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The Clayton Tribune
THURSDAY, April 9, 2015
Vol. 118, No. 15
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Deputy, officer injured in brawl
By Klark Byrd
News Editor
A Rabun County Sheriff’s
Office sergeant and a Clayton
Police Department officer were
wounded late Friday night
during a brawl with a 58-yearold Lakemont man.
Daniel Ralf Gipson was arrested at 11:11 p.m. on Buzzsaw
Lane in Tiger for aggravated
assault, stalking, obstructing law enforcement officers,
loitering, battery, terroristic
threats and acts and criminal
trespass. He remained jailed in
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58-year-old Lakemont man faces multiple charges
the Rabun County Detention
Center on Wednesday with
bond set at $32,000.
An incident report fi led by
Deputy Brodriche Jackson
stated he and Sgt. Riley Owens
approached Gipson’s vehicle on
Buzzsaw Lane after observing
that Gipson was positioned so
he could watch the street his
ex-wife uses to go home. His
ex-wife called 911 around the
same time that Gipson was
located. She reported she was
afraid to go home because she
believed Gipson was waiting
for her.
When the deputies approached the truck, Gipson
began yelling at them. He was
told to move along, the report
stated.
Refusing to comply, Gipson
said he didn’t have to leave because the property belonged to
someone else. When asked to
step out of the vehicle, Gipson
replied, “Get me out.”
When Owens reached into
the door to open it, Gipson
smacked his hand. Owens attempted again to open the door
and Gipson punched him in the
chest. The report stated Gipson
then yelled, “I’m going to draw
blood! Go on!” Gipson continued to refuse orders to exit the
truck, saying, “You get in.”
An attempt by Owens to
TAX DAY
COMING
By Klark Byrd
News Editor
Haven’t fi led this year’s income
tax return? Now’s the time to get
it done, or at least fi le for a sixmonth extension. Whatever you do,
don’t forget to send a payment by
Wednesday if you owe or expect to
owe money to the Internal Revenue
Service.
“At least try to fi le an extension
with an estimated payment,” advised Clayton-based certified public
accountant Joel Wise. “That’s what I
would do.”
Liberty Tax office manager Tom
Joyner said taxpayers might get the
placate
Gipson with
a stun gun
failed when
one prong
bounced
off Gipson’s
jacket zipper.
Pepper spray
was used and
was effective
GIPSON
in getting
Gipson to
exit his
truck, the report stated.
impression an extension request will
increase the amount of time they
have to pay on owed taxes. Not so, he
warned. The extension only increases by six months the time to fi le. The
unpaid balance will increase as the
IRS charges failure-to-pay penalties
and interest.
“If you think you’re going to owe
some, pay some with the (extension)
request,” Wise said.
Taxpayers expecting a return will
fi nd those refunds processed quickly
this year, Wise said, despite the loss
of more than $1 billion in the IRS
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Please see BRAWL, A11
Lawsuit seeks
damages from
Dillard House
By Klark Byrd
News Editor
The family of the
victim of an Aug. 1
sexual assault by a thenemployee of The Dillard
House is seeking an
unspecified amount for
damages as a result of
physical and emotional
pain and suffering that
stem from the incident.
An April 2 lawsuit
fi led in Rabun County
Superior Court by
Toccoa-based attorney
Austin Perry alleges
The Dillard House was
negligent and engaged
in questionable hiring
practices, including
“hiring illegal immigrants as employees”
and refusing “to conduct any type of background check on the
illegal immigrants it
employees(sic).”
The lawsuit further
alleges The Dillard
House not only knew
20-year-old Alexis
Dominguez was an illegal immigrant when
it hired him two years
prior to the incident. It
states “an employee and
Please see LAWSUIT, A11
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Staff Reports
The Clayton Tribune is now accepting submissions for photography that could be featured on
the cover of the Summer 2015 Mountain Traveler
magazine.
Mountain Traveler is the full-color regional visi-
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State Transportation Act now raises hotel/motel tax
By Klark Byrd
News Editor
Gov. Nathan Deal has
signaled his intention to
sign into law the Transportation Act of 2015, complete
with the last-minute addition of a $5 per night hotel/
motel tax.
The bill aims to raise
the $1 billion required to
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maintain the state’s deteriorating transportation
infrastructure and has
been hotly contested in the
state House and Senate. An
11th-hour provision that
blindsided local legislators will implement a new
hotel/motel tax.
“Out of nowhere, they include a $5-per-night hotel/
motel tax,” said Rep. Stephen Allison, R-Blairsville.
“It was never discussed. It
was inserted last minute.
I represent a tourist area.
Tourism is our lifeblood
up here. To put that tax on
every hotel room, I believe
that puts us at a disadvantage here.”
Deal stated in an April
INDEX
1 news release, “We faced
obligations that could no
longer be ignored, and current resources were simply
not enough to preserve the
infrastructure we need to
get to work, to safely take
children to school on buses
and to keep the lifeblood of
our economy pumping.
“I look forward to sign-
ing this legislation into law
and seeing the Department
of Transportation provide
an excellent service to the
people of this state.”
A reworked House Bill
170 will restructure the
state’s taxing mechanism
on motor fuel sales by
Please see ACT, A12
DEAL
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RABUN COUNTY
April 9, 2015
The Clayton Tribune
Stuffed animals explore Rabun’s library
By Megan Studdard
Staff Writer
As the lights dimmed at
Rabun County Public Library
and patrons left for the day Monday, the party was just getting
started for 11 stuffed animals.
Children dropped off their
stuffed friends Monday afternoon for the library’s fi rst
Stuffed Animal Sleepover. The
animals attended an orientation
to learn the rules of the library
and then were let loose to roam
and have adventures.
The animals frolicked, made
crafts, played dress up, explored
shelves and watched cat videos
on the computer. At one point,
they ganged up on the library’s
copier and made copies of their
faces.
“They even made new
friends,” youth services coordinator Kim Cannon said.
Cannon presented photos of
the adventures to the animals’
“parents” on Tuesday afternoon. The room fi lled with
laughter as young faces lit up
when they discovered all the fun
their stuffed animals had the
night before.
Five-year-old Wil Winfrey
brought his monkey Poppy to
drop off at the library Monday
and was excited to learn what
antics he got into overnight.
“I hope he stays smart and
goes to sleep when it’s time to go
to sleep,” Wil said Monday after
entrusting library staff with his
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Stuffed animals dig into a snack during their overnight stay at Rabun County Public Library on Monday night. The library hosted
its first Stuffed Animal Sleepover and 11 children brought their animals to participate.
favorite animal.
Wil was joined by his sister Michaela Winfrey, 6, who
brought her rabbit Fluffy. The
brother-sister duo was surprised at what their animals did
at the library.
“How did he get on the computer?” Wil asked.
ers said it was a huge hit. They
planned the sleepover for February but snowy weather canceled
it. Cannon plans to have photos
of the animals’ antics on display
at the library.
“I was really pleased for it to
be the fi rst one,” Cannon said.
“We will defi nitely do it again.”
“She was dressed like a Viking,” Michaela said of Fluffy
through her giggles.
Cannon said the library was
pretty messy after the animals
had their fun, but she was glad
everyone returned safely home.
This was the fi rst event of its
kind for the library and organiz-
Clayton Council informally OKs Skywalk funding request
By Mat Payne
Staff Writer
Just more than a week
after suggesting the
Rabun County Tourism
Development Authority
seek funds from the Clayton Downtown Development Authority for a
Tallulah Gorge Skywalk
Celebration block party,
Clayton City Council was
found in an informal poll
to be in favor of giving
the funds itself.
The consent poll was
taken March 27 — the
day after the downtown
authority denied the
funding request — by
City Manager Cissy
Henry, in which she
asked the council whether it would be in favor of
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providing the requested
$5,000 for the June 26
event. Henry said four
of five council members
voiced their approval,
with Councilwoman Debbie Chisholm opposing.
Because council is
required by Georgia law
to hold a binding vote in
public, the informal poll
will not grant the tourism authority the funding. Council will have
the opportunity to vote
publicly at its regular
monthly meeting on
April 21. A workshop will
be held on Tuesday.
Henry said the poll was
a tool to gauge council’s
support and to better inform the authority on the
status of its request.
Teka Earnhardt,
executive director of the
authority, and authority
Chairwoman Gayle Darugh requested the funds
during council’s March
work session. They said
the money would be used
to pay musicians for the
block party and to cover
the associated production costs.
Darugh said plans
would be altered to prevent going over budget if
the authority was unable
to fi nd the funding.
Council originally
advised the tourism
authority to request the
funds from the downtown authority and gave
the initiative a favorable
recommendation.
The downtown authority voted against council’s
recommendation in a secret ballot vote during its
monthly meeting March
26. The vote’s legality has
been called into question,
as authority members
are required by Georgia’s
Open Meetings Act to
publicly state their vote.
Had the request been
approved, the event
would have cost the
downtown authority onethird of its yearly budget.
If council votes as it
was polled, Henry said
the funds would be
transferred from the
fi xed asset fund to cover
the cost. She added the
money would have gone
toward the city purchasing a vehicle for her to
use on city business.
“There’s a whole lot go-
ing on in Rabun County
that week and for Clayton not to be a part of it
was just wrong,” Mayor
John Bradshaw said.
Darugh said the
authority was pleased
to have the city’s commitment in hand and its
willingness to help sponsor the festival’s only
free event.
“We wanted one thing
centrally located that
everyone could go to,”
Darugh said. “I think it
just sweetens the deal for
people to come.”
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A would-be foreclosure sale of
42.75 acres of property owned by
LaPrade’s Marina LLC was called
off earlier this week after the company sought Chapter 11 protection.
The would-be sale was the result of
the marina’s failure to pay the full
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The Clayton Tribune
April 9, 2015
A3
State cleaning
up voter rolls
By Megan Studdard
Staff Writer
Megan Studdard/The Clayton Tribune
Hannah Wright, right, distributes a survey during a catfish taste panel she conducted alongside her Mississippi State University professors
March 22 at Fortify Kitchen & Bar.
Rabun agriculture prepares
students for the business
By Megan Studdard
Staff Writer
When most people think agriculture, they might think of barns,
cows and tractors. But for Hannah
Wright, a 2013 Rabun County High
School graduate and agribusiness
major at Mississippi State University, the industry has a whole new
meaning.
“It’s a lot more than sitting on a
tractor and putting something in
the soil,” she said.
Wright recently brought her
work home to Rabun County, hosting a catfish taste panel at Fortify
Kitchen & Bar. She joins a list
of RCHS graduates equipped with
skills from the school’s agriculture
program making waves in the
field.
Laughter rang out and forks
clinked against plates at the restaurant March 22. It was no ordinary dinner. As plates of fish were
served to guests, eating became an
experiment.
Wright is working with her
professors to research the market
for Delacata catfish, a premium,
fi let cut. The team brought its taste
panel to Fortify after recording
data in New Orleans and Chicago.
During the local taste panel,
participants were served four different types of fish, some without
knowing the type. Then they were
asked if they’d pay for the dinner
at a certain price.
“We hope to tell the catfish
industry ‘This is what the consumers are thinking right now,’”
Wright said March 20 before the
test.
Prior to catfish and college,
Wright spent her time in the
greenhouses and ag classroom at
RCHS getting to know the basics. There, students learn about
everything from forestry to small
engine mechanics.
Clay Brown took over the RCHS
agriculture program in 2014 and,
along with teacher Ethan Phillips, offered four classes — basic
agriculture, ag mechanics, horticulture and animal science.
He said the classes, coupled with
supervised projects and the National FFA organization, create a
three-ring model for agriculture
education.
Students might spend their time
in Brown’s and Phillips’ classes
caring for plants in the school’s
two greenhouses, welding together
parts for a horse trailer in the
metal shop or feeding calves in the
livestock facility.
Those in Brown’s horticulture
class run plant sales each year to
raise funds for the program.
“It’s basically a microbusiness,”
Brown said of the class. “We’ve got
Staff Writer
In what has been called
a series of unfortunate
events by lawyers and
friends, Development Authority of Rabun County
member Ashley Martin
faces felony theft charges
in Atlanta relating to his
association with Dovetail
Homes.
The boutique homebuilding business
constructs homes in
high-end Atlanta neighborhoods as well as on
Lake Rabun. According to incident reports
from Atlanta and Sandy
Springs police, homeowners reported the
company misused funds
on their construction
projects.
Four alleged victims
— three from Sandy
Springs and one from
Atlanta — said Martin
and Dovetail Homes
owner Joe Daniels used
money intended for their
projects on other things.
One Sandy Springs man
reported he began to
have liens placed on his
property from subcontractors not paid by the
construction fi rm.
Martin and Daniels
were charged Oct. 21
with four counts each of
false writings or statements, conversion of payments for real property
improvements and theft
by taking. Employee
Nichola Lackey was also
charged with one count
of false writings. Martin
was booked at Fulton
County Jail. His bond
was set at $100,000.
Martin’s lawyer Bruce
Morris, of Atlanta, said
Daniels suffered a severe
brain injury in 2013 that
limited his functions.
According to a family
and friends support website for Daniels, he was
severely injured Aug. 29,
2013, in a waterskiing
accident on Lake Lanier.
The site states Daniels
lost the ability to communicate.
Morris said Martin
stepped in to help out
with the business after
the accident. On the company website, which has
since been taken down,
Martin was listed as a
principal in the business.
“When Mr. Daniels
became disabled, Ashley
tried to pick up the pieces
and save the business,”
Morris said. “It was a
confluence of unfortunate events that included
a building market changing, Mr. Daniel’s being
incapacitated and Ashley
trying to save a business that, unfortunately,
couldn’t be saved.”
Martin wrote Tuesday
in an email that he and
his family along with
the Danielses have been
working through the
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Development authority member faces theft charges
By Megan Studdard
The Georgia Secretary of State’s Office in March
began removing from the rolls inactive voters who
haven’t been in touch with their local elections office for at least three years.
Elections Supervisor Tammy Whitmire informed
the Rabun County Board of Elections during its
regular meeting April 1 of the Secretary of State’s
Office’s action. This year’s list maintenance removes voters who didn’t cast ballots in the 2012 and
2014 general elections. She estimated there are more
than 1,000 Rabun County voters listed as inactive
who are facing removal.
Prior to being listed for roll removal, voters who
have not made contact with an elections office in
some time are placed on a no-contact list. In midApril, Whitmire said, the state will begin sending
out letters to no-contact list voters.
“Once you’ve not voted in awhile, you get on this
no-contact list, meaning you’ve made no contact
with the office,” she said. “The letter that they’re
going to get says if they don’t make contact within
a certain time, they’ll be removed (from the voter
rolls).”
Whitmire added the state prints all of these letters and the county office is responsible for postage.
The office will send out letters to 519 Rabun County
voters, spending $254.31 on postage for the mailouts.
“If they don’t respond, they’ll be put on the inactive list. This next time, when we have the presidential election in 2016, that starts their countdown
that they’re going to be removed if they don’t vote,”
Whitmire said.
According to the Whitmire, Georgia law requires
residents to inform the office when they change addresses.
“It is up to the voter to maintain current information for my office,” she said.
The elections supervisor also gave an update on
expenses for the March 17 Education Special Purpose Local Option Sales Tax election.
The Rabun County Board of Education will reimburse the county for $11,656.42 for costs incurred
for the E-SPLOST election. According to Whitmire,
these expenses include postage, ballot printing and
supplies, in addition to pay for board members, poll
workers and contract laborers who set up and tore
down equipment.
In the 2011 E-SPLOST election, Whitmire said
situation for more than
a year.
“We have chosen to focus on
positive
outcomes
and
things
that
we can
control,”
Martin
wrote.
MARTIN
“I can
control
how we
proceed in life and that is
to march forward daily
in faith. Joe has been
surrounded by great
friends who have helped
in his recovery and ongoing disability. We have
a faithful and committed family and I live in
a wonderful community
full of friends that have
surrounded us in love
and compassion.”
DARC board member
Leckie Stack, also a
friend of Martin’s, said
she’s known Martin
for years. She said he
wouldn’t intend to defraud anyone.
“Personally, I couldn’t
know a fi ner person,”
Stack said. “He’s honest
as the day is long. He’s
kind and generous. This
is a very, very unfortunate circumstance. It’s
tragic.”
She said after the
202CB
construction industry in
Rabun came to a virtual
standstill, Martin drove
to Atlanta every day to
work for Dovetail Homes.
She added when Daniels’
accident happened, it was
Martin and other friends
who pulled him from the
water and helped to save
his life.
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meeting at Tiger Town
Hall.
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County Water and Sewer
Authority, 9 a.m. Tuesday, regular meeting
at the Rabun Business
Park.
● Rabun County Water and Sewer Authority,
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Business Park.
● Clayton City Council, work session, 2:30
p.m. Tuesday, at Clayton
Municipal Complex.
● Dillard City Council, 3 p.m. budget workshop, 4 p.m. Tuesday,
regular meeting at Dillard City Hall.
● Mountain City City
Council, 6 p.m. Tuesday, regular meeting
at Mountain City City
Hall.
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April 9, 2015
OUR OPINION
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Farming important
in many ways
Spring is the season that assaults all five senses.
Our noses smell the blossoms of flowers and air fresh
from a shower. Our eyes take in greening grass, newlyleafed trees and just-born animals. Touching soil that has
just been turned over and letting the dirt run through our
fingers connects us.
Tasting spring greens
and the first strawber■
ries is a much-anticipated joy. And the sounds
of birds that have come
home from their winter
quarters, tractors plowing, men working in the
fields and lawnmowers
starting combine to
■
form a symphony that
is strange, yet somehow
pleasing.
The time of new beginning is most important, most tangible to us in its relationship to farming. For most of man’s
time on Earth he has been a farmer. It is only in the last
century, a mere speck in the scheme of things, that nearly
every person has not lived with the knowledge that they
personally had the responsibility to plant, tend and harvest
if they were going to eat and survive.
Only a small percentage of Americans now make their
living through farming and other forms of agriculture,
but in Rabun County it is still strong. By tradition and
in current practice, cultivating the soil, raising livestock
and harvesting the bounty of rivers and lakes is still very
important here.
Rabun County High School has a vibrant and successful
agriculture program and Future Farmers of America chapter. Numerous farming operations, large and small, are
found across the county. Osage Farm is a 750-acre business,
a formidable employer and taxpayer, and its roadside sales
operation on Highway 441 North is one of Rabun’s most
well-known spots for both visitors and residents.
Smaller farms and backyard gardens can be found all
around Rabun County. We are Georgia’s Farm to Table
restaurant capital. Numerous community gardens and
thriving farmers markets give further evidence that we are
a people who love the soil and feel connected to it.
The Rabun County heritage with its land is lovingly preserved by Foxfi re and presented as a living history village
at its museum in Mountain City. If you haven’t visited and
don’t support this treasure, you should.
The days of every man being a farmer are gone forever,
but if we’re smart we will appreciate and nurture those
who still choose this way of life. They provide a vital connection to our past, provide nourishment for our present
and are key to our future.
“W
e are Georgia’s Farm
to Table restaurant
capital.”
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I
Spring break back in the day
am envious of the boys and
girls in the Rabun County
school system because
they’re on spring break.
As a boy, I looked so forward
to that time off lasting from
Good Friday through the week
of Easter. If we were lucky
and the weather was right, it
meant a full week of roaming
the woods and creeks, riding
bikes to the car dealership
and auto parts stores to ask
for sticker decals like the old
Champion Fire Ring spark
plug, and sandlot baseball.
That was the best part.
Baseball has now been
bypassed by football as
America’s favorite sport, but
it still carries the proud title
of America’s pasttime. Major
League Baseball celebrated
opening day with a night
game Sunday and full slate
of contests Monday. The Boys
of Summer are back, and my
memories return with them
to one childhood spring break
when baseball and best friends
dominated my thoughts.
Though my roots are rural,
coming from the mountains of
Southwest Virginia, my childhood was spent in suburbia.
The street on which I lived was
Park Road. Seth Place ran at
an angle off Park and connected with Charles Street. McArthur Road was at the rear.
On these four roads lived
eight boys, all within two
years in age, who played,
pranked and fought with each
other all through childhood.
T
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Michael
Leonard
Publisher
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We were unofficially known
as The Park Boys. During this
particular spring break, The
Park Boys and another neighborhood group surrounding
Maryvale School, called the
Maryvale Mob, played a series
of pickup games I remember
clearly these many years later.
Gametime was 10 a.m. each
morning and the venue was
the backyard of the Kestner
house, across the street from
mine. First base was a fence
post, second an old hat someone had left lying on the road,
third was a T-shirt and home
plate was any ball glove from
the team at bat.
The biggest advantage of
our playing field was that
it backed up to an open lot
beside old man Hogenmiller’s
house. There one could roam
the outfield and run down fly
balls so long as the player kept
one eye on the side of Hogenmiller’s house and the other
on a poorly-placed bush in his
front yard.
We were kings. In that day,
every kid who was passionate
about baseball thought of himself as the boyhood personification of a major league star.
My best friend, Frank Depew,
was a big guy who wasn’t the
fastest on the base paths but
could hit the ball a mile. He
was Harmon Killebrew, the
Minnesota Twins star slugger. Never one short on ego, I
called myself Willie Mays.
It didn’t matter that the
Say-Hey Kid was black and I’m
white, or that I was scrawny
and Willie was a Hall of Fame
package of muscle and speed,
that’s the star I wanted to be.
I saw myself flying through
the spacious green of San
Francisco’s Candlestick Park
and spearing line drives like
Willie, hitting a homer off
Koufax or stealing home plate
in a daring dash. The stuff of
dreams.
What the fi nal scores were
of that spring break series I
do not recall, except that, of
course, The Park Boys sent the
Maryvale Mob packing, tails
hung in defeat. I’ve lost track
of every one of those with and
against whom I played, even
Frank.
But, I remember the time.
I fondly recall that and other
Easter breaks. And it makes
me smile.
Michael Leonard is the publisher of The Clayton Tribune.
He may be reached at 706-7823312 or emailed at mleonard@
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A Bronco tale
he year 1977 was a landmark one for our family. It was the year we
welcomed our fi rst child. Five
months earlier, when I was
just coming out of the fog of
morning sickness, my husband
Randy purchased our fi rst,
brand-new vehicle, a Ford
Bronco.
The child left us years ago,
hitting the trail to his own life.
The Bronco, though, for most
of our lives, was our faithful
go-to utility vehicle, the one
used to transport fi rewood,
and deer and hogs out of the
swamp, or pull a boat to the
fishing hole.
Lately, though, the Bronco
had begun showing its age and
had been put out to pasture,
waiting on a buyer who could
rev it up with new horsepower.
The news that it had been
sold, closely tied as it is to our
fi rstborn, found me reminiscing about the passage of time.
According to the original
bill of sale the vehicle cost
$5,607.34, sold by Montezuma
Motor Co. The color is listed
as “Bright Emerald.” The
unusual color is more “Vivid
Chartreuse,” a selling point for
Randy, who figured no one else
in the world would have one
like it.
It was also unusual in that
the 1977 Ford Bronco was the
last of its breed to roll off the
assembly line. 1978 brought an
updated, larger model Bronco,
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Dawne W.
Bryan
columnist
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designed to compete with fullsize SUV’s like Chevy Blazers.
The two-door vehicle featured power steering and
power brakes, an automatic
transmission on the column,
and four-wheel drive. On the
dash were an ashtray and
cigarette lighter, a pull knob
for lights and one to control
the tiny windshield wipers.
An AM radio was standard.
There were roll-up windows
and side vent windows operated with a fl ip latch. The light
dimmer was controlled by a
foot switch.
It was also versatile, with
a removable hard top and
removable back seat.
Over the years, Randy added
a trailer hitch on the back, a
winch on the front, and an FM
radio, not to mention a dog
box (which hauled two Jacks,
Joe, Ginny and Tango) and a
roll bar, both painted the same
bright yellow-green as the
original vehicle.
Now closing in on 40 years
old, the paint has worn down
to the metal on the driver’s
door where Randy’s arm
rested during many a drive,
the seats are mildewed, the
carburetor leaks, and the State
Farm decal and bumper sticker for “Ocmulgee Sportsman
Club 1984-1985” are frayed and
torn.
When we were preparing
to build our country home, I
had Randy park the Bronco
under the post oak tree while
I drove to a nearby road and
looked back, able to see the
vivid green from the distance
and imagining a house taking
shape near the copse of hardwoods.
As I watch that 1977 Ford
Bronco being hauled away, I
remember when it was bright
and shiny, like the face of a
new baby. The fellow who
bought our Bronco lives in my
home county of Rabun. Who
knows? Someday we might see
a shiny refurbished chartreuse Bronco on Highway
441, and we’ll wave at our old
friend.
Not one to let grass grow
under my feet, I jump in the
Bronco’s replacement, a new
bright green Gator loaded with
pinestraw, and I head down to
the rose garden.
Dawne W. Bryan is a Tiger
native who now lives and writes
in Cochran.
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The Clayton Tribune
April 9, 2015
A5
Legislators should be allowed to legislate
T
here are many members
of the Legislature who
work hard and try to
represent the best interests of
their constituents back home.
They run for office thinking
they will be allowed to make
informed decisions about
which bills to pass and which
bills to defeat.
They don’t know they will
come to the Capitol merely
to carry out the orders of the
governor and the leadership of
the House and Senate.
Year after year, you see the
leadership resolve important
issues by waiting until the
final hours and then ramming
a bill through to passage.
Exhausted lawmakers get
these bills late at night and are
ordered to vote without having enough time to read what’s
before them.
This year, legislators were
pressured to cast late-night
votes on a huge transportation
tax increase and a lucrative
tax giveaway for MercedesBenz.
The Mercedes tax break
wasn’t introduced as a bill and
did not go through the normal
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Tom
Crawford
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committee review process. The
measure was cooked up by the
governor’s lawyers, added to
an unrelated bill, and presented to lawmakers less than
two hours before the session’s
adjournment.
The transportation tax bill
at least was introduced and
reviewed in committee meetings, but the final version
included some provisions that
legislators did not see until the
bill was put before them late at
night for a final vote.
It is bad enough that lawmakers are not given enough
time to read the bills they vote
on. Even more galling is the
way the leadership casually
breaks its own rules to secure
fi nal passage of the measures.
This was glaringly evident
on the last night of the session
when the Mercedes tax break
was presented to legislators.
The Senate voted this year to
adopt a rule that senators must
be given two hours to read the
conference committee report
— the fi nal version of a bill
— before they vote on it. The
rule change was implemented
so that senators would have a
chance to actually know what
was in the bill they were considering.
The conference committee
report with the Mercedes tax
break was distributed a few
minutes after 10 p.m. Under
the rule requiring a two-hour
reading period, senators would
not be able to vote on it until
after midnight — the time at
which the session was scheduled to adjourn.
