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Lt. Gov. Geoff Duncan, U.S. Senator Kelly Loeffler, others visit Carroll County see pages 14 and 15

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750 jobs promised with Long time StarNews investigative reporter new “Hello Fresh” Prissi Sullivan dies facility in Newnan from injuries following Facility to be located a short driving distance from Carroll County two car collision from press release Life flighted to Atlanta trauma center, she was on life support for three days

Governor Brian Kemp announced August 10th that the meal kit company HelloFresh will establish their first Southeastern United States

by Sue Horn distribution facility in Newnan, Coweta County, Marian Elizabeth bringing more than 750 jobs to the area. The “Prissi” Sullivan, age 208,930-square-foot facility, 510 International 69, Villa Rica, Park, would be located within driving distance Georg i a , died of Carroll County, approximately 15 miles from Thursday evening, county’s line south of Whitesburg.

September 3, 2020 at Headquartered in Berlin, Germany, Grady Hospital in HelloFresh is the largest meal kit provider in the Atlanta, Georgia.

United States.

In 2019, HelloFresh delivered She had been on more than 281 million meals to customers in life support for sevthirteen countries and across three continents. eral days following a HelloFresh jobs will include meal distributwo car accident that tion, assembly positions, associate, lead, superSullivan occurred Monday visor, and management. Applications at: hellofevening, August 31st, in which she suffered resh.com/careers/locations/us serious and numerous injuries. Immediately following the accident, she was life flighted to Atlanta Medical, a trauma center, then transferred to Grady, also a trauma hospital, where her condition continued to deteriorate. She died surrounded by family. from press release Sullivan began working for the The Due to an extension of the USDA summer Carroll Star News, Carroll County, in 2004, feeding program that ensured children had having been hired by then publisher Bill access to nutritious food as the country recovers Chappell. She was an investigative reporter covering local school boards, city councils, from the COVID-19 pandemic, all students now and the water authority, among other news attending Carrollton City Schools will automatibeats. She continued working for the news- cally be eligible to receive free school meals, paper, transitioning seemlessly, when her potentiall through December 31, 2020. All four editor, Sue Horn, became publisher in 2007, schools in the district qualified for the extension.

See FREE MEALS page 13 and, again, when, the newspaper made changes in 2010 becoming the StarNews and StarNews Online.

Her news beat expanded over the years to include political races and candidates.

Mostly limited to local races, she did cover Governor Brian Kemp during his many

Carrollton City schools announce 100% of students now eligible for free meals

As labor department begins another round of unemployment ($300 week) Commissioner Butler asks for public’s help to stop/prevent fraud

by Sue Horn The Georgia Department of Labor is set to begin the “Lost Wages Assistance” (LWA) program that will distribute an additional $300 weekly supplement to eligible individuals receiving UI benefits from Georgia’s state and federal unemployment insurance programs. The GDOL anticipates testing to be completed soon and the issuance of payments to begin by mid-September. LWA is currently time-limited to an initial five-week period and not everyone who has filed an unemployment claim will be eligible.

This funding will come from FEMA’s Disaster Relief Fund. Georgia has qualified for all five weeks that states are eligi-

ble to apply for. The period of assistance is Aug. 1, 2020 to Dec. 27, 2020 or at the termination of the program, whichever is sooner.

Individuals do not need to call or apply separately for this benefit. This additional payment will automatically be issued to eligible claimants .

During a public zoom meeting held August 27th, Labor Commissioner Mark Butler spoke extensively on the increase of fraud around the nation with the issuance of unemployment benefits. He asked for the assistance of the public in helping to identify and prevent fraud.

The commissioner said, “Our depart-

from press release The University of West Georgia Foundation announced today the addition of seven new members to its board of trustees. Joining the board are Bruce Bobick, Dick Ingle, Tonya Jackson, Amanda Lucey, Honey Shackelford, Zach Steed and Jason Thogmartin. The returning board chair for the UWG Foundation is Luis Planas, a retired executive of the Coca-Cola company.

Foundation Trustees are elected to four-year terms and serve on various

committees, including board development, finance and investment, resource development, audit and others.

Dick Ingle is also a retired UWG professor and principal research scientist. An active member of First Christian Church, he serves as missions chair and is part of the FCC finance team.

Ingle is also a member of the Carroll County Board of Equalization, past chair of Carrollton Development Authority Appeals Board, and boasts an extensive

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University of West Georgia announces seven new trustees to the board

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Carroll County Correctional Institute Warden Jeff Richards speaks on his hope for a transitional center to be built here

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by Daniel Jackson The Carrollton Kiwanis Club held their weekly meeting at the Courtyard

by Marriot hotel, downtown Carrollton, Friday, September 4, 2020.

Due to CoVID, this club alternates between an in-person socially distanced luncheon meeting on one Friday, and then to a strictly internet “Zoom” meeting the next. One of the oldest civic clubs in Carroll County, it was founded in 1947. The September 4th guest speaker was Carroll County Prison Warden Jeff Richards.

Richards, who has become well known to the public in the West Georgia area due to his 35 year law enforcement career, was appointed warden by Carroll County Chairman Michelle Morgan. He has been warden for almost one full year, with his first day on the job October 11, 2019. Most

recently, she appointed him as interim Carroll County E-911 Director in the wake of the simultaneous “resignations” of E-911 Director Trisha Orr and E-911 Operations Manager Tyler Shadix (indicated by a statement issued

by Carroll County public relations approxinately one month ago.)

Opening with a bit of humor, Warden Richards asked the roughly 40 members in attendance (approximately half were CoVID masked) if they knew the difference between a prison and a jail, poking friendly fun with club member (and past club president) Sheriff Terry Langley, likening the sheriff’s jail to a hotel.

Richards went on to say that despite being a county agency, he houses state inmates, all of whom are already convicted, and none coming from Carroll County. In fact, the warden said no See WARDEN RICHARDS page 4

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www.starnewsgaonline.com motor vehicle entities across the nation.

DRIVES is to ensure consistent customer from stories on StarNews Online data and improve accuracy of driver inforwebsite at www.starnewsgaonline.com mation between the two agencies that support driver functions. For customers, the Georgia’s new online Georgia DRIVES system will enable more absentee ballot request portal self-service options, improve customer servGeorgia Secretary of State Brad ice, and enhance data integrity. Driver examRaffensperger has developed a new online iners will have upgraded equipment and portal for Georgia voters to request absentee technology improving customer service. ballots for the November elections. Georgia Carroll County Mental Health voters with a driver’s license or state ID card will now be able to request an absentee bal- postpones annual fundraiser until next year due to CoVID lot entirely online.

In light of the continuing public health Raffensperger said, “We are encouraging Georgia voters who are particularly vulner- emergency due to CoVID, the Carroll able to the COVID-19 threat to use our new County Mental Health Advocates Program online absentee ballot request portal to (CMHA) is postponing its annual request absentee ballots safely and securely Masquerade Ball event until 2021. After from their computers or phones. This new careful consideration, the board of directors tool will help counties stay on top of the sev- unanimously voted to postpone the 2020 eral million absentee ballot requests “Unmasking Mental Illness” Masquerade Ball. CMHA Executive Director, Jodie expected in November.”

Georgia voters will be able to request their Goodman, said the decision was made to ballot via the portal using their first and last help ensure the safety of our community name, date of birth, county where they are partners and guests.

“Our first priority is the safety of the comregistered, and Georgia State ID or Georgia Driver’s License number. Voters will get a munity and not putting anyone at risk,” confirmation email that their request has Goodman said. “The board has decided to been entered into the system. Also, voters postpone the event for this year, but still can monitor their ballot status on My Voter celebrate our honoree, Dr. Fred Richards.”

The agency is creating a video tribute to Page.

Absentee ballots requested for the Dr. Richards and his lifelong work within November 2020 presidential election cannot the mental health community, both in Carroll County and the state of Georgia. The video be sent out before September 15.

In the past, Georgia voters had to down- will be available on CMHA’s social media load and print an absentee ballot request, pages and website in October 2020.

The annual Masquerade Ball, CMHA’s then scan and email it or put it in the mail.

While the State ID or driver’s license biggest fundraiser, provides funds to benefit number provide a secure safeguard for peer support activities and services for indirequesting ballots, the ballots themselves viduals living with mental illness and addicwill still be verified by matching the voter tion, crisis response services for Carroll signature to their signature on file upon sub- County citizens, and an array of other promission. A record 1.6 million absentee ballot grams and services for both individuals and requests were received for the June primary, their families affected by mental illness. inundating county elections officials. This Donations are still being accepted. The 2021 portal will make processing the large num- event will be held on the first Saturday in ber of absentee ballot requests expected for October at the Venue on Cedar Street, the November election easier for county Carrollton. For more information, contact election officials to process quickly and accurately.

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Jodie Goodman: chmadvocacy@gmail.com, 770-830-2048; www.ccmhadvocates.org

UWG waiving ACT/SAT score requirements for 2021

Following guidance from the University System of Georgia, the University of West Georgia will waive ACT and SAT test score

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requirements for prospective freshman applicants for spring, summer and fall 2021 admission.

Students must still meet all other admission requirements and must meet adjusted minimum grade point average eligibility

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Georgia Department of Driver Services joins “DRIVES” system

Georgia Department of Driver Services DDS) is changing the way the state provides driver licensing services by joining the Driver Record and Integrated Vehicle Enterprise System or (DRIVES). This system replaces the DDS Licensing System used since the 1990s. DRIVES is a joint two-phase modernization project between the Georgia Department of Revenue (DOR) and Department of Driver Services (DDS).

The first phase of DRIVES was completed May 2019 and replaced the Title and Registration System utilized by DOR and the 159 County Tax Commissioners and their Tag Offices.

DRIVES Phase 2 is about halfway complete and will replace the State Driver’s Licensing System which has been utilized since the 1990s. DDS is on schedule to launch on January 18, 2021.

“When designing any new process, DDS strives to balance the vital need for modernization with enhancing the protection of customer information while remaining customer service focused,” said DDS Commissioner Spencer R. Moore.

Fast Enterprises, LLC was awarded the State-bid project and has a proven track record of on-time and on-budget delivery, completing projects both in Georgia and for

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channel inmate skills and labor is saving Carroll County taxpayers significant money. prisoner may come here from a convicting Richards stated, “Think of me as a staffing court any closer than two counties away. agency”. The prison, he said is officially This is to help prevent familiarity with categorized as a “work camp”. He said many prison employees, and even the warden inmates have heating and air experience, himself. there are electricians, plumbers, brick Prior to becoming warden, Richards was masons, and carpenters. He has inmates at Captain of the Criminal Investigations the courthouse, cleaning, grass cutting and Division at the Carroll County Sheriff’s maintenance; assigned to county mainteOffice. During his 35 year career, so far, nance crews; and in other areas throughout Warden Richards has served as a Sergeant of the county. Richards attributes Carroll the Special Operations Unit, Lieutenant in County 2018 savings to $4.1 million and the Training Division, Captain over the Jail 2019 savings of $4.2 million directly to the Division and also use his work programs.

The prison is officially worked for Carroll With a budget of $3.2 County Fire and million and only being categorized as a “work Rescue early on. reimbursed with camp”.. . . Prison inmates According to approximately $1.29 used bedsheets to create Warden Richards, the million from the state of most common offense between 8000-10,000 masks Georgia, Richards said for inmates in Carroll “we lose money to for local use during the County Prison is drug house these inmates”. current pandemic (since related, “even with But, the county benefits involuntary manslaughoverall with the savings mid-March) and are ter or vehicular homiof taxpayer funds. continuing to make and cide” it’s quite often “About $18 dollars a distribute them throughout the day” Richards said, is drug related, he said.

He asked if anyone what it costs him to pay community where needed knew the difference in for inmate labor, much the uniforms issued for jail inmates and less than the cost of paying even the current prison inmates? The warden said the jail minimum wage of $7.25 per hour. inmate uniform is designed with black and “They love to get out,” Richards white stripes, and the prison inmate uniform responded to a question about whether is a white shirt and white pants with a blue inmates want to work on the labor crews he stripe (sometimes an orange shirt). described. In fact, “my inbox at the office Richards shared that the prison prepares was full” with requests to work extra duty and serves 738 meals a day to the 246 cur- during the Labor Day weekend. rent inmates, consisting of two hot meals Other benefits the prison has provided is and one cold meal. the making of masks to help combat the Richards described how being able to spread of Covid-19. Prison inmates used

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Shown above left is Prison Warden Jeff Richards, with Carrollton Kiwanis Club Vice President Dale Williams. Photo by Daniel Jackson bedsheets to create between 8000-10,000 masks for local use during the current pandemic (since mid-March) and are continuing to make and distribute them throughout the community where needed.

Mitigating risk for the prison staff and inmate population is something the warden elaborated on. Inmates are temperature screened twice daily. Each inmate is issued 2-3 masks daily and areas are cleaned thoroughly and repeatedly. Only two staff members have contracted the virus, he said, both from outside the prison. Both staff members were quarantined, and their cases were considered mild, he said.

In addition to work programs, the prison

operates educational and re-entry programs.

A ten-month welding program, run through and in conjunction with West Georgia Technical College, offers inmates the opportunity to become a certified welder upon completion. The warden shared several stories of success from these programs.

