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WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 25, 2021
BARROW NEWS-JOURNAL
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MINISTRY VILLAGE HOLDS RIBBON-CUTTING
FOR NEW LOCATION
The Ministry Village, a local Christian nonprofit in the community since 2013,
recently held a ribbon-cutting ceremony at its new headquarters, the old Con
stance Manor on Church Street in Winder. It’s the third headquarters location
in five years for the organization, with leaders citing continual growth in its
outreach efforts in Barrow and surrounding counties. The organization offers
counseling, foster parent support to include helping grandparents raising
their grandchildren or anyone who is raising a non-biological child and a free
children’s clothing store, and a food pantry for those struggling with food in
securities — with counseling services having the most demand. According to
leaders, local realtor/developer Wayne Bartlett made the organization aware
of the Constance Manor building last year, and Ray and Suzanne Stanjevich of
Friends American Grill donated the building in December. “This building will
allow us to expand services providing much needed healing for those in our
community who are struggling,” leaders said. “We can’t thank them enough
for this very generous donation. Our tag line is ‘Meeting Needs, Giving Hope.’”
Schools
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Only “essential” visitors will be al
lowed in buildings, officials said, includ
ing parents (those who can’t meet virtu
ally), staff, contracted workers providing
services to students and mentors with
parent permission. Those visitors will
be expected to wear a mask while in the
buildings, officials said.
Staff who are vaccinated but identified
as a close contact should wear a mask for
10 days, and students will eat all meals in
classrooms or classes will rotate through
cafeterias in smaller groups, according to
the release.
There will be no restrictions on any
outdoor events that have voluntary atten
dance, officials said.
The school district’s shift came as the
CDC has recommended universal indoor
masking in K-12 schools, regardless of
vaccination status. But for now, BCSS is
forgoing universal mask mandates.
Top district officials did not respond
before press time to a question on why
they were not implementing a system-
wide mandate. They did, though, encour
aging mask-wearing in the news release
and said they are stressing that students
stay home if they’re feeling ill.
No further policy changes had been
announced as of press time.
“Your actions may very well be the de
ciding factor regarding whether we avoid
a system-wide masking mandate and/or
have to shut a school or schools down for
a period of time,” officials said.
BGES promotes two E-911 officers
Barrow County Emergency
Services has announced the
promotion of two E-911 com
munications center personnel.
Both Jovan Rogers and
Stacy Reed were recently pro
moted to the position of senior
communications officer, ac
cording to a news release.
Rogers has been with BCES
since March 2020, and Reed
has been with the department
since November 2019. Since
joining the department, both
have worked hard at staying
up to date with protocols and
training, including training on
the new emergency medical
dispatch protocols, officials
said.
“BCES is in a period of
intense growth with the rest
of the county,” Rogers said.
“With the opportunity of new
programs and aspirations of fu
ture accreditations, I’m excited
to be a part of the supervisory
team that ensures we are the
best in the region by providing
outstanding service to the citi
zens of Barrow County.”
“Everyone has been great
and very helpful when needed,
I feel that I learn something
new every day,” Reed added.
“I am excited for this opportu
nity and plan to remain hum
ble and teachable so that I can
be a strong backbone for my
team.”
“They are and will continue
leading their shifts with de
termination and a passion for
excellence,” BCES chief Alan
Shuman said of Rogers and
Reed. “The E-911 center is
fortunate to have some of the
best communications officers.”
Surge
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“For the first time that I can remember, we
are having to go on diversion — not because
of trauma cases — but because our emergen
cy department is full of patients who were in
fected with COVID.” Jansen said.
Jansen stressed that diversion doesn’t mean
Grady won’t treat all patients seeking care.
“But it’s our way of communicating to the
ambulances that we’re full, and if you can
find another place to go that can deliver care
quicker, that would be a better option,” Jansen
explained.
In addition to ICU space being spread thin,
many front-line healthcare workers have left
the profession, weary of a pandemic that has
lasted for well over a year and is heading to
ward a projected spike worse than any since
the initial COVID-19 outbreak.
“We are seeing many nurses and clinicians,
the strongest professionals I have ever known,
leave the profession or pause their careers
because of the stress (that) the pandemic has
caused both personally and professionally,”
said Sharon Pappus, chief nurse executive for
Emory Healthcare.
‘Vaccines work’
Each medical professional who spoke
Thursday pled with the unvaccinated to take
the vaccine.
“We need everyone to do their part by get
ting vaccinated,” Pappus said. “Vaccinations
drastically reduce hospitalizations and severe
illness.”