Supporters of the tax break
asked the Senate to suspend its
rule on the two-hour reading
period so that the bill could be
voted on prior to midnight.
Senate rules require that it
takes a two-thirds vote to suspend the time limit. Lt. Gov.
Casey Cagle twice called for
votes to suspend the two-hour
rule. Both votes fell short of
the required two-thirds majority.
After the second vote to
suspend the rule failed, Cagle
simply ignored the vote and
allowed Sen. Bruce Thompson,
R-White, to start debate on the
bill several minutes before the
end of the two-hour review
period.
By this time, the chamber
was fi lled to bursting with legislative aides, senators’ family
members, and other visitors
who had crowded in to celebrate the end of the session.
Senators shouted questions
at Thompson and Cagle about
the bill, but amid the noise it
was almost impossible to hear
them.
Several senators objected to
the tax break being brought
to them in the fi nal minutes of
the session. Sen. Josh McKoon,
R-Columbus, also protested
the Senate’s failure to follow
its own rule about reading a
conference committee report.
At one point, Sen. Mike
Crane, R-Newnan, moved that
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the local BOE spent
$16,388.20. They saved
more than $4,000 on this
year’s election, a cut
Whitmire attributed to
consolidation.
“Since (2011), we’ve
went down to one precinct. That $4,000 and
something would have
been for additional poll
workers,” she said. “It
is impacting the bottom
line.”
the Senate adjourn, since it
was now 12 o’clock.
“I’m not going to recognize
you for that motion,” Cagle
said.
It was several minutes after
midnight — when the session’s
fi nal day had already ended
— before senators cast their
votes. They approved the tax
break by a 33-22 margin in an
atmosphere of total chaos and
confusion. The House also
voted late to pass the bill, but
they at least did it by the midnight deadline.
This is the sort of thing that
happens every year at the end
of the session.
The brutal process is unfair
to the legislators. It is also an
insult to the voters who choose
which people they send to
Atlanta. The lawmakers and
their constituents deserve better than this.
Tom Crawford is editor of
The Georgia Report, an internet
news service at gareport.com
that reports on state government and politics. He can be
reached at tcrawford@gareport.
com.
In other business, the
board:
| Unanimously approved to stay with
the current plan for
software with Sivad
Business Solutions. The
company provides software and hardware for
elections. It presented
a $9,548 proposal for
a package with several software programs.
Whitmire said some of
the programs are beneficial for larger counties
but are not necessary in
Rabun. Board members
decided not to go with
the proposal and keep
with the current plan.
| Heard board member Jana Hill report
progress on the Board
of Elections website. She
said Whitmire would be
able to edit content on
the site and suggested
adding PDF documents
and links to the Georgia
Secretary of State’s election site.
ADVERTISEMENT FOR BIDS
Submitted Photo
The Rabun Christian Food Ministry is celebrating its fourth year of operation. Pictured, from left, are
Carol DeMaio, Leo Pina, Nancy Smart, Richard Boyle, Bill Smart and Angie Cheek, president.
Rabun Christian Food Ministry
celebrates fourth anniversary
Staff Reports
The Rabun Christian Food Ministry is
celebrating its fourth
anniversary of operation
in Rabun County. The
ministry is a non-profit,
interdenominational
organization that delivers groceries every
other Monday to more
than 350 needy families
throughout the county.
Approximately 35 dedicated volunteers give
their time twice a month
to box and take food to
RCFM clients.
The number of families
who need help indicates
that a need exists for
more volunteers. Volunteers give a couple of
hours every other Monday to pack boxes and
make deliveries. Also, besides monetary donations
(the ministry survives
because of the generosity
of churches and individuals in the community), the ministry has
a clothes and household
goods closet that gives
items to the needy free
RABUN
to produce something where people will
buy from us instead of other places.”
The teacher and FFA sponsor added
students will run their spring plant
sale April 23-May 15. It is open to the
public, he said.
The educational experience expands
outside the classroom as well. Each
student completes a supervised agricultural experience project worth
25 percent of the class grade. For the
project, students are required to log at
least 20 hours.
Brown said projects can be anything
from working a food production job to
showing livestock.
Brown said there are 184 students in
the school’s ag program, adding that
FFA is the largest club at the school.
Members of the organization compete
in career development events and de-
THEFT
“Ashley was doing his
absolute best to both
spend time with his
friend’s family and to
keep the business going,”
she said.
DARC Executive
Director Ray Coulombe
and Chairman Robert
Pittman echoed Stack’s
remarks regarding the
of charge. Items needed
include baby clothes,
blankets, sheets, towels,
coats, clothes for children and adults, pots and
pans, etc.
Tax-deductible monetary donations can be
sent to RCFM, P.O. Box
1955, Clayton, Georgia,
30525. Donated clothes
and household items can
be brought to the ministry warehouse on Highway 441 behind Wendy’s.
For more information,
call Angie Cheek at 706782-6687.
velop leadership skills. Brown said he’ll
have three students earn their Georgia
state FFA degree at the convention this
month in Macon.
According to Brown, one-sixth of jobs
in Georgia are somehow tied to agriculture. The program gives students
insight into the industry.
“Even if they don’t know now they
want to do something ag related, down
the road they may see it differently,” he
said.
Wright discovered her passion for
agriculture just a few years ago when
she attended RCHS. The 20-year-old
climbed through the ranks of FFA and
learned the basics before enrolling at
MSU.
“I wouldn’t have known I wanted to
be in agriculture if it wasn’t for FFA,”
she said. “They say the population of
the world is expected to grow tremendously within the next 50 years, (and)
we have less farmland than we’ve ever
had. The challenge is feeding the world
on fewer acres. I want to be a part of
that solution.”
ordeal, noting that no action against Martin has
been taken by the authority. Members, Stack
said, have known about
the incident for several
weeks.
“He’s been a good and
valuable board member,”
Coulombe said. “We
believe you’re innocent
until proven guilty.”
“We have great confidence in Ashley,” Stack
added. “He’s been a good
member of the Development Authority and we
think he’s a fi ne person.
We appreciate Ashley’s
commitment to the
team.”
Pittman said the authority will not be taking
any action at this time.
Martin has since
purchased Heavy Wood
Furniture Co. and is
currently in talks with
DARC on acquiring space
in the business park for
storage. His wife’s company, Lulu and Tully’s, is
now leasing space in the
park.
RABUN COUNTY:
STATE OF GEORGIA
Sealed proposals for furnishing all labor, materials, equipment, permits and other
things necessary for the construction of the following project will be received by
the Rabun County Board of Commissioners in the County Commission Conference Room located on the 2nd floor of the County Courthouse, Clayton, Georgia,
9:00 a.m. on April 23, 2015 at which time all bids received by the prescribed time
and date will be publicly opened and read aloud. Any bids proposals received after
the time shown above will not be accepted.
In addition the Board of Commissioners of Rabun County reserves the right to
show preference to local bidders in the purchase of supplies, equipment and services. The amount shall not exceed five (5%) of the amount bid or quoted and / or
fifty thousand dollars ($50,000), whichever is less.
A “local bidder” is defined as an individual or business that maintains a place of
business or maintains an inventory of merchandise and / or equipment in Rabun
County is licensed by Rabun County and/or the State of Georgia, if required, and is
subject to Rabun County real estate and or personal property taxes. Any local bidder in default on payment of any County or State tax license
shall not be eligible to receive preference until all taxes or licenses due are paid.
Notice of preference availability shall be included in the invitation to bid and in all
advertisements.
PROJECT NO. CR-07-01-15(241) Rabun County-Kelley’s Creek Rd./Rainey
Mountain Road/Black Rock Mountain Parkway. Project consists of a total project
length of 4.78 mile.
Kelley’s Creek section starts at U.S. 441 and ends just past Vulcan Materials Business entrance. A total of 2.2 mile of Milling/Patching/leveling/topping with Plant
mix asphalt.
Black Rock Mountain Pkwy starts at U.S. 441 and ends 1.375 miles at Black Rock
State Park entrance. A total project length of 1.375 miles of Milling/patching/leveling/topping with plant mix asphalt.
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CONTRACT TIME: JUNE 30, 2015
Plans (if any) and Specifications for this work will be available for inspection by
all interested parties at the Rabun County Commission office during regular office
hours.
All work shall be performed in accordance with Plans, if any, Project Special
Provisions and the 2001 edition of the Georgia Department of Transportation Standard Specifications and applicable Supplemental Specifications.
No bid proposals shall be withdrawn for a period of 30 days.
Payment will be made to the Contractor each calendar month based on the
estimated work complete in place as prescribed by the Georgia Department of
Transportation Standard Specifications. Retainage will be withheld as prescribed
by the Project Special Provisions. Final payment of the amounts withheld will not
be made until the project has been satisfactorily completed and accepted by the
county.
A bid bond in an equal to five percent (5%) of the total bid will be required. Also,
performance and payment bonds each in a sum equal to the full amount of the
contract will be required.
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The Rev. Donald Phillip Gragg, 85, of West
Wolf Creek Road, Lakemont, died March 23,
2015, at Northeast Georgia Medical Center in
Gainesville. He was the
husband of Dovie Gragg.
He was born in Rabun
County on April 13, 1929,
to the late Ralph Gragg
and Noba Key Gragg. He
was a U.S. Army veteran
and a heavy equipment
mechanic. He also was
the reverend of the Flat
Creek Baptist Church for
27 years.
He was preceded in
death besides his parents, by two twin sons,
Donald and David Gragg;
two brothers, Ray and
Aris Gragg; three sisters, Melba Gragg, Sarah
Hunt and Helen Cook,
and is survived by his
loving wife, Dovie Gragg
of the home; three daughters, Gail Little (Mark)
of Rabun Gap, Phyllis
Gragg (Danny) of Burlington, North Carolina,
and Rena Carpenter
(Ervin) of Lakemont; two
brothers, Bud Gragg of
Stockbridge and Jerry
Gragg (Mary) of Mountain City; two sisters,
Doris Noblett (James)
of Stockbridge, and
Barbara Sentell (David)
of Rock Springs. Five
grandchildren and seven
great-grandchildren also
survive. Several nephews, nieces and cousins
also survive.
Funeral services were
held Thursday, March
26, 2015, at 2 p.m. at Flat
Creek Baptist Church,
conducted by the Rev.
Wayne Phillips. Burial
followed in the church
cemetery.
Hunter Funeral Home
was in charge of arrangements. An online obituary and guest register is
available at www.hunterfuneralhomega.com.
The Clayton Tribune, April 9, 2015
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Hodgson Herndon
McPeak
Frances Lucille Hodgson Herndon McPeak, 87,
of Clayton, passed away
at her residence Sunday,
April 5, 2015.
She was born in
Hartwell and was the
daughter of the late
Roy Downie Hodgson
and Opal Azalee Sadler
Hodgson. In addition
to her parents, she was
preceded in death by her
husband, John William
McPeak, a daughter,
Cynthia Herndon and
a granddaughter, Janet
Thompson.
Mrs. McPeak is survived by three children,
Cheryl Herndon Thompson and her husband,
Ray of Hollywood, Rod-
ney D. Herndon and his
wife, Denise of Ashford,
Alabama, and John
Steven Herndon and his
wife Gale of Newnan;
three sisters, Carolyn
Johnson of Palmetto,
Charleene Robertson of
Ellijay and Doris Edwards of Clayton; and
seven grandchildren,
Brad Thompson, Julie
Thompson Harmon,
Kimberly Herndon Carruthers, Kelly Herndon
Harrison, Clayton Herndon, Nathan Herndon
and Heidi Herndon Stenvold. Also surviving are
13 great-grandchildren.
She lived in Atlanta
from 1962 to 1982 and
moved back to Rabun
County in 1983. She was
a member of Clayton
Baptist Church, where
she was a Song Bird
and choir member. Mrs.
McPeak served as the
coordinator of blood
drive services in Rabun
County, worked at the
Voter Registration Office
and was treasurer for
the Northeast Chapter of
Georgia Power Ambassadors.
The family received
friends at Beck Funeral
Home from 5-7 p.m. Tuesday, April 7, 2015. Funeral services were held at
noon Wednesday, April 8,
2015, at Clayton Baptist
Church, with Pastor Joey
Thompson officiating.
Mrs. McPeak’s pall-
bearers were Nathan
Herndon, Clayton
Herndon, Brad Thompson, Gordon Robertson,
Dan Robertson, Tom
Robertson and Myron
Edwards. Honorary
pallbearers were Michael
Johnson, Ed Johnson
and Michael Mize.
Memorial donations
may be made to the
Clayton Baptist Church
Music Ministry, 87 S.
Church Street, Clayton,
Georgia, 30525.
Beck Funeral Home, in
Clayton, was in charge
of the arrangements. An
online memorial register
book is available at www.
beckfuneralhome.com.
The Clayton Tribune, April 9, 2015
Staff Writer
The Development Authority of Rabun County
heard about four new
companies interested in
space at Rabun Business
Park during its meeting
Monday at the park. It is
the most new leads since
the year began.
“Prospect activity is
certainly better than
it was a year ago,”
Chairman Robert Pittman said. “I think that
reflects a lot of work that
Ray’s done. Things are
picking up, and that’s
good news.”
Authority members
met in a special called
meeting March 30 to discuss activity on one new
prospect, code named
Project WPR. The electronics manufacturer
makes circuit boards for
a telecommunications
company and is interested in 3,000 to 5,000 square
feet of space, Coulombe
said. It could bring seven
jobs.
Company officials
visited the park twice
in March and Coulombe
said they were shown a
partially-finished office
area on the west side of
the building.
“It turns out that the
renovation costs to get
that (space) suitable
for their needs were in
excess of $100,000,” Coulombe said.
The director added he’s
getting additional quotes
on the renovations, but is
not hopeful the price will
be much cheaper.
“I’m not optimistic that
they’re going to be moving in,” he said.
A lead from Georgia
Power is code named
Project Panther. It involves an international
manufacturer seeking
300,000 square feet of
space, which could produce up to 45 jobs.
Coulombe said representatives were scheduled to visit Wednesday.
The final two prospects are local companies. Project LRHB is a
Northeast Georgia-based
construction business
seeking 5,000 square
feet of space. The company already employs
14 people, but could add
an additional one or two
jobs. Coulombe said in
order for the space to
work, the business owner
requested a wall be built
and electricity run to the
area.
Project JGI is a furniture manufacturer that
could provide 100 jobs to
area residents. It seeks
200,000 square feet of
space and Coulombe said
he’s sent a lot of information to the owner.
As a result of the increased prospect activity,
Coulombe announced
activity on the DARC
website has skyrocketed. The authority also
was introduced to other
opportunities to get the
word out about Rabun
Business Park.
Teka Earnhardt,
executive director of the
Rabun County Tourism
Development Authority, requested use of
the facility for a cirque
performance that could
bring 2,000 people into
the park. The June 21
event is part of the Tallulah Gorge Skywalk
Celebration and will
feature Rabun County
native Evan Westbrook
performing alongside
a professional cirque
ensemble.
Earnhardt said prior
accommodations for
the performance fell
through and she, as well
as Westbrook, thought
the business park would
be the perfect place. Food
trucks, she added, would
be inside the park to offer
refreshments for guests
and outdoor restrooms
would be provided by the
TDA.
Earnhardt said part of
the goal for the festival
is to show off the county
and city facilities.
“If y’all will agree to let
us use this, every county
facility will be showcased
in one form or fashion in
the whole celebration,”
she said.
Board members unanimously voted to allow the
DARC Executive Committee to consider the
event and ask more questions before approving.
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April 9, 2015
A7
Report weighs in on Rabun County health
By Megan Studdard
Staff Writer
A recent health rankings report named Rabun County in
the top 30 percent of Georgia’s
healthiest counties, its highest
finish since 2012.
The 2015 County Health
Rankings and Roadmaps
report, released by the Robert
Wood Johnson Foundation and
University of Wisconsin Population Health Institute, tabbed
Rabun 47th out of 159 counties
for health outcomes. The sixth
annual study examines data
in categories including quality of life, health behaviors,
clinical care and physical environment. It ranks individual
counties nationwide in health
outcomes and factors.
The county has drastically
improved its ranking in the
past two years. In 2014, Rabun
came in at 75th and was even
worse in 2013, when it ranked
83rd.
The health outcomes ranking studies length and quality
of life. Rabun County residents
are living longer than those
in 80 other Georgia counties.
Rabun ranked 79th in length of
life. For quality of life, Rabun
ranked 13th in the state. The
survey showed Rabun residents reported being in poor or
fair health much less than the
state average.
May Bennett, a community
coach with County Health
Rankings and Roadmaps, said
the health outcomes ranking
reflects health of today, while
some factors rate the health of
tomorrow. She said the combined results tell communities
where people live matters to
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their health.
Rabun finished 59th in
health factors, up from its 66th
rank in 2014. Statistics that go
into the health factor rating
are categorized into health
behaviors, clinical care, social
and economic factors and
physical environment.
Rabun was one of three
counties on the list where 100
percent of the population has
access to exercise opportunities. Neighboring Towns and
Union counties also received a
perfect score.
But there is room for improvement.
The report showed an
upward trend in adult obe-
sity and sexually-transmitted
diseases in Rabun County over
the past few years. Statistics
for injury deaths — measured
by the number of deaths
caused by injuries per 100,000
population — was also high
in Rabun. The county had 99
compared to Georgia’s overall
58.
At least one out of every
three Rabun residents is obese.
The county also saw a chlamydia rate of 196, growing
from 184 in 2014.
Dave Palmer, public information officer with Georgia’s
District 2 Public Health, said
Rabun County Health Department has programs in place
Photos by Megan Studdard/The Clayton Tribune
Siri Hill and Marianne Woerner are the 2015 STAR student and teacher for Rabun County High School.
to fight growing statistics of
obesity and sexually transmitted diseases. According to
Palmer, the STD rate fluctuates from time to time, and he
said, like any disease, it’s hard
to determine why.
“We have a program where
we diagnose and treat people
with STDs,” Palmer said. “We
investigate sexual contact,
whether its one or multiple.”
He added that obesity is
one of four areas the state
Department of Public Health
is working on. He said it is an
issue across the state and the
local health department is
using the WIC program to encourage families to purchase
nutritious food.
Rabun County is one of the
bottom performers in clinical care, ranking 136th. This
category accounts for ratios
of population to health care
providers, including dentists,
primary care physicians and
mental health providers. It
also recorded less collegeeducated residents than the
state average and a high 10.6
percent unemployment rate for
2013 put Rabun County in the
bottom 25 for Georgia. Rabun
County was the only Northeast
Georgia county in the bottom
part of the list.
Both Bennett and Palmer
agreed the healthiness of a
county is more than just access to doctors.
“Good health is about more
than medical care,” Bennett
said. “Things like the economic situation, housing, education
all affect it.”
“When we look at counties
that have a higher education
level, those communities tend
to have better health outcomes,” Palmer said. “(Educated people) tend to understand
health issues better. They can
see the correlation between
eating healthy, getting exercise
and having healthy behaviors.
We’ve begun to look at that and
encourage (decision-makers) to
look at high school graduation
rates.”
According to the report,
the five healthiest counties in Georgia are Forsyth,
Gwinnett, Fayette, Cobb and
Oconee. Early County in South
Georgia was ranked last in the
state.
See the full report at www.
countyhealthrankings.org.
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Foundation names local STAR students, teachers
By Megan Studdard
Staff Writer
Siri Hill clutches a laptop as she walks through
the halls of Rabun County High School. Later that
night, she’ll pour over
equations in preparation for the highest high
school level calculus class
offered. Just a few miles
away at Rabun Gap-Nacoochee School, Jackson
Fan is surrounded by test
tubes and burners. He’s at
home in the lab.
Fan and Hill were
named the county’s 2015
STAR students for their
respective schools. Hill
chose social studies
teacher Marianne Woerner as STAR teacher
at RCHS, and Fan named
physics teacher Woody
Malot as RGNS STAR
teacher.
Each year, the Professional Association
of Georgia Educators
Foundation names a local
STAR student and teacher
from every high school.
To be nominated, seniors
must have the highest
score on the SAT and be
in the top 10 percent of
students in their class
based on grade point average. The local winners
both scored above 2000 on
the SAT — Hill with 2030
and Fan with 2240. The
highest score possible
on the college-entrance
exam is a 2400.
Hill has been a student
at Rabun County schools
her entire educational
career. Involved in everything from Anchor
Club to student council,
she’s described as a hard
worker and achiever by
her STAR teacher.
“She really pushes
herself hard,” Woerner
said. “Even when there
was an elective available,
she didn’t just say ‘Oh, I’ll
be a teacher’s aide.’ She
actually took a course.”
In her four years of
high school, Hill has
taken nine advanced
placement classes. She
said she’ll already be
ahead in college with the
credits she’s earned from
passing AP tests.
So how did Hill become
so successful academically?
“Just buckling down
and studying,” the Rabun
Gap native said. “That’s
the hardest part about
it, just making myself sit
and study.”
She said she participated in an SAT preparation class and went
through review books
before taking the exam.
Hill chose Woerner as her
STAR teacher after taking classes, including AP
Psychology, with her.
“Mrs. Woerner is just
awesome,” Hill said.
Hill’s passion is math
and she plans to attend
Texas A&M University to
study aerospace engineering. She is the daughter of
Amy Hill.
At RGNS, Fan excels
in the sciences. He’s
originally from China
and moved to the United
States more than three
years ago to study at the
local private school.
In addition to scoring in
the top percentile for the
SAT, Fan has completed
several original research
projects through the
Origin program at RGNS.
Last year, he said he
worked to extract biodiesel fuel from algae. This
year, he’s doing a project
on holograms.
Malot, Fan’s pick for
RGNS STAR teacher and
his advisor for the past
few years, heads the Origin program.
“Jackson’s been real
dedicated outside of class
in anything he’s interested in,” Malot said. “It’s
just been fun to watch
him work. He’s always
interested in more things
than there’s hours in the
day to do.”
Fan attributed his
academic success to
hard work, persistence
and help from others. He
plans to study engineering after graduation.
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The Clayton Tribune
April 9, 2015
A9
Distillery jobs bill headed to Gov. Deal’s desk
By Mat Payne
Staff Writer
Distillery and brewery
owners across the state
raised their collective
glass after the General
Assembly gave a final
nod of approval April 2
to Senate Bill 63, better
known as the “Beer Jobs
Bill.”
The bill, modeled similarly to the Georgia Farm
Winery Act, expands
the abilities of licensed
brewers and distillers
to put their product in
the hands of consumers
onsite. Heavily altered
from its original form, SB
63 is thought by those in
the business to be a step
toward a contemporary
legal code giving producers greater control in the
sale of their product.
“There are no distillery
laws on the books for the
state of Georgia,” said
Jim Harris, owner of
Clayton-based Moonrise
Distillery and president
of the Georgia Distillers
Association. “We can
manufacture it, but we
have to go through the
three-tier (distribution)
system.”
Georgia’s distribution
laws require the flow
of alcohol to move from
producer to distributor to
wholesaler, from whom
it can be sold publicly.
Some exceptions have
been made to the strict
flow, including the Georgia Farm Winery Act.
Harris said he believed
the act, which allows
wineries to sell products
in a tasting room onsite,
was a good model for future legislation relating
to distillers.
“The wineries have
already got legislation
passed under the Georgia
Farm Winery Act and
the distilleries and the
brewpubs are looking for
the same thing,” Harris
said.
While there are no
breweries in Rabun
County, Moonrise Distillery is one of two distilleries. R.M. Rose Co.
Distillery is the second.
Both companies have yet
to bottle its product, but
Harris said he expects to
be bottling soon.
According to Harris,
Georgia is one of the few
states in the Southeast
that does not permit a
distillery to sell its products onsite. SB 63 doesn’t
legalize onsite sales.
Instead, it offers a way
for disterillies to provide
visitors a single bottle of
spirits.
The bill states that
licensed distillers who
hold the proper permits
can conduct educational
and promotional tours
during which time they
can give away souvenirs,
food and as much as
three half-ounce samples
of distilled spirits. Souvenirs can include one
bottle of distilled spirits
with a volume no greater
than 750 milliliters.
“We’re glad that it
passed,” Harris said. “It
is a crack in the system
that’s been in place since
the 1920s — since Prohibition.
“It is a step forward.
We’re excited about it. We
need to keep pursuing
this kind of legislation
to, in my opinion, bring
Georgia into the 21st
century.”
The bill passed 142-9
in the House on March
27, with Rep. Stephen
Allison, R-Blairsville,
excused from voting. It
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46-6
in the
Senate on
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Wilkinson on Monday
said his qualms with
the bill were primarily
regarding the amount of
malt beverages an individual could purchase
from a brewery and consume onsite.
“That was a pretty
complicated issue and I
think it’s something that
I know will continue to
be an issue in the future,”
Wilkinson said. “I think
we just need to be very
careful when we start
making those changes.”
With the wineries in
Rabun County being a
major tourist draw, Tony
Allred, president of the
Rabun County Chamber
of Commerce, said he believed similar legislation
opening the same doors
to breweries and distillers could help bring more
visitors to the area.
“Other communities
where there are quality
distilleries have huge
traffic,” Allred said.
“(Visitors) want to come,
see the product and take
it home. It’s a legal industry and we ought to take
advantage of it.
“These local guys need
an opportunity to sell
their local product.”
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suspected meth dealers
By Klark Byrd
News Editor
Local law enforcement in participation with the Appalachian Regional
Drug Enforcement Office arrested
three Clayton residents March 31 for
suspected methamphetamine sales and
obstruction of law enforcement.
Charged with possession of methamphetamine with intent to distribute was
35-year-old Robert Daniel Collins of 329
Clayton Ave. Collins
also is charged with
possession of more
than nine grams of
ephedrine, a primary ingredient in
the manufacture of
methamphetamine.
Collins was arrested
in November for
possession of methamphetamine and
WALL
was awaiting a court
date at the time of his
arrest March 31. He
remained jailed Wednesday with bond
set at $16,500.
Amanda Wall, 30, of 160-A Stavemill
St., was charged with possession of
methamphetamine and a count each
for possession of a Schedule III and
Schedule IV narcotic. According to
the sheriff’s office, Wall bonded out of
jail March 31 after her bond was set at
$16,500.
Jackie Lee Beaty, 35, was arrested
at Wall’s residence and charged with
obstruction of law enforcement officers.
He also was jailed on a felony probation
violation. He remained at the detention center Wednesday with bond set at
$2,500.
The arrests were the result of a
month long investigation into drug
sales from both residences. The Rabun
County Sheriff’s Office, the Clayton Police Department and
the ARDEO executed
search warrants at
the homes simultaneously. A press release
stated the investigation determined Collins and Wall were
selling methamphetamine independently.
The search warrants
COLLINS
were served at the
same time because
the residences were
in close proximity to
each other.
