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SEPTEMBER 2013
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VOLUME 19 NUMBER 9
Burson Center
among top 10
The National Business
Incubation Association (NBIA)
has included West Georgia’s
Burson Center among the top ten
successful programs in the 2013
edition of Best Practices in Rural
Business Incubation: Successful
Programs in Small Communities.
See BURSON CENTER page 7
Carrollton water/
wastewater awarded
from press release
The City of Carrollton is
pleased to announce that water
plant superintendent Constance
“Connie” Nelms is the recipient
of the 2013 Georgia Association
of Water Professionals (GAWP)
Elizabeth McEntire Award.
See CARROLLTON AWARD page 7
Southwire studying
updated data on
dioxin blood levels
from press release
Southwire Company officials
are analyzing newly released data
from a national survey of dioxin
like compounds in participants’
blood and comparing the findings
with those from a study of
employees the company con
ducted six years ago.
The Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention (CDC)
recently published data from its
National Health and Nutrition
Examination (NHANES) survey,
which measures levels of many
different chemicals, including
dioxin-like compounds, in the
blood of the general United States
See UPDATED DATA page 7
Candidates
for Nov. 5th
city elections
Qualifying has ended for the
November 5th Carroll County
municipal elections. While many
candidates are running unop
posed, others are facing several
challengers.
In the race for Carrollton City
Council seats, Mike Patterson,
incumbent for Ward 2 and a local
real estate salesman, is facing two
opponents: Don McKenzie and
Wes Phillips. McKenzie is a
retiree and Phillips is the owner
of Phillips Paint and Body Shop.
Ward 1 incumbent Gerald Byrd
(an education artist) is being chal
lenged for his seat by Anita Jones,
an economic development
See CANDIDATES page 11
County school board votes
to give $1.9M school, 4.02
acres, and school contents
to church: board gets
0.59 acre of football field
School board member who voted for swap
is also church's board of trustees chairman
Elementary building, 4.02 acres
of land, and existing contents to
the church in exchange for 0.59
acre of land currently being used
as a football field by the school
system. According to the Carroll
County Tax Assessors website,
the school and property value is
$1,902,495 ($1.9 million). The
existing contents - the value
undetermined at press time -
See SWAP page 8
by Prissi Sullivan
At the May 16, 2013 meeting,
the Carroll County Board of
Education (BOE) voted on an
agreement proposed by the Mt.
Zion United Methodist Church in
which Carroll County BOE
would deed the old Mt. Zion
OMA invites
public to
Sept. 11 event
by Sunny Kirby
Each school year at Oak
Mountain Academy (OMA) is
based around a central theme.
This year, the staff and students
will be celebrating the heroes
who are among us each and every
day. Beginning with September,
See OMA page 22
Roopville 28th
Homecoming
Sat., Sept. 21st
The 28th Homecoming Festival
in downtown historic Roopville,
Georgia, will be held Saturday,
Sept. 21. The public is invited to
attend and enjoy.
See ROOPVILLE page 10
30th Annual “Fall Festival”
at McIntosh Reserve
Rivers Alive Cleanup seeking participants
Catch a train ride at Villa Rica’s Pine Mountain Gold Museum
Pine Mountain Gold Museum, 1881 Stockmar Road, Villa Rica, now offers train rides. The
train runs one mile around the park. Rides are available to the public at $5 per person. The
museum also offers sold nannins. walking tours and a history museum. Photo by Sunny Kirby
by Kirby Sprewell
McIntosh Reserve is gearing up
for two of the park’s annual
events: the Rivers Alive Cleanup
and the 30th Annual Fall Festival.
Both events are guaranteed to
bring your family fun, while
helping the environment or
learning something new.
The first event on McIntosh’s
September calendar is the 13th
Annual Rivers Alive Cleanup to
be held Saturday, Sept. 14
beginning at 9:00 a.m. and ending
around lunchtime. Georgia Power
See McINTOSH page 10
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