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h, fall. While we know that, here in the South, we’ll probably only get about two days of actual autumn weather, we welcome the seasonal change after a scorching summer.

The crisp air, blue sky and colorful leaves always get me in the mood to reminisce — which was the driving inspiration behind this particular issue. In this edition of Effingham Living Magazine, we invite you to take a look back at the county’s roots: its German influence, its musical heritage and family history from both the far and recent past. Grab a cup of coffee, curl up in a comfy chair and enjoy fall’s seasonal pleasures while exploring the stories in this magazine.

As much as fall is a time for reflection and reminiscing, it’s also a time for change, and I have quite the announcement. This will be my last issue as editor of Effingham Living Magazine. I’ve accepted a reporting position up in Bloomington, Indiana. By the time you read this, I’ll already be hitting my beat in my new city.

Over the past year, I’ve been allowed to tell so many great stories, and I’m terribly grateful to all of you who have helped me to tell them. I’d like to thank those we have written about for being such pleasures to speak to. I’d like to thank graphic designer Hunter McCumber and photographer Frank Fortune — both of whom have become my good friends — for making these stories look as good as they do. (And they look really, really good.) I’d like to thank the ladies of the Effingham Herald, and the Herald staff members — particularly former editor Patrick Donahue — for helping me take this magazine on. It has been quite the ride, and I am so lucky to have had the chance to learn this community through its stories.

Thank you for letting me do so. I’m sure you’ll treat the new editor just as kindly when he or she takes up the next issue.

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A Taste of German Heritage

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Written by: Brittani Howell Photography by: Ben Brengman

rom its Salzburger roots to its Lutheran churches, there is no doubt that Effingham’s heritage is as German as it is Southern. Once a year, the Effingham County Chamber of Commerce lauds that heritage with a twoday community festival: Oktoberfest, filled with Oompah bands, leiderhosen, steins full of beer and genuine German food.

And front and center at every Oktoberfest, stein in hand and in full German attire, is local restauranteur Joe Weitzel, the owner of The Schnitzel Shack, Rincon’s very own authentic German restaurant where it is Oktoberfest year-round.

Much more than just another local restaurant, for many people, The Schnitzel Shack is a physical representation of the German heritage of which Effingham is so proud.

The Schnitzel Shack The Schnitzel Shack is an international fusion restaurant in the most literal sense: Its menu serves both German and Thai food, served up by a German and Thai couple. Joe Weitzel met his wife, Wiparat — who goes by Pao — in Bangkok in 1997, when both worked as chemists at Merck Pharmaceuticals. Pao, from Thailand’s Phetchabun Province, had organized a seminar at which Joe, who hails from the German town of Darmstadt, was the guest speaker.

It didn’t take long for international love to blossom, and when Joe

was transferred to EMD Chemicals in Port Wentworth in 2000, Pao followed a few years later.

Eventually, they settled in Rincon — which Joe, who grew up in Germany, can confirm feels very familiar to the country of its roots.

“All we Germans have that thing that I believe people call ‘stubbornness,’” he said with a laugh. “Once we have a plan we usually go with it. The South reminds me of some parts of Germany.”

For Joe, the move to America was not as big of a culture shock as one might expect: He had hopped the Atlantic several times at various periods, visiting family along the east coast and working in every state where Merck has customers. For Pao, though, the shift was dramatic — not just from Asia to America, but from the big city of Bangkok to the smaller towns in Effingham County. “’I’ve seen it on TV, I love to watch Hollywood movies, it might look like they show us over there in Thailand,’” she said of her initial thought process. “They didn’t show us Springfield, Georgia, of course. I came here the first time in 2000 to visit, and I was shocked.

‘This is not what I saw!’ But of course, you have countryside and you have city.”

Pao, who comes from a family with plenty of entrepreneurial spirit — her parents and grandfather have owned their own respective businesses — immediately set about finding her “own thing” to do. She enrolled as a graduate student in the fashion department at SCAD but decided not to pursue the field after graduation because of the economy. The idea for a restaurant came a soon after — from, literally, her own backyard.

