Cumming getting federal $$$ for free health clinic

Cumming is among Georgia communities and public agencies that will share in Georgia’s portion of funding included in the second Fiscal Year 2024 government funding bill that was approved by the U.S. Senate recently by a vote of 74-24.

Cumming will use the $11,000 it is getting for equipment for a free health clinic, according to Sen. Raphael Warnock. “The money will go to Forsyth Community Clinic to purchase the necessary equipment for a brand-new free healthcare clinic so that Forsyth County can properly treat patients,” Warnock said.

Click here to get more details on the bill and the money from it that will be coming to Georgia: Fully Funding the Government for Fiscal Year 2024, Senator Reverend Warnock Secures Major Investments for Georgia » Reverend Raphael Warnock (senate.gov)

About the Author

Ken Stanford is Online News Editor for GLORY 97.5, a position he has held since August 2022.

Ken was born in Moultrie, Georgia, and says he knew from the time he was 5 or 6 he wanted to be a “radio announcer.” That dream was realized when he was hired by Moultrie radio station WMTM in 1960 at the age of 15 as a weekend disc jockey. A 1963 graduate of Moultrie (now Colquitt County) High School, he has spent his whole career in Georgia working for stations in Atlanta, Marietta, and Gainesville – most recently as News Director for 40 years at WDUN in Gainesville. He is a veteran of the U.S. Air Force Reserves.

Ken retired in 2011 but came out of retirement last year to help GLORY, on a part-time basis, beef-up its online news presence.

He is the recipient of many Associated Press awards and is a former judge of state and national Associated Press broadcast news contests. In 2005, he was presented with the Georgia Associated Press Broadcasters Association’s President’s Award for Excellence in Journalism and in 2019 was inducted into the Georgia Radio Hall of Fame.

He lives in Gainesville with his wife of 52 years, the former Sandra McKnight of Clio, Alabama, and they have one child, a daughter, Lisa, who lives in Cumming with her family.