Neva Lomason Memorial Library in Carrollton and the Whitesburg Public Library have also donated many books to the prison. This enabled Richards to re-institute the prison library, allowing inmates to check books.

Then, the warden began to speak quite enthusiastically about a project he hopes will See TRANSITIONAL CENTER page 13

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Since that feeling is still to be so.

In addition, there will be a teacher who have SAT/ACT scores may still submit for up to 50 percent of the certiperson voters expected in November.”

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by Cleveland Bruceplace andhas Karen Cross, is for now extending untilisJuly 12th 2020, emphasizSee NEW NORMAL 17 spectrum. We need programs that page produce “I to also understand the importance of folour acquisition admin@monenia4senate.com.

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I would industry partners throughout the district and welcomes hearing from make community better and more inclu“Once our teachers create curriculum maps from Carrollton City Schools in 1985.

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Karen Cross asked about what transmission of CoVID-19.

The governor Our 26-acre perpetual care memorial park re perpetual care memorial park support policies that promote necessary eduvowClark, work Chambers State Representative District 18 Our 26-acre perpetual carestudents memorial park sive when creating policies. for the fall the teachers and will rapson, graduated from Villa Rica High Cleveland feels he was isthis the best hearing that ittoward is due to paperwork, testing, was developed to serve area nowperson and for for the next step their college career,” This change is will allow a largerthat number Secretary of State and GEMA/HS. Carroll FSA Administrator Richard Fordyce said. was developed to serve this area now and for precautions are in place at the winery due to has remained vocal about the importance of was developed to serve this area now and for was developed to serve thisHighower area now and for cation, training, and retraining will ped to serve this area now and for Commerce and programs like ‘Grow candidate Cason was developed to serve this area now and for “My earnest desire is to be a beacon of idly fill any instructional gaps that might School in 2007, while Jace, his other son, the job because of his hands-on knowledge and a lack of time to spend with their generations to come.West Georgia said Dr. Justin Barlow, director of admisof certified organic operations to receive requested 600 masks, 400 face FSATomorrow’ county office to revive staple generations toshared come.West Georgia thethe coronavirus.

She that their tastea “Contact the and who the medically compromised generations to come.West Georgia industries anddistance attract new ones Haralson’your and local ‘Carroll to congenerations to come.West Georgia Carroll County native, Cason Hightower, tions to come.West Georgia hopeelderly for those feel like politicians do county generations to come.West Georgia have been created by any learning graduated from VRHS in 2013. of system.

He has seen it as a teacher, families.”

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Eventothough, Carrollpartners County students are funding, coach, and a board member.

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The PPE request comes valuable USDA resources, like farm loans gardens including our traditional up-right time, but guests are welcome to come out to citizens to continue to wear masks while in gardens including our traditional up-right Funeral Directors & Undertakers The quality of life in West Georgia new employment opportunities in the 18th District 18 to send her the Gold Dome as currently engaged in distance learning, gardens including our&to traditional up-right Funeral Directors & traditional Undertakers cluding our traditional up-right ests at heart,” Edwards said. in “I our wantsystem to be actually gardens including up-right to Funeral Directors &our Undertakers Funeral Directors Undertakers Cleveland said, “We must continue goes on in classrooms a day to attention.

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The hand saniand handlers of agricultural prod- of llowing social distancing or out producers strong restrictions, safety and State and our Mausoleum in the Garden and our Mausoleum in the Garden provide the infrastructure and proper overbetter jobs and opportunity to West Georgia. tions in both Haralson and Carroll PACs.” and our Mausoleum in the Garden r Mausoleum in the Garden and our Mausoleum in the Garden said.

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The next of the November elections. organic certification under the USDA’s PERSONALIZED FUNERAL & CREMATION SERVICES is not jeopardized,” she said. race endorsed by the Georgia Chamber of in the 18th district.

Other than my years PERSONALIZED FUNERAL & CREMATION SERVICES WEST GEORGIA MEMORIAL community partners in journey,” she PERSONALIZED FUNERAL & CREMATION SERVICES PERSONALIZED FUNERAL & CREMATION SERVICES WEST GEORGIA MEMORIAL LOCALLY OWNED & OPERATED cannot seem to get hired.”

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She promises to lisHightower said the area is blessed with my life.

I know the needs for this area.”

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Elizabeth Phillips Bryce, Anna Fazio, age James Dewey 90, bornLee January 24, ageage Dana Thomas Shick, ageJuly 45, September business.

“I remain committed to Knight, giving Nichols, 66,66, that Marie help low-income families by conducting age 58, died July 22,born 2019 Marie Elizabeth Phillips Bryce, Anna Marsella Fazio, age ageRandy Randy Lee Nichols, Marie Elizabeth Phillips Bryce, Anna Marsella Fazio, age age 58, died 22, 2019 three weeks ofMarsella early voting.

County Board of Randy Lee Nichols, age Marie Elizabeth Phillips Bryce, Anna Marsella Fazio, age age 58, died July 22, 2019 Marsella Fazio, age wipes Marie Elizabeth Phillips Bryce, Anna Marsella Fazio, age Randy Lee Nichols, age 66,66,age Randy Lee Nichols, age 66, 58, died July 22, 2019 age 58, died July 2019 to protect both elections staff and votRandy Lee Nicho cabin offered small22, weddings, covered Most ofborn Carroll County restaurants are back to the community which has given so born Reven Jim Embry, age 85, born September food drives and offering utility bill age 89, September 14, 1929, 85, born onfor Jan 1, 1934, died June 24, 1953, died Friday, 1929, died Sunday, January 12, 2020 2, 1974, died Sunday, January 19, 2020 Wallace Allen Worthan, age age 89, born September 14, 1929, 85, born on Jan 1, 1934, died Voter turnout in November is expected to Education.

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Waterfowl hunters, are you ready to get out in the field? Then get ready for early teal and early Canada goose hunting seasons, according to the Georgia Department of Natural Resources’ Wildlife Resources Division. Early Canada goose season is Sept. 5-27, 2020 with a daily limit of 5 geese, and early teal season is Sept. 12-27, 2020, with a daily limit of 6 teal.

People can hunt at any of the Georgia Wildlife Management Areas (WMA) that are open for small game hunting during the statewide teal and goose seasons, or even at beaver ponds and other natural wetlands (ensure you have permission to hunt any private property). Lakes and reservoirs such as Juliette, Clarks Hill, West Point, and Seminole offer great hunting opportunities for both teal and geese.

“Look for teal in shallow water areas with submerged or emergent vegetation for teal to feed on,” said State Waterfowl Biologist Greg Balkcom. “Look for geese in open water areas near pastures or other grassy openings along the bank. Geese are grazers, and they prefer to fly into an area, land on the water then walk up the bank to feed on nearby grasses.”

Waterfowl hunters need a hunting license, the Georgia migratory bird stamp and the federal duck stamp. Licenses may be purchased at www.GoOutdoorsGeorgia.com.

More information about waterfowl hunting at https://georgiawildlife.com/migratorybird-info.

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“It is an honor and a blessing to be able to give something back to public education and our community,” said Earlene Bryson, who noted the contribution was made in honor their parents, Minnie Morgan Bryson and Earle and Neta Riddle Caylor, in addition to countless coworkers, educational leaders, parents, and students who have given their lives meaning over the years.

Fleck noted the Bryson family’s ties to education not only are personal , but professional. Jewell Bryson is a retired University of West Georgia professor and Earlene Bryson dedicated her working life to Carrollton City schools as a teacher, counselor and district director for almost two decades.

“This family’s donation falls in line with the financial commitment our own teachers make to support our mission,” said Laurie Fleck, executive director, Carrollton City Schools Education Foundation. She said close to 70% of employees contribute to the Employee Giving Fund, an $80,000 endowment that is earmarked for teacher grants.

The Brysons’ son, David Bryson, is one of them. He has been a Carrollton High School English teacher since 2014. “As an alum and teacher at CHS, I give a small monthly contribution directly from my paycheck to give back to other teachers and their amazingly engaged classroom environments,” he said.

“Just $10-$20 a month per person can make a great impact.” www.carrolltoncityschools.net

Georgia drivers age 64+ may now renew or replace driver’s license Four more Carroll County schools have via mail or fax

Four more Carroll County Schools earn National STEM Certiication

Georgia drivers age 64 or older may now renew or replace their driver’s license without visiting a DDS center in person. A recent DDS rule change allows the required vision exam to be submitted with their application remotely as long as it has been completed by a licensed optometrist or ophthalmologist.

Georgia Law O.C.G.A. § 40-5-33(4)(c)(1) requires that customers 64 years of age and older take and pass a Vision Exam prior to receiving or renewing a Driver’s License. A recent DDS rule change allows these customers to submit their vision exams All customers may complete the vision exam at a DDS Customer Service Center.

Customer 64 years of age or older who cannot visit a DDS location may also: Complete the DDS Online Application Submit the following by mail or fax: Vision Report (DDS-MR-274) or a vision exam dated within the last two years Two proofs of physical Georgia residency Pay the $32 License Fee with a credit card using the Credit Card Payment Authorization Form (DDS-100) by secure fax to (678) 413-8555.

Customers may also mail a money order, cashier’s check or personal check for payment to the following address: Georgia Department of Driver Services (DDS), Attn: Central Issuance, PO Box 80447, Conyers, GA 30013 Bryson family contributes $30,000 These customers will be mailed or to Carrollton City Schools for emailed a temporary paper license to the teachers grants, scholarships, more address they provide. Customers should A Carrollton family known for its allow up to 30 days to receive their Driver’s decades-long loyalty to Carrollton City License in the mail.

been named Nationally Certified STEM Campuses by the National Institute for STEM Education (NISE). Bowdon Elementary School, Ithica Elementary School, Central High School, and Temple High School are the most recent Carroll County schools to earn National STEM Certification for their efforts in integrating Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics into hands-on, real world experiences for their students.

NISE recognizes individual school campuses for their commitment to the growth and implementation of 21st-century learning and STEM strategies that transform school culture and maximize student achievement.

“Making STEM education a priority supports our district’s initiatives of encouraging students to be future-focused, have a growth mindset, and prepare to be enrolled, enlisted, or employed after graduation,” stated Scott Cowart, Superintendent of Carroll County School System. The district currently has 10 District STEM certified schools, 8 Nationally STEM certified schools, and 1 Internationally STEM certified elementary school. Carroll County School System is one of only three districts in Georgia to have a District STEM certification process and the only system in the state with a STEAM certification process.

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Governor selects three from Carroll County to serve on state board and authority Patrick Denney, Aaron McWhorter, and Ben Garrett from press release Recently, Governor Brian Kemp announced his selection of twenty-five appointees to serve on various state boards and commissions. Three of those appointees live in Carroll County.

Apppointed to the Georgia Board of Natural Resources is Patrick Denney who owns and operates SLM Recycling, Inc., owns interests in SLM Steel & Fabrication, and staffs both Carroll and Heard County Convenience Centers. He is a lifelong resident of Carroll County and graduated in 1990 with a bachelor’s degree in Marketing from what is now the University of West Georgia. He has served as the deacon and a Sunday school instructor at his local church for over twenty years.

In addition, he is an avid outdoorsman who owns and manages farm, timber, and hunting land in Carroll and Heard counties.

Denney and his wife, Lynne, have been mar-

ried over thirty years, and they have four children.

Appointed to the Board of Governors of the Georgia World Congress Center Authority are Aaron McWhorter and Ben Garrett.

Stanley “Aaron” McWhorter is the board chair for North Georgia Turf, Inc. He is a graduate of the University of West Georgia.

He and his wife live in Carrollton, and they have three adult children.

Wilson “Ben” Garrett is the president and CEO for RA-Lin and Associates, Inc. He provides leadership to position the company at the forefront of the construction industry and oversees the company operations to ensure production efficiency, quality, service, and cost-effective management resources.

Garrett earned his bachelor’s degree in Civil Engineering from Auburn University.

He and his wife, Kristi, live in Carrollton, and they have four adult children.

from press release Eight crewmen from Carroll Electric Membership Cooperative traveled to Jennings, Louisiana, on Saturday, Aug. 29th, to assist Jeff Davis Electric Cooperative (JDEC) with cleanup and power restoration in the aftermath of Hurricane Laura.

When the severe weather hit, damaging winds and heavy rain blew electric poles and structures to the ground and knocked hundreds of trees on power lines, shutting off power to thousands of EMC consumers. The Louisiana cooperative reported 100% of their members were without power following the storm, and were expected to remain in the dark for an extended period due to the extent of damage. The hurricane made landfall as a Category 4, making it one of the strongest storms to hit Louisiana since Hurricane Katrina in late August 2005.

Mutual aid from fellow cooperatives, including Carroll EMC, arrived to provide needed assistance and equipment to begin the restoration process. Carroll EMC linemen have extensive experience in restoring power following destruction from a variety of weather events, including ice storms,

tornadoes and hurricanes like Louisiana experienced.

“Our hearts go out to those who have felt the devastation of Hurricane Laura,” said Tim Martin, President and CEO for Carroll EMC. “Our community extends beyond our own service territory, and we are always ready to help our fellow cooperatives when they are in need. It’s more than a duty or obligation but a mutual care for one another.”

Carroll EMC is a member-owned cooperative providing electricity to approximately 50,000 homes and businesses.

