Singletary speaks to Veterans

The Veterans at the Library held their weekly meeting at the Library Monday morning, October 20, at 9 a.m. With Chair Johnny Tapley presiding, they had 46 in attendance. The Beta Sigma Phi sorority provided a fantastic breakfast consisting of egg/sausage casserole, grits, cut up fruit, and three kinds of muffins. Shari Watt furnished the orange juice, cranberry juice, grape juice, apple juice and coffee. Chair Johnny Tapley introduced the speaker, Emanuel County Administrator Guy Singletary. Guy explained the 1 cent sales tax referendum that is on the ballot for the November 4, election county wide. If approved by voters it will take effect starting in 2027, and will lower property taxes dollar-for-dollar for a period of five years until 2032. You can early vote as of today up until Friday, October 31, and the regular voting day will be November 4. If you need a ride to vote, please contact Rev. James Mason at 912-405-4800 and he will be glad to pick you up and take you back home at no charge. Chair Johnny and Willie Bush then talked about the new Veteran Wall that we will be erecting at the “Veterans and 1st Responder’s Memorial Park” soon. Veterans are looking for 1,000 bricks to be purchased by the citizens of Emanuel County for their veterans to have a brick “on the wall”. Chair Johnny then spoke about the upcoming “Wreaths Across America” project and that they still have 60 cemeteries to see if any veterans are buried there out of 180 cemeteries in Emanuel County. WAA day is December 13. Chair Johnny also talked about celebrating Veterans Day on Saturday, November 8, at Harmon Park at 11 a.m. There will be a short ceremony and firing of the Brier Creek Artillery and playing taps.