handle her multiple roles for nine years until the birth of their first son, Jordan, in 1989. She contemplated giving up her CPA job to concentrate on her newborn and the family business, but her employer made arrangements to accommodate her by offering her a flexible part time schedule. The family continued to grow as Jordan was followed in 1992 by brother, Brandon, and a third son, Griffin, in 1997. The Walkers started their first store with just five employees,

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but over the past 29 years have grown their business to five stores with 80 employees. A children’s clothing store, Little Doses, was opened in 1994 next to the pharmacy on Highway 80, followed by a small shopping plaza adjoining the property which housed a coin laundry and Triple Play Café, a children’s baseball concept restaurant. Devra credits husband Lindsay with having the entrepreneurial spirit it has taken to expand the family businesses. “His daddy, R. L. Walker, was a business owner, and Lindsay always wanted to be a professional and own his own business as well,” she said. The Walkers opened a second pharmacy location in the Main Street Village in 2001 along with an adjoining home medical supply store to complement the pharmacy. The Main Street Village location also had a counter where lunch was served in an old time soda fountain atmosphere. In addition to the fountain, children’s clothing, housewares, ladies clothing and accessories, and jewelry lines were added. Also in 2001, Brooklet Drug Store was being sold by College Pharmacy. Devra and Lindsay loved the downtown location and wanted Brooklet residents to continue to have access to their own drugstore. So the Walkers bought Brooklet Drug and were suddenley opening two stores at one time!

As in all types of business, there were some challenges and transitions over the years. Triple Play was closed and the home medical supply store was located there for a while; the Walker’s offices located into that spot when Walker Home Medical moved to the Main Street Village. Today Walker Pharmacy & Boutique has a new free standing two-story anchor store in the Main Street Village across from the Hampton Inn & Suites. They’ve moved the business offices upstairs and are now able to expand Walker Home Medical on Highway 80. A second home medical store is located in Savannah. Through it all, Devra believes they’ve been very blessed. “I believe you should do your best and do the best for others. Put God first and watch the blessings flow. We have done some things because of our faith. We are not open on Sundays. We never have. We believe Sunday is a day of rest. We want our 26 • Statesboro Magazine ›› From Here To There

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employees to be able to go to church with their families. I think we’ve been blessed for that,” she said. Devra also surrounds herself with the best people she can find. When a local financial institution closed recently, Devra was fortunate to hire Bo Fennell, Amy Taulbee, and Tammy Phillips. “They’re all good people. They have banking philosophy and great customer service skills. They understand that it’s all about helping people,” Devra said. Bo is in charge of the home medical portion of the company and also finance. Amy started as store manager, but has since moved upstairs to do marketing, community relations, retail operations and advertising. Lindsay’s brother Derek Procter is also a valuable part of the home medical division. Another key employee, Kayla Allmond, worked for the Walkers at Little Doses while in college. When she graduated she left Statesboro for another job. According to Devra, “She was miserable so she came back to work with us.” She started with Little Doses and now manages the retail parts of both stores. What enables Devra to manage so much? “What I love about my job is I get to use my degree and do other things too. I can use my creativity to make jewelry. I like buying for the stores. I can look at numbers and spreadsheets, and then go downstairs and move displays. I like and need variety. I love the business. I love that we have a family business,” Devra said. In addition to her work and her family, Devra also serves her church, Statesboro Primitive Baptist, on the Growth & Renewal and the Building committees.

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She has served on the board of directors for Bulloch Academy, the Bulloch County Development Authority, and a local bank. She is a Statesboro Service League sustainer, having served as president. And, she has been honored by The Professional Women of Statesboro as Business Woman of the Year. In 2013, she was voted Business Leader of the Year by the Statesboro Bulloch County Chamber of Commerce. Devra feels blessed and at the same time she said, “Sometimes amazed.”

