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WEDNESDAY, JUNE 4, 2014 • Vol.
V 3, No. 23
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Serving LaFayette, Chickamauga, Rossville, Rock Spring, Flintstone, Villanow, Noble
Walker
upgrades
emergency
equipment
By Rachel Sauls-Wright
Community News Assistant Editor
TRIBUTE TO A CLASS ACT
ACT:
Ridgeland High teacher Scott
Harden named Walker County
Distinguished Teacher of the Year.
PAGE 6.
‘Sunset’ concert series underway in Rossville
Rossville’s Sunset on the Pond Summer Concert Series is in full swing at the
city’s duck pond. Rossville Promotional Committee members, from left, Lindsay
Dotson, Erica Harris and Tangi Langley welcome the bands. Upcoming concerts
will be June 28 featuring country Southern rock, July 19 featuring ’50’s, ’60’s and
’70’s music and Aug. 30 featuring ’80’s music. Each concert runs from 6-10 p.m.
Food vendors will be onsite selling soft drinks, barbecue, grilled cheese sandwiches and potato chips.
New roofs and better equipment are coming soon for Walker
County Emergency Services.
Thanks to approximately
$185,000 in SPLOST funding, Fire
Chief Randy Camp began the process of reroofing fire
stations Nos. 1 and
6 last week along
with purchasing
new equipment. He
opened bids for both
projects but they
have not yet been
Randy
awarded.
Camp
“Both of these
[stations] have been
leaking for a couple of years,” he
said in regards to the need for
new roofs. “This should resolve
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the mold and mildew issues we’ve been dealing
with.”
The new equipment
purchase includes stair
chairs and automatic
stretchers that lift patients into the emergency
vehicle without requiring
manpower from emer-
#
gency personnel. Both
types of new equipment
give the patient more
flexibility in how they are
positioned when being
moved and make it easier
on the first responders,
said Camp.
“The stair chairs are
much better [than traditional stretchers] when
you’re trying to get a patient down stairs, because
[traditional stretchers]
put you in an awkward
position that can cause
injury,” he said.
One workers’ compensation injury last
year that resulted in an
employee being unable to
come back to work cost
the department approximately $100,000, said
Camp. The new equipment purchases pay for
themselves if they prevent that from happening
again, he said.
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STATEWIDE RECOGNITION
Walker County Emergency Services was recently
awarded the Mary Beth Bowns Excellence in
Trauma Award at the Georgia Emergency Medical
Services Awards Banquet for the group’s efforts
in the Ellison Cave rescue last year. Through the
department’s partnership with other emergency
response agencies, WCES was instrumental in
saving the life of a Pennsylvania man who fell in
the famous cave. They even helped administer a
blood transfusion inside the cave, said Fire Chief
Randy Camp. For more on that story, refer to the
article at timesfreepress.com/news/2013/may/28/
from-the-bowels-of-the-earth.
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Walker Chamber graduates new
Leadership Walker County Class
Staff Report
The Walker County
Chamber of Commerce
celebrated the graduation of the 2013-2014
Adult Leadership Walker
County Class earlier this
month.
The 2013-2014 Adult
Leadership Walker County graduates are:
■ Amy Ashley, Stone
Creek Elementary School
■ Cassie Bilbra, North
Georgia Community
YMCA
■ Chip Rodgers, Jimmy Simpson Foundation
■ Christy J. Anderson,
Walker County Probate
Court
■ Elaine McClure,
Walker County Schools
■ Elijah Parker, First
Volunteer Bank
■ Jason Cox, Lane Funeral Home
■ Judy Holcomb,
Georgia Dept. of Labor
■ Kim Bean, Battle-
field Imaging
■ Kim Owens, Sears
Hometown Store
■ Kristy Lawson,
Family Crisis Center of
Walker, Dade, Catoosa &
Chattooga County
■ Matthew Williams,
city of LaFayette
■ Patty Hart, Georgia
Northwestern Technical
College
■ Ricky Mundy, Georgia Power Company
■ Rob Stinson, Walker
County Dept. of Education
■ Shelia Thompson,
Chief Magistrate Judge
■ Tommy Cameron,
city of Chickamauga
■ Whitney Maldonado, Northern Georgia
Logistics
Adult Leadership
Walker County is a collaborative effort between
chamber staff, community leaders and chamber
members that provides
participants with opportunities to learn and develop the skills necessary
to be leaders in the community. Participants are
given an overview of city
and county operations, allowed to tour local tourist
attractions and businesses and are equipped
with vital information
concerning government,
education, social services
and industry.
