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COBB’S SIX CITIES
FACTBOOK 2010
MARIETTA DAILY JOURNAL
Source: U.S. Census Bureau’s Census 2000 Demographic Profile
SUNDAY, JULY 25, 2010
COMMUNITY SPIRIT
SMYRNA Smyrna City Hall Address: 2800 King Street Smyrna, Ga. 30080 Phone: 770-434-6600 Website: www.smyrnacity.com Mayor: Max Bacon Phone: 770-319-5302 E-mail: mbacon@ci.smyrna.ga.us City Council Melleny C. Pritchett, Ward 1 Phone: 770-319-5306 mpritchett@ci.smyrna.ga.us Ron Newcomb, Ward 2 Phone: 770-319-5307 rnewcomb@ci.smyrna.ga.us Teri Anulewicz, Ward 3 Phone: 770-319-5308 tanulewicz@ci.smyrna.ga.us Mike McNabb, Ward 4 Phone: 770-319-5309 mmcnabb@ci.smyrna.ga.us Jimmy D. Smith, Ward 5 Phone: 770-319-5310 jsmith@ci.smyrna.ga.us Wade Lnenicka, Ward 6 Phone: 770-319-5311 wlnenicka@ci.smyrna.ga.us Charles Pete Wood, Ward 7 Phone: 770-319-5312 pwood@ci.smyrna.ga.us The City Council meets at 7:30 p.m. the first and third Monday of every month in the council chambers of City Hall. City Administrator Eric Taylor Phone: 678-631-5304 E-mail: wwright@ci.smyrna.ga.us Smyrna Police Department: Chief Stanley E. Hook Phone: 770-434-9481 Address: 2646 Atlanta Road Smyrna, Ga. 30080 Smyrna Fire Department: Chief Jason Lanyon Phone: 770-434-6667 Address: 2620 Atlanta Road Smyrna, Ga 30080 City facts Estimated population in 2007: 49,534 Median age: 32 years Household Populations: 40,533 Average Household Size: 2.21 Total Housing Units: 19,633 Owner-occupied Housing Units: 9,209 Renter-occupied Housing Units: 9,163 Vacant Housing Units: 1,261 Labor Force (16 years and older): 24,973 Median Family Income, as of 1999: $23,973
Smyrna library flourishes with help of Friends By Kathryn Dobies kdobies@mdjonline.com
Staff/Mike Jacoby
Friends of Smyrna Library board members Michelle Sisco and Louisa Cohn, and group president Dorothy Sibert pose at the library in Smyrna’s government complex.
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SMYRNA — For 20 years, the Smyrna City Library has had a robust support group. This group of active citizens, known as the Friends of Smyrna Library, has helped fund a variety of programs at the library, purchased book collections, shelving, furniture, online catalogs and display cases, and even offered an internship program for masters students to come and work at the library. “We raise money so that we can turn around and buy things for the library,” Friends President Dorothy Sibert said. “In addition to providing sort of direct support to the library, we are also trying to sort of enhance the visibility standing of the library, not only in our
immediate community, but in the region.” While the library is in its 74th year of existence, the Friends have only been around since about 1990. With a membership of about 400 today, the Friends surfaced largely as a group of supportive mothers around the time the library moved into its new building on the Smyrna Village Green. But in its early years the group couldn’t seem to get off the ground. Harold Smith, a Smyrna historian and longtime Friends board members said he and his wife, Betty, were among the first Smyrna residents to help start the group in 1990, at the request of then-library Director Laurel Best. But Smith said it wasn’t until around 1994, when See Library, Page 23
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