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Cards for Cody -- Family asks community for help
A minute after he was born, Cody Jones stopped breathing. Twenty years and more than 60 surgeries later, Cody is a junior at Pickens High School and making the best of life.
Although he was delivered following a normal, full term pregnancy, Cody faced, among other things, a rare lung disease and a severe heart condition that forced him to have open-heart surgery when he was just three weeks old.
“We stayed at Kennestone for three weeks and then went to Egleston, and they found out what all was wrong with him,” said his mother, Angie Jones.
Born in 1991 to Mark and Angie Jones, Cody spent his first five and a half months in a hospital, before being sent home on oxygen and a ventilator. When he left the hospital, his parents and older sister Haley weren’t given much hope, the mother said.
Over the years, things didn’t improve as doctors discovered more and more medical issues.
“Really I couldn’t count the number of surgeries he’s had – it’s 60 plus. He’s got a rare lung disease called bronchomalschia and a heart condition. His open-heart surgery when he was three weeks old was his first surgery. He’s been in and out of Egleston the whole 20 years since he was born.”
Cody now has a trachostophy and uses an oxygen tank during the day fitted with a speaking valve.
“We’ve always called him our miracle,” Jones said.
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Putting the Green in the Christmas Tree at Harmony Elementary
Above, The Environmental Club at Harmony Elementary created Christmas ornaments from trash to show how recycling can work.
Written by students from
Harmony Elementary School
Environmental Club members at Harmony Elementary School created ornaments from trash or recycled materials to decorate the hallway tree. Recycling is a daily chore for the Environmental Club. The fifth-grade students gather recycled materials and place them in the outside recycle bin.
Students at Harmony are diligent in placing recycle materials in the classroom bins to be gathered for regular recycling.
Favorite ornaments from this year and previous years overflowed the beautiful recycled tree. Students were challenged to use their imaginations to create ornaments from unusable items that would have been thrown away otherwise.
The students created many types of ornaments, from snowmen to Christmas trees made from pop tops.
Top tips for holiday cooking
“Healthy” and “holiday cooking” mix about as well as oil and water, but last Thursday the staff at Piedmont Mountainside Medical Hospital busted open that oxymoron with tips for a sugar-free, sodium-free yuletide meal perfect for diabetics or others with dietary restrictions.
The sounds and smell of cooking rosemary and garlic permeated the hospital cafeteria, where Chef “Sam,” along with a hospital dietician, physician and a local pharmacist were on site to demonstrate cooking and field questions from the room of Dinner and Discussion participants.
Gas prices holding steady in Ga.
Georgia, December 12- Average retail gasoline prices in Georgia have not moved 0.1 cents per gallon in the past week, averaging $3.20/g yesterday. This compares with the national average that has fallen 0.7 cents per gallon in the last week to $3.28/g, according to gasoline price website GeorgiaGasPrices.com.
Including the change in gas prices in Georgia during the past week, prices yesterday were 34.2 cents per gallon higher than the same day one year ago and are 14.3 cents per gallon lower than a month ago. The national average has decreased 15.0 cents per gallon during the last month and stands 32.2 cents per gallon higher than this day one year ago.
"Gasoline prices remain in limbo across parts of the U.S. while oil prices continue to swing in different directions as traders digest changes in market sentiment," according to GasBuddy.com Senior Petroleum Analyst Patrick DeHaan. "The national average remains subdued close to levels that we saw last week, but prices may soon move slightly higher as they follow a rising trend in wholesale gasoline prices," DeHaan added.
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Hwy. 53 in Marble Hill closed Sunday following overturned tractor trailer
Sheriff Donnie Craig reported Sunday afternoon that Highway 53 at the Marble Hill General Store is closed and “may be for a while” after a tractor trailer overturned at that location.
No other vehicles were involved when the truck overturned. The driver was injured and transported to Piedmont Mountainside.
Craig said it may take some time to clean up the site.
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