“A small amount
of methamphetamine and 15 grams
of ephedrine were
located at Collins’
residence,” the press
release stated. “A
small amount of
BEATY
methamphetamine
and numerous pharmaceutical pills were located at Wall’s
residence.”
Sheriff Frank Andrews on Monday
said manufacturing methamphetamine
is dangerous because the resulting
fumes are poisonous and prone to
explosion.
“They use what’s called a shake and
bake,” he said. “It’s where they mix the
chemicals together and let it cook off.
It’s volatile and the fumes are highly
toxic until it cooks off.”
Dillard man indicted on incest charges
News Editor
A Rabun County Superior Court grand jury
indicted a 23-year-old
Dillard man March 25 on
numerous charges that
include statutory rape,
aggravated child molestation and incest.
The man, who will not
be named in this report so as to protect the
identity of the victims,
was arrested March 2
by the Rabun County
Sheriff’s Office after two
juvenile victims came
forward with the accusations. He remained in
the custody of the Rabun
County Detention Center
on Wednesday, where he
has been held for 38 days
without bond.
Sgt. Matt Thomas with
the sheriff’s office previously told The Clayton
Tribune an investigation was opened after
one juvenile related to
the accused disclosed to
an outside source that
sexual abuse was occurring. Thomas said an interview was conducted at
Power House for Kids in
Toccoa, after which time
a second victim, also
related to the accused,
came forward. Another
interview was conducted
and it was determined
the allegations described
the same behavior from
the suspect.
Thomas said the sheriff’s office told the man
they wanted to speak
with him. He visited the
office and was coopera-
tive during the arrest.
The grand jury’s indictment includes seven
counts of aggravated
child molestation, four
counts of incest, two
counts of child molestation and two counts of
statutory rape.
Child molestation,
aggravated child molestation, statutory rape
and incest are felonies
in Georgia. Child molestation is punishable by
up to 20 years in prison
and carries a minimum
sentence of five years
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The Clayton Tribune
POLICE BLOTTER
Sunbathing
on private
property
Todd Anthony Stephens, 44, of Lakemont,
was arrested April 4 at
4 p.m. for felony public
indecency and false statements after a woman and
her two young children
saw him naked in the 800
block of McKay Road.
The woman said she
was out for a walk with
her children when her
4-year-old ran ahead a
few feet. That’s when the
woman saw Stephens naked, looking up at the sky
and walking backwards.
When he fell backwards
into the woods, she
grabbed her child and
ran home to phone the
sheriff’s office.
A deputy arrived at the
scene and was readily
able to identify Stephens
because he was still
naked in the driveway.
When asked what he was
doing, Stephens said he
was sunbathing. He was
asked if he knew it was
illegal to be naked in a
public place, and he said
he knew but he thought
he was on private property. He was informed he
was still in public view.
Stephens got dressed.
Stephens told the
deputy he knew the
property owner and
had permission to be
there. Another deputy
noticed handprints on
the residence’s windows
as though someone had
been looking inside. Deputies contacted the property owner after taking
Stephens to the Rabun
County Detention Center.
The property owner said
he didn’t know Stephens
and he gave no permission for him to be on the
property. When asked
why he lied, Stephens
said he used to fish on
the other side of the river
on another property. He
said he got the property
owner’s name from the
mailbox.
Good time
turns into
bad time
A 36-year-old Clayton
man and a 32-year-old
Clayton woman were
jailed April 4 after their
drinking and good time
took a turn for the worse.
The woman told a
deputy who responded to
a fight in the 3400 block
of Highway 76 East the
man got irate while they
were drinking and took
her by the throat down
to the ground. She said
she pushed him off and
attempted to leave but he
grabbed her by the hair.
Her two young sons witnessed the event and told
a deputy the same events
occurred. The man
was taken to the Rabun
at 9 p.m. and was charged
with battery-family
violence and cruelty to
children.
The woman, who was
given the number to
FAITH so she could seek
help, also was arrested.
She was charged with
DUI-alcohol and two
counts of endangering a
child by driving under
the influence of alcohol.
When deputies arrived,
the woman was trying to
back out of the driveway
with her young sons in
the backseat. Roadside
breath tests revealed
blood-alcohol content
levels of .157 and .170. She
was taken to the Rabun
as well.
The house
might be
bugged
A Clayton woman on
Cannon Street reported
missing ammunition to
police at 7:50 p.m. April
1. She said her ex-boyfriend recently stayed
in the residence and she
thought he might have
taken four or five boxes
of 40-caliber ammunition
and six or seven boxes
of 9mm ammunition.
She said she was afraid
of him, adding he had
cameras and listening
devices in the residence
so he could see and hear
her at all times.
She was informed on
how to obtain a temporary protective order.
Drunk, truck
on fire and
then in jail
A 32-year-old Lakemont man watching his
truck burn in the 300
block of Rock Mountain
Road in Tallulah Falls
was arrested for DUIalcohol at 6:45 a.m. April
4. The man said he was
driving home after partying with some friends
when he noticed flames
coming from the front
tire well. He pulled his
four-wheeler off the back
and drove to a nearby
home to phone for help.
When deputies arrived,
he was watching the fully
engulfed vehicle burn.
A roadside breath test
revealed a blood-alcohol
content level of .123. He
failed roadside sobriety
tests and was taken to
the Mountain Lakes
Medical Center for a
blood test. He was taken
to the Rabun County
Detention Center.
Thursday, March 26
● A Glennville woman
reported possible abuse
involving a juvenile victim. The sheriff’s office
was investigating.
04/01/14 – 04/07/14
● A Loganville man
reported the theft by
taking of his chainsaw to
the sheriff’s office. The
man was on Warwoman
Management Area fishing and said someone
in a grey Jeep Cherokee
drove by with teenage
passengers. He said he
wasn’t sure if they took
the chainsaw out of his
truck, but someone did.
The chainsaw was valued
at $670. The sheriff’s office was investigating.
Tuesday, March 31
● A Tiger woman
reported to the sheriff’s
office suspicious activity
in the 200 block of Syrup
City Road at 1:48 a.m.
The woman said she had
heard someone walking
on the porch and banging on the side of the
house. A deputy saw food
on the front porch and
asked if it could be an
animal. The woman said
she didn’t think so. She
thought it was a child
having fun.
● A Clayton man asked
the sheriff’s office to investigate possible fraudulent activities involving
the forging of a vehicle
title after discovering the
title to a van he was purchasing at the time of his
2010 arrest no longer had
his name on it. The man’s
uncle was supposed to
pay the van off for him
so he had something to
drive when he got out
of jail. Instead, the van
was repossessed and
purchased by the uncle.
The title switched hands
through title companies
and banks, eventually
losing the man’s name.
He said he believed his
signature was forged.
● A Mountain City
woman reported to
the sheriff’s office
fi rst-degree criminal
damage to property on
Lookoff Mountain Road
after returning from a
walk to fi nd her vehicle
scratched and windshield
chipped. The woman said
she was in an argument
with her son the day
before. The son said he
saw her car on Lookoff
Mountain Road and
threw a rock that didn’t
hit the car. He also said
he didn’t scratch the car.
Both were advised of the
magistrate court process.
● A Lakemont man in
the 100 block of East Wolf
Creek Road reported
a possible scam to the
sheriff’s office after he
put his motorcycle up for
sale on Craigslist and
received a response. The
man said a woman texted
him and asked him to
email a man who said
he was in the military.
The other man expressed
interest in purchasing
the motorcycle, but since
the Lakemont man told
him the purchase needed
to be cash or a cashier’s
check he has received no
response. He was advised
to cease communicating
with the other party if he
didn’t feel comfortable.
● The Mountain City
Police Department arrested a 19-year-old Lakemont man at 5:58 p.m. for
possession of less than
an ounce of marijuana.
● The Georgia State
Patrol arrested a 19-yearold Clayton man at 11:46
a.m. for hit and run and
driving without a license.
Wednesday, April 1
● A Beatty Lane
woman reported the theft
by taking of a quarter
tank of gas and her state
gas card. The sheriff’s
office was investigating.
The woman was advised
to speak with her superintendent about the missing card.
● A Clayton man fi led
a complaint of fi nancial
identity fraud with the
sheriff’s office after his
credit card company
asked to verify charges
made in Warner Robins.
Video at a Walgreen’s
there showed a woman
making a purchase at the
time his card was used.
The sheriff’s office was
investigating.
● The sheriff’s office
investigated a suicide in
the 200 block of Muscadine Lane at 8 p.m.
● The sheriff’s office
completed a welfare
check on a Mountain City
woman in the 100 block of
Alexander Lane after her
son, against whom she
had a temporary protection order, reported she
was being held against
her will by a man at
the residence. A deputy
visited the residence and
spoke with a man who
said the woman was not
there, but had been there
for dinner. The deputy
called the woman’s son
and told him what was
found. He was informed
he cannot use the sheriff’s office for the purpose
of harassing or contacting his mother.
The next day, the
woman reported harassing phone calls to the
sheriff’s office after her
sister and another man
called, sent text messages
and drove to her residence. She was advised to
block the numbers. The
sister said she wanted
shelves from the woman,
but had no vehicle to get
them. She was advised
to fi nd someone to drive
her there and to have a
deputy accompany her.
● Deputies responded
to a verbal dispute on
Pastel Lane at 2:50 p.m.
A Clayton man said he
made a deal with the
other man to collect $550
to buy a transmission
for a car he previously
bought from the man.
He arrived to collect it,
but the other man said
he was going to pick up
his grandchildren. The
Clayton man blocked the
other man in the driveway and the other man
kicked the Clayton man’s
car, causing the Clayton
man to leave. No arrests
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April 9, 2015
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BRAWL
Owens was able to get a
handcuff on Gipson’s left
wrist, but Gipson reached
into the bed of his truck
and pulled out a shovel.
He swung it at Jackson’s
head, a move Jackson
blocked. The deputy then
unarmed Gipson as Owens swept the suspect’s
feet out from under him,
the report stated.
While struggling with
Gipson on the ground,
Owens was kicked twice
in the back of his head.
Soon after, Deputy Michael Carnes and Clayton police officers Mark
Gerrells and William
Wall arrived to assist. All
five struggled to arrest
Gipson on the ground.
Gerrells then used his
stun gun, which caused
Gipson to comply.
According to the
report, Owens received
injuries to his head, left
elbow, right knuckles and
fingers and both knees.
Gerrells also received
injuries to his knuckles.
Animal Control was
called to take possession of two dogs in the
truck. Gipon was taken to
Mountain Lakes Medical
Center for an evaluation
of his injuries before being taken to the Rabun
County Detention Center. The property owner
of the location where
Gipson was parked was
contacted. She said he did
not have permission to be
there, the report stated.
LAWSUIT
supervisor for Defendant
D.H. helped create false
documents regarding
Dominguez’s immigration status.”
Atlanta-based attorney
Chuck Clay, a Rabun
County native, is representing The Dillard
House. He said he could
not comment on the allegations.
Dominguez was sentenced Dec. 8 by Mountain Judicial Superior
Rabun Republican
Saturday breakfast
Georgia Public Service Commissioner Tim Echols speaks
Saturday at Kingwood Country Club and Resort during
the Rabun Republican’s
meeting. Echols voiced concern on upcoming Environmental Protection Agency
rules that will require states
to reduce the amount of
carbon power plants produce by 44 percent. He said
the rule doesn’t take into
account that Georgia is different than Arizona because
Georgia has 21 million acres
of trees. Those trees, he
said, require carbon dioxide
to flourish. Echols also
said he supports holding
candidates accountable to
campaign promises.
Klark Byrd/The Clayton Tribune
PHOTO
tor and travel guide for Northeast Georgia
published by the five Northeast Georgia
Region papers of Community Newspapers
Inc. Some 25,000 copies are printed.
Regional publisher Alan NeSmith invites
local photographers to submit their photographic representation of beautiful Northeast Georgia. Suggested subjects could
include points of interest, natural features
or scenic views.
The magazine publishes May 25 and will
Court Judge B. Chan
Caudell to life in prison
for the rape of a young
Dillard girl after he entered a guilty plea as part
of an agreement with
prosecutors. That agreement dropped four of
the five charges against
him. Those charges were
kidnapping, aggravated
assault, aggravated child
molestation and a misdemeanor count of battery.
The lawsuit against
The Dillard House
claims Dominguez was
working “on the clock”
and was “highly intoxicated” when he encoun-
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were made.
● The Georgia State Patrol
arrested a 43-year-old Hiawassee woman at 10:01 p.m. for
speeding, DUI-alcohol and
possession of an open alcohol
container.
Thursday, April 2
● A Clayton woman’s 2013
Chevrolet Cruze struck a Clayton man’s 2002 Ford Taurus on
Rickman Street at Duggan Hill
Drive at 5:02 p.m. as she was
pulling out of the parking lot.
No injuries were reported.
● A 17-year-old Tiger man
was arrested at 12:17 p.m. for
possession of less than an
ounce of marijuana and possession and use of drug-related
objects after police found
him walking along Rickman
Street with a group of young
males and a female. A caller
reported seeing the group not
attending school. Guardians
for the female and two of the
males were contacted and
picked them up. A third male
and the Tiger man were taken
to the Clayton Police Department. Prior to getting into the
patrol car, the Tiger man told
the officer he had “weed and a
pipe” in his pocket. The school
resource officer was contacted
and said he spoke with the
judge. He said the Tiger man
could be taken to the Rabun
County Detention Center on
the drug charges.
● The sheriff’s office was
investigating a criminal trespass report on Red Fox Lane.
A woman reported hearing a
noise at the back door. She saw
a hole in the door and found
a marble lying on the floor
below the glass. She talked to
a neighbor who reported his
children were at school.
Saturday, April 4
● A Clayton man’s 1996 Ford
be distributed at visitor centers, chambers
of commerce, lodging and retail outlets
during the summer of 2015. It will be available in Rabun, Habersham, White, Lumpkin, Dawson counties and throughout the
region and around the state.
The winner of the cover contest will
receive $100. A story at the front of the
magazine will name and credit the winning
photographer.
Criteria for entering:
● Photographer must live in Rabun,
Dawson, Habersham, Lumpkin or White
counties;
● Photographer can submit up to three
images;
tered the young girl,
“drug her into a wooded
lot, and raped her.” It
states Dominguez fled
the scene and went to
the house of a supervisor, who drove him to his
residence where he was
arrested.
The lawsuit does
not specify an amount
sought for general or
special damages. It states
the plaintiffs seek award
for both damages, for the
victim’s medical bills
and for the loss of the
victim’s services.
Perry also declined
comment on the lawsuit
when reached by phone
LGT struck a Mountain City
woman’s 1997 Nissan Sentra
in the CVS parking lot at 10:41
a.m. He said he misjudged
the distance between their
vehicles as he was backing out
of a parking space. No injuries
were reported.
● A Clayton woman’s 2002
Saturn SL1 rear-ended a
Rabun Gap man’s 2001 Chevrolet truck at 12:43 p.m. on South
Main Street near Mill Street
while the Rabun Gap man
waited to turn left. No injuries
were reported.
● Clayton police assisted the
sheriff’s office and the Georgia
State Patrol with an accident
scene at the Walmart road
intersection on Highway 441
South at 9:23 p.m. The scene
was turned over to the state
patrol.
● A Clayton man in the 7800
block of East Wolf Creek Road
reported damage to property
at 4 p.m. Someone shot both
headlights out, busted the
radiator and shot a hole in the
gas tank on the man’s 2005 Yamaha 660 Raptor four-wheeler.
The damage was estimated at
$700. He said he wasn’t sure
who might have done it.
Sunday, April 5
● A 65-year-old Helen man
was arrested by police for
DUI-alcohol and failure to
yield when entering the road
at 1:45 a.m. on Hiawassee
Street at Highway 76 West.
The man told police he drank
two beers before driving. A
roadside breath test revealed a
high blood-alcohol content. He
failed roadside sobriety tests
and was taken to the Rabun
County Detention Center after
refusing to consent to a blood
test.
● A Clayton woman on Holcomb Lane reported a missing
delivery to the sheriff’s office
at 5:45 p.m. after FedEx failed
to deliver an iPod 5 Touch she
ordered online. A pool ordered
at the same time arrived. The
store from which she ordered
Tuesday.
The Clayton Tribune
previously reported the
Rabun County Sheriff’s
Office joined the Dillard
Police Department and
Georgia Bureau of Investigation in the search
for Dominguez on Aug.
1 after the girl’s father
called 911.
A sheriff’s report stated the father was searching for his daughter
when he heard her yelling for him in a wooded
area near Franklin
Street. As he approached,
he saw a young Hispanic
man run from where his
daughter was laying on
said it would need a police report to fi x the issue. The iPod
was valued at $179.99.
● The sheriff’s office responded to a child custody
dispute in the Persimmon community. A man said his ex-wife
told him she would not give
their daughter to him until
late and said he better bring
the law if he came out to where
she was. A deputy advised
him not to go. Shortly after, a
deputy spoke to both parties
over the phone after they met
and disagreed about the custody of the child. The parties
were informed the sheriff’s
office couldn’t force custody
and were advised to take the
matter to court.
● The sheriff’s office investigated a felony theft by shoplifting at Walmart at 8 p.m. Management reported that a man
tried to leave with a cart full of
merchandise. The people with
whom he was a passenger in
the vehicle previously left after
being confronted by a Walmart
employee seeking to see their
receipt. The man left the cart,
walked over to the Home Depot
parking lot and hid behind
pine straw trailers until he
got into the car and left. The
Walmart manager followed the
vehicle a short distance and
reported its license plate to
the sheriff’s office. The value
of the recovered merchandise
was $524.
● The Tallulah Falls Police Department arrested a
30-year-old Eatonton man at
1:53 p.m. for no proof of insurance, brake light/turn signal
violation, possession of less
than an ounce of marijuana
and knowingly driving a vehicle on a suspended registration.
Pleas
The following pleas were
heard in Rabun County Superior Court on misdemeanor
and felony offenses:
● Christopher Hugh Kinney,
guilty, theft by taking;
● Mark Raymond Coffelt,
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image;
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● Photographer should leave room at the
top of the image for the magazine logo;
● Photography must not include a commercial entity;
● Original photography becomes the
property of CNI Newspapers Inc.;
● The deadline for submission is 5 p.m.
Friday, April 24.
● Qualifying images should be submitted
via email to publications@cninewspapers.
com.
For more information, call Alan NeSmith
at 706-778-4215.
the ground.
The sheriff’s office said
the father gave chase, but
lost the
suspect
in the
wooded
area.
An
incident
report
stated
deputies and
a K-9
DOMINGUEZ
unit
aided
in the
search, which ended
when investigators found
Dominguez in his room
guilty, hit and run;
● Michelle Dawn Ramey,
guilty, possession of drugrelated objects;
● Clay Alan Lickteig, guilty,
failure to maintain lane, nolo
contendere, driving while
license suspended;
● Jared Lee Phillips, guilty,
battery-family violence and
possession of drug-related
objects;
● Sean Jona Gibson, guilty,
simple battery-family violence
and criminal trespass;
● Dustin James Roberts,
guilty, possession of drugrelated objects;
● Joshua Allen Powers, nolo
contendere, driving while
license suspended;
● Tylon Seth Johnson,
guilty, theft by shoplifting and
criminal trespass;
● Christopher Thomas Bell,
guily, DUI-per se and endangering a child while driving
under the influence;
● Patrick Christopher
Dowdal, guilty, possession of
less than an ounce of marijuana;
● Jason Douglas Ellison,
guilty, battery-family violence
and criminal trespass;
● Nicholas Shane Thomas,
guilty, possession of less than
an ounce of marijuana and
theft by shoplifting;
● Kimberly Lynn Butler,
guilty, two counts of theft by
shoplifting and theft by deception;
● Jason Lee Whitlock,
guilty, battery-family violence
and aggravated stalking;
● Guy Richard Boisclair,
guilty, two counts of theft by
shoplifting;
● Jerry Hudson Stewart,
guilty, three counts of theft by
shoplifting
Fire Blotter
Rabun County Fire Services
responded to the following incidents from March 30 through
Sunday:
Monday, March 30
● Smoke investigation (lightning strike to residence) —
at Mountain Valley Inn.
He was arrested after the
inn’s owners unlocked
his door.
The sheriff’s office
chief investigator Capt.
Jack Tanksley previously
said Dominguez presented law enforcement with
a green card at the time
of his arrest and said
his passport was with
a family member. The
Department of Homeland
Security later would not
confi rm whether it was
investigating the legality
of Dominguez’s citizenship, citing privacy
issues.
3700 block of Camp Creek Road
● Woods fi re — Highway 76
West near Popcorn Overlook
● One medical responder or
assist EMS call
● Fire alarm (false) — 100
block of Highway 76 East
Tuesday, March 31
● Three medical responder
or assist EMS calls
Wednesday, April 1
● Two medical responder or
assist EMS calls
● Brush fi re (attended) — JD
Dockins Lane
Thursday, April 2
● Transformer fi re — Rock
Mountain Road
● Brush fi re (attended) —
Pinnacle Drive
assist EMS calls
Friday, April 3
or assist EMS calls
● Motor vehicle collision
— Highway 28 North of Warwoman Road
● Vehicle fi re — Highway 76
West of Burton Bridge
● Brush fi re — Vandiver
Ridge
Saturday, April 4
or assist EMS calls
● Motor vehicle collision —
300 block of Larkspur Lane
● Motor vehicle collision —
Highway 441 South at Walmart
intersection
Sunday, April 5
assist EMS calls
● Brush fi re (attended) —
Babe Ramey Road
EMS Blotter
Rabun County EMS responded to 47 calls between 8:01 a.m.
March 31 and 8 a.m. Tuesday.
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April 9, 2015
ACT
swapping out the current
sales tax and 7 cent per
gallon excise tax for new
excise taxes of 26 cents
per gallon on gasoline
and 29 cents per gallon
on diesel.
Special purpose local
option sales tax collections will continue, but
will be limited to prices
no higher than $3 per
gallon.
The bill also eliminates
state tax credits on alternative fuel vehicles and
an exemption on jet fuel
sales. Owners of alternative fuel vehicles will
pay an additional $200 or
$300 annual tax depending on use, consumer or
commercial, respectively.
Heavy vehicles also will
be taxed annually, $50 for
vehicles between 15,500
and 26,000 pounds and
$100 for vehicles 26,001
pounds and heavier.
The hotel/motel tax
provision, which replaced a failed attempt to
institute a $5 rental car
tax, exempted extended
stays — that is stays of 30
days or more.
Sen. John Wilkinson,
R-District 50, said he
later worked with other
senators to pass a housecleaning bill exempting cabins and bed and
breakfasts.
Despite those exemptions, Rabun County’s
Tourism Development
Authority Chairwoman
Gayle Darugh, who also
owns and operates Beechwood Inn, on Monday
agreed with Allison’s
assessment.
“First of all, it’s not
representative,” she said.
“The constituency wasn’t
informed that it was a
possibility. It took everyone by surprise. Even if
it remains on hotels and
motels, it’s negatively impactful on our economy.”
Darugh said a major
complaint in Rabun
County is that motorists
go straight through to
North Carolina via High-
way 441. She said the tax
could be a psychological
barrier that sends wouldbe hotel/motel customers to Franklin, North
Carolina, in search of a
cheaper overnight stay.
Rabun County Chamber of Commerce President Tony Allred said
the chamber initially
supported the bill, but
the additional hospitality industry tax came as
a surprise. Gauging the
impact of that tax could
be challenging, he said.
“In terms of what it’s
effect will be, I don’t
know,” Allred said. “I’m
guessing that it won’t
have a huge effect. Most
of the time, advertising
rates don’t include taxes.
If you’re going to spend a
weekend somewhere, $5
isn’t a big deal. But to say
it won’t have an effect is
to ignore the point.”
Hotel/motel customers
in Clayton already pay
12 percent total sales tax.
That includes a 7 percent
state sales tax and a 5
percent public accommodations tax, Darugh said.
Even with the lastminute provision, the
House passed the final
version of HB 170 with a
129-41 vote. Allison voted
against it. The Senate
also approved the bill
42-12. Wilkinson voted in
favor of it.
“There were parts of
it that I liked and there
were parts I didn’t care
much for,” Wilkinson
said Monday.
“I was not that excited
about the (hotel/motel)
provision.
“When I looked at
the big picture, I felt we
needed to pass something
for the roads and bridges.
There are a lot of bridges
in the district. There are
bridges that buses have
to drive miles out of their
way (to avoid) because
they’re not safe to pass
over.”
Wilkinson said he
hopes the Legislature
will review the hotel/motel provision in the future
if it proves troublesome.
Once signed by Deal,
the bill will take effect
July 1.
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Tearing down City Hall
A worker with Metro-Site tears down a wall Monday in the west wing of Clayton Municipal Complex. The city opened sealed bids from
five contractors on the demolition project Monday morning and Metro-Site was the lowest bid licensed to work in the state. Workers
were on the scene within four hours of being notified they had received the project.
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imprisonment.
Aggravated child
molestation is punishable by up to life imprisonment and carries a
minimum sentence of 25
years.
Statutory rape is a
felony when the defendant is older than 21. It
is punishable by up to 20
years in prison with a
minimum of no less than
one year.
The minimum and
maximum sentences
for incest vary based on
the age of the victim. If
the victim is over the
age of 14, the minimum
sentence is 10 years
imprisonment and the
maximum is 30 years.
If the victim is under
the age of 14, the crime
is punishable by no less
than 25 years imprison-
ment or by no more than
50 years.
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those who come forward
with allegations of sexual abuse or rape and to
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budget over the last five years. This year’s budget was
cut $346 million, leaving the IRS operating with $1.2
billion less than it had in 2010.
“We’ve been surprised at how quickly some of these
refunds come in,” Joyner said. “Whatever process
they’re using, both Georgia and the federal government, they’re pretty effective at getting out the
refunds.”
The reduced budget has affected the IRS’s ability to
help callers seeking assistance. Joyner said the wait
time on the phone is “noticeably longer.”
“When we telephone the IRS on behalf of a customer, the wait time is definitely longer than it has been,”
he said. “Generally, you can budget 45 minutes to an
hour if you’re calling the IRS.”
Requirements on Americans to report their prior
year’s health insurance coverage is one of a number
of subjects that’s kept the IRS phone lines ringing.
For fi rst time, taxpayers are subject to a no-coverage
penalty or subject to owe money back on subsidies
provided through the health care exchange.
“That’s one change this year that’s different from
prior years,” Wise said. “People don’t realize there’s a
penalty for not having (health insurance) and it added
another page to tax returns.”
Joyner said the additional forms haven’t been too
much of a challenge to prepare. Most taxpayers will
simply check off a box indicating they had qualifying
health care coverage for the entire year, Wise said. A
gap in insurance forces the tax preparer to check off
each month in which the taxpayer had coverage. A
gap of longer than two months results in an individual shared responsibility penalty.