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Devra summed it all up, “I would not be able to do a fraction of the things I do without Lindsay supporting and working beside me. We are truly a team in all aspects of our lives and God has blessed us beyond all we could have imagined. We both know everything we have comes from God and we try to live in such a way that reflects that.” Her mother was right, Devra can do anything, because she knows that with God’s help, all things are possible. n

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he laugh. If you’ve ever met Betty Franklin, that’s what you’ll remember about her. You’ll remember that it’s lilting and musical. (After all, she sang with the Atlanta Symphony’s Robert Shaw when she was working on a PhD at Emory.) You’ll remember that it comes easily and often. And, most of all, you’ll remember that it lights up her eyes and her face and her whole body. That’s because Betty Franklin isn’t usually laughing about a joke (though she good at telling them), or poking fun (though there’s a sweet streak of self-deprecating humor in her). Betty Franklin is laughing with pure, childlike joy at the interchange of ideas. Conversation for her is a never-ending Christmas morning of gift-wrapped ideas that you’re opening together, giggling in delight to explore whatever is inside. Spend ten minutes with Franklin, and you walk away knowing something new or thinking about the familiar a little (or a lot) differently, and anticipating the chance to share what you’ve heard with someone else. The topic might be her former students at Baltimore’s Goucher College or her belly dancing class, the sounds of insects on her backyard pond or the hopes of people she met on the National Mall at President Obama’s second inauguration. This creative ability to spark fresh thinking is a gift Franklin honed in her own writing, theater and art. She committed to teaching it to a generation of students, and – luckily for those who know her – she invariably brings that artist’s mind to all of life. She puts it simply, “I come to people wanting to know how they know what they know and what it means to them… and coming to that with a sense of generosity.”

Writing, can openers, and a sense of generosity Right now, Betty Franklin’s ideas, approach, and appreciative laugh are the spark that illuminates and ignites the Creative Nonfiction Writer’s Workshop at the Statesboro Regional Public Library. The eight week program, born of Franklin’s experience at The Write Place writer’s festival last fall, brings together new and longtime writers eager to explore their creativity, get memories onto paper, and share in a like-minded community. Franklin has dubbed the group “The Can Openers”, a metaphor she borrowed from the group’s first night of writing. “We’re going to open up a lot of things,” she says. The power of the group’s efforts is crystal clear to Franklin. “Writing holds still your thoughts, so you can look at them, go back and look at them, and work with them. It’s to look at all those wonderful reaches of the human experience, of the whole world, and of connecting with others.” Writers in the packed class, as well as past students from five colleges, dozens of public schools, and countless community groups have benefitted from – and genuinely praise – what they’ve learned and how they’ve been changed by working with Franklin.

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WHEN THE ROLE IS CALLED UP YONDER I have moved among worlds of change, constant and unfolding. I bring what I know to you in these written fragments, frail imitations of thought and conversation. I remember great childhood affinity with Abraham, the Old Testament traveler, who had learned that God was everywhere, not just anchored to one neighborhood in Canaan. Home, I reasoned easily, could be anywhere as well, and like my parents, I set out to new schools, new friends, new realms of knowing. Now, in my adult life, especially in my writing, I return to these places and times with an awareness of suppressed longing, with the knowledge of going a little too far away and for too long.

I KNOW YOU ANGER I know you anger it is a family pet nourished at times from table scraps then again snatching away banquets leaving us hungry and malnourished. It has slept in the bed lumping its largeness as a barricade shifting restlessly struggling for its privileged space. It sheds terribly leaves mementos in the rug, the sofa howls when we have turned it out wanting a respite from its presence its dark possessive power. I have grasped talismans against it been vaccinated against the predictable poisons honored it too much it is time to go. The Culture ‹‹ March/April 2013 • 31

Flashback : B orn storyteller , Peruvian diarist This is where the plot line of Franklin’s story needs a flashback. This teacher, author, Fulbright scholar, activist, dramatist, storyteller, poet, and singer came to this moment from years spent making art of life and life of art. Franklin’s mother tells of her threeyear-old daughter making up stories to entertain the neighborhood children, and Betty calls herself a lifelong choral singer. By education, however, she’s a scientist and educator. There’s an undergraduate degree in nutrition from Berry College in north Georgia, followed by two master’s degrees from the University of Alabama. They prepared her to return as a professor to Berry, then Floyd College (now part of Georgia Highlands). It was the early 70s when Franklin took to the classroom, a time when America was reimagining its approach to education and social responsibility, and she was a participant in one of the movement’s pioneering programs, Head Start. She brought the era’s sense of activism into her teaching. “I spent a lot of time integrating what’s going on in the community and the world…into classes in human development and psychology and education. It was always in a political and social context. It was about making things better.” At that point, Franklin began to realize the potential of the arts to help her students question and evolve their beliefs. “What art does is show you that things don’t have to be the way they are,” she explains. “Sometimes you are resonating with what you read or what you’re seeing on stage…and sometimes you are affronted and very defensive about what you know, but begin to struggle with it in a new way that you would not have seen without the experience of art.” It was during a Fulbright Scholarship in Peru when Franklin discovered her own writing could be a tool of insight for others. “I would keep a diary every day. People would ask about things that might be in that diary and begin passing it around… And I got a sense of my own personal life being publicly useful in all that.” activist and