Graduates took monthly courses from Septem-
ber 2013 until May 2014,
beginning with a retreat
and ending with a day
visiting Walker County’s
unique tourist attractions.
Other topic sessions included local government,
state government, healthcare, social services,
industry, economic development and education.
For more information
on the Walker County
Chamber of Commerce
call 706-375-7702 or visit
walkercochamber.com.
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Rossville Council preliminarily approves pouring rights
By Katie Ward
Hamilton
Staff Writer
The city of Rossville
may soon allow the pouring of beer and wine in
restaurants within the
city.
On first reading the
City Council voted 3-2 to
pass the measure, with
Mayor Teddy Harris and
Councilwoman Cindy
Bradshaw voting against.
Councilwoman Joyce
Wall, Councilman Rick
Buff and Vice Mayor Hal
Gray voted in favor.
The final vote on the
matter will be taken at
the next Council meeting
June 9 at 7 p.m. at City
Hall.
“It will open the doors
for businesses to come
in,” Gray said of pouring
rights.
“
The [ordinance]
says the restaurant has
to serve 75 percent food
and 25 percent alcohol.
It has to be 300 feet from
a day care, school or
church. We are trying to
discourage bar establishments. I feel real good
about the legality of the
ordinance. Our attorney
has been over it several
times.
”
— Rick Buff,
Rossville City Council
Businesses and restaurants are already calling
the Rossville Downtown
Development Authority
asking about properties
in the city, he added. Gray
said he hopes pouring
rights will spur revitalization similar to the way St.
Elmo was re-birthed.
“A lot of better named
restaurants like to serve
beer and wine,” said Gray.
“We’ve got a Mexican
restaurant looking at land
in the city. It will be hard
for a bar or dive to come
in [with the way the ordinance is written]. We just
want restaurants.”
Though Bradshaw
agreed that the ordinance
is fairly tight, she’s “concerned over time if the
ordinance will be tightly
upheld or changed.”
“A beer board is in
place,” Harris noted in
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regards. “I foresee that
the ordinance will pass
on the next reading. The
DDA wants restaurants
and it would be nice to
have more restaurants in
Rossville.”
Buff said he voted for
allowing the pouring of
beer and wine because of
the DDA’s presentation.
“The DDA feels like it
will be a tool they need to
bring in restaurants,” he
said. “Since we have the
DDA, I feel like I should
support them on this.
Hopefully this will bring
businesses into the city.
We want to jumpstart
Rossville.”
Buff pointed out that
the city already allows
the sale of beer and wine
in convenience and grocery stores.
“We’ve got good
restaurants in Rossville,
but look at how many
restaurants are in Fort
Oglethorpe,” he said. “We
are trying to compete
with other cities. This is a
tool for the DDA to try to
attract businesses.”
Wall could not be
reached for comment.
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Harden is county’s Distinguished Teacher of the Year
By Katie Ward
Hamilton
Staff Writer
Ridgeland High School
teacher/Co-Mathematics Department Chair
Scott Harden is being
recognized as the Walker
County Distinguished
Teacher of the Year.
“Educators made a
true impact on my life,”
said Harden. “I love being
in their shoes now and
being able to hopefully
impact our youth today.”
Even though he grew up
poor, Harden said through
education he found opportunity. His teachers in
Rossville schools helped him
achieve great things through
education and athletic opportunities, he said.
Harden considers himself an “edutainer,” meaning he strives to educate,
entertain and engage his
students through technology. Through the use of response systems, interactive
lessons, iPads, computers,
cellphones, document
cameras and Promethean
boards, his students learn
how to be successful in the
real world, he said.
