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Southeastrans to relocate Two announce early for state court seat to headquarters to Villa Rica replace outgoing Judge Robert Sullivan 88,000 square foot corporate headquarters to be built next to Tanner Medical Center on Dallas Highway: from press release Southeastrans, Inc., will be investing $20 million into Carroll County when the company relocates its Arkansas headquarters and operation center to Villa Rica. A well attended groundbreaking ceremony for the new building was held November 19th at 843 Dallas Highway (next to Tanner Medical Center).

CEO, and Villa Rica High School graduate, Steve Adams first announced his intentions to make this move last February when he spoke at Villa Rica’s Mainstreet “Leadership Luncheon”. “Nothing would make me prouder,” stated Adams at the luncheon, “than to bring my company back to Villa Rica.”

“This investment represents a new

era for Southeastrans, Inc., and I am very proud to bring it to my Carroll County roots,” said Steve Adams at the groundSteve Adams breaking event.

“When we were considering locations, we considered factors such as a talented labor supply, business-friendly governments, and supportive partners in our long-term plans. After meeting with the city of Villa Rica, Tanner Health System, and Carroll Tomorrow, we knew Carroll County was the best place for our growing business. They

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Carroll County attorneys Met Lane and Erica Tisinger each announce intention to run

Qualifying to be held March 2-6, 2020 Carrollton attorney Erica Tisinger announced her campaign for Carroll County State Court Judge. She has more than 16 years of experience in both the public and private sectors.

She is currently a partner at Greer Tisinger where she specializes in family law. She has tried several jury trials and hundreds of bench trials. She is a partner at Greer Tisinger, LLC. Tisinger was the first candidate to officially announce a campaign to replace retiring Judge Robert Sullivan.

The election will be held on May 19, 2020.

“As State Court Judge, you have my word to be firm, fair, and faithful to the rule of law,” Tisinger said. “It will be my top priority to keep our See STATE COURT JUDGE page 5

Qualifying to be held March 2-6, 2020

for the following elected positions:

Erica Tisinger

Met Lane

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Speaking at the Southeastrans groundbreaking event is Villa Rica City Mayor Jeff Reese. He is accompanied at the podium to help welcome and congratulate Southeastrans by mayor-elect Gil McDougal, council member Matthew Momtahan, city manager Tom Barber, and council member Leslie McPherson. Photo by Sue Horn

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Septic systems: don’t be misinformed about codes/system management Carroll County’s Environmental Health Department sets the facts straight on requirements/recommendations

by Sam Gentry How much do you know about your septic system? How long does a typical system last? What are the proper procedures for maintenance? How do you determine if it is functioning properly? What do you do if it needs repairing, replacing, or upgrading?

And how do you determine if it does?

Seth Woodrow, deputy district environmental health director, and Jake Holloway, Carroll County Environmental Health manager, recently offered their knowledge and

advice to homeowners.

First of all, when it comes to having a septic system serviced/pumped, Woodrow says the state recommends every three to five years, but that is a general range, and other factors apply.

“The more people living in the home, the more often you need to do it,” he said. “If you have more than four or five people living in one house, you can stretch it out to five years, but more than that, and you need to do it closer to three years.”

What does a typical, general service entail? Woodrow said it involves only a couple of basic elements. First, the tank is pumped out. Then, the inlet and outlet portions of the tank are examined to make sure that are in good condition and functioning properly. If they are, then this should complete a general service job.

Holloway further clarified that it is not a requirement that the tank be pumped out every three to five years, but rather a See SEPTIC SYSTEM FACTS page 4

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recommendation. He added, “Also, the existing tank does not need to come up to code in Carroll County. If they were permitted years ago and approved as they were, then they can continue to be used as they are.

Homeowners don’t have to add risers or add a filter to it.”

Both risers and filters are current requirements for new systems.

As far as replacing a system, Holloway said this necessity usually occurs when the tank becomes structurally unsound, the field lines no longer function properly, or a combination of both.

A typical septic tank design includes two main components - a tank and field lines.

The tank may be made of concrete, fiberglass, or plastic and includes “inlet and outlet tees.” Tanks installed prior to February 20th, 2000, consist of a single compartment.

Since then, tanks have been required to have two compartments and an “effluent filter.”

The primary purpose of the septic tank is to separate the solids from the liquid in order to facilitate the breakdown of the solids by microorganisms naturally present in the wastewater.

The field lines, or absorption field, may be constructed of gravel or other approved aggregate, chamber, gravel-less pipe, drip irrigation or other approved alternative product. The type of absorption field is usually determined by the soil conditions present on the site. The wastewater effluent coming out of the septic tank may contain disease causing microorganisms and pollutants. The soil acts as a natural filter and treats the wastewater effluent through physical, biological and chemical processes. Harmful bacteria, viruses, and pollutants are treated as the

www.starnewsgaonline.com wastewater effluent moves down through the lakes; and high levels of nitrates or coliform soil before it reaches the groundwater table. bacteria in water wells are all signs of potenThe absorption field must be located in an tial septic system field line failures.

“After a while, field lines grow what we area of unsaturated soil in order to facilitate this process. For this reason, a soil analysis is call a bio-mat, and that basically seals off any of the porous layrequired on all property System failures can be ers of the soil and served by an on-site sewage management caused by different factors, but causes it to become system. excess water use is frequently essentially a big holding tank,” Woodrow Some things to look for that indicate a septic the culprit. . .Woodrow said the said. “Once they get system is no longer average life of a typical septic full, it backs up into functioning properly are system is usually around 20 to the house or comes out up on the ground.” bubbling in toilets, In this case, new drains in showers or toi- 25 years. . .However, he said lets that are backed up tanks can last much longer. lines are almost always required, a professional and won’t break free with normal treatment, and the backing up of installer must be hired, and permits must be sewage in the lowest point of a residence, obtained from the Carroll County Environmental Health Department. Permits such as a basement.

“That typically doesn’t happen very often, are also required for new system installabut if you have a bad problem, it can,” said tions and major modifications, but not for regular service jobs.

Woodrow.

Woodrow said the average life of a typical System failures can be caused by different factors, but excess water use is frequently septic system is usually around 20 to 25 years and this is when field line failure often the culprit.

“What we run into a lot is that people occurs. However, he said tanks can last have leaky toilets or faucets, and that excess much longer.

“Unfortunately, they aren’t meant to be water - over time - can cause a system to flood out,” Woodrow said. “If it’s not waste- permanent solutions,” he said. “When you’re water, you don’t really want it going down talking about replacement, though, you’re into your system unnecessarily. You want to mainly talking about the lines.”

If someone is having a normal service job get those things fixed.”

Malfunctioning field lines, Woodrow said, on their system, and the company doing the often lend to the need for a system work is bringing up other potential issues with it, Woodrow said homeowners should replacement.

Ominous odors; standing water or damp feel free to call the Environmental Health spots near the septic tank or drainfield; office for clarity, understanding of the issues, to find out if the bright green, spongy lush grass over the sep- o r tic tank or drainfield, even during dry repairs/replacements/upgrades are actually weather; algal blooms in nearby ponds or required or needed.

“We can answer any questions people might have,” he said. “We don’t set prices, and we don’t recommend anything out of the norm, but we educate them if they ask. We will come out to the property if need be and take a look at it.”

One thing septic companies might try to sell homeowners on is additives, Holloway said, but the state doesn’t approve additives or have any official guidelines concerning them.

“That’s something a homeowner is just going to have to educate themselves on,” he said. “They need to do the research.”

According to the Georgia Department of Public Health’s Land Use Program, which is “dedicated to educating the public and wastewater practitioners about on-site wastewater issues,” additives “are not beneficial to on-site sewage management systems and, in fact, can be detrimental.” For complete details on additives, visit https://dph.georgia.gov/.

Holloway said the Department of Environmental Health wants the public to know what septic system maintenance, repair, and installation involves, so they can make educated choices when having this type of work done.

“We want people to know what to look for,” Holloway said. “We would like for them to know what pumping a tank involves before they contract a business to do it, so the company’s not telling them what they should know or not know.”

Holloway added that his office recommends getting three or four bids before having any septic work done, and to not “always go with the lowest bid, but rather who is going to give you the best quality for the best service.”

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She then moved to purposeful lives.”

Erica Tisinger is licensed Tennessee where she served She is a graduate of the University of North in Tennessee and Georgia . as an administrative law judge on the TennCare Carolina and finished in the . focuses in Georgia on top of her law school class domestic relations, probate disenrollment appeals deciding whether each at Mercer University. matters, personal injury, Erica attended the and general civil litigation. appellee should continue University of North She tried several jury trials their TennCare (State of Tennessee funded health Carolina and graduated care) coverage under the with a BA in American and approximately 100 new areas of coverage. bench trials and argued History, with a Erica continued in before the Tennessee concentration in peace, war Tennessee as in-house and defense. Immediately Court of Appeals. defense counsel for an following, Erica continued her studies at Mercer University at the international insurance company where she exclusively represented insureds in all Walter F. George School of Law. After law school, Erica held a judicial phases of claims and litigation, including clerkship in the State Court of Hall County personal injury, commercial liability, and for the Honorable Judges Charles S. Wynne product liability. This work allowed her to gain knowledge of how insurance claims are evaluated at the litigation stage.

STEVE ADAMS from front page Erica Tisinger tried several jury trials and are a progressive group, and they have approximately 100 bench trials and argued opened their arms to us.” before the Tennessee Court of Appeals.

Over the next two years, the company Erica is licensed in Tennessee and will construct an 88,000 square foot corporate headquarters in the city which will Georgia, and her practice focuses in Georgia employ a staff of approximately 300 on domestic relations (including divorce, employees. R.K. Redding Construction will child support, custody and visitation, build the company’s new facility, and con- legitimation, adoption, and juvenile court struction will be completed in fall of 2021. issues), probate matters (including probate Earlier this year, the company established an litigation, wills and estates, and guardianship / conservatorship), personal injury, and Chamber of Commerce President general civil litigation.

Erica and her husband live in Carrollton, Daniel Jackson, “Not only does Georgia, with their two children. The family Carroll County gain the investment is a member of Carrollton First Baptist made by Southeastrans, Inc., but a Church, where Erica serves as a Deacon, serves as a lay reader, teaches Sunday son of Carroll County gets to bring

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his company to his home.”

early-stage call center in the city’s former library. That call center is currently in operation with over 40 employees.

Adams said his company employs more than one thousand people in nine states.

Founded in 2000, Southeastrans, Inc., serves as a transportation management company specializing in broker management of Medicaid non-emergency transportation services. The company offers a range of services and solutions to promote safe and reliable transportation via its network of transportation providers.

Today, Southeastrans, Inc., manages over 3.3 million enrollees and provides 5 million trips annually in Arkansas, Georgia, Indiana, Louisiana, Mississippi, Tennessee, Virginia, and the District of Columbia.

“On behalf of the City Council of Villa Rica, I thank and congratulate Southeastrans, Inc., for its decision to invest in our community,” stated city of Villa Rica Mayor Jeff Reese at the groundbreaking.

“Villa Rica’s strategic location on Interstate 20 makes it a prime location for companies that wish to access the talent and logistics of Greater Atlanta. Our community has supported companies as they search for land, talent, and opportunities, and we will work tirelessly to make our city an excellent location for our residents and businesses.”

“This is a very special moment for both Southeastrans, Inc., and Carroll County,” says Carroll County Chamber of Commerce President Daniel Jackson. “Not only does Carroll County gain the investment made by Southeastrans, Inc., but a son of Carroll County gets to bring his company to his home.”

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School, and is a member of the children’s outpatient treatment. This will make our ministry team. She volunteers with multiple roads safer and protect our citizens. The people of Carroll County deserve to be safe community organizations.

Carrollton local attorney, elected when driving.”

Lane said, “ I feel called Carrollton City Council Met Lane said that he will to serve the public and I Member and lifelong local not create laws from the am very excited about it. . .

Met Lane has also announced that he will run bench. He added, “I agree I have extensive experience as a plaintiff’s lawyer and a for State Court Judge. with the United States civil defense attorney.

“Carroll County has been Supreme Court Chief so blessed by the service and Justice when he said that Serving as former Assistant District Attorney and a steady hand of Judge judges should be like criminal defense attorney Sullivan. He is fair, firm and applies the law to the facts. umpires in baseball. They has provided me with the Like Judge Sullivan, I seek are there to call balls and exceptional experience of strikes; not to assist one b o t h prosecuting the position of State Court defendants charged with Judge because our citizens side or the other.” crimes while protecting the deserve to continue to have their cases brought before a judge who will Constitutional rights of our law-abiding treat everyone with dignity, respect and citizens. Thus, my 18 years of experience uniquely qualifies me to serve as your State strictly apply the law to each case.”

Met Lane said that he will not create laws Court Judge.”

Lane was born and raised in Carroll from the bench. He added, “I agree with the United States Supreme Court Chief Justice County. A 1991 Carrollton High School when he said that judges should be like graduate, Lane received his bachelor’s umpires in baseball. They are there to call degree from Furman University in balls and strikes; not to assist one side or the Greenville, SC. A scholarship recipient Lane received his law degree from the University other.”

“I am a firm believer in Governor’s of South Carolina.

Lane was an Assistant District Attorney Kemp’s criminal justice reforms. I pledge to continue the common-sense approach of for the Coweta Judicial Circuit. He has treating dangerous criminals in our served on the Carrollton City Council from community appropriately while fully 2016-2019. Lane has practiced law for over supporting our drug, mental health, and 18 years and is presently a law partner with Shadrix, Lane and Parmer, P.C. located in veterans’ courts,” said Lane.

“Additionally, I will work to establish a Carrollton. Lane and his wife, Corbett, have DUI Court which is a sentencing alternative been married for 17 years. They have three for persons convicted multiple times for children ages 11, 8, and 6. He is a past driving while under the influence of alcohol member of Rotary Club. The Lanes are members of Carrollton First United and/or drugs.

“What this means is for those who Methodist Church where he has taught qualify, the program will offer intensive Sunday school for over ten years.

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Celebrating Carroll County centenarians

Susan Anderson and “Buddie” Charles: 100 years each and counting the blessings

by Kim Reine and Sue Horn cen-te-nar-i-an / one who is one hundred years old or older According to United States Census “Special Reports”,

centenarians are both “rare and distinct from the rest of the older population”. It is estimated that there are two centenarians per 10,000 people in the United States, with the majority - by far - female (84%). So, the estimate is we have around 24 centenarians (maybe 20 women and 4 men) living amongst us as our neighbors and friends here in Carroll County, Georgia. When this milestone is reached, it is certainly an achievement worthy of recognition and celebration. Today, we highlight two of these rare and distinct Carroll County citizens.

Susan Rebecca Kearfortt Anderson was born in 1919 and will celebrate her 100th birthday on Saturday, December 14, 2019.

Clotilde “Buddie” Charles was born January 2, 1920, and will celebrate entering into the centenarian club in a few short weeks. They both reside at the Brookdale Retirement Community in Carrollton. They are both physically active, alert in conversation and discussions, and in rather good health.

In the one hundred years since their entry into this world, it would be interesting to note how much everyday living has changed.

There was no short-wave radio, aerosol spray cans, or even cake mixes. Local traffic could be described at best as somewhat selfguided as there were no traffic lights to help the flow of, well, both vehicular and horse drawn carriages. That year, 1919, the Ford Model T Sedan debuted with - wow - an electric starter; no more hand cranking the engine. But, it would be another ten years before most households in America would Susan Rebecca Kearfortt Anderson was born in 1919, and have the convenience of a car. And, in 1920, celebrated her 100th birthday on Saturday, December 14, 2019

the average household income in the great state of Georgia was $3,724, ($71 per week).

Centenarian Susan Kearfott Anderson has seen a lot change since her birth in Bristol, Virgnina one hundred years ago. She met her husband Harry Anderson of Dallas, Georgia when he came to Virginia to work at a plant nursery as a landscape architect. They fell in love and were married.

They saw fifty years together.

Shortly after they married, World War II started. Harry officially signed up to help his country when he went home to Dallas, Georgia, to visit his parents. His enlisting officer looked at his paperwork and told Harry, “I see you married one of the Kearfott girls.” The enlisting officer was from Bristol, Virginia, and knew the Kearfott family. After he looked at all of Harry’s qualifications and experience, he asked if he would like to be in the mapping core.

Harry was then assigned to the 4th service Command Headquarters in Atlanta in the mapping department. Susan moved to Atlanta, too, with their first child, Harry W. Anderson, Jr. born at Fort McPherson in 1943. They lived in an apartment in Atlanta on 12th Street which is located close to Piedmont Park. This new family of three enjoyed taking strolls in the park, Mrs. Anderson said.

Harry was transferred to Miami Beach, Florida after only a few years in Atlanta. Although it was the service that brought the family there, they enjoyed the beach life until the war ended and Harry was discharged from the service.

After being discharged, the family planned on returning to Virginia where Harry would return to his old place of employment there. But, Susan saw a talent her husband had with flowers and began talking to him about this new passion. She urged him to use his G.I Bill to receive training.

They then moved to Marietta, Georgia, while Harry persued training for this new line of work.

After he was finished with his training, he began the See CENTENARIANS next page

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Reynolds Metal Company as the head of the architect she is saddened by the fact the nation has gotten away from search for a location for their new business. On the advice of putting God first); to know the difference from right and department. The family then moved to Kentucky. his brother, the couple moved to Carrollton, Georgia. At the wrong; to follow the good things in life and stay away from Buddie was a school teacher for four years, and then time of the move, there was only one floral business in bad influences. When asked what any secret was to living to worked as a receptionist for the Atlanta’s Builders Exchange Carrollton. After finding a location in Carrollton for their see 100 years old, Susan replied, “It’s good genes, good See CELEBRATING 100 YEARS page 15 new business adventure, in 1947, Anderson’s Florist Inc, clean living, eating the right foods, and to opened. To this day the Anderson’s Florist Inc is successful be happy.” and in full operation which includes nationwide floral Clotilde Charles likes to go by her delivery. nickname, “Buddie”. She was born Susan recalls working at their shop and going to Atlanta to January 2, 1920 “near Springfield, pick up flowers. She said she was able to help with the floral Illinois” and will be hitting the triple business around their children’s schedule. She shared that digits shortly. She met her husband while it was such a rewarding job, many people do not Harold Charles in the seventh grade in a realize all of the hard work that goes into having a successful small school in Illinois. They were friends floral business. all through high school, she recalled.