Carroll EMC will be hosting their annual meeting once again, but this year it will be a mail-in event instead of in-person due to CoVID-19. The cooperative will be holding a drawing for members for a vehicle giveaway.

(See Page 7.)

The co-op serves Members in Carroll, Haralson, Heard, Paulding, Polk, Floyd and Troup counties. This institution is an equal opportunity provider and employer.

For more information visit the cooperative’s website at carrollemc.com or follow Carroll EMC on Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Pinterest, Instagram and LinkedIn.

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UWG postpones all fall sports until January 2021 due to CoVID-19 from press release The University of West Georgia (UWG), Carrollton, has joined the other twelve institutions of the Gulf South Conference (GSC) to postpone fall semester competitions for football, soccer, volleyball, and basketball, UWG and GSC officials announced.

The Gulf South Conference will continue to evaluate several options regarding football, volleyball, and soccer, including the possibility of competition in the spring. The league will develop an adjusted men’s and women’s basketball schedule for release at a later date, but no changes have been made concerning spring semester competitions.

“Postponing the fall season was certainly a difficult decision to be made,” said Daryl Dickey, director of UWG Athletics. “Our athletes have put in countless hours of hard

work to earn their places on our teams and the opportunity to represent our institution.

They are what inspire every one of us who works in intercollegiate athletics. However, their health and safety are our highest priorities, and this decision aligns with those priorities.”

Men’s and Women’s Cross-Country will be permitted to compete in a full schedule this fall, with the GSC Cross-Country Championship to be adjusted from the original date to better accommodate the calendar.

Men’s and Women’s Golf will be permitted to play the non-championship segment of their schedule this fall. The University of West Georgia will develop the fall 2020 schedule for those two sports, and those schedules will be released as soon as information becomes available.

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New seed bank: “Saving Appalachian Gardens and Stories” project

by Josh Paine for CAES News Gold may be rare in the north Georgia mountains, but now the region boasts a seed bank that might be worth just as much to Appalachian natives and local gardening enthusiasts.

Becky Griffin, community and school garden coordinator for University of Georgia Cooperative Extension, has partnered with the University of North Georgia (UNG) to host a secondary site for heirloom seeds from the mountain region at the UGA College of Agricultural and Environmental

“Give it a Shot” shooting range classes: limited space available from press release Little to no experience operating a firearm or bow? “Give It a Shot” classes focus on those with little to no experience in operating a firearm or archery equipment, according to the Georgia Department of Natural Resources’ Wildlife Resources Division (WRD).

“Give It A Shot” classes are open to men and women age 12 years old or older, and upon completion, participants will understand, and can demonstrate, how to safely handle, operate, maintain and store a firearm or bow. Registration is required and space is limited for all classes.

Attendees will only use firearms or bows provided by WRD (participants will not need or be able to use personal firearms at any scheduled event).

For more information about the “Give It A Shot” program or to see a listing of currently scheduled events, visit https://georgiawildlife.com/give-it-a-shot.

Chamber receives grant to fund an “emerging leaders” program in 2021

from press release The J.W. Fanning Institute for Leadership Development, a unit of UGA Public Service and Outreach, will partner with the Carroll County Chamber of Commerce for the development and implementation of an emerging leaders program scheduled to launch in 2021. It will focus on Relationship Building, Personal/ Professional Development, and Civic Engagement. The goal of the program is to provide programming for young professionals to foster growth and leadership skills.

“We are honored to work, once again, with the Fanning Institute. Our successful Junior Chamber program is an example of the result of collaborating with the Fanning Institute to build a strong, sustainable leadership program,” said Daniel Jackson, President and CEO of the Carroll County Chamber and Carroll Tomorrow. “Through the Innovations in Community Leadership Initiative, our team will have the opportunity to develop a diverse leadership program that encourages the growth and development of young professionals.”

For more information please visit: www.carroll-ga.org

Sciences Mountain Research and Education Center in Blairsville.

Beginning in 2006, UNG’s “Saving Appalachian Gardens and Stories” project has collected, grown and shared seeds to preserve the area’s heritage as part of the Appalachian Studies Center in UNG’s College of Education.

“The Upland Mountain South is home to some of the highest levels of agrobiodiversity in North America,” said Karrie Ann Fadroski, the project founder and UNG senior lecturer in biology. “Here, many gardeners continue to maintain their folk crop varieties that have been passed down through their family and community.”

Seeds for cultivars like ‘Mr. Lovell’s Wintergreens’, ‘Aunt Cora’s Sunburst Tomatoes’ and ‘Lillian Marshall Bean’ that have been passed down for generations will now be stored in refrigeration at UGA’s

Mountain Research and Education Center.

Expanding to a second location is critical to ensure there are plenty of seeds available as a backup.

“Some of these seeds that have been collected might be the only ones that are left,” said Griffin, an active seed saver and part of the Seed Savers Exchange and Community Seed Network nonprofits.

“Seed saving and sharing can be an important way for many cultures to preserve their heritage,” she explained. “What makes people feel like they’re at home is what’s in their garden.”

Seed saving can also be taught in collaboration with school gardens and intertwined with history lessons, Griffin noted.

Blairsville’s Georgia Mountain Research and Education Center is an hour north of UNG’s main campus in Dahlonega. It’s been

a center of agricultural research since the 1930s and is a fixture of the mountain community.

“We have a long history in preserving our mountain heritage with native plants and promoting their use in the landscape through social programs,” said center Superintendent Ray Covington. “It is our pleasure to continue this tradition by providing a secondary site to save and preserve historic Appalachian seeds.”

Learn more about the CAES Mountain Research and Education Center at gamountain.caes.uga.edu. For more information about saving and storing seeds, see UGA Extension Bulletin 1486, “Variety Selection and Seed Saving for Organic Growers,” at extension.uga.edu/publications.

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Villa Rica Main Street’s”Leadership Luncheon” series adapts to CoVID-style public meetings as it continues to bring executives and entrepreneurs to discuss business trends and challenges

by Prissi Sullivan The year round “Leadership Luncheon Series”, hosted by Villa Rica Main Street and organized by Janet Chumley, Main Street manager, has the goal of “bringing together executives, entrepreneurs, educational leaders and innovators from throughout the region to discuss trends, challenges and opportunities facing their respective fields”. This one-hour informative luncheon is open to the public and held bi-monthly on the 2nd Wednesday. Adapting to CoVIDstyle meeting restrictions, in-person seats (and accompanying meals) are at The Venue in downtown Villa Rica, Georgia. Other participants may access the presentation through the internet video conferencing application named Zoom. Past luncheons were regularly at capacity (in-person) seating, approximately 80 attendees.

The most recent Leadership Luncheon was held Wednesday, August 12th, with James E. Love III, chairman and CEO of Printpack, sharing his experience and insights. Love was video conferencing from his office in Atlanta, to a room of approximately 20 attendees, with many participating through zoom.

CEO Love began with a brief history of his family’s business that his father started.

Printpack is a privately owned business headquartered in Atlanta. It was founded in 1956 by J. Erskine Love, Jr. as a printing company whose original product was cellophane bags. It has grown into a flexible and rigid packaging company specializing in food, beverage, pharmaceutical, and agricultural industries.

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In a well spaced event room, Villa Rica Main Street hosts the August “Leadership Luncheon” with guest speaker on “Zoom” (video conferencing). Villa Rica City Council member Michael Young (back facing camera) asks a question.

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ment conducts many types of fraud and abuse investigations throughout the year on unemployment claims to ensure the accuracy of benefit payments made and to assure that workers are accurately reported. We thank you Mark Butler for your assistance.”

The commissioner also stated that some of the fraud comes from activity not originating in the United States, “There are some signs of fraud from overseas activity. . . during one weekend in July, there were over 40,000 claims made in 48 hours. Now, many of those claims were valid, but that surge was unusual.”

To further prevent fraud, the Georgia Labor Department is partnering with “ID.me” to verify claimant identification.

ID.me is free for claimants and is a secure method for validating personal information, ensuring your unemployment claim account is not accessed by someone else.

ID.me offers support, including video chat with trained staff members to help you quickly and easily verify your identity.

When you are asked to verify your identity, you will be directed to the GDOL ID.me validation page and given steps to follow.

Upon successful verification, you will receive an email within 24 hours advising of any further steps. Your identity must be verified by the deadline to avoid further delay or denial of unemployment benefits.

GDOL offers several options to report suspected cases of unemployment benefit fraud, identity theft, job refusals and failed

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The preferred method to submit a report of suspected UI fraud and abuse is through the Online Reporting system. All tips received are investigated regardless of how much information is provided. However, the more details you can provide, the more you will aid in the investigation. Listed below are the different ways fraud occurs: - Individuals receiving UI and not Bull Proof reporting earnings, not searching for work, Large Capacity currently incarcerated, not able to look for or Calf Friendly accept work, or self-employed) - Individual was offered a job and refused Portable the job or refused a job interview Keeps Minerals in - Individual accepted a job and did not Keeps Wind, Water report to work - Individual was offered a job contingent Out and Snow O on passing a Pre-Employment Drug Test and Works great with a truck tire 99 either refused to take the test or failed the Tire not included.

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come to fruition here in Carroll County.

“A transitional center is what I’m really on fire about trying to build”, he said, asserting that “transitional centers are the way to go if you really want to educate somebody to come back into the community.”

In a transitional center, offenders move into a management program, and seek jobs in the community with help of an employment manager that works with the prison.

They pay a small portion of room and board

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Children ages 2 to 18 are eligible for breakfast and lunch meals each school day.

In addition to feeding in-person learners, daily pickup for at-home learners also will be available. Meals will be distributed via the school nutrition food trailer at a convenient location on campus.

While free meals will be available to all students through Dec. 31, for families to continue receiving the benefit beginning in January, they must complete the application by the Oct. 8 deadline. Submit application online: carrollton.rocketscanapps.com/.

Paper applications are also available at each school.

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visits to Carroll Country, including when he visited the StarNews office in Carrollton for a one-on-one campaign interview in September 2017; and when covereded his inauguration in person after having received an official invitation.

Prissi Sullivan was born in Macon, Georgia on April 1, 1951 the daughter of the late Noah Lee Lumpkin and Marian Lane Durden Lumpkin.

She graduated from Georgia College in Milledgeville, Georgia with a Bachelors Degree in Sociology. She was a former educator and most recently worked many years as a reporter with StarNews as well as with the U. S. Census Bureau.

Prissi was active in her community: member of the Golden City Lions Club; member, Villa Rica Friends of the Library; founding member of the West Georgia Soccer Association; board member of the former Villa Rica Midget Football Association; and member Villa Rica Recreation Advisory Board.

Survivors include her husband, David Sullivan; daughter and son-in-law, Shannon and Drew Pounds of Temple, Georgia; son and daughter-in-law, Jeffery and Dana Sullivan of Dallas, Georgia; grandchildren, Westyn Danny Sullivan, Chandler David Pounds and Tinley Elizabeth Sullivan; brother, Sidney Lumpkin, Medford, Oregon.

Several nieces and nephews also survive.

Graveside services were held at Hillcrest Cemetery in Villa Rica, Georgia on Wednesday, September 9, 2020 at 10:00 a.m. with Rev. John Latimer officiating, Eulogies: Drew Pounds, Sue Horn, Valerie Runyon, and David Lumpkin. Pallbearers: Kenny Barnwell, Adam Blackmon, John Rakestraw, Clint Chance, David Lumpkin and Sean Sullivan. Honorary pallbearer: Lukas Sullivan.

Those desiring may make a contribution to The Prissi Sullivan Academic Decathlon Scholarship Fund, 600 Rocky Branch Road, Villa Rica, Georgia 30180 or the Villa Rica Golden City Lions Club, P. O. Box 1945, Villa Rica, Georgia 30180.

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back to the prison and upon release, retain more money than the current “$25-dollar check, a set of clean clothes and a bus ticket” he said.

Richards has reached out to the state of Georgia as a first step towards building interest and support for a transitional center. He said it could be built next to the prison on existing prison grounds at 96 Horsley Mill Road, Carrollton.

The club announced they will be hosting the 5th annual Bob Reeves Memorial 5K on Saturda,y Sept. 26, 2020, Hobbs Farm, Carrollton, Greenbelt Trailhead. Participants may register: www.active.com/carrollton-gaga/running/carrollton/kiwanis-5th-annualbob-reeves-memorial-5k-race-2020. Race will begin at 8AM For more information on becoming a club member, contact Club President Cathy Farley at cathyp1919@gmail.com

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Meet-and-Greet for United States Senator Kelly Loeffler at Carrollton Train Depot brings several other state officials in united show of support

100+ local attendees also got the opportunity to meet with Georgia Lieutenant Governor Geoff Duncan, Attorney General Chris Carr, Insurance Commissioner John King and Public Service Commissioner Tim Echols

In addition to the congresswoman, notable speakers in attendance to voice their support story and photos by Daniel Jackson Carroll County Commission Chair Michelle Morgan hosted a meet-and-greet event at for her were Lieutenant Governor Geoff Duncan, Attorney General Chris Carr, Insurance Tuesday, September 1st, 2020 at The Bradley Street Train Depot in Carrollton. The event’s and Safety Fire Commissioner John King and Public Service Commissioner Tim Echols. purpose was to give area voters an opportunity to meet Republican United States Senator Although not addressed as a campaign event, there was a table available for donations.