“We have embraced
technology and have
completely changed the
way we deliver lessons to
Ridgeland High School principal Glen Brown, left, and
Ridgeland Athletic Director Craig Parrott, right, present a bucket full of fishing supplies to Walker County’s
top teacher Scott Harden, an avid fisherman.
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our students,” said Harden. “Many times we use
YouTube, Khan Academy
and other media in order
to instruct students and
give them alternative
methods of discovering
the mathematics. We also
use Skype to pull in our
real world right here.
We have skyped with
doctors, lawyers, iron
workers, machinists, military, government officials
and alumni that have made
it in the work world. They
are able to motivate the students and hook them into
the mathematics and the
‘why’ part. This helps to answer the questions students
may have about ‘Why do
we need to know this?’”
Co-Mathematics Department Chair Mike Afdahl and Harden teamed
up with biology teacher
Justin Carruth, agricultural
science teacher Pete Davis,
principal Glen Brown and
Walker County Schools
Curriculum Director John
Parker to build the Ridgeland STEM Academy program. Next year will be
the second-year roll-out
for the academy.
“We have been working in conjunction with
Georgia Tech and Georgia
Northwestern on ways of
enhancing the program
and course offerings to
our students,” Harden
said. “We are also currently working on ways to
incorporate college collaboration through Portal
Tutoring Programs offered to our mathematics
students in order to raise
our achievement.”
Harden believes in
traditional values, he said.
He builds his classroom
around relationships
and strives for a caring
environment. He makes
house visits to get to
know students and their
parents and earn respect
and trust as an educator.
Harden is completing
his eighth year teaching at
Ridgeland High School. He
is also a product of Walker
County Schools. He went
to North Rossville Elementary School, Rossville Middle School and graduated
from Ridgeland.
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Author Cole
publishes
Civil War novel
Staff Report
LaFayette High School Future Farmers of America present an FFA Honorary Member Award to state Sen. Jeff Mullis. From left are FFA
president Wayne Manning, vice president Sarah Prokosch, Mullis, treasurer Jake Melton, secretary Tyler Asher, sentinel Luke Manning,
historian Bekah Stephens and reporter Taylor Sloop.
Photos by Katie Ward Hamilton
Sen. Mullis partners with LHS, LMS FFA
By Katie Ward
Hamilton
Staff Writer
LaFayette High School
Future Farmers of America will break ground on
a 50-by-160-foot barn this
summer.
The barn will house
two classrooms, a lab, a
cattle working area and
an area for cattle artificial insemination. The
barn will be home to
cattle, goats and sheep
and will add pigs in the
future.
“I think it will be a
great opportunity for
hands-on
farm learning,” said
LHS FFA
teacher Michael Gardner. “The
FFA proMichael
gram plans
Gardner
to raise
funding for
cattle working equipment
and fencing.”
State Sen. Jeff Mullis
helped procure $75,000 to
get the project started.
LaFayette Middle School inducts its first Future Farmers of America officers and welcomes the school’s new
FFA teacher. From left are president Rylie Chamlee, vice president Bailey Tarvin, reporter Lauren Torbett,
treasurer Amber Campbell, sentinel Madeline Hall and teacher Wendy Matteson. Not pictured are secretary
Gracie Henton, secretary Brooklynn Potter, reporter Alexis Asher, treasurer Amaira Sloop and sentinel Tyler
Massengill.
“Agriculture is Georgia’s biggest business
and contributes more
than 70 billion dollars
annually to our state’s
economy,” Mullis told
the students during their
recent banquet. “There
are 540,369 FFA members in 7,489 chapters
in the United States.
Georgia ranks third in
membership nationally
with more than 35,000
members in 285 chapters. Only California
and Texas have more
members. FFA makes a
positive difference in the
lives of students by developing their potential
for premier leadership,
personal growth and career success.”
At the event, LHS FFA
officers presented Mullis
with an official FFA Honorary Member Induction
Award.
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Hamilton at kward@
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In 1973, author Gary
C. Cole immortalized
his family by publishing
“Across the Frontier — A
History of the Cole family
from the 13th Century.”