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She receives phone calls every week from parents who are concerned and from bright college students whose academic careers have been derailed by addiction to drugs and/or alcohol. A great listener with an open heart and a humble, sincere demeanor, she listens to each story of challenges and set-backs with a sympathetic ear and a willingness to help. The students are usually naturally smart, the ones in her charge who are returning to school after being sidetracked by addiction. Most have lived the partying lifestyle and are recovering from the aftermath, dedicated to getting their lives back on track. These good students who are in recovery need a community of support while attending Georgia Southern University. As director of the Center for Addiction Recovery (CAR) in the Jiann-Ping Hsu College of Public Health (JPHCOPH) at Georgia Southern University, supported in part by the Willingway Foundation, Emily Eisenhart is able to offer her students a safe and sustaining environment in which they can thrive. Before becoming CAR’s director, Eisenhart never thought she would one day work in the professional vein of recovery. When she graduated magna cum laude from the Grady School of Journalism at the University of Georgia in 2007, her concentration was in research methods and health journalism. Moving back to Statesboro, Eisenhart accepted a sales position at the Holiday Inn, and credits local hotelier Doug Lambert, a College of Business Administration advisory board member, with reintroducing her to the community and improving her business acumen. She continued on to graduate school at Georgia Southern, strengthening her research background and maintaining a 4.0 GPA while earning a master’s degree in the Social Sciences in 2011.

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Eisenhart wanted to enter a doctoral research program next. A Statesboro native, and the daughter of GSU professors, Henry and Nanette Eisenhart, she said, “When I graduated, I thought I would leave the area and go get a PhD.” While contemplating her next academic step, she applied for the director’s position at the newly founded CAR. “After a series of interviews, I got the job,” Eisenhart related. “I came in and immediately fell in love with the students.” The idea for the Center for Addiction Recovery came from Dr. Bobby Mooney, Medical Director of Willingway Hospital and son of founders Dr. John and Dot Mooney. A trip to Texas Tech University several years ago included a visit to the Center for the Study of Addiction and Recovery (CSAR). Dr. Mooney was impressed with the organization’s goals and the success rate of the students involved.

Now in its fifth year, the program serves as one of 15 support systems for university students within the U.S.” Inspired by the program at Texas Tech, Dr. Mooney approached Dr. Charles J. Hardy, founding dean of the JPHCOPH at GSU, about starting a recovery support system for students at Georgia Southern. The idea of reaching out to a population of students in need of counsel and guidance during recovery matched the JPHCOPH’s mission of improving the health of underserved populations. Now in its fifth year, the program serves as one of only 15 such support systems for university students within the U.S. The only other such program in Georgia is located at Kennesaw State University in North Georgia. CAR operates under the leadership of Dean Greg Evans with support funding from individual donors, the GSU Foundation and the Willingway Foundation. To qualify for the program, students must have at least six months of continuous sobriety. Participation is confidential. CAR is not a twelve-step treatment program of recovery, but a center for recovery and academic support for students. “Addiction is the nation’s number one public health problem,” related Eisenhart. “159,000 college freshmen drop out each year because of substance abuse, while 1,400 will die from alcohol related injuries.” These statistics indicate a strong need for the support offered at CAR. “We’ve been able to offer a

