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YOU eating and sleeping this week see page 23 “Supporting local means supporting local newspapers ” - see page 19 “What’s really behind the plight of newspapers? ” - see page 19 | NEWS REPORTING / NEWS RECAP / NEWS ANALYSIS StarNews monthly traditional print publication /StarNews Online daily local news \ JULY 11, 2021 • VOLUME 27 NUMBER 7 www.starnewsgaonline.com Yolanda Kagler named executive director of Carroll County Court Appointed Special Advocates (CASA) “Our goal is to put children in forever families” Gary Black selects West Georgians for “Team 22 ” in coming run for U.S. Senate seat challenging incumbent Raphael Warnock from press release Republican Gary Black, Georgia Agriculture Commissioner and announced U.S. Senate candidate, made public his list of county coordinators for his “Team 22” grassroots initiative in his run against incumbent Raphael Warnock (D). Black announced in June he would challenge Warnock in the Nov. 8, 2022 See GARY BLACK for SENATE page 8 by Wayne Reynolds On June 21st, Yolanda Kagler began serving the children in Carroll County as executive direc tor of Carroll County CASA (Court Appointed Special Advocates). “For the past 18 years I have been serving children in Fulton, DeKalb, Muscogee, and Paulding counties with the Georgia Division of Family and Children Services,” Kagler said. “But this opportunity to become a part of the Carroll County CASA organization to help children on a different level is such an exciting challenge and opportunity!” For those who are not familiar with Carroll County CASA, their mission statement explains: “Through the power of volunteer advocacy, Carroll County CASA works to ensure that all victims of child abuse and neglect are given a chance to thrive in a safe, perma nent home. CASA’s trained and supervised volunteers provide an independent voice for children, one child at a time, by speaking for See KAGLER:CASA page 10 Former KGB agent and atheist, now American citizen and Christian, visits with the Toastmasters of West Georgia and speaks on his conversions Shown above is East German-born Jack Barsky (nee Albrecht Dittrich) at a recent Toastmasters of West Georgia meeting. He was recruited by the KGB in 1969, becoming a Russian spy in the U.S. He spoke on his life and the joy of becoming an American and a Christian. See page 5. Photo by Sue Horn Former Georgia Secretary of State Karen Handel hired to lead Carroll Tomorrow and Carroll County Chamber of Commerce Handel was first female Republican from Georgia to be elected to Congress (2017); past chairman Fulton County Board of Commissioners (2003-2006); and had a run for governor (2010) from press release made by Loy Howard, chair of the Karen Handel has been selected Carroll Tomorrow Board of by the leadership of Carroll Directors, following an extensive Tomorrow as the economic develop- executive search process, ment organization’s new president “Early in the process, the search and chief executive officer. She will committee identified several key also serve as president and CEO for traits we were looking for in a can- the Carroll County Chamber of didate,” said Howard. “The ability Commerce. This announcement was See KAREN HANDEL page 13 Mt. Zion City Mayor Randy Sims: “unprecendented cooperation between governments” is bringing city water - finally - to all residents by Wayne Reynolds director of the Carroll County Water At the Carroll County Board of Authority (CCWA), presented to the Commissioners retreat held last commissioners a detailed overview spring at Banning Mills, of the water authority’s proposed Whitesburg, a large portion of that plans to improve to the water system eight hour work day was devoted to in the northern portion of unincorpo- the “Mt. Zion/Carroll County Water rated Carroll County (south of 1-20 Plan”. Matt Wmdom, executive See MT Z | 0 N WATER page 4 Georgia Labor Department: proof of work search returns as requirement to receive weekly unemployment money from press release dence of three verifiable contacts of The Georgia Department of work search activities as part of the Labor (GDOL) ended the state’s weekly certification process, participation in the federal unem- “Work search and registration ployment insurance (UI) programs with EmployGeorgia is part of the enacted through the CARES Act reemployment process,” said and the American Rescue Plan Act. Georgia Labor Commissioner Mark Beginning Sunday, July 4, 2021, Butler. “Unemployment insurance claimants are now required to sub- payments serve as a financial sup- mit work search by submitting evi- See WORK SEARCH PROOF page 3 DON’T MISS AN ISSUE! READ DIGITAL MONTHLY ... 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