Wise and Joyner said the penalty applied to only
a handful of clients this year. Wise estimated fewer
than 10 paid a small penalty. Joyner said his clients
owing for noncoverage paid minimal amounts.
Although identity theft reports in Rabun County
are up compared to last year, Wise and Joyner said
they haven’t experienced any issues fi ling on behalf of
their clients. Joyner said the state has taken steps to
reduce the chance of identity theft by quizzing taxpayers.
“There has been an increasing number of instances
where the Georgia Department of Revenue is doing
random identity checks on taxpayers,” he said. “And
they do it either through the phone or on their website.”
Joyner said if selected, a taxpayer is asked to complete an identity check quiz that might ask what kind
of car was owned in 2002 or where the taxpayer lived
in a certain year. Once the identity is confi rmed, the
taxpayer’s refund is sent out.
“It can cause a little delay,” Joyner said. “The Georgia Department of Revenue website says it tries to get
refunds out in 30 business days. If you’re picked for
the quiz, you may be hanging out there for a couple of
weeks before you say, ‘Where’s my refund?’
“If you go online, they have a process to go through
to check the status of your refund. You can check and
it’ll say call us. Once you call, they’ll administer the
quiz.”
To check the status of a Georgia tax refund, visit
dor.georgia.gov/wheres-my-refund. To check the status of a federal tax refund, visit www.irs.gov/refunds.
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CELEBRATIONS
LIVING
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Hunting Easter Eggs
Photos by Klark Byrd/The Clayton Tribune
The Rabun County Recreation Department laid out 9,000 eggs for hundreds of area children to collect Saturday during its annual Easter egg hunt. The grand prize hidden in one egg for each age group: a bicycle.
CLOCKWISE MIDDLE ROW FROM LEFT: (1) Tiffany Scelzo of Tiger helps her 3-year-old daughter Lela find Easter eggs Saturday during the
Rabun County Recreation Department’s annual hunt. (2) Three-year-old Anna Lunsford of Toccoa picks up her first Easter egg of the hunt
Saturday at the Rabun County Recreation Department. (3) Municipal court clerk Kessiah Gipson, or in this case the Easter Bunny, spent
Saturday morning surrounded by children who visited the Rabun County Recreation Department for the annual Easter egg hunt. (4)
Ten-month-old Karlo Pastor of Clayton makes a slight mess after tipping over a basket full of Easter eggs Saturday at the Rabun County
Recreation Department’s annual hunt. (5) Bentley Upchurch, 2, of Clayton, fills both hands with Easter eggs Saturday at the Rabun County
Recreation Department’s annual hunt before putting them in his basket.
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CELEBRATIONS/EDUCATION
April 9, 2015
Lewis joins South
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South State Investment Services announced that Jonathan
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A longtime resident of Habersham County, Lewis is a
Chartered Retirement Planning
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Series 7, 63 and 65 securities registrations held with LPL Financial. He also has his Georgia Life, LEWIS
Accident and Health Insurance
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South State Corp., headquartered in South Carolina, serves 12 Georgia counties, including Rabun
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Jennie Townsend & Josh Ryerson
Wedding: April 25, 2015
Cody Brown & Dillon Bennett
April 25, 2015
Stewart Barber & Joby Young
May 2, 2015
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Clark earns high rank at science fair
Rabun Gap-Nacoochee School seventh-grader Lydia Clark
competed against more than 300 other middle school projects in
Georgia’s 67th Science and Engineering Fair. Her project, titled
“What Can You Be Thinking?” brought in fourth-place honors and
placed her in the top 25th percentile in the state. It was one of
the top 12 projects in the region.
Tallulah Falls School
to host homecoming
Staff Reports
Tallulah Falls School
will hold its annual
alumni homecoming
celebration April 24 and
25. Of special significance this year is the
dedication of the athletic
field in memory of coach
Herb Amick, the fi rst
full-time TFS coach who
worked at the school
from 1953-57. Amick
went on to achieve great
success as a coach in
Stephens County.
The dedication ceremony will take place
at noon on Saturday,
April 25, in the bleachers at the TFS soccer
field. In the event of
inclement weather, the
ceremony will move to
the Gertrude Long Harris theater in the Circle
building on the TFS
campus.
Former students,
faculty, staff and friends
are invited to attend.
Following the dedication ceremony, the traditional TFS homecoming
luncheon will be held.
Reservations are required for the luncheon
and those interested
should call 706-839-2000.
Jaimie Lynn Duquette & Levi Ledbetter
Wedding: May 23, 2015
Jade Teem & Zac Mason
Crystel Trapp & Nicholas Perez
Kimberly Holt & Benjamin Ramey
May 30, 2015
Alison Fields & Drew Hopkins
Rachael Woerner & Scott Marshall
Wedding: June 13, 2015
Skye Slagle & Jordon Coalley
June 20, 2015
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Woerner makes
Dean’s List
55th anniversary
Mr. and Mrs. Walter L. Riggs of Clayton will celebrate their 55th wedding anniversary Friday.
They have two children, Sarah Avraham of Atlanta
and James W. Riggs of Birmingham, Alabama.
With a grade point
average of 3.604, Sally
Woerner of Tiger was
named to the Dean’s
List for the 2014 fall
semester at Western
Carolina University’s
College of Health and
Human Sciences.
Clayton Housing Authority
Post Office Box 1271, Clayton, GA 30525
Phone: 706-782-6467 • Fax: 706-782-2169 • Email: [email protected]
The Clayton Housing Authority is currently seeking proposals for the reconstruction of apartments
damaged by fire on February 15, 2015. The work is fully described in our Request for Proposal
packages to be given out at the Pre-Bid Conference. The Pre-Bid Conference will be held at the
Clayton Housing Authority Office on April 20, 2015 at 2:00 p.m. It is also at this time that all Prospective Bidders will examine the Job Site.
Our care shows we care.
The sealed proposals will be received by letter or in person (no faxes or emails) by 4:30 p.m. on
April 30, 2015. The Clayton Housing Authority reserved the right to reject any and all bids and no
bid may be withdrawn for sixty (60) days.
Respecfully,
James Carver
Clayton Housing Authority
040915-155675
Should you required additional information feel free to contact me.
[email protected]
040215-155500
040915-156929
Kent and Kathie Woerner of Tiger announce the engagement and forthcoming marriage of their daughter, Rachael Kathryn Woerner, to Scott Marshall of
Auburn, Alabama.
The bride-elect is the granddaughter of Dorinda
Sayre and the late Peter Sayre Sr., Fern Woerner
and the late John Woerner. She is a 2005 graduate of
Rabun County High School and a 2008 graduate of
Georgia State University, where she majored in history with a minor in education.
She has served in the U.S. Army for five years as a
communications officer, reaching the rank of captain.
She deployed to Kuwait and Iraq from 2010-11. She
is currently pursuing her master’s degree in public
health while working at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta in the maternal and
infant health branch.
The prospective groom is the son of Curt and Beverly Marshall of Auburn, Alabama. He is the grandson
of Jo Anne Key Bain and the late Hugh Gerald Bain,
the late James Curtis Marshall, and the late Jean
Martin Marshall. Scott is a 2004 graduate of Auburn
High School, a 2007 graduate of Auburn University,
with a major in logistics and a 2012 graduate of Auburn University with a master’s degree in finance.
He was employed for seven years with Honda of
Atlanta. He is currently employed with Volkswagen
Group of America as an electric buying specialist
within the purchasing team in Chattanooga, Tennessee.
The wedding is set for June 13, 2015, at Clayton
Baptist Church, with the Rev. Doug Porter officiating.
Formal invitations will be sent. The couple will make
their home in Chattanooga.
HEALTH & HISTORY
The Clayton Tribune
April 9, 2015
Palcohol is nothing
to pal around with
S
RABUN MEMORIES
oon there will be a
new way for young
people to use and
abuse alcohol. It is a
powdered alcohol product
called Palcohol.
Palcohol will come as
vodka, as a Cosmopolitan,
as a “powderita,” similar
to margaritas, and as a
rum drink. More flavors
will certainly come in the
future if this product succeeds. It will be available
in 4-by-6 inch packages.
Each package will contain an amount of freezedried alcohol equivalent
to a drink with an ounce
of alcohol.
Palcohol was approved
by the Alcohol and
Tobacco Tax and Trade
Bureau one month ago.
Already, five states have
banned sales of powdered
alcohol and another 28
states have proposed laws
to ban or regulate this
substance.
My concern as I have
been thinking about Palcohol is those fi rst three
letters, “pal.” I have asked
several people what age
group they think of when
they hear the word pal. It
is almost always considered to be a word applied
to friends under 30.
“I would never think
of friends my age as
pals,” said a 48-year-old
woman. Everyone I have
spoken to considers the
term pal a word used by
quite young individuals.
The naming of this new
product must have been
done with young users in
mind.
According to Kathleen
Doheny of WebMD Health
News, each year in the
United States about 5,000
people under the age of
21 die of alcohol-related
injuries, accidents, homicides or suicides. These
numbers come from the
National Institutes of
Health.
Several weeks after its
approval, Sen. Charles
Schumer, D-New York,
proposed federal legislation to stop production
and sale of Palcohol,
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Ritter Lumber Company Sawmill
In 1950, Ritter Lumber of Columbus, Ohio leased a 15-acre tract in Mountain City from Oscar Powell in order to construct
and operate a sawmill. Ritter owned several tracts of timber in Rabun County and eventually employed 150 men in
Mountain City. They chose the sawmill location because the Tallulah Falls Railroad ran through the property. Several
homes were also built across the highway to house employees. Their 20-year lease was up in 1970. Photo, circa 1955.
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calling it “Kool-Aid for
underage drinking.”
Doheny notes that Mark
Phillips, the creator of
Palcohol, fi nds efforts to
outlaw his product to be
the work of people wanting to establish a “nanny
state.”
I could imagine a
21-year-old buying 20 to
50 packages of powdered
alcohol and taking it to a
party where there were a
number of boys and girls
under the age of 21.
I could also imagine a
man on a camping trip
buying 20 packages of
powdered alcohol and
placing them stealthily
into the glove compartment after pouring one
package into a cup of
Coca Cola.
Dad notes that his
underage son sees the
crumpled up package of
Palcohol on the floor mat.
Dad throws the incriminating evidence away at
the next stop. He sternly
warns his son: “Do as I
say not as I do. I know I
shouldn’t be doing this
when I am driving.”
Or a woman with a
drinking problem who
plans for a two week trip
on an ocean liner by placing 50 packages of Palcohol in her suitcase so she
can drink unbeknownst
to her husband.
Palcohol sounds to me
like a new product we
don’t need.
A resident of Tiger,
Robert A. Hatcher, M.D., is
professor of obstetrics and
gynecology at the Emory
University School of Medicine. He also can be heard
each week on Sky 104 and
100.3 FM radio.
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CHURCH CALENDAR
April 9, 2015
Wolffork Christian
fellowship pantry
● Wolffork Christian
Fellowship Food Pantry
will be open Saturday 11
a.m.-2 p.m. Food is free.
Peoples Baptist Church
● A special singing by
Spirit Blessed will be at
Sunday. The church is
located off Dunlap Street
on Clayton Avenue.
Rabun County revival
● The Rabun County
Church of Christ will
host a revival Sunday
through Wednesday.
Mike Hixson will be the
guest speaker Sunday
at 10 a.m., 11 a.m. and
1:30 p.m. and Monday
through Wednesday at
7 p.m. nightly. A fellowship meal will be held
after the 11 a.m. worship
service Sunday.
Pleasant Hill revival
● Pleasant Hill Baptist
Church, 7245 Warwoman
Road, will be holding
a revival from Monday
through Wednesday.
Tully Griggs will be the
St. Helena Altar Society
● St. Helena Altar
Society will meet 11 a.m.
Tuesday in the Parish
Life Center. All Catholic
women are invited to attend. For further information, call Shirley at
706 896-9276.
St. Helena spaghetti dinner
● St. Helena’s spaghetti
dinner will be Friday,
April 17. Bread, dessert
and drink included for $8
between 4-7 p.m. Takeout available.
Rocky Grove Baptist Church
● Special singing by
the group Mountain
Faith will be Sunday,
April 19, at 6 p.m.
Liberty Baptist youth
ministries
● Awana is held at
Liberty Baptist Church
on Wednesdays during
the school year from
6:30-8 p.m. All children
3 (by Sept. 1) through
sixth grade are invited to
participate. Youth Word
of Life Club meets each
Wednesday at Liberty
Baptist Church from 6-9
MT. CALVARY BAPTIST CHURCH
p.m. All youth in grades
7-12 are welcome. Liberty
Baptist Church is located
at 2206 Bridge Creek
Road in Tiger. For more
information, call 706-7826651.
Holy Communion
● Dillard United Methodist Church is offering
the sacrament of Holy
Communion at 11 a.m. on
the fi rst Sunday of each
month. The table of the
Lord will be open to all
who desire to receive it.
call 706-746-3787.
call Alice at 706-782-3775.
Wiley Bible study
Grace Bible Church
● Wiley Presbyterian
Church is holding an
informal Bible study at
11 a.m. Wednesdays. Participants will join in conversations about biblical
passages as they seek
God’s word for today. No
prior Bible knowledge is
needed. The church is at
193 Wiley Church Lane,
six miles south of Clayton off Old Highway 441.
● Grace Bible Church,
235 Dotson St., Mountain
City, will host a Ladies
Conference Saturday,
May 2, from 9 a.m.-2
p.m. with guest speaker
Susan Heck from Tulsa,
Oklahoma. The topic will
be “Becoming a Woman
of Joy!” Cost is $10 and
includes lunch and
materials. Registration
and dues are required
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At the Church of Your Choice
Antioch United Methodist Church
80 Church Road,
Clayton, GA 706-782-4224
Pastor: Lee Krivsky
Battle Branch Baptist Church
1769 Warwoman Rd.,
Clayton, GA 706-782-9656
Pastor: Madison McCrackin
Bethel Baptist Church
438 Bethel Road, Tiger, GA
Pastor: Mike Cochran
Betty’s Creek Baptist Church
123 Betty’s Creek Church Lane
Dillard, GA 706-746-2444
Pastor: Rev. Jason Smith
Black Rock Baptist Church
345 N. Valley St.
Clayton, GA 706-782-9298
Pastor: Jim Green
Blue Heights Baptist Church
46 Cross St., Mt. City, GA
Pastor: Rev. Gabe Southards
Youth Pastor: Jonathan Panther
Boggs Mountain Baptist Church
1471 E. Boggs Mt. Rd.,
Tiger, GA
Pastor: Joe McCrackin
Camp Creek Baptist Church
4363 Camp Creek Road,
Lakemont, GA 706-782-2633
Pastor: Jim Carver
Carver’s Chapel Church
1020 Old Chechero St.,
Clayton, GA 706-746-5134
Pastor: Tim McCall
Center for Spiritual Awareness
151 CSA Lane,
Lakemont, GA 706-782-4723
Director: Roy Eugene Davis
Chapel of Sky Valley
817 Sky Valley Way, Sky Valley, GA
706-746-2999, 706-746-5770
www.skyvalleychapel.com
Pastor: John Erbelding
Cornerrock Methodist Church
449 Old Screamer St., Clayton, GA
Dillard United Methodist Church
Betty Whitecloud St. & Hwy 441,
Dillard, GA
706-746-3787
Pastor: Rev. Chuck Stutsman
Elohim Baptist Mission
140 Blair St., Tiger, GA
706-212-0391
Pastor: Rev. Octavio Espetia
Fairview Baptist Church
Highway 76 West, Clayton, GA
706-782-2105
Pastor: Steve York
Flat Creek Baptist Church
1433 Low Gap Road, Clayton, GA
Pastor: Albert Giovino
First Christian Church
Black Rock Mountain Road,
Mountain City, GA
706-746-3168
Minister: Earl Winfrey
Grace Bible Church
235 Dotson St., Mountain City, GA
706-746-5823
www.mygracebiblechurch.org
Pastor: Kevin E. Hurt
Head of Tennessee
Baptist Church
895 Franklin St., Dillard, GA
706-746-2116
Pastor: Allan Pierce
Ivy Hill Baptist
(Meets with Cornerrock Methodist)
449 Old Screamer St.,
Clayton, GA
Pastor: Farris Long
Joy Baptist Church
96 Joy Church Ln, Lakemont, GA
706-782-9757
Pastor: Tony Goss
Clayton Baptist Church
87 S. Church St., Clayton, GA
706-782-4588
Pastor: Joey Thompson
Kingdom Hall of Jehovah’s Witnesses
176 Shepard St., Mt. City, GA
706-746-2791
706-782-4904
Clayton Church of God
255 Stekoa Falls Road, Clayton, GA
706-982-4437
Pastor: Bryan Alexander
Lakemont Baptist Church
608 W. Wolf Creek Road,
Lakemont, GA
706-212-7904
Pastor: Jewell Gaines
Clayton Christian Community Church
384 S. Main St., Clayton, GA
706-212-7986
Pastors: John & Denise Paul
Clayton First Assembly
of God
128 Valley St., Clayton, GA
706-782-6854
Pastor: Jeff Houston
Clayton First United Methodist Church
71 S. Main St., Clayton, GA
706-782-4426
Pastor: Jeremy Lawson
Clayton Presbyterian Church
150 N. Church St., Clayton, GA
706-782-5418
Pastor: Fred DiMaio
Community Bible Church
3645 Cashiers Rd., Highlands, NC
828-526-4685
Pastor: Gary Hewins
www.cbchighlands.com
Liberty Baptist Church
2206 Bridge Creek Road
Tiger, GA 706-782-6651
Pastor: Scott Cates
Macedonia Baptist Church
Jerry Gap Rd, Clayton, GA
828-526-8425
Pastor: Troy Nicholson
Mount Calvary Baptist Church
130 Little River Lane, off York House Road,
Rabun Gap, GA 30537
706-782-4143
Pastors: Rev. Mickey Woods
Mountain City Church of God
352 Cross St., Mt. City, GA
706-746-7530
Pastor: Wren Worley
Mountain City United Methodist
69 Black Rock Pkwy, Mt. City, GA
706-782-7335
Pastor: Charles Stutsman
Tugalo Gas Co., Inc.
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Mountain Synagogue
216 Roller Mill Rd., Franklin, NC
828-524-9463 or 706-746-2177
Religious Leader: Zvi Altman
New Beginnings Baptist Church
62 Dotson Street
Mountain City, GA
828-369-0620
Pastor: Rev. Tom Larocca
New Hope Methodist Church
New Hope Church Road
Clayton, GA 706-782-4224
Pastor: Lee Krivsky
LifeWay Community Church
1048 N Main St, Clayton, GA
706-982-3022
Pastor: Scott Woodard
Newman Chapel Baptist Church
60 Mulberry Road
Otto, NC 28763
828-524-9483
Pastor: Danny H. Cannon
North Clayton Baptist Church
171 Clayburne St.
Clayton, GA
Pastor: Ray B. Conne
Dunlap Street, Clayton, GA
706-782-4808
Pastor: Ronia Hunter
Persimmon Baptist Church
2032 Persimmon Rd., Clayton, GA
706-212-7914
Pastor: Rev. Richard Wright
Persimmon Church of God
2360 Devil’s Branch Road
Clayton, GA
706-782-3726
Pastor: Teddy King
Pleasant Hill Baptist Church
Warwoman Road, Clayton, GA
706-782-4074
Pastor: Raymond Page
Rabun County Church of Christ
876 Bethel Road,
Tiger, GA
706-782-3495
Minister: Mckinley Pate
Rocky Grove Baptist Church
6900 Bridge Creek Road,
Tiger, GA
Pastor: Rev. Kyle L. Watts
Rabun Gap Presbyterian Church
8397 Wolffork Road,
Rabun Gap, GA
706-746-2020
Pastor: Don Barber
Sheltering Arms Gospel
Tabernacle
2771 Highway 76 W.,
Clayton, GA
706-782-7908
Nell Matheson, Founder
St. Helena Catholic Church
137 Meadow Stream Ln.,
Clayton, GA 706-782-5152
Priest: Alvaro Avendano
Saint James Episcopal Church
260 Warwoman Road,
Clayton, GA
706-782-6179
Pastor: Stephen Hall
Celebrate Recovery
● Celebrate Recovery,
a Christian-based, 12step program for dealing
with hurts, habits and
hang-ups, meets at 7
p.m. Thursdays at Wiley
Church of God. For more
information, call the
church at 706-212-2809 or
Gladys Clem at 706-7823928.
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Tabernacle Baptist Church
6467 Highway 441 S.,
Wiley, GA
706-782-2734
Pastor: Steve Townsend
Tallulah Falls United
Methodist Church
204 School Road,
Tallulah Falls, GA
706-754-2742
Pastor: James Turpen
Doc’s Clocks
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Henry E. Newman, MD
Home - (706) 212-0417
Cell - (706) 982-5880
Taylor’s Chapel Baptist Church
Taylor’s Chapel Road,
Mountain City, GA
706-782-2537
Pastor: Thomas Burrell
[email protected]
Tessentee Independent
Missionary Baptist Church
4601 Tessentee Road,
Otto, NC 706-782-1745
Pastor: Carl Carpenter
706-782-8305
66 Rickman St.
Clayton, GA 30525
24 Hour Service
Tiger Baptist Church
Testament & Thomas Streets,
Tiger, GA
Pastor: Tim Hunnicutt
800-369-8305
www.blossmangas.com
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Tiger United Methodist Church
64 Pleasant Place Road,
Tiger, GA
706-754-2742
Pastor: James Turpen
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Timpson Presbyterian Church
35 Hawthorne Lane
Clayton, GA
Unitarian Universalist Fellowship
of Franklin, NC
85 Sierra Drive, Franklin, NC
706-782-7978
Unity - Wayfarers Chapel
Off Highlands Road,
Dillard, GA
706-746-6907
Pastor: Ron Lindahn
Valley Community Church
2218 Tate City Rd., Clayton, GA
Pastor: Jonathan Penland
Wiley Church of God
28 Transom Lane, Wiley, GA
706-212-2809
Pastor: Rev. Adam Wright
Wiley Presbyterian Church
207 Wiley Church Lane
Wiley, GA 706-782-3775
Pastor: Alice T. Wood
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66 North Church Street
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74934 Clayton, GA 30525
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Wolffork Christian Fellowship Center
5746 N. Wolffork Rd,
Rabun Gap, GA
706-754-4622
Pastor: Rev. Harvery Conner
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Wolf Creek Baptist Church
Wolf Creek Church Rd. off
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706-782-4541
Rev. Thomas Gragg as Pastor
Wolffork Baptist Church
453 Wolffork Church Road,
Rabun Gap, GA
706-746-2728
Pastor: Jimmy Greer
706-782-4531
FAX: 706-782-2277
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88 John Beck Dockins Rd.,
072414-96524
Chechero Baptist Church
4973 Highway 76 E., Clayton, GA
706-782-7179
Pastor: Michael Wilson
King Memorial Community
Church
4922 Persimmon Rd,
Clayton, GA 30525
706-782-4798
Pastor: Tony Westbrook
Mountain Grove Baptist Church
North Germany Rd., Clayton, GA
706-782-3488
Pastor: Larry Cannon
by Sunday, April 19. For
more information, call
Tricia Moore 352-9893701.
100214-110860
● Clayton First United
Methodist Church will
host a healing service
today at 6 p.m.
featured preacher, with
special singing each
night. Services begin at
7 p.m. For information,
call 706-782-4074.
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Grey’s Anatomy (N) HD American Crime (N) HD Local
Jimmy Kimmel Live HD Nightline
Grey’s Anatomy HD
Big Bang Elementary (N) HD
Local
Late Show with David Letterman HD
Big Bang Odd Couple Mom (N)
Dateline NBC (N) HD
Local
Tonight Show (N) HD
Late Night
Law & Order: SVU HD The Blacklist HD
Backstrom (N) HD
Local Programs
Local Programs
Bones (N) HD
Blue Bloods HD
Blue Bloods HD
Blue Bloods HD
Blue Bloods HD
Blue Bloods HD
The First 48 (N) HD
(:01) 8 Minutes (N) HD
(:02) 8 Minutes HD
(:01) The First 48 HD
The First 48 HD
Jaws (‘75, PG) Roy Scheider, Robert Shaw. HD
Jaws (‘75, PG) aaac Roy Scheider, Robert Shaw. HD
Ice Cold Gold (N) HD
Railroad Alaska HD
Ice Cold Gold HD
To Be Announced
Railroad Alaska HD
The Original Kings of Comedy (‘00, R) aaa
Xperiment Wendy Williams HD
Being Mary Jane HD
Real Housewives N.Y. Watch What The Grace Melbourne
Real Housewives
Melbourne (N)
Dad HD
Family Guy Family Guy Robot
Squid HD
King of Hill King of Hill Cleveland Bob’s HD Dad HD
Party Down South (N) Party Down Party Down South HD Party Down Cops HD
Cops HD
Bio-Dome (‘96) a HD
Anderson Cooper 360° Mike Rowe
CNN Tonight (N)
Anderson Cooper 360° Mike Rowe
Daily (N)
Nightly (N) midnight Brickle HD
Big Time Tosh.0 HD Tosh.0 HD South Park: “Black Friday” HD
Alaska: Last HD
Alaska: Last HD
Alaska: Last HD
Alaska: Last: “Secrets”
Alaska: Last HD
(:05) Blog I Didn’t
Jessie HD A.N.T. HD Good Luck Good Luck
(7:30) Judy Moody (‘11) Austin HD Liv HD
Kardashians HD
E! News (N) HD
Botched
Sex & City
Who Wore Who Wore Kardashians HD
SportsCenter HD
SportsCenter HD
2015 Masters Tournament: “First Round Encore Presentation” (Taped)
2015 NCAA Hockey Tournament: “Semifinal #2" (Live) HD
E:60 Profile HD
Baseball Tonight HD
Horn HD
Boy World Boy World
Along Came Polly (‘04) Bruce Almighty (‘03, PG-13) aaa Jim Carrey. HD The 700 Club (TV G)
All-Star Academy HD
Beat Bobby Beat Bobby Chopped Canada (N)
All-Star Academy HD
Chopped HD
Comedians Louie (N) Comedians Louie HD
Louie HD
Louie HD
(7:30) Ted (‘12, R) aaa Mark Wahlberg.
Addict (N) Addict HD Now?
