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SEPTEMBER 2018 • VOLUME 24 NUMBER 9
CARROLL COUNTY, Olv^GIA's ONLY LOCALLY OWNED LOCALLY OPERATED NEWSPAPER
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StarNews monthly traditional print publication/StarNews Online daily local news
Meeting to be
held on medical
marijuana: open
to the public
Tues., Sept. 18
from press release
Rep. Micah Gravley (R-
Douglasville), co-chair of the Joint
Study Commission on Low THC
Medical Oil Access, along with State
Senator Matt Brass (R-Newnan),
today announced details of the second
commission meeting, which will take
place on Tuesday, September 18,
2018, from 1-3:30 p.m. on the lower
level of building Z-6 at The
University of West Georgia in
Carrollton. The hearing will focus on
See CANNABIS OIL page 26
Carroll EMC offices closed
for Annual Meeting
All Carroll EMC offices will
close early on Thurs., Oct. 4 for
the Annual Meeting event. The
Carrollton office will close at 3:30
pm and district offices will close
at 3 pm. During the closing,
make payments at the kiosks,
automated phone payment sys
tem (770-832-3562), online at
carrollemc.com or via the free
Carroll EMC mobile app. To
report a power outage, call 1-
877-9-OUTAGE (1-877-968-
8243) or report it online or via the
mobile app.
see Page 8
Restaurant inspections
Who passed? Who failed?
Where are you eating this week?
Marriage Licenses • Births
Pistol Permits • Cattle Sales
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Southwire’s annual
"Community Day” is
Saturday, Oct. 6th
from press release
Continuing the company’s strong
commitment to the places it calls
home, Southwire will host its annual
“Community Day” on Saturday,
October 6th, Carrollton. Headlining
the entertainment for the annual
See COMMUNITY DAY page 6
Longtime Villa Rica City Council
member Verland
Prissi Sullivan
Long-time Villa Rica City Council Member
Verland Best resigned his position after a com
plaint was filed regarding a conversation he had
had with Lenise J. Lyons, Villa Rica City
Planning and Zoning Specialist. According to
Lyons, Best was relaying information about the
city’s past and its past race relations, when he told
of an incident that happened in 1986 during his
Best resigns
tenure as a coach at Villa Rica High School.
Best told StarNews that he had quoted what a
parent had said to him to Lyons. Best said he told
Lyons that an African-American parent voiced her
opinion to him that “’if we could get rid of some
of the R******* and n******, it would make the
school better.’”
Best told StarNews that he was attempting to
See VERLAND BEST page 4
Lee Burson (center) joined the Club Fitness employees who saved his life: Cryste
Berry, Mark Bianco, Kayley Sanders, Lee Burson, Kelly Cowart, Kimberly Farmer, and
Julia Whisenhunt. Not shown: Karen Lockwood. Photo by Prissi Sullivan
Quick, knowledgeable action by Club Fitness
employees saved the life of Carrollton man
by Prissi Sullivan
On August 15, 2018, Lee Burson celebrated
his 49th birthday with the people who made it
all possible - employees of Club Fitness,
Carrollton, who worked together to save his life.
Three weeks prior, Burson was instructing a
class at the fitness center, when he passed out.
See CLUB FITNESS page 4
Quest continues to
"free Christina Boyer”
World-renowned photographer
back in the U.S. continuing his
goal to exonerate Carroll County
woman serving life for murder
by Sam Gentry
World-renowned photographer Jan
Banning is back in Carroll County from
The Netherlands continuing his quest to
help free Christina Boyer from prison.
Banning believes Boyer, who has been in
Pulaski Women’s Prison in Hawkinsville,
Georgia for the death of her three-year-old
daughter, Amber, for 26 years, was
undoubtedly wrongfully convicted.
As stated in the June 2018 print edition
of StarNews (visit stamewsgaonline.com
for complete story), Banning - who has
published numerous photography books
around the world - was working on a new
series about prisons when he discovered
StarNews (then The Carroll Star News)
January 2008 print story about Christina
“Tina” Resch Boyer that had been posted
online.
Because Banning had worked in
Geoigia on a book called “Down and Out
in the South,” he was able to use his prior
contacts and resources to make the
Pulaski Prison photo shoot happen. He
was personally given permission by then
commissioner of the Georgia Department
See JAN BANNING page 5
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