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The Wiregrass Farmer, November 25,2015 - Page 3
Zion Hope holds pageant for Breast Cancer awareness
Zion Hope Missionary Bap
tist Church Annual Southern
Prince and Princess Pageant
was held in remembrance of
Melissa Gamble and in support
of Breast Cancer Aware
ness. We thank all the contest
ants, judges, parents, special
guest Mary Anne Sturdevan,
RN from Turner County
Health Department, and every
one who supported our pageant
for 2015.
Tiny Miss Queen
De'Niveah Prince, King -
Jackson Chatfield, Prince -
Marino Blanton, Junior Miss
Queen - Aphrael Bateman,
Young Miss Queen - Ja’Naz-
jah Hurley, People’s Choice
Winner - Megan Blackmon,
Little Miss Queen - Caitlyn
Burgess
Tiny Miss Division: Amia Walker, Riley King, De'Niveah Prince, Kristian Chatfield,
Ah'laysia Clark
Little Miss Division: Caitlyn Burgess, Tamelia Burgess, Ty'khia Burgess, Jaida Cald
well, Anashiah Troupe, Alyssa Walker
Young Miss Division: Jokara Blanton, Megan Blackmon, Ja'Nazjah Hurley
Junior Miss Division: Kanyla Merriweather, Nyla Leggett, Shakarra Bass, Aphrael
Bateman
Prince Division: Kamoni Smith, Marino Blanton, Larry Vail IV, Damarion Washing
ton, Broxton Buchanan
King Division: Jackson Chatfield, Ty'Kevious Burgess, Timothy Burgess, Racquez
Burgess, Camion Snead, Terry Wynn
High school students with owl pellets they dissected in science class. The
display behind them shows common items found in owl pellets
Breaking down pellets to determine diet
High school science class
students spent part of last week
dissection owl pellets.
An owl pellet is part of the
remains of the owl’s last meal.
The bird vomits the pellet out.
Owl pellets are balls of
bone, teeth, hair, feathers and
exoskeletons from the animals
the owl has eaten. The bird’s
digestive tract is not powerful
enough to break these items
down. Hair and feathers typi
cally cover the bones.
By dissecting pellets, any
one can learn what the bird re
cently ate. Long term
dissection of one owl’s pellets
can show what the bird prefers
to eat and what common prey
can be found in the area.
FIRE
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LOWER INSURANCE
The idea behind the full
time department is to lower
building insurance premiums
in the County. The Insurance
Service Office (ISO) ranks
communities’ firefighting abil
ity (see sidebar, Page 1). Ash-
burn is a 2, putting it in a very
elite class. Macon is the only
Georgia community with a 1.
The higher the number, the
worse the firefighting ability in
that community.
Turner County is a 9, one
step above 10. A 10 means
means there is no fire depart
ment.
“Mark’s job as the chief is
to direct the full-time employ
ees and volunteers to grow the
fire department, involve the
community, provide fire safety
education, provide training for
the full-time employees and
volunteers, recruit new volun
teers, manage the budget and
apply for grants. He will also
work on lowering the ISO for
the County Fire Department,”
Mr. McCard said. “Hiring a
full-time staff will allow us to
concentrate on lowering the
ISO. The only effect it will
have is a positive effect to
wards lowering it. It gives us
more manpower and time to
direct towards this cause.”
JOINT RESPONSE
The County and City of
Ashburn have an automatic
mutual aid contract. If there’s a
structure fire in the County, the
City is dispatched with the
County automatically. There’s
also a mutual aid agreement
that either side can call for help
from the other at any time. The
County pays Ashburn for auto
matic mutual aid. The on-call
aid agreement doesn’t cost ei
ther side.
Chairman McCard said Mr.
Robinson’s hiring will not af-
Christmas
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picture to the office or email
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If you have any questions call
the Wiregrass at 567-3655.
feet that automatic aid con
tract.
“This will not affect the
contract that we have with the
City because it is a three year
contract and it only benefits the
citizens of Turner County to
keep it in place. So the City
will keep responding to struc
ture fires in the county with the
full time staff of the county fire
department,” he said.
Chief Robinson is also the
County’s Emergency Manage
ment Agency director.
ABOUT THE CHIEF
“Mark Robinson has been
with Fire Department since
1995 in Turner County. He has
been employed full time with
the City of Ashburn Fire Dept
since 1999. He was a large part
of the command staff and as
sisted in the last three ISO re
ductions with the City. He is
excited about working with the
Community and County Com
mission to help grow our fire
department and lower the ISO
rating,” Mr. McCard said.
ISO used to set insurance rates
by Chief Mark Robinson
The Insurance Services Office (ISO) is an independent com
pany that rates every community in the United States for fire
& emergency readiness. The ISO rating is then used to deter
mine the insurance rates for the community that the fire de
partment is responsible for. The communities are rated on items
like manpower, equipment and training, water supply and com
munications. The fire department is the holder of this rating
and by lowering their ISO ratings every fire department can in
turn lower the cost of property insurance for their community.
ISO only deals with structures within your community! The
scale for this rating is 1-10, one being the best, so the lower
the score the less your home owners insurance will be. The cur
rent rating for Turner County is a 9. Our goal in the fire de
partment is to lower this rating so that the citizens can save
valuable funds on their homeowner insurance.
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CITY OF REBECCA
PUBLIC NOTICE
BUDGET MEETING
The Rebecca City Council will hold a public
budget hearing on December 7, 2015, at 6:00
p.m. at the Rebecca City Hall. The proposed
budget is posted at the City Hall. Council
meeting will follow at 6:30 p.m.
Revenues
General Fund Budget
Water Fund Budget
Total Budget
Expenditures
General Fund Budget
Water Fund Budget
Total Budget
$110,361.00
$65,000.00
$175,361.00
$110,361.00
$65,000.00
$175,361.00