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When she and Joe moved to Effingham, they fell in with a community of war veterans, many of whom had been stationed in, believe it or not, both Thailand and Germany. The couple often had their friends over for a taste of the countries that, as a group, they all missed and loved.

“We had a kind of open house,” Joe said. “I had built a little Asian kitchen, an outdoor kitchen, and so we cooked there.

Neighbors and friends would come and the question was always, ‘What are we eating today?’ It was the creation of these foods.

And then a while later, they talked us into opening a spot up.”

It was not a completely new frontier for either of them. Joe had worked in his family’s restaurant, Braustuebel, while he still lived in Germany, and Pao had worked at a Thai restaurant for a brief period. And both of them had retained a love of cooking.

Because Joe was still working at Merck, Pao jumped into the startup process with both feet. With the help of SCORE (Service Corps of Retired Executives) in Savannah, she did the market research and drew up a business plan. They selected a location in a strip mall on Highway 21, in a building that was once a Quizno’s. Then, together, the couple began assembling a menu. An emphasis on the German food seemed like the most natural direction to take.

“There aren’t too many German restaurants around,” Pao said, as opposed to the popularity of Thai food. Men tend to go for the meaty German dishes, while women seem to prefer the lighter, spicier Thai stir fries and rice dishes.

With one page of Thai food and about six of German, the couple had quite a task picking the best and most recognizable dishes for their restaurant. They pulled

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recipes from family members in their respective homelands and did their best with ingredients, either ordering supplies from abroad or finding fresh, readily available substitutes.

For one, Joe said, “The flour is different.”

For another, butchers in Germany cut meat differently than butchers here in the States.

They had to find a butcher who would work with the cuts they needed and deliver it to the restaurant. And, in true German

fashion, they give particular care to their beer selection.

But the attention to detail has served them well, and people who have lived in and loved Germany flock to the restaurant for a taste. The Schnitzel Shack is a big hit among those who can remember their German relatives as well.

“I think that’s one of the reasons we were successful here: because people got something that they had a little bit forgotten

to make, but still love to eat,” Joe said.

“Some have told me that their grandmas or their great-grandmas, as far as they could remember, ‘They did it the same way, Joe. I remember my grandmother doing that — they did it exactly the same.’”

From the backyard to the Shack Decked out in the colors of Deutschland and photos of Marilyn Monroe — “Joe’s girlfriend,” as Pao teasingly says — The

Schnitzel Shack is a communal touchstone of nostalgia. The walls bear colorful Andy Warhol prints, family photos and a few Thai paintings, and the German flag hangs in a place of honor. For background noise, cheerful German music oom-pahs out of speakers around the room.

The restaurant is a popular draw for tourists from Richmond Hill, Savannah and people traveling on I-95. But the most dedicated customers are the ones who urged

Joe and Pao to go into the business in the first place: Joe’s war buddies and friends in Effingham’s community of veterans.

Their presence is built into the restaurant, particularly into the décor.

“They have their mugs here,” Joe said, gesturing to a wall of steins just behind the bar, each waiting on its owner to stop by and linger over a pint. Those same veterans have loaned or outright donated awards and plaques they won in Germany, which also decorate the walls.

A little model airplane sits above a particular table in the restaurant. On Thursday nights, this is where guests can find the Aviator “Stammtisch.” The term, which translates to “regulars’ table,” is an informal “club” of sorts, where Joe and Pao’s military friends — many of whom were, and still are, pilots — get together to drink beer, shoot the breeze and reminisce. Joe says that the gathering is like a “time capsule” for them.

And for everyone else, it’s a great place to get a taste of Germany without buying a plane ticket.

So if you live in Effingham and can trace your roots back to the Salzburgers, do yourself a favor and reconnect with The Schnitzel Shack’s German cuisine. Whether you’re looking for a new experience or recalling old travels, The Schnitzel Shack and its friendly owners are ready to welcome (or “willkommen”) guests into their international experience.

