OBITUARIES
A2 Fayette County News
Wednesday, January 25,2023
Garold (Jerry)
W. Hagist
Garold (Jerry) W. Ha
gist, age 89, of Peachtree
City, passed away Jan. 14,
2023.
Mr. Hagist was retired
from General Motors, and
he was also a proud veteran
of the U.S. Army. He was
preceded in death by a son,
Gary Hagist, and a brother,
Edward Hagist.
Survivors include his
wife of 20 years, Betty D.
Hagist; son, Russell Hagist;
daughters, Michelle White,
Kimberly Rolling, and Jen
nifer Devine. He is also sur
vived by grandchildren,
great-grandchildren, and
nieces and nephews.
Funeral services were
held Tuesday, Jan. 17, at
Mowell Funeral Home Fay
etteville Chapel, with Pastor
B.J. Cobb officiating. Jerry
is laid to rest at Westmin
ster Memorial Gardens.
The family request in
lieu of flowers, donations be
made to The American
Heart Association. We wel
come you to provide your
condolences, thoughts, and
memories of Jerry on our
Tribute Wall.
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Kaiser Permanente Grants $200K Toward
Improving Maternal, Infant Care in Georgia
Leah Banks
Investigative Reporter
leah@fayette-news.net
FAYETTE — In efforts to
curve racial disparities that lie
in marginalized communities,
Kaiser Permanente is granting
$200,000 to Center for Black
Women’s Wellness and Geor
gia Family Connection Partner
ship to help improve maternal
and infant health in Georgia.
Georgia Family Connection
Partnership will work with
Butts, Lamar, Meriwether,
Spalding, Fayette, and Clayton
Counties. Family Connection
Collaboratives plans to enhance
prenatal and postnatal care, re
duce the rate of lowbirthweight
births and infant mortality, and
address disparities in maternal
care with Kaiser’s funding.
Racial disparities in
women’s health have been dis
cussed on a national scale.
According to the Centers
for Disease Control, black
women are three times more
likely to die from a pregnancy-
related cause than white
women. There are many factors
associated with this statistic, in
cluding variation in quality
healthcare, underlying chronic
conditions, and alleged struc
tural racism and bias.
The Center for Black
Women’s Wellness will receive
$96,855 from the grant and
plans to utilize funds for im
proving outcomes among black
women and birthing persons in
Atlanta during the prenatal and
postnatal period through edu
cation, training, linkages to
doula services for childbirth,
and stronger coordination of
health care services post-deliv-
eiy.
The Georgia Family Con
nection Partnership will receive
$99,000 from the grant and
will work to expand and en
hance community-based work
to improve women’s health and
reduce the rate of low birth-
weight births. This program
has helped counties in devel
opment, implementation, and
evaluation of local strategies to
improve women’s health and
decrease low birthweight births
and infant mortality by under
standing and addressing socio-
environmental factors in
health.
Charmaine Ward-Millner,
vice president of marketing,
communications, and com
munity relations for Kaiser Per
manente Georgia, says she was
excited about the grant being
gifted to organizations that
pride themselves on maintain
ing the life of mothers and chil
dren.
“First of all, this is so im
portant because if we look at
any of the statistics that are out
there, Georgia has the worst
maternal mortality ratio of any
state in the nation. I believe we
rank number 47 in terms of low
birthweight babies,” Ward-
Millner said. “So, we know we
have a huge disparity when it
comes to [maternal health].”
According to Ward-Mill
ner, Kaiser wanted to make
sure that it was investing in
changing this disparity.
“So, giving to the Center for
Black Women’s Wellness and
Georgia Family Connection
Partnership is our first step in
doing this,” Ward-Millner said.
Ward-Millner does not shy
away from looking at the sur
rounding effects of maternal
and infant health as it relates to
the environment and socioeco
nomic status of those who are
impacted most.
“What we’re really looking
at is addressing the socioenvi-
ronmental factors. So, if you
think about it, the questions be
come “Where are they living?”
“Do they have access to healthy
food?” I mean, those types of
things all have an impact,”
Ward-Millner said.
