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Complaint Sent to Medical Board About Dr. Busman’s Condition

A patient sent a letter to the Sumter County NAACP complaining about Dr. Michael Busman's behavior in the Phoebe Sumter Hospital emergency room. In November 2011 the patient went to the ER around 5 am complaining of pain in the shoulder. There was a friend who accompanied this patient. Both the patient and the friend were shocked to see how disheveled and reddened face Dr. Busman appeared. He looked "high" on something according to both of

them. When he examined this

patient he was very rough, the patient said. Full Story.................

Dr. Michael Busman, Family

Physician in Americus, GA

Joel Wernick, Ceo of Phoebe

Putney Medical Center

AmeriGospel Workshop Celebrates 25 Years

Adult Choir directed by Aaron Snipes. Caleb and Rory Edge lead a song.

MILLARD K. IVES Staff Writer - AMERICUS - It was a spiritual homecoming - 25 years in the making. Hundreds of local gospel singers and dancers came together on New Year's Eve for the silver anniversary of the AmeriGospel Inc. The workshop included days of hard practice in a music and dance ministry workshop that came together on Dec. 31 for a spiritually-infused concert at Friendship Baptist Church in Americus, GA. "It was a way for everybody to come together to celebrate Christ," said Kelvin W. Pless, the organization's president. Full Story................

NAACP Objects to School Board District Changes

Staff Reports - Local NAACP President Rev. Mathis K. Wright, Jr. was interviewed recently about the proposed changes for the Americus, Sumter County School Board District. Wright said that he had attended a school board meeting in the Fall of 2011 when he objected to any school district changes being made. Wright disclosed that at the meeting he told Attorneys Skipper, NeSmith and the school board that the changes would dilute the Black voting strength. Wright noted that if Senate Bill 154 and Senate Bill 4EX were approved and cleared by the Justice Department, it would result in retrogression of the minority voting strength. Full Story............

Rev. Mathis K.Wright, Jr

Americus-Sumter County NAACP President

MLK Commemorative Program

Staff Reports - The Americus-

Sumter County Movement

Remembered Committee, The MLK

Ministerial Association and NAACP

is inviting the citizens of Americus

and Sumter County to the 2012

Annual MLK Commemorative

Program held on Monday, January

16, 2012. The program will begin at

10:00 am with a Memorial Service

on the courthouse grounds in Americus. The actual jail cell that Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Was held in on December 16, 1961 will be on display. A local funeral home owner, Mrs. Lorena Barnum Sabbs, will be the guest Speaker for the mornings services. After the Memorial Services, there will be a processional march from the courthouse grounds to Friendship Missionary Baptist Church for a 11:00 am program. Mrs. Shirley Sherrod of Albany will be the guest Speaker. Please come and join us to celebrate the legacy of the late Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.