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As Thanksgiving and Christmas approach, it makes me slow down a little to think and reflect on everything that has happened in my year.

This has been a crazy year for me. I feel like I have been going in 40 different directions. Have you ever felt that way?

For those who know me, you know I am not one to put daily posts on Facebook. I never have and I am sure I never will. But, when I do have the time, I do enjoy using Facebook as a source to keep up with family, old friends and business associates.

It seems like the November Facebook craze is people posting what they are thankful for. Although I don’t publicly participate in this, it does make me stop and think of my own life every time I read something.

It also makes me aware of all the things in life I Julie Hales, PUBLISHER have to be thankful for.

I am thankful for having two wonderful, loving parents. My father, Donald Hales, was a very special man. Although he left this earth 10 years ago, he has never left my heart. My mother, Audrey Hales, is a wonderful mother and is still a very important part of my life.

I have two wonderful sisters that both live here in Effingham County, Lynnette Tuck and Carolyn Beasley. They both have blessed my life tremendously and have given me a precious gift…..the gift of being an aunt.

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I have a wonderful extended family as well…..and God has blessed me with some of the best friends a person could ever ask for.

I am blessed to live in the United States of America, where freedom rings.

I am blessed to be able to own my own business and to be able to give the citizens of Effingham County a magazine that showcases its people and tells their stories. I am blessed with terrific employees who help make this happen.

I am blessed to be able to live in a loving and giving community. Effingham County has produced some fine people! I love meeting them and being able to share their lives with you.

In this season of giving, I wanted to highlight some of those special people who give to our community and make Effingham County a special place to live.

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FRANKLIN GOLDWIRE

Serving Country and Community Story by JULIE HALES Photography by GLORIA SHEPPARD

“I

did not always see my destination, I only knew I was very blessed,” said Franklin Goldwire, speaking of his early life growing up as the son of a share cropper.

Goldwire was born and raised in Clyo, Georgia, one of 10 children. He is the son of Thelma Goldwire and the late Rubin Goldwire, Sr. of Clyo. He and his siblings helped out on the farm…..plowing with a mule, gathering crops…..whatever it took to get the job done.

“My father was a motivator. He made the work fun for us. He would challenge us to do our best, to pick the most cotton or to pick the most peas. He did it in such a way that we never thought about how hard the work was. It was just fun,” states Goldwire.

Goldwire speaks very lovingly of his parents. He says, “I had wonderful parents. They instilled a great work ethic in all of their children, taught us honesty and how to earn an honest dollar.

And they taught us to serve God and to be faithful.”

All ten of the Goldwire children worked hard on the farm, and all ten of them graduated from high school. “Education was a big deal, my parents made sure we understood that. My father only had a 3rd grade education. He did not have the opportunities that we were given, but he made sure we did,” he said. His father went back to night school at the age of 40 to obtain his GED. He adds, “We were all very proud of him.”

Unfortunately, Goldwire’s father was killed in an accident at the age of 59. His mother, who is 90 and in good health, still lives in the old home place where all their children were raised.

Franklin Goldwire attended elementary school at the Union Springs Elementary in Berryville and Clyo Elementary.

Back in those years, the schools were still segregated.

In 1961, he began high school. He attended and graduated from Springfield Central High School, which was a new high school built for blacks.

“It was great to have a school in the community that af-

forded black students an opportunity to get an education,” he said.

After graduation, Goldwire attended Savannah State College, now Savannah State University, and received a BS Degree in Education/Chemistry in 1970.He actually finished his classes in December of 1969 and marched with his graduating class in June of 1970. In the meantime, he was drafted into the United States Army in March of 1970. He was stationed in Fort Jackson in South Carolina for basic training and was able to return home for his graduation ceremony.

For the next three years, Goldwire was active military. He was first stationed at Fort Gordon in Augusta, Georgia. He became engaged to his high school sweetheart, Cheryl Roberts.Then he was off to Vietnam for a year, where he was awarded two Bronze Stars for exemplary service. He returned to the states to be stationed in Texas.

The couple was soon married. He went back to Texas and Cheryl remained in Effingham County where she had already begun her career as a teacher in the Effingham County School System.

While stationed in Vietnam, Goldwire became an instructor for the military. He was a teacher with the University of Maryland Overseas Extension Branch. He taught fellow soldiers how to get their GED and continue their education. He prepared these soldiers for college. He remained an instructor for the military after returning to the states.

When speaking of this time in his life, Goldwire says, “I fell in love with teaching. It was so gratifying to do something that made a difference and that was appreciated.”

Quickly after returning home from his military service, Goldwire applied with the Effingham County Board of Education .He received his first education job teaching Math and Science at Central Junior High. He was so excited to pursue what had become his passion.

Goldwire was later appointed as Co-Principal of this same school. The Principal at that time had left the school and the BOE appointed Goldwire to serve with the Assistant Principal.

He was named the permanent Principal of Central Junior High School in 1978, and held that position until 1996.

In 1996, he was appointed by the BOE to open South Effingham High School. “This was the first time a high school had been opened in our county in over 40 years, There was no recipe book.

The BOE made the plans and we made it all happen,” states Goldwire.

