Augusta, GA
JENNIE: Older Americans Month and 14th Annual Elder Rights Conference
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AUGUSTA, Ga. (WJBF)– Could is older American’s month.
It acknowledges the contributions of older adults throughout the nation and likewise raises consciousness about elder abuse and neglect. The objective is to verify sources are in place to guard our older inhabitants from the dangers of abuse and neglect.
Kathleen Jones is with the Regional Fee CSRA Space Company on Growing older. She joined me not too long ago to speak extra about older People month and a particular convention in June.
Kathy: “We would like folks to know that as life resumes and so they’re again that the very best factor they’ll do is stay concerned. If they’re remoted, they’re at higher danger of hurt with out folks figuring out that they’re residence alone. So we would like them to be inspired to discover issues. We’ve got our senior facilities which are open once more and actions are occurring there. So we’re making an attempt to let folks know that they’re on the market. They will definitely go and take a look at one thing new whether or not it’s a craft or gardening or something like that. But additionally to happen, perhaps take a look at issues like going to the library, studying books, volunteering something that retains them lively and lets them discover life at a complete completely different stage.”
Jennie: That’s so necessary. And I do know that was a really massive concern in COVID was the isolation.
Kathy: “Completely. The interplay with folks is one thing that may’t get replaced whether or not it’s together with your grandchild or whomever it’s, take time to essentially spend money on that individual and have them do the identical for you.”
Jennie: Properly now what’s the convention that’s arising in June?
Kathy: “We’re very glad to be again in individual with our 14th annual elder rights convention. And the theme this 12 months is Empowering Generations to guard in opposition to elder abuse. One factor once more, we discovered over this time interval was that people wanted help to know work together typically. With out their correct data, and the easiest way to speak to grandparents and their relations someday we have been lacking the mark. So simply having the ability to get that proper. We’re very lucky this 12 months to have a full schedule. We might be assembly on Thursday, June sixteenth and we now have class classes beginning at about eight o’clock that morning, going straight by the day. We’ve got a visitor speaker coming in from DeKalb county the district lawyer’s workplace, in addition to native members of our personal group. District Legal professional each Bobby Christine, and Jared Williams. Will likely be presenting. We’ve got a sexual assault skilled, forensics workers which are coming to assist us. So we’re actually enthusiastic about making an attempt to see how can we enhance what’s occurring for our native of us.“
Jennie: That’s so necessary as a result of the older of us are so usually weak to completely different scams and likewise to abuse, notably with caregivers when there one thing could also be occurring and so they’re afraid to say something. There’re simply quite a lot of intricacies concerned on this.
Kathy: “Completely. And we’d encourage of us locally to only bear in mind you don’t have the job of proving whether or not or not it’s actual, but when it feels uncomfortable, please report it and let the professionals are available in and attempt to decide what must be handled. Generally that’s if the banking data doesn’t seem appropriate? Let your banker know, ‘I don’t bear in mind writing that test.’”
Jennie When somebody has a difficulty, not simply associated to an abuse scenario or fraud scenario but when they want steerage with an older relative or one thing, are you those the world on company to show to?
Kathy: “A few of our calls are from folks which are making an attempt to suppose what do I do? My relative is getting older. They want some assist in the house. And we simply don’t know what. Generally we will discuss by it at their leisure and decide do they want only a easy dialog sometimes and may help them keep on the straight path or do they want any individual coming in to offer residence well being, meals on wheels, quite a lot of completely different interventions that may assist that individual to take care of their independence so long as attainable. So we’d encourage them to make use of that useful resource routinely. We’ve got an incredible quantity of workers on obligation that may assist us to stroll by regardless of the scenario is and be certain we join them with the right of us for the response.”
The 14th annual elder rights convention is arising Thursday, June sixteenth from 8:00 AM till 4:00 PM on the Augusta Double Tree Resort on Perimeter Parkway. For extra data you’ll be able to name 706-651-7341 or e mail Kathy at kjones@csrarc.ga.gov.
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Deadly accident shuts down lanes on Deans Bridge Road
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AUGUSTA, Ga. (WRDW/WAGT) – One person has died after a car crash on Deans Bridge Road on Saturday night, according to the Richmond County Sheriff’s Office.
Richmond County dispatchers said the call came in at 9:01 p.m. of a single-car accident with five passengers.
The driver was transported to a local hospital and later died due to their injuries, according to authorities.
The condition of the other passengers remains unknown.
The southbound lanes were shut down as of 10:15 p.m.
Drivers are encouraged to find an alternate route.
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The Dawg Days of summer hit the Junior Players with two (maybe) future UGA players leading
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Mason Howell birdies his last two holes, Hamilton Coleman posts the tournament’s low score on their way to the final group for Sunday’s final round at Players Stadium Course.
TPC Sawgrass, AJGA host the Junior Players Championship for the 18th year
The 18th Junior Players Championship is at the Players Stadium Course at TPC Sawgrass. It has become a Labor Day Weekend tradition on the First Coast.