Hunters
Hunters
Hunters
Addict HD Addict HD
Fixer Upper HD
(:03) Vikings HD
Pawn Stars Pawn Stars
Pawn Stars Pawn Stars Pawn Stars Pawn Stars Vikings (N) HD
Little Women: NY HD
L. Women L. Women (:02) Little Women: HD Little Women: NY HD
Little Women: NY HD
Ridiculous Ridiculous Ridiculous Ridiculous Ridiculous Ridiculous Cannon
Cannon
Ridiculous Ridiculous
Full House Full House Full House Full House Prince
Prince
Friends
Friends
Lopez
Lopez
Lip Sync
Lip Sync
Lip Sync
Lip Sync
Bar Rescue HD
Lip Sync
Expendables 2 (‘12) aaa Lip Sync
Olympus (N)
12 Monkeys HD
Olympus: “Daedalus”
WWE SmackDown HD
The Office Conan HD
Family Guy Family Guy Family Guy Family Guy Big Bang Big Bang Conan (N) HD
A Distant Trumpet (‘64)
My Blood Runs Cold (‘65, NR)
Rome Adventure (‘62, NR) aac Troy Donahue.
Gypsy Wedding (N) HD Myrtle Manor (N) HD
Gypsy Wedding HD
Myrtle Manor HD
Gypsy Wedding HD
NBA Basketball: Portland vs Golden State (Live) HD
NBA Basketball: Chicago Bulls at Miami Heat (Live) HD
Expedition Unknown
Expedition Unknown
Layover: “Atlanta”
Bourdain: “Nicaragua”
Expedition Unknown
Fam. Feud Fam. Feud Raymond Raymond Queens
Queens
Queens
Queens
Friends
Friends
(:01) Dig: “The Well” HD
Dig: “Emma Wilson’s”
Law & Order: SVU HD Law & Order: SVU HD Dig: “The Well” (N) HD
Beverly Hills Cop (‘84, R) Eddie Murphy, Judge Reinhold. HD
Baby Boy
Money Talks (‘97, R) aac Chris Tucker.
How I Met How I Met How I Met How I Met How I Met How I Met Rules HD Rules HD
Home Videos HD
(:15) Real Sex
VICE HD
Divergent
Goblet of Fire (‘05) HD The Fault in Our Stars (‘14, PG-13) aaac HD
Full (‘87) Bad Words (‘14, R) Jason Bateman.
The Purge: Anarchy (‘14, R) aaa HD (:45) Sexy Warriors (‘14, NRAO) HD
Megatron Seven Psychopaths (‘12, R) aaa HD
Inside Llewyn Davis (‘14, R) aaac Oscar Isaac. HD Shameless HD
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In an Instant: “In an Instant: Shootout” (N) HD
Local Programs
Local Programs
Criminal Minds HD
48 Hours (N) HD
Local Programs
NCIS: Los Angeles HD
Local
(:29) Saturday Night Live (N) HD
On Camera PBC on NBC: “Danny Garcia vs. Lamont Peterson” (Live) HD
Lucas Bros Lucas Bros Local
(7:00) NASCAR Sprint Cup: “Duck Commander 500" Stock car racing. (Live) HD
Criminal Minds HD
Criminal Minds HD
The Listener
The Listener
Criminal Minds HD
The Italian Job (‘03, PG-13) aaa Mark Wahlberg. HD
Married at First Sight Married
The Italian Job (‘03) HD
The Godfather: Part II (‘74, R) aaaa Al Pacino, Robert Duvall. HD
(5:30) The Godfather (‘72, R) HD
My Cat from Hell (N) HD My Cat from Hell HD
The Pool Master HD
My Cat from Hell HD
The Pool Master HD
Love Jones (‘97, R) aac Larenz Tate, Nia Long.
Being Mary Jane HD
(7:00) Black Girls Rock! 2015 HD
Forgetting Sarah Marshall (‘08, R) aaa Jason Segel.
Forgetting Sarah Marshall (‘08, R) aaa Jason Segel.
Dad HD
Family Guy DBZ Kai
Kill La Kill
DBZ Kai
King of Hill Cleveland Cleveland Boondocks Dad HD
Cops HD
Cops HD
Cops HD
Cops HD
Cops HD
Bio-Dome (‘96, PG-13) a Pauly Shore, Stephen Baldwin. HD
Mike Rowe
CNN Special Report
CNN Special Report
CNN Special Report
Forensic Forensic
The Comedy Central Roast of Justin Bieber HD
Plastic Cup Boyz (N)
Kevin Hart HD
Kevin Hart HD
Deadliest Catch HD
Deadliest Catch HD
Deadliest Catch HD
Deadliest Catch HD
Deadliest Catch HD
I Didn’t
Mighty Med Kirby Buck Jessie HD I Didn’t
Dog Blog Liv HD
Undercover Jessie HD Liv HD
White Chicks (‘04, PG-13) aa Shawn Wayans.
The Grace
Me, Myself & Irene (‘00, R) aac Jim Carrey, Renée Zellweger.
SportsCenter HD
(7:30) 2015 NCAA Hockey Tournament: “Championship”
SportsCenter Sports news. HD
Qualifying SEC Storied: “Book of Manning” HD
Arena Football League: Las Vegas vs Los Angeles (Live) HD
Baseball
Bad Teacher (‘11, R) aac Cameron Diaz.
Duplex (‘03, PG-13) aac
Dude, Where’s My Car? (‘00, PG-13) aa
Diners HD Diners HD Diners HD Diners HD Diners HD Diners HD Diners HD Diners HD Diners HD Diners HD
Mike/Molly Mike/Molly Married
Married
Battleship (‘12, PG-13) aac Taylor Kitsch, Alexander Skarsgård.
Log Cabin Log Cabin Property Brothers HD
Property Brothers HD Property Brothers HD House Hunters HD
Pawn Stars Pawn Stars Modern Marvels (N) HD Engineering Disasters (:03) Hangar 1 UFO HD Pawn Stars Pawn Stars
(:02) Killer Crush (‘15, NR) Daveigh Chase. HD
Text to Kill (‘15, NR) HD
Text to Kill (‘15, NR) HD
Step Up Revolution (‘12, PG-13) aaa Cleopatra Coleman.
Step Up (‘06, PG-13) aaa Channing Tatum.
Make Pop Thunderman Prince
Prince
Friends
Friends
Lopez
Lopez
Henry (N) Bella
Cops HD
Auction
Auction
Cops HD
Cops HD
Dredd (‘12, R) aaa Karl Urban, Olivia Thirlby. HD
Cops (N)
Spawn (‘97, PG-13) aa HD
(6:00) Terminator 2 (‘91) Fantastic Four (‘05, PG-13) aac Ioan Gruffudd, Jessica Alba.
Cougar
Big Bang Big Bang Big Bang Big Bang Big Bang Big Bang Family HD Smiths HD Cougar
One Is a Lonely (‘72)
Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore (‘74, PG) aaac (:15) The Rain People (‘69, R) aaa James Caan.
A Haunting HD
A Haunting HD
A Haunting HD
A Haunting HD
A Haunting HD
The Help (‘11, PG-13) aaac Emma Stone, Viola Davis. HD
It’s Complicated (‘09, R) aaa Meryl Streep. HD
Ghost Adventures (N)
The Dead Files HD
The Dead Files HD
Ghost Adventures HD
Ghost Adventures HD
Raymond Raymond Raymond Loves Raymond HD
Raymond Friends
Friends
Home Videos HD
Modern
Modern
Modern
Modern
About Mary Bridesmaids (‘11, R) aaa Kristen Wiig, Maya Rudolph. HD
Stand by Me (‘86, R) Wil Wheaton.
Saturday Night Live HD Dazed and Confused (‘93, R) aaa Jason London. HD
Blue Bloods (TV14) HD
A Few Good Men (‘92, R) aaac Tom Cruise, Jack Nicholson.
Blue Bloods HD
(:15) Escape Plan (‘13, R) Sylvester Stallone. HD
X-Men: Future Past HD
X-Men: Days of Future Past (‘14, PG-13) HD
Femme
CoEd Conf.
Meet the Parents (‘00, PG-13) Robert De Niro.
Blended (‘14, PG-13) aac Adam Sandler. HD
ALL ACCESS Django Unchained (‘12, R) Jamie Foxx, Christoph Waltz. HD
ALL ACCESS Shameless
Shameless HD
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Castle: “Action Hero”
Local
Dancing with the Stars (N) HD
NCIS: Los Angeles (N)
Local
(:35) Late Show HD
Late Late
Broke Girls Mike/Molly Scorpion (N) HD
The Night Shift (N) HD
Local
(:35) Tonight Show HD Late Night
The Voice: “Live Top 12 Performances” (N) HD
The Following (N) HD
Local Programs
Local Programs
Gotham (N) HD
Criminal Minds: “P911" Criminal Minds HD
Criminal Minds HD
Criminal Minds HD
Criminal Minds HD
Bates Motel (N) HD
The Returned (N) HD
(:02) Bates Motel HD
(:01) Bates Motel HD
Bates Motel HD
TURN: Washington’s Spies: “Thoughts Of A” (N)
TURN: Washington’s Spies: “Thoughts Of A”
TURN Wash Spies HD
To Be Announced
To Be Announced
Alaska: Last HD
To Be Announced
Alaska: Last HD
Game HD Xperiment Wendy Williams HD
Black November (‘12, NR)
Being Mary Jane HD
Southern Charm (N)
Watch What Shahs of Sunset
Southern
Real Housewives
Shahs of Sunset (N)
Dad HD
Squid HD
Cops HD
Cops HD
Cops HD
Cops HD
Cops HD
Kindergarten Cop (‘90, PG-13) Arnold Schwarzenegger. HD
Anderson Cooper 360° To Be Announced
To Be Announced
Anderson Cooper 360° CNN Tonight (N)
Nightly (N) midnight South Park
South Park South Park South Park South Park Archer HD Archer HD Daily (N)
Fast N’ Loud (N) HD
Misfit Garage (N) HD
Fast N’ Loud HD
Misfit Garage HD
Fast N’ Loud (N) HD
Jessie HD Girl Meets Austin HD Liv HD
Dog Blog Good Luck Good Luck
Sleeping Beauty (‘59, G) aaa
The Royals HD
Kardashians HD
E! News (N) HD
Kardashians HD
The Royals HD
Baseball Tonight HD
SportsCenter HD
SportsCenter HD
(7:00) MLB Baseball: New York vs Baltimore HD
NBA Coast to Coast Whip-around the NBA. HD
30 for 30 HD
NBA HD
Baseball
(7:30) 30 for 30 HD
The 700 Club (TV G)
Boy World Boy World
The Notebook (‘04, PG-13) aaac Ryan Gosling, James Garner. HD
Diners HD Diners HD Diners HD Diners HD
Diners HD Diners HD Diners HD Diners HD Food Fortunes (N)
Grown Ups (‘10, PG-13) aac Adam Sandler. HD
Big Mommas (‘11) ac HD
Grown Ups (‘10, PG-13) aac Adam Sandler. HD
Love It or List It HD
Hunters
Hunters
Swamp People (N) HD
(:03) Rivermen (N) HD
(:03) Swamp People HD (:01) Swamp People HD
Swamp People HD
(:02) Lizzie Borden HD (:02) Lizzie Borden HD Seeds of Yesterday HD
Seeds of Yesterday (‘15) Anthony Konechny. HD
Teen Mom True Life (N) HD
Teen Mom
2015 MTV Movie Awards
Teen Mom (N) HD
Nick News Full House Full House Full House Prince
Prince
Friends
Friends
Lopez
Lopez
Cops HD
Cops HD
Cops HD
Cops HD
Cops HD
Cops HD
Cops HD
Jail HD
Jail HD
Cops HD
Robin Hood (‘10, PG-13) aaa Russell Crowe, Cate Blanchett.
Grendel (‘07, NR) a HD
Crystal Skull (‘08) HD
Dad HD
Big Bang Big Bang Conan (N) HD
The Office Conan HD
Family Guy Family Guy Dad HD
What’s Up, Doc? (‘72, G) aaac Ryan O’Neal.
The Birds (‘63) aaac
King Kong (‘33, NR) aaac Fay Wray.
Little Looking HD
My 600-lb Life HD
Little Looking HD
Hoarding:: “Bennie” HD My 600-lb Life (N) HD
Law & Order HD
Castle: “Double Down”
Castle: “Inventing Girl”
Bones: “Beautiful Day”
Bones HD
Hotel Amazon
Bizarre Foods America Bizarre Foods
Bizarre Foods America Bizarre Foods (N)
Fam. Feud Fam. Feud Raymond The King of Queens
Queens
Queens
Queens
Friends
Friends
(:05) Dig: “The Well” HD CSI: Crime Scene HD
WWE Monday Night Raw HD
Black Ink Crew HD
Love & Hip Hop HD
Love & Hip Hop (N) HD Black Ink Crew (N) HD Love & Hip Hop HD
Home Videos HD
Salem: “Blood Kiss” HD
How I Met How I Met Rules HD Rules HD
Home Videos HD
Thrones
42 (‘13, PG-13) aaac HD Living with Lincoln (‘15) Jersey Boys (‘14, R) aaa John Lloyd Young, Erich Bergen. HD
Platoon (‘86, R) aaac Tom Berenger. HD
Diaries HD Diaries HD
Hammer Turistas (‘06, R) Josh Duhamel. HD
Jackie HD Jackie HD Elvis Costello HD
Scary Movie 5 (‘13) a HD
Ask Me Anything (‘14, NR) Robert Patrick. HD
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Fresh Off Repeat Me S.H.I.E.L.D. (N) HD
NCIS: New Orleans (N) Person of Interest (N) Local
(:35) Late Show HD
Late Late
NCIS (N) HD
Undateable One Happy Chicago Fire HD
Local
The Voice (N) HD
New Girl Loners (N) Local Programs
Local Programs
Hell’s Kitchen (N) HD
Criminal Minds HD
Criminal Minds HD
The Listener
The Listener
Criminal Minds HD
Married at First Sight Married at First Sight Married at First Sight Surviving Marriage (N) Married at First Sight
Doomsday
We Were Soldiers (‘02) American Gangster (‘07, R) aaac Denzel Washington, Russell Crowe. HD
North Woods Law HD
River Monsters HD
North Woods Law HD
North Woods Law HD
North Woods Law HD
All In (N)
Being Mary Jane (N) HD Being Mary Jane (N) HD Wendy Williams (N) HD
Obsessed (‘09, PG-13) Idris Elba. HD
Real Housewives (N)
Newlyweds (N)
Watch What Real Housewives
Housewives
Real Housewives (N)
Dad HD
Squid HD
Cops HD
Cops HD
Cops HD
Cops HD
Cops HD
Young Guns (‘88, R) Emilio Estevez, Kiefer Sutherland. HD
Anderson Cooper 360° CNN Special Report
Anderson Cooper 360° CNN Special Report
CNN Tonight (N)
Nightly (N) midnight Tosh.0 HD
Tosh.0 HD Tosh.0 HD Tosh.0 HD Tosh.0 HD Tosh.0 (N) Brickle (N) Daily (N)
Deadliest Catch: “A Brotherhood Tested” HD
Deadliest Catch (N) HD Deadliest Catch: “A Brotherhood Tested” (N) HD
Jessie HD Girl Meets Austin HD Liv HD
Dog Blog Good Luck Good Luck
The Little Rascals (‘94, PG) aac
Botched (N) HD
Good Work (N)
E! News (N) HD
Botched HD
Kardashians HD
Sports Special HD
Draft Academy HD
SportsCenter HD
SportsCenter HD
E:60 HD
E:60 HD
Baseball Tonight HD
Draft Academy HD
Baseball Tonight HD
Draft Academy HD
The 700 Club (TV G)
Boy World Boy World
(6:30) Titanic (‘97, PG-13) aaac Leonardo DiCaprio, Kate Winslet. HD
Chopped HD
Chopped (N) HD
Chopped: “Big Hitters”
Chopped HD
Chopped HD
Justified HD
Justified: “Collateral”
(7:30) Thor (‘11, PG-13) aaa Chris Hemsworth. HD Justified (N) HD
Flip Flop
Hunters
Hunters
Flip Flop
Flip Flop
Flip Flop
Flip Flop
Flip Flop
Flip Flop
Flop (N)
Blood and Glory: The Civil War in Color (N) HD
(:03) Blood and Glory: The Civil War in Color HD
Blood and Glory HD
Dance Moms HD
Dance Moms (N) HD
Kim of Queens (N) HD
L. Women L. Women (:02) Dance Moms HD
Finding Carter
Finding Carter (N)
Faking It Faking It 2015 MTV Movie
Teen Mom HD
Full House Full House Full House Raymond Younger
Raymond Friends
Friends
Lopez
Lopez
The Grey (‘12, R) aaa Liam Neeson, Frank Grillo. HD
The Grey (‘12, R) aaa Liam Neeson, Frank Grillo. HD
Haunting (N)
Face Off HD
Haunting: “Gledswood”
Face Off: “Full Steam”
Face Off (N) HD
Family HD Conan HD
Big Bang Big Bang Big Bang Big Bang Family (N) Big Bang Conan (N) HD
North by Northwest (‘59, NR) Cary Grant, Eva Marie Saint. HD
Robert Osborne’s 20th Mirage
Robert Osborne (N)
19 Kids and Counting
7 Little Johnstons HD
19 Kids
19 Kids
7 Little Johnstons (N)
NBA Basketball: Los Angeles vs Phoenix (Live) HD
NBA Basketball: Washington vs Indiana (Live) HD
Bizarre Foods America Bizarre Foods
Hotel Impossible
Hotel Impossible
Bizarre Foods
Raymond Raymond Raymond Raymond Younger
Younger
Queens
Queens
Friends
Friends
Modern
Modern
Sirens HD Sirens HD
Modern
Modern
Modern
Modern
Sirens (N) Modern
Love & Hip Hop HD
Romeo Must Die (‘00, R) aac Jet Li, Aaliyah. HD
Crew HD
Love & Hip Hop HD
Out of Sight (‘98, R) aac George Clooney, Jennifer Lopez.
How I Met Rules HD Rules HD
Silicon HD Veep HD
Fight Game VICE HD
Sinatra: All Or HD
Hulk (‘03, PG-13) aa HD Game of Thrones HD
Eve’s Secret (‘14) HD
(:05) Private Parts (‘97, R) aac Howard Stern. HD Secretary (‘02, R) aaa James Spader. HD
Jackie HD Hustle & Flow (‘05, R) aaa Terrence Howard. HD Van Wilder
Jackie HD Afflicted (‘14, R) Clif Prowse. HD
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Secrets and Lies (N) HD (:01) Revenge (N) HD
Local Programs
Local Programs
Once Upon a Time (N)
The Good Wife (N) HD
Battle Creek (N) HD
Local Programs
Madam Secretary (N)
A.D. The Bible (N) HD
American Odyssey (N) Local Programs
Dateline: Real HD
A.D. The Bible HD
Simpsons Family Guy The Last Man on Earth Local Programs
Local Programs
(7:30) A Man Apart (‘03, R) aac Vin Diesel.
We Own the Night (‘07, R) aaa Joaquin Phoenix.
Kingdom
Intervention (N) HD
Surviving Marriage (N) Intervention: “Kristen”
Intervention: “Kristen”
Intervention HD
(:04) Mad Men HD
(:08) Mad Men HD
The Godfather: Part II (‘74, R) aaaa Al Pacino. HD Mad Men (N) HD
River Monsters (N) HD 100 Miles From (N) HD River Monsters HD
100 Miles From HD
River Monsters HD
Being Mary Jane: “Line in Sand” HD
Being Mary Jane: “Primetime” HD
BET Inspiration
Being Mary Jane HD
Blood, Sweat & Heels Real Housewives
Watch What Fashion
Real Housewives
Real Housewives (N)
Oblongs
King of Hill King of Hill Cleveland Cleveland Family Guy Family Guy China, Il
Squid HD Unsuperv.
Skull Challenge HD
Skull Challenge HD
Skull Challenge HD
Skull Challenge HD
Skull Challenge HD
The Wonder List (N)
The Wonder List
The Wonder List
The Wonder List
The Wonder List (N)
Superbad (‘07, R) aaac Jonah Hill, Michael Cera. HD
(:05) Amy Schumer HD
South Park: “Black Friday” HD
Alaskan Bush People: Revisited HD
Alaskan Bush People
Alaskan Bush People: Revisited (N) HD
Dog Blog Jessie HD Liv HD
Undercover Good Luck Good Luck
Liv (N) HD Undercover Austin HD I Didn’t
Kardashians (N) HD
The Royals (N) HD
Kardashians HD
The Royals HD
Kardashians HD
SportsCenter Sports news. HD
Sports HD
MLB Baseball: Boston Red Sox at New York Yankees (Live) HD
NHRA Drag Racing: “Summitracing.com NHRA Nationals” (Taped) HD
SportsC. SportsC. ESPN FC HD
Old Dogs (‘09, PG) aa John Travolta.
Osteen
Turn Point
Bad Teacher (‘11, R) aac Cameron Diaz.
Cutthroat Kitchen (N)
Cutthroat Kitchen
All-Star Academy HD
Guy’s Grocery Games All-Star Academy (N)
Ted (‘12, R) aaa Mark Wahlberg, Zane Cowans.
Ted (‘12, R) aaa Mark Wahlberg, Zane Cowans.
Life (N)
Island Life Island Life Hunters
Hunters
Life
Life
Lakefront Lakefront Life (N)
Ax Men (N) HD
Appalachian Outlaws
Legend
Legend
(:01) Ax Men HD
Ax Men HD
Lizzie Borden (N) HD
(:02) Lizzie Borden HD Seeds of Yesterday HD
Seeds of Yesterday (‘15) Anthony Konechny. HD
2015 MTV Movie
Full House Full House Full House Full House Prince
Prince
Friends
Friends
Younger
Lopez
Bar Rescue (N) HD
Lip Sync
Lip Sync
Bar Rescue HD
Bar Rescue HD
Bar Rescue HD
Slither (‘06, R) aaa
Fantastic Four (‘05) aac Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (‘08, PG-13) aac HD
The Bourne Supremacy (‘04, PG-13) aaac
Live (‘07)
Wanted (‘08, R) aaa James McAvoy, Morgan Freeman.
(:15) Tea for Two (‘50, NR) aac Doris Day.
The Young Rajah (‘22)
Love Me or Leave Me (‘55, NR) aaa Doris Day.
LI Medium LI Medium Who You Are HD
LI Medium LI Medium LI Medium LI Medium Who You Are (N) HD
The Blind Side (‘09, PG-13) Sandra Bullock, Tim McGraw. HD
The Blind Side (‘09, PG-13) Sandra Bullock, Tim McGraw. HD
No Reservations (N)
Layover: “Los Angeles”
Breaking Borders
Bourdain: “Madrid”
Breaking Borders (N)
Friends
Friends
Younger
Younger
Younger
Friends
Friends
Friends
Friends
Friends
Law & Order: SVU HD Law & Order: SVU HD Law & Order: SVU HD Law & Order: SVU HD The Game Plan (‘07)
Walk
Walk
Love & Hip Hop HD
Love & Hip Hop HD
2015 MTV Movie Awards (N)
(7:00) A Few Good Men (‘92, R) aaac Tom Cruise. Salem: “Blood Kiss” (N)
Silicon (N) Veep (N)
Oliver (N) Game of Thrones HD
Veep HD
X-Men: Future Past HD Game of Thrones (N)
Pacific Rim (‘13, PG-13) Charlie Hunnam. HD
Sexually Bugged! (‘14) c
Blended (‘14, PG-13) aac Adam Sandler. HD
Jackie HD Jackie HD Sinister (‘12, R) aaac HD
Jackie HD Jackie HD Jackie (N) Jackie HD Shameless HD
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Last Man Cristela
Shark Tank (N) HD
Hawaii Five-0 (N) HD
Blue Bloods (N) HD
Local
Late Show with David Letterman HD
The Amazing Race (N)
Dateline NBC HD
Local
Tonight Show (N) HD
Late Night
Grimm (N) HD
Local Programs
Local Programs
Date Night (‘10, PG-13) aac Tina Fey. HD
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TODAY
Clayton Music Literary and Art Club
● The Clayton Music Literary and Art Club will meet
at 2 p.m. at The Rock House
in Clayton. The program will
be presented by artist Diane
Rush. For more information,
call 706-746-7121.
God’s Abundance Market
● God’s Abundance Market
and Cafe is open from 4-6 p.m.
Thursdays at the American
Legion, 4 Electric Ave., in
Mountain City. This is a free
farmer’s market and soup
kitchen for those struggling
financially. For more information, call Glory Seeds Inc. at
706-212-0084.
FRIDAY
AARP Smart Driver course
● AARP Smart Driver, the
new and enhance driving
refresher course from AARP
Driver Safety, will be offered
at The Amara Center 9 a.m.-4
p.m. The class will be taught
by certified volunteer instructor Marcus Booker. The course
is open to drivers of all ages
and costs $15 for AARP members and $20 for non-members.
Participants can register by
calling 706-782-4009. Space is
limited.
SATURDAY
Food distribution
● A mobile food distribution
is being held beginning at 8:30
a.m. at Rabun Gap Presbyterian Church, 8397 N. Wolffork
Road. Anyone who would like
to help by sorting and loading
cars should arrive at 8 a.m. For
more information, call 706-7462020.
Single Mingles
● A Day with Dianne begins
at 9:45 a.m. at Ingles. Party
leaves promptly at 10 a.m.
to carpool to your choice of
Mud Creek Falls or The Short
Line Trail, followed by lunch
at Annie’s Deli. At 7:15 p.m.,
enjoy popcorn and a movie at
Dianne’s. Call 706-746-2012 for
directions.
Rabun Arena
● A barrel race to benefit
March of Dimes will be held.
For times and more information, visit www.rabunarena.
com.
Second Saturday Artist Talks
● This month’s Second
Saturday Artist Talks features
collaborative photographers
Stephen Berens and Elizabeth
Bryant from Los Angeles,
California; visual artist Amy
Pleasant from Birmingham,
Alabama; and Tanya Rey, a
fiction writer from San Francisco, California. Beginning at
7 p.m. in Lucinda’s Rock House
at Hambidge, each participating resident will give a short
reading or presentation. There
is a $5 suggested donation. For
more information, visit ham
bidge.org or call 706-746-7324.
SATURDAY-SUNDAY
Nantahala Hiking Club
● Nantahala Hiking Club
has several hikes planned. For
a schedule, see nantahalahik
ingclub.org.
SUNDAY
Whitewater-watching hike
● Tallulah Gorge State Park
will host from 11 a.m.-2 p.m.
a whitewater-watching hike
down to Bridal Veil Falls.
Bringing a snack and lots of
water is recommended as the
hike is strenuous. Register in
advance. Fee is $15, plus $5
parking. For more information, call 706-754-7981.
SUNDAY/TUESDAY
Chess club
● The Clayton Chess Club
meets at 2 p.m. Sundays and
7:30 p.m. Tuesdays in the St.
James Episcopal Church parish hall, 260 Warwoman Road.
For more information, call
706-782-9717.