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The Memory Keepers of Effingham County

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Written by: Brittani Howell | Photography by: Frank Fortune

f you have ever visited the Effingham Historical Society and Museum, you likely have looked at the Civil War weaponry, recreations of period rooms and maps and photos of a South Georgia long gone. But while the two-story jailhouse is home to plenty of artifacts on display, many visitors are attracted by the allure of one particular room: a small office just off the main corridor, lined from floor to ceiling with bookshelves stuffed with county and state records.

It’s the genealogy room, where people in Effingham go when they want to find out where they came from. It is also the office of Betty Renfro and Beverly Ginn Poole, the museum’s managers and the ones who get people started on their historical family odysseys.

It is, they said, probably the museum’s greatest service to the community.

Detective work The genealogy room contains about 60 family genealogies, in various stages of completion, donated by the individuals and families who have put in the work to complete them.

“Most people don’t get into this until they get older,” Poole said. “When you start getting into middle age on up, then people start wanting to know where they came from and what their ancestors were like.”

Poole, who joined Renfro at the historical society around 12 years ago, says that when people do come in to begin their family research, it’s important to have at least two things: a name and a date.

“You’ve got to have a little information to start with before you can really trace anything,” Poole said. “If you’ve got that name, you can start pulling books and looking through them.”

The bookshelves in the genealogy room contain a myriad of resources for people to comb through: marriage, birth and death certificates; census records; property titles; old photographs and similar touchstones of the past. If you are descended from the Salzburgers, she said, you can usually track down your history pretty easily — they have reference books dedicated to the complete records of the Salzburgers. If not, though, their library also contains cemetery books detailing the identities of those buried in local graveyards, and a full shelf of local and state records published by the University of Georgia Press.

Loose papers and photographs are organized into several alphabetized file cabinets, ready to be explored by family history hunters. The office also contains a thorough collection of old issues of the Effingham Herald all the way back to 1908, contained on reels of microfilm in one of the office’s many file cabinets.

The museum’s two caretakers have been working with the documents for so long that they have an intuitive sense of where to look in their warren of information. Sometimes they can find everything a novice genealogist needs to fill in the gaps of their story. More often than not, though, it takes a bit more work.

“Sometimes we’ll just have two or three names that are in the records books that we have here,” Renfro said. “Then we try to help people with the census — it’s a good place to go to, if you can find it on the census.”

Sometimes they can find a name in the census records in the office or online; sometimes they can dig it out of military or cemetery records. It helps to look into the migratory 12 • Effingham Living

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patterns of certain time periods as well; certain decades have higher periods of traffic between Georgia and the surrounding states, and periods like the Revolutionary War or westward expansion offered up free land to those who served in the military or won land lotteries.

“When you start missing someone in a certain time period, you know where to look: They likely went somewhere else for free land,” Renfro said.

Largely, genealogy work is just a process of linking one person to another, going as far back as your curiosity takes you or until the trail runs cold.

Both caretakers agreed that, at its heart, genealogy is family detective work.

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Uncovering history And that work often turns up surprising results. Renfro has found that her forebears include a graduate of West Point, a senator and several lawyers. Poole, who can trace her family all the way back to the 1400s in Germany, discovered that one of her recent relatives from the Carolinas was a wealthy landowner of about 6,000 acres — not that it does Poole any good.

“Back then the law said that when a woman married a man, she couldn’t hold property anymore,” she said. “So (her husband) took over her property. And — how do I say this? — he was not a good person.”

Poole learned that her grandmother’s husband quickly squandered the entire

estate through bad business deals.

“So instead of me being rich now, I’m poor,” she said, laughing.

But while some stories are simply quirky or outright funny — like a couple from Wisconsin who, Poole said, came to trace the wife’s roots only to find that the husband’s family hailed from Effingham, too — a few are touching examples of how important it is to have a repository of local records, like the time she was able to help a bereaved mother find a photograph of her son.