In 2007, a previously unknown cousin tracked
Cole down with a record
of the death of Pvt. Richard Wesley Cole at the
Battle of Fort Pillow April
12, 1864. Richard Cole is
the man upon whom Gary
bases his new historical
novel, “12 APRIL” that
was recently published by
Trafford Publishing.
“Richard Wesley
Cole and his family lived
through the most tumultuous period in our nation’s
history,” Cole said. “They
experienced firsthand the
hardships and horrors of
a nation at war with itself
and it affected them for
the rest of their lives.”
The author completed extensive research to
carefully craft the historical novel centered around
Richard Cole’s life. It
provides a factually based
look at the life of a family
decimated by the Civil
War and reconstruction
as it might have actually
played out. The book is
a history of those events
seen through the eyes of
Richard Cole and his family, and offers a partial history of the 5th Mississippi
Cavalry, the 22nd Mississippi Infantry and the 30th
Mississippi Infantry.
“I would like readers of
‘12 APRIL’ to gain a greater appreciation of the terrible carnage of the Civil
War and the hardships
experienced by those left
at home,” he said. “They
constantly struggled to
learn news about the
war and the welfare of
their soldiers fighting the
yankees on distant battlefields, far from home.”
WALKER WEEKLY
Chickamauga Elementary Chick-fil-A Circus puts on a show
By Katie Ward Hamilton
Staff Writer
irque Motion jugglers, a German
Wheel stuntman, clowns and
Chattanooga Aerials acrobats
put on a circus to entertain Chickamauga Elementary School students
and Gordon Lee High School alumni
May 23.
A ringmaster, stilt walker, Hot
Shots Cheerleaders and the Gordon
Lee Middle School Cheerleading
“Glams” Squad all took time to entertain the crowd inside the GLHS gym
too.
The CES Chick-fil-A Circus for
the Students rewarded Chickamauga
Elementary students for great test
scores. A handful of CES first-graders wore clown attire while walking
sponsorship signs around the GLHS
gym in between acts.
Circus sponsors were Chick-fil-A,
DB Construction, TAS Equipment,
Bradford Camp, Eldridge Service
Company, Alfa Insurance agent Cindy
Roberts and Total Life Care Compounding.
CES unveiled its new school motto
at the end of the circus — “Chickamauga Elementary: When it comes
to good character, we don’t clown
around.”
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Chattanooga Aerials’ Amy Powell does the splits in the air.
Cirque Motion jugglers Zeb Galipeau, left, and Tony Duncan
toss batons back and forth.
Photos by Katie Ward Hamilton
Chattanooga Aerials’ Jen Keehn performs acrobatics.
Chickamauga Elementary School first-graders wearing
clown attire hold up sponsorship signs. From left are Tripp
Jones, Ava Carswell, Maggie Robertson, Kate Chambers,
Reese Roberts and Davis Eldridge.
Left: “The Glams” front from left are Abbey Dunfee, Kheley Wilson, Bailey Schrader, Autumn Uren, Kylie Walker, Makenzie Regal and Jordan Yancey. Back from left
are Chloe Beth Dockery, Bethany Underwood, Baleigh Smith, Sadie Tarvin, Kara Roper and Jessica Hickman. Right: Student clowns first-graders Kate Chambers,
left, and Ava Carswell, carry sponsorship signs around the gym during the event.
Community
concert at
LaFayette
Presbyterian
Church
Staff Report
Zeb Galipeau performs tricks on his German Wheel.
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The Rosewood Trio is
presenting a concert for
the community at LaFayette Presbyterian Church,
107 N. Main, Sunday, June
8 at 6 p.m., sponsored
by the church’s outreach
committee. Refreshments
will be served following
the concert in the church
fellowship hall. The concert is free, and the public
is invited.
The Rosewood Trio
has been performing since
1983 in a six-state area and
has provided music for
many weddings, receptions and parties. The Trio
is noted for performing a
wide variety of music and
includes violin, cello and
piano or organ.
The trio has offered a
community concert at the
LaFayette Presbyterian
Church for the past three
years and has become a
favorite of many due to
its skill in presenting a
variety of musical forms
from classical to modern
gospel.
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informed.
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connected.
Chattanooga Aerials acrobats Amy Powell, top, and
Jen Keehn perform.