While making all of this happen, he was working on yet another degree. In 1998, Goldwire received his Doctorate for Public School Administration from South Carolina State University in Orangeburg, South Carolina.

He served as Principal of SEHS from its inception until his retirement in 2003. Franklin Goldwire retired from the Effingham County School System with 30 years of service, plus a credit of three years of military time and two years of unused sick leave.

This all sounds like a very full, rewarding career. And, according to Goldwire, it was. But this man could not stop at one rewarding career. He had to have two.

Two years after returning home from the military, Goldwire joined the Army National Guard in Springfield, Georgia, serving there for two years. Then, in 1977, he joined the 117th Tactical Control Squadron as a communication specialist supervisor with the Georgia Air National Guard in Savannah.

In October of 1982, he was commissioned a Second Lieutenant upon completing the Air National Guard Academy of Military Science at McGee Tyson Air Force Base in Knoxville,

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Tennessee. He returned to the 117th as a Maintenance Control Communications Systems Officer.

During his tenure in the Air National Guard, he served four different tours as a commanding officer.

In 1991, he became Commander of the 165th Airlift Wing Communication Squadron in Garden City.

In 1993, he became Commander of the 165th Security Forces Squadron in the same location.

In 1994, he served on the Commanding staff as a Communications Electronics and Computer Systems Officer at the Air National Guard Headquarters in Atlanta.

He became the Commander of the 283rd Combat Communication Squadron, a Geographic Separated Unit (GSU) in Savannah and Dobbins Air Reserve Base in Marietta in 1995.

Following his tour of duty with the 283rd, he returned to the 165th Airlift Wing as a Staff Officer. In 1999, he became the Commander of the 165th Airlift Wing Security Forces Squadron in Garden City for a second tour.

During that same year, he was appointed as the first Inspector General of the 165th Airlift Wing in Garden City, the 224th Communication Squadron in Brunswick, the 117th Tactical Control Squadron in Savannah and other units upon request.

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In 1999, Goldwire was promoted to Lieutenant Colonel. He retired in November of 2007 with thirty seven years and six months of military service to our country.

How can a man with 30 years of service to the Effingham County Board of Education and 37 and a half years of service to our country find time to do anything else?

Well, this man always found a way.

Not only did Goldwire have a passion for serving his country, he also has a passion for serving his community.

“I believe God put you on this earth to be a service to mankind. I want to do my part and do what God has put me here to do,” stated Goldwire.

Throughout these years of service, Goldwire has always found a way to make time to serve his community. He was a member of the Effingham County Health Board for 20 years. He has been involved with Habitat for Humanity.

He has been a member of the Sunrise Rotary Club. He was a member of The Optimist Club, the Georgia Pacific Citizens Advisory Program and he has served on the Boards of Gateway Coastal Area Planning, Effingham County Hospital Authority and Effingham County Tax Appeal.

He presently serves on Guyton City Council, where he serves as a liason to Guyton Elementary. He is also on the Personnel and Budgeting Committees.

He serves on the Board for the Effingham County Visitor’s Bureau.

He serves on the Board for the Effingham YMCA, where he currently hold the position of Chairman.

He is the Vice President of the Board of Directors for Planters Telephone Cooperative.

He serves on the Branch Banking and Trust Company (BB&T) Board of Directors.

He serves as a leadership coach and mentor for the Aspiring Leadership Program (ALP) of the Effingham County School System.

He is Vice President of Springfield Central High Association, Inc. He serves on the BOD of Live Oak Public Library for their Effingham branches.

He is also the Dean of Parent Universirty.

Goldwire is a member of Union Spring Methodist Church where he serves on the Steward Board and Education Executive Committee. He is also a member of the Clyo Masonic Lodge 262.

He says, “I am blessed and privileged to have the opportunity to do these things. This is a way I can show my appreciation to my mom and dad for instilling in me the values and morals I grew up with and for them giving me the best opportunities possible.”

Goldwire is quick to point out that he could not do the things he has done in his life without a supportive family. Speaking of his wife, he states, “She supports me 100% in everything I do. She motivates me.”

Married for 41 years, Franklin and Cheryl Goldwire have made Guyton there home. Cheryl is also retired from the Effingham County School System with 30 years of service. They have three sons, Whitney, Courtney and Seth and they have two grandchildren.

Franklin Goldwire has made a lifetime of serving his country and his community.

When asked about all of his service and volunteer work, Goldwire is very modest. He really doesn’t seem to want to take the credit. He simply says, “I could not have done any of this without Cheryl. She is the wind beneath my wings. She makes me fly.”

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eauty is being the best possible version of yourself on the inside and out.” This quote perfectly defines Karima Burdette. Not only is she a woman that possesses great physical beauty, but she has a very beautiful soul.

Effingham county resident, Karima Burdette, was born in Morocco and moved to France at the age of twelve. When she was eighteen years old, she was given the opportunity to come to the United States through a foreign exchange program for cosmetology professionals. Karima was sent to Washington D.C., and loved it so much that she ended up staying in the United States instead of returning to France.

