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Inside today: Tifton Gazette 'Beach Blanket Bingo' cards
TIFTON —
Correctly fill out the information and if you have a potential winning card, submit it to The Tifton Gazette by the deadline of Aug. 6 to be entered in a drawing for cash prizes.
Bingo numbers can be found inside square boxes somewhere within the display advertisements sprinkled throughout today’s Gazette. Although the cards refer you to a “special bingo section,” there is no separate section inserted into the paper today; the winning numbers are within ads found throughout the regular newspaper.
Not all cards are winners. If you cannot find all of your numbers within the ads, then you do not have a winning card. Please cross out all of the numbers you can find. If your card is correctly and fully crossed out, your name will be entered to win the First Prize of $50 and the Second and Third Prizes of $25 each.
Bring potential winning cards to The Tifton Gazette office at 211 N. Tift Ave., in downtown Tifton, or mail them to: The Tifton Gazette, P.O. Box 708, Tifton, GA 31793.
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Mac Frampton dinner concert to benefit library
Renowned pianist Mac Frampton is coming to Tifton for a special evening of music and dining at 6:30 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 2 at the UGA-Tifton Campus Conference Center.
The catered dinner and show, sponsored by the Tifton-Tift County Public Library Foundation, benefits the local public library to enhance its collections and programs. This is the only fundraiser the non-profit Library Foundation is holding this year to benefit the public library. - Rough seas expected off Georgia from hurricane
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Some bunker down, some flee as Earl approaches US
Tourists were largely gone from North Carolina's Outer Banks, but those resolute residents who stayed behind say they were prepared Thursday to potentially face down the most powerful hurricane to threaten the coast in years.
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Woman arrested for check forgery
A home healthcare worker has been charged with forging checks belonging to an elderly Ashburn woman under her care.
According to Lt. Porter Jackson of the Tifton Police Department, he was initially called by a Turner County Sheriff’s Office agent about the case. Jackson said members of the elderly woman’s family looked through some of the woman’s checks and notices that some of those written were out of numerical sequence.
“They looked into her bank account and discovered that several checks had been written for a good amount of money,” Jackson said. “They figured that the only person who came to the woman’s house was a caretaker.” -
Hannah’s Hope takes second place in the Pepsi Refresh Campaign
After a recent online vote, Hannah’s Hope finished second in the Pepsi Refresh Campaign. With the second-place finish, Tifton’s Lottyn Bates will be helped.
Since he was 2 1/2 years old, Bates has suffered from Giant Axonal Neuropathy, a neurological disorder similar to Lou Gehrig’s Disease, that strikes in childhood and progresses rapidly, taking away the ability to walk, talk and breathe. A group of scientists has developed a drug for this disorder.
Hannah’s Hope will be awarded a $250,000 grant to help with his clinical trials. This win has given Bates and his family a surreal feeling of gratitude and appreciation for the public’s support. - Ex-DA slaying case headed for Jesup jury
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Talent at the Tift: 'America's Got Talent' to perform here
America’s Got Talent 2009 winner Kevin Skinner will perform at 8 p.m. Oct. 9 at the Tift Theatre and Tifton singer and songwriter Kirsten Underwood and her band will open the night.
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Man gets 24 years for armed robbery
A Tift County jury has found a man guilty of the December armed robbery of the Dixie Food Store and sentenced him to serve 24 years in prison. Also, a young Tifton woman pleaded guilty to the stabbing death of her brother and is awaiting sentencing.
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Local school system facing additional cuts
The local public school system has again been asked to cut additional funding for 2011 and will lose an additional $900,000 in equalization funding in 2012 because of the declining tax base.
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Omega's Pepper Festival set for Sept. 10
Before kicking off the seventh annual Pepper Festival, the City of Omega will be introducing Christian Saslo, a magician and illusionist from Atlanta, at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 9 at Ponder Park.
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