One of the players in the final threesome of the 18th Junior Players Championship on Sunday has already decided to play golf at the University of Georgia — despite having two more years until his high school class graduates.
The other, with the same amount of time left in junior golf, still has an open mind. But he’d be bucking family tradition if he didn’t become a Bulldog.
Either way, they have more immediate issues at hand: battling it out in the final threesome in the final round of the Junior Players Championship, at the Players Stadium Course at TPC Sawgrass.
Mason Howell of Thomasville, Ga., birdied the hardest par-3 and the hardest par-5 holes on the course to polish off a 70 on Saturday, and at 5-under-par 139 has a one-shot lead over Hamilton Coleman of Augusta, Ga., (68, the tournament’s low round for the first two days), who birdied No. 17 and then made a gutsy par at the last to finish at 4-under.
Logan Reilly of Lovettsville, Va. (72), who held a share of the 18-hole lead, is in third at 3-under, Luke Colton of Frisco, Texas (72) is fourth at 2-under and Kailer Stone of Alameda, Calif. (71) is fifth at 1-under.
They are the only players who have broken par for the first 36 holes.
Reilly earned his spot in the final three some when he rallied from a stretch of three bogeys in four holes to birdie Nos. 8 and 9.
First Coast players lagging behind
After Miles Russell became the first resident of the First Coast to win the Junior Players last year — with Phillip Dunham of Ponte Vedra Beach finishing second and Tyler Mawhinney of Fleming Island in a tie for sixth — it will take an extraordinary final round for any of them to reach the top 10, much less contend.
Junior Players leaderboard
Junior Players final-round groups, tee times
Dunham (75) and Jackson Byrd of St. Simons Island, Ga., (73) are tied for 18th at 3-over. Dunham made only one birdie but it was at his final hole, the par-5 ninth.
Lucas Gimenez of Jacksonville had a wild ride over the Stadium Course, signing for a card that contained four pars, seven birdies, five bogeys and two double bogeys. It added up to a 74 and he’s tied for 31st at 5-over.
Russell got his score to even par through 13 holes and was only four off the lead at the time. But he bogeyed four of his last five holes and shot 76. He’s tied for 34th at 6-under with Mawhinney (77).
Ambrose Kinnare of St. Augustine (83) is tied for 68th at 15-over.
Junior Players leaders putt, scramble well
Both of the leaders said the course takes a mental toll on players, especially off the tee.
“The greens are in really good shape but you have to play really smart to get there,” said Howell, who hasn’t made a college decision yet but is from a Bulldog family — both his parents graduated from UGA. “If you have one lapse you’re in trouble. You can’t just walk up to a tee and whack at it.”
Coleman agreed with the sight lines off the Stadium Course tees.
“They are just so demanding,” he said. “There is not a breather hole off the tee. Every tee shot, you’re kind of stressing. Once you’re in the fairway and in the right position, you can kind of attack.”
Howell, Coleman get hot at different times
Howell is 14th on the AJGA Rolex Rankings and has five top-10 finishes this year in AGJA or national junior events, including a tie for fifth in the Western Junior.
He was 1-over for his first 10 holes after starting his round at the par-4 10th, then dropped birdie putts of 15 feet at No. 2 and 20 feet at No. 5. Howell capped his day when he drilled a 4-iron from 211 yards out to set up a 35-foot birdie putt at the par-3 eighth, then pitched onto the green of the par-5 ninth hole in three, and made a 3-footer.
Coleman, who verbally committed to Georgia last week, is 91st on the Rolex Rankings. He bounced back from a bogey at No. 2 with short birdie putts at Nos. 3, 4, 7 and 9, a stretch highlighted by a 6-iron against the wind from 176 yards out to within inches of the hole at the seventh.
Coleman birdied the 13th hole on a 15-foot putt at No. 13 and then chipped in from the right-front of the 14th green for birdie, negotiating a difficult angle to the front-left pin.
He almost holed out another short-game shot at the last. Coleman pushed his drive right and had to punch out from the trees. The ball rolled onto and over the green, settling into the left bunker. His sand shot tickled the edge of the hole before rolling 8 feet away, but he made the comebacker for par.
“I scrambled well, definitely,” Coleman said. “My irons have been really solid all week. I just need to tighten up the driver a little bit tomorrow.”
Howell, Coleman have played often
As South Georgia residents, Howell and Coleman know each other well and have played numerous times with and against each other and paired up for a practice round earlier in the week.
“He’s always fun to play with,” Coleman said. “Every time we play together we have fun.”
They also have a good track record on the First Coast. Howell is in his first Junior Players but he won the Billy Horschel Junior Championship on Oct. 5, 2023. Coleman tied for 18th in last year’s Junior Players and tied for third in the Horschel Junior Championship (which is played under a Stableford format), one point out of a playoff between Howell and Clark Van Gaalen.
Augusta, GA
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