Jaffal said that 96 percent of Piedmont’s
COVID patients are unvaccinated, while 97
percent of its ICU patients are unvaccinated.
‘ ‘Considering the rapid spre ad of COVID-19
infections across Georgia, vaccines work,” he
said.
“Vaccines are the very best way you can
protect yourself, you loved ones and your
family.”
Jansen reiterated that hospitalized COVID
patients are primarily “people who have cho
sen, for whatever reason, to not get a vaccine
that we all know is safe and effective.”
“It’s available, get vaccinated.” he said.
“Take care of yourself.”
“Go out and get vaccinated.” echoed Dr.
John Delzell, vice president of education for
Northeast Georgia Health System. “If you ha
ven’t already been vaccinated this is the time
to do it.”
“The risk is very minimal; the upside bene
fit is enormous,” he added.
Delzell also encouraged the public to con
tinue to wear masks, wash hands and avoid
large gatherings as other preventative mea
sures.
Active trials for a vaccine for children un
der age 12 are ongoing, according to Forten
berry of Children’s Hospitals.
But he stressed vaccination among those
old enough to receive it.
“While we’re waiting, we know there’s lots
and lots of people that can benefit from the
vaccine right now,” he said.
SPLOST
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The remaining more than
$82 million would be split
for use by the county and
municipal governments on
roughly a population basis
with the county receiv
ing 62.5% and the cities a
combined 37.5%.
With its extra money
— a projected $51.5 mil
lion — the county plans to
spend:
•$15 million in road,
street, bridge and side
walk and other transporta
tion-related projects.
•$15 million in equip
ment purchases to include
911 system upgrades, vehi
cles, technology, software
and voting equipment.
•$6.5 million on paying
down Bear Creek water
reservoir bond debt.
•$5 million each in fire
safety equipment and fa
cilities as well as parks
and recreation facilities
and equipment.
•$2 million each on
county facility projects
and improvements as well
as water system projects
and improvements.
•and $1 million on sewer
system projects and im
provements.
The remaining roughly
$30.5 million or so would
be distributed to the mu
nicipalities as follows:
•$17.7 million to Wind
er, with the city planning
to spend a little more of a
quarter of those collections
(26%) on road and trans
portation-related projects.
The rest of the money
would be split between
stormwater infrastructure
(15%), administrative fa
cilities and equipment
(15%), police department
facilities and equipment
(12%), fire department
facilities and equipment
(12%), parks and rec and
related projects (10%), and
sanitation and solid waste
facilities and equipment
(10%).
•$8.5 million to Auburn,
with $4 million going to
ward paying down debt on
the city’s future municipal
complex, which is sched
uled to open next summer,
$1.8 million for transporta
tion projects and $1.3 mil
lion for parks and rec. The
rest would be split between
stormwater infrastructure
($500,000) and $300,000
each for police and public
safety facilities and equip
ment. city facilities and
equipment, and water and
sewer capital improvements
and related facilities.
•$3.5 million to Statham.
with nearly all of it going
toward water and sewer in
frastructure improvements,
facilities and equipment.
The city proposes to spend
$100,000 each on storm
water capital improvements
and transportation-related
projects.
•$1.75 million to Bra-
selton for parks and recre
ation.
•$708,000 to Bethlehem
for transportation-related
and stormwater improve
ment projects.
•and $231,000 to Carl
for transportation-related
improvements.
Also under the IGA, the
municipalities would col
lect 40% of the initial pro
ceeds with the remaining
60% being set aside for
the “justice center” ex
pansion.
Without an IGA in
place, the cities would
have to wait an estimated
two years until all of the
money for the expansion
project was collected.
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And all who
believed were
together and had all
things in common;
and they sold their
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A ristotle claimed that humans are
political animals, meaning that we
live in a political society or
community, remarking further that only a
beast or a god would live by himself
away from others. One implication of
this view is that our minds are part
and parcel of the social fabric. Our
minds develop socially, by being
raised to speak a particular language
in a particular culture. And we are
literally connected to other people's
brains in that the smile on our face will
register in their brain and cause their brain
to make them smile, and their smiles will
have the same effect on us. We have been
taught the message of individualism for so
long that we don't often see the many ways
in which we are connected. Our minds truly
are social, think of how often we complete
each other's sentences or feel each other's
joys and sorrows. But, the philosophy of
individualism emphasizes our separateness
and makes us think that we can be just as
fully human as distinct individuals, as we
can when we are part of a larger group like
a family or a society. Since we live in a
world where it is possible to live alone, and
more people are choosing to do so, it
appears that at times we hold up the
individual as more important than the
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