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close network that supports and encourages each other,” Eisenhart said. The average age of those enrolled is 24, with a grade point average of 3.7. “The students are some of the brightest and very driven,” stated Eisenhart. “We find that recovering alcoholics and addicts are very determined once support and structure are in place.” She works closely with the 35 students currently enrolled in the program. Every week Eisenhart conducts seminars for the students on issues relating to recovery such as academic planning and goal setting. She also works with focus groups, conducts surveys, and along with the students, provides community education. CAR students are required to provide community service as part of completing the program. Eisenhart related, “A huge part of recovery is service. Each student is required to provide 200 hours during their time with us.” Community service includes motivational talks at local high schools and at the university. “It helps the students to see themselves as part of a bigger picture,” Eisenhart related, “those who provide community service are more likely to achieve long term recovery.” Eisenhart has also taken students on a study-abroad trip to Ghana in West Africa. There the group helped to mobilize recovery resources in the poverty stricken country. “Each of the students who went raised their own sponsorship money for the trip,” Eisenhart said. “It was cool to work with students in an environment not dominated by revelry.” CAR students are also awarded $15,000 each year in scholarships or “service awards,” based on demonstrated excellence in academics and service and also based on financial need. So far the success rate has been very high. Eisenhart stated, “All of the program students who graduated last year went on to graduate school or were hired.” She loves the program and the positive results she has seen, so much so, she is now pursuing a DrPH in Public Health at GSU. Since addiction recovery research is still in its infancy, Eisenhart’s work will be instrumental in documenting what makes these populations succeed

post-graduation. What impedes progress? What helps? She’s in a great position to find out. Eisenhart is passionate about providing those with substance-use disorders the support they need to succeed in the next phase of life. “The best part of this job is meeting with the students one on one and hearing what everyone has going on,” she said. “It’s great to figure out how to pool resources to help them all meet their maximum potential.”

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A walk into one of her shops is like walking into a stylish sister’s closet. Bright, textured, garments drape on hangers along chrome racks in coordinated groupings on walls and on stands across the sales floor. Five inch high heels share table top space with bejeweled flats and coordinating envelope clutches. Costume jewelry displays are scattered around the store like little treasure troves. Other girly accessories such as sunglasses and scarves in every color are grouped as collections here and there. Every item is in place. Every piece is displayed. Every vignette is an eye-pleasing showcase of the latest in top fashion finds. Laura Lanier has a passion for fashion. Laura Jarrett (Loftis) Lanier wasn’t always directly involved in the world of fashion, but she understood about dressing for success. Her first career began in state politics when the 33-year-old native of Augusta, GA, graduated with a BA in political science from the University of Georgia in 2000. A campaign volunteer during college, Laura was offered a job as campaign manager for the late Congressman Charlie Norwood, a Republican from Augusta, after graduation. Laura managed the 2000 and 2002 congressional campaigns of Norwood and worked for other local and state candidates who needed help during that time. It was while working for Norwood Laura met State Senator Sonny Perdue during the 2002 gubernatorial campaign. While working on campaigns, Laura also met Statesboro native, Joe Lanier, who was working with U.S. Senator Max Burn’s campaign. An interest in politics instantly connected the young couple, who began dating after the elections. Once Perdue was in office, Laura was offered a job as Director of Board Appointments for the next five years. Joe eventually moved back home to Statesboro, while Laura continued her work for the governor in Atlanta. They saw each 40 • Statesboro Magazine ›› From Here To There

other on nights, weekends, and holidays until they were married in 2005, and Laura made the move to Southeast Georgia to start a home with Joe. Joe Lanier became owner/manager of Loco’s Restaurant and Laura was encouraged by his entrepreneurial family to pursue a business of her own. “The Laniers were encouraging and made it sound like something I could do,” she related. In 2007, she got the opportunity to purchase a ladies clothing boutique, Runway, located in the Main Street Village in the Market District of Statesboro. Laura said, “I always had an interest in fashion.” She related that while working in the business-like atmosphere of the political world. She found it challenging to dress fashionably in a memorable way, yet conservatively enough to fit in with “the suits.” The challenge made dressing all the more interesting for her. The skills of organization, gamesmanship, and attention to detail that served her so well in politics also helped her in making a smooth transition to the world of business and fashion. In 2010, Laura opened two more boutiques – Social and Dish – and launched her corresponding website www.socialdish.com in 2012. A hands-on owner/manager, Laura sees to the daily operations of both stores, has her hand in keeping all social media sites current, and goes on seasonal buying trips with Jennifer Hurzberg, a former employee of Runway, who now lives in Atlanta. Jennifer helped create another social media outreach for the stores called The-Glitter-Life.com, a blog about makeup, clothes, and lifestyles, that helps cross promote the stores. Together Jennifer and Laura co-author the site sharing behind the scenes photos and information about the boutiques, such as how the ladies choose outfits for the stores on buying trips to Las Vegas and Atlanta.

