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Page 2 - The Wiregrass Farmer, January 27,2016
C&C Bait and Tackle held a ribbon cutting in Sycamore last week.
Subway held a ribbon cutting for its new location on E. Washington in Ashburn.
TRMC wins award for organ donation work
LifeLink® of Georgia is
proud to announce Tift Re
gional Medical Center re
ceived a Silver award for its
organ, eye, and tissue donation
and registration efforts through
the Workplace Partnership for
Life Hospital Campaign.
Sponsored by the U.S. De
partment of Health and Human
Services, Health Resources
and Services Administration,
the campaign brings together
national partners, local and re
gional organ, eye and tissue
donation organizations, and
hospitals throughout the nation
to educate employees and their
communities on the impor
tance of organ, eye and tissue
donation. The 736 hospitals
who earned gold, silver, and
bronze level recognition
earned points for awareness
and registry activities between
August 1, 2014 and April 20,
2015.
“Tift Regional Medical
Center is a great champion for
organ, eye, and tissue dona
tion. We are proud of this ac
complishment and applaud
them for making a difference
in the lives of the more than
5,300 Georgians that are cur
rently waiting for transplant,”
says Danny Johnson, Hospital
Development Liaison with
LifeLink of Georgia, “It is be
cause of these professionals’
unyielding dedication to sav
ing lives that we applaud their
achievements.”
The need is real. Each day,
an average of 79 Americans re
ceive life-saving organ trans
plants and thousands more
benefit from cornea and tissue
transplants. These extraordi
nary gifts have been gener
ously donated by ordinary
people of all ages and back
grounds who took just a few
minutes in a busy day to indi
cate their decisions to become
organ, eye, and tissue donors.
Every 11 minutes another per
son is added to the national
transplant waiting list that cur
rently lists over 123,000 peo
ple and sadly, approximately
22 people die daily because of
the organ shortage.
For information about the
Workplace Partnership for Life
Hospital Campaign, visit
http://organdonor.gov/howhelp
/hospitalcampaign.html. To
learn more about organ and tis
sue donation in Georgia visit
LifeLink® at www.lifelink-
foundation.org and to desig
nate your decision to be an
organ, tissue and eye donor
sign-up on Donate Life Geor
gia’s Organ and Tissue Donor
Registry at www.donatelifege
orgia.org.
SEWER
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If the work doesn’t remedy
matters, the mayor promised
more work.
“I’m no dummy,” Mr. Gip
son said. As for the work going
on now, “that’s good. That’s
progress. I see that with my
own eyes.”
He said he is aware the
problem can’t be fixed in a day
or so.
“Just so long as progress is
being made,” he said.
He said the lift station has a
big pump and a generator that
runs a lot, creating noise. Still,
“I know that is a problem when
it goes off. The water backs up.
“I don’t want the water
coming up in my house. When
water comes up in my house,
that’s not good for nobody.”
“We’re doing the best we
can with what we’ve got,” the
mayor said.
SECOND SPEAKER
Johnny Hillmon spoke next.
He came before the Council a
few years ago to lodge the
same complaints.
“We’ve had this problem
for more than 5-6 years. We’ve
had this problem a long time.
We’ve had this problem for the
last 30-40 years,” he said.
“This stuff is coming in our
face. Urine and No. 2 come up
in our face. All this crap -
someone is going to get sick.
“Someone is going to get
sick. People coming in my
neighborhood get all this stuff
coming down in their lungs.”
As for promises from the
Mayor and Council, “You just
come in. But people have come
in and said they will do some
thing. Ain’t nothing been
done... If I don’t see nothing
done soon, you will see me
again.”
COME SEE
He asked the Council to
come see the problems after a
rain.
“You do not believe. I chal
lenge you to come stay in my
house I’ve stayed in for years,”
he said. “When it rains, you
can’t shower. You can’t flush.
It comes back up. You can’t
wash clothes. It can be fixed,”
he said. “It goes back on a lot
of Councilmen and the mayors
too. They don’t do nothing. I
am getting tired of coming up
here and telling you how I feel.