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WALKER WEEKLY
WALKER WEEKLY
LaFayette resident Carolyn Summers turns 107
Staff Writer
Carolyn Summers is
the oldest living resident
in Walker County.
Born May 7, 1907, she
just celebrated her 107th
birthday.
When she moved
with her family, husband
E.G., and their children
David and Mary to
Walker County in 1945,
downtown LaFayette
Square was buzzing with
activity due to places
like Rhyne Brothers
Pharmacy, Giles Pharmacy, Wiener’s Department Store, the Boston
Store and Tippins Furniture Store.
Education has played
an integral role in Summers’ life. Before moving
to LaFayette, she earned
her Bachelor of Science
at the University of
Georgia and her master’s
degree at the University
of Tennessee at Chattanooga. She also earned a
degree in instructing students with special needs
at Columbia University in
New York.
Summers was the first
special education teacher
to instruct in the Walker
County School System.
She still remembers her
teaching experiences and
says, “I would not change
anything.”
“She started teaching at the end of World
War II,” said Summers’
daughter, Mary Nelson,
of LaFayette. “Times
were hard. People
bought stamps and paid
the government 10 cents
for one stamp and put it
in a book. After the war,
they redeemed them
and got interest on the
stamps. It was a good
time of savings bonds
and stamps because of
the war.”
Nelson remembers
watching her mother sit
up at night preparing
individual specialized
student lesson plans.
Summers drove a straight
shift two-door Ford car to
teach daily. She began her
day at 7 a.m. and worked
until 6 p.m.
“Her love was working with small children
and dedicating her life
to the strengthening
and building of moral
fiber in the lives of little children … our citizens of tomorrow,” said
Nelson, who is also a
retired Walker County
School System teacher
and her late husband
Malcolm Nelson taught
in Walker County
School System too. “She
loved working and seeing what a small class-
Mary Nelson, above, spends time with her mother
Carolyn Summers, who recently turned 107 in LaFayette.
Photo by Katie Ward Hamilton
Oakwood Baptist Church presents ‘Wilderness Escape’
Staff Report
Oakwood Baptist
Church is presenting a
summer family event
called “Wilderness Escape: Where God Guides
and Provides” June 8-12 at
its Chickamauga Campus.
Families attending can
step back in time at Wilderness Escape, exploring
some of the adventures
faced by Moses and
the Israelites. Kids and
adults will participate at
the Israelite Camp, sing
catchy songs, play teamwork-building games, dig
into Bible-time snacks,
visit Moses and collect
Bible memory buddies
to remind them of God’s
word. Plus, everyone
will learn to look for evidence of God all around
them through “God
sightings.” Each day will
conclude in a time of upbeat worship.
Also, kids and adults at
Wilderness Escape VBS
will join nearly a million
participants reaching out
to needy kids through a
hands-on mission project called Operation
Kid-to-Kid, in which
families send photos and
personalized Bible color-
ing books to children in
India.
Wilderness Escape
VBS runs from 6:15-8:30
p.m. each night June
8-12 at Oakwood Baptist
Church, located at 115
Oakwood St. in Chickamauga.
For more information
contact Oakwood Baptist
Church at 706-375-5760 or
visit oakwoodbc.org.
room atmosphere could
do for students with
special education. She
would teach special education for a few years,
then take a break and
go back to the regular
education classroom
and then come back.”
Summers taught for a
total of 30 years, with her
first five spent in DeKalb
County schools.
After 25 years of
teaching in Walker
County School System
at West LaFayette, Fortune and North LaFayette Grammar schools,
she retired to go with
her husband to Atlanta
during legislative sessions. He served as a
senator until he passed
away in 1982 at age 72.
“We are all a family of
educators,” said Nelson,
whose brother David
taught electrical engineering at Southern Polytechnic State University.
“Mom and Dad worked
with children their whole
lives.”
What is Summers doing now?
Lately, Summers, who
lost her eyesight 10 years
ago, likes to listen to audio books. She wakes up
every morning at 6 a.m.
to eat breakfast. She does
not sleep much. She likes
to stay awake most of the
time.