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In 2013, Laura was honored for her success by the University of Georgia Alumni Association with the distinction of being on the Bulldog 100 list; a list of the fastest growing businesses in Georgia owned by UGA alumni.

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Also active in the Statesboro community, Laura serves as president of the Professional Women of Statesboro and as the chair of the Ogeechee Technical College Marketing Program Advisory Committee. She serves on the Statesboro Bulloch County Chamber of Commerce Small Business Committee and is a past member of the Govt. Relations Committee. On the state level, since 2010, Laura has served by appointment of the governor as a board member on the Jekyll Island Authority. In this position she has worn a hard hat and been responsible in part for overseeing the development and construction of the new convention center, now one of the premier conference centers in the nation. The Authority also just released a comprehensive set of design guidelines for all future construction on the island, a project that will affect the future aesthetics of the island for years to come. Laura’s drive comes from a simple philosophy – “Do the best you can every day and eventually you will see success.” She also says, “I want to do something good and do the right thing always. I think we are very lucky to live in a service oriented community.” She believes in giving back. As president of Professional Women of Statesboro, Laura has renewed the organizations commitment to area charities reaching out to Joseph’s Home for Boys

with a milk drive; providing Safe Haven with Christmas stockings and trees for every room; and organizing a job fair for women. The job fair is something Laura really believes makes a difference, “I believe in sharing our gifts with these women who really want or need to work.” The ladies were treated to makeovers, resume help, email accounts, and professional attire in preparation for job interviews. Through Dish and Social, Laura has coat drives and pajama bottoms drives to help families at Safe Haven and the victims of crime at the Regional Sexual Assault Center. During the tornado relief efforts last year, Laura helped to organize a clothing drive along with a friend from Alabama who owned a store in Tuscaloosa. “I want our employees to learn to do things like that. I believe in setting an example,” she said. ”Fashion, clothing, and shopping can be perceived as frivolous. I want my employees to know there is more going on in the world. We are fortunate so we need to do something to help others.” Laura went on to say, “I was lucky to work for two great politicians, Charlie Norwood and Sonny Perdue. They both had great work ethics and instilled a desire in me to do the right thing and to do it now. They set high expectations for me, and I now have those expectations for myself.” Could Laura ever see herself as a candidate for political office? “I have no immediate plans. I think for now I will stick to fashion.” Where her passion has her living the glitter life. n

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Mitzi Hook lights up a room when she talks about the things she treasures the most in her life. Her husband, Frank Hook, two step-children, and four grandchildren provide the twinkles in her eyes. A Statesboro native, Mitzi credits her mother, Betty Minick, with instilling the values of true Southern hospitality in everything she does. From 30 years spent teaching, traveling the world, and her family’s mission work, Mitzi has learned all people have a common need for prayer and kindness. Perhaps Mitzi’s compassion is what earned her the Rookie of the Year award for real estate her first year in the business. Mitzi is an expert in home staging, paying attention to every detail. She gets to know all of her clients, their homes, and their dreams so she can find the perfect match. The personal attention she gives to every client is why most of her business is repeat business, and why she is a real estate agent you can trust.