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Page 14 Kelly Loeffler photo Upon arrival, each guest’s temperature was taken to check for fever and offered a mask. Shown above is Public Service Commissioner Tim Echols being checked; he brought his own mask. Photo by Daniel Jackson

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Congresswoman Kelly Loeffler addresses a welcoming crowd inside the renovated historic Carrollton Train Depot on Bradley Street, Carrollton on Tuesday, September 1, 2020.. Photo by Daniel Jackson

Carroll County Commission Chair Michelle Morgan, above left, organized the Meet-and-Greet event. She is shown with Lieutenant Governor Geoff Duncan, each wearing a CoVid-protective mask. Photo by Daniel Jackson

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As attendees arrived, a small group of less than 20 counter-protestors gathered on a sidewalk across from the depot holding signs in support of the Democratic Presidential Nominee Joe Biden. While several protestors did loudly voice their opinions, the demonstration was peaceful.

The approximate hour and half event started promptly at 12:30 p.m. With just under 100 people in attendance, each attendee was temperature screened, and masks were made available at the door for those without them.

After a prayer of invocation, Insurance Commissioner King, a former Carroll County resident, took the stage, thanking all for maintaining a quality of life here, and for making it a safe and special place to live.

He had told StarNews in a separate interview, that he and his young family had lived in Carrollton years ago during the time he was a police officer working in another county. He relayed that, at that time, he felt a sense of comfort in knowing his family was safe in Carroll County, while he was away on the job.

Addressing the mostly masked crowd, he stated, “I’m not a politician, I’m a law man and a soldier”, referencing his distinguished background in both law enforcement as an Atlanta Police Officer, then Doraville Chief of Police and as a Major General in the U.S. Army National Guard. Additionally, King served with the FBI and DEA as a Task Force Agent.

Drawing comparison to Senator Loeffler, King said he appreciates her because “she’s not a professional politician”, a quality that for many, has helped build her popularity.

Commissioner King then introduced Attorney General Carr. Carr immediately went to work laying out the accomplishments of Senator Loeffler’s eight-month tenure in office thus far, including over 50 bills introduced, with two signed into law, and yet another about to be signed.

In the Attorney General’s comments, he promoted Senator Loeffler as the right person to help the country get out of its current financial crisis, as well as to keep Georgia safe. In closing, Carr welcomed Lieutenant Governor Duncan to the stage.

Lieutenant Governor Duncan made brief remarks before introducing Senator Loeffler, heralding her toughness and determination to protect life as well as protecting second amendment rights, asserting that such issues are not just wishes but “a need”.

Loeffler drew enthusiastic and extended applause as she removed her mask and stepped to the microphone.

Senator Loeffler expressed pride in being an “outsider”, emphasizing that “more outsiders” are what’s needed in Washington.

Outside, a train horn loudly sounded, seemingly timed, as she illustrated that her background, being the daughter and granddaughter of military veterans, born and raised on her family farm, having worked in her farm’s fields from the age of 11 had made her appreciative of the value of hard work, and what that means to give back.

Being the first of her family to graduate college, she described how her tenacious drive and determination ultimately led her to the U.S. Senate.

Loeffler echoed Lieutenant Governor Duncan’s comments, focusing her comments to her determination to protect

Above: approximately 100 people attended the event, most wearing protective masks. Photo by Daniel Jackson the “sanctity of life”, naming her multiple endorsements from pro-life organizations.

She vowed to never “water down our second amendment”, contending “the left wants to take away our guns”.

The senator discussed that she has introduced the Gun Owners Privacy Act (GOP Act), prohibiting the Federal Government from creating a database of legal gun owners.

Loeffler summarily expressed her support for defunding sanctuary cities, calling for the strengthening of borders, finishing the U.S. and Mexico border wall and ridding America of violent gangs.

Attendees cheered as she declared her Shown above left and right, are Public Service Commissioner Tin Echols resolve to stand up to China, holding them and Insurance Commissioner John King. Each spoke at the event, voicing accountable for not only the Covid-19 their support for Loeffler. Photo by Daniel Jackson pandemic, but the theft of intellectual property, manufacturing jobs and more. The senator vowed to “always have the backs of our men and women in blue”, pledging to always fight for conservative values.

Senator Loeffler closed by thanking all in attendance for their tremendous support, which she credited for conservative momentum, promising to continue to fight for them. Attendees mingled with the senator and others for a chance to speak personally or share a photo with them.

Other notables attendees included included State Senator Mike Dugan, Carrollton Mayor Betty Cason, Carrollton City Manager Tim Grizzard, newly elected State Court Judge Erica Tisinger, Carroll County School Board Member Sandra Morris, Carroll County Commissioner District 1 Montrell McLendon, Carroll County Commissioner District 4 Steve Fuller, and Carrollton City Schools Superintendent Mark Albertus.

Shown above left and right, are Carrollton City Manager Tim Grizzard and (Masks were worn by most everyone, thus inhibiting identification of more notable Mayor Betty Cason in attendance for the Loeffler Meet-and-Greet inside the attendees.) train depot. Photo by Daniel Jackson

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active service in Kiwanis. He also serves as a member of the Development Council affiliated with UWG’s former College of Science and Mathematics, now known as the College of Arts, Culture and Scientific Inquiry.

In 2018, Ingle and his wife established the Dr. and Mrs. Richard Ingle Experiential Learning Fund to provide hands-on opportunities for students majoring in science and mathematics.

Ingle said, “My three years of classroom and experiential learning at UWG gave me the background I would take with me for my entire career of university teaching and research, and external research for the USAF and NASA.” Bruce Bobick is a retired UWG professor of painting and drawing and former chair of the art department. A native of Pennsylvania, he received his M.F.A. from the University of Notre Dame. Prior to coming to West Georgia, he taught in the Pennsylvania public schools and at Western Illinois University.

Bobick said he looks forward to helping the Foundation financially aid students who choose to Go West.

Tonya Jackson is a 15-year veteran of RALIN and Associates Inc., a local construction management firm, where she works as a business development manager. She serves on the board of directors for Douglas County Chamber of Commerce, Douglas County Education Foundation and Douglas County Schools Partners in Education; WellStarDouglas Hospital Authority Board; committees of the Georgia Economic Developers Association and the Georgia Chamber of Commerce; and the Society of Marketing Professionals.

Amanda Lucey, a 2006 UWG alumna, is CEO and owner of The Partnership,

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Atlanta’s oldest privately held marketing and public relations agency. She serves as vice chair of the Green Chamber of the South, is a member of Junior League and Entrepreneurs Organization, and sits on the CEO roundtable of the Cobb County Chamber of Commerce. Last year, she founded a scholarship fund for first-generation college students, such as herself.

Honey Shackelford, a homemaker and community volunteer, has spent most of her adult life serving others. Once a member of Delta Delta Delta Sorority at then-West Georgia College, she served as president of the alumni chapter in Atlanta where she participated in CareAffair, the fundraiser supporting childhood cancer research and treatment, for 10 years. More recently, she has supported Piedmont Hospital in Atlanta as a member and president of its Woman’s Auxiliary. She currently serves on the Advisory Board of the auxiliary and volunteers with Meals on Wheels.

Zach Steed is senior director of business development at Conduent Inc.; partner at Sea Horse Group LLC D/B/A Captain D’s Seafood Kitchen; and partner at Red Hot Stuff LLC D/B/A Moe’s Southwest Grill. A semi-professional bluegrass musician, he serves as a member of the International Bluegrass Music Association (IBMA) and is a charter member of Conduent’s Sales Advisory Council. Steed, a UWG alumnus, said he looks forward to supporting students and advocating for the interests of the university.

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turned to look toward Norman Rockwell. desks are rearranged, informally and scatFrom my initial study of the painting of They have the stove between them, and tered. The stove now stands tallest, frontthe Oak Mountain classroom, which I had to Rockwell is bending and leaning toward and-center, in the painting. Stove is, in a thesome kids and atrical sense, the “opener”, center-stage, for do while trying to copy it In 2007, Jan Ruskell, of Carrollton, miming a “Pay this scene. for my Junior High By the way, Teacher wore her white shoes School assignment, and and like Ross Miller, a member of the Attention to did again while doing the West Georgia faculty, co-authored an Teacher” pose. It the day Rockwell visited, but there is no Census research, I have article. . . “From Rural Roots to Global is a forced, such thing in the painting. Also, there is one crowded, and pair of bare feet in the photo, but several in slowly realized that the the painting. main object in the pic- Reach”. . it contains a black-and-white comic scene.

For me, this has been a rare glimpse into Nevertheless, photograph of the day Norman ture, the tall stove, couldn’t have been where Rockwell came to Oak Mountain. It in comparing the the execution of an artistic concept. It was Rockwell had placed it in has caught my interest, for it shows painting to the only recently that I could display the photo on-site photo, and the painting on my computer, side-bythe picture, dead-center in the classroom with the how Rockwell transformed the actual you can sense side. The first night I did this I was interdesks sprawling around classroom into the one he painted. what Rockwell rupted because I needed to get to the TV to watch the beginnings of our political has in mind. it. Also, the teacher was conventions.

The blackboard and its location at the not at the head of the class. In fact, there was I found myself watching the conventions head of the class are not in the painting. no space that you could identify as the “head Gone. Teacher is now sitting down, among with the insights I had just gotten from of the class”!

Now, as a Rockwell fan, I can say, “That her students, reading a story, and all the Norman Rockwell’s visit to Carroll County. pot-belly stove serves to bring up memories of warmth and coziness.” And this is what Rockwell wants: Good feelings about a time when, as children we were comfortably together and a mother-figure would read stories to us.

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Strange, you might say, but a week later, when the Republicans were on, I had some notion about how they would want to contrast their presentation with what the Democrats had done. I was close to spot-on.

Suddenly, I had a new kind of appreciation for the political spectacle we are treated to, and a greater awareness of the technicians and artists who design and execute them.

These grander politicians along with their assistants, their gurus, and their sponsors, they campaign in the political spotlight and work the political deals. In the human brain, the areas of such activities greatly overlap with Norman Rockwell’s meditations on light and shadow, the same place where Rembrandt trained.

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stuff. Strong families, make strong communities. No child should be hungry, or have lack of any kind. It would be nice to pool our resources and combat this evil. I am committing the rest of my life to serve our youth. I am using a combination of the Word of God and my own experiences to let our young people know that all things are possible through knowing who you are in

Christ, and what He did for you on the cross that you may be victorious in all that you do.

Each morning when I parked my vehicle at this particular job, I would thank God for that job. Then I heard a voice say, “Do not thank God for that job, but thank Him for being the source of that job.” I changed my prayer to, “God I thank You for being my Provider no matter where I’m working.” Not

long after that I received a phone call that the company was closing at my location. It was at that time I knew I was being called to put that prayer into practice in my life. God IS my Provider, and I know that He is the Source of my resources; thus, I can have peace as I trust in Christ and live out who I am in Him. Have a blessed day.

AFGHAN NIGHT from page 22

and had no boundaries except for those of The symphony of nervous beating muscle furthest ocean shores. Beer and whiskey moved towards angry composition, as falmade the cut and getting drunk was a prior- ling stars on parachutes made leisurely ity. Yet, in all the list of favorite things, one descent, and each man cussing, regained made all the rest lackluster. The sweet upright composure with measured careful grace. Blackhawks embrace of waiting as I drifted into Afghan night with have no need of lovers was all that really, t r u l y weapon slung, the barrel down, I raised lanterns, nor need mattered... my lighter and ground the metal wheel the help of stars, furthermore no flag I felt the dirt on flint igniting and inhaling a is needed to wave beneath me buckle, Newport’s chemical rousing. them to their destiand twice the air concussed, pursued Remaining there, I savored every drag nation, instead they by a crack and blis- of calming toxin. . . I thought it strange guide their beastly beauty with precise ter that hissed a how the constant drone of nonstop and perfect instrubrilliant white. We engines could create a comfortable ments, masterfully pressed our shadsilence that drowned the dread of weaving in sets of ows between the circumstance. . . then crushed and two and lifting dirt and flash and through obscurity willed our bodies blotted the embers of cancer on the veiled in charcoal flat, praying what polished insides of a Folgers can, silhouette survived home had never seemed so far away... skin, to slip beyond the upward hateful be lower than that lesser hill, there in mired circumstance, as glance and patient lens of foes below.

The flares were ours. They said they had illuminated prey may be, while the heat of vital metronomes surging in our throats, to see. The treacherous infidelity of convenhypnotized and choked the urge to flutter ience seemed to be unwarranted, and never had such flagrant foul been previously cast and escape.

It hung there far too long it seemed, like upon us, surely some insurgents grinned uninvited guests would linger after dinner from hillsides not so far, on infidels so bells had rung, and a volley of awkward clearly fragile in open field of view, they looks were played until one side prevailed. must have rubbed their sweaty palms in

eager holy anticipation, and wet the stones that honed their daggers, long with edges formed in malice, to set upon our flock of lost and now abandoned sheep.

I don’t know why the world did not implode, nor where the shepherd went, or why the grin of certain death had chosen not to laugh. Perhaps the wolves had been erased beneath those mottled trees. Perhaps the feral predators had given pause to mourn the loss of pups. Perhaps I didn’t care about the wolves at all, and all the wild things, or how and why they were not there.