Mrs. Anderson also spoke of Later, after they some of the most memorable This centenarian’s advice to graduated high school, moments in her time. She recalls the the two friends became living a full life is: to know first landing on the moon and how sweethearts and married Jesus Christ and put Him first in 1943. exciting it was. She said that the assassination of JFK was sad and Harold enlisted in the in everything we do, (she said disturbing, and that it had occurred service the year before she is saddened by the fact on her husband’s birthday the Japanese attack on the nation has gotten away November 22, 1963. It’s something Pearl Harbor. He was she will never forget, she said. stationed at the Chanute from putting God first); to Her favorite ritual was every Air Force Base in Illinois know the difference from right Christmas Eve when Harry closed for a brief time before and wrong; to follow the good being transferred to the shop, she and Harry and their children would load up in the car Randolph Field in San things in life and stay away and drive around to look at Antonio, Texas and then from bad influences.

Christmas lights. When they on to Bryan Field in returned home, they put Fred Bryan, Texas.

Waring’s Christmas music on, would read The Night Before Once he was discharged, Harold took Christmas and The Christmas Story out of the Bible. On advantage of the GI Bill. He applied and Christmas morning they would sing “Happy Birthday to was accepted to Harvard, so Harold and Jesus” over a cake before opening gifts.

Buddie moved to Boston. He attended This centenarian’s advice to living a full life is: to know Harvard for seven years and graduated Clotilde “Buddie” Charles was born January 2, 1920, and will Jesus Christ and put Him first in everything we do, (she said with a degree in architecture. He took a celebrate entering into the centenarian club in a few short weeks job in Louisville, Kentucky at the

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The Pause

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Christmas is one of my absolute, alltime favorite seasons. And yes, I consider Christmas to be an entire season; beginning somewhere between July and October (depending on how festive I’m feeling) and ending in January.

Here is the list of things I LOVE about Christmas, in no particular order: decorations, Christmas music, giving gifts, manger scenes, time spent with family and friends, cheese (which, I know, isn’t specifically relegated to Christmas, but cheese is a good addition to any “things I like” list), winter weather, and the pause button.

The pause button is probably close to the top of this list. Yes, it even beats out

But here’s the best part. We don’t have Heaven was waiting, sitting on the edge of cheese. (Shocking, I know!) So, what is this “pause button”? It’s the button that the to wonder. Because God didn’t just choose its seat, holding great anticipation for what a moment of pause, He was about to happen. They all knew that entire world seems to push lives in the pause. His the course of all humanity was about to be at some point during the Try to imagine face is always turned forever altered. Talk about a pause!

Christmas season. as the entire universe towards us. His attention It’s the moment when In the Bible, John 3:16 tell us that God always a b o u t loved us so much that He gave us His one we slow down, truly look held its breath waiting i s at those around us, take a for the physical, audible embracing us. and only son, Jesus. Jesus, having loved us Now that we’ve settled from before we were even created, took a moment to try to voice of God to be that, let’s try to see the pause. He stepped out of Heaven and into understand their incredible heard through the moment of Jesus’ birth. Earth. And with His first cry into that value and celebrate that. It Try to imagine as the very first Christmas night, He had already may be Christmas morning cries of a newborn. entire universe held its shown us our worth. The cry of our around the Christmas tree, or at the office Christmas party, or serving breath waiting for the physical, audible newborn King wasn’t just an infant’ cry. It with your kids at a shelter, or at a voice of God to be heard through the cries was a proclamation of the pause. A of a newborn. Imagine as Mary, Jesus’ declaration that humanity had found our Christmas Eve church service.

It comes in all forms, but always has one mother, waited to meet not only her son, Savior. thing in common: the decision we make to but the very Prince of Heaven. All of See PASTOR AMY ADAMS page 25 pause. In that moment, we are not only celebrating the season, but we are embracing the people around us.

Our pause is telling them, “You matter.” And in a day where time is a fleeting commodity, the choice to give Last mintue gifts...We have what you need! time and attention to others is an invaluable gift.

When I think back to the first Christmas (which, by the way, had no snow or cheese), I wonder if in that moment, God was embracing the pause?

If, in His kindness, He had given His full attention to all of humanity?

Perhaps, He had turned His face towards us, and in all His goodness, chosen to show us our incredible value.

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In your beautiful brokenness, God loves you and is with you

Jeff Jackson REVEREND St. Margaret’s Episcopal Church 606 Newnan Street, Carrollton GA 770-832-3932 stmargaretsga@gmail.com “Minds to think. Hearts to love.

Hands to serve”

Christmas isn’t for everyone. It may be surprising to hear that from an Episcopal priest who loves Brenda Lee’s “Rocking Around the Christmas Tree”, scraping icing from a bowl after my wife and kids make Christmas cookies, and crying during the last scene of “It’s a Wonderful Life”. What I mean is that there are those in our homes, churches, and community who don’t want to hum the songs or decorate the tree. It’s not because they don’t believe in the message of Christmas, nor is it because they’re just Grinchy Scrooges.

The holidays are tough for many people because of what they might have lost.

The stretch of days between November 1st and December 31st are usually associated with family gatherings, work parties, and financial aerobics. But, what if you lost your job this year? What happens when your spouse, dear friend, or God

forbid, child dies? What if you can’t afford works. So know this: you are not alone. decides to show up in flesh and blood. all the gifts, decorations, and food that our There is no rule that says you have to be The Christ child did not fix everything full of Christmas cheer. culture says are the immediately, either. It wasn’t like how our In fact, the original Nativity sets display, where Mary and hallmarks of the holiday?

So let yourself off the Christmas was not Joseph, shepherds, and wise men all look Chances are, you might hook. If Christmas founded on manufac- like they have received a year supply of struggle during these days. brings you joy, great! tured and glistening hap- Krispy Kreme doughnuts. There might I once had a parishioner piness. The first Christ- have been a few bucolic moments, but the who, in a span of two But if it doesn’t, allow mas was full of worry, world was not set right immediately after years, lost his job after yourself the space to be fear, doubt, and probably they wrapped him in the swaddling almost forty years of sad, to grieve, to be sadness. A scandalized clothes. service, his father after a long illness, his mother angry, to be emotional. homeless refugee couple Despite the joy and hope he brings, the huddled amongst the ani- reality was that Mary and Joseph still had after her long bout with dementia, and most tragically, his adult mals and filth with no money, no family, nothing to their name. They still worried, daughter in a car accident. I honestly do and no support systems becomes the gate- they still feared, they still felt sad. They not know how he held onto his faith way for the Divine to enter Humanity. had to figure out where they were going to Can you imagine being in even part of live, and once news got out about this during those years, and maybe he would say he didn’t every day. How can you their situation? Maybe you can. It is in special child of theirs, they had to stay offlook that person in the face and wish them that very dark, uncertain place that God See REV. JEFF JACKSON page 27 a merry Christmas with all sincerity without it sounding like an absolute joke?

He and I spent many hours in hospital rooms wrestling with that conundrum, and guess what we determined: It’s okay Thank You to not be full of Christmas cheer. There is & nothing wrong with allowing yourself to Irrigation feel the deep sadness that might be Winterization!

Merry Christmas! engulfing you.

Jesus isn’t walking around his birthday party making sure everyone is having an awesome time. He’s not checking some kind of happy list to make sure you have fulfilled all your Christmas cheer obligations.

Despite our cultural expectations that we need to grieve quickly and quietly, lest you appear to be unproductive or weak, every person who is reading this right now knows deep inside that is not how grief

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This year, give gifts that would truly honor The King ultimately lead to Jesus’ birth being in Bethlehem. In an age where we are never the Christmas message is that the news humble circumstances and HIM being happy to pay taxes, Joseph in his day was was brought to the Shepherds. Heaven’s honored to be counted announcement did not start with the wrapped in swaddling One of the interesting by the census and pay affluent, it began with some of the least clothes and lying in a taxes. Why? It is because acknowledged people in society. manger. parts of the Christmas To ensure that HIS message is that the news was he was acknowledging The shepherds who had the duties of his lineage to the House overseeing the sheep that would be used to announcement was of King David. He was observe worshipping GOD in the temple proper, a heavenly brought to the Shepherds.

Derick Newton host appeared in full Heaven’s announcement honored to be part of his weren’t as embraced. They worked hard, family. glory causing smelled awful from their time with did not start with the PASTOR Are you celebrating animals, and were people of low means. It shepherds who affluent, it began with some family or stuff? Do you Last Shall Be First Ministries worked the night shift is amazing that they were the ones who of the least acknowledged 94 East Church Street, Villa Rica GA spend time spending or received the “good tidings of great joy, to be informed that 678-360-5032 are you using it to create which shall be to all people”. the Savior was born. people in society. family memories?

Most of this recap can We focus more on the Magi, who lastshallbefirstministries@gmail.com Point 2. It is important to share joy with weren’t at the makeshift maternity ward. be located in Luke 2 in your Bible.

“So the last shall be first, and the first In Matthew Chapter 2, we learn that those who may not experience joy as often The reality is the news of joy was given to last: for many be called, but few chosen.” miles away, stargazers known as the Magi as others. One of the interesting parts of MATTHEW 20:16 KJV See PASTOR DERICK NEWTON page 27 saw the prophetic sign of his birth and I thank Sue Horn and the StarNews for began the nearly two year journey to see the opportunity to share my thoughts what few understood. The KING has been during this Christmas season. To be able born. The wanted to recognize HIM as to have a local platform that impacts as king so they packed gifts to soon meet the from many households as the StarNews is truly toddler who the prophecies had proclaimed as the Messiah (Isaiah 7:14,9:6). a blessing.

When I think of this season, it simply is It is in these scriptures that we find the the story of the birth of Jesus that comes hope, joy and peace of the season for to mind. To reduce the moving parts of many.

There are, however, some key points the story to some basic themes will help me share several key points with the that I would like to highlight that make me inspired by the Christmas story: readers.

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Making room for Jesus will look different for each of us

Michelle Kuhlman REVEREND

Grace Lutheran Church 101 Somerset Place, Carrollton GA 770-834-8296 gracecarrollton@gmail.com Noted Christian author and Professor Tony Campolo tells a story about a teacher who is leading her class in the production of a Christmas pageant. Each student has a role to play. To make things easier for one student who had some learning difficulties, the teacher assigned this young man the role of the Innkeeper.

He had a total of two words to say in the pageant. When Mary and Joseph appear at the door to the inn, all the Innkeeper has to say was “no room!”

The students practiced and practiced and were ready for their performance. When the big night came, all went smoothly until they got to the moment when the Innkeeper was due to say his line. At first, he didn’t say anything. From offstage, a voice whispered to him “no room, no room!” The young Innkeeper turned and said “I know what I’m supposed to say…but he can have MY room!”

How much more precious can you get?

That sweet child, in his innocent wisdom,

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offered up a simple, selfless alternative to The one who calls us to follow him to the Perhaps making room for Jesus means the story we know so well. While this foot of the cross, to care for the last, the spending time with those you love most least, and the lost. dearly. Making room for Jesus will look story brings a smile to Making room for different for each of us, but it’s important our faces, it can also How, too, can you make Jesus will require us to actually do it and not simply enjoy the prompt us to reflect on “room” for the One who is to live lives that seem sentimentality of the concept. making room in our own lives. born for you? What might it very different to a The dear Innkeeper in our story world that prizes The coming of the demonstrated the practical wisdom of a look like to be more power, wealth, and child. Wouldn’t it be wonderful if we Christ child is an event intentional about making things more that could all share that child-like wisdom and that changes things for all of us. The Biblical room in your heart for Jesus? community, insight? relationships, and narrative tells us that If you are looking for a place to worship compassion. there was no room for this Christmas, you are invited to join us How might you make room for Jesus? on Christmas Eve at 7:00 p.m. and Mary and Joseph to lay their heads when they arrived in Bethlehem. This is Will you give an extra gift to Open Hands Christmas Day at 10:00 a.m. At Grace symbolic of the world into which Jesus is or the Soup Kitchen? Will you provide Lutheran Church, all are welcome, and all born. For the political leaders, the assistance to families who struggle to means ALL. There is room for you with powerful, and the wealthy of the day, this provide Christmas for their children? us. long-promised Messiah represented a great threat. For them, there would never be “room” for one who challenges the status quo with the radical idea that all people are equally beloved in the eyes of God. COMMERCIAL SERVICES RESIDENTIAL SERVICES As Christmas approaches, you are most Building-Drive Thrus-Parking likely feeling the pressure of a busy House-Deck Sealing-Deck Cleaningcalendar, a to-do list that doesn’t seem to Driveways-Pool Area-Painting-Lawn Decks-Gum Removal-Dumpster end, and family obligations. You have Area-Shopping CenterCare managed to make room in your life for all Concrete-Restaurants of these things. How, too, can you make “room” for the One who is born for you?

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Bumping into Christmas

Dale Lovelady ASSOCIATE PASTOR

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Have you ever bumped into Santa Claus? Halford Luccock (“Whoops! It’s Christmas”) tells about having a collision with Santa Claus one day. Not the one with white whiskers and a red coat. It was a lady who looked like an “animated Christmas tree” covered with packages. He bumped, and she spilled packages all over the place. As he tried to pick them up for her she gasped out, “Oh, I hate Christmas, anyhow! It turns everything upside down.” “That is just what it was made for,” he said.

That is the big thing about Christmas— it does turn everything upside down. At least, it should. And that’s not a bad thing.

For all the blessings that we receive from it, this old world is a good world gone wrong. The seed of the world’s misery was sown in the hearts of Adam and Eve (we trace our ancestry back to them)

when they believed the lie of Satan: “You know that I would do the same thing— can be like God” (Genesis 3:5). He con- kick the wretched thing to pieces with steel- toed boots! vinced them to get out That’s our real from under God’s That is the big thing about dilemma, isn’t it—we’re thumb—that He was Christmas—it does turn not sure about God. just an old scoundrel holding them back, everything upside down. . . “What is He like? How does he feel when I screw keeping them from And that’s not a bad things up—again? Does being everything they thing. . . What I need He feel disgust? Do I dare could be. Adam and this Christmas is a good get that close to Him?” Eve had no reason to One of my earliest recdistrust God. He had first-class collision with the ollections of Christmas is never hurt them. But Christ of Christmas. singing “O Little Town they swallowed it of Bethlehem” (Phillips hook- line-and-sinker — the lie of the devil instead of the love of Brooks). There’s a phrase in there that God. And hurt and pain and sorrow began sums up the life-stories of a lot of us: hopes to swallow up the “very good” world He and fears. Maybe you live there. Hoping created (Genesis 1:31), like kudzu wrapping around a house until you can no longer see what was there. My preacher keeps reminding us that we don’t make good gods! We just make big messes.

So, when my topsy-turvy world is turned upside down, it will actually be right side up.

What I need this Christmas is a good first-class collision with the Christ of Christmas. Not just getting close to Him at a Christmas Eve Service (some of us have done that for 50, 60, 70, maybe 80 Christmases or more), but falling on my knees and asking Him to heal my brokenness. I can’t mend myself on my own. I need help.

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“If I were God and the world treated me like it treated Him I would kick the wretched thing to pieces.” Whether www.AllensFlowersGifts.com Martin Luther really said that or not, I

that God will help, but afraid that He won’t. “After all, look at the mess I’ve made of things. He’d probably rather squash me like a bug than put up with me any longer.” There you have it: just like Adam and Eve we believe the lie of Satan that God doesn’t love us and is tired of us!

We need to go back to Genesis. In reality, it was the “first Christmas”. After Adam and Eve blamed their disastrous decisions on anyone and anything besides themselves, God gives us the first glimpse of the gospel. “I will cause hostility between [Satan] and the woman, and between [his] offspring and her offspring.

He [Christ Jesus] will strike [Satan’s] head, and [Satan] will strike his heel” (3:15).

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If Christ Consciousness is to arrive in the world, it must first arrive in our hearts

Fred L. Richards

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Retiring this year (for the second time) as Santa’s helper, after channeling the kind, jolly fellow since 1976, I’ve set aside the red suit but not the heart of the kind Elf who arrives each year to help children of all ages feel loved and valued. With Santa, I enjoy the colorful decorations, the children’s faces full of wonder, and the playful, good cheer of adults. Santa and I also know Christmas is a dark, frightening time for countless persons everywhere in the world. In the 1970s, when dressed as Santa, I was moved to tears when a child said, “Don’t bring me toys, Santa; please bring some food for my little brothers.”

Years of study have persuaded me--and Christian scholars and theologians--that the Biblical account of Jesus’ birth is more fiction than fact. What is not literally true, however, can be a profound source of psychological and spiritual truth. I am soulfully moved when welcoming the birth of a child destined to become Jesus, the Christ, whose life story has haunted, comforted, challenged, and encouraged me since I was a traumatized child and a

depressed teenager. I became a follower beyond. I’ve lived many lives in the one If Christ Consciousness is to arrive in and friend of Jesus when attending a life I’ve been given, and Jesus has jour- the world, it must first arrive in our hearts. neyed with me, hav- The great medieval mystic, Meister revival at a Baptist What broke open my heart ing at times gone Eckhart, knew that unless the Son of Mary Church. Surprisingly, I was my suddenly knowing into places and situa- is born in the depth of the Soul, it matters was not significantly moved by the evangel- that this Jesus loved me “just tions he himself naught that he was born in a manager cenist’s description of the as I am.” For the first time in would have not cho- turies ago. It helps those of us who identify sen to go. For the with the Jesus Story to gratefully and loveternal punishment in hell awaiting unbelievers my life, I experienced someone last 50 years-plus the ingly welcome him as he arrives as a child teacher known as the each Christmas. He arrives as a baby needand the reward of eterwho knew how unlovable nal life in a heavenly and lost I experienced myself Buddha has also trav- ing love and caring. elled with us. As paradise waiting for In a world too often lacking the love and to be, but loved me... scandalous as some kindness children need to survive, grow, those who repented and believed. What broke open my heart was Christians may consider this to be, Jesus and thrive, the baby Jesus needs our tender my suddenly knowing that this Jesus loved and the Buddha get along well together loving care and support. Christian or not, me “just as I am.” For the first time in my and are troubled by persons whose religi- we can resolve to grow up and become like life, I experienced someone who knew osity causes them to reject and condemn the loving Jesus hidden and revealed in the how unlovable and lost I experienced others holding beliefs different from their Gospels, a Jesus, as Stephen Mitchell beaumyself to be, but loved me and died loving own.

See FRED RICHARDS page 27 everyone and even forgiving those who murdered him.

“We Are Here ALL Year Long For Your Tax, As irrational as it likely sounds to some Bookkeeping, & Payroll Needs.” who don’t share my experience, the child whose birth is recognized at Christmas is, for me, the helpless, dependent, and needy newborn who grows up to be the Jesus who loved me as a teenager and who remains a Living Presence.

