Read a feature article from the Spring/Summer, 2006 Issue
Beekeepers are a valuable defense against killer bees -- Without beekeepers, the population density of the docile European bees already in an area will decline.

That will leave the area open to infestation by Africanized bees. It’s the equivalent of abandoning territory to the enemy.

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Sunflower Festival offers family fun -- You don’t have to travel to Kansas to see golden fields of sunflowers. Just get on I-20 and head to Rutledge, Georgia, for the 5th Annual Sunflower Festival.

The Sunflower Festival is a labor of love coordinated by members of the West and Holt families on their Morgan County farm.

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UGA exhibit spotlights electrification of Georgia -- An exhibit currently on display at the University of Georgia Richard B. Russell Library in Athens chronicles the installation of electricity in rural Georgia during the 1930s and 40's, revealing the grassroots determination of citizens who worked together to electrify their homes and farms.

President Franklin W. Roosevelt (left) spoke at the dedication of some new power lines in Barnesville.

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