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www.siarnewsga.com StarNews march 6,2011 Page 3 NEWS RECAP - Carroll County featured again: GPB’s Georgia Traveler program For the second time, Carroll County will hit the airwaves on Georgia Public Broadcasting’s most popular TV show, Georgia Traveler, in an episode scheduled to debut March 25. The show will feature a segment on the adventurous and unique resort and retreat, Historic Banning Mills, near Whitesburg. The March 25 segment will feature Banning owners Mike and Donna Holder and their staff as well as local historian Doug Mabry discussing the history, natural features and high-flying zipline canopy tour (the highest and longest in North America) Banning encompasses. In addition to the first-rate retreat lodging, dining and outdoor activities visitors find at Banning now, the area along Snake Creek Gorge was the scene of many firsts. Banning was one of the first towns in Georgia to produce its own electricity and the location of the birth of the paper-from- pulp industry. full story at www.stamewsga.com Tanner hospitals on Quality Honor Roll Tanner Medical Center/Carrollton, Tanner Medical Center/Villa Rica and Higgins General Hospital in Bremen have been named to the Georgia Hospital Association’s (GHA) Partnership for Health and Accountability (PHA) Quality Honor Roll. The three facilities are among just 56 hospitals in Georgia to be placed in the Presidential category, one of the highest on the list. The honor roll is based on clinical data provided by the federal Centers for Medicaid & Medicare Services (CMS), which administers the nation’s Medicare and Medicaid programs. The data was collected from July 2009 to June 2010. All acute care hospitals are required to submit care data to CMS. This data details how well a hospital’s caregivers adhere to a list of eight Appropriate Care Measures (ACM), which are the clinical processes of care that are known to be the most effective methods of treatment for patients who have suffered heart attacks, heart failure or pneumonia. The ACM is a composite measure that determines whether or not a patient received the right care at the right time. full story at www.stamewsga.com House Bill 362 to significantly alter HOPE Scholarship Faced with the need to constrain State spending, the House Appropriations Committee on Thursday, February 24, 2011 approved by a vote of 60 - 2 House Bill 326 which would significantly alter the HOPE Scholarship. This bill calls for dividing the HOPE Scholarship into two programs, the traditional HOPE Scholarship program and a Zell Miller HOPE Scholarship program for very high-achieving HOPE Scholars. (When he was Georgia’s governor Miller proposed he HOPE Scholarship program.) The Bill was amended to change the bonuses paid to Georgia Lottery employees and the amount retailers get for selling a winning ticket. The Bill will now be considered by the House Rules Committee. The Bill’s traditional HOPE program differs from the existing HOPE Scholarship in that students will be required to take more rigorous high school courses in advanced math, advanced science, advanced foreign language or AP or IB courses. The reason for this change is to eliminate students’ need for remediation. To keep the scholarship, a student will have to maintain a 3.0 GPA in college. full story at www.stamewsga.com Grand opening for Whitesburg Public Library’s “Harvey’s House of Books” Louise Muse of Carrollton was among the 100 customers who shopped during the grand opening of the Friends of the Whitesburg Public Library’s “nearly new” book store, Harvey’s House of Books, on February 17. The store houses 16,000 books at its new location, 1140 Main Street in Whitesburg. A wide variety of fiction, nonfiction and children’s books are for sale at 50 cents for most paperbacks and $2 for most hardback books, as well as magazines, movies and music. All proceeds from sales benefit the Whitesburg Public Library. full story at www.stamewsga.com “Geocaching” bringing tourists to Carroll County While most people probably haven’t heard about it, the treasure-hunting game of geocaching is quietly and steadily bringing tourists to Carroll County, and they’re bringing their wallets with them. The official website for the game, www.geocaching.com, describes it as “a high-tech treasure hunting game played throughout the world by adventure seekers equipped with GPS devices.” The basic idea is to locate hidden containers, called geocaches, outdoors and then share your experiences online.” Anyone anywhere can hide a geocache, which can be any kind of weather-proof container that’s filled with inexpensive goodies, like pencils or small toys. The person who hid the geocache then goes online to the website and enters the GPS coordinators of that particular cache, and then it’s up to the treasure hunters to put their sleuthing skills to work. ' filed in January 2010. full story at www.stamewsga.com Of the 14 major metropolitan areas in Initial unemployment claims the state, only Columbus, Rome, and increase in Metro Atlanta Savannah reported decreases in initial In January, 35,038 laid-off workers in claims filed from December to January, metro Atlanta filed initial claims for however 12 of the 14 showed over-the- unemployment insurance benefits, an year decreases. There were 262,700 long- increase of 3,719, or 11.9 percent, from term unemployed Georgians in January 31,319 in December. Most of the increase (those who have been out of work for 27 in claims came in manufacturing and weeks or longer). This represents an construction. 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