Years ago I read A Life of Jesus, a novel

by Shusaku Endo, depicting Jesus as a teacher “who lived for love” with the soul of “a warm-hearted mother [rather] than a stern father.” Endo’s image resonates with mine; the Jesus story I’ve come to embrace MerryChristmasandHappy awakens in me “the kind-hearted, maternal Donna, Gerald and Chuck aspects of God.” Like Marcus Borg in NewYear!

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www.starnewsgaonline.com CELEBRATING 100 YEARS from 7 for 27 years. Buddie and Harold were parents to three children. Susan was the first child, born in Texas, Richard was born in Boston, and Dana was born in Kentucky.

Mrs. Charles’ most memorable times, she said, were during their life after WWII and Harold’s graduation, because it felt like that was when life really began. She speaks highly of their children, grandchildren, and great grandchildren. Her grandson Abraham lives in the Netherlands and works for Google. Her other grandson, T.J., also works for Google and lives here in Carrollton.

Christina, her granddaughter lives in Washington D.C., where she works for the Department of Education. Her grandson Sean, works for Georgia Power and lives in Atlanta. She has one great-granddaughter and is expecting two more.

The one piece of advice Buddie would like to share is always tell the truth and always keep your promises. She says the secret to living a long life is to be friendly, caring, and to just keep living.

“The best part of living to be 100 years old

is being here to see my great granddaughter.

The worst part of being 100 is the lack of energy,” laughed Buddie.

A report published by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), noted the nation’s centenarian population has grown by 44 percent. Some experts believe such longevity is the result of good health and great genes coupled with a fair amount of luck.

Societal factors also contribute. Such factors include improvements in vaccines, medications, hygiene and sanitation. The report noted: “People are more aware of their health, of the importance of staying active and eating healthy food,” as also having an impact on longevity.

A review of census data showed that over 80% of America’s centenarians were female.

Gary Small, a Professor on Aging and Director of the UCLA Longevity Center, explained the phenomenon this way, “We know that women are more social than men.

Other studies have found that staying socially connected predicts greater life expectancy.

“If you are social, it may reduce stress levels because you can talk about your feelings and things that stress you out and it seems to help many people. If you need a ride to the doctor or you fall, they can take you to the hospital or help you find the best doctor.”

Carroll County teen makes history as Georgia’s Country Music “Artist of the Year”: youngest to win Free books given in lieu from press release of candy at Carrollton’s Carroll County teen Hunter Flanagan made history November 8, 2019 by being the Christmas Parade youngest artist in history to win the Georgia Country Music Award’s overall Artist of the Year. This was the first year he was nominated as an adult.

Fan voting first narrowed the field, and then a panel of judges consisting of members of the music industry cast votes, and Hunter was declared the winner.

Hunter has opened for Mark Wills and Confederate Railroad, and will be doing monthly shows in Nashville beginning in 2020.

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I challenge you to look at Christmas in a new way this year

Dr. Vincent Dortch PASTOR/Teacher Antioch Missionary Baptist Church 2930 Newnan Road, Carrollton GA 770-834-4196 Well, it’s that time of year again...Christmas! December has come and with it all the joys of Christmas. As a pastor and minister of the Gospel, I must ask the question…what is the real meaning of Christmas?

Is it the gifts under the tree, the lights in

DALE LOVELADY from page 13 Jesus, the Savior of the world would come to “destroy the works of the devil” (1 John 3:8). In the process, His heel would be bruised [the cross] but Satan’s head would be crushed [the empty tomb]. He wins!

“God showed his great love for us by sending Christ to die for us while we were still sinners” (Romans 5:8, emphasis mine).

Simply because “he is God and not a mere mortal” (Hosea 11:9). There’s an old Christmas carol that says it well: “O holy night the stars are brightly shining It is the night of our dear Savior’s birth Long lay the world in sin and error pining

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the windows, the cards in the mail, dinners showing His great love for us. It can be a Bethlehem just to mark the way for those who were looking for this special child. with family and friends, wishful snow in time of healing and renewed strength.

I want to encourage you that we can My brothers Carrollton, stockings I want to encourage you that we a n d s i s t e r s , truly be happy at Christmas. No matter hanging in the living room, and shouts of can truly be happy at Christmas. No Christmas is what may be happening, we can know w e that we are His children. We are sons and “Merry Christmas” matter what may be happening, we w h e n to those who pass us can know that we are His children. celebrate the daughters of God. I challenge you to look throughout Carroll- We are sons and daughters of God. I birth of the at Christmas in a new way this year. This is the year to invite Jesus into your heart.

Christ. ton and surrounding God sent His You will then have a “Merry Christmas.” areas? Is this really challenge you to look at Christmas in a new way this year. This is the Son, Jesus, into As I speak in my preacher’s voice…”The Christmas?

For many people, year to invite Jesus into your heart. the world to be joy and peace you will receive will last all born. His birth year as you look to God for all your needs Christmas is a time of sorrow. They don’t have the extra brought great joy to the world. Many to be met.”

My pray for all of us is that we realize money to buy presents for their children, remember the childhood Bible stories of family, and friends. Many are saddened at the shepherds, wise men, and angels all what is truly important. Jesus truly is the Christmastime when they think of their shared in the excitement of knowing about reason for the season.

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Let’s stay Messiah focused by being and staying Christ-centered year round mankind.... I believe we have lost focus. the secular world can’t deal with that, As Luke 2:7 sadly comments on the fact sorry!

Focus your church on that “there was no Allow me to encourage Jesus and make sure that room for them in the you to make this Christmas He and He alone is inn,” that the same commentary can be and every one yet to come, celebrated in Biblical fashion. said of our culture in Stephen Jesus focused. . . Focus your Let’s stay Messiah 2019. No room!

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Christmas.

No room for Him in many cases in In the process thereof, it appears that their churches. Many musicals etc, have our society has become a most turned secular in nature, rather than materialistic culture focused on things and spiritual focusing on Jesus!? self. In doing so, the celebration of Jesus’ Allow me to encourage you to make incarnation becomes secondary if not even this Christmas and every one yet to come, further pushed out of sight.

Jesus focused. After all, it is the celebration I often times have wondered if you were of His birth, His incarnation, His coming to go on the street and randomly survey to redeem us! Matthew 1:21 confirms, people of all ages, asking “What is “And she (Mary) shall bring forth a son, Christmas?” I can only imagine the various and thou shalt call his name JESUS: for he responses that you would get. shall save his people from their sins.”

I would venture to say that many would Focus your children, grandchildren on not bring up the coming of Jesus, the birth Jesus, not on getting things and Santa of the Savior of the World, the humility of Claus. Focus your workplace on Jesus, not Christ, the love of God the Father sending drunken parties. CHRISTmas is about His one and only Son to redeem sinful Jesus Christ. There is no way around it. If

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Faith is a verb, not a possession.

If someone asks you if you have faith, what? It’s something you put in your jeans’ front pocket last week?

You just reach into that tiny space and UE feel around and, say, oh, yeah, there it HORN is, I got faith.

No. EDITOR/ You don’t do that.

PUBLISHER Because faith is not a possession.

Faith is action. Faith is you in action. Faith is you on the ground without ego or hesitation doing those necessary and often uncomfortable deeds that you know in your heart God is asking - hoping? - you will do. Do. A verb.

Not the thought that crossed your mind. Thought. Noun. Not a verb.

Not a plan you came up with in the shower between work and your workout. A plan. Noun. Not a verb.

You faithing is you acquiring and/or delivering food or blankets or winter coats to those who are without or without enough. Acquiring/delivering.

Both verbs. That’s faithing. She faithed with about thirty others at the Carroll County Soup Kitchen and a hundred people ate well that day. He was faithing all morning at the Toys for Tots drive, and his generosity of time and gifts was much appreciated.

True faithing is giving without reservation or questioning the depth of need of that person in front of you. You either give or you don’t. Don’t assess if that person “really needs it”. If that person has made the (most likely) uncomfortable journey to your charity event (it can be embarrassing to be on the receiving end of charity, especially in our small communities) then give with a heartfelt smile, and walk away. If need be, there’s Someone Else to do the judging later.

Faithing is a year round verb, not just a Christmassy thing or something you go network at when your church or civic club has a charity event. Go find out about faithing for foster children; go find out about the public schools’ organizations for needy students and fill in where today’s lousy parents left their own children out. Go. Volunteer. Mentor. Go faith.

May Sarton: “I am lavish with riches made from loss.” I think Sarton wrote that about how she learned meaningful lessons from losses in her own life, but I feel a different interpretation here, and you know this: Allow yourself to be filled to the brim with the meat that does not perish by filling in - faithing in - what is lost/missing in the lives of those around us who truly need.

I know some people who have to belong to a civic club in order to find needy people. They have successfully insulated themselves both knowingly “If you travel with dogs, you get fleas”; and unknowingly “She didn’t bring me my refill of tea, I can’t tip as much now”. Wow. And wow. I’ve heard both of these damaging conclusive remarks.

I’m not sure who made the observation that it is better to have loved a little than to know everything, but when you love - when you truly love - you will learn more than you ever dreamed. May Sarton explained that “There is no way to love without opening ourselves to loss. Loss is inevitable but the way we respond to it is not. When our hearts are broken we may become bitter and rigid, unwilling to risk loving again. Or we may choose - and what a hard choice it is - to let our hearts be broken open.”

We are surrounded by ample opportunity here in West Georgia to be God’s living Grace by faithing. Break open your heart to explore the wonderful paths of - you know this, too - “things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen”.

God loves a cheerful giver.

And I believe God loves a faithful faither.

Be a faither. All year round.

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Property taxes (!) and my empathy for fellow taxpayers

Property taxes were due on December 1st, so the subject of our property tax bills is fresh on our minds. As my constituents know, my entire career in government was to promote transparency and accountability - and I accomplished this at the state level by conducting performance and program audits of statewide government programs, interacting with executive leadership to improve operations.

With this background, I was somewhat baffled and frustrated recently by some practices I personally encountered in the Carroll County Tax Assessor’s Office.

Through these encounters, I can certainly empathize with my fellow Carroll County taxpayers, who may get somewhat frustrated with their property tax bills - and a lack of adequate and logical explanation from the Tax Assessor’s Office on how their property values increased.

In this article, I will explain one of these situations, regarding my recent experience with the Tax Assessor’s Office. Through this, taxpayers can see that these frustrating situations can happen to anyone and, hopefully, improvements can be made to bring more transparency and accountability to the Tax Assessor’s Office.

Also, I should note that the Tax Assessor’s Office has a Board of Assessors, comprised of members of the public who are appointed by the Carroll County Board of

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Now, here is one of the situations I recently encountered and, perhaps, I’ll save other situations for a later article: Do You Know How “Desirable” Your Property Is?: As many of you have experienced, my recent property tax bill showed a significant increase from last year. So, I went to the Tax Assessor’s Office and tried to get an explanation as to why this increase occurred. It was baffling to me when the tax assessor explained that one primary reason for the increase was that the “Desirability Rating” of my property had increased to an “A” rating. The assessor went on to explain that it previously had a Desirability Rating of “C” - but had increased to an “A” recently.

The assessor did explain that Desirability Rates ranged from A to E, with A being the most desirable and E the least desirable. Of course, as my luck would have it,

mine was now deemed to be worthy of an “A” rating - which meant it was taxed at the highest “Desirability Rate” possible!

Immediately, I had several questions about this, such as: • What is a “Desirability Rating” and where does that come from?

• What are the criteria for each rate of “Desirability” - what makes a property an “A” or a “C”…?

• Who rates each piece of property?

• Where is the documentation, showing how my property changed and suddenly became more “desirable”? I had done nothing to improve the property and it was the same as it had always been.

I never got an answer to these questions, even from the Chief Tax Assessor, except that the tax assessor indicated “they” had come out and recently changed the “Desirability Rating” from a “C” to an “A.” I never got an answer as to who “they” were - and, more importantly, I never got an answer as to what specific criteria “they” use to determine and arrive at any of the “Desirability Ratings.”

So, although “they” are rating the desirability of property and assigning an A, B, C, D, or E rating, I was never provided any explanation or documentation of

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Shadow warriors and unknown heroes Beneath the towering edifice, there are solid cornerstones under the ground. They are hidden from view but, without them, the building could not be built nor stand above ground. Likewise, there are people whose hard work is not visible but, without it, the monumental task of historical significance could not be achieved. This is the story of translators of foreign language whose work is often neglected, unrecognized or ignored.

The success story of JapaneseAmerican code-breakers who broke the secret code of the Imperial Japanese military during the Pacific War is legendary.

They contributed to shooting down Admiral Yamamoto of Imperial Japanese Navy, the mastermind of Pearl Harbor sneak attack. They were foreign language specialists, the shadow warriors.

Today, Japan is not a threat to world peace. North Korea is.

There must be a group of shadow warriors, hard at work behind the scene, who watch over missiles and rapid-fire multiple rocket launchers of North Korea.

The foreign language specialists contribute not only in war but also in peace. Since the year 1853

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vunc61@gmail.com when Commodore Matthew Perry of the United States Navy opened up Japan to the outside world, the scholars of the highest order in Japan have translated numerous books of the Western countries to the Japanese language. Particularly noteworthy was a compilation of dictionaries.

It must have been painstaking, tedious and frustrating labor. And yet, they were hardly known beyond immediate circle; they were unknown heroes.

The art and science, technology and engineering of the advanced nations abroad were introduced to Japan during the latter part of the 19th century. Those Japanese leaders who brought modernity to the island nation must have often consulted the dictionaries, the product of earlier pioneers.

In 1868, fifteen years after the arrival of Commodore Perry,

Emperor Meiji took control of Japan. A new era of what’s known as the Meiji Restoration began in Japan.

In 1968, one hundred years after the beginning of Meiji Restoration, Kawabata Yasunari of Japan won Nobel prize for Literature. In his press interview, the author stated that he could not have won the honor without superior translation, therefore, the honor must be shared with the translator. He knew where the credit lay. The laureate should be commended.

I read his prize-winning novel, “Yuki Guni (snow country)” in its Japanese language. I was struck with its uniquely Japanese beauty.

Then, I remembered Korean classic literature. None of them was known outside of Korea. It was because none of them was translated into a foreign language.

The Hankook University of Foreign Studies in Seoul, Korea is committed to educating young men and women for many foreign languages.

We need more unknown heroes who are willing to devote their lives for a worthy cause.

Some day, we may hear South Korean writer won the Nobel prize for Literature.

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Christmas: it’s not what you get, it’s what you give

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WYSON

Here we go again - that time of year when it’s incumbent upon us to go out and spend a lot of money on Christmas gifts. Which brings up the age-old question, whether it is nobler in the hearts of men (and women) to give than to receive. Obviously, if it’s incumbent upon you, you’re going to have to do it, no matter what.

That’s the party line, of course. Spend!

Spend! Spend! You have no choice. It’s like the forces of good are laying this guilt trip on you, saying: “If you don’t give, you’re going to end up like that Uncle Scrooge fellow.”

Or maybe you just feel generous. Whatever your situation, you probably can’t afford to

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give away the proverbial store. No. You must with one!”

When you start to get older is when the act within reason, set limits, if necessary.Maybe that’s why you have this unspo- giving aspect enters in. “Well, I’ve got this lucrative allowance ken covenant between But then, some folks see coming in (or partyourself and those in your orbit of well- Christmas gift giving as, ehh, too time job, as the case wishers, so you won’t commercial. We’ve sold out to the may be). I wouldn’t give too much. Or too highest bidder, turned the nation want anyone to think I’m Scrooge. Kind of little. Meet them in the into a phantasmagoria of idiots, nice having my own middle, more or less.

There, that’s enough who are dependent on hucksters money to spend on for him or her, you and opportunists. Not only that, stuff, though. Makes think. They usually practically everything’s made in me feel like I’m part this whole vast don’t contribute that China nowadays. Who’s having the of Christmas...what’s charitably to the giftlast laugh on that? The Chinese the word for it? giving pool, anyway.

Then when their don’t even celebrate Christmas. Fellowship. Yeah, that’s it.” offerings fail to meet So you primarily end up giving to those your expectations, you think, hmm, what’s up with them? I’ll have to make a note of that who can do you the most-good. Get on the and enter it into my considerations for next good side of mom and dad. Get a little public relations campaign going. year.

Is it worth the hassle? What do you get for Of course, when you’re a kid it’s all about getting, isn’t it? “Hey, look at this Kung Fu that certain somebody, after all, who has eveGrip! I’ll be the talk of the neighborhood rything? “Let’s see. There’s this perpetualwith this. I must be the only kid on the block motion machine. Or should I get one of these

genuine gasoline-powered, turbo-charged lint removers? Maybe I should get one of these things with the ball bearings suspended from strings, that click back and forth when you set the ball bearings in motion?” Never quite understood what that’s all about. You watch the ball bearings go in motion while you become hypnotized, I suppose.

Do you really need some of this stuff?

How many times can a kid get away with buying dad a cheap tie, or a discount bottle of after-shave lotion, for example?

Hard to say, right? But if they stopped making the stuff kids would be hard pressed to find things to meet their quotas with, and we’d find that, yeah, we really need this stuff. So it’s probably best that things stay the way they are. eeps the economy humming along. Gives Dad a reason to shave and look presentable.

But then, some folks see Christmas gift giving as, ehh, too commercial. We’ve sold out to the highest bidder, turned the nation into a phantasmagoria of idiots, who are dependent on hucksters and opportunists.

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West Georgia Autism Foundation’s 2nd Annual “Snow Ball” Saturday, January 11, 2020

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Changes in 2020

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REINE Certified Intuitive Life Coach

It’s hard to believe that we are going into the year 2020. So many things have changed - and in a big way. When I was in the fourth grade I was given an assignment to write a paper predicting the changes that would be made by the year 2020, or what I thought things would be like in the year 2020. My mind whirled with possibilities. How exciting to think of what all would change and how it would be different My first thought was that we would all be living like the Jetsons. For those who don’t know who the Jetsons are, they were a futuristic family living in a very futuristic world.

The T.V. show follows George and Jane Jetson, along with their kids Judy and Elroy, as they live their lives in an imagined, futuristic city. As with any futuristic show, the

organizations that clearly make a big difference in the quality of life for all of us.

The above blessings have quickly had a dramatic effect on one of the most critical issues that we face; autism. According to the Marcus Autism Center, this year more children will be diagnosed with autism than AIDS, diabetes and cancer combined. One in 42 boys and one in 189 girls born in Georgia will be affected by autism. While these numbers are astounding and affect families, quality of life, taxpayers, the medical community, and almost everyone else, west Georgia is boldly confronting this challenge.

