November 18
TUESDAY
November 18 2014
From The Elberton Star
FirstFACTS
Dress code committee
Team works to determine need for dress code in schools
Each public school in Elbert County and the school system’s central office will have two representatives on a school uniform feasibility study team. Elbert County Associate School Superintendent Angela Moton, who is heading up the team, along with Audrey Johnson, will represent the central office on the team. Moton told the Elbert County Board of Education in a work session last week that the team has taken its first steps toward determining whether or not the school system should implement a dress code. Moton said her team has gone through professional literature on the subject and that the committee is now developing a survey that will go into the community and get input from the school system’s teachers and students. Moton said that thus far this year the middle school has reported 67 dress code violations and the high school has reported 34 dress code violations. The team will be formulating a recommendation to the school board on the dress code. In addition to Moton and Johnson, team members include:
• Kelly Moon and Amber Alexander from the Paul J. Blackwell Learning Center. • Laura Albertson and Kitize Fleming from the Elbert County Primary School. • Patricia Graham and Kristen Anderson from the Elbert County Elementary School. • J.P. Hughes and Julie Purcell Brown from the Elbert County Middle School. • Stacey Almond and Vernessa Hollis from the Elbert County Comprehensive High School. • Drew Carter and Ms. Adel Hughes from the Elberton Education Center.
35th ANNUAL NAACP AWARDS BANQUET Saturday at 7 p.m. at the Elberton Civic Center
Tickets -- $20
The Elberton Star Serving the Granite Capital of the World Since 1887
Phone 706-283-8500 Fax 706-283-9700 Email us at [email protected]
25 North Public Square / P.O. Box 280
Good Morning Elbert County Weather
Today there will be intervals of clouds and sunshine HIGH 42 Winds WNW at 10 to 20 mph Tonight evening clouds will give way to clearing LOW 20 Winds light and variable Average high for this day .......................61 Average low for this day ........................35 Record high today........................79 (1964) Record low today.........................20 (1997) Sunset tonight ............................5:26 p.m. Sunrise tomorrow .......................7:07 a.m.
Birthdays
Matt Parker, Kevin Taylor, Garrett D. Segars, Tyron Yeargin, Dillon Johnson, Walker Allen Layne, Tanner Moore, Jane Farmer
On this Day
On Nov. 18, 1966, Sandy Koufax, the ace pitcher for the Los Angeles Dodgers, retires from baseball. He was just 30 years old, and he was retiring after a great season-he’d led the Dodgers to a National League pennant and won his third Cy Young award. But he had chronic arthritis in his pitching arm, and he was afraid that if he kept playing baseball, eventually he wouldn’t be able to use his left hand at all. His pitches were notoriously difficult to hit; getting the bat on a Koufax fastball, Pittsburgh’s Willie Stargell once said, was like “trying to drink coffee with a fork.” What Sandy Koufax is perhaps most famous for is his refusal, in 1965, to pitch the first game of the World Series because it fell on Yom Kippur. (Don Drysdale pitched instead, and gave up seven runs in the first three innings; “I bet right now you wish I was Jewish, too,” he said when the team’s manager pulled him out of the game.) In 1971, the 36-year-old Koufax became the youngest person ever to be elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame.
Quote of the Day
“A good plan today is better than a perfect plan tomorrow.” - George S. Patton
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November 18 2014
From The Elberton Star
FirstFACTS
Dress code committee
Team works to determine need for dress code in schools
Each public school in Elbert County and the school system’s central office will have two representatives on a school uniform feasibility study team. Elbert County Associate School Superintendent Angela Moton, who is heading up the team, along with Audrey Johnson, will represent the central office on the team. Moton told the Elbert County Board of Education in a work session last week that the team has taken its first steps toward determining whether or not the school system should implement a dress code. Moton said her team has gone through professional literature on the subject and that the committee is now developing a survey that will go into the community and get input from the school system’s teachers and students. Moton said that thus far this year the middle school has reported 67 dress code violations and the high school has reported 34 dress code violations. The team will be formulating a recommendation to the school board on the dress code. In addition to Moton and Johnson, team members include:
• Kelly Moon and Amber Alexander from the Paul J. Blackwell Learning Center. • Laura Albertson and Kitize Fleming from the Elbert County Primary School. • Patricia Graham and Kristen Anderson from the Elbert County Elementary School. • J.P. Hughes and Julie Purcell Brown from the Elbert County Middle School. • Stacey Almond and Vernessa Hollis from the Elbert County Comprehensive High School. • Drew Carter and Ms. Adel Hughes from the Elberton Education Center.
35th ANNUAL NAACP AWARDS BANQUET Saturday at 7 p.m. at the Elberton Civic Center
Tickets -- $20
The Elberton Star Serving the Granite Capital of the World Since 1887
Phone 706-283-8500 Fax 706-283-9700 Email us at [email protected]
25 North Public Square / P.O. Box 280
Good Morning Elbert County Weather
Today there will be intervals of clouds and sunshine HIGH 42 Winds WNW at 10 to 20 mph Tonight evening clouds will give way to clearing LOW 20 Winds light and variable Average high for this day .......................61 Average low for this day ........................35 Record high today........................79 (1964) Record low today.........................20 (1997) Sunset tonight ............................5:26 p.m. Sunrise tomorrow .......................7:07 a.m.
Birthdays
Matt Parker, Kevin Taylor, Garrett D. Segars, Tyron Yeargin, Dillon Johnson, Walker Allen Layne, Tanner Moore, Jane Farmer
On this Day
On Nov. 18, 1966, Sandy Koufax, the ace pitcher for the Los Angeles Dodgers, retires from baseball. He was just 30 years old, and he was retiring after a great season-he’d led the Dodgers to a National League pennant and won his third Cy Young award. But he had chronic arthritis in his pitching arm, and he was afraid that if he kept playing baseball, eventually he wouldn’t be able to use his left hand at all. His pitches were notoriously difficult to hit; getting the bat on a Koufax fastball, Pittsburgh’s Willie Stargell once said, was like “trying to drink coffee with a fork.” What Sandy Koufax is perhaps most famous for is his refusal, in 1965, to pitch the first game of the World Series because it fell on Yom Kippur. (Don Drysdale pitched instead, and gave up seven runs in the first three innings; “I bet right now you wish I was Jewish, too,” he said when the team’s manager pulled him out of the game.) In 1971, the 36-year-old Koufax became the youngest person ever to be elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame.
Quote of the Day
“A good plan today is better than a perfect plan tomorrow.” - George S. Patton
Find FirstFACTS FREE at Elberton Star’s website www.elberton.com
Are you ready for a little Granite Bowl Glory?
www.elberto