MONDAY
Friends of Unicoi State Park
● Friends of Unicoi State
Park and Lodge will meet from
6:30-8 p.m. at Unicoi Lodge in
Helen. The Friends Chapter
works to preserve Unicoi State
Park and to generate funds
for the improvement of the
park. For more information,
call Lynn Chambers, resource
manager, at 706-878-2201 ext.
300
Sons of Confederate Veterans
● The regular meeting of
Sons of Confederate Veterans Camp 1929 will be at the
E.M.A. Rescue Building on
Syrup City Road behind the
senior citizen’s center in Tiger
at 7 p.m. Members are encouraged to attend and bring a
visitor. The public is welcome.
For further information, call
706-782-4122.
Smoky Mountain Quilters Guild
● The Smoky Mountain
Quilters Guild will meet at
9:30 a.m., in Tartan Hall of
First Presbyterian Church,
26 Church Street, Franklin,
North Carolina. Russ and
Rhonda Adams will share
information about preparing a
quilt to send to a longarmer.
Sustainable Mountain
Living Communities
● Sustainable Mountain
Living Communities offers a free gardening class,
“Planning and Planting Your
Backyard Garden,” at 6 p.m. at
the Clayton Municipal Complex, Highway 76 West. Chuck
Mashburn, owner of Mill Gap
Farm in Tiger, will provide
an introduction to vegetable
gardening which will cover
practical approaches to starting and preparing the garden
site, choosing and planting
crops, and plant nutrition.
Registration is not required.
For information, contact 706782-7978 or visit on Facebook at
smlcinc.
THURSDAY, APRIL 16
North Georgia Arts Guild
● The North Georgia Arts
Guild meets at 10 a.m. at the
Clayton Municipal Complex.
Coffee and snacks are at 9:30
a.m. Guest speaker is graphic
artist Jennifer Moore. Jennifer will discuss the various
methods of art reproduction
and presentation, including
graphic design, Giclee printing
and custom framing.
SEVEN DAYS A WEEK
Senior Center
The Rabun County Senior
Center plans the following
meals. Bread and dessert are
served daily.
● Today: Chicken strip
salad w/all trimmings
● Friday: Fried fish, baked
beans, potato salad
● Monday: Ham shank w/
great Northern beans, candied
yams
● Tuesday: BBQ sandwich,
slaw, tater tots
● Wednesday: Taco salad,
with all the trimmings
● Thursday: Chicken breast
w/wild rice & gravy, fried okra
Senior activities
● Today: Art class 10 a.m.,
bingo 10:30 a.m., bridge 12:30
p.m., computer class 1 p.m.
● Friday: No activities
● Monday: Free coffee, sausage biscuits $.75, yoga 10 a.m.,
bingo 10:30 a.m., bridge 1 p.m.
● Tuesday: Bridge 12:30
p.m., computer class 1 p.m.
● Wednesday: Yoga 10 a.m.,
bingo 11 a.m.
● Thursday: Art class 10
a.m., bingo 10:30 a.m., bridge
12:30 p.m., computer class 1
p.m.
AA meetings
● If you are concerned about
your drinking and wish to
have help, you are invited to
attend Alcoholics Anonymous
meetings in Rabun County.
AA meets at 7 p.m. daily and
11 a.m. Thursdays at St. James
Episcopal Church off Warwoman Road. A meeting also
is at 9 a.m. Tuesday at Wiley
Presbyterian Church. Dial
706-782-HELP (4357) for the 24hour help line.
UPCOMING
Singles meeting
● Tiger United Methodist Church invites friends,
enemies and singles to bring
a covered dish to church at
64 Pleasant Place in Tiger on
Saturday, April 18, at 6:30 p.m.
Call Jan at 706-782-3260 for
more information and directions.
Tour of Georgia Gran Fondo
● The Tour of Georgia Gran
Fondo starts at Universal Joint
on Sunday, April 19, at 8 a.m.
Registration is Saturday, April
18. For more information,
visit granfondonationalchampionshipseries.com/claytongeorgia/.
Foothills Photography Group
● Foothills Photography
Group, a photography club for
education, community service
and networking, will meet
April 21 for social time at 6:30
p.m. and a program at 7 p.m.
John Martin to speak on street
photography at the Visual
Technology Building, North
Georgia Technical College.
For more information, email
[email protected] or call 706499-0956.
P.E.A.R.L.S. Fun Run
● Clayton P.E.A.R.L.s. has
their ninth annual Fun Run
on the Saturday, April 25, at 9
a.m. on Ramey Boulevard.
Celebrate Clayton
● The 16th annual Celebrate
Clayton will be April 25-26 in
downtown Clayton. More than
100 art, craft, food and other
vendors are committed to attend; also live music and children’s activities. Visit www.
celebrateclayton.com.
Mountain of Hope Marketplace
● The Mountain of Hope
Marketplace will be open May
2 from 8 a.m.-2 p.m. featuring a yard sale, crafts show,
baked goods, food, fun for
kids and more. Rent your
space, sell your own yard
sale items. Spaces available
include a limited number of
outdoor tent spaces for $25.
and indoor spaces for $10. if
you bring your own tables of
$15. if a table is provided for
you. Space is limited Call to
reserve your spot. 706-782-1793.
All profits will benefit the Sid
Weber Cancer Fund.
Full-Moon Suspension Bridge Hike
● Full-Moon Suspension
Bridge Hike will be May 2, at
from 7-9 p.m. and May 3, from
8-10 p.m. at Tallulah Gorge
State Park. Enjoy a one mile
hike that takes you down the
stairs across, the suspension
bridge and on the rim of the
gorge under the full moon.
Register in advance. $5 plus
$5 parking. For more information, call 706-754-7981.
ONGOING
Head Start/Pre-K
● Head Start/Pre-K began
registering children for the
2015-16 program year March
2, 2015 and will continue
throughout the year. Rabun
County Head Start/Pre-K is a
preschool program for children who will be 3 or 4 years
on or before Sept. 1. Register at
the Head Start/Pre-K Center
located at 1236 Old Highway
441 South. For more information on what to bring, call
706-782-4718.
Mental Illness support group
● A National Alliance on
Mental Illness (NAMI) Support Group meets the fi rst
Tuesday and every Thursday
at 7 p.m. at Angel Medical
Center on the third floor in the
video room. This group is for
individuals with mental illness
and family members/loved
ones of someone with a mental
illness. For more information,
call 828-526-9510.
Mountain Laurel Wood Turners
● Mountain Laurel Wood
Turners meet the fi rst Tuesday of each month at 6:30 p.m.
at the Extension Center behind
the old courthouse in downtown Clarkesville. For more
information, call 706-782-8386
or 706-969-3929.
CASA
● Considering how you can
make a difference in your
community in 2015? CASA
Volunteers advocate for the
children involved in abuse/neglect cases in Juvenile Court.
Contact NE Georgia CASA for
more information: 706-886-1098
Foster parent information session
● The Rabun County Department of Family and
Children Services is currently
seeking foster parents. Please
call Michelle Wiggers at 706782-2127 to schedule an information session.
Family Caregiver Support Group
● Family Caregiver Support
Group every Tuesday 1:302:30 p.m. at the Rabun County
Senior Center. For more
information, call Mary Lou
Faulkenberry at 706-970-1232
or 706-746-2956. Another group
meets the fi rst Tuesday of
every month from 7-8 p.m. at 14
W. Palmer St., Franklin, North
Carolina. For more information, call 828-349-9252.
Kidney Smart class
● Kidney Smart class. This
is free to all community members and is an excellent educational resource regarding
kidney disease. Every third
Thursday of month, 4:30-6 p.m.
at Angel Medical Center, Video
Conference room, third floor,
120 Riverview St., Franklin,
North Carolina. Contact Majestic at 828-369-9474 for more
information.
Lion’s Club meetings
● The Clayton Lion’s Club
meets the fi rst and third
Thursdays at 6 p.m. at the
Cupboard Cafe in Dillard. All
are welcome.
Works of Joseph Campbell
● Inspired by the works
of Joseph Campbell, a group
gathers in the family room in
the office building of Grace
Calvary Episcopal Church,
Clarkesville, 7-9 p.m., third
Thursday of each month. All
are welcome. Details: Ty Collins, 706-947-3428.
Rabun Trout Unlimited
● The Rabun Chapter of
Trout Unlimited meets at 5
p.m. every third Thursday of
the month at the Scout Hut on
Highway 76 West, the brick
building located behind the
Rabun County Library. Parking is available in the Rabun
County Library parking lot
and Rabun County Tax Office
parking lot. Bring own equipment if you have; 6:30-7 p.m.,
social and story telling (Truth
or Lies); 7 p.m., program and
meeting. At every regular
chapter meeting there will be
a raffle for fishing or camping
Items to help pay the cost of
mailing the newsletter to members without email. Bring an
item to donate.
Overeaters Anonymous
● Overeaters Anonymous
is a fellowship of people who,
through shared experience,
strength and hope, are recovering from compulsive eating.
Meetings are free. Three are
held in the area, including
5 p.m. Sundays at Franklin
(North Carolina) First Presbyterian Church Parish Hall, 26
Church St. Come through the
red doors and follow OA signs.
For more information, call
828-508-2586. At 5 p.m. Mondays and 3:30 p.m. Wednesday,
meetings are at 308 Warwoman Road, next door to St. James
Episcopal Church. For more
information, call 706-782-2328.
RV Camping Club
● The Vagabonds are seeking additional members for the
2015 season. Camp is one weekend per month, April-November, usually within 100 miles of
Franklin, North Carolina. All
ages are welcome. Any type
camper is welcome. No dues,
no structured activities. Just
an enjoyment of the outdoors,
fellowship, good conversation,
pot luck dinners and a roaring
campfi re. Contact Lillian for
more details: [email protected]
or 828-369-6669.
Narcotics Anonymous meeting
● A Narcotics Anonymous
group meets on Tuesdays and
Thursdays at 7 p.m. at Clayton
Presbyterian Church.
Classes in English
● Classes in speaking
English are held each Monday
evening at Wolffork Baptist
Church in Rabun Gap. Snacks,
fellowship and a devotion
begins at 6 p.m. The classes in
conversational English and
writing are from 6:30-8 p.m.
Transportation can be arranged. For information, call
706-982-4844.
Al-Anon Family Group
● Al-Anon Family Group
meets every Tuesday at noon.
Come join on Tuesdays at noon
at St. James Episcopal Church
on Warwoman Road. No fees.
Toastmasters
● Join the Gem City Forum
Toastmasters every Tuesday
night at 5:30 p.m. in the Drake
Education Center, 210 Phillips
Street in Franklin, to become
a compelling and confident
speaker. Guest are always welcome. For more information
visit www.gemcityforum.org.
Narconon counseling
● Narconon reminds families that the use of addicting
drugs is on the rise and recommends taking steps to protect
one’s family. If you know
anyone who is struggling with
drug addiction get them the
help they need. Call for a free
brochure on the signs of addiction for all drugs. Narconon
also offers free screenings and
referrals. For more information, call 800-431-1754; or visit
http://www.drugabusesolu
tion.com.
Kiwanis meetings
● The Kiwanis Club of
Rabun County meets at 11:45
a.m. on the fi rst and third
Thursdays of the month at
Kingwood Country Club &
Resort. All are welcome.
Special Olympics training
● Special Olympics of Northeast Georgia is recruiting
participants and volunteers for
weekly training in a variety
of sports for seasonal events.
Cost is free, and training will
be done Wednesdays at the
Rabun County Recreation
Department. For more information, call Michael Urpschot
at 706-490-1112.
GED classes
● North Georgia Technical
College is holding free day and
evening courses for people to
obtain their General Educational Development at its Adult
Education Center, 184 S. Main
St. For more information or
to register, call 706-782-1362.
Those who mention this ad
will get a gift.
Red Cross volunteers
● The American Red Cross
is seeking volunteers in Rabun
County. Anyone interested in
being a disaster service volunteer, a fi rst responder helping
those affected by disaster in
the community, should call the
office 770-532-8453; or Carlton
Adams at 706 968-0838; email
[email protected]; or visit
www.redcross.org.
Employment hours
● The Rabun County Employment Center has new
hours at its three different offices. The Georgia Department
of Labor provides a full-service
center where one can fi le unemployment claims, fi nd employment services and conduct
job searches from 8:30 a.m.-4
p.m. Monday and Wednesday.
Gently used interview appropriate outfits are available for
no charge in the First Impressions clothes closet, which is
open from 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Monday and Wednesday. North
Georgia Technical College
provides GED and compass
testing preparation from 8:30
a.m.-2 p.m. and 3-7 p.m. Monday through Thursday. The
center is at 184 Main St.
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SPRING BREAK SHOWDOWN
Habersham halts Diamond ’Cats
By Megan Studdard
Staff Writer
A tight game between
neighboring rivals
Rabun County and Habersham Central ended in
a 3-1 defeat for the home
Wildcats. Several defensive errors in the fi nal
inning cost Rabun the
spring-break showdown.
Both teams managed
to squeak in runs to tie
it at 1 until the seventh
inning. Rabun County
missed multiple opportunities to score in the
fourth and sixth. In the
bottom of the fourth, senior Zach Gragg ripped a
single to the left side, but
his teammates stranded
him on base. Sophomore
Trey Wilcox beat out
a slow roller and stole
second base in the sixth
inning. He advanced to
third with two outs but
was stranded there.
The Raiders broke
open the game during
their last turn at bat. The
leadoff lefty made it on
after an errant Wildcats
throw. The next batter found a hole in the
infield and a subsequent
walk loaded the bases. A
double drove in two runs.
Habersham Central
retired three Wildcat
batters in a row to end it
3-1. Senior Stetson Scott
tossed the complete game
for the Wildcats. He’s
now 6-2 on the season.
Diamond ’Cats coach
Daniel Young, who once
coached in Habersham
County, said he worked
with a lot of the Raiders
players and was disappointed with the loss.
The Wildcats beat the
6A opponent 14-2 in their
fi rst game of the season
Feb. 28.
“I don’t think we came
ready to play today. We
just didn’t play any of the
phases of the game very
well,” Young said. “If you
let a team like that hang
around and you don’t
score runs, it’s going
to eventually cost you
and it did in the seventh
inning. We had opportunities and didn’t really
execute, but it’s a learning experience.”
It was a different story
for the Wildcats last
week as they rose to
the top spot in Region
8-AA last Friday. Rabun
shutout region leader
Social Circle High School
10-0 and 11-0 in an away
doubleheader.
The two games were offensive blowouts. Rabun
tabbed a total of 21 combined hits in the contests.
Wilcox had a strong day
at the plate, fi nishing 4
for 4 in both games.
Rabun’s bullpen got to
show off its depth in the
Social Circle wins. The
Diamond ’Cats threw
four pitchers against
the Indians. Scott tossed
five innings in Game
1, striking out six in
the win. Senior Will
Humphries came in to
close. In Game 2, junior
Alden Wright was on the
mound for four innings.
He struck out five and
only gave up one hit.
Gragg closed out the fiveinning run rule game.
The win propelled
Rabun to fi rst place in
Region 8-AA. They have
four region games remaining against Union,
Riverside and twice
against WashingtonWilkes.
“We played extremely
well,” Young said. “We’re
in the driver’s seat for
region.”
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Lady Eagles get
case of the Blues
Junior Jack Johnson runs in after snagging a fly ball in right field on Tuesday afternoon. Rabun fell
3-1 to visiting Habersham Central.
By Mat Payne
Staff Writer
Soggy conditions
sunk the Rabun GapNacoochee School Lady
Eagles’ hopes for victory
on their home soccer
pitch Tuesday afternoon
against the Lady Blues
of The Asheville (North
Carolina) School.
Coach Ozu Mejia admitted the Lady Eagles
were in for a tough match
against a team that
looked stronger on paper.
His Lady Eagles hit the
field ready, but couldn’t
seem to gain any momentum against a faster Lady
Blues team.
Eagles keeper Anna
Armfield was kept busy
in the fi rst period with
multiple diving saves and
aggressive blocks. Both
teams struggled to find
the hole in the other’s
defenses and ended the
period scoreless.
Mejia said he thought
his team needed to continue working on their
fundamentals and on
keeping the number of
touches on the ball down.
He added he was proud
of the intensity the team
showed in the face of
adversity and he thought
the team gave its all.
The second period saw
the Lady Eagles slowly
break down and their
defenses fall to strong
attacks.
The Lady Blues put
their fi rst point on the
board about five minutes
into the period to lead 1-0.
Paulina Rivero works to get past a defender Friday during the Lady ’Cats game against Washington-Wilkes. Both Wildcats teams won against the Tigers.
Soccer ’Cats kick Tigers
to curb in region match
By Mat Payne
Amee Jailwala moves the ball downfield away from an Asheville
Lady Blues player during the Lady Eagles’ game Tuesday afternoon. The Lady Blues defeated the Lady Eagles 2-0.
The Lady Eagles rallied
and held the main area
of play for much of the
period but couldn’t get
more than a few shots on
the goal.
With about 20 minutes
left on the clock, the Lady
Blues sealed the victory
with a second goal.
After the game, Mejia
said he was particularly
proud of team captain
Chelsea Brown for her
hustle and skill adapting
to a new position.
The team’s record after
the game was 4-4. Theywere set to play Swain
County on Wednesday.
Staff Writer
There was no question about who
the alpha cats were Friday afternoon
at Frank Snyder Stadium after victories delivered by the soccer Wildcats
and Lady ’Cats against WashingtonWilkes Comprehensive High School.
From the outset of the game, the
Lady ’Cats took to the field as a unit,
keeping touches on the ball low when
necessary and utilizing bursts of
speed. The Lady Tigers provided
stiff competition and kept the ball
constantly moving across the halfway line. The two teams held each
other scoreless for the fi rst half of the
match.
Coach Andy Mahaffey said he felt
like the team played one of their best
matches of the season and they were
beginning to operate better as a team.
“There were a lot more rights than
wrongs,” Mahaffey said. “The lower
classmen really wanted to win one for
the seniors.”
With about 30 minutes left on the
clock in the second period, Halle
Fowler posted the fi rst points of the
game off of a penalty kick, putting the
Please see SOCCER, C2
Warrior Dash comes to Mountain City this weekend, brings new obstacles
By Megan Studdard
Staff Writer
Mountain City will again become a battleground Saturday
as warriors descend on Camp
Blue Ridge for the 2015 Warrior Dash.
The 5K course is lined with
obstacles, everything from
high ropes to mud-fi lled pits.
“We actually upgraded all of
our obstacles this year,” Red
Frog Events’ Lauren Gardner
said.
The course, termed the
Battleground by event organizers, will feature four new challenges. The Plunge will make
competitors crawl up a cargo
net and scale 16-feet to the
ground into a pit of cold running water. For the more aerially adventurous, the Chaotic
Cargo will have athletes climb
across cargo nets suspended
10 feet above the ground before
tackling a 20-foot A-frame of
nets in the air. High Tension
will have participants crossing
a 20-foot slackline and Under
the Wire forces them to the
ground to slither 100 feet in the
mud under barbed wire.
Gardner said the event has
been running in Georgia since
2011 and has been in Mountain
City for several years.
“We take a lot of things into
consideration when choosing
a place — its location, community, terrain,” she said.
This year, 5,500 warriors
have registered for the event,
Gardner said. Registration
is now closed but Gardner
encourages locals to come out
and watch for free. Serious
athletes will compete in the
competitive wave at 8:30 a.m.
for a chance to move on to the
World Championship in Pulaski, Tennessee. Other waves
will begin after.
The Warrior Dash partners
with St. Jude Children’s Re-
search Hospital, encouraging
warriors to fundraise for the
charity. Those who contribute
more than $300 can access
a VIP area at the event with
private showers, catering
and a lounge. There will also
be waves starting at 10 a.m.
where warriors are required to
donate $10 for the cause.
For more information, visit
WarriorDash.com.
C2
SPORTS
April 9, 2015
The Clayton Tribune
Local
track
teams
face
NC
rivals
grid
the
200-meter events.
RGNS coach Amila
Williams said she was
pleased with the efforts
of her young teams. The
program hosts its fi rst
home meet of the season
today.
Rabun County’s
tracksters have just 10
days to prepare for the
Region 8-AA meet once
they return from spring
break. The region meet
is scheduled for April 22
and 24 at Frank Snyder
Stadium.
By Megan Studdard
SPORTS SCHEDULE
TODAY
Track & Field
● Rabun Gap-Nacoochee
School vs. Christ School, 4 p.m.
at RGNS.
Tennis
● RGNS at Summit Charter
(North Carolina) School, middle
school 4 p.m. in Cashiers.
● RGNS vs. Walhalla (South
Carolina) High School, varsity
boys 5 p.m. at RGNS.
Baseball
● RGNS at Fairview (North
Carolina), middle school 4 p.m.
in Sylva.
● RGNS vs. Blue Ridge
(North Carolina) School junior
varsity, 4:30 p.m. at RGNS.
Softball
● RGNS at Walhalla (South
girls 4:30 p.m. double header in
Walhalla.
FRIDAY
Track & Field
● RGNS at Taco Bell Classic,
4 p.m. in Columbia, South
Carolina.
Baseball
● RGNS vs. Hickory Grove
(North Carolina) High School
varsity, 4:30 p.m. at RGNS.
SATURDAY
Track & Field
● RGNS at Taco Bell Classic,
8 a.m. in Columbia, South
Carolina.
MONDAY
Baseball
● RGNS vs. Cullowhee (North
Carolina) Valley Middle School,
4 p.m. at RGNS.
● RGNS at Rosman (North
4:30 p.m. in Rosman.
● Rabun County High
School vs. Stephens County
High School junior varsity, 5
p.m. double header at RCHS.
● RCHS at Union County
High School, varsity 5 p.m. in
Blairsville.
TUESDAY
Track & Field
● RGNS at FCA Meet, 3 p.m.
at Madison (North Carolina)
High School, in Marshall.
Golf
● Rabun County Middle
School vs. Stephens County
Middle School, 3:30 p.m. at
Rabun County Golf Course.
● RGNS vs. Tamassee Salem
(South Carolina), 4 p.m. at
Falcons Lair in Walhalla.
Tennis
● Tallulah Falls School vs.
RGNS middle school, 4 p.m. at
TFS.
● RGNS vs. Christ School
(North Carolina) varsity boys, 4
p.m. at RGNS.
● RCHS at Region 8-AA tournament, 4 p.m. at Social Circle
High School in Social Circle.
Track & Field
● RCHS at Habersham
Central High School, 4 p.m. in
Mt. Airy.
Baseball
● RGNS vs. Christ School
(North Carolina) varsity, 4:30
p.m. at RGNS.
Soccer
● RGNS at Legacy Charter
School (South Carolina), junior
varsity girls 6 p.m. in Greenville.
WEDNESDAY
Soccer
● RGNS at Lakeview
Academy, varsity girls 5 p.m. in
Gainesville.
● RGNS at Lumpkin County
High School, junior varsity girls
5 p.m. in Dahlonega.
Baseball
● RGNS vs. Tamassee Salem
(South Carolina) junior varsity, 5
p.m. at RGNS.
● TFS vs. Yeshiva varsity, 4:30
p.m. doubleheader at TFS.
*Game times and locations
subject to change. Check our
Facebook and Twitter for the
latest updates.
Staff Writer
It was a battle between
the states Thursday as
track teams from Rabun
County’s public and
private high schools
battled two nearby North
Carolina teams at Frank
Snyder Stadium.
The Georgia teams
prevailed in the girls
competition. Host Rabun
County High School won
the girls meet with a 90.5,
and the Lady Eagles from
Rabun Gap-Nacoochee
School finished second
with 59 points. Smoky
Mountain (North Carolina) and Franklin (North
Carolina) high schools
rounded out the meet
at 44.5 and 27 points,
respectively.
Smoky Mountain
smoked the boys teams
in the meet, earning a
fi rst place finish with 72
points. The RGNS Eagles
weren’t far behind with
65.3 and the Wildcats
nabbed third place at 54.8
points. Franklin finished
last with 33.8 points.
Several Lady Wildcats
set personal and season
bests at the quad meet
despite rainy conditions.
Senior Elizabeth
Sprinkle threw her
furthest in the shot put at
31 feet, 5 inches, placing
third. Senior Jordan Gihl
recorded her furthest
leap in the triple jump
this season with 29 feet.
She also had a strong
showing on the track,
winning both 100-meter
high hurdles and 300-meter low hurdles events.
The Rabun girls 4x400
relay team, which includes Gihl, junior Alexis
Owens and seniors Katie
McDonough and Taylor
Beck, blew away Rabun
Gap by more than 20
seconds.
Beck also won the
400-meter with a time of
1 minute 4.14 seconds.
Freshman Perryn Morgan was not far behind
with a second place
1:06.97 finish.
Senior Brooke Shead
topped the 200-meter, finishing mere milliseconds
ahead of Rabun Gap.
RCHS coach Allen
Woerner said the Lady
Wildcats performed well
against a field of talented
teams.
“Especially Rabun
Gap,” he said “They had
some athletic girls.”
RGNS senior Pallas
Kunaiyi-Akpanah was
one of these threats to
Rabun County, nabbing
fi rst place finishes in
shot put, and the 100-meter dash. She tied with
Owens in the high jump
with a 4-foot, 10-inch
leap.
Kunaiyi-Akpanah was
the only Lady Eagle to
take top honors in individual events for Rabun
Gap. She was also part
of the winning 4x100
team for Rabun Gap,
along with freshmen
Keaira Brooks and Stacia
Jones, and eighth-grader
Meredith Stockton. They
finished the race in 53.47
seconds.
Rabun County’s boys
struggled against a
strong Smoky Mountain
SOCCER
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Lady ’Cats ahead 1-0. The
Lady Tigers responded
to the advance with a
goal of their own about 10
minutes later.
With just two more
minutes falling off the
clock, Paulina Rivero
was able to infi ltrate the
Lady Tigers’ defense and
slam one into the back of
the net. The Lady ’Cats
took the lead.
As the clock wound
down, Anna West posted
the final points of the
game to the board off an
assist from keeper Breanna Finley. The Lady
’Cats held off the charging Lady Tigers for the
remainder of the game to
win 3-1.
The Wildcats seemingly fed off the energy
RESULTS
OVERALL
Girls — 1. RCHS, 90.5; 2. RGNS, 59; 3.
SMHS, 44.5; 4. FHS, 27.
Boys — 1. SMHS, 72; 2. RGNS, 65.3; 3.
RCHS, 58.4; 4. FHS, 33.8.
GIRLS
100-meter high hurdles — 1. Jordan Gihl,
RCHS, 17.59; 2. Douthit, SMHS, 20.0; 3.
Jadda Laufer, RCHS, 20.46.
300-meter hurdles — 1. Jordan Gihl,
RCHS, 56.56; 2. Perryn Morgan, RCHS,
56.76; 3. Abbi Crosby, RCHS, 1:02.43.