Several years later, Burdette relocated to Savannah, where she met her future husband Roger. The couple met at the YMCA in Savannah and eventually married after a rather interesting marriage proposal from the future groom. “Roger wore a Superman costume, climbed on top of the globe on DeRenne Avenue in Savannah, and asked me to marry him,” she says.

Who could say no to that!

Karima and Roger now live in a beautiful home just outside of Rincon. Roger has two children from a previous marriage, R.L. and Lashell Burdette. He and Karima have two children, Zecharia and Priscilla Burdette. Roger is the owner of Carlisle Village, and Karima assists him with the business and cares for the family. She was previously the owner of French Connection Hair and Tanning in Rincon, but decided to sell the business after Zecharia was born. The busy mom says it was enjoyable running a business and she loved her occupation, but it was difficult to manage with small children.

This past June, Karima participated in the Mrs. Georgia Pageant in Roswell, Georgia. “I had always seen beauty pageants on television, and it was a dream of mine since I was a little girl to compete in one,” she says. Her husband was the one who encouraged her to enter the competition. She says it took a year of hard work to get ready for the pageant, but the experience

was one she will never forget.

She did extremely well in her first pageant. She finished as first runner-up in the Mrs. Georgia Pageant, and won the most photogenic award as well as the swimsuit competition. This stunning contestant credits the support she received from her family and friends before and after the competition as one of the reasons for her success. She says without the help and support of her amazing seamstress, Miss Sheila of Superior Cleaners, she would have been lost.

Each contestant is required to have a platform in order to enter the competition. Burdette’s platform for the pageant was the nursing home ministry she leads. The ministry is a part of the G.L.O.W. ministries that operate through Grace Community Church in Rincon, which is the church Karima and her family attend.

Wendy Turner, a fellow member of the church, heads up G.L.O.W. (God Loves Orphans and Widows) Ministries.

Karima had the desire to serve the community, but found that it was difficult to participate in many of the ministries because she had small children. She went to Wendy and found out she needed help with the nursing home ministry. This was six years ago, and Karima feels so blessed and fulfilled to be able to continue leading this ministry. “I feel we have to love everyone, because God wants us to love everyone,” says this loving Christian woman.

Around twenty volunteers assist Karima in preparing for the visits to the nursing homes. They visit the Effingham Care Center in Springfield and The Port Wentworth Nursing Home regularly. Many of the residents have very little or no family at all or their families live too far away to visit them on a regular basis. Burdette says, “I love going there because it is so rewarding to see them smile. Many times the occupants can be quite reserved, but most of the time they are so willing to welcome us into their lives.”

This past Mother’s Day, Karima and her team of volunteers

delivered cards to all the ladies at the homes and gave them personal hand massages. On Valentine’s Day, they delivered chocolates and cards to all of the residents. She says they even took animals to the home on one occasion, such as baby chickens and rabbits, and that was a fun time for all of them.

Karima is busy planning the annual Christmas visit the ministry makes each year. Gift bags full of wonderful goodies will be delivered to each of the residents, and she will be taking along children to help hand out the gifts and visit with all of them.

Candy and handmade Christmas cards, created by the children at The Habersham School in Rincon, will be handed out as well.

The Grace Community Children’s Choir will be providing the entertainment for the event with the singing of Christmas carols.

The YMCA has been kind enough to assist Karima with fundraising for the ministry for the second year. They are allowing her to place an Angel Tree there that is designated for her

ministry. Anyone wishing to help can donate a gift card that will be used to purchase items for the Christmas visit. Karima is also appreciative of the donation she received from the Pooler Walmart. She says if anyone is interested in providing financial support to this valuable ministry, please give her a call at 912596-6075.

Burdette says Senior Pastor Charlie Hodges of Grace Community Church has been very supportive of the ministry. He has allowed her to speak at church about the ministry and request donations from church members.

This beautiful, inspiring, and faithful woman is focused on loving as God expects her to, and she says, “I am going to stand firm in my faith and I am not ashamed to share it.” The ministry gives her great joy and allows her to help those who are not able to help themselves. What a great example of inner and outer beauty.

Top Left: Karima winning First Runner Up in the Mrs. Georgia pageant.

Top Right: Working with the nursing home ministry she leads.

Bottom Left: Karima and family

“I feel we have to love everyone, because God wants us to love everyone.”

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Frank Huff

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don’t know what your destiny will be, but one thing I do know: the only ones among you who will be really happy are those who have sought and found how to serve.” Albert Schweitzer United Way volunteer Frank Huff says, “It was ingrained in me by my parents to give back.” So that is what this man has proceeded to do for many years.

Huff grew up in a small, rural community just outside of Athens, Georgia. Frank’s father was an equipment operator, and his mother was a clerk. His parents were always involved in the community, particularly their church. “I’ve seen my dad help out people in tough times,” he says. “Sometimes it would hurt us, but he still did it.” Frank credits these two people as his role models, as well as being responsible for giving him the passion to give back to his community.

The University of Georgia is where Frank headed after he graduated from high school. His father had instilled in him a love of the outdoors. He was passionate about outdoor recreation, conservation and natural resources. So Frank enrolled in the forestry school at the college and became a park ranger. He found himself moving all over the country thanks to this career choice, and he quickly realized he loved living in different places around the country.