I cared about the glorious noise of rapture in our midst, those birds of conflict swirling in with symbiotic haste and relished the taste of spitting filthy grain when heads weren’t bowed in time.

I cared about the bond that formed in times of desperate trust, and those who never made it back to the sweet embrace of waiting lovers, when that was all that really, truly mattered.

They entered from the left, just past our meager mound, and perched upon the curling ground.

Outstretched talons scraped and ripped the tan veneer of that miserable plot of land.

Without another spoken word we shouldered sacks of fleeting life, and stepped into the mouths of saviors, carrying nails from yesterday.

them, and that you care about them.

We must teach our kids unity at a young age. That way we do not have to continuously beg others to change our communities; we have the power of love and unity to change them ourselves. Just think what things would look like, if we would stop putting each other down, over petty

peaceful minutes past. I scanned my team, still comatose and unaware, I let them be, there was time, no need to bring them back to life.

A makeshift door closed itself behind me with the help of nylon cord and weighted bottle, and as I drifted into Afghan night with weapon slung, the barrel down, I raised my lighter and ground the metal wheel on flint igniting and inhaling a Newport’s chemical rousing. Remaining there, I savored every drag of calming toxin, and for good measure pulled and sparked another, just outside the humble shanty’s entrance. I thought it strange how the constant drone of nonstop engines could create a comfortable silence that drowned the dread of circumstance.I forced myself to shake and rid a last complacent yawn, then crushed and blotted the embers of cancer on the polished insides of a Folgers can, home had never seemed so far away...

When I woke them from their sweetened states, most routines were similar, some would stumble up and out and wake themselves with various brands of illness, others simply sat with shoulders slumped and let the fog of dreams recede, as if in glossy contemplation of where they may have been.

As I watched them each, in introspection, through every hopeful mission, I had wished they could have seen the swell of pride and admiration, that welled within my heart, through these insignificant and most intimate of moments.

We walked that night zigzagging through the maze of burlap walls, beyond the comforts of razor wire, out past the tower’s watchful fifty’s, where footsteps land like shoveled stone, and the raucous rhythm of lungs under the weight of vest seemed to betray one’s position, arriving at the foot of some small hill of sand and rugged displaced rock, to wait like huddled dusty heaps of war for the faint and whispered distant growl of ghostly carriages, and the familiar guttural whipping of their close approach.

Uncertainty blossomed and wilted with narrowing interval beneath our Kevlar helmets and plates, and in the cupped pulse of a shared cigarette I could see their undaunted faces, masks that warriors wear to hide the throbbing of inescapable mortality, mortality that sticks like a nail through each belly, buried there tugging and tearing at hope. I pondered how these masks were made, each one unique, yet universal, as if the mold was handed down from better men than us, who bore the same impalement long before our hand was ever raised.

Hours passed in disbelief, as did the knots of frailty, and once cold chatter thawed and warmed towards home, and how we’d be when there. Some bragged of homemade feasts that nearly drove us to insanity, like shrimp and grits and sweet potato pie, topped with real whipped cream. We longed for living rooms with walls that didn’t shake, and the solace of repeated nights without the random rockets. We hoped to have the free and open roads that likely wouldn’t explode

www.starnewsgaonline.com COMMISSIONER from page 21 formance in relation to industry standards or similar departments in other counties.

That helped in the budgeting process.

There is a long way to go, but it is a start in the right direction - and it is very appreciated. And you know that we recently voted unanimously to roll back the county property tax millage rate, meaning there is no county property tax millage rate increase (which is separate from the school board millage rate, which is set by the county school board, not by the Board of Commissioners).

- Instead of blindly renewing large, annual contracts year after year without getting any bids and without any documented RFP process, our chairman now has this topic on our agenda to be discussed at our upcoming

JUDGE TISINGER from page 21 pared, follows the plain language of the law, and perhaps most of all, his ability to be fair to both sides. She does not believe in judicial activism.

Next, I wanted to know her thoughts on judicial temperament (behavior of a judge in court). While she will run a tight ship, she will not be the type of judge who yells from the bench or embarrasses people. I am certain of this.

When I asked her about what she considered important regarding individual cases, she said, “Oftentimes, people just want to be heard. As long as our people entrust me to serve, they will have that opportunity to be heard in court.”

I also brought up the idea of instituting a DUI Court in Carroll County. I was pleased to learn that she was involved when the first DUI courts in Georgia began and supports

commissioners’ retreat.

This is really appreciated and we are expected to review a complete list of such contracts and come up with a schedule of how often to obtain bids, etc.

This should prevent surprises and result in safeguarding your taxpayer dollars more carefully, as vendors will not get their substantial contracts renewed automatically without competing bids being obtained, allowing us to determine if we are paying competitive prices for such services.

- After a long period of inaction, there finally have been actual steps taken to make improvements at the Tax Assessors Office.

For example: a new board member was appointed to replace a former member, a new Chief Appraiser was put in place to manage the office, and staff are being trained creating one in Carroll County. This is critical. DUI courts save lives on the highway and help people get sober. Additionally, these courts lower the cost to county taxpayers because habitual DUI offenders are working instead of being paid for by our taxes.

We could not avoid the subject of COVID-19 and how cases are backing up every day in courts across the land. I expected a long and difficult answer. But, she simply said, “I have the work ethic and dedication to ensuring that the state court will run as efficiently as possible. At the same time, I will ensure that peoples’ rights are protected.”

Judge Erica Tisinger also has something that inspires many; character. She is unafraid to make unpopular legal decisions if she believes the decision is the right thing to do, has proven that she will enter the arena and win, and I expect to see her serve our people for many years to come.

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on customer service and professionalism.

These are much-needed steps in the right direction and we hope they will result in better services to you, the taxpayer, and more professionalism shown toward you when you ask for explanations about your home and property valuations.

These above examples are indicators that there is a move toward more accountable and responsive government within your county government. It is always a great feeling when synergy prevails and operations can run as a well-oiled machine facing the challenges and oppositions and difficulties with unity - and working well For You! I will always push for accountable and responsive Carroll County government, just as I did throughout my career in the State Department of Audits.

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So, no need to be concerned that I am going blind to problems and issues that still exist or that will arise.

As a former auditor, my senses are always attuned to ineffective and inefficient operations - and to making improvements.

It’s just nice to report that, since you voted me in to your county government a year ago, your Carroll County Board of Commissioners have addressed problems and we are operating much more cohesively to get things done for you.

I’m glad of that - and I thought you might appreciate that perspective, especially given all the negative news going on out there.

Please view my FaceBook page (Ernest “Ernie” Reynolds - District 5 County Commissioner) for updates on issues.

Meanwhile, as I said during my campaign, “I enjoy working for You.”

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Prissi Sullivan: April 1, 1951-September 3, 2020

It is with great sadness I report that Prissi Sullivan, longtime reporter and columnist for StarNews passed away as a result of serious injuries from an automobile accident. (See story front page.) She was an inspiring, loyal, hard working co-worker, and our dear EDITOR/ friend.

PUBLISHER Prissi’s “reach”, as we say in the media business, was incalculable. Over the four decades of her active involvement (and I accurately emphasize “active”) in her community and state through boards, councils, and elected officials, the U.S. Census; her active memberships in organizations civic and private; her active participation in her family and friends’ lives; plus two decades of published stories in this newspaper, it is impossible to calculate how many lives were reached by her works. And her works were solid and good. There was purpose to her actions: to make positive differences in her world, either through exposure of what should be changed for the better, or doing the work needed herself to make those improvements.

Prissi Sullivan’s strong reliable talent in story writing - whether it was investigative no-punches pulled reporting, humorous witty columns, covering political campaigns, or the many profiles she wrote on area notables - made this editor’s job easier. She was a professional through and through.

CoVID-19 restrictions were tough. She told me she was “done” with “all that” and couldn’t wait for it to be over. She enjoyed the once a month “Paint Nite” class with teacher Miss Pink at Uncorked on Main in Villa Rica. Prissi convinced me to attend about two years ago, saying what great fun it was and she was right! I remember looking around at the room full of adults painting, laughing, listening to Miss Pink’s instructions in-between the loud music starting and stopping, and all of us diligently working to walk away each evening with a “masterpiece”! Prissi and I were just two of the 30-40 regular classmates attending right up to sheltering-in-place. I found out only yesterday that it was Prissi who had organized all of that and made the arrangements with Uncorked to have Miss Pink teach there. A win for two businesses and great memories for forty budding artists! Another example of Prissi Sullivan’s “reach” in her community. She loved life and lived it every day. We already miss you, dear friend.

SUE

HORN

I would appreciate your prayers and your vote Friends and neighbors, thank you for sticking with us in the trenches during the primary runoff! We could not have done it without your prayers, vote and support! It is truly a humbling honor to have the opportunity to represent our great West Georgia Community in the State House.

I would like to thank Miss Hightower for running a clean race - she is a class act and has my upmost respect.

Now we face a Democrat challenger in November. I need y’all with me one more time this year - President Trump and the rest of our conservative Republicans need your vote in November!

If you did not vote for us in the Primary that is okay - all I have are friends and future friends - we

TYLER

PAUL SMITH

CANDIDATE State Representative District 18 (R)

need you as a friend in November! I am a Conservative and have been all of my life.

Growing up on our family’s Fifth-Generation farm taught me the meaning of faith in God, hard work, and perseverance. I will take these values with me to serve you at the Georgia State House of Representatives.

I served as an aide to three state representatives for three consecutive sessions. We fought

It’s better! A bit of good news Amid all of the chaos, turmoil, upheaval, friction and discontent being reported to us on the news today, I thought you might have a thirst for something different some good news! You might especially appreciate such good news if it has to do with the operations of your local county government!

So, compared to a year ago, I’m glad to tell you that things seem to be getting better and more cohesive among the chairman and the members of your Carroll County Board of Commissioners, at least in my opinion! It’s great when there is a synergy among a group of professionals. You can feel it and there is a positive, propelling force to progress and get things accomplished and address critical issues - all for the well-being of our constituents and our great county!

For several months after I was first sworn in on July 23rd last

ERNIE

REYNOLDS District 5 Carroll County Commissioner

ereynolds@carrollcounty ga.com 770-851-6215 year, the scene was not as positive and problems seemed to be jumping out from every corner, while an aura of discord seemed prominent.

Performance indicators were not thought of in the budgeting process, large contracts were renewed without any attempt to obtain competing bids, the Tax Assessor’s Office had significant operational and customer service problems that were unaddressed, there were situations of under-

against big government; fought to protect our 2nd Amendment Right to Have and Bear Arms; and defended private water rights from underhanded progressives.

This is part of the experience I can and will bring to best serve our community in the State House.

I will also fight for the total elimination of the income tax. It is high time we remove this liberal and progressive plague of a tax from our Great State of Georgia. I defend our U.S. and Georgia Constitutions every day; I will continue this defense as your next State House Representative.

I would appreciate your prayers and your vote.

May God Bless you and Keep you!

handedness that seemed to surface quite consistently, etc. I was very baffled at these circumstances and addressed them quite openly and forthrightly, as you would recall from news coverage and my FaceBook posts during the last year.

Now - I am glad to report that the scene is different and we now operate with more cohesiveness and there is a new and rewarding aura of respect and synergy. That is a great change and it reminds me of the synergy I knew throughout my professional career, allowing things to get done and creating a forward-moving agenda! For example, here is what has happened on a few of those points I mentioned earlier: - During the recent budgeting process, some departments began to self-report some very basic performance indicators, giving us an elementary view of their per-

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Our newest State Court Judge: Erica Tisinger

The August 11th runoff for Carroll County State Court Judge this year involved intensity with two of the most qualified and hardworking candidates I have ever seen. Erica Tisinger and Met Lane battled until the very end.

They, and their supporters, should be honored for their sacrifices.

I met with Erica Tisinger; the winner of the runoff. We sat down at Gallery Row, downtown Carrollton, to discuss her historic win and her future as the next State Court Judge. But, she is not the first in her family to serve the community and the state court.

Her husband’s grandfather, Robert David “Bob” Tisinger served as the Solicitor General (prosecutor) in Carroll State Court for years. Bob Tisinger was the pillar of the legal community and a significant leader in the west Georgia community as a whole.

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SWINDLE SWINDLE LAW GROUP, P.C. I have known Erica’s husband, Joel, since we were boys. I have known Erica since she moved to Carrollton many years ago.

Interestingly, they live in the house that my grandparents built in 1986 and I lived in during summers in law school. As we avoided the early morning rain, I wanted to find out what type of judge we could expect to see in State Court.

Erica was born in North Carolina near the Outer Banks.

She has had quite the life experi-

ence. As a child, she and her family suffered through periods of severe poverty. When discussing this time period, she began to speak in a more serious manner.

She gave me many examples of what true poverty is like.

These early challenges gave her strength. They also lead her to law school at Mercer University.

After law school, she was hired

by Hall County to serve as their State Court Legal Clerk; a fast moving job with many moving parts. This experience gave her the background to tackle the challenge of becoming our next judge.