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t’s a beautiful Sunday afternoon. Joey Sanders and I look across pastures of God’s acres. I’ve come to look at the puppies he has available. Joey and his wife, Lisa, take great pride in their babies. Midst the growing yaps and tail wagging, Joey takes in this beautiful farm home where he and his family find tranquility. Joey smiles and says, “When we see car lights bounding across that dirt road, we know one of two things: the folks are family or friends or they are about as lost as they will ever be.” I inquire as to what he does to provide for his family. He allows he is a supervisor/animal control officer for Bulloch County. He’s been with the county for the past fourteen years. I ask what do those titles actually mean. He smiles and says, “Well you might say I work a good part of the county taking care of animals that have strayed off or are becoming a nuisance to the neighbors.” “Oh, you mean like a pack of dogs running together with a mean look?” Joey gives me a kindly glance like, “Hey man, you’ve been reading too many comic books.” “I’m involved with many different creatures,” he smiles. “We’ve gotten calls about bears, alligators, snakes, hogs, you name it, and we have been there.” I can just imagine when he is on call, Joey’s phone signaling that there is some trouble going on somewhere. Would it be that Aunt Clara is calling that she came home from shopping and old Sam, the friendly gator, has crawled too far on the back lot and is asleep as he suns himself. Or the flustered lady who was preparing a nice supper walked into the dining room only to look up and see a large rat snake taking a nap in the chandelier. How about this one: “Joey, that dad blame bear is back. He’s down the branch standing on his hind legs scratching his back.”

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I offer some of those possibilities to Joey who smiles and says, “You’re not too far from the truth. We are constantly getting calls about snakes, poisonous or nonpoisonous, and we have spotted two bears wandering around, and yep, if you don’t watch it, Sam the gator will try to go a bit too far when he’s looking for the sun.” What goes on say with the bears...? “We watch them for a good little bit and if they head off in a direction where they can do no harm we let him be. But, if we feel either of them is getting a bit too bold we’ll dart him and take him back into the woods dark and deep and turn him loose.” What about the snakes? “We do the same with them poisons or non, we capture them and return them to their habitat and let them go.” You mean you don’t kill them? “Not often. They are living creatures that got caught in a situation where they are very dangerous. But why kill them? Why not return them to where they ought to be?” Folks, I’ve been around a long time and have listened to stories which seemed impossible to accept. But if you stand with Joey and hear him talking to his puppies, you will accept the fact he takes his title “Animal Control” literally. Not “Animal Eliminate.”

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“Maybe some folks think me and my team of officers are not using good sense. But to us, death is not the answer unless harm from any animal is evident. Then we have no choice,” Joey says. I ask about stray dogs. Joey looks down and up at the sky and clears his throat: “That’s the toughest part of my job. A dog alone, starving, looking at you with watery eyes wondering what we’re going to do to him. We will gather him up and take him to the humane enforcement animal shelter. Feed them. Clean them up. Give them a chance.” He pauses and again looks at the sky and says, “From that moment on, they are on the clock. If someone comes out and takes a look at the many strays and picks one, then life goes on.” A slight breeze birthed itself from the rolling fields and blew our way allowing the pups to give out a gleeful yelp.

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herever I go I’m always on the lookout for pennies. I contend a found penny is always good luck no matter which way it lands, heads or tails, and I’ll stop anywhere to pick one up. Once I jumped off my bike while crossing Gentilly Road to retrieve one, scaring my son, who was riding behind me, and several motorists, half to death. I never spend the pennies I find. It doesn’t seem right. Instead, I keep them in a drawer in my dresser, a small mountain of good fortune. Really, I don’t believe in luck, or at least that some inanimate object has such power. It’s the excitement of discovery that keeps my eyes scanning sidewalks and streets. It’s finding something unexpected, something that shouldn’t be where it is and wondering how it got there, that feeds my passion. Gardeners know about the unexpected. I’m continually surprised by what nature shows me even in the small space of a backyard: unpredicted color variations or patterns in a leaf or flower, an unusual growth, a mysterious new plant or fungi.