“She eats well, vegetables mostly, and no
meat,” said Nelson. “She
likes potato patties, turnip greens and peach ice
cream. She used to make
homemade peach ice
cream in a hand-crank
freezer.”
In response to how she
has lived this long, Nelson attributes Summers’
long life to good family
genes.
Summers uses a walker and exercises her feet
and legs on a daily basis.
She likes to go outside
and smell her flowers.
She has rotating caregivers 24/7.
Summers belonged
to the League of Women
Voters, LaFayette Woman’s Club, Order of the
Eastern Star, Daughters
of the American Revolution, the National,
State and County Parent
Teacher Association,
Classroom Teachers’
Association, Georgia
Association for Childhood Educators, Delta
Kappa Gamma Society
and LaFayette United
Methodist Church. She
has two children, seven
grandchildren and 12
great-grandchildren.
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WALKER WEEKLY
In Your
Community
Walker Weekly wants to know
about your upcoming church,
school and club events.
Please submit event information, including date, time and
location, at least one week in
advance of each Wednesday’s
publication to [email protected].
■ Battlefield Pilot Club
meets the first Thursday
of every month at Park
Place Restaurant, 2891
LaFayette Road in Fort
Oglethorpe. Meetings start
at 5:30 p.m. For more
information call 706-8664055.
■ Chickamauga Public
Library Summer Reading Program Fizz, Boom,
Read! runs from June
5–July 24. Ben Roy the
Science Guy will entertain with a science show
to start off our summer
reading program Thursday,
June 5 at 10 a.m.
■ Free GED classes are
held in the Adult Literacy
Center, 501 Carden Ave. in
Rossville. Attendees must
be 16 years of age. Call
706-858-0150 for more information concerning testing for
both day and night classes.
■ The Friends of the Gor-
don-Lee Mansion will host
tours of the Chickamauga
Mansion each Saturday until
Labor Day. Tours are $5 for
adults and $1 for children 12
and under with all proceeds
going to promote, preserve
and enhance the mansion.
Anyone desiring more information or to join the Friends
group can visit friendsofthegordonleemansion.org or call
423-488-0861.
■ LaFayette City Council
meets the second Monday of
each month at 7:30 p.m. at
City Hall, 207 S. Duke St.
■ The LaFayette Downtown
Development Authority announces this month’s Movies
in the Park Series, Disney’s
“Frozen,” which due to last
week’s storms has been
rescheduled for Saturday,
June 7 at 8:30 p.m. at Joe
Stock Park in downtown
193 in the High Point community, invites the public to
Sunday school services at
9:45 a.m. and worship at 11
a.m. and 6 p.m. Midweek
services are Wednesdays at
6:30 p.m. Awana and
youth meet Sunday nights. All are
welcome.
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enjoy. As always there are
Building, Room 107. For
refreshments available for
more information call Mary
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924-2241.
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■ LaFayette-Walker County
Public Library, at 1105 N.
Main St., hosts its Preschool
Ready to R.E.A.D class every Tuesday at 10:30 a.m.
■ Lookout Missionary Baptist Church, at 8645 Hwy.
■ Oakwood Baptist Church
is now providing adult reading and writing classes to the
public using the Laubach for
reading materials. This is not
a GED class. If interested,
call Mary Ann VanLandingham, literacy director for
Oakwood Baptist church at
706-924-2241.
■ Rock Spring Methodist is
hosting a special event the
week of July 7-11 for kids.
VBS will be from 8:30 a.m.
to noon every morning for
kids entering pre-k or kindergarten in the fall. There
is also a Grow Day Camp,
which is an outdoor-focused Christian camp for
kids entering first through
sixth grade. The church is
offering scholarships on an
as-needed basis and the
deadline to apply is June
10. The camp registration
deadline is July 3. For more
information, call the church
at 706-764-1404.
■ Rossville City Council
Celebrating the end of the school year
Principal Jeremy Roerdink sits and enjoys lunch with several pre-k readers
during end of year events at Fairyland Elementary School. From left are students
James McMahon, Elizabeth Nelson, Emily Nelson and Colin Neal.
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McFarland Ave.
Duke St. Visit walkerga.us/
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