“The lady’s son got killed in high school, and later on their house burnt, so they lost everything,” Poole said. One day, she and her surviving son came in to do family research, and he discovered a shelf of high school yearbooks — including one from his

late brother’s school and final year.

“He pulled the annual, and there’s a memorial page” dedicated to her son, Poole said. “I ran her off pictures of the page, so she has pictures of her son again.”

The memory keepers The historical society has been based in the old Effingham County jail since July of 1994, after the sheriff’s department vacated the building. It started with the museum, which has been growing steadily since then as artifacts trickled in, usually donated by local citizens or those with roots in the community.

Renfro has been working with the historical society for about 20 years and had been doing genealogy work for nearly 15 years before that, starting with her own roots. Poole reconnected with Renfro at a class reunion and, intrigued by the work the historical society did, promised to come work with Renfro after she retired. About 12 years ago, she did just that.

While Renfro says the historical society has a solid dozen regular, dedicated volunteers, she and Poole are the only paid employees. They each work about half of the week during museum hours: 9 a.m. to

1 p.m. Sunday through Thursday, and 2 to 5 p.m. on Saturdays. During that time, they assist people with family history research in addition to coordinating and conducting individual and group tours through the twostory museum — a process that can take up to two hours. They are especially busy in the spring, when school groups come in for end-of-the-year field trips. Last year, Poole said, they had 667 children come through the museum.

They also help organize and curate items that come through the museum for exhibits, and work with other volunteers to acquire and care for the buildings in their Living History outdoor exhibit, where the annual Olde Effingham Days Festival is held every spring.

Renfro explained that the yearly expense for their combined salaries is $10,000, which comes out of a special fund set aside for that purpose. She said that fund is supplied by their annual spaghetti dinner fundraiser and a golf tournament sponsored by the local hospital. Occasionally, corporations will hold a benefit luncheon or make an outright donation to the museum, but those occurrences are fewer and farther between.

Most of the museum’s expenses are very

small. Events like Olde Effingham Days are completely volunteer-run. Labor to restore the Living History buildings is either volunteered or paid for by the rare grant or rarer benefactor (Renfro said an anonymous “Daddy Warbucks” is funding the work to reproduce the Bethel Schoolhouse).

Additionally, the museum’s gift shop, full of books and collectibles including an Effingham-themed Christmas ornament series, turn a small profit for the historical society’s future work. Renfro said that people often pick up the books — one of which, River to River, she authored herself — as gifts around the holidays.

Nevertheless, Renfro said, funding is always a bit tight, and every contribution is appreciated and helps the historical society continue the services it provides to the community.

Of course, neither Renfro nor Poole is really involved for any monetary gain. They just get a kick out of the work.

“I like to get excited with the people I’m helping when they find something,” Poole said. “to see the excitement on someone’s face when they find something, and know that I helped them find it—that’s what does it for me.”

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hen one thinks of bluegrass music, a few things typically come to mind.

For one, there’s a particular arrangement for bluegrass groups: They usually include a fiddle (violin), a banjo, a guitar, a mandolin and an upright bass, with occasional accompaniment by a dobro or harmonica. The combination of these instruments creates the soulful, spirited and occasionally twangy sound associated with the genre.

For another, there’s a certain regional quality to consider. When most people think of bluegrass, they think of Appalachia — the areas in and along the Appalachian Mountains. For Georgia residents, that puts the state’s bluegrass concentration up in the Blue Ridge area.

At least, it used to.

Though Georgia’s coastal plain has never been considered a major producer for bluegrass music, it certainly seems to be a huge hub for fans of the art form. Bluegrass lovers from all over the region turn out in force to take over the Mossy Oak Music Park in Guyton, where 26 • Effingham Living

Allen Lanier and his family put on three music festivals every year, bringing as many as 11 bands and 2800 guests to each one.