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But what I like most are the surprises underground, the ones I find when digging a spot for a new plant, tilling the vegetable garden, or pulling weeds, things that aren’t created by nature but somehow have become a part of it. At least until I come along. There aren’t many places in the world where, over the millenniums, man hasn’t left something behind. So any time you take trowel to earth there’s a chance you’ll find evidence of his presence. Around here, farmers out plowing their fields sometimes come across arrowheads from Southeastern native Indians and relics from early settlers. I find marbles. Lots of them. And metal toy soldiers with broken guns or missing feet. I find pieces of pottery and thick pieces of glass, most no bigger than a quarter, fractured and impenetrable. I find old bent nails and metal springs from clothes pins whose wooden legs long ago decomposed. I find these things because my 80-plus-year-old house was home to another family whose young boys I like to imagine played endless games of marbles outside (and probably threw a few at each other, too), and made forts for their soldiers in the yard under the tall pines, and whose mother probably hung laundry on a line in the back. As for the glass and pottery, who knows? Someone told us, (I don’t think I’m making it up), that our house was built near where another had burned some years before. Sometimes I feel like each time I turn the soil in my yard it’s like digging at an archeological site. But that makes my discoveries sound too scientific. Instead, I like to see each marble and piece of glass, each pottery shard or rusty nail, as a gift, a reminder that we are all connected both to this earth and to the people who came before. So I dust off the toy soldier and put it on a window sill, collect the marbles and bits of glass and pottery in a flower pot or put them in a kitchen drawer for no particular reason except I like to keep them, like my found pennies, each a tiny mystery, a story waiting to be told. n January/February 2013 • 57

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sixth trip around the block there was a parking place. Maybe I need to change my prayer approach. I’ve been reading a lot about proper eating. A California scientist says we should eat like a horse. I couldn’t believe that until I read a little further. He said the average human eats 16 times his or her weight in one year, while a horse eats only 8 times his weight. So maybe I should eat like a horse. I’ve even read some of the insults that have been thrown at those of us who are overweight. They just make me laugh, and don’t change my behavior at all. In a church bulletin was the announcement, “The first meeting of the Weight Watchers group will be on Monday at 7 P.M. Please come in the large double doors in the back of the church.” I know God wants me to have better control over my life, including my eating habits. I was reading the Apostle Paul’s Letter to Titus in the Bible. In it Paul asks the young pastor to tell the older men in the church to be temperate and self-controlled (2:12). I think that means we are to govern our instincts, practice self-restraint, and be disciplined. That’s a pretty tough assignment. But I’ve learned I don’t have to do it alone. God says, “Call to me and I will answer you and show you great and mighty things you do not know” (Jeremiah 33:3). That’s it! Now, if I will simply put the teachings into practice there will be victory! n ©iStockphoto.com/ur kocamaz

ere it is the third month of the year and I’m 120 days ahead on my calories and 120 days behind on my bills. I’ve got to get my life under better control. I must not be the only one. I’ve read the most common New Year’s resolution is to lose weight. But just making a resolution hardly ever works without adopting a plan to help accomplish the goal. I’ve been looking into diet aids. One is called Slim-Skins, which consists of plastic pants with a hose sticking out. Simply connect the hose to a vacuum cleaner, start the vacuum, and it will remove two and one half inches from your waist, four inches from your stomach, two inches from your hips, and three inches from each thigh - all in only 25 minutes. Sounds good; too good. Can’t be true. Then there’s Obesity Ointment. Just apply it all over your body and it removes the fat. Nah. Maybe the Diet Conscience would help me. It’s a recording that attaches to the refrigerator and lambasts you every time you open the refrigerator door, saying such things as “Are you eating again? Shame on you! No wonder you look the way you do! Ha! Ha! Ha! You’ll be sorry, fatty.” I’ve tried prayer. I was in my car and prayed, “Lord, if you want me to have one of those warm cinnamon rolls let there be an empty parking place in front of the bakery.” Sure enough, on my

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THE WRITE PLACE Meet the Author – Sponsored by Friends of the Library David Dudley, Monday, March 11, 2013, 7 P.M.

Dr. David Dudley’s second novel, Caleb’s War, is a powerful coming-of-age story about growing up black on the World War II home front in Georgia, where German POWs work on farms in Caleb’s rural community. Locked in a power struggle with his domineering father and fighting to keep both his temper and his self-respect in dealing with whites, Caleb finds his loyalties shifting and his certainties slipping away. School Library Journal says, “Caleb is compelling and believable, and Dudley’s rich writing is impressive.” Kirkus Reviews adds, “The ending…is startling, swift and sure, pointing to America’s next great war, the battle over civil rights.” Books will be available for purchase and signing.

World Book Night – Tuesday, April 23, 2013 6:30 P.M.

