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ECMS student wins 2016 Coweta County Spelling Bee East Coweta Middle School eighth grader Zachary Coltrane won Coweta County’s districtwide spelling bee. Coltrane became Coweta County’s 2016 spelling champion in the 20th round of the annual competition held at Coweta’s Centre for Performing and Visual Arts, after sparring with Madras Middle School seventh grader James Salisbury for several rounds. Coltrane correctly spelled “erroneous” and “cache” for the win. This year’s spelling bee winner and runner-up each received a Kindle Fire, provided by sponsor BB&T of Newnan and awarded by Garnett Reynolds of BB&T. Coweta’s 2016 spelling bee began with 25 competitors from fourth through eighth grades. Principals Christi Hildebrand of Elm Street Elementary School, Keafer Triplett of Smokey Road Middle School, and Amy Harrison of Brooks Elementary School served as judges, and Dean Jackson served as pronouncer for the bee. The 25 competitors at the competition were all winners of their own school spelling bees, which were held earlier in the school year. The winners and runners-up at this year’s school spelling bees were: School Arbor Springs Elementary – Haley Holden and Luke Johnson Arnall Middle – Michael Roth and Leanna Phillips Arnco-Sargent Elementary – Cole Wright and Josef Fort
Coweta County School System’s 2016 Spelling Bee winner Zachary Coltrane, left, and runner-up James Salisbury, right, are awarded prizes by Garnett Reynolds, of BB&T of Newnan, center, at the spelling bee in January. BB&T sponsored the annual county bee, which was held at Coweta’s Centre for Performing and Visual Arts.
Atkinson Elementary – Kaylee Sivell and Jazmyn Thurman Brooks Elementary – Preston Barthlow and Alexandria Ojo Canongate Elementary – Joey Holcomb and Mason Doonan East Coweta Middle – Zachary Coltrane and Holly Neligan Eastside Elementary – Madison Anderson and Kira Maynard Elm Street Elementary – Ava Elder and Callie Marriaga Evans Middle – Miya Bleth and Joshua Cox Glanton Elementary – Carson Coker and Ami Marrero Jefferson Parkway Elementary – Rylan Bone and Anastasia Stevens Lee Middle – Jason Nix and Christiana Reycheva Madras Middle – James Salisbury and Amanda Walters Moreland Elementary – Andrew Hunter and Reese
Robertson Newnan Crossing Elementary – Ellie Caney and Layla Dorman Northside Elementary – Samuel Willems and Prestin Veal Poplar Road Elementary – Sarah Beth Lott and Logan Duke Ruth Hill Elementary – Jamarius Isaac and Zachery Reid Smokey Road Middle – Ta’Nyah Wright and Avery Smith Thomas Crossroads Elementary – Ethan Brantley and Kaili Moore Welch Elementary – Mariana Torres and Mason Hall Western Elementary – Anna Grace Prophett and Abbigail McCurry White Oak Elementary – Lydia Lewis and Maise Rainey Willis Road Elementary – Luke Beam and Jessica Pippin
Piedmont Newnan staff saves lives of mother and child By MAGGIE BOWERS maggie@newnan.com Piedmont Newnan Hospital said goodbye to a very special — and very small — guest and her family on Jan. 5. In what some may consider a miracle, baby Emily Dao, born at 30 weeks gestation, was released from the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit of Piedmont Newnan after a 72-day stay. Baby Emily, however, was not the only life saved by a commendable group effort made by several on the Piedmont Newnan staff. Nga Nguyen accompanied her husband Hoang Dao from Texas to Georgia in mid-October where the couple, and their two young children would visit with Dao’s family in addition to Dao attending job training. On Oct. 15, Dao awoke in a hotel bed to find Nguyen lying next to him in a pool of blood. Nga was unconscious. “You never expect to wake up and find your wife in that state,” Doa later told hospital staff. “It was my worst nightmare.” Nguyen had experienced severe placental rupture, and was rushed by ambulance to Piedmont Newnan. Placental abruption is a rare, but serious condition in which the placenta separates from the wall of the uterus. The condition affects only one percent of all pregnancies, and can cause bleeding in the pregnant mother, and a loss of oxygen and nutrients to the unborn baby. “It took everyone [available in the hospital] working together,” said Dr. Tia Guster, a Piedmont Newnan obstetrician. “Emergency services, women’s services, the intensive care unit, the blood bank and interventional radiology — everyone’s priority was to quickly deliver the baby and stop the mom’s bleeding.” Nguyen lost nearly five times her total blood volume and, despite being given continuous blood transfusions, also suffered hemorrhagic shock. An emergency interventional radiology procedure, a uterine embolization, was performed. The procedure stopped the bleeding. “Seeing her when she came in,” Guster said of Nguyen, “I didn’t expect either [mother or child] to make it. They are true miracles.” After delivering, and being cared for in the intensive care unit for two days, Nguyen began to recover. The mother of three was released from Piedmont Newnan two weeks after delivering a baby girl. Baby Emily Dao spent 72 days in Piedmont Newnan’s neonatal intensive
Senoia blood drive Feb. 1 By MAGGIE BOWERS Maggie@newnan.com The Senoia United Methodist Church will host a blood drive from 1 p.m. to 6 p.m. on Feb. 1. The drive is sponsored by both The SUMC, and the Senoia Optimist Club. SUMC, located at 229 Bridge St., is in the historic district of Senoia at the intersection of Seavy and Bridge Streets. The church will host the drive in the Fellowship Hall. Members of the optimist club will provide donors grilled cheese sandwiches, along with several coupons from local area businesses. Donors are encouraged to bring one or more nonperishable food items to the drive to be collected by the optimist club, and made available to a local food bank. All donors must be age 17 (16 with parental consent) and weigh a minimum of 110 pounds. For more information on the quarterly blood drive, or other projects sponsored by the Senoia Optimist Club, contact club members via email at www.senoiaoptimistclub@gmail. com. The club’s president, Phil Downey can also be reached directly by caling 770-833-9242.
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Jennifer Camp was a donor at a previous Senoia Area Blood Drive.
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