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VOL. 18 NO. 39 g FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 30 2016 75 CENTS
GREENE COUNTY
GCSO makes two arrests
in burglary, death case
Investigators with the Greene
County Sheriffs Office have arrested
and charged Amanda Breann Price
and Anthony Gerald Peaks, both
of Greensboro, with one count of
Burglary - 1st Degree, one count
of Criminal Attempt to Commit
Burglary - 1st Degree, and one count
of Possession of Tools for the Com
mission of a Crime.
The arrest stems from a death that
is still currently under investigation.
On Monday, Sept. 19, Deputies were
called to the home of Benny “Chuck”
Mann of 2180 Highway 77 N., Union
Point. Two employees of Quail Inter
national where Mann worked came
to the home to check on him when he
SEE ARRESTS » A6
GREENE COUNTY
Publix to be renovated
The Publix grocery store, located at
6350 Lake Oconee Parkway, will undergo
a full renovation later this year, according
to Publix’s Georgia Media and Community
Relations Manager Brenda Reid.
The renovation is scheduled to take
about six months to complete, she said.
“No real details yet on what is going to be
happening just because of the competitive
nature of the grocery business, we don’t
want to put too much information out
there too soon,” she said.
According to property records available
on the Greene County website, the Publix
building was built in 2002 on 9-57 acres of Jackie Gutknecht/Staff
land and is 56,520 square feet. Lake Country's Publix, located at 6350 Lake Oconee Parkway, will
- Jackie Gutknecht undergo renovations later this year.
Don Richeson/Staff
Last year's Gatewood homecoming queen, Jessica
Pierson, right, returned to "The Swamp" Friday
to crown Sara Beck. Jessica is now a student at
Georgia College in Milledgeville.
Amanda Breann
Price
Anthony Gerald
Peaks
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A6
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A4
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MORGAN COUNTY
Chophouse hosts ‘Celebrity’ Fundraiser
T. Michael Stone/Staff
Elton John and Cruella De Vil (Vicki Hunt and Kim Brown) spent
some time getting to know each other during the event.
T. Michael Stone
michael@lakeoconeenews.us
A who’s who of celebrities turned
out for the sixth annual United Way
Celebrity Fundraiser Monday night
at the Chophouse. Even Elvis Presley
showed up despite rumors of his
death in 1978.
Chop House customers who
attended the event can boast that they
were once served by the likes of Kim
Kardashian (Terri Smith) and Katy
Perry (Tara Fox). Even a Fall Fairy
Fortune Teller (Diane Yost) showed
up and threatened poor tippers with
another month of 90-degree heat.
The famous Dr. Jimmy Stokes,
who was actually Dr. Jimmy Stokes
and not someone dressed up like Dr.
Jimmy Stokes, got the evening going
with a welcome and tipped off cus
tomers that all donations to the wait
staff would be part of the fundraiser’s
proceeds.
Following a tasty Chophouse
dinner, an auction was held that gave
participants a chance to bid on several
items including rounds of golf and
hotel stays at Reynolds Lake Oconee,
Falcon’s tickets, UGA football tickets,
a set of tires from Greensboro tire
and a photo shoot with Brandy Angel.
Items to be auctioned were worth
more than $9,000.
The goal of this year’s United Way
SEE CELEBRITIES » A10
MORGAN COUNTY
Burglar tries Ingles, then Quality Lube
A thief attempted to rob two a.m. through the front door which
businesses on Eatonton Road on had been unlocked by cleaning
Sept. 14 without much success. crews. While employees were
According an incident report restocking shelves, the suspect
obtained from the Madison Police jumped over the wall into the man-
Department, Officer E. Kline was ager’s area in the front of the store,
dispatched to the Ingles grocery Surveillance footage showed the
store on Eatonton Road early that suspect hiding behind counters
morning and met with the store’s and attempting to break into
assistant manager Bobby Meeler. cabinets and drawers. The suspect
Meeler told Kline that the
suspect entered the store at 2:53 SEE BURGLAR » A6
PUTNAM COUNTY
Lake Country woman
fatally shot in Atlanta
Don Richeson I editor@msgr.com
A Putnam County woman is dead after being
shot in her car in downtown Atlanta early Monday
morning. Landa Diane Smith Mclver, 63, of
Pea Ridge Road, died during surgery at Emory
Hospital in DeKalb County around 1:20 a.m.
SEE MCIVER » A6 Landa Mclver
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