Lois P. Griffin is Headquarters Librarian at the Statesboro Regional Library. She has experience in both corporate and public library systems. She received her MLS in Library Science from George Peabody College of Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, and a BA in Political Science from Spelman College, Atlanta, Georgia. Her interests include reading, cooking, playing bridge, and collecting first edition books.

Writers’ Workshop: Write Your Novel Tuesdays, 5:30-7:30 P.M. (March 26, April 2, April 9, April 16, April 30, May 7)

Please join us for a special program and community reception (sponsored by Friends of the Library) to celebrate readers and reading. This event is sponsored by Statesboro Regional Library and the Zach S. Henderson Library of Georgia Southern University.

World Book Night is an annual celebration dedicated to spreading the love of reading, person to person. Each year on April 23, tens of thousands of people in the U.S. go out into their communities and give a total of half a million free World Book Night paperbacks to light and non-readers. Book givers receive 20 free paperback copies of one World Book Night title, chosen from a list of 30 titles selected by a panel of librarians and booksellers. The volunteer book givers personally hand out their copies to complete strangers, people who may never have owned a book of their own.

Have you often told yourself: Someday I’ ll write a novel? Now is the time! Join Sarah Domet, fiction writer and author of 90 Days to Your Novel, for a six-week workshop that will explore the nuts and bolts of novel writing. In this course, we’ll be walking through the novel-writing process from start to finish. Learn how to generate ideas, create compelling characters, develop your plot, structure your story, and strengthen your scene writing. By the end of this workshop, you’ll no longer say, Someday I’ ll write a novel. Instead, you’ll be well on your way to writing it. The workshop is designed for writers of all levels. Registration is required and seating is limited. To register, please call 912.764.1337. The workshop is free and open to the public.

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THE VIEW FROM HERE Ric Mandes, a popular essayist, retired after 27 years as Director of Public Relations and Development for Georgia Southern. His memories about growing up and living in South Georgia inspire his writings. He’s a published author and former newspaper columnist for the AJC.

will our children know that special clack, ourselves up to the table before washing our hands. ...will they know the inability of mobility when it comes to clack as a screen door closes; or television going off at midnight as those jets flew into a wonderful rendition of our staying in touch with friends from school? A black phone in its cradle was positioned on a small table by Granny’s overstuffed national anthem. …will they understand the magic of the forest, where kids chair. It was the single signaler to our world. And it was used shimmed up a tree and there we became the pirates of the sea with balance. No idle talk. And no calls out after nine. This and this main mast was positioned for a scan of the endless blue one really hit home to me when just yesterday a friend of mine of the ocean? Or anticipating the sound of the ice man stop- stopped by for a visit and the five interruptions from his cell ping in front of my granny’s house to deliver a 50-pound block breaking into some really good comments. …will they be blessed on a Sunday afternoon, when some of that solid stuff which kept the food cooled as it was stored away in the icebox. During the driver’s move across Gran’s yard friends from the other side of town drove by and papa said and through the back door, we did our best to reach up high in “Y’all get down and come in and sit a while. Martha cooked an apple pie for dessert and there’s enough left for you to have search of a sliver that just excited the hang out of us. ...will they experience the obedient schedule of supper at six; some.” For those cherubs who wonder where: “Get down and baths at 8:30 P.M. and bedtime at nine. And how about the come in!” originated: it comes from the horse and buggy stage lyrical love expressed to our Lord and Savior as grace was being of our early America before Henry Ford hollered up to his wife, said before we broke bread. And do not even think about sliding “Honey, I believe I’m on to something.” Can you see that portrait of friendliness with the family pulling the horses to a quiet pose as the greetings coming from the porch “Get down….”? Wonder if they will ever experience the excitement building up on Saturday night when we sat Indian style around the radio as our imaginations were filled for two hours with THE SHADOW, LUX THEATRE, and JOANIE’S TEA ROOM! Thank you for allowing me to think out loud; and by no means am I casting aspersions upon our youth. It all boils down to SOMEWHERE IN TIME. And for certain twenty years from now, someone will recall the todays…and they will be just as magical in memories as these I have just shared. n January/February 2013 • 65

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April 6 GSU Day & Opening Day for the Market April 13 East Georgia State College Day April 27 Strawberry Days May Discover YOU CAN!

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