Frank has been happily married to his wife, Andrea, for thirtynine years. She is the Director of the Effingham Community Orchestra, which according to Frank, keeps her extremely busy these days. She also gives private music lessons. Frank humbly expresses that his wife has been very supportive and understanding over the years and proudly states, “She went where I needed to go for the job.”

Frank and Andrea have made their home in the local area. They moved here in 1990 when Frank’s job with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers brought them to Savannah. He says, “The area has been real good to us and we have been able to feel a bond here.”

Early in his career, Frank had left the Georgia State Park system to work with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. He and his wife continued to move all over the Southeast region of the United States calling Tennessee, Georgia and Kentucky home over the years. Eventually, he was relocated to the Savannah branch of the Corps of Engineers, and this is where he eventually became associated with the United Way. The United Way of the Coastal Empire conducts a fundraising campaign each year and invites area companies to donate members of their staff to assist their organization in raising awareness as well as meeting their fundraising goals. Frank served as a

loaned associate of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers that year.

Even though he still had duties to his employer and his job, the majority of his time was devoted to the United Way’s fundraising campaign.

Frank was very impressed with the whole experience that year. Once the campaign was over and the donations came in, he said the allocation process began. A panel of volunteers would then look over the applications submitted by different agencies requesting help, and the money would be allocated to the highest needs. Huff’s admiration of the United Way is evident and his volunteer duties gave him a new respect for what can be accomplished when individuals come together and combined their efforts for the good of others.

Frank would continue his involvement with the United Way after the 1992 campaign. He has volunteered his time with allocations at the Effingham County United Way for more than twenty years. He is also the Chairman of the Effingham County Advisory Board. His duties on the board involve helping determine direction, policy, budget and goals for the organization.

This past April, Huff was recognized by the United Way of the Coastal Empire at their annual “Spirit of Community” Awards Ceremony. The awards are the organizations highest honor for those who exhibit exceptional philanthropic commitment in giving, advocating and volunteering. Frank received the “Spirit of Volunteering” award honoring him for his years of commitment and generosity to the United Way. Bonnie Dixon, Director of the Effingham County United Way, feels very fortunate that Frank has chosen the United Way to become involved with. She says, “Frank is an awesome volunteer and a great role model for those who are looking to give back to the community in a leadership way.”

In 2006, Frank retired from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and is thoroughly enjoying this phase of his life. He says he is fortunate to have ended his career with such a great job, but he is obviously happy with retirement. Fishing, outdoor activities and helping his wife with the orchestra keep this generous man busy these days.

When asked why he has been committed to volunteering to this organization for so many years, Frank replied that the value system he was brought up with has a great deal to do with it. “Seeing people’s needs met with the donation dollars that come in, and being able to have a part in that gives me a great personal satisfaction,” he says. This modest and caring man is just continuing to serve others and his community in the way his parents taught him.

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ave you been to the United Way Service Center of Effingham lately? Sitting in the front office, ‘hiding’ behind the glass, is the Assistant Director of United Way, Julie Dickey.

‘Hiding!’ Well, not exactly. One can certainly see her through the glass. But, once you speak to her, you know she is not in hiding any longer.

This vivacious lady has a bubbly personality, always has a smile on her face and has a knack for making every person that walks in the door feel at home.

Julie is originally from Calhoun, Georgia. She attended Ambassador University, a Christian college in Big Sandy, Texas. It is here that she would meet her future husband, Brian, in 1991.

After receiving n Associates of Art Degree, Julie returned to Calhoun and Brian returned to his home town, Birmingham, Alabama.

When back in Calhoun, she acquired a part time clerical job.

Missing Brian and wanting to be closer to him, Julie took a position with AmSouth Bank in Birmingham in 1994. She started taking night courses at Birmingham Southern College and received her undergraduate and Masters Degree in Accounting.

While Julie was in school, Brian was also. He was attending the University of Alabama where he received his degree in Electrical Engineering.

The couple became engaged on Christmas of 1995 and married June 8, 1996 on Julie’s birthday.

Brian took a position with Alabama Power. In order to move up the corporate ladder, this young couple had to be mobile.

Their first move was back to Calhoun, Julie’s home town, with Georgia Power, a sister company of Alabama Power. Then, they went to Acworth, Georgia before their move to Rincon. The family has been here since 2008.

Upon arriving in Effingham County, Julie started looking for work with her accounting background in the Savannah area. Jobs at this time were scarce and Julie could never find her fit.

Beginning to feel a little down and home sick, she received a call from her father in early 2009. Her dad encouraged her to become involved in the community. He told her to call the local Habitat for Humanity office and do some volunteer work.

Julie decided that was a good idea. She began looking for their phone number, but was unable to find it. However, in her search, she stumbled upon the number for the United Way. She gave them a call and went in and met with Bonnie Dixon, Director of United Way Service Center of Effingham. She asked Bonnie if she could help and Bonnie asked her what she could do. Julie replied, “I am a professional organizer.” That was all Bonnie needed to hear.

United Way had a clothes room that was in dire need of attention.

