Sunday, March 18, 2012 — The Newnan Times-Herald — 3B
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Coweta Remembered
January All Stars at Welch Elementary School were: Pre-K – David Waters; kindergarten – Jaylin Trice, Jonathan Mears, Kayla Jove, Emma Jonassen, Amanda Caban, Mariana Torres and Daisy Garcia; first grade – Anjelina Bridges, Kelsee Boyer, Jada Billingsley, Sofia McMurtry, Abby Enright, Syknia Clark and India Glenn; second grade – Olivia Janes, Christian Richardson, Nicholas Enright, Hope McClellan, Morgan Hendrix, Hamin You and Cordell Rober; third grade –Hans Jeudy, Jada Clowers, Danielle Garger, Jack Shuman, Emily Whitaker, Reaghan Byrom, Madison Badertscher and Kaylynne Parks; fourth grade – Isabella Nouryeah, Keegan Rich, J.J. Freed, Breanna Schaefer, Elmer Berganza, Morgan Smith, Kaitlyn Coleman, Dynahsty James, Micayla Harris, Wesley Chambless and Angelica Zavala. Thomas Crossroads Chick-Fil-A operator Ronnie Clotfelter was January speaker, and he told students they could be the light of the school and their community, brightening up the world around them. He also told them to be the spice, like salt, that makes things a little better.
Welch Elementary names All Stars for January, February
Welch Elementary School All Stars for the month of February included: Pre-K – Noah Thomas; Kindergarten – Carolyn Mock, Eerae Lee, Sam Brodbeck, Breanna Faulkner, Alecia Reid, Emilee Zeringue and Nathan Greenwood; first grade – Mondriques Jordan, Corey-ssa Thanton, Hannah Nicholas, Kyle Collins, Brycen Aliffi, Braden Ray and Anne Marie Phillips; second grade – Ji Eun Bae, Melissa Antrim, Matthew Setter, Kameron, Strickland, Arely Gutierrez-Constreras, Aanchal Patel and Chloe Sullivan; third grade – Haylee Ray, Maggie Phillips, Kourtine Thomas, Brooke Blalock, Kyle Waters, Zachary Carlton, Lamar Rascoe and Seunga Baek; fourth grade – Kessoca Dalderson, Cameryn Sumner, Bridgett Blalock, Karretha Alfred and Parker McLain; fifth grade – Isabella Reyes, Hudson Nowell, Doha Akid, Cole Dozier, Summer Watson and Hope Dean. Pastor Shawn Smith from Southcrest Church was February speaker, and he told Welch All Stars that “leaders see the things that others don’t and do the things that others won’t.”
Project preserves Chinese community history in Ga. 1873, when workers came here to deepen the Augusta Canal, Tom’s family was one of many who came to Augusta to open grocery stores after the turn of the century. Tom said most of the Chinese groceries were established in Augusta’s black neighborhoods. The number steadily increased until the late 1960s he said. “There were opportunities there,” said Tom. “Just little, bitty mom-and-pop grocery stores. That’s what I grew up in. My mom and dad’s store was at 11th and Laney Walker across
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from Immaculate Conception Church.” Tom recalls that almost all his Chinese friends and relatives were in the grocery business. After work and on weekends they would gather at the Chinese Consolidated Benevolent Association on Walker Street, to share food, play games and discuss business. “We used to come down here every weekend,” he said. “We had a special bond, we were tight.”
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AUGUSTA, Ga. (AP) — Gary Tom’s voice marks him as a native Georgian. A “y’all” rolls off his tongue as easy as pie. He says “thang” instead of thing and “sir” and “ma’am” just like most people of his generation who grew up in Augusta. Those who don’t know Tom, however, can be taken aback by a soft east-Georgia drawl coming from a face whose features might be more familiar in Hong Kong than in Hephzibah. “I get that a lot,” said Tom, 58. “I visit relatives in San Francisco and crack people up when they hear me.” That’s because Tom counts himself among Augusta’s wellestablished ethnic-Chinese community, the oldest such community in the Southeast. “I was born here in Augusta and lived here all my life, except for going off to college for a few years,” he said. “My father’s family moved here in 1927.” Now Tom’s voice and his family’s story will be preserved for future generations to hear. Tom is one of about 50 Augustans of Chinese descent who are taking part on an oral history project that intends to capture their family stories while there are those around who can still recall how it happened, said Ray Rufo, president of Augusta’s Chinese Consolidated Benevolent Association, which is behind the project. The project is nearing completion, said Rufo, a retired dentist. Rufo and his wife, Kathy Rufo, have been interviewing members of the Chinese community and collecting family photos, all of which will be compiled on DVDs to be distributed to association members, he said. Several DVDs will be placed for public use at the Augusta Library. A special ceremony and historical exhibit is scheduled to open May 12 in the library’s main auditorium. The exhibit, designed by Tom’s nephew, Travis Tom, celebrates the Chinese community’s history in Augusta, and received an award from the Georgia Historical Records Advisory Board in October. The Oral History Project and the related exhibit were funded in part by a grant from the Georgia Humanities Council and the National Endowment for the Humanities, Rufo said. Although Augusta had Chinese residents as far back as
Mr. and Mrs. Gordon Carter are shown at Turin Baptist Church Aug. 25, 1991, when Mr. Carter was being honored as a Deacon Emeritus at the church. The image shows the church sanctuary. It was submitted to The Newnan Times-Herald by Sophie Carter of Sharpsburg when the newspaper was gathering photos for its pictorial history books several years ago.
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