Faces and places

Survant named as a top personal injury attorney

Attorney Bradley Survant with Reynolds, Horne & Survant in Macon was named to the 2015 10 Best Personal Injury Attorneys for Client Satisfaction by the American Institute of Personal Injury Attorneys.

The American Institute of Personal Injury Attorneys is a third-party attorney rating organization that publishes an annual list of the Top 10 Personal Injury attorneys in each state. Attorneys who are selected to the list must pass a rigorous selection process based on client and/or peer nominations, thorough research and AIOPIA's independent evaluation.The Georgia Farm Bureau Federation recently recognized the best of its volunteers and county chapters during its 78th annual convention. The state award winners were honored for the programs they conducted this past year to promote agriculture.

The winners include three from Middle Georgia.

Macon County Farm Bureau, whose president is Mike McLendon, received the GFB Membership Award for the 0-1,274-member division. Bibb County Farm Bureau, whose president is Jimmy Jordan, won the award for the 1,275 -2,150-member division.

Lauren Goble, a first-grade teacher in Jones County, received GFB's Georgia Agriculture in the Classroom 2015 Teacher of the Year Award. Goble, who teaches 19 students at Mattie Wells Elementary School in Gray, was recognized for incorporating information and activities in her classroom curriculum that teach her students about agriculture and how it impacts their daily lives. She received a $500 award and an expense-paid trip to the National Ag in the Classroom Conference in Litchfield Park, Arizona, in June 2016.

-- Angela Woolen

This story was originally published December 14, 2015 at 12:00 AM with the headline "Faces and places ."