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Welcome Southwest Georgia to your new view – SouthView
Ethan Fowler
After more than 3 1/2 years as The Zone and Sunday's Go&Do, The Albany Herald's features section has changed its name to SouthView.
The change follows about three months of staff research in ways to make our features section more representative of our community.
Some of our new looks have already been implemented with new Cook of the Week questions, profiles on theater actors instead of play reviews and our Slice of Life feature of people enjoying Southwest Georgia events on Sundays.
Today's section will include our first It's All About ... mini biography of one of our youth in our community. We'll have similar mini bios on people over and under 50 years old on Sundays and Tuesdays, respectively. Today's section also features our new logo, which will change frequently with different cutouts of Southwest images.
On Fridays, we'll be adding Vibe where we ask people in the community about the latest popular entertainment trend or news. We'll also be adding a rotating local CD review column from musicians and music professionals with Albany roots.
In the coming weeks, we aim to add the monthly Pet Parade, a photo page showcasing readers with their pets. We'll also be including features on Southwest Georgia civic clubs, everyday heroes, money and home. While our food stories and popular Cook of the Week feature will move from Tuesdays to Wednesdays starting July 11.
However, the SouthView isn't all about change.
We'll still have our Thursday previews of weekend events, Southwest Georgia music features on Fridays, and family and faith stories on Saturdays. We'll also have all your other favorites such as travel stories birth and wedding announcements on Sundays, our popular local columnists and many other popular reads.
And as usual, we still welcome your feedback and story suggestions to keep this section reflecting you — our readers.
So again, welcome to your new view Southwest Georgia — SouthView.
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An imaginative achievement
- A September episode of "Reading Rainbow" will feature an Albany third- grader reading his award-winning story.
Elsbeth Russell
ON THE TUBE
Watch Jacob Boges read his story "The Legend of the Snow Globe" on "Reading Rainbow" in September. |
ALBANY — When Frances Boges first heard her 9-year-old son Jacob's suggestion that they enter his story "The Legend of the Snow Globe" in a Georgia Public Television writing contest, she was a little dubious.
The story, which Jacob said is about a little boy named Larry who is "trapped in a snow globe and nobody ever sees them again," seemed a bit scary, Boges said, as far as children's stories go.
However, Jacob and the judges of the Young Writers and Illustrators contest disagreed, and this September viewers of the children's show "Reading Rainbow" will get a chance to see Jacob reading his book on the air.
The story, which had to be 350 words or more with illustrations, won first place for Jacob's age group out of about 500 entries.
Jacob first wrote the story — which was inspired by his love for reading Christopher Pike's fantasy fiction books and R.L. Stine's scary series, "Goosebumps" — as a school assignment.
"I just made it up," said Jacob, a third-grader who is home school educated by his mother.
Making things up seems to come easily to Jacob, who has notebooks filled with drawings of his favorite characters — some he's invented and some he's seen on television.
It only takes about a minute for Jacob — colored pencil in hand — to sketch out a drawing of his favorite character, Sonic the Hedgehog.
While he likes to draw, Jacob does not like to color, a task he had to undertake in order to make the story illustrations that the Georgia Public Broadcasting contest required.
"I don't like markers very much," Jacob explained, "I only like colored pencil."
In addition to his drawing talent, though, Jacob has also had years of storytelling experience, thanks to nightly bedtime story sessions with his mother.
"It turns into all the time, but it is mostly at bedtime," Boges said about story time.
The pair have also written and illustrated other stories together, including the story of Sarah Jessica Liza Louise who shows readers how not to behave, and another book centered around an unfortunate clown.
However, despite their story writing experience, the mother-son team didn't expect Jacob's story to actually win the statewide contest.
"I put it in the mail and I didn't say another thing about it," Boges said.
Then Jacob received a phone call from Georgia Public Broadcasting letting him know he was a winner and that he'd be going to Atlanta to collect his prizes.
"I was just excited that I was going to go (to Atlanta)," said Jacob, who was given a backpack filled with goodies at a carnival-themed reception.
While Jacob — who loves to read and go to the library as well as play video games — plans to continue writing, it is not his storytelling talent that he hopes to use in the future.
"I want to be a mythological creature finder and an artist and a game designer," said Jacob, who hopes to make money hunting the Loch Ness Monster one day.
"Maybe," he said, his mischievous eyes shining, "I could make hundreds of dollars."
THE LEGEND OF THE SNOW GLOBE
A strange old man came to Larry's house one day. The man looked like he lived on the street. He had a long beard and was dressed in rags.
He was trying to sell stuff because he needed money to buy food. Larry gave him a quarter and the man gave Larry a snow globe.
Larry looked at the globe. It had a ballerina skating on an icy surface. When he looked real close, he thought he saw a scary face beneath the ice. When he looked again nothing was there.
The man said that legend has it that if you break a snow globe, a monster will come out and get you. He warned Larry to be careful. Mist came and when it cleared, the guy was gone.
Larry put the snow globe on his nightstand and didn't think about it again.
One night a storm came. There was lightening, thunder, rain and a bunch of wind. A tree scratched on Larry's window and made scary noises.
The closet looked like it was opening and closing, opening and closing really fast. Larry got scared and pulled the covers over his head.
He knocked the snow globe off the nightstand and it broke. The dog outside howled. The toys on Larry's shelf seemed like they were staring at him.
The ground felt like it was shaking. Then the power went out. Scary noises were everywhere. Darkness filled the room. Larry couldn't see anything.
His dad came in and all the lights came back on and everything stopped. His dad said it was just a dream. But when his dad went out everything happened again.
From out of nowhere, a monster appeared. It had a furry face, big, red eyes, sharp claws, super sharp teeth and two big horns on his head.
The monster took Larry into a scary, cold place. It was snowing and ice was everywhere.
No one ever saw Larry again.
Written by Jacob Landon Alexander Boges
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