The Mossy Oak Music Park sits on 34 acres of Lanier family farmland on Old Louisville Road. To accommodate the volume of people it brings in to each festival, the park includes hookup sites for RVs and campers, more than 500 camp sites, a play area for children, an indoor flea market, food facilities, clean restrooms and showers and — of course — a covered stage and pavilion that can seat more than 700 people. Their fall event, the Rebecca Rose Memorial Festival, is set for Oct. 19–23.

The park is the brain child and labor of love of the Lanier family,

who — through several generations — have nurtured a love of bluegrass music and wanted to provide a family friendly venue for others to do the same.

Bluegrass in Georgia In musical history, “bluegrass” is a relatively new term, having become an officially recognized genre in the 1950s. Its influences stretch across the ocean and deep into the past.

“The fiddle came in from Scotland and Ireland — a lot of it through Ellis Island, but a lot of it along the East Coast here,” Lanier, manager of the park and former post master of Guyton, said.

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the Appalachian area, but they made their landfall at the ports along the East Coast — including Savannah, which still claims one of the largest populations of Irish-American descendants in the country. The music found a foothold in poor communities where the only art and entertainment around was what you could create yourself.

“Back then, there were only two places you had music. One was a country dance, and one was a church,” Lanier continued.

“People used to play on their porches on Sunday afternoons.”

The groundwork of Southern bluegrass was laid, but its surge in popularity after the 50s was helped along by a household appliance: the radio.

John Goad, a public relations and marketing coordinator at East Tennessee State University, used to teach a bluegrass history class at the school, from which he holds a bachelor’s degree in bluegrass and a master’s degree in Appalachian studies.

(He also happens to be a bluegrass musician himself.) He said that shows like the Grand Ole Opry Radio Show attracted listeners from across the country, and that every home that had a radio now had exposure to the widely different varieties of music broadcast from coast to coast.

“There were other stations, too, like The Wheeling Jamboree and different large radio stations, or like the Louisiana Hayride,” Goad said. “So if you tuned into the radio, you heard bluegrass. It really is just as simple as that.”

And for the music-savvy, it’s a short jump from listening to playing: “If you’re attracted to that music, then you can pretty much find your way from there.”

Bluegrass, then, was no longer restricted to the line along the Appalachian Mountains, and could be learned by anyone with the patience to try it — people like Allen Lanier’s grandfather.

Music in the family Sam Lanier was a sharecropper up in the Millen area. Drought drove farmers South toward Savannah, and somewhere along the way, Sam picked up a banjo. His son, Talmadge — Allen’s father — played guitar, and a family legacy for music was born.

As Allen grew up and went on to have children of his own, the family would get together under the trees on the family farm — not too far from where the official park facilities are now. After dinner, they would play music and sing. Both of Lanier’s children, Doug and the late Rebecca, exhibited musical talent at an early age.

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They went on to tour professionally with other groups and with their own band, The Lonesome Whistle Band, which Doug started up with a man named Russell Rose, whom Rebecca would later marry. The talent only increased in the next generation: Russell and Rebecca Rose’s son, Evan, has been making a name for himself in the industry since he started playing with The Lonesome Whistle Band at the age of 12.

When touring with her upright bass to various festivals and concerts, Rebecca decided she could run her own bluegrass festival — and, what’s more, make it better than some of the events she had attended.

She began taking careful notes at each place she performed, cherry-picking the qualities that best served both the audience and the performers. They opened the park in 2002 with the goal to create “one of the best bluegrass festivals in the Southeast.”

Lanier says that at one festival, he counted license plates from 24 different states, all congregated for the music.

Each event at Mossy Oak is a throwback to that communal feeling of picking on a front porch on a summer evening. Sundaymorning worship services and potluck dinners make guests feel welcome and relaxed. The music is all acoustic. And the park is adamantly family friendly: no alcohol or illegal substances allowed.

