Corr gives check to Kiwanis
Tweet Albany surgeon and Kiwanis Club of Dougherty County member Dr. Price Corr accepted on behalf of the National Meningitis Association a donation of $500 from the club on Monday. Meningitis is an often-fatal disease that strikes primarily school- and college-age young people with frightening speed and intensity. Also pictured is Kiwanis DoCo president Mike [...]
Read More →Deerfield headmaster speaks to Kiwanians
Tweet He’s only been here two years, but Dave Davies has found a lot to like about the Albany community. Davies, a Pennsylvania native who is headmaster at Deerfield Windsor School, arrived here from Dallas, TX, in 2009. He noted he does not miss the traffic congestion and other urban hassles of Texas’ second largest [...]
Read More →Chehaw changing, growing
Tweet One of Albany’s premier attractions has been evolving over the past year, and its staff is excited about the future. Doug Porter, executive director at Chehaw, told the Kiwanis Club of Dougherty County, “Chehaw has changed a lot just in the past year or so. New wilderness animals have been added, as well as [...]
Read More →Flint Riverkeeper speaks to DoCo Kiwanians
Tweet From its point of origin near Atlanta’s Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport the Flint River flows southward, bringing with it numerous opportunities for municipal consumption, agricultural use, recreation, and wildlife habitat. Hand in hand with those opportunities come the challenges of preserving the river and its basin for the fair use of consumers in both the [...]
Read More →Celebrating community
Tweet By David Shivers “I scream, you scream, we all scream for ice cream!” No, there wasn’t actually any screaming – that wouldn’t have been allowed – but there were a lot of smiles as the students at Albany’s Magnolia Elementary School lined up at lunchtime May 18 to get free ice cream. The entire [...]
Read More →Flint Riverkeeper
Tweet From its point of origin near Atlanta’s Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport the Flint River flows southward, bringing with it numerous opportunities for municipal consumption, agricultural use, recreation, and wildlife habitat. Hand in hand with those opportunities come the challenges of preserving the river and its basin for the fair use of consumers in both the [...]
Read More →Kerrey, Smith earn Kiwanis scholarships
Tweet By David Shivers Two high-school seniors from Dougherty and Lee counties got a boost for their college careers May 9 when they were awarded scholarships by the Kiwanis Club of Dougherty County Foundation. Lee County High School senior Haley Kristen Kerrey was honored on May 9 as a recipient of a $2,000 Kiwanis Club [...]
Read More →“I scream, you scream, we all scream for ice cream!”
Tweet No, there wasn’t actually any screaming – that wouldn’t have been allowed – but there were a lot of smiles as the students at Albany’s Magnolia Elementary School lined up at lunchtime May 18 to get free ice cream. The entire student body and the teaching, administrative, lunchroom, and custodial staffs – about 570 [...]
Read More →Austrians visits Kiwanis
Tweet Bob Fowler (left) brought two special European guests to the weekly Kiwanis Club of Dougherty County meeting at the Hilton Garden Inn on April 18. Christian and Viktoria Ebner of Vienna, Austria were in Albany to visit with Fowler’s brother, nationally-known wildlife authority Jim Fowler.
Read More →Enfinger’s art ‘best in show’
Tweet By David Shivers The annual Kiwanis Club of Dougherty County Student Art Contest and Exhibit culminated Monday with a luncheon tribute to the winners and their instructors in conjunction with the club’s weekly meeting.
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