For Kaiser Permanente
Georgia and Ward-Millner, the
importance of this grant is to
not only save the lives of moth
ers, but also the lives of future
generations.
“When we think about our
future, we have to think about
our babies, and so, it is so im
portant that we invest in those
initiatives,” Ward-Millner said.
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Tyrone Council Approves
$23,800 of New Technology
Sydney Spencer
News Reporter
sspencer@fayette-news.net
The Tyrone Town Coun
cil met on Jan. 19 and unan
imously approved an
upgrade of portable radios
for public works department
personnel at a cost of
$23,866.
Town Manager Brandon
Perkins presented the issue
to council, stating a need for
six new portable radios. He
explained how the current
technology being used by
department personnel is
outdated and in need of up
grade.
“Currently, our public
works personnel, when
they’re out in the field, the
only way they have to com
municate are cell phones
and they have some lower-
end off-the-shelf radios that
are kind of point to point. So,
it’s kind of difficult for them.
Cell phones are fine, but
when we’re trying to get a
message out to the group,
especially for storm re
sponse, it can be difficult,”
said Perkins.
Perkins went on to ex
plain that funding for the
portable radios was available
through the CARES Act, ear
marked to assist with effec
tive communication.
“In order to work to
wards a more effective way
to communicate, I would
like to provide them each
with a portable radio. This is
a first responder law en
forcement quality radio. In
fact, they’re very similar to
what the officers carry. This
is a state contract purchase.
The original quote was for
$25,000 and I went to look
ing at our funding source,
the CARES Act, and there
was $23,866.18 left and I
called the guy and asked if he
could work with me,” said
Perkins.
After consideration and
review, council moved to ap
prove the upgrade in tech
nology.
Grass or llirf?
Tyrone Council Approves Turf Fields at Hadley Park
Sydney Spencer
News Reporter
sspencer@fayette-news.net
At the Town of Tyrone’s
council meeting on Jan. 19,
a request was made to allow
Turfplaner of Georgia to
perform its turfplaning
services on fields two
through six at Handley
Park. The request was
unanimously approved by
the board.
Tyrone Town Manager
Brandon Perkins presented
the request to the board by
explaining what was wrong
with the current baseball
fields and expressed con
cern for necessary repairs
and maintenance.
“We have been meeting
with representatives from
the baseball association a
little more frequently here
lately, trying to talk out
some things and have a
better working relationship.
During one of those meet
ings, it was brought to our
attention that some grading
and field maintenance was
needed,” said Perkins.
Perkins went on to talk
about what field work was
necessary. He stressed how
essential turfplaning would
be and how injuries could
occur if the maintenance
was not performed.
“The fields have gotten
to a point where there were
cosmetic issues. More im
portantly, what this turf
planing does is it cuts down
the lip between the dirt in
field and the grass outfield.
It can help prevent a ran
dom pop up, you know, a
ball rolling and popping up
hitting someone in the face,
that kind of thing,” said
Perkins.
The Town of Tyrone has
its own youth baseball
league called the Tyrone
Youth Baseball Association
(TYBA), and games take
place at Handley Park. Per
kins mentioned how au
thority from the TYBA had
noticed the baseball fields
are no longer up to stan
dards and need attention.
“TYBA had been looking
at this for quite a while and
brought it to our attention
and we looked at it. They
had some funding set aside
and said if you can partner
with us, we’ll help the town
get this accomplished. So,
what we agreed to is that
the town will take this on,
and they would pay us back
with 50 percent of the cost,”
said Perkins.
Perkins spoke about
why Turfplaner of Georgia
was the company selected
to perform the job. He ex
plained how they were the
only company to acknowl
edge his bid.
“Turfplaner of Georgia
is really the only company
in the area that does this
kind of work. It’s special
ized equipment. I did put it
out for bid, but I got zero
bids. I knew that turfplan
ing was kind of a proprie
tary process, but there are
other companies that do a
similar type of work. At any
rate, we got no other bids
other than Turfplaner.
TYBA has agreed and we’re
going to invoice them for
$7,400 upon approval,”
said Perkins.
After careful considera
tion, the board moved to
approve the request.
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