My favorite question is always “Which judge do you admire the most?” She did not hesitate when she said that she liked all of our judges; but Jack Kirby was the favorite. She admires his expectations for lawyers to be fully pre-

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JACKSON Columnist Daniel Jackson is a retired U.S. Army Staff Sergeant, having served 20 years with tours in Iraq, Afghanistan, Turkey, Germany and South Korea. He is completing his bachelor’s degree at the University of West Georgia and is a stringer reporter for StarNews.

Today, while rumbling through a closet corner in search of colder season’s wares, behind the sweatshirts, flannels, boots and sweaters, and under stacks of picture frames, one tattered cardboard box was there, worn and beaten, bruised and stained, and missing flaps from constant change of station, here and there, and here again, it’s where I keep the ribbons and medals earned for brave and

patriotic strain, their once Monarch colors ened over nicotine and bitter paper cups of stale now, pinned between the shadows of coffee. The occasional shriek and distant thud wood and glass. A coveted collection to some were met with cursing radios and nervous no doubt, instead reminds me of anxious grins when some were close, like children in awful nights, east and far, wherein the sight- July. No one really slept... until the rattle stopped. less black of Afghan eve. . . reminds me of anxious awful They found the ning would arouse the most exhausted eyes to nights, east and far, wherein the blood-soaked widen, and hand to caress sightless black of Afghan evening shreds of cloth and a rifle’s steel. would arouse the most exhausted splintered bits of bone beneath a pair In a valley neatly cireyes to widen, and hand to caress of mottled trees, cled by jagged teeth and pine, we spent three a rifle’s steel. . . In a valley neatly now uncovered by nights in the mortar pit, in circled by jagged teeth and pine, the light of early dawn, sturdy pinea plywood shack that ratwe spent three nights in the tled and shed its dander mortar pit, in a plywood shack that wood witnesses to the ending of those with the thump of each men, or boys peroutgoing round, as a wild rattled and shed its dander with desert dog flaps its coat, the thump of each outgoing round haps, no one could tell from a solitary to soothe an irritation.

The foul and acrid breath of generators sandal, the length of it was charred and losing gas and oil, became a welcome stench, frayed, as phosphorous and high explosive do that kept the flickering bulbs dancing and not discriminate when going out to play, and swaying from the tin ribcage above our heads therefore no attempt was made to make such from going out. No permanence there, just grim distinction, but rather gleeful satisfachasty cots and wired conversation that tight- tion formed a sort of canopy, that shielded

empathetic souls from unprepared exposure.

No one really cared...no one really dared.

The valley’s stifling mercury rose and receded without another shudder and became the stale and sticky fragrance of ancient earth and skin. As evening’s blanket drew upon us, we stuffed our temporary lives into pouches, that clung to packs, and cinched them down with sturdy straps, checked our weapons, smokes and magazines, all the things we’d surely need, and stretched our bodies long, on taut and empty canvas frames, and gazed at now still flickering bulbs fading into slumber.

Uneven floors released a groan that snapped my eyelids open, and twisting towards the waking motion I leveled focused vision, “You leave at twelve” a voice crept forth, and there a young Lieutenant stood in full and battle-ready regalia, his determined chinstrap seemed to overwhelm his serious performance. I acknowledged him with a weary thumb and a grunt of affirmation, and wobbled up to balance on dizzy soles, sighing in conflicted resignation at the loss of

was REAL. There is so much to be thankful for!

Would you think back in your life, and go back to that moment when you first knew?

Then, think about how accepting Christ into your heart has made a difference in your life, and in the lives of others that you have influenced. It is so important to allow God to choose your friends for you. When we choose them ourselves, we have no control over the content of the friendship. But when God chooses them, He has a purpose for placing that person in your life for His Glory.

Just remember, sometimes people come and go, but God will always be by your side.

I remember, looking back on my life, and coming to the conclusion that I made bad decisions based on the friends that I chose. I got into all kinds of trouble by not standing up, and saying “No.” I knew better, but did not want to disappoint people.

Peer pressure can be used against you in a

powerful way if you allow it to. You have to be willing to be criticized and ridiculed to do what you know is right because in the long run you, will save yourself a lot of grief. Look deep down inside and ask yourself, “What do I need from a friendship?”

Now look at the people surrounding you and see if they meet those needs. Listen, no one is perfect, and that is not what I am saying, but we should be encouraging and building each other up. That is why bullying is so awful, and it can have long lasting effects, damaging many into adulthood.

If you see someone at school with clothing that is old or worn out, instead of making fun of that student ask your parents if they would be willing to purchase some clothing for that kid. Then speak with the kid when no one else is around, and let them know that you like to do something nice for

Does the weight of water keep the earth in Rocks.

Gravity, disguised as lowered elevations, place?

A long deep scratch in the crust, the compels her confidently south, like a woman who knows where she’s going. Flowing out Brevard Fault runs nearly 1,000 miles across the Southern of the lake she bends Her name is Creek Appalachians from Alathrough Atlanta, falling bama to North Carolina, deftly into a southwestfor Treacherous Waters. . . dividing the ancient trending channel, a porShe’s the postal service mountains from the rolltion of what geologists of vegetation, personally ing Piedmont plateau. call the Brevard Fault. delivering the news and From Atlanta to The Earth’s skin - its Columbus the fault line desires of the forest to crust - is much like ours: mottled, lumpy, faraway places. Where plants offers the river a stable if somewhat winding scarred. It’s as dinged go, critters follow, which is course through Carroll and dented as my family’s old Nash Rambler how we here in the county get County, churning past Plant Yates and the the world at our doorstep and about as durable.

Chattahoochee Bend A fault line marks the place when one patch of crust moves or slips State Park on the Coweta side.

The Brevard Fault Zone creates a natural along another. The infamous San Andreas Fault in California is alarmingly alive; from topographic barrier for species and weather. an overlook north of Los Angeles, you can The river breaks that barrier by becoming an see the two sides’ slip-sliding, one against the aquatic highway for seeds. Over the millenother! Our Brevard Fault is believed to have nia she’s brought with her - elongated the stopped moving about 18-million years ago. southernmost ranges of - beeches and white What a relief. Is it coincidence that the river oaks, umbrella magnolias, tulip poplars, is thought to be at least 18-million years old? black locusts, and mountain laurel, among

others. She’s the postal service of vegetation, personally delivering the news and desires of the forest to faraway places. Where plants go, critters follow, which is how we here in the county get the world at our doorstep: the arched mulberry by the porch, the plumed white-tailed flags of a doe and two fawns floating into the woods.

At Columbus the river jumps the fault line and heads straight south as if she’s gotten a whiff of the beckoning gulf and is done with lazy meanders. Her determined path creates a 200-mile watermark, on human maps the lower boundary between Georgia and Alabama. Capturing water from an estimated 8,770 square miles, she pours inexorably into Lake Seminole on the Georgia-Florida border.

And she doesn’t stop there. On the other side of Seminole she emerges one more time, her journey thus far bookended by lakes.

And though she has a new name - the Apalachicola - her intention never wavers as she makes her way, finally, from a spring in the North Georgia Mountains 431 miles into the sea.

When did you first know?

RICHARD

DOZIER

Millennials Christian Ministry (MCM) rdozier@mcm empowered.org Do you ever think about ALL that God has done for you, and the situations that He has kept you out of? When did you first realize that he was ordering your steps?

In my situation, when I went to church as a young child, I did not understand all that I was hearing. Then, one night as a teenager when me and three of my friends were going through the neighborhood looking for a party, we happened upon a house with a tall fence that we couldn’t see through. But,

The River’s fault

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THOMAS

River Rambles syllabil@aol.com She begins as a trickle at Jacks Gap on Coon Den Ridge along the southernmost rim of Georgia’s Blue Ridge Mountains.

Born as a spring at the foot of Jacks Knob, just below Brasstown Bald (at 4,784 feet the highest point in the state), she first emerges in southeast Union County, in woods now known as The Chattahoochee National Forest. From there she makes her sprightly way south to what is today Lake Lanier, named for Macon-born poet Sidney Lanier who immortalized the river in his Song of the Chattahoochee.

Her name is Creek for Treacherous Waters, though curiously the same word has also been translated as River of Painted

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we could see the parked cars and hear the music. This house checked all the boxes for what we were looking for. Soon we knew we would be drinking, dancing and getting into trouble.

We went into the backyard, and to our dismay the music was actually Gospel music. I’m thinking, “Oh boy, let’s get out of here.” But before we could make our escape, the lady that was in charge of Friday Night Prayer meeting motioned us in. She then called us right up front and beckoned us to accept Christ in our lives. A number of things jumped out for us at this point. For one thing, we couldn’t distinguish R&B from Gospel. We answered the call to come to the alter immediately. From that time forward, I began to read the Bible and learn about God’s truths.

When I was in the military stationed in Europe, that moment at the prayer meeting was my support because I knew that God

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Oak Mountain Academy reopens with multiple learning pathways

PATRICK

YURAN

Headmaster OAK MOUNTAIN ACADEMY

This past spring schools all over the state abruptly closed their doors to traditional inseat instruction and immediately transitioned to a “remote learning plan,” many with less than 24-hours to prepare. Some may argue that many of the “remote learning plans” implemented across the state were more like “crisis management plans” for instruction rather than actual “remote learning plans.”

Oak Mountain Academy was in the same boat as all the other schools across the state with limited time to make the transition.

However, the staff at OMA managed to pull a proverbial “rabbit out of the hat” with

new academic year, Oak Mountain Academy followed suit with the development of two learningpathways.

Many of our families proved ready for inseat instruction, while other families have chosen our non-traditional option through virtual learning.

One option for students on The Mountain is traditional in-seat learning. Students who selected this pathway participate in active inperson instruction with modified classroom layouts to accommodate physical distancing.

As of the first day of classes, 82% of OMA’s total population in PreK-3 through 12th grades selected the traditional in-seat learning option.

The other option for OMA students is synchronous, virtual learning. Students who selected this pathway actively participate in virtual, real-time instruction by remoting into the classroom live. The school has purchased and installed instructional cameras in each classroom with a view of the instructional area and in hopes of

offering a more “real” classroom experience.

Each teacher grants permission to each student for remote access into the classroom each period throughout the day. As of the first day of classes, 18% of OMA’s total population in PreK-3 through 12th grades selected the synchronous, virtual learning option.

Oak Mountain Academy is positioned beautifully to continue our mission of “providing a challenging college- preparatory education in a safe family environment.”

During this global pandemic, we remain committed to offering multiple learning pathways as we continue to focus on our students, our primary motivation, with overall academic excellence being the goal. With a strong start, the Oak Mountain Academy community of faith and scholarship looks forward to continued success throughout the 2020-2021 academic year with both traditional in-seat instruction and synchronous, virtual learning.

Together we are Warriors!

you vote for Biden, you are really voting for his VP, Kamala Harris to be President?

Remember when they “debated”? She destroyed Biden and showed him no respect whatsoever. You may recall, she dropped out of the Democrat primary before Iowa for lack of support and a poorly managed campaign. She is a loser.

Here is a fact that I will wager NOT ONE OF MY READERS IS AWARE OF: Biden and the other phony Dimocrats (spelling is deliberate) are crying alligator tears that Trump has, by executive order, delayed collection which he has pledged to waive if reelected, of payroll taxes of $1384.00 maximum for each working employee.

Immediate money in that employee’s pocket.

The Biden’s avoided payroll taxes on $13.3 MILLION income from book royalties and speaking fees in 2017 and 2018. How? They ran the income through their sub S corporations, CelticCapri Corp. and Giacoppa Corp.

They did pay themselves about $750,000 in salary. See Wall Street Journal 8/11/20, page A17 “How the Bidens dodged the Payroll Tax.” If you voted for these phony politicians, did you pay your payroll tax or dodge them by using loopholes?

Most recognize that if Biden is elected, he will be President in name only. He will likely be removed for cause and your President will be Kamala Harris with Nancy Pelosi next in line. So, who is Kamala Harris? It is reported that she has the most liberal voting record in the Senate.

How did Kamala get her start in politics?

It has been widely reported that she “dated” California political strongman, Willie Brown; and he has repeatedly confirmed their relationship, when she was in her 20’s and he was married and in his 60’s. He appointed her to lucrative state jobs producing some $400,000 in income prior to her running for Attorney General. Once she was Attorney General, she dumped old Willie Brown. So much for “true love”.

As Attorney General she was aggressive in prosecuting minor drug crimes, sending numerous poorly represented minorities to long jail terms while laughing about her use of pot and she avoided more serious, albeit more difficult, indictments. It is important for an ambitious politician to build an impressive record.

Why do the Dims oppose voter ID when all obvious adults have to show a picture ID

to buy a 6 pack of beer? Do they prefer voter fraud?

Do you support “law and order”? The Dims want to “defund” the police and Kalama Harris has declared that she will, by executive order, buy back (confiscate) your guns so you cannot defend your home or your family. In some states you are now REQUIRED to register if you want to buy ammo. Look at the Dim-controlled cities and states: daily shooting and looting. Is this how you want to live?

Biden has announced that he will mandate masks for everyone outdoors. So, if you go hunting alone, you are mandated to wear a mask in the woods. It is not about safety; it is about government control over every aspect of our lives. I do not think that rural America will accept the civil unrest we see daily in the Democrat-controlled population centers.

Do you want higher taxes? The Dims have declared that they will raise taxes on everybody to fund their socialist agenda.