They stored clothes that were donated by individuals and various organizations. The room was a complete mess and Julie lovingly took this on as her first project. Her dedication to this was amazing. Soon, one of the United Way employees named it “The Caring Closet,” a name it still holds today.

During this time, Brian had joined the Rotary Club. Julie attended a meeting with him and the speaker that day was talking about a mentoring program at Guyton Elementary. She thought this would be a great thing for her to get involved in and she immediately signed up for the program. She began mentoring a little girl in the second grade. The child is now in middle school and still being mentored by Julie.

Julie also started volunteering with her HOA, and became the secretary of the HOA at Lost Plantation. Her neighbor at the time was the Treasurer of their HOA and was also involved in the PTO at

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Blandford Elementary, where her children attended school.

She became involved with the PTO at the school volunteering with their fundraising efforts. Here, she met and became friends with some other ladies involved in the PTO. These ladies bonded and developed a unique friendship. They all began sorting the clothes at The Caring Closet together as a team. They would all meet once a month to sort clothes and go to The Loft for lunch. It became their tradition.

One night, Julie received an email from Bonnie Dixon. The email was talking about a part time position that was coming available at United Way. Bonnie said the job may be a fit for me and if I was interested, I should come by and talk.

In Julie’s words, “This was a blessing from God.” She interviewed with United Way of the Coastal Empire and was awarded the position.

While being employed at the United Way, Julie was quickly educated about various organizations in Effingham that were geared to help our residents. In January of 2013, Julie and Brian attended the first community meeting for Family Promise, an organization addressing the homeless in Effingham.

“I was floored when I saw the need,” stated Julie. At the meeting that night, the corporate affiliate for this program stated they were looking for someone to head this program. Brian accepted this role. She teamed up with her husband in total support to make sure this proven program would be implemented in our county.

In February, they set up monthly meetings and volunteers from all over the county joined immediately. They prayed for wisdom and put an action plan in place.

Churches began to commit and the Board of Education provided them with transportation. Kathy Deason of Kathy’s Day Care

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donated the use of their very first “day” center which is expected to open in the spring of 2014.

The corporate affiliate said it generally takes one and a half to two years to get this program going. Not in Effingham County.

Family Promise of Effingham restructured in May of 2013, and now only 6 months later, they have 75% of what they need. They are now ready to transition to a Board of Directors and begin the fundraising efforts to open a center.

She says, “This community has been amazing. Everyone is eager to know who we are and what they can do to help. It has been so sweet for Brian and me to have God’s provision and the whole county behind us.”

Julie and Brian are spending in excess of 15 hours a week working on this project. This may be a hard task for a family with three children, but this couple makes it work.

Nathan is the oldest child at 11 years old. Then came their two daughters, Amber, 8, and Bre who is 3.

“In order to make sure we devote the necessary time to Family Promise and to our children, our kids are also involved. They go with us to visit churches, they go to visit the homeless with us…. we have made it a family affair,” she says.

She is a very proud mother. You can see the smile all over her face when she talks of how her kids hold signs for Family Promise at their events and how responsive they are when the family visits the churches.

She even goes on to say, “I am so touched when one of my children is saying their prayers and they pray about Family Promise.

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lmost 100 years ago, at 3 o’clock in the afternoon on Thanksgiving Day, Doyle and Maude Dasher were married. The date was November 30, 1916. Doyle and Maude were married for 67 years. They began a tradition of celebrating their anniversary on Thanksgiving Day. But the day’s festivities were more than just a Thanksgiving feast. Thanksgiving Day was “Cane Grinding Day.” For 95 years, the Dasher family has faithfully continued the tradition. It’s a fun day that includes the Dasher extended family and friends, their friends and anyone who wants to be part of the crowd.

Two years after they got married, Doyle and Maude bought farm land on Georgia Highway 17.

They raised a variety of crops - a little bit of everything, from farm crops, to cattle, to tobacco, and sugar cane, of course. Doyle built his own syrup shed and he had his own cane mill, and that’s when they started the tradition of having everybody come on Thanksgiving Day. That was about 1919.

The Dasher Thanksgiving/ Cane Grinding tradition has been carried on by the five Dasher kids on the same farm where they were raised. The cane mill that Doyle built is the same one that is used today to grind sugar cane to make their syrup.

Doyle gave each of his children a plot of land on the original farm and each one of them lived on Doyle and Maude their home site. James is the oldDasher on their wedding day, est – he’s 87, then Lowell who is November 30, 1916.

82, and Clayton, 76, is the youngest. They had two sisters, Leona and Sarah. Both have passed away, but for all of their lives, they also partook in the family tradition.

Clayton still lives on the 80 acre family farm property.

That farm is the fabric of his soul. He’s shared the joys of living there with his sweet wife, Emma Lee, for all 50 years of their marriage. Their daughter, Dana Lee Smith and her husband, Dana (that’s right) and their son, seven year old

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Evan, live in the Dasher family home – that’s four generations of Dashers that the home has nurtured.

