Augusta, GA
Lillian Freiberg stocked, secured Cold War shelters
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Throughout the top of the Chilly Conflict within the Fifties and ’60s, Augusta’s Civil Protection effort was led by a slender Philadelphia native with a bachelor’s diploma in music schooling.
The College of Pennsylvania won’t have ready Lillian Freiberg for such obligation, however her crowded résumé of native civic management confirmed her to be a pure on the process.
After shifting to Augusta in 1947, she obtained very busy.
She was president of the Perrin PTA, president of the Langford Junior Excessive PTA, chairman of the Crimson Cross First Support Committee, president and vice chairman of the League of Ladies Voters, and president, vice chairman and treasurer of the Augusta Girl’s Membership. She was even treasurer of the German Shepherd Canine Membership and secretary of the Augusta Kennel Membership.
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In 1952 the mom of two was chosen deputy director of Augusta’s Civil Protection effort, and three months later, the governor appointed her director.
She would maintain that job for greater than 20 years, converse to scores of civic golf equipment and be interviewed by a parade of newspaper reporters who saved asking her how she coped with the accountability defending Richmond County residents from the specter of nuclear battle.
“Once I first took the job,” she stated throughout a 1965 interview, “I could not sleep at night time. I anxious on a regular basis. However then, you’ll be able to’t do your greatest work that manner, are you able to?”
Managing Augusta’s civil protection effort out of her household residence at 1019 Oleander Drive (her husband George was a J.B. White’s credit score supervisor), Freiberg managed the county’s public fallout shelters, ensuring they had been stocked with meals, water and medical provides.
The 47 licensed shelters supplied room for 91,129 individuals – every granted 10 sq. ft. Every inhabitant would survive given one bundle of high-calorie crackers per day, in addition to a quart of water.
Every shelter had a “shelter man,” a upkeep man, an info officer and a deputy for operations.
They had been set as much as shield their inhabitants from a nuclear assault for as much as two weeks.
After which?
Freiberg advised reporters a number of issues may occur.
First, complete destruction. “We’ll don’t have anything to fret about …” she stated, “as a result of there might be nothing left.”
Second, partial destruction with radioactive contamination. Timber down, wires down, buildings crumbled, shattered glass.
Third, undamaged however contaminated with radioactive fallout.
And final, undamaged and uncontaminated.
She stated skeptics complain there’s not a lot constructive about rising from a shelter right into a broken world, however she reminded them they’d nonetheless be alive.
Freiberg stated she needed to overcome the reluctance of some when she obtained the job within the early Fifties as a result of she was a girl, however that did not final lengthy. She started taking her message to area people and civic golf equipment, in line with newspaper accounts. In a single yr, she counted greater than 250 talking engagements, typically 4 a day. She additionally submitted detailed plans and organizational approaches to metropolis and county authorities. She supplied a prolonged 13-point strategy that concerned public security departments and volunteers.
The plan by no means had for use.
Within the Seventies, nuclear disasters appeared a distant reminiscence and Augusta and Richmond County governments misplaced curiosity in civil protection funding.
Freiberg stepped down and her alternative lasted 9 months earlier than the mayor fired him for asking for a much bigger price range.
Within the late Seventies, Richmond County started a revitalized concentrate on pure disasters similar to tornadoes, hurricane and floods, a shift Freiberg had begun early within the decade. She mentioned that change in a 1973 interview, shortly earlier than her departure.
She referred to as civil protection curiosity “… the identical right here as in different cities and cities – very, very low. There’s nothing a lot you are able to do about it.”
Her 1973 price range was $15,000, and greater than a 3rd of that got here from the federal authorities, with town and county placing up the remaining.
Within the Nineteen Eighties, Lillian Freiberg did one thing she had not executed in 40 years – she lived quietly. Her husband George died in 1987 and he or she moved to Brandon Wilde in Evans till she handed away in June 1994. Her modest obituary on web page 8C of The Chronicle talked about she was a retired civil protection director, however had no picture of the girl who as soon as made 253 speeches in a single yr encouraging public security preparedness.
Invoice Kirby has reported, photographed and commented on life in Augusta and Georgia for 45 years.
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Augusta, GA
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
THE SCORE: Behind the Scenes with the Silver Bluff band
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Augusta Fire Department welcomes 13 new firefighters
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AUGUSTA, Ga. (WRDW/WAGT) – A class of fire recruits graduated from the Augusta Fire Department on Friday.
The department welcomed 13 new firefighters to the agency.
The department says this year’s theme, “Courage Under Fire: Rising Above,” was truly embodied by each recruit.
Augusta, Georgia Fire/EMA Department Chief Burden delivered an inspiring keynote address.
“We want to extend our deepest thanks to Augusta Technical College for their invaluable partnership and to the City of Augusta leadership for their continued support,” said the fire department.
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