This redistribution will serve our working class very poorly. But you can bet that lobbyists will provide loopholes (carry interest,

ries with the greater setting in which those experiences occurred back then, in a crowded neighborhood bordering the Bowery in Lower Manhattan. This kind of work is done on the internet.

A few months ago, before Covid, I was having coffee in Carrollton, with some friends. Ross Miller is a member of the group, and on that day he was carrying a pile of pages, which he was showing to some others at the far end of our table. Soon the pages came my way and, to my surprise, the main page was a drawing of a famous painting by Norman Rockwell.

What I learned is, in 1946, the great Norman Rockwell came to Oak Mountain, in Carroll County, Georgia, to a one-room schoolhouse, did some sketches and had photographs taken. After a couple of months, he produced a painting that appeared in the November 2nd, 1946, issue of the “Saturday Evening Post”.

A couple of years later, in 1948, I was in Junior High School, in New York City. Our art teacher had brought in a stack of old “Saturday Evening Posts” and passed them around to us. The assignment was to copy some picture that we liked. My choice, the painting of inside the one-room school house, turned out to be impossible for me to copy. I struggled with that assignment and finally gave up. That’s how I first became aware of Norman Rockwell. Now, more than 70 years later, I immediately recognize the drawing of the painting that Ross is passing around! And I want to know more.

So, I discover that Ross had taught in that same classroom! And, I should mention, the outline drawing that he had with him at the coffee shop was done by his daughter Eliza.

So, Ross’ interest was just as deep and more personal than mine. Dear Reader, such coincidences can feel like Fate has had a hand in them, for I often arrive after Ross has left the

coffee shop.

Ross had identified the teacher and some of the children in the painting. Immediately I offer to get into the Census data, so that more information could be included with Ross’ research. A week later, I gave him what the Census had. Compared to the neighborhood of my childhood, the Oak Mountain “neighborhood” was much more vast and hardly populated, but the research was identical.

There were details of the painting that could not have been realistic. That seems to contradict the incredibly photographic quality that all of Norman Rockwell’s work possesses. I think that just about any American will experience and understand the “snapshot” beauty of his paintings. Somehow, Rockwell’s genius was in being able to evoke very positive and emotional memories, through his techniques.

a super successful remote learning plan. I specifically use the term “successful” because of the comparison data received from the comprehensive end of course exam scores across grade levels along with our student Advanced Placement scores.

OMA’s comprehensive end of course exam scores remained within a 5% swing across all grade levels compared to the 2018-2019 academic year. OMA’s Advanced Placement scores remain above the state and global averages with the global average coming in at 62.2%, the state average at 62.5%, and OMA’s average at 73.3%.

Hats off to the academic staff and teachers on The Mountain for their innovative instructional solutions, creative problemsolving techniques, and compassionate drive to ensure OMA students finished the 201920 year with strong academic success even in “remote learning” mode!

As schools all over the state have worked diligently over the past five months to prepare reopening plans for the start of this

Before you vote for Biden in November, consider . . .

ED

WILSON Thoughts While Shaving cedwilson587 @yahoo.com After over 50 years in the Washington swamp, Biden is now telling you “what he will do” as President. Why not list his accomplishments of the past 50 years in politics? The back of a match folder will provide adequate space. Of course, like many career politicians, including the House Speaker, you can start with “he used his political connections to make his family and friends very wealthy”. Numerous examples are common knowledge.

Once you get past his self-serving activities, consider his current mental state.

Anyone watching him these past few years has to recognize an impaired mental state.

Fair question: Is he representing his views or is he a puppet of the far left? Realistically, if

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Researches in the time of plague: Norman Rockwell in Carroll County and How I Came to Love the 2020 Campaign

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BOURIS This is a time when writing memoirs can be rewarding. Part of this activity has gotten me into U.S. Census records, particularly those of 1940.

My use of those records has nothing to do with “family trees”. I use them to establish social context, such as where in my neighborhood my classmates, my playmates, and their brothers and sisters lived, and where their parents came from, etc. In that manner, I have been able to join fragmented memo-

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Please consider voting for me in November as your state senator

MIKE

DUGAN CANDIDATE State Senator District 30 (R) INCUMBENT

I have represented Senate District 30 since my special election in 2013.

As a military veteran and general contractor, I understand the process of motivating people and projects toward a common goal. Now, my colleagues have increased my commitment to the State

Senate - allowing me to serve as the Majority Leader.

My lot has expanded to now serving the entire Senate body; I maintain daily administrative responsibility of the Senate and the legislative happenings of our chamber.

In recent years, we have accomplished: · Reforms to surprise medical billing · Price transparency in healthcare · Lower prescription drug costs · Increased access to healthcare for lowincome mothers and children · Increased Veteran services · Protections for law enforcement · Penalties for hate and bias motivated crimes

· Income tax reductions, and the list could continue.

Moving forward, I want to take on the following: · Primary, secondary, and higher education reform · Additional healthcare reform · Even lower prescription costs · Enhance environments for small business development · Protecting communities I’m involved in the local communities and frequent as many events as I can. I’ve served in the local Kiwanis club, am active in our school systems, and recently pioneered a racial reform taskforce to create conversation and change within our communities.

My wife (Missy) and children (Meghan, Sarah and Beau) are the drivers of my commitment to the community - they each inspire me daily. The life of my family has been dedicated to public service.

As the son of educators, husband of one dedicated to improving the lives of children, and the father of ministers and a public servant to our nation’s capital, I’m inspired daily to invest in the lives of those around me.

Please consider voting for me in this upcoming election in November as your State Senator for District 30. I’m committed to pursuing the common good - my previous, present and future efforts confirm that!

Now is the time to elect a leader who cares for the community, and that leader is me

The time is now to elect a leader who deeply cares about the community; a leader who will be visible and ready to serve on Day 1. That leader is me, Montenia Edwards.

As the next State Senator for Georgia’s 30th District, I am ready to take a firm stand for the West Georgia region. On my agenda, I am going to fight for our veterans to eliminate the VA benefits backlog and fully fund the VA in Georgia; transform an antiquated system to a modernized structure that provides ease in navigating programs and services; eliminate the taxation of military retirement pay; and work tirelessly

to end homelessness among our veterans. I will partner with the VA to implement aggressive measures to protect and care for our veterans during these times of COVID19.

Additionally, it is imperative that our public health infrastructure is strengthened in the State of Georgia. With COVID-19, it showed how much improvement is needed within the state system.

We must remove bureaucrats and politics out of issues surrounding pandemics.

This is not a political party issue; it is about humanity and how to effectively keep everyone safe.

If we maintain what we have, we will not come out of this in 2021 but if we dare to do differently, it is a 99% chance we will come out of this quicker.

My skillset as a public health professional will enable me to create efficacious policies around keeping Georgians safe. I plan to build a solid research infrastructure to identify, track, trace and contain public health threats, from contaminants to epidemics.I

will partner with Congressional leaders in Washington and lend my hand to ensure the people of Carroll, Douglas, and Paulding counties are safe and healthy.

I will support additional funding to the CDC and the Department of Public Health and reform accountability measures to ensure timely and accurate information is disseminated to the public. We must work together as a community to solve this problem. Wearing a mask not only helps our fellow man but it helps you as well.

Some people do not think it will hit their homes but I have read countless articles and spoken to people who had the same thought process before someone they knew became ill with coronavirus with some resulting in death.

I care about you too much; let’s remember to wash our hands, wear your mask, and watch our distance.

In addition, I honor the work that healthcare professionals do across Georgia. I will partner with private and federal entities to increase supply capacity for healthcare

workers and public health experts.This includes funding for microbiologists, virologists, immunologists and clinical research teams who prioritize and dedicate services to public health in the state of Georgia. My goal is to build comprehensive public health system throughout the district and state in order for Georgia to become the gold standard across the United States.

My platform is most inclusive and the most realistic. I am trying to advance the needs of the people. The preamble begins with ‘We the People’; the power of the people is always greater than the people in power. When the people do not have a fighting voice working for them then we become weakened.

For us to stand strong together, I need your support at the ballot box.

In the November General Election, I am asking for your vote for the clear choice to lead District 30; Vote Montenia Edwards for State Senate. Early voting begins October 12, 2020 and election day is November 3, 2020.

The Historic Walker-Goshen Cemetery, Glenloch Community, Heard County, GA For several years the Walker-Goshen Cemetery, often referred to as the Walker Cemetery, has been neglected and allowed to grow up. When discovered, a majority of the plot was thick with weeds over ten feet high and impenetrable. It has recently been reclaimed by a small group of descendants of some of the families buried there.

Located on Dairy Road in the Glenloch Community in northern Heard County, it was established in the mid 1800s on land donated by Mr. William J. Walker. It was maintained until recent years, we believe, by Goshen Congregational Methodist Church and later by descendants of Mr. Walker with some occasional assistance by others with families buried there. The most recent clearing was undertaken by descendants of Henry and Ada Dorough who both have family buried there including two of their children who died in infancy.

We know little about the origins of the cemetery, and specifically why it carries the name of Goshen as Goshen Church exists only a short distance away with burials dating from the same era.

Another point of interest is anecdotal evidence that a number of slaves and possibly poor tenant farmers are also buried there in graves once marked only by stones.

Currently in addition to a number of well marked legible grave stones, there are approximately 39 small concrete crosses marking graves. We have learned that these markers were fabricated and installed by Lewis and Millburn Dorough in 1995 to replace the stone markers on these unknown individuals’ graves.

We are in hopes that someone has information relative to the Walker-Goshen Cemetery. If you have any information or suggestions for where we might obtain information or if you want to be added to a list of Friends of the Cemetery, please contact us at the addresses or numbers below. Thank you in advance, Mike Fleming 770-328-9471 mfleming@numail.org Randy Miller 770-362-3956 randy.miller@charter.net WALKER CEMETERY Dairy Road, Glenloch Community, Heard County, GA, Surveryed May 27, 1977 1. JOHN ROBERT DOROUGH JUNE 9, 1858/JULY 4, 1930 2. SARAH JANE DOROUGH NOV26, 1856/MAY 30, 1936 3. Eight ummarked graves no dates 4. WILBURN DOROUGH DEC 5, 1883/SEPT 7, 1893 (son of J. R. and S. J. DOROUGH) 5. ELLA L DOROUGH

AUG 15, 1891/NOV 3, 1892 (daughter of J R and S J DOROUGH) 6. ELLICE DOROUGH APR 28,1885/SEPT 7, 1890 (SON OF J R AND S J DOROUGH) 7. INFANT HUFFMAN OCT 2, 1889/ OCT 5, 1889 (infant of MR and MRS J J HUFFMAN) 8. BARENNICE DOROUGH NOV 15, 1885-AUG 22, 1888 (daughter of J R AND S J DOROUGH) 9. ROLFE R RAY MAY 31, 1902/FEB 1, 1903 (son of C M AND E A RAY) 10. ARBELL RAY MAR 23, 1899/SEPT 6, 1900 (daughter of C M AND E A RAY) 11. WILLIAM M DOROUGH DEC 5, 1883/JUNE 7, 1884 (son of J R and S J DOROUGH) 12. INFANT DOROUGH NO DATES infanft of G H and L C DOROUGH) 13. G H DOROUGH FEB 29, 1856/APR 8, 1886 14. Two umarked graves no dates 15. EMILY M DOROUGH MAR 3, 1819/ AUG 7, 1883 16. Two umarked graves no dates 17. WILLIAM J WALKER FATHER no dates 18. LUCINDA MCCAIN WALKER no dates

(wife of WM J WALKER) MOTHER 19. LOUISA S WALKER SEPT 27, 1842/JAN 29, 1877 (wife of J J WALKER) 20. EMILY S WALKER MAR 29, 1867/NOV 17, 1877 (daughter of JJ and L S WALKER) 21. CHAS. M WALKER AUG 7, 1873/JULY 18, 1875 (son of J J AND L S WALKER) 22. INFANT WALKER no dates (infant of J J AND L S WALKER) 23. RUTHY A WALKER 1847/AUG 29, 1871 (wife of E. N. WALKER) 24. Two umarked graves no dates 25. INFANT WALKER DEC 17, 1900/DEC 28, 1900 (infant of W L AND E L WALKER) 26. MRS MARTHA CHAPPELL JAN 21, 1846/APRIL 5, 1923 (wife of J C MUSIC) 27. JAMES M CHAPPELL MAY 26, 1845/OCT 16, 1868 (AGE 23 YRS, 4 MONS 21 DAYS) 28. LUCINDA J CHAPPELL born NOV 12, 1868 (daughter of JAMES M AND MARTHA CHAPPELL) 29. INFANT WALKER no dates (infant of J J AND L S WALKER) 30. Two umarked graves no dates

MONTENIA

EDWARDS CANDIDATE State Senator District 30 (D)

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Tanner Health System begins construction of new, comprehensive concept of senior living Located on six acres next to Tanner’s Mirror Lake medical office: 36 assisted living apartments; 25 memory care apartmetrns from press release An entirely new, comprehensive concept in senior living is coming to west Georgia as Tanner Health System’s The Birches at Villa Rica takes shape. The project is a unique venture for a health system, expanding seamless health and wellness services to people looking to live longer, more active lives. Construction should be finished by Summer 2021. Leasing of the units will begin in late Fall 2020.

