United Way Stuff the Bus Underway
School will be in session before too much longer, and schoolchildren will need supplies.
The United Way of the CSRA is organizing its annual Stuff the Bus fundraiser and needs donations of backpacks, binders, composition notebooks, colored pencils, crayons, dividers, erasers, folders, glue sticks, hand sanitizer, highlighters, index cards, kid-safe scissors, markers, paper, pencils, pens, tissues and white out.
Businesses or individuals interested in collecting or donating school supplies should contact Angela Toland at the United Way of the CSRA at atoland@uwcsra.org. All donations to the campaign will be sorted, labeled and counted from 8 a.m. to noon July 23 at the Kroc Center.
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No supplies will be distributed July 23. It’s a collection and sorting day only, according to a news release. Once the items have been processed, they will be sent to Richmond, Columbia, Burke, Jefferson and other surrounding counties for distribution.
“Our goal is to maximize student learning this year and every year, and we’re proud to step in once again to help families in need,” said Brittany Burnett, president and CEO of United Way of the CSRA in the news release.
To make an online monetary donation, visit uwcsra.org/stuff-the-bus.
Columbia County Sheriff’s Office Issues Scam Alert
The Columbia County Sheriff’s Department posted on Facebook June 29 that a new phone scam is underway.
The caller identifies himself as a Columbia County Sheriff’s deputy and has even spoofed the sheriff’s office phone number using the name of a deputy from the department’s website.
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“The caller alleges that there is a warrant for your arrest, but if you secure funds in the form of a cashier’s check, Money Pac gift card or Green Dot debit card, you can avoid being arrested. The caller sounds believable and pressures the call recipient to go to a money payment site to pay to have the warrants removed from the system. The scam artist is aggressive and threatening in describing the consequences of not paying the fine,” the post said.
The sheriff’s department “reminds citizens that no law enforcement agency contacts citizens by phone, e-mail or regular mail and tells them to pay fees/fines by wiring money, using pre-paid money cards, using a money telegram or similar methods.”
Professor Named Distinguished Chair
Dr. Christy J.W. Ledford, professor and research director in the Department of Family Medicine at the Medical College of Georgia at Augusta University, has been named Curtis G. Hames, MD, Distinguished Chair in Family Medicine.
Ledford also is director of MCG’s HamesNet, an agency for healthcare and research quality practice-based research network. These networks, some of which have existed for more than 20 years, are groups of primary care clinicians and practices working together to answer community-based health care questions and translate research findings into practice, according to a news release.
Ledford joined the Department of Family Medicine in January as part of a departmental effort to grow its primary care research programs. Prior to joining MCG, Ledford was the research director in the Department of Family Medicine at Uniformed Services University, where she was also director of the Military Primary Care Research Network.
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