On January 11, 2020, the West Georgia Autism Foundation (WGAF) is hosting the 2nd Annual Snow Ball. That evening, we will illuminate the dark sky with lights and entertainment at the beautiful Oak Lawn on

episodes are rife with exciting technology and scientific advancements that audiences of the time probably had never even dreamed of. The show originally aired in the 1960s, with new episodes produced in the 1980s as part of The Funtastic World of Hanna-Barbera block.

I thought we would we would all be zipping around in aero dynamic flying vehicles like the Jetsons. I was wrong with that, however, car technology has rapidly advanced in recent years, including both electric and selfdriving cars. We are currently zipping around in aero dynamic cars with some that run on alternative fuel or energy. The Jetsons also communicated through satellites on screens where both parties could see who they were talking to. Looks like I nailed that one! We do communicate like the Jetsons.

We have the ability to communicate this way thanks to Skype and Facetime. The show also featured the ability to make phone calls from your watch. Bam! We now have the capability to do this, too!

The Jetsons would have dinner as a complete family, even including their dog.

Sadly, I did not predict the fact that people would get so busy and family schedules

Rome St. in Carrollton. Guests in cocktail attire will enjoy a winter wonderland of fun, fundraising, and fellowship.

Upon arrival, you will be met with live music, food, cocktails, and more. A silent auction will last throughout the evening.

After dinner, the famous amateur auctioneer, Cade Parian, will entertain and conduct the live auction. Lastly, you will hear from a special guest speaker. You will not forget his message. We are focused on surpassing the $70,000 raised at the first Snow Ball in January 2019. Please join us and be a part of achieving that goal. We invite you to partner with the WGAF by sponsoring, purchasing a table, or buying individual tickets. All sponsors will have a full table (8 seats) with unlimited drink tickets. Tables, half tables, and single tickets will come with complimentary drinks:

would not permit most of them to have a sit down meal with their loved ones; that it would become something of a rare occasion to have family time and conversations over a big meal. I didn’t predict that technology would rob us of precious time with loved ones.

Technology currently has too much power over us. It has the ability to take us away from those we love by having our attention instead of focusing on the people who really matter and person-to-person contact. Have you ever received the notification of your “screen time” and said, “No way! How in the world did I spend that many hours on social media?” Time seems to slip away while you are busy scrolling through Facebook or Pinterest. Nowadays, most people prefer to text instead of speaking with that person on the phone or in person. So much “humanity” is lost when we rely on technology. Don’t get me wrong - the advances in technology are amazing and helpful in so many ways.

Technology is making our lives easier and more efficient but what are we sacrificing in return? Is it making us impersonal or cold? It seems anywhere I go I see someone glued to

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their phone screen while at work or hanging out with friends and even at the dinner table.

I have been on a date where the person I was counting on spending quality time with was glued to their phone through the entire date.

I have also witnessed a whole family out to dinner and all of them were on their phones.

Not one person in that family was engaged in that moment. Is technology robbing us of our humanity?

There is always positive and negative to most things in life. It depends on you and the path you decide to follow. We all have a choices on how technology will affect our lives. Do we continue to be disengaged in life or be engaged and teach ourselves to be in the moment?

I urge you today to make a positive change in 2020, make a conscious decision to put your phone down a little more and enjoy the people around you.

Plan to have family dinners and engage in conversations with loved ones. Teach yourself to be in the moment. For that moment is all we have.

“Living in the moment means you are consciously aware that each moment you breathe is a gift.”- Oprah Winfrey

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So, what do you know about Christmas?

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WILSON Thoughts While Shaving cedwilson587 @yahoo.com So, what do you know about Christmas?

Was Jesus really born in a manger in Bethlehem on December 25th? There is no agreement as to the exact date of birth of Jesus. Indeed, on a visit to the Holy Land in June 2000, informed sources declared to my wife Betty and me that Jesus may well have been born in Nazareth, not Bethlehem, (Jesus of Nazareth). Betty and I entered the Basilica of the Nativity in Bethlehem, built in the sixth century by Justinian, through the Door of Humility, reduced in size during the seventeenth century to about four feet high to prevent Muslims from riding their horses into the church. We saw a silver star lit by fifteen lamps that the faithful believe marks the exact spot where Jesus was born. Roman Catholics place the birth on the night of December 24th. The Greek Orthodox Church believes the date was January 6th, and the Armenians place the date as late as January 18th.

Many Biblical scholars believe that Jesus was not born in December at all, but probably born in the spring. Luke 2:28 indicates that at the time of Jesus’ birth, there were country shepherds abiding (staying with) their flocks by night. Normally, shepherds would guard their flocks only at “lambing time” i.e.: in the spring. In the winter, sheep would have been kept in a corral.

Well, then, why do Christians celebrate the 25th of December? Actually, this date was selected by the Roman Bishop Liberius.

Prior to the 4th century, as the days became shorter in November and December, some Roman citizens feared that the sun may be dying. As days became longer in late December, the Romans celebrated “the feast of the Sol Invictus” on December 25th.

While Christmas was celebrated as early as December 25th, 336AD, in 354AD, Bishop Liberius ordered that Christians celebrate the birth of the Christ child on that date. Some scholars believe that the bishop chose this date so that the Christians, still an “outlaw religion” in the eyes of the Romans, could celebrate the life of their savior concurrent with the feast of “Sol Invictus” as celebrated by their Roman neighbors without revealing their religious convictions.

Why do we call it “Christmas”? The word “Christmas” is a contraction of the phrase “Christ’s Mass” from the Old English term Cristes maesse, i.e.: a service of worship honoring the Christ Child.

Why is Christmas sometimes abbreviated as “Xmas”? “X” is the first letter of the Greek word Xristos, meaning Christ. Mas is the abbreviated form of the word Mass. Put them together and, the two words mean “worship for Christ”.

Should the three Wise Men be a part of the Christmas story? Probably not. The common portrayal of the first Christmas pictures Mary, Joseph, the baby, the shepherds, and the three Wise Men at the manger is said to have originated on Christmas Eve, 1224

by Saint Francis of Assisi. Supposedly, he England, all joyful expression surrounding set up a manger in a corner of his church the birth of Jesus was banned as “heathen with real people and animals representing traditions surrounding this sacred event” by those present at the first Christmas. Oliver Cromwell and his Puritan followers However, no record has been found that the 1649 to 1658. Only special Church services three Wise Men ever knelt at the manger. on Christmas Eve were allowed. In 1856, Also, Matthew 2:11 reports that they came Massachusetts - the last state to hold out for Cromwell - made into “the house” and saw And what if Jesus had been Christmas a legal the “young child”, very possibly this could have born in our society last year? holiday.

Well, a “concerned citizen” Some lighter thoughts occurred one to one and a half years after his birth. would probably have called this Christmas season: According to the Several facts support this the police to report that an Alaska Department of view: innkeeper had. . .

Fish and Game, while 1. There is no mention of the Wise Men in the Gospel of Luke both male and female reindeer grow antlers where the night of the birth of Jesus is in the summer of each year. Male reindeer drop their antlers at the beginning of winter, described in some detail.

2. To locate the manger, the Wise Men usually late November to mid-December, had to sight the new star in the east, interpret while female reindeer retain their antlers the meaning of the new star, follow the star until after they give birth in the spring. to Bethlehem, and travel to the manager for Therefore, every rendition depicting Santa’s the birth. This series of events would have reindeer, from Rudolph to Donner and Blitzen had to be of a girl! Should have required some time to accomplish.

Note: On April 17th in the year 6 BC, the known. . . only females would be able to planet Jupiter was aligned with other major drag a fat man in a red velvet suit all around astrological bodies and would have been the world in one night and not get lost.

And what if Jesus had been born in our very bright as viewed from Judea. Could society last year?

4/17/6BC be the actual birth date of Jesus?

Well, a “concerned citizen” would proba3. Finally, when the Wise Men reached King Herod seeking directions, Herod bly have called the police to report that an became enraged at the prospect of a new innkeeper had placed a poor family in a barn king. He ordered that all male children age and that a baby had been born there.

Upon arrival, the police, accompanied by of two years and younger - not just the new the Department of Family and Child (Proteborn - be slain. (Matthew 2:16) It would appear then that the visit of the ctive) Services (DFCS), would have taken three Wise Men should not be celebrated at the newborn baby Jesus into protective cusChristmas for it is unlikely that they were at tody as the child would have been found the manger, but more appropriately on wrapped only in strips of cloth and, gasp, in January 6th, the celebration of the Epiphany. a feeding trough accompanied by his very i.e.: the Christian festival commemorating young mother, Mary of Nazareth, a minor the manifestation of the Christ to the gentiles (between 12 and 14 years old).

Then, with the middle-aged father Joseph in the persons of the Magi.

Did you know that Christmas was once of Nazareth admitting to DFCS of taking the banned in this country? In colonial New very pregnant minor from Nazareth because

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of the census requirement, they would check with officials in Nazareth to determine their legal status.

Mosy likely, Joseph, and the three foreigners would have attempted to prevent the social workers from taking the child, upon which Joseph would have been restrained, held without bond, and charged with molestation, kidnaping Mary, child endangerment, and statutory rape.

INS and Homeland Security would have been called in. The three foreigners, dressed in Persian clothing, speaking with a nonlocal accent and without passports, would have been quickly “profiled” and arrested.

The foreigners would have stated they were the “wise men” and that they had been warned by (their) God to avoid local officials. The gold and possibly illegal substances they were carrying would have been confiscated and tested with pending criminal charges. The owner of the inn would now face revocation of his license for violation of health and safety regulations for allowing his guests to stay in a stable.

Mary would have taken to a hospital to undergo medical and psychiatric evaluations as she claims to be a virgin and says that the child is from God. The ER physicians would have most likely then have filled out the copious and proper reports stating that with the proper therapy and medication, Mary will recover. The location of the minor child would remain undisclosed. A spokesperson for DFACS would issue the statement that as the father was middle-aged and the mother apparently a minor, resolution of this case may take some time, adding “who knows what was going on with these people, but the treatment of the child was inexcusable”.

May God bless our enlightened society, and I hope that you find this work of interest and my sometimes “tongue in cheek” humor not too offensive.

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Our family’s Christmas miracle

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SULLIVAN About this holiday time last year, the Husband whistled off to Tanner Health Systems for his annual prostate exam, which he never misses—not because he’s a dedicated watcher of his health, but because it’s FREE. The man can’t pass up free, no matter what it’s for. I shudder to think what he might engage in just because it’s FREE! Apparently, some men don’t share the Husband’s view of the prostate screening.

My friend had an awful time getting her husband to have his checked; he said he didn’t feel like being “violated” again! (Welcome to the world of women.) She lied to him and told him they were going to the store. She got to Tanner, chunked him out, and told him to call her after they had checked him.

(The Husband says he just “goes with the flow” but he does wish the doctor would at least buy him dinner first....ha!)

Anyway, The Husband saw Dr. Kevin McLaughlin (whose permission I have here today to use his name), who was suspicious of something he felt and informed the Husband to make a follow-up appointment, which the Husband did. But, before the day arrived for the office visit, he received a card from Tanner, stating that his PSA was 0.35, and they’d see him next year. Well, the Husband decided to keep the doctor’s follow-up appointment anyway, “just to be on the safe side,” he said.

Dr. McLaughlin has an impressive resume, so the Husband saw him. When Dr. McLaughlin realized the Husband’s brother had had prostate cancer, he recommended a biopsy in spite of the low PSA number.

Thank goodness the doctor had the selfassuredness to go with his instinct and not just depend on lab results. And he didn’t take any offense at my questioning him about his background, training, experience, etc. In fact, he later told my son that I was “quite a fireball.” Hmmm….I did wonder if that was code for something else!

Anyway, I digress. Dr. McLaughlin took 12 samples, and four samples showed cancer. So much for depending on PSA numbers! He recommended prostate removal and suggested Dr. Christopher Powell.

Since I consider it everyone’s responsibility to get a second opinion, I wasn’t going to just go with one doctor’s opinion! No one should ever do that. Son felt the same way and got the name of a research doctor at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. and insisted we consult her. Mind you, I really hadn’t intended to go quite that far afield for a second opinion, but to keep peace in the family, off we went!

This physician recommended several surgeons - at Johns Hopkins and Duke -and told us what to look for in one, which was extremely helpful. She also suggested we have the biopsied slides sent to Johns Hopkins for a true second opinion. Five doctors studied the slides and came back with a consensus that five samples (not four) indicated cancer.

Then we met Dr. Powell. We both adored him, even though he looks as if he’s in high school. He’s personable and nothing like a stereotypical surgeon—no apparent ‘God complex’ and actually talks to patients as if he’s not the only one in the room with a brain!

The robotic surgery went well, and the Husband was on the road to recovery.

His hospital stay was rather pleasant, and the nurses took good care of him. He was, however, a bit taken aback, when two of them decided he needed a sponge bath and proceeded to scrub him down! He said he felt like asking if their mother knew what they were up to! I, on the other hand, was grateful!

The one major thorn in his side, so to

speak, was the catheter, which he had to have for two weeks. I’ve never heard such whining, so I finally told him he’d feel much better if he’d develop a better attitude!

Blood clots were a worry, so we kept him walking as much as possible. Then we hit a snag. . . he kept wandering out onto the deck in his t-shirt and Depends, which he insisted on calling his Pampers. We live in the middle of town! (I’m still surprised we didn’t get complaints from the neighbors.) Now, on top of that, he decided he liked the Depends (they come in assorted colors and designs); no laundering - just throw them away!

Well, all tests have come back good, and the doctor doesn’t think we have anything to worry about.

Now, the point of this column today is to

warn men not to forego the yearly physical prostate exam, and don’t depend on PSA numbers!!

In fact, I’ve insisted all my male friends be checked. I’m sure insurance companies are wondering why they’re paying out on so many prostate exams in Georgia.

As the Christmas season approaches, and we reflect on miracles, I certainly view this experience as one. The fact that Tanner does yearly prostate exams free, catching my Husband’s attention; Dr. McLaughlin discovering the cancer extremely early; and Dr. Powell’s very skilled robotic surgery, which minimized tissue damage.

All these things came together for a successful outcome, for which I will forever be grateful.

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what criteria were used to make these assignments!

Furthermore, when I took this to the Board of Equalization, the Tax Assessor’s Office then stated that the Desirability Rating of “A” was erroneous, and they had now changed the Desirability Rating to “B.” Again, neither criteria nor documentation were given.

So, my property went from the prior “C” rating, where it had been for years, to an “A”, and then to a “B” - without any criteria provided for any of the ratings. And without my making any changes to the property! How bizarre.

This was very baffling and frustrating to me.

“Desirability” is a very subjective term given any subject. For example: one person may feel a Ford truck is more “desirable” than a Chevrolet; one person may think Alabama has a more “desirable” football team than UGA; one person may think green beans are more “desirable” than okra; one person may feel that a vacation in the mountains is more “desirable” than a vacation at the beach; etc., etc., you get the drift.

Given the obvious subjectivity of the term “desirable,” it is even more paramount that specific criteria be defined and used to determine a property’s “desirability.”

But, no, when I asked, there were no criteria provided for this rating that the Tax Assessors assigned, which directly impacts the dollar amount of value assigned to property and, consequently, the dollar amount of your property tax bill.

You can imagine how this frustrated me a career auditor, who, for my entire working life promoted transparency and accountability - and had to fully document everything we presented in our reports, according to strict auditing standards and related criteria!

Furthermore, there was never an answer provided by the Tax Assessor’s Office as to how or why the “Desirability Rating” changed from the prior “C” rating to the recent “A” rating and then “B” rating.

And this occurred even though there were

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possible. Moving to a culture which fosters a growth mindset can be a real struggle! It requires specific attention to detail when evaluating our curriculum and our students’ response to their educational experiences. It requires dedication and commitment from our teachers and team of administrators.

But, in the end, seeing the growth within our students and our faculty makes the struggle worth it.

Maybe, I should replace the word “struggle” with the word “win?”

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no changes made to the property! Without far more “desirable” for the Tax Assessor’s any criteria, was it just that one person Office to clearly articulate several definite viewed some aspects of the property more criteria for each “Desirability Rating” they assign to each prop“desirable” than someerty and to document one else?

So, my property went from the this and provide this Maybe someone to any taxpayer, in liked wooded property prior “C” rating, where it had the event of any more than another perbeen for years, to an “A”, and dispute. son? Maybe someone For example, then to a “B” - without any liked property on a maybe some “desismall rural road more criteria provided for any of the rability” factors could than someone else?

Maybe someone ratings. And without my making include: the amount of a property’s road thought road frontage any changes to the property! frontage compared to was less important than How bizarre.This was very the depth of the propsomeone else? Maybe someone felt some pasbaffling and frustrating to me. erty; the type and width of the road on ture on a property made which the property is it more “desirable?”

Maybe someone thought that having no located; the distance of the property from water frontage was more “desirable” than main thoroughfares and/or from the nearest having some water frontage on a lake or town/city; factors about the “desirability” of the neighborhood and conditions of other creek…?

I think all of us can agree that it would be adjacent/neighboring properties; the amount

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of water frontage on the property, designating between lake or creek or river frontage; etc. etc. And for each of these factors, define specific criteria upon which to assign a rating.

I don’t know, but the point is that the Tax Assessor’s Office should know - and should be able to clearly articulate several pertinent criteria for each rating, not allowing for something as subjective as “desirability” to be rated by whoever with whatever “they” happen to think may be “desirable.”

Hopefully, there can be improvements made in this area to bring about a more accountable and transparent operation of our local government.

I believe my fellow Carroll County taxpayers expect this - and I believe they should! And I advocate for it on their behalf - and have advocated for this my entire career, so I will continue to advocate for this as your District 5 Carroll County Commissioner. Thanks - and please follow me on my FaceBook page - Ernie Reynolds.

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What if, this year, we gave the gift of the pause to our family and friends? What if we put away our distractions, turned our faces, and like God did during that Christmas season all those years ago, looked for the value in others? I guess what I’m trying to say is, give everyone a wheel of cheese (you’re welcome). And find some way to help others see what God already sees in them.

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Fixed mindset verses growth mindset: the struggle is real! looks at failure as a launchpad for growth and development.

Dweck conducted several studies to determine how mindsets are formed and at what age the formation begins.