Built on an almost six-acre site along Permian Way in Villa Rica — next to the Tanner at Mirror Lake medical office building — the single-level development will feature 61 total apartments, including 36 assisted-living apartments and 25 memory care apartments.

“Within the decade, the number of Americans age 65 and older — more than 36 million people — will represent almost a quarter of the nation’s population,” said Loy Howard, president and CEO of Tanner.

“We’re committed to providing the services that our community needs, and this project expands on that commitment.”

The location makes The Birches at Villa Rica convenient to people throughout the metro area, just off Interstate 20 and Highway 78.

The project is unique in the senior living market. Most senior living communities are stand-alone developments, but The Birches will be fully incorporated into a full-service regional health system, overcoming one of the greatest challenges for senior living residents: access to medical care.

“The Birches is part of our system,” said Howard. “Everything our residents need: primary care, heart care, cancer care, wellness and access to our full breadth of services — will be available to them. This distinguishes The Birches from other senior living options — we can seamlessly connect our residents with whatever medical services they need.”

The Birches is a very different project for a regional health system, according to Wayne Senfeld, Ed.S, LPC, senior vice president of behavioral health at Tanner.

“The Birches incorporates senior living into our existing continuum of care,” Senfeld said. “Residents will have aroundthe-clock access to primary care, behavioral health, specialty services and other avenues of care, helping them live longer, healthier, more active lives.”

At The Birches, assisted living residents can choose from single-bedroom or studio apartments. They’ll have access to an on-site movie theater, salon, restaurant-style dining, fitness and activity rooms, concierge services and more.

Memory care patients will have private and semi-private apartments, a private enclosed courtyard, restaurant-style dining and access to holistic, specialized services to treat cognitive impairments.

All residents will enjoy chef-prepared meals each day, enriching activities, outings to local shopping centers and social events, and around-the-clock access to nursing and other healthcare professionals. Residents will also benefit from Tanner’s extensive wellness services through Get Healthy, Live Well — including chronic disease management and prevention, nutrition education, exercise instruction and more — to lead longer, healthier lives.

The community will also leverage the health system’s integrated care offerings and leading-edge infection-prevention expertise — which has become even more vital in the age of COVID-19.

“The coronavirus is going to be with us for a while,” said Senfeld. “We’ll bring the same expertise in infection prevention we’ve applied to our hospitals and clinics to The Birches. Our residents will be assured that

every precaution is being taken for their safety.”

The Birches will also provide an economic boost for the region, creating jobs for people at all skill levels.

“We’re going to need clinical staff, environmental services professionals, culinary staff and others,” said Howard. “The Birches at Villa Rica will create opportunities for people at all skill levels — stable, depend-

able careers with competitive benefits. Just the type of careers our region needs.”

The Villa Rica project is the first of several anticipated senior living developments Tanner plans to build, with future communities planned throughout the west Georgia region.

More information on Tanner’s line of services can be found at tanner.org

Above and below: artists renderings of the The Birches, a full-service health system for seniors

Above: aerial photo of ongoing construction of Tanner Health Systems’ “The Birches”, Permian Way, Villa Rica

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Carroll County Chamber of Commerce 2020 Leadership Academy graduates After much delay, the Carroll County Chamber of Commerce 2020 Leadership Academy group concluded its programming and held a graduation ceremony at the Venue on Cedar, Carrollton. State Representative Randy Nix was guest speaker. Shown far right is Chamber President Daniel Jackson.

2020 graduates are: Jessica Ainsworth, Carroll County Board of Education; Stephen Boyd, Systems & Methods, Inc; Katlyn Bradshaw, Burson Center; Allyson Bretch, University of West Georgia; Brandy Carroll, Sheila J Butler & Company; Hannah Collins, Tanner Health System; Terrence Cooley, Carroll EMC; Corelle Davis, WestCare Youth Academy; Samantha Green, Carrollton City Schools; Greg Holcomb, Carroll County Sheriff’s Office; Tray Lowery, Tanner Health System; Beau Luckie, Carroll County Farm Bureau; Ian Lyle, Carrollton City Schools; Amy McCarthy, Bank OZK; Ryan McKinnon, Carrollton City Schools; Brandi Palladino, Systems & Methods, Inc; Kelly Parmer, Rushton & Company; Dawn Rooks, Tanner Medical Group; Eric Simmons, Carrollton City Schools; Matt Skinner, Gradick Communications; Carolyn Smith, Carroll EMC; Jack Thornton, Carrollton Housing Authority; Brandi Tillman, Synovus Bank; Keith West, Auto Supply Company

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Carroll County School System hires clinical assistants to aid the school system’s nurses As public schools reopen during this CoVID-19 pandemic, the Carroll County School System recently hired ten clinical assistants to work with school nurses to provide a variety of healthcare services on school campuses. Dr. Christi Teal, Assistant Superintendent of Human Resources said, “The well being of our students and staff has always been a priority in our district, and we are excited to increase the number of medical professionals to serve our students and promote health and wellness district wide.” All ten clinical assistants have completed Certified Nursing Assistants programs and have experience in the healthcare field. Additionally, they have attended district health and safety training with Beverly Kirk, Lead Nurse for Carroll County School System. Their role will be to support the fourteen nurses the school system currently has on staff and rotate campuses within their assigned school cluster.

Kirk stated, “Adding clinical assistants will provide every student in Carroll County direct access to trained healthcare personnel every day. We appreciate the Board of Education supporting our efforts of keeping students healthy so they can be their best in the classroom.”

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Photo right: Just prior to the CoVID-19 pandemic, fourteen year old Rhett McBrayer, son of Scott and Ellen Wynn McBrayer, Villa Rica, served as a page for Georgia State Senator for District 30, Mike Dugan (March 10, 2020). Pages shut down their electronic devices to be able to focus entirely on the business at hand - serving the legislators and learning about the legislative process.

“I have always wanted to be a Page since I learned about it,” stated Rhett. “I wanted to learn more about politics and I was fortunate to be able to serve as a Page under one of the best State Legislators, Mike Dugan. I enjoyed seeing the lawmakers in action, meeting new people and the feeling of helping.”

McBrayer is shown center, with Georgia Lieutenant Governor Geoff Duncan, left, and State Senator Mike Dugan, right. For more information about being a Senate Page: senate.ga.gov/hr/en-US/SenatePageProgram.aspx Photo and information submitted by Prissi Sullivan CEMETERY LISTING from page 24

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business expensing, and many others) for political donors, themselves, and/or friends.

Was anybody jailed for the Clinton crimes?

Why are congresspeople exempt from many of the laws that they impose on the citizens? Why don’t we insist that tax increases require a referendum? Why don’t school monies follow the student such that parents can choose the best school for their children?

Minorities, long owned by the Democrats, suffer most. Remember Biden telling an interviewer “If you don’t vote Democrat, you ain’t black”.

Do you have a 401k or a pension dependent on the stock market? If the Dims are elected, expect a 10% stock market drop in hours and a 30% drop in days. Cash savings?

Who wants fiat currency backed by nothing?

Do you have ammo or food to trade?

So that you better understand how these socialists think, California is now proposing a “wealth tax”. This tax is payable based on what you own - and if you leave California, they assume you earned it all in California and since you are leaving the state, you will have to continue to pay the tax on that wealth for ten years after you leave. So much for your choice of moving when you want! This proposed law is probably unconstitutional, but Democrats keep voting in people who think everything you own or earn really belongs to the state. Do you believe that your property, car your furniture belongs to the state?

Make no mistake, if we elect Biden-Harris, the socialists will be in power and our country as we have known it will be destroyed.

You may not know that Trump donates all of his presidential salary to a government entity while tolerating daily taunts from the so-called media, and working tirelessly to improve our country. With all his faults, Trump is a winner and our only choice.

The worst of all options, a close contested election and both sides claim fraud. In the absence of police protection, business owners may start playing “cowboys and looters”. We all will lose.

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Financial moves for widows and widowers

DENNIS

BRIGHTMAN FINANCIAL ADVISOR

If you’ve recently become a widow or widower, you’re obviously dealing with an enormous emotional burden, and coping with your grief can seem like a full-time struggle. Unfortunately, the business of life must go on – and the financial moves you make at this time can have a big impact on your life.

So, as you attend to your affairs, consider the following suggestions: Don’t make hasty decisions. Even though you will need to make some moves

in the near future, don’t feel rushed into decisions that may prove to be ill-advised.

For example, don’t immediately sell your home or liquidate all your stocks.

Consult with your estate planning professional. If you and your spouse created an estate plan involving a will, living trust or other documents, you’ll want to consult with your estate planning professional to determine what steps should be taken to implement these arrangements.

Address life insurance issues. If your spouse had a life insurance policy, you’ll want to contact your insurance agent for help in navigating the paperwork necessary to receive the death benefit.

Of course, some financial advisors also sell life insurance within the context of your overall financial strategy, so, if this is your

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situation, you’ll want to speak with your advisor about how to handle the insurance proceeds.

Apply for Social Security benefits. If you are 60 or older, you may be entitled to Social Security survivor benefits, along with a one-time death benefit. Contact your local Social Security office to stop the benefits your spouse received and apply for the new ones for yourself.

Change the name on financial accounts.

If you and your spouse had jointly held accounts with “right of survivorship,” the assets will typically pass automatically to you, the surviving spouse.

However, for legal purposes, it’s still a good idea to retitle these assets in your name.

This usually only requires filling out some simple documents, which are available from

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your financial institutions – bank, credit union, investment firm, etc. But you also may need to change the beneficiary designations on accounts held only in your name, such as your 401(k). These designations are powerful and can even supersede instructions in your will or living trust.

Go over bills and debts. Review all your bills, automatic payments and outstanding loans. If they are in your spouse’s name, or in both your names, contact the merchant or financial services provider to change all correspondence and account information to your name only.

For any outstanding accounts in your spouse’s name, you may need to notify the business that all payments will be handled by your spouse’s estate, if you choose to go that route.

You may need to provide these businesses with the contact information of your estate planning professional.

Plan for your future. Once you’ve handled the immediate financial needs described above, you’ll want to think about your own future. This means you may have to update your estate plans and insurance policies.

You’ll also want to consult with your financial advisor to see what changes, if any, you might need to make to your investment portfolio.

Only time can ease the pain of losing a spouse. But by taking care of the mundane matters of daily living, you can at least alleviate the feelings of being overwhelmed – and that, in itself, has value.

Dennis Brightman is a financial advisor, Edward Jones, 801 Old Newnan Road, Suite C, Carrollton, GA 770-834-5070

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PRINTPAK from page 11

and passion. “These were watchwords of our family,” he stated.

At the death of Erskine Love in 1987, Dennis Love became President and CEO. The business continued to grow organically and through acquisition—by 1996, it had doubled in size. The business exited Europe in 2013 and focused on North America with plants in the United States and Mexico.

“In Mexico, it’s not about cheap labor; we cater to the local market,” Love explained.

“We are not bringing goods into the U.S. The two main plants in Mexica serve the businesses in Mexico.”

Upon brother Dennis’ retirement, Love took the reins of the business as Chairman and CEO in 2016.

“Our core values guide our business practices,” stated Love. “Treat people right, care about what we do, focus on how we achieve results, and do what we say we will do.” He credits the success of the business with these principles.

Love also touched on his mother’s contributions to the family business. Gay McLawhorn Love was a teacher, businesswoman, community leader, and philanthropist, in addition to being a loving wife, mother, grandmother and great-grandmother. When Love’s father died, she stepped in as Chairman. She also provided a good portion of the start up money for the business. “This has truly been a family endeavor,” said Love.

“Printpack has always tried to be a good corporate citizen,” said Love. “We are active and supportive in the community. Dad taught us to ‘plant shade trees you know you will never sit under.’”

Love has also been pleased with the way

Via Zoom, attendees (top right box) could participate while not being in attendance. The speaker (shown in second box right) could respond as he presented, for example, this slide of products using Printpak’s packaging. people have really stepped up during the COVID-19 crisis.

“We have developed the best safety protocols we could,” he stated. “People are working remotely, and we have implemented a good contact tracing system.

People are social distancing, wearing masks only when working closely. In no case, has the virus been transmitted in the plant.”

Even though, Printpak has seen a decrease in impulse buying in convenience stores and gas stations, the business is still strong.

Love graduated with honors from The

Westminster Schools in Atlanta in 1975 and received his B.S. cum laude from Duke University in 1979. He earned his M.B.A from Harvard Business School in 1983. He has worked as a financial analyst in corporate finance with Merrill Lynch in New York from 1979 until 1981. After business school, he spent nine years in investment banking with Robinson-Humphrey in Atlanta. He joined the family business in 1992.

Love currently serves on the board of the Boy Scouts of America, Atlanta Area

Council, and the board of the United Way of Greater Atlanta. He is an active alum of Duke University and is a member of the Rotary Club of Atlanta, Piedmont Driving Club, Capital City Club, and Peachtree Golf Club. In addition, he is a lifelong member of Trinity Presbyterian Church.

The next “Leadership Luncheon” is scheduled for Wednesday, October 14th with guest speaker Carroll County Commission Chair Michelle Morgan. Cost is $27.00. Contact Janet Chumley to reserves a space: jchumley@villarica.org

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