“All this is coming up
again, urine and No. 2. It is
coming up again. It has been
going on too long.
“It’s a bad feeling you’ve
got. You can’t flush it your
own self.”
PROMISES
As for the work going on, “I
will check it out,” he said. “I
am a concerned citizen. I am a
taxpayer.”
As for promises to get the
problem resolved, Mr. Hillmon
said he’s heard that before.
“Nothing never gets done.”
Some in the community
have suggested he move.
“What will these other peo
ple do? Will they move too?”
he asked. “If you buy my
house, I will move.”
Mr. Hillmon said more
changes at the City Council
might be needed.
“Maybe I need to get a job
up here. I can get things done,”
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HOUSING AUTHORITY
CITY OF ASHBURN
REQUEST FOR BIDS
The Housing Authority of the City of Ashburn is ac
cepting bids for lawn maintenance services. All in
terested bidders may pick up a bid package at the
Housing Authority located at 200 Perry Drive, Of
fice 412, Ashburn, Ga. between the hours of 7:30
A.M. and 5:00 P.M. Monday through Thursday.
Bids must be received at the Ashburn Housing Au
thority Office by 10:00 A.M. February 29, 2016.
Successful bidder must meet all eligibility require
ments set forth by the Housing Authority. The Hous
ing Authority reserves the right to reject any and all
bids.
he said. “I pay my bills on
time. You ain’t got a problem
with that. I should not have a
problem.”
He did admit to receiving
some help in the past.
“One councilman did come
to my rescue. Mr. (James)
Burks over here. The rest
didn’t come until I made a
phone call and got all of them
down there,” he said.
“The City did pay you for
your damages,” Mr. Burks
said.
“And if I ain’t come up
here, I wouldn’t have got noth
ing,” Mr. Hillmon replied.
“Come see. You ain’t got to
take my word for it.”
Councilman Cebo Bateman
said he has seen the problem at
Mr. Hillmon’s house.
“Yeah, you came after I
called you,” Mr. Hillmon said.
MONEY MATTERS
“We are going to try to do
what we can. I’ll tell you
something the others won’t.
The City is broke. We ain’t got
the money to do it. We will try
to find some grant money,”
said Councilman Johnny
Burgess.
After the meeting, the
mayor said the City is not
broke.
“It might be 2-3-4-5 years
before you get a grant,” Mr.
Gipson said. “You tell me, as a
taxpayer, we’ve got to live
with that. What are we going to
do? We ain’t going to up and
move.”
LECRESHA JACKSON
“You inherited a mess. I do
live on Martin Luther King,”
she said. “I raise children
there. They can’t play outside.
“I am investigating it on my
own. I am tired of it. I am sick
of it,” she said. “If you can’t
fix it, I will move at your ex
penses. I am fed up. I need
some answers.
“You send your child out
side and let them breath that
hazard in.”
Councilman Burks said “I
live only a few feet from
there.”
“I live it,” Ms. Jackson said.
“I’ve been told we’re working
on it. I’ve been told it is not in
Ashburn; it is the County. I’ve
been told it is not the County;
it is Ashburn.”
If the problem is sewer
lines, it is the City of Ash-
burn’s responsibility. The
County does not have a sewer
department. If the problem is
septic tanks on private land
outside the City limits, it is the
homeowner’s problem.
“She stay in the County,”
Mayor Carithers said. “You’ve
got a problem.”
“A big, stinking problem,”
she replied.
“You don’t have to accept it.
You can cap it and get a septic
tank,” the mayor said.
Ms. Jackson said that will
not stop raw sewage running
out of City lines into her yard.
ANOTHER ISSUE
“There is something else I
want to say. Martin Luther
King and Fudge. It’s dark as
hell down there. We need a
street light,” Mr. Hillmon said.
REBECCA
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Now it gets complicated.
If the Councilman resigns
before Feb. 25, a City Council
election can be on the May 24
ballot.
The resignation to run for
mayor must be at least 90 days
before the election.
If a Councilman resigns
after that 90-day period, it
kicks the City into a position of
having another called election.
Rebecca would have to pay for
that election, sometime in the
summer.
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