“Passing on the heritage, that’s what it’s all about,” says Dana. She could be referring to the family home, but she’s talking about the Dasher Thanksgiving tradition, the gathering of family and friends and the concerted efforts of many to make cane syrup the old fashioned way. “It’s to keep an old art form for your grandchildren to see,” she adds, “and it seems to get bigger each year. We always get at least 100 people or more, sometimes 130 or 140. It’s way more than just family and extended family. It’s lots of friends.”

“We just invite people that we meet in our community. Maybe they were away from their family at Thanksgiving and we invite them and say, ‘Why don’t you come be with us?’ And through our church, Zion Lutheran, there’s folks that we come across who have moved into our community who don’t have an opportunity to go home to be with their family. There are some people who want to do something different on Thanksgiving Day,” says Dana.

“Besides the people who come to eat, there’s people who come and just drop in all day long,” says Emma Lee. “They want to bring their children to see it, or want to stop by to get some syrup, or people who want to come out to the farm – to get out of town. And they’ll bring people we don’t even know.”

“Sometimes people drive by and stop in. ‘We see the smoke coming out of that smoke stack – what’re you all doing?’ they’ll say,” she adds.

“It’s really an open house, an open ‘Dinner on the Grounds Cane Grinding Day.’ Anybody can come.” says Emma Lee “This is just a relaxed free day. The more the merrier!”

“It started out as family and it’s turned into a community – and beyond even,” says Dana. “We have folks who travel here to be with their families, and their families come.”

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Preparing for the reunion starts way before Thanksgiving Day. It all starts with planting, growing and harvesting their one half acre of sugar cane, and the cane is cut before Thanksgiving Day. “Family, friends and neighbors help to keep the tradition going, by pitching in when it’s time for harvesting,” says Dana, “Family and friends will call, and they’ll help pitch in. Harvesting means: stripping, topping, and cutting it down (before the frost), and it has to be brought in from the field.”

Thanksgiving Day is cane grinding day. “We begin at 6:00 in the morning or earlier,” says Clayton.

Dana explains the process: “The sugar cane stalk goes into the mill - it’s a press, where the juice is squeezed out,” she says, “and then we cook the juice in our syrup pot, which is a big 80 gallon cast iron pot.

You do a series of skimmings to take off impurities (dirt that comes out). We use a wood fire, and it’s a four and a half hour process. We’ll typically have two cookings or three cookings that day and once it’s cooked, we go ahead and bottle it right away. The whole process is called cane grinding.”

Pure sugar cane syrup – it’s the syrup of the gods!

And, like many things that are really great, you have to work really hard to get it. That’s the way it is with ‘cane grinding.’ It’s an all day process that takes a lot of people to help, and combining a cane grinding party with a Thanksgiving feast is a perfect combination.

“On Thanksgiving Day everybody comes, family and friends, and it’s a tradition if you have overalls to wear them,” says Dana. “Everyone pitches in for the process for the whole day. It’s a time of fellowship, everybody’s around. As you smell the syrup cooking, it’s just a sweet aroma we all love to smell, and we’ll just join in with the process and socializing with each other.”

“Everyone leaves with a bottle of syrup,” says Dana.

“Sometimes it’s nearly all gone when the day finishes.

After you cook 80 gallons of juice – you only get 10 – 11 gallons of cane syrup.”

The cane grinding is only half the fun. Of course, there’s the usual Thanksgiving feast. “At 1:00 we spread the dinner out and bless it,” says Emma Lee who says that they provide about 40 pounds of turkey and about three huge pans of dressing. People bring covered dishes and ‘everyone has their fill.’

Seating such a crowd isn’t a problem. “People bring lawn chairs and they sit anywhere on the grounds they find to eat,” she says.

What do the kids do? “Oh, you name it - anything you can think of,” says Dana. “It’s always a hit to feed the goat and the donkey. They’ll have a ballgame start up. There’s a tire swing, a playhouse and a swing set.

There’s a hay ride for the children – and there’s no age limit!”

“Just rompin’ and runnin’,” says Emma Lee. “It’s a good day to be a kid,” says Dana. She remembers being a kid and ‘rompin’ and runnin’ with the other kids that came for a day of fun at the cane grinding, and her smile says it all. “It was nothing when I was growing up to have a crowd of 100 here. I remember my great uncles sitting on the bench, where the water spigot is, talkin’ and tellin’ stories. We called them the ‘supervisors’ when they got older and weren’t able to do the work. And we always had a group photo

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“It started out as family, and it’s turned into a community – and beyond even.”

of the cousins, as kids, in our overalls. We’d all line up in front of the shed and have a picture made,” Dana adds.

It’s obvious her memories are sweet, and her son, Evan, is enjoying them too. “He loves it,” she says simply. It looks like he’ll also help to keep the family tradition alive.

But to Dana and her family, the day is more than keeping the family tradition alive -“It’s the importance of community,” she says. “Today there are so few things where the community comes together unless it’s a tragedy or something that draws them together for a need. This is shear just getting together to fellowship.”

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ichael Osborne, a native of Rincon, is the new Director of the City of Rincon’s Recreation Department. Osborne began working at the department this past October and is thrilled about the opportunity he has been given to work in his hometown once again.

