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SEPTEMBER 5, 2010
770-214-9900 • P.O. Box 680/961 Maple Street, Carrollton, GA 30117
500 StarNews monthly publication/StsoNews Online www.starnewsga.com VOLUME 16 NUMBER 8
NEWS BRIEFS
Carrollton replaces
reverse 911 system;
also, new website for
crime stats
by Carole Scott
This year the City of Carrollton
will replace its Reverse 911 tele
phone system with a new notifica
tion service called “Nixie”. Citizens
may register for this free commu
nity information service on the web
at www.nixle.com Those who reg
ister for this service will be notified
of community events such as
See CARROLLTON page 2
Free prostate cancer
screenings
Tanner Health System is partner
ing with the physicians at West
Georgia Urology this September to
offer free prostate cancer
screenings.
Prostate cancer is the second
most common cancer among men,
and the second-leading cause of
cancer-related death. According to
the Prostate Cancer Foundation,
every American male has at least a
17 percent chance of developing
prostate cancer.
Fortunately, prostate cancer is
extremely treatable if detected
early. A prostate exam is a quick
and relatively painless way for a
qualified physician to diagnose
See FREE SCREENING page 34
INSIDE:
Crossword
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37
Sudoku
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36
News Recap
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4
Restaurant Inspections
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36
Sports beginning page
22
Marriages
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36
STAR of Month
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34
Opinion pages 16, 17,
18
Obituary listing
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27
Ethics complaint raises questions
concerning Commissioner Ashley
Hendrix’s voting pattern to
award jobs to brother-in-law
by Sam Gentry The complaint was filed on Aug.
Carroll County resident Rhett 24th, but has since been dismissed.
Millsaps recently filed an ethics The State Ethics Commission said
complaint with the State Ethics that it dismissed the complaint
Commission against District 3 because it was not within the juris-
Commissioner Ashley Hendrix. See ETHICS page 2
Existing home sales declined
27.2% nationally in July
by Carole Scott Georgians learned that while
The news in late August 2010 their state’s unemployment rate
was full of economic woe. “Day declined to 9.9 percent in July, as
after day,” reported The Wall Street their State Labor Commissioner,
Journal, “investors have been hit Michael Thurmond, pointed out, the
with more evidence that the econ- very small decline in the unemploy-
omy is stalling.” See HOME SALES page 14
Hottest summer? 7 of the 8 warmest
years have all occurred since 1995
by Sam Gentry 2010 has had its share of hot days,
Carroll County residents are but is it really getting warmer each
experiencing what many claim to year? According to
be the hottest summer of their life- www.GeorgiaWeather.net, from
times. There is little argument that See HEAT page 34
Photos record past hard
times on Carroll County farm
by Carole Scott Smith’s farm were among those
Beginning in 1937, photogra- distributed to newspapers and
phers employed by the federal gov- magazines in order to build support
emment’s Farm Security for the work of the FSA.
Administration (FSA) began a pic- The first publication of the pho
torial record of the impact of hard tos of the Smith family was in “The
times on America’s farmers. One of Atlanta Journal” on July 13, 1941.
the farm families they photo- In 1993, these photos were pub-
graphed was the Lemuel Smith lished in the winter issue of “The
family of Carroll County. Georgia Historical Quarterly”. A
The photographs taken on the See SMITH FARM page 14
Take an “eco tour” of the Snake Creek Gorge in Carroll County
by Chuck Wanager
“Are you scared?” asked Mike Holder,
who as co-owner of Historic Banning
Mills is also the co-owner of what he says
is one of the world’s longest zip lines -- a
kind-of green thrill ride above the tree tops
crowning the resort near Whitesburg. He
smiles as he asks his question.
“Heck no,” I reply, only I use a stronger
word than heck because I want to show I
am a righteous macho dude, which is the
way I think of myself in my super-macho
dreams. To emphasize my enthusiasm, I
pump my arm up and down. But I am
really just blustering. I am just a skosh
nervous and Holder’s question and smile
don’t help. Neither does his next comment,
which he delivers with a dead-pan sincer
ity: “Well, you should be.”
The Banning Mills “eco canopy tour”
has about 5 miles of zip lines, high tree
(Sky Bridge) bridge traverses, tree houses,
at heights of 60 to 300 feet, and special
high speed zip lines with speeds up to 60
miles per hour, almost all connected con-
Line” — a five mile in the air trip across the beautiful Snake Creek Gorge from heights tinuously in the trees. Banning Mills is
of 60 feet to 300 feet high. Photo by Sam Gentry See ZIP LINE page 15
Visitors to Banning Mills in Whitesburg have the opportunity to experience the “Zip
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