One of her studies consisted of offering four-year-old students a choice of putting together a jigsaw puzzle for a second time or Headmaster putting together a different one that is at a OAK MOUNTAIN more advanced level. The theory is that the ACADEMY students who displayed a fixed mindset According to a research-based article I chose to put together the jigsaw puzzle for a read recently on current trends in education, second time affirming their existing ability the number one trend in today’s educational and the students with the growth mindset system is fostering a culture with a growth chose to put together a different one at a mindset. Personally, I was surprised to see more advanced level. this in the number one The study revealed seat. We have been Growth-minded individuals that overall, the students focusing on growth tend to enjoy the learning with a growth mindset mindset in Independent thought it was an odd process, and don’t mind Schools for years. I choice and could not would have guessed when it continues beyond an understand why someone that digital literacy, would want to repeat a expected time frame. personalized instruction, puzzle when they Taking opportunities and weren’t or mobile learning learning would have been closer making time to reflect is anything new. This study to the number one spot, is important to also critical to fostering but it appears fostering educational systems a culture with a a culture with a growth shedding light on how mindset is still a growth mindset. we, as a culture, challenge for many. understand student In Carol Dweck’s book, Mindset: The engagement and learning.

New Psychology of Success, she explains “When you enter a mindset, you enter a that a growth mindset is exactly what it new world. In one world, effort is a bad sounds like – a tendency to believe that you thing. It, like failure, means you’re not smart can grow. A fixed mindset assumes that or talented. If you were, you wouldn’t need intelligence and creative ability are static and effort. In the other world, effort is what don’t change in any meaningful way. A makes you smart or talented,” says Dweck. growth mindset thrives on challenges and Students with a growth mindset have an

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innate desire for learning and seeking out opportunities for growth. Knowing this is extremely valuable for teachers and educational leaders.

According to Dweck, “Not only are people with this mindset not discouraged by failure, but they don’t actually see themselves as failing in those situations–they see themselves as learning.”

I personally find this thought both powerful and inspiring. I have found, through my personal experiences, a few easy ways to foster a culture with a growth mindset.

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Growth-minded individuals tend to enjoy the learning process, and don’t mind when it continues beyond an expected time frame.

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St., Carrollton) offers a “Blue Christmas” the-radar, for there was another king who service on Sunday, December 22nd at 4:00 p.m., a quiet service where we remember, was threatened by this gurgling baby boy.

The first years of Jesus had to have been honor, and grieve those people or things we’ve lost. We full of grief for his That’s the amazing paradox of aren’t going to tell family, even though this Way of Love called you to “get over it,” his existence was the or say things like, ultimate good news.

Christianity. . . To deny the “Well, at least Even the best things suffering in order to get to the joy they’re in a better in life are tinged means you have not really place.” No, we’ve with tears of loss. all lost enough to That’s the understood what it is all about. know that those amazing paradox of this Way of Love called Christianity. The words don’t help. All are welcome to join us, Cross of Christ is a symbol of death, and at no matter what you might have lost. You can the same time a symbol of joy. As Jesus’s just sit there and listen.

We also worship at 9:00 a.m. and 11:00 death and resurrection are marked with this paradox, so, too, is his birth. To deny the a.m. every Sunday during Advent and during suffering in order to get to the joy means you the year, as well as at 5:00 p.m., 7:00 p.m., have not really understood what it is all and 11:00 p.m. on Christmas Eve. We promise not to make you feel happy if about.

So let yourself off the hook. If Christmas you’re not. We also promise to love you as brings you joy, great! But if it doesn’t, allow God loves you, just the way you are.

In your beautiful brokenness, God loves yourself the space to be sad, to grieve, to be angry, to be emotional. God can handle you and is with you. In your perfect whatever you feel, and God probably feels imperfection, God loves you and is with you. In your deep grief, even though God what you do, too.

If you need a safe place to grieve, St. may feel light years away, God loves you Margaret’s Episcopal Church (606 Newnan and is with you. burning forever in hellfire, we may turn inward and experience the birth of Love tifully writes in The Gospel According to already present in our souls.

Jesus, full of love and empty of judgmental We may become openings or portals hard-heartedness, condemnation, and through which love, forgiveness, and joy meanness. Moved by the Jesus Story and pour into the world as we celebrate, at setting aside the stuff added decades after his Christmas and throughout the year, the birth death, like the nonsense about nonbelievers of a child.

PASTOR DERICK NEWTON from page 11 honor a king, but also to prepare HIM more those who were less prestigious. Are you for his future than to bring pleasure to HIS sharing joy and love during the season or are present (no pun intended). What you share you simply staying in your circle of with others, is it to bring you joy or is it a gift that will make an impact beyond one influence? holiday season? I Point 3. It took Are you sharing joy and love want to encourage years for the Magi during the season or are you each reader to take a to arrive with their second look at the simply staying in your circle of gifts. They brought Christmas message, influence?. ..

What you share with things necessary to honor the newborn others, is it to bring you joy or is it a but I also hope that these thoughts have King, but they left a gift that will make an impact given you a thought different way than or two that would beyond one holiday season? they came. How help you to make many toddlers do you know that receive myrrh, frankincense and silver for great memories and give gift that are more Christmas? I know they did not have the memorable to others this year.

Thank you for investing your time to read. awesome toys, electronics, and Disney trips Merry Christmas to you and your family. of our era, but the gifts they gave were not Happy New Year to all. GOD Bless. age appropriate. They were gifts to truly

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JIM WYSON from page 22 Not only that, practically everything’s made in China nowadays. Who’s having the last laugh on that? The Chinese don’t even celebrate Christmas. We’re giving gifts manufactured by a bunch of communists who don’t even celebrate Christmas.

In the old days, there was no mistake about where the gifts came from. Folks manufactured their own gifts, things that came from the heart, things folks put their very souls into. At least you knew who to blame when they broke down or didn’t work right. You could take the matter up with the CEO him- or her-self. Now you have to blame it on the Chinese, people who live thousands of miles away.

But people are too busy to make their own gifts nowadays. Dad’s working 60 hours a week. Mom’s got her gig. Besides that, it’s too impractical. Now you’ve got this whole division of labor dodge going on, where everybody contributes to the overall scheme

of things. Next thing you know artificial intelligence will be making all the gifts. Will that mean gifts will be artificial reproductions, or that the giving of gifts won’t be worth the artificial components they’re made from? (Perhaps someone with an artificial heart might have the answer.)

But as in all matters of the heart, perhaps it’s all a matter of where the heart lies. If love truly matters, if it conquers all, if it makes the world go round, then that is what should be reflected in a person’s thoughts and gestures, whether that means giving of one’s time, or the material things that convey this message.

If that’s the case, then it would seem that it’s not what you get that matters, it’s what you give. Another way of saying it might be, do unto others as you would have them do unto you. That doesn’t mean you should go out and buy a Corvette to give to some total stranger, though. Gosh, no. Maybe all they really need is a gasoline-powered, turbocharged lint remover.

