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Lee County Ledger
your Hometown Source of Cocal flews
Hometown Newspaper of Bill and Linda Futch
Volume XXIV - Number 20
Leesburg, Georgia -- December 27,2001
Fifty Cents
Sentences Issued In
Leesburg Municipal Court
Doherty
Duggan
Rouse
Over 2500 children were able to have a Merry Christmas this year thanks to the
U.S. Marine Corps Toys For Tots Program. 43 Lee County families with 109
children received presents from the Albany MCLB. Presents and bicycles where
distributed at the Leesburg City Hall by (left to right) CpI. Ernie Thompson,
Leesburg Police Chief Charles Moore, and Sgt. Steven Murray.
Leesburg Municipal Court
Judge Cathy Spillers issued sen
tences December 18, 2001.
Amber Lee Hester pled nolo
to speeding 50 miles per hour in
a 35 miles per hour zone. Hester
was fined $50.00.
Joannie Lee Juarez pled nolo
to shoplifting charges. Juarez
was fined $375.00 and sen
tenced to six months probation.
She was ordered to make resti
tution in the amount of $25.41.
Timothy Loman pled nolo to
charges of shoplifting. Loman
was fined $375.00 and sen
tenced to six months probation
in addition to a fine of $135.00
for old charges and six months
probation for a total of $510.00
in fines and 12 months proba
tion.
Darren Lee Rawlins pled nolo
to driving with an expired tag
and driving without insurance.
Rawlins was fined $375.00.
Vandria Johnson West pled
nolo to speeding 50 miles per
hour in a 35 miles per hour zone.
West was fined $50.00.
The following people did not
show for court or make arrange
ments to pay their fine. A $25.00
fee has been added. If payment
is not made in 20 days a Depart
ment of Public Safety (DPS)
Form 912 will be issued which
will result in suspension of their
driver’s license.
John Arthur Mays was charged
with speeding 48 miles per hour
in a school zone. Mays was
fined $205.00.
Jeremy Alan Morris was
charged with following too
close. Morris was fined $95.00.
Billy Lee Pollard was charged
with speeding 41 miles per hour
in a school zone. Pollard was
fines $145.00.
Shawn Michael Regnier was
charged with not wearing a seat
belt. Regnier was fined $40.00.
Nakia D. Ross was charged
with speeding 80 miles per hour
in a 55 miles per hour zone. She
was fined $115.00.
David R. Seward was charged
with driving with an expired
tag. Seward was fined $150.00.
The LeeFOCUS Youth
Team helped the Lee
County Sertoma Club
prepare gifts for a local
family. On Friday,
September 21, Ashtyn
Bishop, Breckyn Bishop,
Kelli Powell, Carolyn
Kimbrel, Rachel Kimbrel,
Hollis Johnson, Merritt
Johnson, Ryan Barnette,
and Leah Barnette
worked to help Santa by
wrapping the gifts and
filling stockings with
holiday cheer.
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A New
Year’s
Wish
May the
conning year
be full of
blessings for
you and yours.
The Lee County Utilities
Authority voted last Thursday
night during their meeting to
extend the contract of Chris
Boswell, the general manager,
for three years. The authority
also voted to increase Boswell’s
salary from the current amount
of $47,147.00 to $53,000.00 per
year.
Boswell will also receive the
annual cost of living increase
that will be granted to other
county employees. The
recommendations for the terms
of the new contract was
presented by the personnel
committee that met December
3.
W.F. Griffin and Dent Reeves
sought clarification from the
utilities board concerning
options that Mr. Griffin has in
s ee Utilities,
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Bring One For The
Chippper
By William A. Clark, Director
Lee County Public Works
Once again, Lee County
Public Works and Lee County
Inert and Recyclable Holding
Facility will sponsor and
participate in the Bring One for
The Chipper Program
this year.
This is a statewide
program to recycle
Christmas trees by
chipping them for mulch
or providing them for
ponds and lakes as fish
habitat. This program
reduces the number of
trees going into landfills
or being abandoned on
the roadside.
This is the third year
Lee County has partici
pated in this program and it
continues to grow taking in
several hundred trees each year.
Tree seedlings are given in
exchange for each tree brought
in and I understand that this
years seedlings will be dog
woods. The Christmas trees are
Utilities Authority Extends
General Manager’s Contract,
Increases Salary
Sentences Issued In
Magistrate Court For
Deposit Account Fraud
three counts of deposit account
fraud, was sentenced on the first
count to 12 months in jail which
can be served on supervised pro
bation and a payment of fines,
fees and restitution of $230.00.
On the second count, Pittman was
sentenced to 12 months jail which
can be served on supervised pro
bation and payment of fines, fees
and restitution of $230.00 to run
consecutive to count one. On the
third count, Pittman was sen
tenced to 12 months jail which
can be served on supervised pro
bation and payment of fine, fees
and restitution of $237.00 to run
consecutive to count two.
Rodney C. Evans posted two
separate cash bonds. Evans posted
a cash bond of $288.00 and a sec
ond cash bond of $363.45.
Magistrate Court Judge Jim
Thurman issued sentenced De
cember 18, 2001 for deposit ac
count fraud.
Lisa Williams posted a cash
bond of $27.44.
Teresa Marie Heinemann posted
three separate cash bonds.
Heinemann posted a cash bond of
$229.02, a cash bond of $678.87
and a cash bond of $329.83.
Rickie L. Jenkins posted a cash
bond of $246.11.
Ollie R. Gordon posted a cash
bond of $435.00.
James W. Lee posted a cash
bond of $254.50.
Geraldine Jones posted a cash
bond of $263.00.
Adolph Solomon posted a cash
bond of $233.23.
Jimmy Pittman, charged with
ground into mulch and offered
back to the public for free for
use in flowerbeds.
This year's event will be
Saturday, January 5th from
10:00 until 6:00 at the Lee
County Inert & Recyclable
Holding Facility
located on State Hwy.
32 east next to Public
Works. Please bring in
your tree, pickup a
seedling for your yard
and help make Lee
County a clean
community for all of
us to enjoy.
For more information
please contact Lee
County Inert and
Recyclable Holding
Facility at 759-6009,
or Lee County Public
Works at 759-6028.
BUFFALO ROCK
Thanks for
your past
support.
We look
forward to
serving you
in 2002.