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As she slowly, confidently stretches tight a chord on her competition-style recurve bow — which seems more an extension of her body than inanimate object — and stands poised to fire, it is difficult to know for sure the thoughts that pass through Linda Stephens’ mind. Read More
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The Statesboro Kiwanis Second Annual Rodeo brought in a crowd of about 7,000 from April 27 to 28. Read More
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The Statesboro Kiwanis Rodeo may be over, but local club members aren’t slowing down. Read More
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Listen to Statesboro Herald president Joe McGlamery's introduction to the 2012 Deen Day Smith Service to Mankind Award recipients. Read More
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Recipients of the Statesboro Herald Humanitarian of the Year Award are those persons who provide a wide range of service to the community. It recognizes those whose service and commitment goes above and beyond the normal standards as they make a difference in the lives of others. Read More
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This recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award is both a hands-on servant leader and a man with the vision to dream of things not yet realized. Read More
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This Lifetime Achievement Award goes to one with an exceptionally long history of serving others. Read More
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What started out as a desire of a young family to become foster parents led to the founding of an organization named Fostering Families Bulloch. Chris Yaughn and his wife Kim realized as they began the process of becoming foster parents that there was a great need for supporting existing foster parents and for children already in the fostering system. Chris started small: cookouts for foster parents in his home, outings for foster children ... Read More
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Justin Unkel is a young man with a history of addiction. Today, he works every day to overcome many obstacles on his way to a better life. As a result of his addiction, Justin lost his driver's license and now makes his way everywhere he goes on his bike. Part of his sentence was community service at Pineland Mental Health. He was so impressive in his work there that he was offered a permanent ... Read More
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Pat Stewart is an active member of Friendship Baptist Church and she is a focal point for this church's ministry to those undergoing cancer treatment. The project is called "Friendly Blessings," and involves making colorful and attractive tote bags for those going through chemotherapy or radiation treatments. The bags are filled with items that can make the waiting time associated with long trips to the doctor's offices speed by a bit faster. Pat's group ... Read More
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Dr. James Stephens is the director of the Ministry for the Sick and Homebound at St. Matthew Catholic Church. In this role, he coordinates 12 Extraord-inary Ministers of the Holy Commun-ion who make weekly visits to parishioners who cannot come to mass due to sickness or physical impairment. he has been a eucharistic minister for 18 years. As more and more Americans experience the challenges and limitations of aging, outreach ministries such as this ... Read More
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Russell Rosengart uses his business expertise and personal time as a volunteer in order to help build better futures for the children of Bulloch County. Russell is now serving his second term as president of the Boys and Girls Club of Bulloch County. Not only does he provide business leadership to the Boys and Girls Club, but also financial support and hands-on service to this very worthwhile group. Russell is a graduate of Leadership ... Read More
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Tonight we honor another husband and wife team - John and Martha Ray. Both John and Martha are exceptionally committed members of States-boro's First United Methodist Church and both are heavily involved in their church's mission program, with John serving as chairman of Missions. By the time John and Martha go to Mexico in August, it will mark John's fourth mission trip and Martha's third. Upon retirement from Appalachian State University, the Rays settled ... Read More
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Tonight we honor another husband and wife team - John and Martha Ray. Both John and Martha are exceptionally committed members of States-boro's First United Methodist Church and both are heavily involved in their church's mission program, with John serving as chairman of Missions. By the time John and Martha go to Mexico in August, it will mark John's fourth mission trip and Martha's third. Upon retirement from Appalachian State University, the Rays settled ... Read More
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Moena Mullis is a happy, soon to be 90 year old, who was just awarded a special bar for her name tag signaling her completion of more than 3,000 hours of volunteer services at East Georgia Regional Medical Center. While she really enjoyed the years she spent cheering people in the hospital as she visited patient's rooms delivering the Statesboro Herald, she now welcomes those who need assistance at the front desk. Some of ... Read More