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Dean, age 92, 84, born July 15, 1935, died “Marjorie” Nell Lovvorn, age “Marjorie” Nell Lovvorn, age 09, 2019 August 13, 84, born July 15, 1935, died 70, born July 21, 1948, died July 70, born July 21, 1948, died July born born September September 28, 28, 1956, 1956, died died born August 13, 1935, died born born September September 02, 02, 1926, 1926, died died “Marjorie” Nell Lovvorn, “Marjorie” Nell Lovvorn, age age 74, born April 6, 1945, February 13, 1938, died November 18, 2019 age 74, April 1945, died 84, born July 15, 1935, died Georgia on June 4, 1937, died November 21, 70, born July 21, 1948, died July 70, born July 21, 1948, died July born August 13, 1935, died 86, 86, born born August August 3, 3, 1932, 1932, died died Dwight Dwight Bishop, Bishop, Jr., Jr., age age 62, 62, B. Dean, Dean, age age James James B. B. Dean, Dean, age age 92, 92, 09, 09, 2019 2019 age 59, born September 21, “Marjorie” “Marjorie” Nell Nell Lovvorn, age age “Marjorie” “Marjorie” Nell Nell Lovvorn, Lovvorn, age age Vicki Elaine King, age 60, born on July 24, 70, 70, born born July July 21, 21, 1948, 1948, died died July July 70, 70, born born July July 21, 21, 1948, 1948, died died July July born September 28, 1956, died born September 02, 1926, died Thursday, September 5, 2019 Teri Sue Glazener Barnes, born September 28, 1956, died Sunday, September 15, 2019 born September 02, 1926, died born September 28, 1956, died born September 02, 1926, died 86,86, born August born September 28, 1956, born September 02, 1926, died born September 28, 1956, died born September 02, 1926, died 86, born August 1932, died Sunday, September 8, 2019 09, 2019 86, born August 3,3, 1 born September 28, 1956, died born September 02, 1926, died 84, born July 15, 1935, July 15, 1935, died92, 86, born August 3, 1932, died 86, born August 3, 1932, died born August 13, 1935, Sunday, September 8, 2019 born August 13, 1935, died 09, 2019 09, 2019 born September September 28, 28, 1956, 1956, died died born born September September 02, 02, 1926, 1926, died died born born September September 28, 28, 1956, 1956, died died born born September September 02, 02, 1926, 1926, died died 86, born August 3,3, 1932, died 09, 2019 86, born born August August 311 born born September September 28, 28, 1956, 1956, died died born born September September 02, 02, 1926, 1926, died died 86, 86, born born August August 3, 3, 1932, 1932, died died age 59, born September 21, 09, 09, 2019 2019 age 59, born September 21, Tuesday, July 9, 2019 Wednesday, July 3, 2019 86, 86, born born August August 3, 3, 1932, 1932, died died Thomas “Ray” Smith, age 09, 09, 2019 2019 age 59, born September 21, Tuesday, July 9, 2019 Wednesday, July 3, 2019 Wednesday, July 10, 2019 born September 28, 1956, died born September 02, 1926, died Thursday, September 5, 2019 mber 02, 1926, died Zellie Fred Sprewell, age 94, Sunday, September Thursday, September 5, 2019 Sunday, September 15, 2019 Wednesday, July 10, 2019 born September 28, 1956, died born September 02, 1926, died ber 02, 1926, died 86, born August 3, 1932, died Zellie Fred Sprewell, age 94, Sunday, September 8, 2019 Thursday, September 5, 2019 86, born August 3, 1932, 09, 2019 Sunday, September 8, 2019 Sunday, September 15, 2019 Tuesday, Tuesday, July July 9, 9, 2019 2019 Wednesday, Wednesday, July July 3, 3, 2019 2019 09, 2019 Gaines “Kirby” Patterson, age 85, born on 86,Wednesday, born August 3, 1932, died 2019 1959, died Thursday, September 86, born August 3, 1932, 09, 09, 2019 09, 2019 Wednesday, Wednesday, July July 10, 10, 2019 2019 born born September September 28, 28, 1956, 1956,died died born born September September 02, 02,Emory, 1926, 1926, died died ember tember02, 02,5, 1926, 1926, died Zellie Zellie Fred Fred Sprewell, Sprewell, age age 94, 94, Wednesday, 86, 86, born born August August 3, 3, 1932, 1932, died died 1959, died Monday, November 18, 2019 Robert Thomas age 86, 86, born born August August 3, 3, 1932, 1932, died died 09, 2019 2019 age 59, born September 21, Chassidy Leann McGowan, 09, 09, 2019 2019 Tuesday, July 9, 2019 Wednesday, July 3, 2019 Tuesday, July 9, 2019 Wednesday, July 3, 2019 Thomas “Ray” Smith, age Tuesday, July 9, 2019 Wednesday, July 3, 2019 Wednesday, July 10, Tuesday, July 9, 2019 Wednesday, July 3, 2019 Thursday, September 5, 2019 Tuesday, July 9, 2019 Wednesday, July 3, 2019 July 10, 2019 Sunday, September 15, 2019 Thomas “Ray” Smith, age September 2019died Zellie Fred Sprewell, age 94, Sunday, September 15, 2019 July 10, 20 Tuesday, July 9, 2019 Wednesday, July 3, 2019 Wednesday, July 10, 2019 Wednesday, July 10, 2019 Zellie Fred Sprewell, age 94, Zellie Fred Sprewell, age 94, Tuesday, Tuesday, July July 9, 9, 2019 Wednesday, Wednesday, July July 3, 3, 2019 2019 Tuesday, Tuesday, July July 9, 9, 2019 2019 Wednesday, Wednesday, July July 3, 3, 2019 2019 Wednesday, July 10, 2019 1959, died Thursday, September Zellie Fred Sprewell, age 94, 1959, died Thursday, September Wednesday, Wednesday, July July 10 Tuesday, Tuesday, July July 9, 9, 2019 2019 Wednesday, Wednesday, July July 3, 3, 2019 2019 Wednesday, Wednesday, July July 10, 10, 2019 2019 76, born October 03,1942, died Zellie Zellie Fred Fred Sprewell, Sprewell, age age 94, 94, 1959, died Thursday, September Donald Brasseal “Don” Bonner, Barry Bushon Dickerson, age Wednesday, Wednesday, July July 10, 10,McGowan, 2019 2019 Robert Thomas Emory, age Zellie Zellie Fred Fred Sprewell, Sprewell, age age 94, 94, Chassidy Leann12 Robert Thomas Emory, Donald Brasseal “Don” Bonner, Chassidy Leann Barry Bushon Dickerson, age Andra Dixon McGill, age 76, Tuesday, July 9, 2019 Wednesday, July 3, 2019 born February 28, 1925, died Thomas “Ray” Smith, age Robert Thomas Emory, age July 3,2019 2019 Chassidy Leann McGowan, Thomas “Ray” Smith, age Andra Dixon McGill, age 76, Tuesday, July 9, 2019 Wednesday, July 3, 2019 Wednesday, July 10, 2019 born February 28, 1925, died 12, 2019 uly 3, Zellie Fred Sprewell, age 94, Wednesday, July 10, 2019 Donald Donald Brasseal Brasseal “Don” “Don” Bonner, Bonner, Barry Barry Bushon Bushon Dickerson, Dickerson, age age Zellie Fred Sprewell, age 94, November 02, 1934, died Monday, November Josie Aline Braggs Daniel, age 86, February Wednesday, July 10, 2019 Zellie Fred Sprewell, age 94, July 10, 2019 Andra Andra Dixon Dixon McGill, McGill, age age 76, 76, Tuesday, Tuesday, July July 9, 9,2019 2019 Wednesday, Wednesday, July July 3, 3, 2019 2019 Zellie Fred Sprewell, age 94, born born February February 28, 28, 1925, 1925, died died 77, born December 5, 1941, died y, ay,July July 3, 3,Emory, 2019 2019 age Wednesday, 1959, died Thursday, September age 19, born September 11, Thomas “Tommy” Edward Martin, age 70, Wednesday, Wednesday, July July 10, 10, 2019 2019 Zellie Zellie Fred Fred Sprewell, Sprewell, age age 94, 94, Wednesday, Wednesday, July July 10, 10, 2019 2019 Zellie Zellie Fred Fred Sprewell, Sprewell, age age 94, 94, 76, born October 03,1942, died Donald Brasseal “Don” Bonner, Barry Bushon Dickerson, age Robert Thomas Emory, Donald Brasseal “Don” Bonner, Barry Bushon Dickerson, age Chassidy Leann McGowan, 76, born October 03,1942, died Thomas Donald Brasseal “Don” Bonner, Barry Bushon Dickerson, age Andra Dixon McGi Chassidy Leann McGowan, Donald Brasseal “Don” Bonner, Barry Bushon Dickerson, age Donald Brasseal “Don” Bonner, Barry Bushon Dickerson, age Andra Dixon McGill, age 76, born February 28, 1925, died Andra Dixon McGill Donald Brasseal “Don” Bonner, Barry Bushon Dickerson, age Andra Dixon McGill, age 76, Andra Dixon McGill, age 76, 12, 2019 born February 28, 1925, died born February 28, 1925, died Donald Donald Brasseal Brasseal “Don” “Don” Bonner, Bonner, Barry Barry Bushon Bushon Dickerson, Dickerson, age age 12, 2019 Donald Donald Brasseal Brasseal “Don” “Don” Bonner, Bonner, Barry Barry Bushon Bushon Dickerson, Dickerson, age age Andra Dixon McGill, age 76, September 21, 2019 born February 28, 1925, died 12, 2019 Andra Andra Dixon Dixon Mc M Donald Donald Brasseal Brasseal “Don” “Don” Bonner, Bonner, Barry Barry Bushon Bushon Dickerson, Dickerson, age age Andra Andra Dixon Dixon McGill, McGill, age age 76, 76, 77, born December 5, 1941, died born born February February 28, 28, 1925, 1925, died died age 19, born Sep 77, born December 5, 1941, died age 76, born June 05, 1943, died age 19, born September 11, 68, born September 7, 1950, died Andra Andra Dixon Dixon McGill, McGill, age age 76, 76, born born February February 28, 28, 1925, 1925, died 76, born October 03,1942, died 77, born December 5, 1941, died age 19, born September 11, age 76, born June 05, 1943, died 68, born September 7, 1950, died born October 18, 1941, died Donald Brasseal “Don” Bonner, Barry Bushon Dickerson, age 76, born October 03,1942, Saturday, July 27, 2019 Michael Wayne Bertocchi, hon Dickerson, age born October 18, 1941, died Donald Brasseal “Don” Bonner, Barry Bushon Dickerson, age Andra Dixon McGill, age 76, Saturday, July 27, 2019 born February 28, 1925, died age age 76, 76, born born June June 05, 05, 1943, 1943, died died 68, 68, born born September September 7, 7, 1950, 1950, died died on Dickerson, age 11, 2019 Andra Dixon McGill, age 76, 16, 1933, died Friday, November 15, 2019 Andra Dixon McGill, age 76, born February 28, 1925, died Thursday, September 19, 2019 born February 28, 1925, died 12, 2019 2000, died September 23, 2019 born born October October 18, 18, 1941, 1941, died died Donald Donald Brasseal Brasseal “Don” “Don” Bonner, Bonner, Barry Barry Bushon Bushon Dickerson, Dickerson, age age Andra Dixon McGill, age 76, Saturday, Saturday, July July 27, 27, 2019 2019 born February 28, 1925, died Bushon ushon Dickerson, Dickerson, age ageage born on May 22, 1949, died Thursday, December September 21, 2019 Andra Andra Dixon Dixon McGill, McGill, age age 76, 76, born born February February 28, 28, 1925, died died 77, December 5, 1941, age 19, born September 11, September 21, 2019 Andra Andra Dixon Dixon McGill, McGill, age age 76, 76, age 76, June 05, 1943, died 68, born September 7,1925, 1950, died born February February 28, 28, 1925, 1925, died died cember 5, 1941, died age 76, born June 05, 1943, died 68, born September 7, 1950, died age 19, born September 11, age 76, born June 05, 1943, died 68, born September 7, 1950, died born October 18, 1 age 76, born June 05, 1943, died 68, born September 7, 1950, died 76, born June 05, 1943, died 68, born September 7, 1950, died born October 18, 1941, died Michael Wayne Bertocchi, Saturday, July 27, 2019 Michael Wayne Bertocchi, born October 18, 19 age 76, born June 05, 1943, died 68, born September 7, 1950, died Carolyn Jeanne Wells born October 18, 1941, died born October 18, 1941, died Saturday, July 27, 2019 Saturday, July 27, 2019 Michael Wayne Bertocchi, age age 76, 76, born born June June 05, 05, 1943, 1943, died died 68, 68, born born September September 7, 7, 1950, 1950, died died age age 76, 76, born born June June 05, 05, 1943, 1943, died died 68, 68, born born September 7, 7, 1950, 1950, died died born October 18, 1941, died Thursday, September 19, 2019 Saturday, July 27, 2019 2000, died Septembe Thursday, September 19, 2019 born born October October 18, 18 age age 76, 76, born born June June 05, 05, 1943, 1943, died died 68, 68, born born September September 7, 7, 1950, 1950, died died 2000, died September 23, 2019 born born October October 18, 18, 1941, 1941, died died Saturday, Saturday, July July 27, 27, 2019 2019 September 21, 2019 Thursday, September 19, 2019 2000, died September 23, 2019 Wednesday, July 10, 2019 Friday, July 19, 2019 born born October October 18, 18, 1941, 1941, died died Saturday, Saturday, July July 27, 27, 2019 2019 September 21, 2019 age 61, born December 23, Wednesday, July 10, 2019 Friday, July 19, 2019 Wednesday, July 17, 2019 age 76, born June 05, 1943, died 68, born September 7, 1950, died Daniel Lance Walker, age 40,40, Wednesday, July 17, 2019 age 76, born June 05, 1943, died 68, born September 7, 1950, died tember7,7,1950, 1950, died born October 18, 1941, died Daniel Lance Walker, age 40, Kerry Lowell Garner, age Saturday, July 27, 2019 Michael Wayne Bertocchi, Wednesday, Wednesday, July July 10, 10, 2019 2019 Friday, Friday, July July 19, 19, 2019 2019 John Clyde McPherson, Jr., Katherine Mitchell Payne, age 97, born on Joseph Walter “J.W.” Hood, Jr., age 80, born ember died born October 18, 1941, died born October 18, 1941, died Saturday, July 27, 2019 Saturday, July 27, 2019 Carolyn Jeanne Wells Wednesday, Wednesday, July July 17, 17, 2019 2019 age age 76, 76, born born June June 05, 05, 1943, 1943, died died 68, 68, born born September September 7, 7, 1950, 1950, died died Daniel Daniel Lance Lance Walker, Walker, age age 40, born October 18, 1941, died Saturday, July 27, 2019 Thursday, September 19, 2019 Carolyn Jeanne Wells 05, 2019 2000, died September 23, 2019 September eptember 7, 7,1950, 1950, died died born born October October 18, 18, 1941, 1941, died died Saturday, Saturday, July July 27, 27, 2019 2019 September 19, 2019 2000, died September 23, 2019 born born October October 18, 18, 1941, 1941, died died Wednesday, July 10, 2019 Friday, July 19, 2019 Saturday, Saturday, July July 27, 27, 2019 2019 Wednesday, July 10, 2019 Friday, July 19, 2019 age 61, born December 23, Wednesday, July 10, 2019 Friday, July 19, 2019 age 61, born December 23, Wednesday, July 17, 2 Wednesday, July 10, 2019 Friday, July 19, 2019 Wednesday, July 10, 2019 Friday, July 19, 2019 Sneddon, age 77, born Wednesday, July 17, 2019 Daniel Lance Walker, age 40, age 61, born December 23,Friday, JulyJuly 17, 20 Wednesday, July 10, 2019 Friday, JulyJean 19, 2019 Wednesday, July 17, 2019 Wednesday, July 17, 2019 Kerry Lowell Garner, age Daniel Lance Walker, age 40, Daniel Lance Walker, age 40, Wednesday, Wednesday, July July 10, 10, 2019 2019 Friday, Friday, July July 19, 19, 2019 2019 John Clyde McP Kerry Lowell Garner, age Wednesday, Wednesday, July July 10, 10, 2019 2019 Friday, Friday, July July 19, 19, 2019 2019 John Clyde McPherson, Jr., Wednesday, July 17, 2019 Carolyn Jeanne Wells Daniel Lance Walker, age 40, Kerry Lowell Garner, age Wednesday, Wednesday, July 17 1 Wednesday, Wednesday, July July 10, 10, 2019 2019 Friday, Friday, July July 19, 19, 2019 2019 John Clyde McPherson, Jr.,born Wednesday, Wednesday, July July 17, 17, 2019 2019 Daniel Daniel Lance Lance Walker, Walker, age age 40, 40, Carolyn Jeanne Wells 1957, died Tuesday, September John D. Brown, Jr., age 53, Bobbie Jean Dodderer, age 84, Wednesday, Wednesday, July July 17, 17, 2019 2019 Daniel Daniel Lance Lance Walker, Walker, age age 40, 40, Wednesday, John D. Brown, Jr., age 53, Bobbie Dodderer, age 84, Eugene Parker Mullis, Jr., age Wednesday, July 10, 2019 July 19, 2019 born September 18, 1978, died 36, born July 15, 1983, died age 61, born December 23, age 84, died Monday, September Eugene Parker Mullis, Jr., age Wednesday, July 10, 2019 Friday, July 19, 2019 Wednesday, July 17, 2019 September 18, 1978, died 9, 2019 Daniel Lance Walker, age 40, John John D. D. Brown, Brown, Jr., Jr., age age 53, 53, Bobbie Bobbie Jean Jean Dodderer, Dodderer, age 84, 84, September 25, 1922, died November 7,age 2019 Sneddon, age 77, born February 06, 1939, died Wednesday, November Wednesday, July 17, 2019 9, 2019 Daniel Lance Walker, age 40, Wednesday, July 17, 2019 Kerry Lowell Garner, age Sneddon, age 77, born Daniel Lance Walker, age 40, Eugene Eugene Parker Parker Mullis, Mullis, Jr., Jr., age age Wednesday, Wednesday, July July 10, 10, 2019 2019 Friday, Friday, July July 19, 19, 2019 2019 John Clyde McPherson, Jr., born born September September 18, 18, 1978, 1978, died died July 17, 2019 Harold E. Miles, Sr., age 89, born June 29, Daniel Lance Walker, age 40, Garner, age Wednesday, Wednesday, Wednesday, July July 17, 17, 2019 2019 yowell ly19, 19, 2019 2019 John Clyde McPherson, Jr., Daniel Daniel Lance Lance Walker, Walker, age age 40, 40, 1957, died Tuesday, September John D. Brown, Jr., age 53, Bobbie Jean Dodderer, age 84, 1957, died Tuesday, September Wednesday, Wednesday, July July 17, 17, 2019 2019 John D. Brown, Jr., age 53, Bobbie Jean Dodderer, age 84, September 26, 1941, died Daniel Daniel Lance Lance Walker, Walker, age age 40, 40, 1957, died Tuesday, September John D. Brown, Jr., age 53, Bobbie Jean Dodderer, 84, Eugene Parker Mul John D. Brown, Jr., age 53, Bobbie Jean Dodderer, age 84, John D. Brown, Jr., age 53, Bobbie Jean Dodderer, age 84, Eugene Parker Mullis, Jr., age 36, born July 15, 1983, died born September 18, 1978, died age 84, died Monday 36, born July 15, 1983, died Eugene Parker Mulli John D. Brown, Jr., age 53, Bobbie Jean Dodderer, age 84, age 84, died Monday, September Eugene Parker Mullis, Jr., age Eugene Parker Mullis, Jr., age Sneddon, age 77, born born September 18, 1978, died born September 18, 1978, died John John D. D. Brown, Brown, Jr., age 53, 53, Bobbie Bobbie Jean Jean Dodderer, Dodderer, age age 84, 84, 36, born July 15, 1983, died age 84, died Monday, September John John D. D. Brown, Brown, Jr., Jr., age age 53, 53, Bobbie Bobbie Jean Jean Dodderer, Dodderer, age age 84, 84, Eugene Parker Mullis, Jr., age born September 18, 1978, died 24, 2019 Sneddon, age 77, born Eugene Eugene Parker Parker M John John D. D. Brown, Brown, Jr., Jr., age age 53, 53, Bobbie Bobbie Jean Jean Dodderer, Dodderer, age age 84, 84, Eugene Eugene Parker Parker Mullis, Mullis, Jr., Jr., age age born born September September 18, 18, 1978, 1978, died died born August 18, 1965, died July born July 9, 1935, died Monday, Eugene Eugene Parker Parker Mullis, Mullis, Jr., Jr., age age born born September September 18, 18, 1978, 1978, died died Wednesday, September 25, 1957, died Tuesday, September born August 18, 1965, died July born July 9,July 1935, died Monday, 30, 2019 70, born December 31, 1948, died John D. Brown, Jr., age 53,53, Bobbie Jean Dodderer, age 84, Sunday, July 21, 2019 September 26, 1941, died 70, born December 31, 1948, died John D. Brown, Jr., age 53, Bobbie Jean Dodderer, age 84, Eugene Parker Mullis, Jr., age Sunday, July 21, 2019 born September 18, 1978, died an Dodderer, age 84, Hollis William Pendley, age 93, born on 36, born 15, 1983, died born born August August 18, 18, 1965, 1965, died died July July 20, 2019 born born July July 9, 9, 1935, 1935, died died Monday, Monday, September 26, 1941, died age 84, died Monday, September Eugene Parker Mullis, Jr., age born September 18, 1978, died nJean Dodderer, age 84, Eugene Parker Mullis, Jr., age 70, 70, born born December December 31, 31, 1948, 1948, died died John John D. D. Brown, Brown, Jr., Jr., age age 53, Bobbie Bobbie Jean Dodderer, Dodderer, age age 84, 84,70, born September 18, 1978, died Sunday, Sunday, July July 21, 21, 2019 2019 July 15, 1983, died age 84, died Monday, September 1930, died Wednesday, December 4, 2019 Eugene Parker Mullis, Jr., 24, 2019 born September 18, 1978, died Eugene Eugene Parker Parker Mullis, Mullis, Jr., Jr., age age 24, 2019 born born September September 18, 18, 1978, 1978, died died Jean Dodderer, Dodderer, age age 84, 84,born Tuesday, September 24, 2019 24, 2019 born August 18, 1965, died July born July 9, 1935, died Monday, born August 18, 1965, died July born July 1935, died Monday, Eugene Eugene Parker Parker Mullis, Mullis, Jr., Jr., age age Wednesday, September 25, 70, born born September September 18, 18, 1978, 1978, died died born August 18, 1965, died July born July 9, 1935, died Monday, 30, 2019 Wednesday, September 25, 70, born December 31,31 born August 18, 1965, died July born July 9,Jean 1935, died Monday, August 18, 1965, died July born July 9, 1935, died Monday, 30, 2019 70, born December 31, 1948, died September 26, 1941, died Sunday, July 21, 2019 Wednesday, September 25, born December 31, born August 18, 1965, died July born July 9,9, 1935, died Monday, 30, 2019 70, born December 31, 1948, died born December 31, 1948, died Sunday, July 21, 2019 Sunday, July 21, 2019 born born August August 18, 18, 1965, 1965, died July July born born July July 9, 9, 1935, 1935, died died Monday, Monday, Rudene Gray Walls Cook, born born August August 18, 18, 1965, 1965, died died July July born born July July 9, 9, 1935, 1935, died died Monday, Monday, September 26, 1941, died 70, born December 31, 1948, died Sunday, July 21, 2019 70, 70, born born December December born born August August 18, 18, 1965, 1965, died died July July born born July July 9, 9, 1935, 1935, died died Monday, Monday, 70, 70, born born December December 31, 31, 1948, 1948, died died Sunday, Sunday, July July 21, 21, 2019 2019 2019 24, 2019 22, July 22, 2019 Bonnie Lou Parmer, age 79, 70, 70, born born December December 31, 31, 1948, 1948, died died Sunday, Sunday, July July 21, 21, 2019 2019 22, 2019 July 22, 2019 Tuesday, September 24, 2019 Monday, July 8, 2019 born August 18, 1965, died July born July 9, 1935, died Monday, Deborah “Debbie” Ann West, Wednesday, September 25, Tuesday, September 24, 2019 Monday, July 8, 2019 born August 18, 1965, died July born July 9, 1935, died Monday, 30, 2019 70, born December 31, 1948, died Deborah “Debbie” Ann West, Sunday, July 21, 2019 November 06, 1926, died Thursday, November Carolyn Power Flowers, age 84, born June 22, 22, 2019 2019 July July 22, 22, 2019 2019 1935, died Monday, 70, born December 31, 1948, died Sunday, July 21, 2019 , September 25, 935, died Monday, 30, 2019 Monday, Monday, July July 8, 8, 2019 2019 born born August August 18, 18, 1965, 1965, died died July July born born July 9, 9, 1935, 1935, died died Monday, Monday, Rudene Gray Walls Cook, 70, born December 31, 1948, died Deborah Deborah “Debbie” “Debbie” Ann Ann West, West, Rudene Gray Walls Cook, Sunday, July 21, 2019 Hulett “Junior” Edward Miller, Jr., age 69, Charles Ludie Williamson, 70, born December 31, 1948, died 70, 70, born born December December 31, 31, 1948, 1948, died died Rudene Gray Walls Cook, Sunday, July 21, 2019 Sunday, Sunday, July July 21, 21, 2019 2019 9,9,1935, 1935,died diedMonday, Monday,22, 2019 22, 2019 July 22, 2019 Bonnie Lou Parm 2019 22, 2019 July 22, 2019 Bonnie Lou Parmer, age 79, Tuesday, September 24, 2019 70, 70, born born December December 31, 31, 1948, 1948, died died 22, 2019 July 22, 2019 2019 Sunday, Sunday, July July 21, 21, 2019 2019 Monday, July 8, 2019 22, 2019 July 22, 2019 Bonnie Lou Parmer, age 79, 2019 July 22, 2019 Monday, July 8, 2019 Deborah “Debbie” Ann West, age 89, born June 21, 1930, Monday, July 8, 2019 22, 2019 July 22, 2019 Monday, July 8, 2019 Monday, July 8, 2019 Tuesday, September 24, 2019 Deborah “Debbie” Ann West, Deborah “Debbie” Ann West, 22, 22, 2019 2019 July July 22, 22, 2019 2019 22, 22, 2019 2019 July July 22, 22, 2019 2019 Monday, July 8, 2019 Deborah “Debbie” Ann West, Judy Joann Criswell Glover, Monday, Monday,July July8,8,201 20 22, 22, 2019 2019 Rudene Gray Walls Cook, July July 22, 22, 2019 2019 born June 6, 1940, died Friday, Monday, Monday, July July 8, 8, 2019 2019 Deborah Deborah “Debbie” “Debbie” Ann Ann West, West, Marie Elizabeth Phillips Bryce, Anna Marsella Fazio, age Charles Ludie Williamson, Monday, Monday, July July 8, 8,Nichols, 2019 2019 Deborah Deborah “Debbie” “Debbie” Ann Ann West, West, born Marie Elizabeth Phillips Bryce, 2019 Anna Marsella Fazio, age Charles Ludie Williamson, Randy Lee Nichols, 66,66, 22, 2019 July 22, 2019 Bonnie Lou Parmer, age 79, age 58, died July 22,22, 2019 Randy Lee Nichols, age 66, 22, 2019 July 22, 2019 Monday, July 8, 2019 age 58, died July 22, 2019 14, 2019 23, 1935, died Sunday, November 10, 2019 Deborah “Debbie” Ann West, Marie Marie Elizabeth Elizabeth Phillips Phillips Bryce, Bryce, Anna Anna Marsella Marsella Fazio, Fazio, age age age 89, born June 21, 1930, died 919 Bonnie Lou Parmer, age 79, Monday, July 8, 2019 age 89, born June 21, 1930, died Deborah “Debbie” Ann West, age 65, born May 19, 1947, died Randy Randy Lee Lee Nichols, age age 66, 22, 22, 2019 2019 July July 22, 22, 2019 2019 age age 58, 58, died died July July 22, 2019 2019 age 89, born June 21, 1930, died Monday, July 8, 2019 born May 18, 1950, died Thursday, November Deborah “Debbie” Ann West, Judy Joann Criswell Glover, Monday, Monday, July July 8, 8, 2019 2019 June 6, 1940, Monday, July 8, 2019 Judy Joann Criswell Glover, Deborah Deborah “Debbie” “Debbie” Ann Ann West, West, Deborah “Debbie” Ann West, born June 6, 1940, died Friday, Charles Ludie Williamson, 019 Marie Elizabeth Phillips Bryce, Anna Marsella Fazio, age Judy Joann Criswell Glover, born June 6, 1940, died Friday, Marie Elizabeth Phillips Bryce, Anna Marsella Fazio, age Marie Elizabeth Phillips Bryce, Anna Marsella Fazio, age Friday, September 06, 2019 Monday, Monday, July July 8, 8, 2019 2019 Randy Lee Nichols Marie Elizabeth Phillips Bryce, Anna Marsella Fazio, age Marie Elizabeth Phillips Bryce, Anna Marsella Fazio, age Deborah Deborah “Debbie” “Debbie” Ann Ann West, West, Randy Lee Nichols, age 66, age 58, died July 22, 2019 Charles Ludie Williamson, Randy Lee Nichols, Marie Elizabeth Phillips Bryce, Anna Marsella Fazio, age Randy Lee Nichols, age 66, Randy Lee Nichols, age 66, age 58, died July 22, 2019 age 58, died July 22, 2019 Marie Marie Elizabeth Elizabeth Phillips Phillips Bryce, Bryce, Anna Anna Marsella Marsella Fazio, Fazio, age age age 70, born March 25, 1949, age 89, born June 21, 1930, died Marie Marie Elizabeth Elizabeth Phillips Phillips Bryce, Bryce, Anna Anna Marsella Marsella Fazio, Fazio, age age September 6, 2019 Randy Lee Nichols, age 66, age 58, died July 22, 2019 Randy Randy Lee Lee Nich Nic Marie Marie Elizabeth Elizabeth Phillips Phillips Bryce, Bryce, Anna Anna Marsella Marsella Fazio, Fazio, age age age 65, born May 19, 1947, died Randy Randy Lee Lee Nichols, Nichols, age age 66, 66, age age 58, 58, died died July July 22, 22, 2019 2019 born September 14, 1929, Judy Joann Criswell Glover, 85, born on Jan 1, 1934, died age 65, born May 19, 1947, died Randy Randy Lee Lee Nichols, Nichols, age age 66, 66, born 6, 1940, died Friday, age age 58, 58, died died July July 22, 22, 2019 2019 age 89, born September 14, 1929, 85, born on Jan 1, 1934, died June 24, 1953, died Friday, Marie Elizabeth Phillips Bryce, Anna Marsella Fazio, age Wallace Allen Worthan, age born June 24, 1953, died Friday, Marie Elizabeth Phillips Bryce, Anna Marsella Fazio, age Friday, September 06, 2019 ann Criswell Glover, Randy Lee Nichols, age 66, Wallace Allen Worthan, age James Delmer Shoemake, age 86, died Flora D. “Flo-Flo” Folds, age 97, died born June 6, 1940, died Friday, Friday, September 06, 2019 age 58, died July 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Cosper, 59, Marsella Marsella Fazio, Fazio, age ageage age 89, born September 14, 1929, 85, born on Jan 1, 1934, died age 89, born September 14, 1929, 85, born on Jan 1, 1934, died born June 24, 1953, age 65, born May 19, 1947, died age 89, born September 14, 1929, 85, born on Jan 1, 1934, died 89, born September 14, 1929, Randy Randy Lee Lee Nichols, Nichols, age age 66, 66, 85, born on Jan 1, 1934, died born June 24, 1953, died Friday, age age 58, 58, died died July July 22, 22, 2019 2019 Wallace Allen Worthan, age died Monday, September 16, born June 24, age 89, born September 14, 1929, 85, born on Jan 1, 1934, died Friday, September 06, 2019 Mary Jane Saling, age 82, born June 24, 1953, died Friday, born June 24, 1953, died Friday, Wallace Allen Worthan, age Wallace Allen Worthan, age age age 89, 89, born born September September 14, 14, 1929, 1929, 85, 85, born born on on Jan Jan 1,1934, 1,2019 1934, 1934, died died age age 89, 89, born born September September 14, 14, 1929, 1929, 85, 85, born born on on Jan Jan 1, 1, 1934, 1934, died died Saturday, April 27, 2013 born June 24, 1953, died Friday, Wallace Allen Worthan, age born born June June 24, 24, 1953 195 age age 89, 89, born born September September 14, 14, 1929, 1929, 85, 85, born born on on Jan Jan 1, 1, 1934, 1934, died died age 70, born March 25, 1949, Saturday, April 27, 2013 born born June June 24, 24, 1953, 1953, died died Friday, Friday, September 6, 2019 Wallace Wallace Allen Allen Worthan, Worthan, age age died Saturday, July 20, 2019 Monday, July 8, 2019 born born June June 24, 24, 1953, 1953, died died Friday, Friday, Wallace Wallace Allen Allen Worthan, Worthan, age age died Saturday, July 20, 2019 Monday, July 8, 2019 July 26, 2019 age 89, born September 14, 1929, 85, born on Jan 1, 1934, died Wayde B. Cosper, age 59, 56, died Monday, July 15, orn March 25, died 1949, Wayde B. Cosper, age 59, September 6, 2019 Donald William Womack, age July 26, 2019 age 89, born September 14, 1929, 85, born on Jan 1, 1934, died November 4, 2019 born June 24, 1953, died Friday, 56, died Monday, July 15, 2019 Saturday, November 23, 2019 Wayde B. Cosper, age 59, Wallace Allen Worthan, age died died Saturday, Saturday, July July 20, 20, 2019 2019 Monday, Monday, July July 8, 8, 2019 2019 Monday, September 16, born June 24, 1953, died Friday, Mary Jane Salin died Monday, September 16, Wallace Allen Worthan, age Jan 1, 1934, died Mary Jane Saling, age 82, July July 26, 26, 2019 2019 age age 89, 89, born born September September 14, 14, 1929, 1929, 85, 85, born born on on Jan Jan 1, 1, 1934, 1934, died died Saturday, April 27, 2013 56, 56, died died Monday, Monday, July July 15, 15, 2019 2019 Matthew Elliott Mitchell, age 36, born died Monday, September 16, Mary Jane Saling, age 82, Jan 1, 1934, born June 24, 1953, died Friday, born born June June 24, 24, 1953, 1953, died died Friday, Friday, Wallace Allen Worthan, age born April 6, 1960, died Friday, Wallace Wallace Allen Allen Worthan, Worthan, age age born June 24, 1953, died Friday, Wallace Allen Worthan, age died Saturday, July 20, 2019 Monday, July 8, 2019 died Saturday, July 20, 2019 Monday, July 8, 2019 on onJan Jan1,1,1934, 1934,died dieddied Saturday, April 27, 2013 died Saturday, July 20, 2019 Monday, July 8, 2019 2019 July 26,26, 2019 died Saturday, July 20, 2019 Monday, July 8,2019 2019 Wayde B. Cosper, age 59, Saturday, July 20, 2019 Monday, July 8, born December 5, 1936, died56, July 26, 2019 born born June June 24, 24, 1953, 1953, died died Friday, Friday, 56, died Monday, July 15, 2019 Wallace Wallace Allen Allen Worthan, Worthan, age age July 26, 2019 died Saturday, July 20, 2019 Monday, July 8, 2019 Donald William Womack, age July 26, 2019 July 26, 2019 56, died Monday, July 15, 2019 died Monday, July 15, 2019 died died Saturday, Saturday, July July 20, 20,2019 2019 Monday, Monday, July July 8, 8, 2019 2019 died died Saturday, Saturday, July July 20, 20, 2019 2019 died Monday, September 16, Monday, Monday, July July 8, 8, 2019 2019 Donald William Womack, age July 26, 2019 Mary Jane Saling, age 82, 56, died Monday, July 15, 2019 July July 26, 2019 2019 died died Saturday, Saturday, July July 20, 20, 2019 2019 Monday, Monday, July July 8, 8, 2019 2019 July July 26, 26, 2019 2019 56, 56, died died Monday, Monday, July July 15, 15, 2019 2019 Earl Wayne Carden, age 80, Harris Nell Griffin Jennings, July July 26, 26, 2019 2019 born April 6, 1960, died Friday, 56, 56, died died Monday, Monday, July July 15, 15, 2019 2019 born April 6, 1960, died Friday, ay, September 16, Earl Wayne Carden, age 80, Harris Nell Griffin Jennings, 80, Friday, September 27, Mary Jane Saling, age 82, Ara Bell D. Sanders, age 79, died Saturday, July 20, 2019 Monday, July 8, 2019 Carol Judith Chapman, age 55, born April 6, 1960, died Friday, Ara Bell D. Sanders, age 79, died Saturday, July 20, 2019 Monday, July 8, 2019 Thomas Arthur Schoenherr, age 79, born on 2019 Michael “Eddie” Edward Green, age 58, born July 26, 2019 Carol Judith Chapman, age 55, born December 5, 2019 56, died Monday, July 15, 2019 Earl Earl Wayne Wayne Carden, Carden, age age 80, 80, Harris Harris Nell Nell Griffin Griffin Jennings, Jennings, born December 5, died Donald William Womack, age JulyJuly 26, 2019 2019 56, died Monday, July 15, 2019 born December 5, 1,1936, 1936, died Ara Ara Bell Bell D. D.Carden, Sanders, Sanders, age age 79, 79,56, died died Saturday, Saturday, July July 20, 20, 2019 2019 8,2019 2019 Monday, Monday, July July 8, 8, 2019 2019 December 3, 1982, Sunday, December Carol Carol Judith Judith Chapman, Chapman, age 55, 55, Ara September 13, 2019 8, July 26, 26, 2019 2019 July 26, 2019 56, died died Monday, Monday, July July 15, 15, 2019 2019 56, died Monday, July 15, 2019 Donald William Womack, agedied July 26, 2019 Earl Wayne Carden, age 80, Harris Nell Griffin Jennings, Louise Rainwater Hardwell, 56, died Monday, July 15, 2019 born April 6, 1960, died Friday, Earl Wayne Carden, age 80, Harris Nell Griffin Jennings, Thursday, September 5, 2019 uly July 8, 8,2019 2019 Earl Wayne age 80, Harris Nell Griffin Jennings, Ara Bell D.Sanders Sander Earl Wayne Carden, age 80, Harris Nell Griffin Jennings, Earl Wayne Carden, age 80, Harris Nell Griffin Jennings, 80, died Friday, September 27, Ara Bell D. Sanders, age 79, Carol Judith Chapman, age 55, July July 26, 26, 2019 2019 Bell D. 56, 56, died died Monday, Monday, July July 15, 15, 2019 2019 Earl Wayne Carden, age 80, Harris Nell Griffin Jennings, 2019 80, died Friday, September 27, Ara Bell D. Sanders, age 79, Ara Bell D. Sanders, age 79, born December 5, 1936, died Carol Judith Chapman, age 55, Carol Judith Chapman, age 55, Earl Earl Wayne Wayne Carden, Carden, age age 80, Harris Harris Nell Nell Griffin Griffin Jennings, Jennings, Earl Earl Wayne Wayne Carden, Carden, age age 80, 80, Harris Harris Nell Nell Griffin Griffin Jennings, Jennings, Ara Bell D. Sanders, age 79, Carol Judith Chapman, age 55, Ara Ara Bell Bell D. D. Sand San Earl Earl Wayne Wayne Carden, Carden, age age 80, 80, Harris Harris Nell Nell Griffin Griffin Jennings, Jennings, Ara Ara Bell Bell D. D. Sanders, Sanders, age age 79, 79, September 13, 2019 Carol Carol Judith Judith Chapman, Chapman, age age 55, 55, September 13, 2019 born October 29, 1938, age 83, died Tuesday, July 2, 2019.He was born May 5, 1939 Ara Ara Bell Bell D. D. Sanders, Sanders, age age 79, 79, born December 5, 1936, died Carol Carol Judith Judith Chapman, Chapman, age age 55, 55, September 13, 2019 born October 29, 1938, died age 83, died Tuesday, July 2, born August 06, 1939, died July Earl Wayne Carden, age 80, Harris Nell Griffin Jennings, Louise Rainwater Hardwell, born June 24, 1964, died Sunday, Thursday, Septembe Louise Rainwater Hardwell, Thursday, September 5, 2019 born August 06, 1939, died July August 01, 1940, died Friday, November 29, Earl Wayne Carden, age 80, Harris Nell Griffin Jennings, December 30, 1960, died Friday, November 29, 80, died Friday, September 27, Ara Bell D. 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Sanders, Sanders, age age 79, 79, August 06, 1939, born October 29, 1938, died age 83, died Tuesday, July 2, born August 06, 1939, died July Carol Carol Judith Judith Chapman, Chapman, age age 55, 55, August 06, 1939, died July born June 24, 1964, died Sunday, born June 24, 1964, died Sunday, born born October October 29, 29, 1938, 1938, died died age age 83, 83, died died Tuesday, Tuesday, July July 2,born born born October October 29, 29, 1938, 1938, died died age age 83, 83, died died Tuesday, Tuesday, July July 2, 2, born August 06, 1939, died July Kenneth D. Dobbins ,age age born June 24, 1964, died Sunday, Kenneth D. Dobbins ,,died age born born August August 06, 19 1 born born October October 29, 29, 1938, 1938, died died age age 83, 83, died died Tuesday, Tuesday, July July 2,born 2, Bobby E. Wycuff, age 85, born born August August 06, 06, 1939, 1939, died died July July Rainwater Hardwell, born born June June 24, 24, 1964, 1964, died died Sunday, Sunday, Kenneth D. Dobbins age Thursday, September 5, 2019 Friday, June 28, 2019 2019 born born August August 06, 06, 1939, 1939, died died July July age 68, born September born born June June 24, 24, 1964, 1964, died died Sunday, Sunday, Russell Allen Sibl age 68, born September 30, Friday, June 28, 2019 2019 Russell Allen Sibley, Jr., age 24, 2019 born October 29, 1938, died age 83, died Tuesday, July 2, 2019.He was born May 5, 1939 July 7, 2019 age 68, born September 30, Russell Allen Sibley, Jr., age 2019 2019 24, 2019 born October 29, 1938, died age 83, died Tuesday, July 2, born August 06, 1939, died July July 7, 2019 87, died Sunday, September 08, born June 24, 1964, died Sunday, Friday, Friday, June June 28, 28, 2019 2019 2019 2019 born August 06, 1939, died July born June 24, 1964, died Sunday, 24, 24, 2019 2019 born born October October 29, 29, 1938, 1938, died died Mary “Frances” Walker Morgan, age 92, age age 83, 83, died died Tuesday, Tuesday, July July 2, 2, July July 7, 7, 2019 2019 1950, died Monday, September died Tuesday, July 2, 2019.He was born May 5, 1939 Kenneth D. 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Smith, age 80, born September Dalton “Bubba” Hylton, Tuesday, Friday, June 28, 2019 2019 24, 2019 July 7, 2019 2019 23, 2019 July 7, 2019 87, died Sunday, September 08,died Wednesday, September 18,died 2019 on May 3, 1927, died Sunday, November Bobby Wycuff, age 85,24, Friday, Friday, June June 28, 2019 2019 age 21, 2019 2019 born June 1934, died Friday, 24, 24, 2019 2019 July July 7, 7,2019 2019 2019 1950, died Monday, September born June 5, 1934, died Friday, 34, born February 4, 1985, 24, 2019 July 7,2019 2019 2019 July 7, 2019 2019 2019 September 6,1934, 2019 died 24, 24, 2019 2019 2019 July July 7, 7,2019 2019 Monday, September 24, 34, born February 23, Wednesday, Septemb 23, Wednesday, September 18, 2019 born June 5,6, Friday,24, 23, 2019 Wednesday, September 18, 2019 21, 1939, died Sunday morning, November November 05, 2019 4, 1985, died 23, 2019 born June 5, 1934, died Friday, 17, 2019 September 2019 2019 September 6, 2019 Wednesday, September 18, 2019 September Wednesday, September 18, 2019 September 6, 2019 2019 6, 2019

