Georgia Magazine - March 2023 - 8

GEORGIA News
Compiled by Jennifer J. Hewett
Postal Service to honor
John Lewis
A
In January,
the USPS raised
the cost of first-class
forever stamps from
60 cents to
63 cents each.
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8 Georgia Magazine March 2023
Raines named
2022 Georgia
Farmer of the Year
S
ycamore resident Scotty Raines was named
the 2022 Georgia Farmer of the Year. He raises
cattle and grows row crops on more than 2,300
acres in Turner County. At the Sunbelt Ag Expo in
Moultrie in October, he represented Georgia alongside
other state Farmer of the Year winners from
Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Kentucky, Mississippi,
North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee and
Virginia to vie for the title of the 2022 Swisher/
Sunbelt Ag Expo Southeastern Farmer of the Year.
Raines has been lauded for his soil- and waterconservation
efforts and is active in organizations
such as the Turner County Younger Farmer
Association, the Turner County Farm Bureau and
Georgia Farm Bureau.
Each state winner received a $2,500 cash award,
a paid trip to the Sunbelt Ag Expo from Jacksonville,
Fla.-based Swisher International, a Sunbelt Ag Expo
vest and a local keepsake from the Moultrie-Colquitt
County Chamber of Commerce. Syngenta donated
$500 to each state winner's charity of choice.
mong the stamps slated for release this year by the U.S. Postal Service (USPS)
is a first-class, " forever " stamp celebrating the life and legacy of former
U.S. Rep. John Lewis of Georgia.
Lewis, who died in 2020, spent more than 30 years in Congress building on key
civil rights gains that he helped achieve in the 1960s. Lewis remained committed
to what he liked to call " good
trouble. "
The stamp features a
photograph of Lewis taken by
Marco Grob on assignment for
the Aug. 26, 2013, issue of Time
magazine.
John Lewis spent time with
hundreds of Georgia students
over the years who were selected
by their local EMCs for the
annual Washington Youth Tour.
DANIEL PECK STUDIOS
USPS
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