At its peak, the park has held about 5000 guests, and it remains a popular venue for traveling groups and musicians, many of whom came to the park through Rebecca Rose. After Rose passed away in 2003, the fall festival was rechristened the Rebecca Rose Memorial Bluegrass Festival, and every October they “paint the park pink” and donate many of the proceeds to breast cancer research.

The park has received several accolades in recent years. Last year, The Effingham County Chamber of Commerce presented Lanier with its Tourism Award. Additionally, in a Resolution, Senator Jack Hill and Representative Jon Burns recognized the park and Lanier’s family for the service Mossy Oak provides to the community. And last winter, Lanier was named the grand marshal in the Guyton Christmas Parade.

But for Lanier — whose musical ability, he jokingly said, is limited to “playing the radio” — and his family, the events themselves are the real reward.

“Everybody has things that are pleasures to them,” he said. “With my family, it’s just always been music.”

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Written by: Zack Lee, Editor for the Effingham Herald t the intersection of McCall Road and Low Ground Road in Effingham County sits a plot of land with thousands of solar panels.

It as Inovateus Solar’s new development – Rincon Solar 1 – and the project is continues to come together.

According to their website, Inovateus Solar has installed solar or supplied quality solar products to the US, Australia, Chile,

China, Fiji, Iceland, Italy, Liberia, Panama and island nations in the Caribbean.

Effingham County Industrial Development Authority CEO, John Henry, explained how this futuristic energy source found its way to Effingham County.

“There is an electrical company out of Columbia, S.C., that came to us with this,” Henry said. “Georgia Power got into the alternative energy game a couple of years ago. I think the goal that they are shooting for is for 20 percent of the power production to be from

alternative sources.”

Henry explained that Georgia Power wanted to expand their interest in alternative energy solutions and started looking for interested solar companies.

“They started issuing RFP’s (Request for Proposals) from solar companies that could come in and generate electricity and put them on the grid,” Henry said of Georgia Power. “Every company that was involved in solar started scrambling to find sites that were suitable.”

Henry said the sites Georgia Power was looking for needed to be accessible to its main grid.

“They have to have sites that are close to the grid and close to substations,” Henry said. “These guys had a site already – it’s a private site that we had nothing to do with and that we have never owned. They came to us and they said, ‘Listen, we would like to issue Industrial Revenue Bonds – we can make this project work.

We’re going to bid into Georgia Power our fee and submit a bid on about 200 acres.’ We thought that sounded great.”

Henry said that Inovateus Solar was not the only group that was bidding.

“We worked with some others who were doing the same thing,” Henry said. “(Inovateus Solar) were successful – they could get their cost-per-kilowatt hour low enough that they won the Georgia Power bid to do 200 acres, which is a large solar farm.”

The solar panels that are used by Inovateus were a big factor in why they were chosen.

“We liked the equipment,” Henry said of the solar panels. “These are not just stationary static solar panels – these are the solar-tracking panels. It’s high-dollar equipment.”

Henry continued and explained the benefits of the industrial

revenue bonds that Inovateus offered.

“We entered the deal with them and worked with them to issue the industrial revenue bonds – that will put about $30 million worth of equipment on the tax digest,” Henry said. “The land stays on the tax digest, too. I don’t know how it will be appraised or valued – I know the legislators are toying with the way local tax officers have to appraise solar farms. Regardless, that stays on the tax digest.”

The deal between the Effingham County IDA and Inovateus Solar happened eight months after they began talking and was agreed to in December 2015.

The project is nearly operational.

“I don’t think it is currently operational – I think that they are still installing some of the electrical infrastructure to get it tied in,” Henry said. “I believe all of the equipment is completely installed and it should be operational anytime now.”

The project will be highly valuable to the community and will have a positive impact economically.

“The good thing about projects like this is that there is no real negative impact to the community,” Henry said. “It’s a positive impact in the fact that it provides us an alternative electrical source.

That’s great for us when recruiting industries. It provides more infrastructure and more power.”