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Year-end: time for some New Year’s financial resolutions

DENNIS

BRIGHTMAN FINANCIAL ADVISOR

Have you thought about your New Year’s resolutions for 2020? When many of us make these promises, we focus on ways we can improve some form of our health. We vow to get more physically healthy by going to the gym, or we promise to improve our mental health by learning a new language or instrument. But it’s also important to think about our financial health – so it’s a good idea to develop some appropriate resolutions for this area, too.

What kinds of financial resolutions might you make? Here are a few suggestions: • Increase your retirement plan contributions. One of the best financial moves you can make is to take full advantage of your 401(k) or similar employer-sponsored retirement plan. If you contribute pre-tax dollars to your plan, the more you put in, the lower your taxable income will be for the year, and your earnings can grow on a taxdeferred basis. So, if your salary goes up in

2020, increase the amount you put into to your plan. Most people don’t come close to reaching the annual contribution limit, which, in 2019, was $19,000, or $25,000 for those 50 or older. You might not reach these levels, either, but it’s certainly worthwhile to invest as much as you can possibly afford.

• Use “found” money wisely. During the course of the next year, you may well receive some money outside your normal paychecks, such as a bonus or a tax refund.

It can be tempting to spend this money, but you may help yourself in the long run by investing it. You could use it to help fund your IRA for the year or to fill a gap in another investment account.

• Don’t overreact to market downturns. You’ve probably heard stories about people who lamented not getting in “on the ground floor” of what is now a mega-company. But a far more common investment mistake is overreacting to temporary market downturns by selling investments at the wrong time (when their prices are down) and staying out of the market until things calm down (and possibly missing the next rally).

The financial markets always fluctuate, but if you can resolve to stay invested and

Carroll County marriage licenses Judy Abernathy, Chicago, Ill., and Jenica Morales, Chicago, Ill. Gary Baggett, Ga., and Rebecca Hancock, Ga. Brittany Brooks, Cobb County, Ga., and Robert Meadows, Carrollton, Ga. Justin Byess, Carrollton, Ga., and Shelby Higdon, Austell, Ga. David Cooley, Carroll County, Ga., and Teneeshia Springer, Carroll County, Ga. Kelci Daniel, Cobb County, Ga., and Timothy Swafford, Carrollton, Ga. Wesley Daniell, Austell, Ga., and Conner Bell, Columbus, Ga. Eric Davenport, Carrollton, Ga., and Rebecca Nelson, Rockmart, Ga. Xavier Edmondson, Troup County, Ga., and Chinyere Blackmon, Atlanta, Ga. Artemus Farmer, Carrollton, Ga.,a nd Monica Cooper, Cleveland, Tenn.

Evenlyn Frazier, Ga., and Christian Harper, Ga. Samantha Gentry, Carrollton, Ga., and Mitt Conerly, Atlanta, Ga. Casey Hamrick, Eastpoint, Ga., and Brooke Willis, Gainesville, Ga. Cameron Haynie, Carrollton, Ga., and Lauren Kelly, Carrollton, Ga. Jeremy Herrin, Carrollton, Ga., and Danielle Burrier, Orlando, Fla. Kaylin Huddleston, Lithia Springs, Ga., and Michael Fowler, LaGrange, Ga. Carlee Jenkins, Carrollton, Ga., and Shiloh Bates-Eckert, Carrollton, Ga. Alondra Jimenez, Mexico, and Santos Cuevas, Mexico Clifton Johnson, Atlanta, Ga., and Mackenzee Hoover, Marietta, Ga. Stephen Lee, Ft. Walton Beach, Fla., and Rebecca Anspach, San Diego, Cali.

Megan McBrayer, Carrollton, Ga., and Jonathan Ball, Lithia Springs, Ga. Kaitlyn McEntyre, Calhoun, Ga., and Justin Turner, Carrollton, Ga. Edward McEwen, Lithia Springs, Ga., and Ntalie Radford, Austell, Ga. Hillary Nix, Decatur, Ala., and William Smith, Marietta, Ga. Amber Pike, West Covina, Cali., and Bobby Singh, Cypress, Cali.

John Robison, Carrollton, Ga., and Misty Benefield, Roanoke, Ala. Ana Schoerner, Atlanta, Ga., and Skyler Evans, Atlanta, Ga. Caitline Schooley, Lancaster, Ohio, and Monttez Shackelford, Villa Rica, Ga. Marisa Siegler, Pittsburgh, Penn., and Kyle Mauldin, Athens, Ga. Kayla Smith, Carrollton, Ga., and Scott Morris, Cobb County, Ga. Elizabeth Smith, Douglas County, Ga., and Nicholas Stanley, Cobb County, Ga. Mark Smith, Carrollton, Ga., and Kaitlin Costley, Carrollton, Ga. Amanda Stephens, Carrollton, Ga., and Chadwick Swafford, Villa Rica, Ga. Jeffrey Stephens, Atlanta, Ga., and Donna Schutz, Adelaide, Australia Ashley Street, Carrollton, Ga., and Charlie Goddard, Villa Rica, Ga. Michael Thrower, Carrollton, Ga., and Stacey Hendrix, Anniston, Ala. Cynthia Turner, Anniston, Ala., and Channing Black, Gadsden, Ala., Stephen Washington, Atlanta, Ga., and Megan Blankinship, Carrollton, Ga. Nathan Williams, Carrollton, Ga., and Cynthia Palmer, Atlanta, Ga. Micaiah Young, Villa Rica, Ga., and Hope Capwell, Halifax, Va.

follow a consistent, long-term strategy, you can avoid making some costly errors.