The new director spent his childhood in the local area, and graduated from Effingham County High School in 1990. Michael and his wife, Traci, have been married for sixteen years and have been blessed with three children. Their son, Robbie, is twenty two years old, and their girls, Selena and Sophie, are fifteen and eleven. Osborne says he and his wife spend their weekends cheering on their daughters at their soccer games and tournaments.

Michael Osborne headed to Brewton Parker College in Mount Vernon, Georgia, after graduating from high school. His areas of study while in college were recreation and fitness and wellness.

During Michael’s freshman year at Brewton Parker, the college formed its first soccer team, and Michael was introduced to an unfamiliar sport.

While in high school, Michael competed on the track and the cross-country team. He says Effingham County didn’t have a soccer team at that time, so he had never played the sport. During his freshman year at Brewton College, he hung out with some friends who played soccer and he was intrigued with the sport.

They taught him all about soccer and encouraged him to try out for the college team. Not only did the rookie soccer player make the team, but he was awarded “Most Improved Player” on the team that year.

Osborne uses the valuable skills he learned on his college soccer team to coach these days. He is the assistant coach for the Effingham County High girls’ soccer team, and it is obvious this is a task he truly enjoys.

Michael Osborne may be new to the job, but he is not a newcomer to the parks and recreation business. “Years ago I was hired as Rincon’s first Recreation Director and stayed on the job for a year and a half,” says Michael Osborne. However, he believed he needed more experience in his field before he could perform the duties of director properly. In order to be fair to the City of Rincon, he left and took a job as the Assistant Director at the Pooler Recreation Department for six years.

After his stint in Pooler, he moved on to Garden City where he was appointed the Director of their recreation department.

Eventually, Michael Osborne made it back to Effingham County, where for six years he was the Athletic Coordinator for the Effingham County Recreation Department.

Working hard and building the Rincon Recreation Department into an area the citizens of Rincon can be proud of is what Michael Osborne is focused on. His job entails bringing in new programs as well as overseeing the existing programs. He also oversees the maintenance of the facilities, evaluates the needs

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the department has, and assists in finding the means to fulfill these needs.

The enthusiastic director has a supportive and hard-working staff that assists him in his duties as the new director. The Assistant Director of the Recreation Department is Jim Finley, Head of Maintenance is Tim Krongenberger and Mary Whaley oversees the Senior Citizen programs.

The Recreation Department offers soccer, baseball, softball and football to the youth of Rincon. This fall season was the first season for youth football, and the introductory team consisted of eight year olds. Osborne says they are hoping to offer enrollment in basketball next year.

Interest in the programs and enrollment is continuing to grow each season, and the department is finding it necessary to form more and more teams with each season. Four new fields are being built at the Macomber Recreation Complex in Rincon in order to meet the needs of the sports teams, coaches and participants. This will give the department a total of eight ballfields, as well as concession stands and restroom facilities. The new fields should be ready for use in the 2014 spring season.

Osborne is very excited that Rincon’s recreation complex is expanding. He says the first Homerun Derby, sponsored by Josh Reddick of the Oakland Athletics, and held at the complex last January was a fundraiser for the Rincon Recreation Department.

The funds raised at the derby were used toward building new ball fields. He is also grateful that Reddick will return again next January to host the 2nd Annual Home Run Derby, and is expecting a big turnout for the event.

Local youth are not the only ones who participate in the programs offered by the Rincon Recreation Department. Michael says the department is looking at bringing an adult softball league, dart league and an Effingham Lacrosse Club to Rincon.

Bingo for seniors is available at The Vernon C. Hinely Community Center on Mondays from 9-11 a.m., and card games can be enjoyed at the center each Tuesday afternoon from 4:30-8:00.

Michael Osborne’s vision for the department is seeing the programs and facilities expand, but remain a place the people of Rincon can come to and enjoy themselves whether their teams win or lose. He hopes to get younger kids involved in the available programs, as well as adults. Osborne also adds, “I am open to listening to any idea or comments people have concerning new activities and programs. You don’t know if something will work unless you give it a try.”

The new director is enthusiastic about the things that are happening for the Rincon Recreation Department, and hopes to be able to see additional growth in the available facilities and programs. He is also very excited that he has been given this wonderful opportunity to work in Rincon. He says, “I want people to know how good God is. I prayed and asked him to find a way for me to come back home and in just a short time here I was.” Welcome home, Michael Osborne.

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veryone knows that the traditional Christmas colors are green, red and white. For merchants, however, black is perhaps the most important color of the season.

This would mean that enough silver and gold would come their way to get their bottom line out of the red.

Black Friday, the Friday following Thanksgiving, is called “Black” because it is the official start of the Christmas shopping season. The season is what puts retailers in the black. Unless you are in retail, you are probably not aware of how expensive it is to succeed and how slim margins can be. Most retailers operate at a loss throughout the year. The stay afloat because of the year end frenzy of holiday spending.

Black Friday is definitely worth celebrating since it begins the season that makes a retailer’s year. Very few people get all of their Christmas shopping done in one day. It is the entire month (give or take a day or two) leading up to Christmas that makes the merchants so merry.

