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5-14 LDN RETAIL LaGrange Dailylagrangenews.com News STATE TOMORROW’S SPORTS FDA approval The Troup Tigers seems likely for new WEATHER Today’s artist: Kelcie Mclain, have made it HIV preventative third grade, Long Cane through to the state drug….......... 5 Elementary School. High: 79, quarterfinals............ 9 Low: 57................ 2 Vol. 169 • No. 411 • 12 pages Monday, May 14, 2012 50 cents daily/$1.50 Weekend U.S. News ranks LHS as a ‘Best High School’ Staff Report from the 2009-2010 school year. courses with such rigor.” The state rankings methodology is LaGrange High School principal Steve U.S. News calculates ranking values based on whether a high school is nation- LaGrange High School ranked 21st Cole credited the school’s promotion of based on student performance on state ally ranked gold or silver. All high schools within Georgia and 1,275th nationally as advanced placement, college-level courses exit exams and internationally available nationally ranked gold and silver are one of the “Best High Schools” as desig- for students meeting the standards. exams on college-level coursework. In numerically ranked in their state based nated by U.S. News. “We are very proud to once again be total, U.S. News nationally ranked the on their position in the national rankings. The publication evaluated nearly 22,000 recognized for our efforts to expose our 4,877 highest-scoring schools as gold, “Encouraging all our students to chal- public high schools nationally based on students to the advanced placement cur- silver or bronze. lenge themselves with more demanding state proficiency standards, how well they riculum,” Cole said. “Research supports LaGrange High’s ranking status earned courses like the AP courses has been a prepare students for college and other fac- this effort as students taking advanced the silver medal on the national level and high priority at LaGrange High School tors. U.S. News analyzed the total number placement courses are more successful in a bronze medal for the state. Nationally, for the last 6 to 8 years,” Cole said. “We of public high schools that had 12th-grade post-secondary, entry-level courses than silver medals went to schools ranked 501 are certainly glad students are taking our enrollment and sufficient data, primarily students who have not had exposure to to 2,008. advice.” Classic car show for a cause Cost of getting GED to jump Sherri Brown ‘earn’ money to pay for a Staff writer GED, but working a full- time job, raising a family, Getting a high school coming here for help, then equivalency diploma is working off the cost of the about to become a lot more GED is tough. Add almost expensive for the 28 per- double the amount of cent of adults in Troup time she’s got to earn that County without one. money and it’s going to be On July 1, the fee to discouraging,” Elam said. take the GED test will rise The Certified Literate from $19 for each part of Community Program also the test to $32 per part. provides scholarships for That brings the total for GED students in Troup all five sections of the test County who have financial from $95 to $160. The last need. The cost increase increase was in 2007, when may change the way the the fee went from $13 per organization provides part to the current $19. those scholarships. The fees are set by “We’ll just have to look GED Testing Services in at the scholarships and Washington D.C., and are maybe just give partial used to pay for the admin- scholarships,” said Debbie istrative fees to give the Burdette, director of CLCP tests. The increase will also in Troup County. “We’ll help fund the test being look at the whole picture, Photos by Nicole Emmett | Daily News developed as a computer- of course. We’re here to The third annual Troup County Sheriff’s Office Car Show welcomed 64 participants this year. based test instead of a remove that stumbling paper test. block (of cost).” Troup County Sheriff’s Last year in Troup The number of scholar- County, 222 people took ships that CLCP awards car show held to benefit the GED test through West depends on the requests, Georgia Technical College. Burdette said. “Some years Pineland Youth Home The extra $65 will be we’ve given 25, some years Nicole Emmett a big hurdle for some, just six or seven. It just Staff Writer said Kay Elam, director of depends on the students Emmaus Women’s Shelter we have,” she said. Children, adults and car-lovers in LaGrange. The organi- The organization awards alike joined together at West zation helps women get the scholarships to Troup Point lake for the Third Annual jobs, housing and, often, a County residents who are Troup County Sheriff’s Office Car GED. in a GED class at West Show Saturday. The event benefit- “I tell women up front Georgia Technical College ed Pineland, the Georgia Sheriff’s they’ve got to get a GED and who are recommended Association Youth Home located and it will cost you $95. in LaGrange. I let them work here and See GED | 2 The car show welcomed a total of 64 car, truck and motorcycles participants. The trophy for best car was Little seeking awarded to Eddie McDaniel for his 1939 Chevrolet Couple, best truck was awarded to Chuck Sheriff Donny Turner and Troup County Sheriff’s Office investigators grilled ham- another state See SHOW | 2 burgers and hot dogs during the event, which lasted from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday. court judge term Jennifer Shrader Professor starts second career after years at Kroger Staff writer Jennifer Shrader people thought he was a little nuts, State Court Judge Staff writer including his wife. Jeanette Little has He didn’t think of it as a big move announced plans to run for Randall Adams got a degree in at the time, but says it was frighten- re-election. sociology when he went to college ing to go back to being a student. “I truly love what I do,” in the 1970s. “In that first class, we had to write Little said. “I love the After he was done, he decided to a 12-page paper,” he said. “No one people I’m working with. work a year before continuing his was writing 12-page papers in the They’re a great bunch of education. He got a job at Kroger 1970s. I thought about quitting that folks and we’re doing great where he did a little of everything. first day.” things right now.” He eventually worked his way up to He got serious, though, and more Little was appointed to the scan coordinator, verifying all people came around. It was a sacri- the position by Governor the prices in the store. fice. Joe Frank Harris in 1986 Along the way, life happened. “I wore out a truck,” he said, com- and has been re-elected Jeanette Little He got married, got kids and a muting from teaching in Cookville, each term since that time. Doremus Award for contri- house and needed to keep his insur- Tenn., going to class in Knoxville and She is currently serving bution to the judicial, legal ance. He worked for 15 years as a coming back home to Murfreesboro. on the Judicial Council of and humanitarian commu- professional photographer, but other The job at the technical school Georgia’s accountability nities in 2003, and was opportunities got put on the back was renewed on an annual basis, court committee, and has awarded a Distinguished burner. however, and Adams wanted more Jennifer Shrader | Daily News previously served terms on Service Award from the Then at age 49, he was dropping job security. He got a job at Alice LaGrange College’s newest Sociology several statewide boards council of State Court his son off at college when the bug Lloyd College in Appalachia, but professor Randall Adams is in his second including the Judicial Judges of Georgia in 2011. hit him again. soon started looking again. career. He spent 27 years at Kroger before Council and the Georgia She remains active with “While I was on campus, I decided That led him to LaGrange College, getting his master’s degree and doctorate Commission on Family the council, currently serv- it was time. I should go back to where he’s just completed his first to go into teaching. Violence. She has taken an ing as chairperson of the school,” he said. year. active role in the Council nominating committee and He got his master’s degree from “I like the area,” he said. “It’s a lot have been welcoming, he said. of State Court Judges, vice chair of the education Middle Tennessee State University like where I grew up in Tennessee.” “People don’t realize what a jewel having been president committee. She has been and his doctorate from the University He likes the small college atmo- they have in their midst here,” he of that group in 1996-97 active in teaching various of Tennessee, teaching at Tennessee sphere as well. said. “The academic standards are and serving as chairper- groups on several sub- Tech while he earned his doctorate “You really get to know your stu- high.” son of their New Judge jects including domestic degree. dents,” he said. “When you’re teach- And teaching keeps him young. Training Committee from violence, substance abuse, Adams admits it was a big move ing to between 45 and 100 in an “There’s tons of talented young 1998-2011.