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The Lee County Ledger
Volume XXIV - Number 37
your Hometown Source of Cocal flews
Leesburg, Georgia -- April 25, 2002
Hometown Newspaper of Gilbert and Carla Brown
Fifty Cents
Utility Authority
Discusses Odor Control
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Smithville
Improvement
Group
will meet
Tuesday
May 7 at
7:00 p.m.
Great American Clean-up
Volunteer participants showed up at 7:30 a.m. on April 13, 2002 to begin the
clean-up. Areas cleaned were Glendale, Grave Springs, Stocks Dairy, and White
Pond Roads. Lee County employees William Clark, Ellen Downs, Whitney
Littleton, and Jeffery Morris, coordinators, were remarkable for making this
second year event run smoothly.
Alumni and Friends Wanted:
On May 9, 2002 at 7:00 PM. Lee County Elementary School will celebrate 80
years of education and you are invited. There will be a farewell ceremony to
commemorate four decades of education in these historic buildings. The
community is invited to come and enjoy the “LCES Time Machine” play and
take a tour of the grounds before the school relocates to their new facility. If you
would like to share any historic pictures of the school or family and friends,
please call SaraBess Lunsford at 759-6146.
The Lee County Board of Edu
cation approved the employment
of Steven L. Hankla as the new
principal of Lee County Middle
School. He replaces Keith Lee as
principal.
Mr. Lee's contract as principal
was not renewed by the board of
education. Lee, who served as
principal for several years, re
ceived the support of a large del
egation of parents that signed a
petition encouraging the school
board to renew his contract.
Mr. Hankla has served as an as
sistant principal, fine arts direc
tor and director of bands at Val
dosta High School since 1987. He
was recently named as Georgia’s
Assistant Principal of the Year
and is a nominee for the national
recognition as Assistant Principal
of the Year.
Leesburg Police
Files Weekly Report
Leesburg Police Charles Moore
reports that officers with the
Leesburg Police Department
worked several cases recently in
cluding criminal trespass, miss
ing juvenile, recovered property,
larceny, traffic offense and enter
ing auto.
Captain Monterey Moody
worked a case involving criminal
trespass on Starkville Avenue on
April 19. The victim reported to
Captain Moody that someone at
tempted to break into her vehicle.
Police Chief Walt Causey is
sued the following arrest report
for the Smithville Police Depart
ment. According to Kathy
Albright, Public Relations Of
ficer, police officers worked cases
involving expired license, defec
tive equipment, no insurance,
speeding, burglary, aggravated
assault, obstruction of an officer,
open container violation, and
driving without license.
Obispo Pelico Vicente. 29, of
448A Brown Street, Buena Vista.
Georgia, was charged with driv
ing while license suspended on
April 19 by Lt. D.H. Smith. Lt.
Smith observed Vicente driving
at a slow rate of speed and no
ticed a broken tail light. Lt. Smith
Unknown person! s) attempted to
pry the rear door top hinge off the
rear door of the vehicle.
Major David Bullington
worked a missing juvenile case
April 19. A 16 year old juvenile
was reported missing by his
mother after he did not return
home from school. The juvenile
was located and returned to Lees
burg where he was released to his
mother.
Major David Bullington recov
ered a bike in the 100 block of
made a traffic stop and Vicente
stated that his license was sus
pended for DUI. He was placed
under arrest for driving while li
cense was suspended and trans
ported to the Lee County Jail.
Carla Dolores Owens, 29, of
293 Livingston Road, Smithville,
was charged with driving while
license was suspended second
See Smithville,
Page 2A
Magnolia Street April 19. The
bike is stored at the police depart
ment after a computer check
through GCIC was negative for a
stolen bike matching the descrip
tion.
Captain Moody worked a theft
by taking case April 18. The vic
tim reported that unknown per-
son(s) removed eight tomato
plants from his garden. The case
is opening further investigation.
Katrina Leigh Shanks. 34, of
709 Childers Road, was charged
April 18 with no left turn and
driving while license suspended.
Lt. Tim Murphy stopped Shanks
for making an illegal left turn off
Canal Street into the parking lot
of the middle school. A computer
check showed her license was
suspended. She was arrested and
placed in the Lee County Jail.
An entering auto case was made
by Patrolman Dennis Griffin
April 18 at the high school. The
victim advised Patrolman Griffin
that unknown person(s) used an
unknown object to enter the ve
hicle. A pack of cigarettes was
removed from the car.
Smithville Police Files
Weekly Report
During their meeting April 18,
the members of the Lee County
Utilities Authority heard an up
date from two representatives of
Reardon International Technolo
gies, Inc. that specializes in envi
ronmentally, engineered odor
management system.
The representatives said that
based on their initial survey, a
wall mounted dispersion unit
with an automatic dilution station
with nozzles placed at strategic
locations would control any odor
Annual Reception
Thursday April 25
For Office Personnel
The Lee County Ledger invites all of
fice professionals to a reception
Thursday afternoon.
April 25 at the Ledger’
office, located at 126
Fourth Street in Lees
burg. The reception
will be held between
3:00 and 4:30 p.m.
The reception is sponsored by The Ledger in an effort
to salute all office professional in the local area who
are so instrumental in the development of business and
their valuable service.
The Ledger will spotlight office professionals in a spe
cial section of the paper that week with photographs.
Any business that would like to spotlight their office
professional in the April 25 edition of the Ledger should
call Tina Maples at 759-2413 to have a picture made.
complaint from the waste treat
ment plant.
The capital cost for all equip
ment and installation would be
$6,835.00. The operational cost
would be approximately $32 per
day. The solution cost $54 per
gallon and is sold in 55 gallons
drums.
The board was told by the
company’s representatives that
they would move the equipment
to the new waste treatment plant
when it is completed at no addi
tional cost. The representative
assured the board that for his
company to make money, the so
lution had to work and he was
guaranteeing that it would. If af
ter trying the supplies for 30 days
and if not satisfied, the utility au
thority would not have to pay for
the installation of the equipment.
He said that he just remove it and
there would not be a charge.
Chris Boswell. General man
ager of the utility authority, was
instructed by the board to check
out other locations using this
equipment and supplies to deter
mine their relations to its success.
If it is working satisfactory in
other locations, the authority ap
proved the installation of the
equipment and purchasing the
supplies.
Oliver’s
Hearing
Postponed
The fair dismissal hearing
which was set for this week for
Greg Oliver
has been
continued
until a new
date is set.
He was dis
missed by
the board of
education
from his po
sition as
principal of Lee County High
School. Before his dismissal, he
was transferred to the school
system’s curriculum office.
Mr. Oliver is represented by
Brent English of Ohio. His attor
ney had conflicts with the pro
posed date.
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America Cover Miss
Shelby Danie’l Dedge, the seven year old daughter
of Keith and Teresa Dedge, won the title America’s
Cover Miss March 7 at the Albany Civic Center. She
is eligible to go to the state competition in Waycross,
Georgia in May. She also won the Best Attire Award.
BUFFALO ROCK
LCHS Class of
82 Reunion is
being planned
Contact
Kay at
888-7298 or
Todd at
435-3841