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One friend describes Sara Melford as "the most caring person I have ever met." Despite a few medical issues, Sara is dedicated to helping improve the lives of others. She is an active volunteer with ACTS - Area Christians Together in Service - volunteering for at least three hours each week as a database researcher. Sara has just assumed the responsibility for the First Methodist Soup Kitchen, where, on average, 250 individuals are served ... Read More
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Brian Kent is a very giving volunteer in this community, often doing work that may go unnoticed by the public, but certainly not unnoticed by the person he is helping. Brian is very active in the American Diabetes Associa-tion work, serving as chairman of the local campaign, raising money for diabetes education and to try to lower the 9.2 percent incident rate of adult diabetes in Bulloch County. As part of their program of ... Read More
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Over the past dozen or so years, Kenneth Johnson has continually volunteered for various duties at Bulloch County schools as the official clock keeper for both football and basketball home games. He is president of the Statesboro High School Track boosters club, and organizes and manages the concession stand - the proceeds from which support the track teams. In addition to volunteering at various school events, Kenneth has been a volunteer coach for the ... Read More
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It's hard to believe that every 10 seconds an animal is beaten or abused! But it's true and that's why people like Penny Harris work so diligently with the S.T.A.R.S. project - that's Save the Animals Rescue Society - an agency she helped start in an effort to save the homeless and abused animals and to increase public awareness of the needs and suffering of animals. Penny is a diabetic and works tirelessly as ... Read More
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Lynda Hamilton's service to others covers many years, and has touched many individuals. One friend suggests that Lynda was taught to serve others by her mother, whose guiding principle was "it needs doing and you can do it." Lynda's local service includes serving three years as president of Altrusa, during which she worked to start a Mother's Day project for Safe Haven children, the local shelter for victims of domestic violence and their families. ... Read More
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People provide service to their communities in various ways. For Julie Franklin, much of her volunteer work is one-on-one. Perhaps it is trying to find shelter for a homeless person, or seeing a child that needs foster care. For many years Julie provided foster care for "Ronnie" and her love and caring for Ronnie recently moved to the adoption stage. Julie's belief in the fostering concept helps her work closely with Chris Yaughn, another ... Read More
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In the Stilson community, there is one constant: People always seem to help each other. So, as we honor Jerry Forehand for his service to his community and to its people, to some degree, we honor the whole community. Jerry owns a retail store, and when people of his community are down on their luck or have lost their job, he frequently helps by providing food at no cost. When Jerry learns of someone ... Read More
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Few people have used their businesses for the betterment of their community to the degree Gary Davis has with his six Bulloch County Subway locations. In the past 15 years, Gary has commissioned the Annual Subway Challenge, which has raised more than $150,000 for the benefit of local charities including March of Dimes, American Heart Association, American Cancer Society, Alzheimer's Association, Habitat for Humanity, American Diabetes Association, Ogeechee Area Hospice, Humane Society, Josephs Home ... Read More
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Anne Clifton is the medical coordinator for Statesboro's Hearts and Hands Clinic. In this capacity, she has volunteered 1,500 hours in 2011 and so far in 2012. She is demonstrating a remarkable level of dedication and selflessness in this role as she schedules patients and physicians, serves as women's health coordinator, works tirelessly as a fund-raiser and grant-writer, helps ensure that the clinic's patients have adequate transportation and so much more. Anne's work in ... Read More
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Brian Cartee is a community servant and a man with a big heart. Brian continually works to help people and his community by volunteering his time, energy, resources and kindness to people from all walks of life. Brian genuinely cares about people and he always looks for someone in need. He helps organize fundraisers, including being on the team that raised more than $18,000 for a local 17-year old who was diagnosed with lymphoma. ... Read More
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As an area reporter for a Savannah television station, Dal Cannady has many opportunities to see volunteers in action. That's part of the reason Dal makes time in his busy schedule to include service for others. Dal has completed many years of service to the area Red Cross and currently serves on the Red Cross advisory board for Bulloch, Candler, Jeff Davis, Montgomery, Toombs and Wheeler counties. He sees first-hand the terrible human needs ... Read More
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