The whole “Black Friday” thing brings images of crazed shoppers barreling mindlessly through stores, trampling everyone and everything in their way, grabbing everything in sight, and contending with the other shoppers over the last great bargain!

But that is not the true holiday spirit. The true spirit can be found when shoppers are truly thoughtful about what they buy and where they buy it. That is why the Effingham County Chamber of Commerce holds a shop local campaign every year for our local merchants. This campaign is geared to encourage residents to spend their money in our local businesses.

With a national focus on shopping during the holiday season, our Chamber wants to raise awareness in our community on the importance of shopping local. Dollars spent in locally owned businesses have a tremendous impact on our community. These local monies create jobs, fund county services and provide for future development. Our small businesses are the backbone of our local economy.

The Chamber’s annual Shop Local Campaign is a very important event for local merchants. It is a way to raise consumer awareness of what our local businesses have to offer.

Past year’s campaign have been such a huge success, the Chamber has decided to use the same idea again...so, here we are.....back in “Elfingham.”

That’s right....Elfingham....not Effingham. Our county takes on a special name throughout the holiday shopping season. And, little elves are taking over our county by storm. These little elves are for Catie.

Catie Wilkins, young daughter to Tre and Jenny Wilkins, succumbed to brain cancer in 2007. Young Catie had an elf that was her constant companion during her 3 year battle with cancer.

The elves will be here again this year in our local stores. They will be on sale at local retail outlets. Ultimately, the plan is for the elves to take up residence with little children in Effingham and all around.

When the elves have gained a stronghold in the stores, they will draw curious shoppers from all over the county. In the process,

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hundreds of local residents will discover treasures right here in Effingham, allowing them to make holiday purchases at home in our own community!

Almost everything a person could want or need can be found right here in our own community. There are many unique and one-of-a-kind items that can’t be found anywhere else. Shoppers will understand there is no need to spend their money elsewhere.

Operation “Elfingham” kicks off on Sunday, November 24th at the annual Holiday Classic and Business Expo. The Classic will take place at Effigham County High School from noon to 4:00 pm.

There will be entertainment from local singers and dancers. The 4-H club will be providing a traditional Thanksgiving meal and there will be many booths showcasing area businesses.

The elves are called “Elves from Catie” and they will be set up at the Chamber booth during the Classic. These elves are great fun for children of all ages. Many of the elves are purchased to be given to sick children in pediatirc hospitals around the country.

Five dollars form every elf purchase goes to CURE Childhood Cancer.

Chamber Director Rick Lott said, “We had a very successful shop local campaign last year. We are striving to make it even better than before. Our main goal is for our merchants to do well and for more of our county residents to get used to the idea of shopping local.”

Effingham Countians need to get in the habit of looking in Effingham first. Many merchants in our county have treasures you just can’t find anywhere else. Effingham County is rich with some of the finest and most imaginative gift shops. These shops are proud to offer the wares of our local artisans. From food and wine, to jewelry and needlework, to candles and soaps, to children’s clothing and toys, Effingham offers most ordinary things that people need or want.

It is true that you may not be able to get everything you need here, but it is definitely true that this community has more to offer than ever before.

Some people like to browse and buy from the comfort of their own home. If you prefer to shop online, no problem. Most local merchants offer this option. And you can save on your shipping costs. All you have to do is swing by and pick up your order at a time that is convenient to you.

When dollars stay in the community, locally owned businesses thrive. This means jobs...jobs created right here in our own community. In spite of the devastating economic downturn and record unemployment rates, there are communities across the country with substantially lower unemployment.....because they found ways to keep their dollars in their community. Not only does this bolster local businesses, it also keeps more tax revenue local, directly benefiting the citizens who pay it.

Support your local businesses. Go get an elf and share it with a child. Help fight childhood cancer. Do this by going into a locally owned business. Discover what our county has to offer. Do your part to bolster our local business community!

It’s almost time for the Holidays and we would like to invite you to SHOP LOCAL and get your Holiday gifts here in Effingham County.

While you’re out shopping Elfingham, look for stores participating in the ‘Elfngham’ Shopping Tour. Select Chamber member stores will feature Christmas Elves and sales of the lovable elves and books support childhood cancer research by C.U.R.E. This great program was begun right here in Elfingham County, when Tre and Jenny Wilkins lost their precious Catie to cancer. Catie loved her little elf and someone you love will too. Give a fun gift and help fi nd cures for childhood cancers at the same time. So look for the ‘Elfi ngham’ signs and get your Elf now! So this Holiday season, make someone happy and support your county at the same time.

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The Merle Norman Winter 2013 Color Collection and holiday gifts have arrived just in time for the hustle and bustle of the season.

We are excited to offer our customers a large selection of Brighton Jewelry, Charms, Sunglasses and Watches. We also have Holiday Apparel, Monogrammed Inifinity Scarves, Fashion and Monogrammed Jewelry, Spanx, and Purses, all to please that special person in your life. Complementary gift wrapping is available for all your holiday purchases.

You are invited to call for an appointment for your special holiday makeover.

Merle Norman Cosmetics and Boutique 163 Commercial Drive, Rincon GA. MaryJane Brinson, owner (912) 826-1101

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