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TURNER COUNTY A An Evening with the Rabbis Monday evening at the Civic Center - Details Page 2 WIREGRASS rAi! S- ~~ m ^ TURNEi MW J \ r— 1 Wednesday, November 15, 2023 ASHBURN,GA, 31714 VOL 109 - No. 46 • 750 www.thewiregrassfarmer.com ^Around Town N Subscribe to The Wiregrass Farmer Delivered in your mail every week Call 567-3655 Toys for Tots The annual Toys for Tots collection boxes are out across Turner County. The an nual toy drive partners with the Marine Corps to deliver toys to children who might not otherwise get anything for Christmas. Applications for Toys for Tots are available at the Elementary school, Mid dle/High School, and The Wiregrass Farmer. Applica tions are to be turned in by Nov. 18. No blood drive NO Red Cross Blood Drive will be held in Novem ber. Next drive will be Janu ary 2024and location will be announced at that time. Thank you to all donors faith ful and 1st timers. Teddy bears The Kiwanis Club is col lecting teddy bears for public safety to give to children. The bears are to help frightened kids. New bears may be dropped off at The Wiregrass. Food bank The Shepherd’s Pantry food bank will not have a dis tribution on Thanksgiving Day. Otherwise, at the old el ementary school will hold a food distribution Thursday around 10:30 a.m. Emer gency food assistance is available any time. We will not have a distribution on Thanksgiving Day. Please contact Diane Saylor or Ben Baker if needed. Stray dogs Ashburn residents are re minded that pets must have a collar and current rabies tag. Animals without tags will be collected by Animal Control. A copy of the City's animal ordinance is available at City Hall and the Police Depart ment. Animal control number is 567-0313. Obituaries Sarah Louise Watson Rigdon, 95, Chapel Hill, NC, formerly of Ashburn Mary Lee Harrell Walker, 76, Sycamore Courtney Andre’ Cross, 58, Tifton Complete obituary information Page 5 Bills to Court If you have a past due garbage bill, of less than $100, you have time to pay it off before the County Commission hands the bill over to Magistrate Court. Anything over $100 is going to the small claims court for a hearing before Judge Blake Christian. A split County Commission voted to let County Clerk Latrice Wilson call those with bills under $100. Over $100 automatically goes to court. Judge Christian is tacking $98 per case to the bill. Allen Weaver and Joe Burgess voted against the motion. Commissioners Dana Whiddon, Brad Calhoun and Nick Den ham voted for it. “How long have we been trying to get this money?” Mr. Weaver asked. Commission Chairman Brad Calhoun said some bills are at least 25 years old, dating back to almost when the old garbage collection program started. THANK YOU VETERANS Above, the Turner County High School JROTC hosted their annual Veteran’s Day celebration at the Civic Center. Below, American Legion hosted a Bingo and Spaghetti Supper in which veterans ate for free. See video of both events on The Wiregrass YouTube Page. HOMETOWN NEWS SINCE 1902 (See TRASH Page 2) Property re-eval underway now Your Turner County real estate is going to be examined in per son and at your property very soon. The long overdue property re-evalua- tion in Turner County is underway. A private company is now making the rounds of every property in the County, looking at all of it. The company has 12 employees in marked vehicles. Each em ployee also has an ID badge. Sheriff Andy Hester said he has a de scription of the vehicles and who the em ployees are. He expects law enforcement to get plenty of (See RE . EVAL Page 2 ) Ashburn elections likely set for Municipal Courthouse You think you are going over our heads and we pay you. You won’t work with the County if you don’t do what we say. Commissioner Joe Burgess The Board of Elections still has to rule, but it appears elections that cover the City of Ash burn will now be held in the City’s municipal courthouse downtown. The Elections Board had a meeting and public hearing Tuesday morning after the paper’s deadline. The Board planned to decide where to move the Ashburn voting precinct. For years, elections were held at the Civic Center. Con struction at the school means that location cannot be used for the 2024 election cycle. Elections Superintendent Jan Winter wanted to move the precinct to the Ag Building next to the airport. A majority of the Ashburn City Council objected. Commissioners also objected. Ms. Winter said she wanted to keep voters happy while making sure the election met all the legal requirements. Keeping the voters, workers and the machines safe must be a priority, she said. She said she would look at the Municipal Courthouse to see if it would work. “We will make the modifi cations to make it work,” said Ashburn City Manager Daryl Hall. THE COURTHOUSE Mr. Hall said the City is willing to let the municipal courthouse be used as the polling location. “The Council wants the election to be held in the City of Ashburn,” he said. Ms. Winter said she has concerns about that building. They are: (See VOTE Page 6) Jeremy Poole with an al bino buck. Such deer are incredibly rare. They are legal game in Georgia. Albino buck killed here Jeremy Poole joined a very elite deer hunting club last week when he killed an 8 point white deer in Turner County. Albino deer are very rare. Only 2 counties, one is Turner, in Georgia have ever produced true albinos. Jack Williford also killed an albino deer here some years ago. An albino is marked by a complete lack of color in the hair, all white. The hooves and eyes are also pink because they lack color. The pink comes from blood shading the hooves and eyes Jeremy’s deer had pink hooves and a pink nose. If the deer has any color, such as a black nose, hooves and brown hair, it is a piebald. A piebald deer has white hair across its body beyond just the belly. Other piebald deer are seen and killed here and in other counties. The top of the head of Jeremy’s deer is brown, which can explained by the buck rubbing the velvet off his antlers and later making scrapes on trees. Scrapes are how a buck marks his territory. Some albino bucks will also have brown or dark spots around the scent glands ob their legs. This is because the secretions attract and hold dirt. Albino deer are legal to hunt in Geor gia. Mr. Poole said he will get the deer mounted, but he was not sure if he’d get a full-body mount or just a shoulder mount. 8 66670 00023 750 - tax included Wed Overcast Rain Thur Showers Overcast Fri Cloudy Sat Partly Cloudy Sun Partly Cloudy k Q 71 J 45 0% This space available. Your ad runs 4 or more weeks. Get your business noticed! Call 567-3655 Taxation is theft, purely and simply even though it is theft on a grand and colossal scale which no acknowledged criminals could hope to match. It is a compulsory seizure of the property of the State's inhabitants, or subjects. Murray N. Rothbard