• Be financially prepared for the unexpected. Even if you’re diligent about saving and investing for your long-term goals, you can encounter obstacles along the way. And one of these roadblocks could come in the form of large, unexpected expenses, such as the sudden need for a new car or some costly medical bills. If you aren’t prepared for these costs, you might have to dip in to your long-term investments to pay for them.

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To prevent this from happening, you may want to keep sufficient cash, or cash equivalents, in your investment accounts. Or you might want to maintain a completely separate account as an emergency fund, with the money kept in low-risk, liquid vehicles. If possible, try to maintain at least six months’ worth of living expenses in this account.

It will take some effort but following these resolutions could help you move closer to your financial goals in 2020 – and beyond.

Dennis Brightman is a financial advisor, Edward Jones, Carrollton, 770-834-0570

Carroll County births November 1- 30, 2019: Tanner Medical Center, Carrollton: 105 births Tanner Medical Center, Villa Rica:� 35 births

Carroll County jail population Total population as of December 9, 2019: 458 Males: 372 Females: 86

restaurant health inspection scores 11/1/2019: Burger King, 700 Bankhead Highway, Carrollton 95 previous 98 11/1/2019: The Highland Deli & Grill, 402 Adamson Square, Carrollton 99 previous 99 11/4/2019: Little Donkey, 1561 South Park Street Suite B4, Carrollton 86 previous 96 11/5/2019: Gabe’s Downton, 104 West Montgomery Street, Villa Rica 92 previous 92 11/5/2019: Las Palomas Restaurant, 108 City Hall Avenue, Bowdon 80 previous 92 11/7/2019: Bankhead Bar and Grill, 1202 Bankhead Hwy, Carrollton 95 previous 97 11/7/2019: Giavanni’s, 1124 North Park Street, Carrollton 92 previous 87 11/7/2019: La Salsa Mex, 1104 Maple Street, Carrollton 93 previous 92 11/8/2019: McDonald’s, 2001 Alabama Ave., Bremen 94 previous 93 11/8/2019: Mojave Hot wings, 1069B Main Street, Whitesburg 98 previous 97 11/12/2019: Billy Bob’s BBQ, 811 South Park Street, Carrollton 94 previous 96 11/12/2019: Chopsticks Brothers, 120 Cunningham Dr, Carrollton 96 previous 95 11/12/2019: Express Mexican Grill, 916 Maple Street, Carrollton 96 previous 99 11/12/2019: Irish Bread Pub & Grill, 210 Adamson Square, Carrollton 90 previous 94 11/13/2019: Lazy Donkey, 334 Bankhead Highway, Carrollton 92 previous 91 11/13/2019: Mustard Seed Cafe, 2115 Maple Street, Carrollton 100 previous 99 11/13/2019: Olive Garden, 1379 South Park Street, Carrollton 90 previous 94 11/13/2019: Over the Tracks, 11 West Johnson Street, Temple 100 previous 100 11/13/2019: Tanner Medical Center Food Truck, 705 Dixie St, Carrollton 95 previous 100 11/14/2019: Carroll County Sheriff’s Dept, 1000 Newnan Rd, Carrollton 96 previous 92 11/14/2019: City Tavern, 109 Newnan Street, Carrollton 94 previous 95 11/14/2019: Maple Street Diner, 1201 Maple Street, Carrollton 93 previous 97 11/14/2019: Plates & Uncorked, 301 Adamson Square, Carrollton 92 previous 92 11/14/2019: Sam’s House, 106 Alabama Street, Carrollton 98 previous 97 11/15/2019: La Estacion, 1018 Main Street, Whitesburg 94 previous 94 11/18/2019: El Monterrey, 815 South Park Street, Carrollton 91 previous 93 11/18/2019: PJ’s, 745 Bankhead Highway, Carrollton 98 previous 90 11/18/2019: Pizza Hut, 928 South Park Street Suite P, Carrollton 98 previous 95 11/19/2019: Mill Town Music Hall, 1031 Alabama Avenue, Bremen 98 previous 99 11/19/2019: 302 South Street, 302 South Street, Carrollton 94 previous 91 11/20/2019: The Watering Hole, 123 Tri-County Plaza, Villa Rica 96 previous 96 11/22/2019: American Pie, 927 Maple Street, Carrollton 98 previous 94 11/22/2019: Best Western Plus, 104 South Cottage Hill Rd, Carrollton 78 previous 85 11/22/2019: Firehouse Subs, 1202 South Park Street, Carrollton 99 previous 100 11/22/2019: Papa John’s, 1214 Maple Street, Carrollton 100 previous 95 11/25/2019: Subway, 3960 Carrollton Villa Rica Highway, Carrollton 96 previous 96 11/25/2019: Wing Citi Cafe, 2502 Highway 61, Carrollton 97 previous 93 11/26/2019: Lee’s Kitchen, 819 South Park Street, Carrollton 95 previous 95

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Bill Curry, NFL/Super Bowl champion, GA Tech football coach, educator, and successful communicator shares some insights on a worthy life story by Prissi Sullivan photo by Sue Horn Bill Curry, coach, educator, leader, and communicator, was the guest speaker at the November 13, 2019 Villa Rica “Leadership Luncheon” at The Venue in Villa Rica. This was the last in the series for this year.

Curry is well-known around the State of Georgia and the nation. His National Football League career included two Super Bowls. From 1962 until 1964, he played for Georgia Tech; then entered the NFL for ten seasons, starting with the Green Bay Packers. He went on to play with the Baltimore Colts, the Houston Oilers, and the Los Angeles Rams.

He served as head football coach for Georgia Institute of Technology from 1980 to 1986, the University of Alabama from 1987 to 1989, and the University of Kentucky from 1990 to 1996. In 1989, he was recognized as the nation’s top coach with the Bobby Dodd National Coach of the Year Award. He is a member of the state of Georgia Sports Hall of Fame and a former member of the American Football Coaches Association Ethics Committee.

From 1997 until 2008, Curry was an analyst for ESPN. In September 2006, he was awarded the 2007 Amos Alonzo Stagg Award by the American Football Coaches Association for his outstanding service toward the advancement of the best interests of football.

In June 2008, Curry became the inaugural head couch of Georgia State University’s budding football program. His book Ten Men You Meet in the Huddle was released in 2008

by ESPN books. In 2014, Curry, former player Pete Wellborn, and communications expert Jeff Battcher formed AIM Sports Reputation Management, LLC to provide crisis handling and leadership and success training to universities, professional franchises, and other members of the sports industry.

Curry is a vibrant speaker and talked on the values learned in playing team sports and their application in individual daily lives, family dynamics, community fellowship, and society construction. “It has been my privilege,” he stated “to be a part of teams that pull together disparate threads to unite into a single unit. To do this, the members must trust one another—trust can accomplish anything.”

He spoke on how people must put aside their differences to accomplish their common goals, using football as a uniting factor across the entire nation. “Over one million

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from stories on StarNews Online website at www.starnewsgaonline.com Carroll EMC hosts “Power Breakfast”

The Carroll Electric Membership Cooperative hosted local and statewide stakeholders at its annual Power Breakfast in the Robert D. Tisinger Community Center Tuesday, Nov. 19, to share the cooperative’s current legislative and operational issues that will carry on in the new year. For more than a decade, the annual gathering has brought together representatives from the electric cooperative industry along with elected officials, area educators, chamber and economic development professionals, and numerous business and municipal leaders. Attendees were given a brief summary of the cooperative’s progress the past year and its vision moving forward.

Carroll EMC CEO, Tim Martin, spoke on the present state of the cooperative following a challenging year with stagnant kilowatthour sales and demanding broadband legislature. “I really do believe our best days are ahead of us, not behind us,” said Martin.

In taking on its second largest load with Ball Corp., an aluminum manufacturer in Floyd County, the cooperative is expecting an increase in kilowatt-hour sales that will keep rates affordable for its Member-owners. Carroll EMC also introduced new

high school kids play football on Friday night all over America,” he stated.

“Football teaches self-awareness, life skills, and how destructive bigotry can be.”

Curry feels that racism is one of the most malignant factors in dividing people.

“There simply cannot be a racist in a huddle,” he declared. “Vince Lombardi’s greatest asset was that he would not tolerate racism. A football team can only become a great team when everyone comes together—the same as in society.”

Curry reminisced about his days playing for Coach Bobby Dodd at Georgia Tech. “Dodd was not an advocate of his players cutting classes,” he explained. “I found chemistry boring, so I cut class one day. Coach Dodd found out. When he finished with me, I LOVED chemistry and never cut class again! Our players had a 92% graduation rate!”

“Whenever we were scheduled to play the Georgia Bulldogs, Coach would tell us ‘We’re smarter than they are’ and we were dumb enough to believe it!”

Curry talked on the trauma of a Southern boy from Georgia winding up After his presentation, Bill Curry, left, spent some time meeting north with the Green Bay Packers, not knowing how he would be received. He attendees, including Villa Rica Police Chief Mike Mansour. never forgot the kindness of Willie Davis, defensive end. Davis became his mentor, his compassion as the necessary ingredients. I see all five in this sounding board, and his friend. “He changed my life,” said community, Curry remarked.

Curry was born in College Park, Georgia and was a 1965 Curry.

Curry cautioned the rapt listeners: “Ignore the divisive graduate of Georgia Tech with a degree in industrial rhetoric. Be careful what you allow into your perception, management. He is married to the former Carolyn Newton your hearts, and your minds. Tell the good stories. Leaders, of Atlanta, and they have two children and seven take the responsibility of leading. Talking trash regarding grandchildren. His face and voice light up when he speaks of her and his family. each other is deadly.”

The Villa Rica Leadership Luncheon Series is held biHe expressed kudos to Villa Rica for the efforts to monthly on the 2nd Wednesday at 11:30 a.m. at The Venue, reinvigorate the downtown area.

“To bring life to a community, the Institute of Global 150 Stone Street in downtown Villa Rica. The events are Ethics lists honesty, fairness, respect, responsibility, and sponsored by Villa Rica Office of Economic Development.

means of efficiency with its first electric vehicle, transition to LED lights and improvements with the distribution automation system. Looking toward the future, the cooperative is seeking long-term solutions for affordable broadband service to the rural areas in need by investing in fiber and a partnership. “We are building for the future, and fiber is essentially future proof,” continued Martin. “Carroll EMC is here to serve this community and improve the lives of its Members. Funding for fiber will bring us one step closer to bridging the digital divide in West Georgia.”

$300,000 in grants awarded to 32 nonprofits Carroll, Haralson, and Heard counties

State of Georgia has 1.1M small businesses which makes up 99.6% of all businessess in the state

According to the U.S. Small Business Administration, there are 1.1 million small businesses in Georgia, making up 99.6% of all businesses in the state and employing 1.6 million Georgians. An estimated 533,00 businesses are women-owned and more than 278,000 Georgia small businesses are minority-owned. Of all Georgia businesses, 94.1% employ fewer than 50 people and 75.4% employ fewer than 10.

“First Day Hikes” in state parks

On New Year’s Day, park rangers all across the country are inviting Americans to start 2020 with a First Day Hike. In The Community Foundation of West Georgia’s State Parks and Historic Sites, Georgia Chairman Fred O’Neal celebrated guided treks will be offered. Ranger-led with 32 nonprofit organizations of Carroll, hikes on New Year’s Day are listed on Haralson and Heard counties as the GeorgiaStateParks.org and even include darFoundation presented grants totaling ing lake plunges at Reed Bingham and $300,000 from the Foundation’s Community Richard B. Russell state parks. For reservaImpact Fund and Innovation Grant program. tions, call 1-800-864-7275 or Funds are distributed through an annual GeorgiaStateParks.org competitive grant process as six panels of “MyChart” patient portal: one local citizens consider requests, assist the patient / one record now at Tanner Foundation in the review and analysis of the “One patient, one record” is now a reality applications and make recommendations to across Tanner Health System. On Sunday, the Foundation Board of Directors.

Nov. 3, 2019, the entire health system went Local nonprofit organizations, faith-based live with the new Epic electronic health and government$ agencies are eligible to record. With Epic, each patient’s entire apply for grants. health record is immediately accessible from

providers throughout the organization.

Whether a patient’s needs lead them to one of Tanner’s five hospitals, almost 40 physician practices, three urgent cares, four emergency departments or any of the health system’s outpatient services like diagnostic imaging or an infusion center, their health information is on a single health record. The new platform will lead to more accurate, efficient and improved care and a better experience for patients. Patients are now able to access their information directly through the Tanner MyChart patient portal.

The EpicFocus project was a 14-month endeavor to improve patient care and efficiency at Tanner with the implementation of Epic, the No. 1 electronic health record in the United States. The Epic platform secures the vital health records of more than 250 million people worldwide.

Implementation required building a new Tanner-tailored electronic health record by a team of more than 100 IT and healthcare professionals, supported by Epic, and training and preparation of the more than 3,400 Tanner team members to use the new system while providing care for patients.

Prior to the implementation, Tanner facilities utilized three different health record platforms in its hospitals, emergency departments and physician practices - in addition to several smaller specialty department records.

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Southwire suffers company-wide cyber attack: emails down, business disrupted, some employees sent home; not known if ransomware was involved

from press release/staff reports Southwire, privately-owned Carrolltonbased $6B global company, suffered a cyber attack on Monday, December 9, 2019. Early that morning, Southwire was notified by its security monitoring system of “suspicious activity within its system”. Their response was to immediately self-quarantine by shutting down the entire network. Southwire then began an investigation to assess the situation with a “cyber security partner”.

The “cyber incident”, as the company spokesperson referred to it, was companywide. Southwire has 34 plants and ten

Customer Service Centers around the world.

The Carrollton plant’s business was completely shut down for about 24 hours on Monday, with some working from home.

Jason Pollard, vice president of Talent Acquisition and Communications, stated that “certain functions were impacted, and we apologize to the employees, customers and partners who are inconvenienced. We are doing all we can to minimize and resolve this disruption... Today, [Tuesday, December 10th] we’re bringing critical systems back online, prioritizing manufacturing and shipping functions that enable us to create and

send product to our customers. We are dedicated to restoring all systems and bringing all of our employees back to work as safely and as quickly as possible.” Pollard added that this will not “compromise the company’s ability to pay employees” and that Southwire is working to strengthen its protection measures as cyberthreats evolve.

According to the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), those responsible for these type of “computer intrusion cases” may include “computer geeks looking for bragging rights, businesses trying to gain an upper hand in the marketplace by hacking

competitor websites, or criminals wanting to steal personal information and sell it on black markets. The FBI has a Cyber Division to address cyber crime with “specially trained cyber squads at FBI headquarters and in each of our 56 field offices.”

The FBI also describes “ransomware” as “a type of malware that encrypts, or locks, valuable digital files and demands a ransom to release them”.

It was not stated or known if Southwire was subjected to any type of ransomware.

At press time, Pollard said the investigation was still ongoing.

Analysis of current ad-min building: too small, layout challenging $3200 report a first step in the six year old SPLOST funded project

by Sue Horn In November 2013, Carroll County voters approved a $96M SPLOST that included “acquiring, constructing, and equipping a County Administration Building and parking associated therewith”. Collections began four years ago April 1, 2015 - with a stop collection date of March 31, 2021- for the county’s portion of that SPLOST of $59,894,400. In mid-September of this year, County Board of Commission Chairman Michelle Morgan hired an analyst to “ascertain Administration Office needs” and to “summarize the results to help formulate decisions concerning potential chnges to the

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current facility; move to another building; or be 7007 square feet. Blackmon observed that clearer, fuller picture of the county’s the planning and zoning department lacks SPLOST revenues and expenditures. a build-to-suit Administration Office.”

All Carroll County government checks Robbie Blackmon of Aurora Advisory WIFI, screens, projectors, and other modern and SPLOST checks were first published Services, a local business, was hired by the communiciation tools.

In other business, online and available to the general public in chairman for a 30 Blackmon stated that his findings county finance 2008. Carroll County was first government day job for the fee director Alecia in the state of Georgia to do so under then of $3,200. were “not a recommendation”.

Blackmon’s duties Morgan supported that statement Searcy presented a newly elected Chairman Bill Chappell. This report on the process halted in May 2015, the last online included: “collect feedback from key by saying this was a first step in the SPLOST payments posting of “General Fund & SPLOST process towards a decision on the for the month of Checks” available on the county’s website, administrators”; October 2019 to the under immediate past Chairman Marty “create a dynamic ad-min building, and mentioned questionaire”; possibly hiring Blackmon again for board. District 5 Smith.

The county’s current Fund Balance (Cash Commissioner Ernie “interview Carroll a future study of some sort.

Reynolds, a retired Reserve) as of October 31, 2019, was County leaders”; “provide general physical overview of the Deputy Director with the State Audit $13,909, 965. Total revenues in as of current Administration Office facility”; and Department, remarked that the monthly October 31st (four months into the current “provide a summarized report”. Aurora report would have better context if the other budget): $17,310,785 of a $53,333,000 Advisory was tasked with providing a months/years would be provided for a budgeted fiscal year. summary of what the needs are: new building; same building with repairs/renovations; or move to another building.

At the December 3rd regular meeting of the commissioners, Blackmon presented a “Carroll County Administration Office Needs Analysis Update” to the board.

Blackmon stated that his findings were “not a recommendation”. Morgan supported that statement by saying this was a first step in the process towards a decision on the ad-min building, and mentioned possibly hiring Blackmon again for a future study of some sort.

Blackmon’s 30 day findings were not surprising: the building that houses five county departments - tax commissioner, elections, tax assessor, community development, and public health - with 52 full time employees is “three times” too small, and the layout is “not ideal” to “workability”. Blackmon’s report states: 1. the current building needs three times more space to handle the storage of and testing of the new paper trail voting machines 2. the layout of the 1948 public school building is “challenging” and has “shortcomings” 3. the “workability” of the county offices currently housed there is “not ideal”.

Specifically, the elections office can be housed separately, as their functions do not interface with the tax and tag office, map office, codes, etc. Elections could be “isemail: olated without loss of productivity.”

The specifics given by Blackmon for the elections department alone is that it currently has 2857 square feet available; but the minimum required with the new paper trail voting machines is 5687 square feet; and that “effective storage and testing” space would

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