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VOLUME 16 NUMBER 3
NEWS BRIEFS
Driver Services offices
closed April 3, 22, 26
The Georgia Department of
Driver Services (DDS) will be
closed on three days in April due to
furloughs: Saturday, April 3;
Thursday, April 22; and Monday,
April 26.
Some services may be initiated
online such as renewing or replacing
a lost license, www.dds.ga.gov to
access DDS online services.
20th Annual Bluegrass
Springfest April 24, 25
The 20th Annual Bluegrass
Springfest in Villa Rica is Saturday,
April 24, beginning at 11 a.m., and
Sunday, April 25, Gold Dust Park,
646 Industrial Blvd. Events will run
through 4 p.m. each day. A karate
exhibition at 11 a.m. on Saturday.
Other attractions of the festival
include arts and crafts, food, games,
face painting, inflatable slides and
more - a family event. For more
information on this event, go to:
www.starnewsga.com
Pilot Club’s 15th Annual
Tour of Homes
The Pilot Club of Carrollton
invites the public to its 15th Annual
Spring Tour of Homes fundraiser.
The tour will be held Sunday, April
25th, 1:00-5:00 p.m.
Tickets and brochures (with map
and directions) are available from
Pilot Club members and the follow
ing businesses: Sweet Pea’s
Boutique, Merle Norman, Mitchell’s
Home Accents and Gifts. Tickets are
$ 10 in advance, $ 15 at the door.
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have difficulty accessing the web
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Interested in serving your community as a district commissioner
or school board member? Qualifying to be held in April and June
by Chuck Wanager
The election season returns to
Carroll County with qualifying for
three Carroll County District
Commissioners’ seats set to begin on
Monday, April 26th at 9:00 a.m.
Sign-up for district seats 2, 4 and 6
will close Friday, April 30th at noon.
Currently, District Commission 2
seat is held by Vicki Anderson; seat
4 by John Wilson; and seat 6 by
George Chambers.
The only other races to be decided
this year will also be county posts:
districts 2, 5 and 7 on the Carroll
County Board of Education.
Qualifying for those offices will
begin Monday, June 28th, at 9:00
a.m. and will close on Friday, July
2nd, at noon.
Currently, school board seat 2 is
held by Dorothy Burton-Callaway;
seat 5 by Donald Nixon; and seat 7
by John Stephens.
Qualifying for the commissioners’
races and all county posts is done in
the lower level of the county
administrative building, 423 College
St., Carrollton.
Qualifying fees for a
Two county parks in transition:
John Tanner, McIntosh Reserve
by Chuck Wanager
Two local parks are in transition:
Tanner State Park may become a
county facility. And at Carroll
County’s McIntosh Reserve, county
employees and others are still trying
to dig out from under a record-set-
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commissioner’s post is $186.96 for
the $6,231,96-a-year job. School
board candidates must plunk down
$50 for the chance to win a school
board post that pays per diem (by the
day).
Residents must be registered by
June 21st to vote in the Republican
and Democratic primary elections,
which will be held July 20th.
A runoff election for the primaries,
if needed, would be held Aug. 10th,
according to information on the
Carroll County Board of Elections
website.
Any special elections needed to
fill a vacancy prior to the fall general
election would be held on Sept. 21st,
with voter registration ending on
Aug. 23rd.
For the fall general election, voter
registration is set to end Oct. 4th,
with the election held on Nov. 2nd
this year. Any runoff balloting that
would be needed would be held on
Nov. 30th.
brought dramatic
park’s landscape
ting flood that
change to the
accessibilty.
At McIntosh, which lies along the
Chattahoochee River near
Whitesburg, work is to begin soon on
See PARKS page 29
Georgia Supreme Court
dismisses indictments against
Candace Radar, Valerie Cook
from media reports
The Georgia Supreme Court ruled
March 1, 2010, that indictments
should be dismissed by the Court of
Appeals against two Carrollton attor
neys in a case that had been consid
ered the first test of a Georgia law
called the “slayer statute,” which for
bids a murderer from profiting from
the death of his or her victim.
The order of the Supreme Court
demands that the charges against
both attorneys be dismissed, said
Brian Steel, whose client, Valerie C.
Cooke, was charged along with
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Candace E. Rader in twin seven-
count indictments.
Last fall, the state supreme court
had ordered the state Court of
Appeals to reverse its prior ruling
allowing the indictments to stand.
The court said that slayer statute
could to be used to bar access to the
deceased’s assets until there had
been a guilty plea, conviction or
other “clear and convincing evidence
in any judicial proceeding.”
Cooke and Rader were charged in
twin seven-count indictments alleg-
See DISMISSED page 28
Help, I’ve fallen...
Retiring? Here’s some help
by Carole Scott
“Help, I’ve fallen and I can’t get
up!”
Many of us can remember that
decades old television commercial in
which an elderly woman, who lives
alone, has experienced a fall in her
home and there is no one there to
help her up or get her medical atten
tion. This commercial certainly got a
lot of viewers’ attention. Since this
commercial first aired in 1989, mod
em technology has made many
advancements with products
designed to assist the elderly who
live alone.
By 1970, women accounted for a
far larger share of the labor force
than they had in the past. In 1970,
they accounted for 43.3 percent of
the labor force. Today they account
for 55.8 percent. Seventy percent of
the today’s women have jobs outside
See HELP FOR ELDERLY page 22
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