100-meter dash — 1. Pallas KunaiyiAkpanah, RGNS, 13.72; 2. Alexis Owens,
RCHS, 13.86; Keaira Brooks, RGNS,
14.03; Stacia Jones, RGNS, 14.15; Simmons, SMHS, 14.33.
200-meter dash — 1. Brooke Shead,
RCHS, 28.34; 2. Keaira Brooks, RGNS,
29.18; 3. Andrea Maia, RGNS, 29.99; 4.
Shoate, SMHS, 30.03; 5. Miller, SMHS,
31.03;
400-meter dash — 1. Taylor Beck, RCHS,
1:04.14; 2. Perryn Morgan, RCHS, 1:06.97;
3. Elsa Landis, RGNS, 1:07.68; 4. Conner, FHS, 1:09.68; 5. Olguine Benzinger,
RGNS, 1:11.59.
800-meter run — 1. Smith, FHS, 2:46;
2. Taylor Beck, RCHS, 2:53; 3. Lindsay
Caudell, RCHS, 3:03; 4. Thuy Nguyen,
RGNS, 3:11; 5. Bjerkness, SMHS, 3:13.
1,600-meter run — 1. Sterling, SMHS,
6:02; 2. Smith, FHS, 6:04; 3. Fox, SMHS,
6:13; 4. Katie McDonough, RCHS, 6:30; 5.
Grant, SMHS, 6:34.
4x100-meter relay — 1. RGNS, 53.47; 2.
RCHS, 54.46; 3. SMHS, 56.29.
4x400-meter relay — 1. RCHS A, 4:36.53;
2. RGNS, 4:57.34; 3. RCHS B, 5:20.06.
Discus — 1. Elizabeth Sprinkle, RCHS,
98’-2”; 2. Tabor, FHS, 92’-8”; 3. Janae
Davis, RGNS, 80’-6”; 4. Perryn Morgan,
RCHS, 79’-5”; 5. Josie Earnhardt, RGNS,
74’-5”.
Shot put — 1. Pallas Kunaiyi-Akpanah,
RGNS, 35’-5”; 2. Tabor, FCHS, 33’-3”; 3.
Sprinkle, RCHS, 31’-5”; 4. River Hodges,
RGNS, 31’-3”; 5. Madison Utt, RCHS, 25’10”; 5. Janae Davis, RGNS, 25’-10”.
High jump — 1. Pallas Kunaiyi-Akpanah,
RGNS, 4’-10”; 1. Alexis Owens, RCHS,
4’-10”.
Long jump — 1. Miller, SMHS, 13’-9”;
2. Alexis Owens, RCHS, 13’-8 1/2”; 3.
Douthit, SMHS, 12’-5”; 4. Katie McDonough, RCHS, 12’-4”; 5. Stacia Jones,
RGNS, 12’-3”; 5. Pressley, SMHS, 12’-3”.
Triple jump — 1. Jordan Gihl, RCHS,
29’; 2. Douthit, SMHS, 28’-7”; 3. Conner,
FCHS, 28’-1”; 4. Abbi Crosby, RCHS,
26’-1”.
TOP: Lady Eagle Pallas Kunaiyi-Akpanah of Rabun Gap-Nacoochee School and Lady ’Cat Abbi Crosby
explode off the block for the 100-meter dash Thursday during the quad meet held at Rabun
County High School. Kunaiyi-Akpanah placed first in the 100-meter. MIDDLE LEFT: Rabun County
High School senior Elizabeth Sprinkle concentrates before her shot put throw at the Lady Wildcats’ home meet Thursday. Both RCHS track and field teams took on Rabun Gap, as well as Smoky
Mountain and Franklin high schools from North Carolina. MIDDLE RIGHT: Wildcats senior Tucker
Williams throws the discus Thursday during Rabun County’s quad meet with Rabun Gap, Smoky
Mountain (North Carolina) and Franklin (North Carolina). BOTTOM: Runners from Rabun Gap and
Rabun County High School await the baton exchange during the 4x400 relay at RCHS.
team, only posting two
fi rst place fi nishes in the
running events.
Wildcats junior Trey
Harrison posted a
season-best time of 16.6
seconds on the 110-meter high hurdles. Senior
Duncan Wheeler also
nabbed the top spot in
the 400-meter with a
55.32 second fi nish.
Woerner said seeing
of the Lady ’Cats victory
by hitting the field and
playing their best game
of the season to beat the
Tigers 5-1.
With multiple shots on
goal during the opening
minutes of the match,
coach Greg Stephens
said he knew things were
going to go well for the
team.
After about 19 minutes
of continuous assaults
on the Tigers goal, Kody
Dills drew fi rst blood for
the ’Cats off a high flying
kick. Jose Jimenez netted
two more goals by the
end of the fi rst period.
Stephens said he believed his team played
with a focus they had not
shown until that point.
During the second
period, the ’Cats ran up
the score with two more
goals while only allowing
the Tigers to score one.
faster runners will prepare the team for upcoming meets.
“It was good for us
to see some speed that
we will see in our own
region when Greene and
Washington Wilkes run
against us,” he said.
The Eagles had a
strong showing on both
the field and running
events. Senior Kevin
Graham launched a
144-foot, 1-inch discus
throw, eclipsing the competition by more than
20 feet. Senior Dwight
Butler posted his personal best in the triple
jump. He leaped 41 feet,
9 inches to take the top
spot. Sophomore Jeffrey Kawan earned his
second-straight double
win in the 100-meter and
BOYS
110-meter high hurdles — 1. Trey Harrison, RCHS, 16.6; 2. Damon Snow,
RCHS, 17.81; 3. Jack Blackstock, RCHS,
17.96; 4. Moore, SMHS, 20.99; 5. Burch,
SMHS, 22.3;
300-meter hurdles — 1. Niko Harrell,
RGNS, 41.73; 2. Moore, SMHS, 44.51; 3.
Jack Blackstock, RCHS, 48.13; 4. Damon
Snow, RCHS, 48.48; 5. Dalton Keener,
RCHS, 52.71.
100-meter dash — 1. Jeff Kawan, RGNS,
11.5; 2. Trey Harrison, RCHS, 11.7; 3.
Napert, SMHS, 12; 4. Harry Oliver, RCHS,
12.03; 5. Perone, FHS, 12.39.
200-meter dash — 1. Jeff Kawan, RGNS,
23.21; 2. Cole, 23.85, SMHS; 3. Napert,
SMHS, 24.03; 4. Beck, SMHS, 24.75; 5.
Michael Thurmond, RCHS, 24.78.
400-meter dash — 1. Duncan Wheeler,
RCHS, 55.32; 2. Moore, SMHS, 56.12; 3.
Michael Bullard, RGNS, 56.60; 4. Martinez, FHS, 58.56; 5. Kosnik, SMHS, 59.01.
800-meter run — 1. Scifers, SMHS, 2:15;
2. Kenneth Hines, RGNS, 2:16; 3. Michael
Bullard, RGNS, 2:24; 4. Cory Junalyska,
RGNS, 2:26; 5. Cal Shelton, RGNS, 2:29.
1,600-meter run — 1. Grant, SMHS, 4:57;
2. Costa, SMHS, 5:03; 3. Max Trammell,
RGNS, 5:14; 4. Scifers, SMHS, 5:18; 5.
Nikita Vvonko, RGNS, 5:21; 5. Bjerkness,
SMHS, 5:21.
4x100-meter relay — 1. SMHS, 45.85; 2.
RGNS, 46.01; 3. RCHS, 46.71.
4x400-meter relay — 1. RGNS, 3:48; 2.
RCHS, 3:49; 3. SMHS, 4:00.
Discus — 1. Kevin Graham, RGNS, 144’1”; 2. Randall, FHS, 129’-5”; 3. Tucker
Williams, RCHS, 126’-9”; 4. Logan, SMHS,
120’-6”; 5. Tanner Veal, RCHS, 105’-5”.
Shot put — 1. Lowry, FHS, 43’-3”; 2.
Tucker Williams, RCHS, 42’-7”; 3. Randall,
FHS, 42’-1”; 4. Tallent, FHS, 41’-1”; 5.
Kevin Graham, RGNS, 39’-11”.
High jump — 1. Baumearner, SMHS, 5’-8”;
2. Brendel, FHS, 5’-4”; 3. Duncan Wheeler,
RCHS, 5’-4”; 3. Caleb Scott, RGNS, 5’-4”,
4. Kenzie, FHS, 5’-2”; 4. Justin Alexander,
RCHS, 5’-2”; 4. Chandler DiNofrio, RCHS,
5’-2”.
Long jump — 1. Scott, FHS, 17’-2”; 2. Lanning, SMHS, 16’; 3. Collier, FHS, 15’-9”; 3.
Beck, SMHS, 15’-9”; 4. Field, FHS, 15’-5”.
Triple jump — 1. Dwight Butler, RGNS,
41’-9”; 2. Trey Harrison, RCHS, 36’-11”;
3. Harry Oliver, RCHS, 36’-3 1/2”; Dante
McDonald, RGNS, 36’-3 1/2”; 4. Collier,
FHS, 35’.
JV ’Cats continue undefeated season
Freshman first baseman Dax Edwards tosses the ball for an out Thursday during the junior
varsity Wildcats’ 7-1 victory over visiting Franklin (North Carolina) High School. The young squad
is now 6-0 on the season.
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CAMPING WORLD TRUCKS
XFINITY SERIES
Race: Duck Commander 500
Where: Texas Motor Speedway
When: Saturday, 7:30 p.m. (ET)
TV: FOX
2014 winner: Joey Logano (right)
Race: O’Reilly Auto Parts 350
Where: Texas Motor Speedway
When: Friday, 8:30 p.m. (ET)
TV: Fox Sports 1
2014 Winner: Chase Elliott
Race: Camping World Kansas Race
Where: Kansas Speedway
When: May 8, 8:30 p.m. (ET)
TV: FOX Sports 1
2014 Winner: Kyle Busch
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Joey Logano becomes 26th driver to win in all three
NASCAR touring series
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Regan Smith, the go-to replacement driver
for Chevy teams, tries to make the most of
his fill-in driving assignments.
41 usually driven by Kurt Busch, who was
suspended, and he ran the most recent
Cup race, at Martinsville Speedway, in
place of Kyle Larson, who fainted the day
before and was not cleared to race.
Smith has had respectable finishes this
season, including 17th at Atlanta and 16th
in his other four starts.
Like most of his other substitute driving
roles, Smith got the call to drive Larson’s
No. 42 just hours before he would be racing.
“I didn’t know anything until this morning when I woke up,” Smith said in a hastily called press conference at Martinsville
the morning of the STP 500. “I had a text
message when I woke up this morning and
headed this way.”
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preparations were underway before doctors made the final decision on whether
Larson could compete.
That was much different than his fillin role for Stewart last season, when he
got off a helicopter at Watkins Glen on
Sunday morning carrying his seat insert.
“We were fortunate to have a little time
[the night before Martinsville] to work
with the seat and try and get me as comfortable as we could with what we had to
work with from that standpoint — last
minute and stuff,” he said.
Smith said that although he has become
the “go-to” guy for Chevrolet teams needing a replacement driver, he doesn’t begin
making plans every time a potential
vacancy arises.
“Not really,” he said. “I was working at
the new house that we are building and
just kind of messing around there and
checking things out. I didn’t anticipate
being [at Martinsville] at all.”
But he also said that he likes getting the
call, and hopes that the attention will lead
to a return to a full-time Cup ride.
“I would rather be racing than watching
it on TV,” he said. “I think I have made it
clear I want to get back to doing this on a
more permanent basis on the Cup side.
“If being the guy that everybody calls on
can help lead to that down the road, then
that is great.”
Smith also pointed out that the temporary fill-in roles aren’t the best way to
showcase his talents.
“These situations aren’t easy,” he said.
“You are hopping in somebody else’s car
and then somebody else’s setup, somebody
else’s team, somebody else’s guys and trying to plug yourself in as best you can, and
do as good as you can for that team and
for those guys.
“With that said, you try to make the
most of it.”
Eldora Speedway, the dirt track owned
by Sprint Cup driver Tony Stewart,
has been voted the favorite track of
readers of Speed Sport Magazine and
NationalSpeedSportNews.com. It’s the
fourth straight year atop the poll for the
track, which hosts NASCAR’s Camping
World Truck Series each summer.
Virginia International Raceway, the road
course near Danville, Virginia, was second
in the poll.
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15 in the past 20 Cup
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Kenseth — topping all drivers.
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1. Kevin Harvick, 263
2. Joey Logano, 239
3. Martin Truex Jr., 231
4. Brad Keselowski, 206
5. Kasey Kahne, 193
6. Paul Menard, 173
7. Denny Hamlin, 172
8. Dale Earnhardt Jr., 172
9. Aric Almirola, 170
10. Jimmie Johnson, 168
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who missed races due to health and other issues
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in an Xfinity Series race at Daytona, Kurt Busch
miss three while suspended, and Brian Vickers
run just two races because of health issues, it
wasn’t much of a shock to see Kyle Larson sit out
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Larson, 22, fainted the Saturday afternoon
before the Cup race at Martinsville and watched
the race from a hospital room in Charlotte, while
Regan Smith drove his No. 42 Chevrolet.
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to race this weekend at Texas Motor Speedway.
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1-3 weekend at Talladega
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been problematic because
the fastest laps are turned
by drivers who lag back and
make a run at the pack ahead of them, using the draft to gain speed they otherwise
wouldn’t have. The trouble arose because no one wanted to be in the big pack, so
drivers and teams tried to be among the last to go out, causing confusion on pit
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Now NASCAR will send the drivers out one at a time, at intervals determined by
series officials. There is the likelihood that more than one car will be on the track
at any time, speeding up a qualifying process that often took longer than the actual
race at Talladega back when each car took two laps of qualifying with no other cars
on the track.
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Talladega track Chairman Grant Lynch said that no matter what the rules are for
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lead laps (29).”
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Jeff Gordon will be seeking his fifth
win in the Food City 500 at Bristol Motor
Speedway on April 19, but this will be the
first time that he will receive the command to start the engine in his No. 24
Chevrolet from his children. Ella Gordon,
age 7, and Leo Gordon, 4, have been
named grand marshals for the race.
“Over the years, Jeff Gordon has been a
true friend to Food City and our region.
He has been a loyal supporter of Food City
Family Race Night and raised countless
dollars in support of our local food banks
through his partnership with AARP’s
Drive to End Hunger,” Steven C. Smith,
Food City president and chief executive
officer, announced. “In appreciation for his
many contributions to our company and
our region, and to commemorate his final
season competing for a NASCAR Sprint
Cup Series championship, we couldn’t
think of more befitting grand marshals for
our Food City 500 than Jeff ’s children.”
Eldora Speedway is a ‘favorite’
Joey Logano started the Kroger 250 from the pole — a career first for
him in the Truck Series.
Regan Smith admits fill-in assignments not the best way to showcase
his driving talents in the Sprint Cup Series
For the past two Sprint Cup seasons,
when Chevrolet teams needed a fill-in
driver, they’ve turned to Regan Smith, the
31-year-old driver from Cato, New York.
Smith has been involved in one or more
of the top three divisions of NASCAR since
2002. He made his Sprint Cup debut in
2007 driving the No. 01 Chevrolet, a ride
he shared with Mark Martin.
The following year, he drove the No. 01
full time for Dale Earnhardt Inc., winning
Rookie of the Year honors and almost winning a race at Talladega Superspeedway.
In that race, he took the checkered flag
first, but officials ruled that he made an
improper move below the yellow line, and
the win was awarded to Tony Stewart.
That team shut down at the end of 2008,
and Smith took a part-time ride in the
No. 78 Chevrolet of Furniture Row Racing
for the next season. In 2011, he won the
Southern 500 at Darlington Raceway, driving for Furniture Row, but was released
from the team late in 2012.
It was at that point that Smith got the
first of several fill-in assignments, as he
was hired to drive the No. 88 Chevrolet
while Dale Earnhardt Jr. recovered from a
concussion.
In 2013, he returned to the series now
known as Xfinity on a full-time basis, driving for JR Motorsports, where he still runs
a full schedule.
In 2014, he was asked to be available to
drive the No. 24 Chevrolet at Charlotte in
case Jeff Gordon’s back issues forced him
out of the car, but Gordon finished the race
without relief. Then Smith was brought in
to drive Tony Stewart’s No. 14 Chevrolet
at Watkins Glen when Stewart sat out the
race after being involved in a sprint car
accident the night before, in which driver
Kevin Ward died after being struck by
Stewart’s car.
This season, Smith drove the first three
Sprint Cup races of the season in the No.
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In winning the recent Kroger 250 Camping World Truck Series
race at Martinsville Speedway, Joey Logano became the 26th
driver to win a race in all three of NASCAR’s top touring series.
Logano actually did it in a span of six races this season — winning the season-opening Daytona 500 for his Cup win, an Xfinity Series race at Phoenix International Raceway, and the Truck
Series race at Martinsville.
At Martinsville, Logano, driving a truck owned by fellow Team
Penske driver Brad Keselowski, started from the pole — a career
first for him in the Truck Series — and led 150 of the race’s 250
laps.
It looked for a time in the closing laps that young Cole Custer
would get the win, as he bumped his way past Logano and Matt
Crafton to get the lead, but Crafton spun Custer, setting up a
green-white-checkered-flag run to the finish.
Logano, who lined up third, used a bold move at the drop of the
green flag to bolt past Crafton and Erik Jones to take the lead going into Turn One, and drive away for the victory.
Still, it took a bold move on the final restart for him to jump
from third to first, past Matt Crafton and Erik Jones, to get the
win.
“I was able to get a good restart there with the green-whitecheckered, and barrel off into One and hold it on the bottom and
be able to retake the lead and ultimately win,” Logano said. “It’s
cool to say I’ve won in all three series now. It’s kind of special.”
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CLASSIFIEDS
The Clayton Tribune
Position Available
Full time
Director of Nursing
RN Care Plan Coordinator
3-11 CNAs
Flexible Scheduling & PRN
LPN 7p-7a
For more Information
Contact
Tracy Ivester
706-886-8491
Or
Visit in Person
PruittHealth Toccoa
633 Falls Rd.
Toccoa GA 30577
We are committed to Caring
CTR-153406-4/15
Career Opportunities @ TJ Bailey's of Highlands & Cashiers.
Retail sales position available.
“Come grow with us” Full or
part time. (828)526-2262 or
email resume; [email protected]
HELP NEEDED AT
THE QUEEN BEE
Part time help needed at upscale retail store. Must be reliable and have some sales experience. Must be able to work
some weekends.send resume
to [email protected]
Clayton Baptist Church is looking to fill a twenty-hour per
week ministry assistant position. Excellent people skills and
computer skills are required.
Please contact Ginny Bryan at
706-782-4588 if you are interested in this position.
PART TIME OVERNIGHT
Awake Staff needed for residential facility in Franklin.
Hours: 10PM-7AM, Friday and
Saturday
nights.
Visit
www.mhfc.org for complete
job description and to apply
online.
ESTATE-YARD SALE
April 10-11, 2015
9:00 am thru 5:00 pm, both
days
464 Stewart Lane
Clarkesville, Georgia
Queen size bedroom set, with
night stands, dresser, mirror
Office desk/chair, hundreds of
DVD movies. Blue Ray movies,
Book cases.
Riding lawn mower,
lawn vacuum/shredder, yard
trailer.
Moving Sale, indoors, Saturday
& Sunday. Too much to list
10 Oasis Rd., Lakemont, easy
access, 8am till 6pm.
Chihuahua puppy for sale, call
706-782-5741
Yard Sale Friday & Saturday,
8-1. 3 Sage Brush Lane
2BR, 1BA, FP, water included.
Old Highlands Road, Dillard,
$500 month, 770-842-0341
HARPER'S AUCTION COMPANY Friday April 10th @ 6pm.
Spring is Here; Join us for Lots
of Great Deals; Cabin Decor,
Primitives, Antiques, Advertising, McCoy, Tools, Dragon
Ware, Bronze Flatware from
Thailand, Coins, Oriental Dolls
and much more...
Franklin, 828-369-6999
Debra Harper NCAL #9659
NCFL #9671
BED QUEEN PILLOWTOP
MATTRESS
Set-NEW-still in plastic. $200
706-347-4814 Can Deliver
Rough sawn lumber, various
lengths and widths. If interested, 706-746-2459
Two Caster Perception 12.5 ft
sit-on-top fishing kayaks. Excellent condition, padded seat
with adj. backrest, includes rod
holders, anchors, paddles, has
lots of storage. $900 for both.
Email [email protected] for
information, call 706-970-0419
Buying Gold & Silver.
Paying 92% of spot. CASH.
Coins, jewelry, flatware, diamonds. Call 706-490-9104,
private collector
WANTED- Xavier Roberts Little
People Dolls. Hand signed:
1977, 1978, 1979.
NO PLASTIC HEADS!
706-809-0528
3BR/ 2BA in Clayton, $800
month; 4BR/ 3BA house, Tiger,
$1100 month, includes water;
3BR Kingspoint Condo, $1000
month, includes water.
GA Mountain Rentals, 706-7822772
4BR, 2BA, Mountain City, gas
heat, wood floors, large lot.
$800 month plus deposit. Call
for appointment 770-842-0341
Call Ramey Enterprises for
your housing or rental needs.
Apartments, houses, some with
utilities. Office location 991 Old
441 S, 706-782-4633; 706-4901534; 706-490-1532
Mountain Home, 2 levels, 2
large decks. 4BR, 4BA, modern
kitchen, all appliances, hardwood floors, vaulted ceilings,
exposed beams, C/H/A, full
mountain views from both
decks, garage, $1200 month,
1-yr lease, security deposit,
706-746-3166
Two Cabins for lease. Each
have 2BR, 1BA on creek, Plum
Orchard Rd., ½ mile from Lake
Burton and Tallulah River. $500
each or $900 for both. 832-3506469, 706-782-6503
Kings Point Condo, 3BR overlooking golf course, $1100
month, 706-244-2173
Large Studio apartment, all utilities 706-782-4661
Rooms for rent, walk to downtown, starting at $70 weekly,
706-982-0444
April 9, 2015
Unfurnished large 1BR, bath,
walk-in closet, huge 17x24 ft
living room. Electric, water,
gas, SatTV, DVR recorder,
WiFi; All included. Use of washer/ dryer, $810, 706-244-2173
C5
EDWIN C. POSS, INC
706-782-7133
Each Office Independently Owned and Operated.
2BR, 1BA in Clayton, $425
month plus $300 deposit. 706782-5063, 706-982-9228
www.BurtonraBunLuxuryHomes.com
809 Highway 441 South • Clayton, GA 30525
2 Commercial Buildings located
in Mountain City with Hwy. 441
frontage:
Bldg #1 – 1250 sq.ft. with a 12
ft. garage door and a bathroom.
Bldg #2 – 1600 sq.ft. with two
12 ft. garage doors.
Both are suitable for business
or storage. $400 per month.
Call 706-490-4377
MarCh TOP LISTEr
GaIL & rODNEy hOPPEr
Clayton, GA
851 Hwy 441 S, Clayton,
ground floor, 1700 +/- sq.ft.,
upstairs 1190 +/- sq.ft.,
800 sq.ft., storage room in
basement. Lease $2000 month.
75 Main St., Clayton, ground
floor 2000 +/- sq.ft., includes 5
offices, bath & kitchen. $2000
month.
2 offices, 690 sq.ft., includes
heat, A/C, water, electric, & access to bath, kitchen & waiting
room. $950 month.
2 small offices, includes heat,
A/C, water, electric, & access
to bath, kitchen & waiting room.
$275 each.
Dillard, 1900 sq.ft., Hwy 441
frontage, retail/ office, next to
Post Office. $1500 month.
7027 Hwy. 441 N, Dillard.
Contact Ed Poss
RE/MAX of Rabun, Owner/ Broker, 706-782-7133 office
MarCh TOP SELLEr
LOrIE ThOMPSON
94 WESTWIND DRIVE
GAMLS#7345978
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Beautiful craftsman home on 3.94 acres. Vaulted
ceilings, hardwood floors & stone FP. 2-car detached
garage w/ apartment. Cross-fenced pasture, 6-stall horse
barn & storage bldg.
$385,000 – Call Susan Rickman 706-490-2077
778 OSCAR ROCK
GAMLS#7298273
2010 white Chrysler Town &
Country van, one owner,
garaged, immaculate, rear DVD
system. 70,000 miles, Michelin
tires, synthetic oil; $13,500
706-782-2825
2001 MAZDA MPV
7 passenger van. 2nd owners.
Driven for 6 years. Clean inside
and out. New tires. Drives and
runs great. 20 mpg. A/C, power
windows and door locks, auto,
CD player and great stereo,
front air bags, 2.5 liter V-6.
188,900 miles. $2,800.
706-490-1424
Come see this 3BR/2BA cozy Lake Burton cottage. Lots
of privacy & gorgeous lake views.
$749,000 - Call Tom Stanfill 770-355-0659
474 TIMPSON COVE
GAMLS#7157498
All Contents of house to be
sold.
Garage Sale Sat., 9:00 – 12:00,
742 Bethel Road near Tiger.
You must see it to believe it.
Lots of misc. household items,
good merchandise, low prices
Fee simple 4BR/3BA country rustic home. Cedar shake
exterior, stone work, 2 FP's, screened porch, deck,
patio, wood floors, exposed beams, rec. room & hot tub.
Pavilion & small yard at lake frontage.
675,000 - Call Carolyn Bacon 404-375-0700
21' Center Console 1980 DeepV fishing boat, 175HP Force,
trailer & new tires. $4,290
404-702-0400
OVER ONE MILLION. Auto &
Truck Accessories. In stock or
next day. Anglin's in Otto. (828)
349-4500.
1102 TIMBERBLUFF DRIVE
GAMLS#7426666
040815-156251
Huge Church Renovation and
Moving Sale/Rain or Shine, 607
Hulsey
Rd,
Cleveland,
GA/Large tables and chairs,
podiums, lodge-themed chairs,
children?s items from nursery
including cribs and toys, artificial plants and trees, dishes,
glassware, blenders, etc. Only
cash, credit, debit accepted for
payment. Thursday, April 9; Friday, April 10; Saturday, April
11, from 8:30AM to 4:30PM.
Noon Saturday most items ½
price.
3BR/3.5BA home with MOUNTAIN VIEWS, creek &
privacy. Beautiful interior woodwork & stone
masonry FP. Cathedral ceiling, spacious deck,
kitchen w/custom cabinets & 2-car garage.
$325,000 – Call Gail Hopper 706-490-2152
535 FALLING SPRINGS
GAMLS#7343815
Dramatic mountain & valley views from this
5BR/5BA home. Large fireplaces, porches, den
& exercise room. Fenced garden & greenhouse.
