COLUMBUS, GA - Columbus Lions Head Coach and Director of Football Operations Jason Gibson announced his first two 2012 player signings in Florida State fullback Matt Dunham, a former Pacelli High School record-setter, and Citadel defensive back Demetrius Jackson, ex-Shaw High School, also of Columbus.

Dunham, 6’1” and 250 lbs., graduated Pacelli in 2005 rated by rivals.com as #1 player in Georgia and #14 nationwide after shattering Herschel Walker’s state record by scoring 111 career touchdowns and gaining almost 3,500 yards rushing his junior and senior years.  Choosing Florida State over offers from Auburn, Florida and Georgia Tech, Dunham ran into injury problems in college, and played mostly as a blocking back, defensively as a linebacker and on special teams.  He had seven interceptions as a junior and 100 tackles his senior year.

COLUMBUS, GA - Cell Phones for Soldiers hopes to turn old cell phones into more than 12 million minutes of prepaid calling cards for U.S. troops stationed overseas this year. To do so, Cell Phones for Soldiers expects to collect over 50,000 cell phones each month through a network of more than 6,000 collection sites across the country. The phones are sent to ReCellular, which pays Cell Phones for Soldiers for the phones.  TIC Federal Credit Union was proud to be a collection site through the end of September 2011 for this worthwhile cause. 

COLUMBUS, GA - Scholastic Media, a division of Scholastic Inc., the global children’s publishing, education and media company, and HandsOn Network, the volunteer activation division of Points of Light Institute and largest volunteer network in the nation, announced today the winners of its third annual “BE BIG in Your Community Contest,” a signature component of the ongoing Clifford The Big Red Dog® BE B