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Page 4 august 72011 StarNews www, starnewsga. com
NEWS RECAP -
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Widened road to allow better
flow of school traffic
Carrollton City Mayor Wayne Gamer,
along with City Manager Casey Coleman,
City Council members Mandy Maierhofer
and Gerald Byrd, City School Board
Member Jimmy Pope, Carroll County
Commission Chairman Bill Chappell,
Public Works Superintendent Charles
Pope, and District Commissioner Trent
North recently cut the ribbon to officially
open the newly widened and improved
Ben Scott Boulevard, Carrollton.
The much-needed improvement to the
side road will allow easier and smoother
morning and afternoon school traffic flow.
All of the city’s schools - elementary,
middle, junior high, high school - and
athletic fields are located on this one road.
Traffic has backed up onto the bypass
twice a day during the school year for
several years, as well as during fall
football games. Widening and lane
addition will help offset the traffic
overflow and decrease the time it takes to
drop students off or pick them up.
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Budget amendments
The Carroll County Board of
Commissioners met at 6 p.m. on Tuesday,
July 19, 2011, in the Commission
Chambers at the David Perry
Administration Building in Carrollton for
their regular meeting. At the meeting, the
board voted to advertise an amendment to
the FY 2011-12 budget that adds back
items that were voted down as attached
amendments at the previous BOC
meeting.
In June, District 5 Commissioner Kevin
Jackson made a motion to approve the
fiscal year budget with amendments
attached that removed two
communications coordinator positions, a
grant to Re-Entry Inc. (a program
designed to help prisoners re-enter society
- formerly under the control of the
NAACP), and a project manager position.
The commissioners voted 4-3 to approve
the budget with these amendments.
At the July 19 meeting, however,
District 4 Commissioner John Wilson
made a motion to advertise for an
amendment to the budget that would add
back these items and increase the
community development budget by
$97,527 while decreasing the contingency.
District 6 Commissioner George
Chambers, who had voted to pass the
budget with these items removed in
attached amendments in June, seconded
the motion. Wilson, Chambers,
Commission Chairman Bill Chappell, and
District 1 Commissioner Trent North
voted in favor, while District 2
Commissioner Vicki Anderson and
District 3 Commissioner Ashley Hendrix
voted against it. Commissioner Jackson
was not present at the meeting.
Three Rivers unemployment
rises: includes Carroll County
The Georgia Department of Labor
recently said that the preliminary
unadjusted unemployment rate in the
Three Rivers area increased to 11.6
percent in June, up nine-tenths of a
percentage point from a revised 10.7
percent in May. The jobless rate in the
Three Rivers area in June a year ago was
11.1 percent.
The lowest area rate, at 8.0 percent, was
recorded in Warner Robins, while the
highest, at 12.8 percent, was in the Heart
of Georgia-Altamaha area near Dublin.
Georgia’s seasonally adjusted
unemployment rate rose to 9.9 percent in
June, up one-tenth of a percentage point
from a revised 9.8 percent in May. The
state’s jobless rate was 10 percent in June
a year ago.
see chart and full story this edition
page 10
“Pickin’ at the Park” at
John Tanner County Park
John Tanner Parkonce again played host
to “Pickin’ at the Park,” featuring the
classic rock stylings of Carroll County’s
very own Hogwild Band.
The event, which ran from 6:30 p.m. to
8:30 p.m. on Friday, July 29, was
sponsored by the Carroll County Parks
Department and Carroll County
Communications. Free freeze pops were
provided to guests.
This will be a regular event. For future
concert details, call 678-449-7004.
Four Carroll County School
awarded grants for nutrition
Carroll County School nutrition
announced that four of the system’s
elementary schools applied for and were
awarded grants to participate in the Fresh
Fruit & Vegetable Program offered by
USDA.
The schools receiving this honor are
Bowdon Elementary, Sharp Creek
Elementaiy, Villa Rica Elementary, and
Whitesburg Elementary. The Fresh Fmit
and Vegetable Program (FFVP) provides
all children within the participating
schools a variety of free fresh fruits and
vegetables each day.
The goal of the FFVP is to create
healthier school environments by
providing: o A healthy snack option o
Expanding the students experience and
knowledge of fresh fruits and vegetables o
Increasing the students consumption of
fresh fruits and vegetables o Making a
difference in a student’s diet and impacting
their present and future health o Nutrition
education students on the importance of
consumption of fresh fruit and vegetables.
Carrollton Mainstreet member
receives Pampered Chef award
Mindy Mussell Banks, Carrollton, GA
resident and Independent Advanced
Director with The Pampered Chef - the
premier direct seller of high quality
kitchen tools and stylish entertaining
pieces - received Excellence Awards for
her sales at the company’s national
conference in Chicago.
Banks and other Consultants who
achieved outstanding success were
honored during the company’s national
conference in July. Conference attendees
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