Henry added that it also helps the tax digest.

“It works out well for the tax digest because we are adding $30 million more of equipment onto the tax digest as well as the land,” Henry said. “$30 million worth of property is significant for tax purposes.”

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riving through Effingham County in the future may bring a different scent to your attention – particularly in Springfield – as DRT America is set to open their new chemical manufacturing plant in 2017.

The plant will utilize rosin and turpentine extracted from pine trees to produce products that are found in more than 250 items, including the ingredients in fragrances, adhesives, chewing gum, rubber, ink, paint and varnish.

John Henry, CEO of the Effingham Industrial Development Authority, helped bring the new business to the area.

“The DRT (Dérivés Résiniques et Terpéniques) guys are headquartered in France and they wanted to cut out the intermediary,” Henry said about how the business arrived in Effingham County. “They were buying product in the United States and shipping it over to France to process. What they’re doing is they buy byproduct from paper mills in the region.

If they can process it here and then send the value-added product to France, they cut out the middle man.”

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be cheaper to send a refined product that isn’t as diluted rather than sending the components in their raw state and manufacturing the product in France.

“They thought that it would make good business sense for them, so they started looking at sites In the US,” Henry said. “They hired a site-selection consultant out of Greenville, S.C., and started looking for places closest to ports to make their transportation costs cheaper.”

Henry said that he and the other members of the Effingham IDA looked at the project in the spring of 2014, while the company looked at potential sites.

“I don’t know exactly what happened with the other sites but they did not work out,” Henry said. “They really liked our site – it was convenient to the ports and to the raw materials from the paper mills and had rail access along with everything else they were looking for. They decided they were interested in the site and we closed on the deal.”

The plant will be completed in the first quarter of 2017.

“They have two phases – the biggest holdup is EPD (Environmental Product Declaration),” Henry said. “Getting their pre-treatment permit for their wastewater to go into Springfield’s wastewater treatment facility has been a holdup.

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government ownership where no taxes are being paid on it is big,” they will treat it.”

Henry said. “If we take a piece of property that’s valued at – let’s say Henry said the project has taken longer than expected.

“That whole process just gets bureaucratic,” Henry said on the $50,000 – but no taxes are being paid on it per acre, then add $40 EPD permits. “That’s one of the things that has made this a lengthy million worth of private capital into it and put that on the digest, you’ll have the annual contributions to the county tax digest from process. We closed on the deal back in December of 2015.”

The first phase of the project will be the actual construction of the $40 million worth of assessed value on the property. You’ll also have the 40-45 jobs that are created there.” the facility.

Henry continued and said that exact figures of economic impact “The building they’ll be operating out of will be their US headquarters,” Henry said. “The plant itself is tanks and pipes – I are not available, but it will contribute significantly to the Effingham don’t know what all the machinery is called but it’s not a very big economy.

“I don’t know what the exact numbers are off the top of my head operation. They will have more people hired and working there from the administrative management and sales staff than they will for the – we run a fiscal impact analysis on every project so those numbers do exist,” Henry said. “It’s very positive – I think this one was in the actual plant operation.”

The company will bring in turpentine from the paper mills and area of about $3 million impact a year to the community.”

The facility will be located on the east side of Ga. 21 at Ebenezer treat the rosin to use it for production of fragrances and other items.

“The old ways of slashing pine trees and going out to collect Road, just north of Rincon. the turpentine are over with,” Henry said.

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O: 912.826.2151 | C: 912.596.3678 135 GOSHEN ROAD EXT. / SUITE 120 / RINCON, GA 31326 WWW.PLATINUMPROPERTIESHOMES.COM

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321A Columbia Ave. on Hwy 21 across from

Alibi’s Sports Bar & Grill

RINCON

912-826-4500

Locally owned and operated

by Jeremy Nease Monday – Friday 10am–7pm Saturday 10am-6pm Sunday 1pm-5pm

A traditional family gathering!

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