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APRIL 2017 • VOLUME 23 NUMBER 4
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Carroll County
Council on Aging’s
annual “Spring Fling”
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Who’s Carroil
Junior? 2017
Part 1 beginning Page 9
Carroll County
Air Force Junior Reserve
Officer Training Corps
Page 2
Part 2 beginning Page 31
Carroll County Water
Authority’s annual Fishing
Derby: “Gone Fishin’l”
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Carroll EMC warns
of phone scammers
New scam: callers demand
immediate payment
from press release
Carroll Electric Membership
Cooperative members should be on
guard for the latest ploy to obtain quick
cash and personal information such as
credit card and social security numbers.
“Be aware of callers claiming they
are with Carroll EMC and demanding
immediate payment or threatening
immediate disconnection,” says Jerome
Johnston, Carroll EMC chief operating
See SCAM page 19
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Villa Rica interim city
manager resigns
Jackson resigns after allegations of rejecting
black candidates applications for city manager job
by Prissi Sullivan
Chief of Police Michael Mansour is once again
occupying the seat of interim city manager of Villa Rica,
while the search continues for a person to fill the position
permanently. The interim city manager, Mike Jackson,
resigned the position after only one month on the job:
February 28th - March 28th. Jackson had been hired as
interim city manager until a permanent one was found, a
process that had been expected to take three to four
Law enforcement
schooled on what the
litter laws are and
how best to enforce
by Sue Horn Chappell
Keep Carroll Beautiful (KCB) hosted
a “Litter Law Enforcement” workshop
and luncheon on Wednesday, March
29th for area law enforcement and
others who are interested in reducing
the negative impact of litter in the West
Georgia area communities. The half day
workshop was held in the Carroll
County E911 center, Carrollton. There
were just at 35 attendees including
See LITTER LAW WORKSHOP page 4
months.
Area law enforcement learn how to best enforce litter laws
Keep Carroll Beautiful hosted a “Litter Law Enforcement” workshop March 29th at the
Carroll County E-911 Communications Center, Carrollton. Just at 35 area law enforcement
and others attended from Carroll County and surrounding areas. Shown above left to right are
Ann Crim, Keep Haralson Beautiful; Chan Weeks, Keep Douglasville Beautiful; Lindsay Pfau,
executive director, Keep Carroll Beautiful (KCB); workshop presenter Corporal Scott Carroll,
Georgia Department of Natural Resources; and Josh Ingle, KCB director of Community
Affairs. Photo by Sue Horn Chappell
See BLACK CANDIDATES
NEED NOT APPLY page 34
City of Carrollton
presents results of first
stage of “community
branding research”
1724 participated in survey
from press release
At an open meeting held at
Carrollton City Hall, Wednesday,
March 22, 2017, 4:00 p.m., April
Saunders of cre8minds LLC and
Maggie Worth of WheatGerm LLC
reported summary results of the City of
Carrollton’s community branding pro
ject’s research phase.
This first stage of the project, which
is critical to the development of a genu
ine, relevant brand, began with an
extensive review of City plans, market
ing materials, websites, and documents,
followed by a series of meetings with
key stakeholder groups, in which a total
of 12 City employees and elected offi
cials participated. The consultants then
organized seven focus groups, com
prised of more than 55 participants,
which included community members,
small business owners, and college stu
dents. Stakeholder and focus groups
See CITY BRANDING page 34
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