$695,000 – Call Scott Poss 706-490-2305
921 BLACK BRANCH
GAMLS#7382992
040815-156131
3BR/2BA home on 1 acre. Large front porch, open floor
plan & screened back porch. Finished basement
with bedroom and bath. Quiet, peaceful setting
with huge hardwood trees.
$129,500 - Call Tina Lee 706-490-1618
"PeoPle's ChoiCe"
OFFICE RENTAL
Office Space, includes: Heating, Air Conditioning, Water,
Electricity, Elevator, Furnished,
Hwy 441 Parking. 240 sq. ft.
$480; 189 sq. ft. $380;
Re/Max of Rabun. 706-7827133. Contact Dallas Taylor
706-490-3030
Half share in large Sky Valley
tract. Long views, easy access,
all utilities, golf course community with club house. Call 706490-9133 for price and plat.
TOTALLY REFURBISHED
USED HOMES
The below listed homes are totally refurbished and the bank
will finance with approved credit.
2002 Palm Harbor 28x76,
5Br/3Ba, family room & living room.
2014 Horton 27x64, 3Br/2Ba
stone front fireplace, excellent condition.
3Br/2Ba, island kitchen.
3Br/2Ba, front kitchen.
See these homes at VIVIAN'S
HOMES on the 441 By-Pass in
Cornelia, Ga. 30531
706-778-1688
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for Rabun County, GA
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Bid Package One (1) through Four (4)
Project:
Rabun County
High School Parking Improvements
Owner: Rabun County Schools
Architect: Robertson Loia Roof Architects & Engineers
CM: Charles Black Construction Company, Inc.
Contractors are invited to submit lump
sum bids for Bid Package One (1)
through Four (4), Rabun County High
School Parking Improvements.
Sealed bids will be received by the
Construction Manager until 3:00 pm,
Thursday, April 23, 2015, at the
Gainesville Office of the Construction Manager, Charles Black Construction Company, Inc., 604 Washington Street, Suite A-2, Gainesville,
Georgia 30501. Bids must be submitted in Duplicate on the Construction
Managers Proposal Form along with a
5% Bid Bond if required by the Bid
Package. No Faxed or E-Mailed
Bids Accepted.
A thorough review of the bid package
description and bid documents are required prior to submitting bids.
The form of agreement will be AGC
Document 640, 1994 Edition, between
the Construction Manager and the
Successful Bidder.
Bidding Documents are available for
the COST OF REPRODUCTION from:
AGC
Plan
Room/Gainesville
Whiteprint
http://planroom.aimages.com
312 Bradford Street, NW
Gainesville, Georgia 30501
(770) 534-2086
Documents will be available for review
at the following locations.
Both offices of Charles Black Construction Company, Inc. 1955 Highway 129, South, Cleveland, GA 30528
604 Washington Street, Suite A-2
Gainesville, Georgia 30501
McGraw-Hill Construction/ Dodge
Plan Rooms 881 Franklin Road, SE
#435, Marietta, Georgia 30067
AGC Builder's Exchange
Repro Products, 4485 South Atlanta
Road, Smyrna, Georgia 30080
Reed's Construction Data
30 Technology Parkway, Norcross,
Georgia 30092
Gainesville Whiteprint
312 Bradford Street, NW. Norcross,
Georgia 30092
CM: Charles Black Construction
Company, Inc.
PROJECT: Rabun
County
High
School Parking Improvements
INDEX TO BID PACKAGES
Bid Pkg Bid Package
Bid Date
Number Name
1.
Sitework
April 23, 2015
2.
Curb/Gutter
April 23, 2015
3.
Asphalt Paving
April 23, 2015
4.
Electrical
April 23, 2015
*See Bid Package Description, General Package Notes & Construction Manager's Special Conditions Prior to Pricing*
Rod Nix, Project Manager
Charles Black Construction Company,
Inc., P.O. Box 960 * 1955 Highway
129 South, Cleveland, Georgia 30528
*The Construction Manager and Owner reserve the right to reject any and all
bids and to waive technicalities.*
****END OF ADVERTISEMENT FOR
BIDS****
3-26, 4-2,9,16,23
NOTICE OF INCORPORATION
Blalock Dry Cleaners, Inc.
Notice is given that Articles of Incorporation which will incorporate Blalock
Dry Cleaners, Inc. have been delivered to the Secretary of State for filing
in accordance with the Georgia Business Corporation Code. The initial
registered office of the corporation is
NOTICE OF INCORPORATION
Blalock Dry Cleaners, Inc.
Notice is given that Articles of Incorporation which will incorporate Blalock
Dry Cleaners, Inc. have been delivered to the Secretary of State for filing
in accordance with the Georgia Business Corporation Code. The initial
registered office of the corporation is
located at 91 Oak Crescent Circle,
Clayton, Georgia 30525, and its initial
registered agent at such address is
Joseph A. Blalock.
4-2,9
NOTICE OF INTENT TO DISSOLVE
Notice is given that a Notice of Intent
to dissolve G&J Hendrick Consulting, Inc., a Georgia corporation with
it's registered office at 763 Bailey
Cemetery Road, Tazewell, TN 37879,
has been delivered to the Secretary of
State for filing in accordance with the
Georgia Business Corporation Code.
4-2,9
STATE OF GEORGIA
COUNTY OF RABUN
NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND
DEBTORS
All persons indebted to Mamie Lee
Crone Whitmire, deceased, are hereby notified to make immediate payment to the undersigned and all creditors of said decedent are hereby notified to render their claims to the undersigned. This the 13th day of February,
2015. Witness my/our hand(s) and
seal(s), on the day above written.
(Ronnie Charles Burrell acting as Executor of the Mamie Lee Crone Whitmire estate.) Address: 34 Spotted
Fawn Lane, Clayton, GA 30525, Telephone: (706) 782-1650
3-19,26, 4-2,9
STATE OF GEORGIA
COUNTY OF RABUN
NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND
DEBTORS
All persons indebted to Dennis Alan
Jones a/k/a Dennis A.Jones, deceased, are hereby notified to make
immediate payment to the undersigned
and all creditors of said decedent are
hereby notified to render their claims to
the undersigned. This 18thday of
March, 2015. Witness my/our hand(s)
and seal(s), on the day above written.
(Carol Jones Chumley and Larry
Wayne Hayes acting as Co-Executors
of the Dennis Alan Jones a/k/a Dennis
A. Jones estate.) Address: Larry W.
Hayes, 3162 Johnson Ferry Rd., Suite
260-36, Marietta, GA 30062, (404)
219-6184
3-26, 4-2,9,16
NOTICE OF SERVICE OF PROCESS
BY PUBLICATION
STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA IN
THE DISTRICT COURT
15-CVD-56
TO: Norman Gene Adkins II
Take Notice that a pleading seeking
relief being sought is as follows: Complant for Absolute Divorce you are required to make defense to such pleading not later than 45 days after 1st publication, and upon your failure to do so
the party seeking against you will apply to the court for te relief sought.
This the 2nd day of April, 2015. Robert
E. Hensley, Attorney for Plaintiff, 217
Iotla Street, Franklin, NC 28734
4-9,16,23
NOTICE OF SALE UNDER POWER
RABUN COUNTY
Pursuant to the Power of Sale contained in a Security Deed given by
Brooke T. Kilby to The Mortgage
People Co. dated 1/30/2003 and
recorded in Deed Book T-23 Page 82,
Rabun County, Georgia records; as
last transferred to or acquired by PNC
Bank, National Association, conveying
the after-described property to secure
a Note in the original principal amount
of $118,000.00, with interest at the rate
specified therein, there will be sold by
the undersigned at public outcry to the
highest bidder for cash before the
Courthouse door of Rabun County,
Georgia, within the legal hours of sale
on May 05, 2015 (being the first Tuesday of said month unless said date
falls on a Federal Holiday), the following described property:
All that tract or parcel of land lying and
being in Land Lot 88 of the Fifth Land
District of Rabun County, Georgia containing 2.00 acres as more fully shown
upon that certain plat of survey prepared by T. Lamar Edwards, Georgia
Registered Land Surveyor No. 1837
dated January 28, 2003, which is
recorded in the office of the clerk of
Rabun Superior Court in Plat Book 48,
page 84. Reference is had and made
to said plat and record of the same for
a full and complete description of the
property herein described.
There is also conveyed herewith a perpetual non-exclusive easement for
ingress and egress to and from the
above-described property over those
certain roads which connect the subject property with Charlie Mountain
Road and there is also conveyed herewith those certain easement rights as
described in that certain easement
from Edith Cantrell Watts to Elzie
Rapier, dated July 7, 1997, which is
recorded in the office of the clerk of
Rabun Superior Court in Deed Book E17, page 183.
This sale will be made subject to any
right of the United States of America to
redeem the hereinabove described
property within 120 days from the sale
date aforesaid, in order to satisfy certain outstanding federal tax liens.
The debt secured by said Security
Deed has been and is hereby declared
due because of, among other possible
events of default, failure to pay the indebtedness as and when due and in
the manner provided in the Note and
Security Deed. The debt remaining in
default, this sale will be made for the
purpose of paying the same and all expenses of this sale, as provided in the
Security Deed and by law, including attorneys fees (notice of intent to collect
attorneys fees having been given).
Said property is commonly known as
776 Billy Watts Cove Road, Tiger,
GA 30576 together with all fixtures and
personal property attached to and constituting a part of said property, if any.
To the best knowledge and belief of
the undersigned, the party (or parties)
in possession of the subject property is
(are): Brooke T. Kilby or tenant or tenants.
PNC Bank is the entity or individual
designated who shall have full authority to negotiate, amend and modify all
terms of the mortgage. PNC Bank
Loss Mitigation, Mail Locator: B6YM10-01-1, 3232 Newmark Drive, Miamisburg, OH 45342, 1-888-224-4702
Note, however, that such entity or individual is not required by law to negotiate, amend or modify the terms of the
loan.
Said property will be sold subject to:
(a) any outstanding ad valorem taxes
(including taxes which are a lien, but
not yet due and payable), (b) unpaid
water or sewage bills that constitute a
lien against the property whether due
and payable or not yet due and
payable and which may not be of
record, (c) the right of redemption of
any taxing authority, (d) any matters
which might be disclosed by an accurate survey and inspection of the property, and (e) any assessments, liens,
encumbrances, zoning ordinances, restrictions, covenants, and matters of
payable and which may not be of
record, (c) the right of redemption of
any taxing authority, (d) any matters
which might be disclosed by an accurate survey and inspection of the property, and (e) any assessments, liens,
encumbrances, zoning ordinances, restrictions, covenants, and matters of
record superior to the Security Deed
first set out above.
The sale will be conducted subject to
(1) confirmation that the sale is not
prohibited under the U.S. Bankruptcy
Code; and (2) final confirmation and
audit of the status of the loan with the
holder of the Security Deed. Pursuant
to O.C.G.A. Section 9-13-172.1, which
allows for certain procedures regarding
the rescission of judicial and non-judicial sales in the State of Georgia, the
Deed Under Power and other foreclosure documents may not be provided
until final confirmation and audit of the
status of the loan as provided immediately above.
PNC Bank, National Association as
agent and Attorney in Fact for Brooke
T. Kilby. Aldridge Connors, LLP, 15
Piedmont Center, 3575 Piedmont
Road, N.E., Suite 500, Atlanta, Georgia 30305, (404) 994-7400. 1434-797A
THIS LAW FIRM MAY BE ACTING AS
A DEBT COLLECTOR ATTEMPTING
TO COLLECT A DEBT. ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE USED
FOR THAT PURPOSE.
4-9,16,23,30
cluding taxes which are a lien, whether
or not now due and payable), the right
of redemption of any taxing authority,
any matters which might be disclosed
by an accurate survey and inspection
of the property, any assessments,
liens, encumbrances, zoning ordinances, restrictions, covenants, and
matters of record superior to the Security Deed first set out above.
The proceeds of said sale will be applied to the payment of said indebtedness and all expenses of said sale as
provided in said Deed, and the balance, if any, will be distributed as provided by law.
The sale will be conducted subject (1)
to confirmation that the sale is not prohibited under the U.S. Bankruptcy
Code and (2) to final confirmation and
audit of the status of the loan with the
secured creditor.
The property is or may be in the possession of Michael E. Weeks, successor in interest or tenant(s).
Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. as Attorney-inFact for Michael E. Weeks. File no. 15051094 SHAPIRO, SWERTFEGER &
HASTY, LLP*, Attorneys and Counselors at Law, 2872 Woodcock Blvd.,
Suite 100, Atlanta, GA 30341-3941
(770) 220-2535/KMM
www.swertfeger.net
*THE LAW FIRM IS ACTING AS A
DEBT COLLECTOR. ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE USED
FOR THAT PURPOSE.
4-9,16,23,30
CLASSIFIEDS
STATE OF GEORGIA
COUNTY OF RABUN
Under and by virtue of the power of
sale contained in a Security Deed from
WAYNE F. ORR to Bank of Canton, a
division of Bank of Ellijay, dated December 20, 2006, recorded February
9, 2007, in Deed Book M31, Page 644,
Rabun County, Georgia records, as
modified by Modifications recorded in
Deed Book R31, Page 101, Deed
Book G33, Page 448, Deed Book
W33, Page 425, Deed book J34, Page
651 and Deed Book V34, Page 535,
Rabun County, Georgia records, as
transferred to Community & Southern
Bank pursuant to that certain Purchase
and Assumption Agreement dated as
of September 17, 2010, by and among
Community & Southern Bank, The
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, Receiver of Bank of Ellijay and
The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, and as assigned to COMMUNITY & SOUTHERN BANK by Assignment recorded in Deed Book O-36,
Page 520, Rabun County Records,
said Security Deed being given to secure a Note from WAYNE F. ORR dated March 24, 2009, in the original principal amount of One Million Eight Hundred Seventy Three Thousand Two
Hundred Eighty Five and 42/100
($1,873,285.42) Dollars, as modified,
with interest from date at a rate per
cent per annum on the unpaid balance
until paid; there will be sold by the undersigned at public outcry to the highest bidder for cash before the Courthouse door at Rabun County, Georgia,
within the legal hours of sale on the
first Tuesday in May, 2015, the following described property:
THAT LEASEHOLD INTEREST IN:
being in Land Lot 105, of the 5th District, Rabun County, Georgia and being Lease Lot 972, Area 9 of Lake Burton Recreational Development and
more fully shown on a survey for
Wayne F. Orr and Deborah P. Orr, dated December 5, 1986, prepared by
Hubert Lovell, RLS, recorded in Plat
Book 23, Page 225, Rabun County,
Georgia records; which plat is incorporated herein and made a part of this
description.
The debt secured by said Security
Deed has been and is hereby declared
due because of, among other possible
events of default, failure to pay the indebtedness as and when due and in
the manner provided in the Note and
Security Deed. The debt remaining in
default, this sale will be made for the
purpose of paying the same and all expenses of this sale, as provided in the
Security Deed and by law, including attorney's fees (notice of intent to collect
attorney's fees having been given).
Said property will be sold subject to
any outstanding ad valorem taxes (including taxes which are a lien, but not
yet due and payable), any matters
which might be disclosed by an accurate survey and inspection of the property, any assessments, liens, easements, encumbrances, zoning ordinances, restrictions, covenants, and
matters of record superior to the Security Deed first set out above.
To the best knowledge and belief of
the undersigned, the party in possession of the property is WAYNE F. ORR
or a tenant or tenants.
COMMUNITY & SOUTHERN BANK,
as attorney in Fact for WAYNE F. ORR
L. Lou Allen, Stites & Harbison, PLLC
520 West Main Street, Blue Ridge,
Georgia 30513, (706) 632-7923
File No. CO608-00251
4-9,16,23,30
STATE OF GEORGIA
COUNTY OF RABUN
Because of a default in the payment of
the indebtedness secured by a Security Deed executed by Michael E.
Weeks to Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc. as nominee for
SCBT, National Association dated July
22, 2011, and recorded in Deed Book
L37, Page 578, Rabun County
Records, said Security Deed having
been last sold, assigned, transferred
and conveyed to Wells Fargo Bank,
N.A. by Assignment, securing a Note
in the original principal amount of
$95,000.00, the holder thereof pursuant to said Deed and Note thereby
secured has declared the entire
amount of said indebtedness due and
payable and, pursuant to the power of
sale contained in said Deed, will on the
first Tuesday, May 5, 2015, during the
legal hours of sale, before the Courthouse door in said County, sell at public outcry to the highest bidder for
cash, the property described in said
Deed, to-wit:
being in Land Lots 52 and 63 of the
Fourth Land District of Rabun County,
Georgia and being designated as Tract
1 consisting of 2.81 acres as more particularly described upon a plat of survey dated May 11, 1988 prepared by
T. Lamar Edwards, GRLS No. 1837
and recorded in Plat Book 26, page 77
of the Rabun County plat records. Said
plat and the record of the same being
incorporated herein by reference for a
more full and complete description of
the property described herein.
Also conveyed is a perpetual, non-exclusive easement for ingress and
egress to and from Pool Creek Road
as contained in an easement from Eva
L. Sandidge to Anthony C. Nichols
recorded in Deed Book F-10, page 688
of the Rabun County deed records.
The above described property is conveyed subject to the rights of others to
use the road along the east boundary
as shown on the referenced plat.
Said property is known as 278 Muscadine Ln, Clayton, GA 30525, together
with all fixtures and personal property
attached to and constituting a part of
said property, if any.
Said property will be sold subject to
any outstanding ad valorem taxes (including taxes which are a lien, whether
or not now due and payable), the right
of redemption of any taxing authority,
any matters which might be disclosed
by an accurate survey and inspection
of the property, any assessments,
liens, encumbrances, zoning ordinances, restrictions, covenants, and
IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF
RABUN COUNTY
STATE OF GEORGIA
DR DEED, LLC
Petitioner
v.
A TRACT OF LAND, BEING KNOWN
AS 000 KINGSWOOD COURT,
RABUN COUNTY, GEORGIA
BEING TAX PARCEL NUMBER
052B-232
AND As The Respective Interests May
Be Or Appear: TENANT, OWNER OR
OCCUPANT OF PROPERTY;
KURT CANNON, DOUGLAS J.
MACGINNITIE, in his Official Capacity
as Commissioner of the GEORGIA
DEPARTMENT OF REVENUE UNKNOWN PARTIES WITH ANY INTEREST IN THE SUBJECT PROPERTY;
Respondents
Civil Action: File No. 2015-CV-0038-C
NOTICE OF PUBLICATION
TO:
a. Unknown Parties with any Interest
in the Subject Property;
You are hereby notified that the above
styled petition to quiet title regarding
property known as Kingswood Court,
Rabun County, Georgia, was filed
against you in the Superior Court of
Rabun County on February 19, 2015,
and that by reason of an order for service of summons by publication entered by the Court on 16th day of
March, 2015, you are hereby commanded and required to file with the
Clerk of said Court and serve upon
John Ayoub or Carolyn Dayries, Attorneys at Law, whose address is 675
Seminole Ave., Suite 301, Atlanta, GA
30307 an Answer to the Complaint
within sixty (60) days of the date of the
order for publication.
WITNESS, the Honorable B. Chan
Caudell, Judge of said Court.
This the 16th day of March, 2015.
Clerk of Superior Court
3-26, 4-2,9,16
RABUN COUNTY
STATE OF GEORGIA
In re the Name Change of Petitioner:
Michele Lynn Hembree
Civil Action File No: 2015-CV-0063-C
NOTICE OF PETITION TO CHANGE
NAME
Notice is hereby given that Michele
Lynn Hembree, the undersigned, filed
her petition to the Superior Court of
Rabun County, Georgia, on the 25th
day of March, 2015, praying for
change in the name of petitioner from
Michele Lynn Hembree to Michele
Lynn Armstrong.
Notice is hereby given pursuant to law
to any interested or affected party to
appear in said Court and to file objections to such name change. Objections
must be filed with said Court within 30
days of the filing of said petition. This
the 25th day of March, 2015.
Filed in office of Clerk Superior Court,
Rabun County, Georgia. This the 25th
day of March, 2015. Holly E. HenryPerry, Clerk of Superior Court, Rabun
County, Georgia
4-2,9,16,23
RABUN COUNTY
STATE OF GEORGIA
In re: the name change of child
Joshua Amir Antonio Jones
Amila T. Williams, Petitioner
Civil Action File# 2015-CV-0056
NOTICE OF PUBLICATION
You are hereby notified that on the 17th
day of March, 2015, Amila T. Williams,
filed a Petition to Change Name in the
Superior Court of Rabun County. Amila T. Williams desires to change the
name of Joshua Amir Antonio Jones to
Joshua Amir Jones Williams. Any interested party has the right to appear
in this case and file objections within
30 days after the Petition to Change
Name was filed.
Signed this 17th day of March, 2015.
Holly E. Henry-Perry, Clerk of Superior
Court, Rabun County
3-26, 4-2,9,16
The Clayton Tribune
NOTICE OF OPPORTUNITY FOR A
PUBLIC HEARING
PRIVATE ENTERPRISE COORDINATION RURAL PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION PROGRAM
Rabun County is applying for funding
assistance under Title 49 U.S.C. Section 5311 of the Federal Transit Act
pertaining to rural and small urban areas. Rabun County will offer general
public transportation to all citizens of
Rabun County for any worthwhile purpose, including but not limited to shopping, medical treatment, social services and other purposes.
Rabun County solicits private sector
input and participation to assure that
private for-profit transportation operators have a fair and timely opportunity
to participate in the development of
this program. Rabun County also solicits comments and concerns from the
general population on local rural public
transportation services. Rabun County
also solicits comments and concerns
from the disabled population and their
representatives to assure that issues
relating to the disabled are addressed
in the service design proposed during
the planning process.
Interested persons are invited to request that a public hearing be held to
discuss the services being offered or
development of the application.
Written comments, requests for a public hearing and/or written notice of intent by private for-profit transportation
operators to provide or participate in
any or all of the above services should
be submitted no later than fifteen (15)
days from the date of this publication
to: Greg James, Chairman, Board of
Commissioners,
25
Courthouse
Square, Suite 201, Clayton, GA 30525,
706-782-5271.
If no response is received within fifteen
(15) days, the Department of Transportation will proceed with the application.
4-9
IN THE PROBATE COURT
COUNTY OF RABUN
STATE OF GEORGIA
IN RE: ESTATE OF Angela Diane
Sharp, DECEASED
ESTATE NO. 4151
PETITION FOR LETTERS OF ADMINISTRATION NOTICE
TO: whom it may concern
Ronny F. Sharp has petitioned to be
appointed Administrator of the estate
of Angela Diane Sharp, deceased, of
said County. (The Petitioner has also
applied for waiver of bond and/or grant
of certain powers contained in
O.C.G.A. §53-12-261.) All interested
parties are hereby notified to show
cause why said petition should not be
granted. All objections to the petition
must be in writing, setting forth the
grounds of any such objections, and
must be filed with the court on or before April 20, 2015. All pleadings/objections must be signed under oath before a notary public or before a probate
court clerk, and filing fees must be tendered with your pleadings/objections,
unless you qualify to file as an indigent
party. Contact probate court personnel
at the following address/telephone
number for the required amount of filing fees. If any objections are filed, a
hearing will be scheduled at a later
date. If no objections are filed, the petition may be granted without a hearing.
Lillian W. Garrett, Judge of the Probate
Court
By:
Lillian
W.
Garrett,
Clerk/Deputy Clerk of the Probate
Court, Address: 25 Courthouse
Square, Suite 215, Clayton GA 30525,
Telephone Number (706) 782-3614
3-26, 4-2,9,16
COUNTY OF RABUN
STATE OF GEORGIA
IN RE: ESTATE OF Patricia Jean
Fair, DECEASED
ESTATE NO. 4155
Wayne Martin Fair has petitioned to be
of Patricia Jean Fair, deceased, of said
County. (The Petitioner has also applied for waiver of bond and/or grant of
certain powers contained in O.C.G.A.
§53-12-261.) All interested parties are
hereby notified to show cause why
said petition should not be granted. All
objections to the petition must be in
writing, setting forth the grounds of any
such objections, and must be filed with
the court on or before May 4, 2015. All
pleadings/objections must be signed
under oath before a notary public or
before a probate court clerk, and filing
fees must be tendered with your pleadings/objections, unless you qualify to
file as an indigent party. Contact probate court personnel at the following
address/telephone number for the required amount of filing fees. If any objections are filed, a hearing will be
scheduled at a later date. If no objections are filed, the petition may be
granted without a hearing.
Court
By:
Lillian
W.
Garrett,
4-9,16,23,30
COUNTY OF RABUN
STATE OF GEORGIA
IN RE: ESTATE OF Thomas E.
Roach, DECEASED
ESTATE NO. 4156
Linda M. Roach has petitioned to be
of Thomas E. Roach, deceased, of
parties are hereby notified to show
must be filed with the court on or before May 4, 2015. All pleadings/objections must be signed under oath before
a notary public or before a probate
court clerk,and filing fees must be tendered with your pleadings/objections,
Lillian W.Garrett, Judge of the Probate
Court By: Savannah B. Dixon,
Telephone Number: (706) 782-3614
4-9,16,23,30
COUNTY OF RABUN
STATE OF GEORGIA
IN RE: ESTATE OF Frances Bethea
Ollen, DECEASED
ESTATE NO. 4150
Patricia A Ollen and Frances S. (Sish)
Ollen has petitioned to be appointed
Administrator(s) of the estate of
Frances Bethea Ollen, deceased, of
parties are herby notified to show
must be filed with the court on or before April 20, 2015. All pleadings/objections must be signed under oath before a notary public or before a probate
court clerk, and filing fees must be tendered with your pleadings/objections,
Court
By:
Kathy
Holcomb,
Telephone Number: (706) 782-3614
3-26, 4-2,9,16
COUNTY OF RABUN
STATE OF GEORGIA
IN RE: ESTATE OF Patricia Jean
Fair, DECEASED
ESTATE NO. 4155
Wayne Martin Fair has petitioned to be
of Patricia Jean Fair, deceased, of said
County. (The Petitioner has also applied for waiver of bond and/or grant of
certain powers contained in O.C.G.A.
§53-12-261.) All interested parties are
hereby notified to show cause why
said petition should not be granted. All
objections to the petition must be in
writing, setting forth the grounds of any
such objections, and must be filed with
the court on or before May 4, 2015. All
pleadings/objections must be signed
under oath before a notary public or
before a probate court clerk, and filing
fees must be tendered with your pleadings/objections, unless you qualify to
file as an indigent party. Contact proPlace an
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at the
address/telephone number for the required amount of filing fees. If any objections are filed, a hearing will be
scheduled at a later date. If no objections are filed, the petition may be
granted without a hearing.
Court
By:
Lillian
W.
Garrett,
4-9,16,23,30
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