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The ADVANCE, August 30, 2023/Page 11A
ODDS
NDS
Women's
Conference—
The Rock Worship
Center, 302 2nd St.,
Stillmore, will sponsor
a Women's Confer
ence, Soul Shift 2023,
on Friday, September
22, at 7:00 p.m., in
cluding snacks, door
prizes, and worship.
The event is free. Bring
your favorite snack,
finger food or dessert.
For more informa
tion, call 912-562-
3992.
Old Fashion
Day-
Cedar Crossing
Baptist Church will
celebrate Old Fash
ion Day on Sunday,
September 10, at
10:30 a.m. There will
be no Sunday School.
On Sunday night, The
Kramer Family and
Headin' Home Blue-
grass will perform.
Everyone is invited
to attend and dress in
old-fashioned clothes.
Pastor's
Anniversary-
Better Together
Christian Community
Church will celebrate
the 11th anniversary
of Pastor Craig Snead
and First Lady Latoya
Snead on September
10, at 2:00 p.m. The
guest speaker will be
Pastor Arthur Gordon.
Everyone is invited
to attend.
Pastor's
Anniversary—
Mt. Moriah Baptist
Church, 1855 Sawmill
Rd., Ailey, will cele
brate the 24th anni
versary of Bishop A.
Tim Chatman and
Family on Sunday,
September 3, at 11:30
a.m. The guest
speaker will be Pastor
Dr. Kendrick Mack, Sr.,
of Shilo Baptist Church
in Gordon.
Everyone is invited
to attend.
Medical
Need—
To Friends of Mark
Quigley of Vidalia,
Mark has been on di
alysis for some time
and is now facing
major medical ex
penses. A medical
account has been
opened in his name
at Vidalia Federal
Bank in Vidalia. If you
would like to contrib
ute to help Mark, go
to Vidalia Federal and
make a deposit to the
medical account of
Mark Quigley as soon
as possible.
TCBOE
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millage rate of at least 14
mills to prevent the loss
of state equalization grant
funding. According to Su
perintendent Barry Waller,
the reassessment of prop
erty values has caused
the rollback millage rate,
which is required by the
state of Georgia to avoid a
tax increase, to fall below
the required 14 mills to re
ceive the state equalization
grant. Forfeiting that grant
would cause the school to
lose approximately $2.3
million of federal funding
annually
“Therefore, the
Toombs County Board
of Education proposes to
decrease the 2022 millage
rate by 0.37 mills and adopt
the minimum millage rate
of 14.00 mills required to
receive state equalization
funding,” Waller comment
ed on behalf of the Board.
“The Toombs County
Board of Education would
like our property taxpay
ers to understand that un
less your property has been
reassessed (taxable value
increased) during the year,
then you will not see a tax
increase.”
When the total digest
of taxable property is pre
pared, Georgia Law re
quires that a rollback mill-
age rate must be computed
that will produce the same
total revenue on the current
year's new digest that last
year's millage rate would
have produced had no re
assessments occurred. The
budget tentatively adopted
by the Toombs County
Board of Education re
quires a millage rate higher
than the rollback millage
rate; therefore, before the
Toombs County Board of
Education may set a final
millage rate, Georgia Law
requires that three public
hearings be held to allow
the public an opportunity
to express their opinions
on this increase.
All concerned citi
zens are invited to the
public hearings on this
tax increase to be held at
the Toombs County High
School, 500 Bulldog Road,
Lyons, Georgia on Sep
tember 7, 2023 at 5:30 p.m.
and September 14, 2023 at
8:15 a.m. and 6:05 p.m.
Larry Stevens presents "The Hornets' Nest, Wilkes County - 1700s" at the Four Rivers
monthly meeting.
Four Rivers Chapter
Holds monthly meeting
The Four Rivers Chap
ter Georgia Society Sons of
the American Revolution
held its monthly meeting
on Thursday, August 17,
2023, at 6:00, at Chatters
Restaurant in Lyons. With
President George King pre
siding, there were 14 in at
tendance. After the invoca
tion, Pledge to the U.S. Flag
and the Pledge to the SAR,
President George King
called on Dual Member
Dess Smith III to introduce
the speaker for the evening,
Larry Stephens of Savan
nah, to present his program
on "The Hornets' Nest, Wil
kes County - 1700's."
Mr. Stephens talked
about the difficulties of
moving to the area between
the Broad River, Savannah
River and the Oconee River
during the 1700's. Not only
did they have to make do
with what was available to
them in the wild, but they
had to defend themselves
against the Creek and Cher
okee Indians.
President George then
called on Chaplain and
Dual Member Emory Fen
nell to lead the members in
the SAR Recessional and
benediction.
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tracks he began engaging
the train’s emergency pro
tocols to stop and avoid a
collision, but was unable to
prevent the crash. The train
struck the SUV’s right rear
quarter panel, causing the
vehicle to rotate clockwise
and come to a final uncon
trolled rest around 33 feet
east of the area of impact.
The train also traveled ap
proximately 353 feet east
on the tracks before com
ing to a controlled stop.
Davis told officials that
the accident happened so
fast that she really did not
remember exactly what
happened. She said that
she was not trying to beat
the train, but there was a
car in front of her at the
stop sign and her vehicle’s
rear end was over the
tracks, causing her to be in
the path of the train. Sapp
told investigators that he
utilized the train’s bell and
horn to warn the driver of
the vehicle of the train’s ap
proach.
The State Patrol de
termined that Davis con
tributed to the accident by
failing to yield, which led
them to cite her for failing
to yield at an intersection.
Neither party was hurt
or required medical atten
tion.
This accident marks
the second consecutive
crash between a train and
car at the intersection of
Rudell Road and the rail
road tracks. Other crashes
of this nature have included
a collision at the intersec
tion of Rigsbee Drive and
Old Vidalia-Lyons Road,
and two incidents along
Oxley Drive in Lyons.
PLEASE
RECYCLE
NOTICE OF PROPERTY TAX INCREASE
The Toombs County Board of Education has tentatively adopted a 2023 millage rate which will require an in
crease in property taxes by 3.79 percent.
All concerned citizens are invited to the public hearing on this tax increase to be held at the Toombs County
High School, 500 Bulldog Road, Lyons, Georgia on September 7, 2023, at 5:30 p.m.
Times and places of additional public hearings on this tax increase are at the Toombs County High School, 500
Bulldog Road, Lyons, Georgia on September 14, 2023, at 8:15 a.m. and 6:05 p.m. This tentative increase will
result in a millage rate of 14.000 mills, an increase of .511 mills.
Without this tentative tax increase, the millage rate will be no more than 13.489 mills. The proposed tax in
crease for a home with a fair market value of $175,000 is approximately $34.75 and the proposed tax increase
for nonhomestead property with a fair market value of $100,000 is approximately $20.44.