About The Georgia post. (Knoxville, Crawford County, Ga.) 19??-current | View Entire Issue (Jan. 17, 2013)
(33XJS (Stab SQacMag, Vtsoflgfifc JJWJM/y Sfflido V IpJUSo ©sKS (sMsGst/fc 66 Recreation Baseball/ Ijy Softball Registration Saturday, January 19th at J • , reereation fields, 10 a.m. - 2 p.m. 7ks Uoice, of Ctcuufo&sL County tines, 7927 ffflbo 6ste/mg t/Tyto/i & ^Pexzciv Co. J Thursday, January 17,2013 2 Sections, 14 Pages ‘Making History Every Day’ Chamber By Abigail Adams The Georgia Post The Roberta-Crawford Chamber of Commerce is getting ready for their annual meeting in February as the year begins. A new president elect was nominated and ap proved for the years 2015-16 at their regular meeting on January 10th and Business of the Quarter for the fourth quarter of 2012 was awarded to Mincey and Mincey. David McLeighton was nominated by Trey Seagraves as president-elect and the board voted unanimously for McLeighton to serve as the Chamber preseident in the years 2015-16. Until 2015 McLeighton will es sentially serve as vice presi dent. Charles Cook was voted unanimously to remain presi dent for 2013-14 at the meet ing. McLeighton will serve on the Executive committee for the next two years as well. As the annual meeting fast approaches on February 18, 2013 the committee in charge of planning is trying to decide on location and the theme, and are asking for nominations for the awards to be given at the meeting. The theme “Making History Every Day,” has been suggested and the commit tee is looking for the perfect pieces of art to decorate flyers and invitations. Camp Grace may end up be ing the location for the meet ing. Although Board member Celia Martin was concerned that it would be like “a little island in a vast room,” the other members felt the space would be big enough to hold the meeting without worry of being too small to hold all the guests. Awards will be given at the meeting for Citizen of the Year, Business of the Year, Youth of the Year, and chang ing from last year’s Youth Death Ruled Suicide The investigation into a male found fatally shot out side his residence on Decem ber 30,2012 by Sheriff depu ties has been finalized. The victim’s death, Joe Ted Lindsey, 32, of Causey Road, Knoxville, has been ruled a suicide. His body was sent to the GBI Crime Lab and the autopsy showed that Lindsey’s cause of death was from a gunshot wound and there was no signs of foul play involved according to the Sheriff’s Dept. Of Commerce Getting Ready For Annual Meeting Group of the Year, Group of the Year. Also on this year’s list of awards will be “Un sung Hero,” The Unsung Hero award will be given to an individual or individuals at the banquet to honor the person (or people) serving behind the scenes in the com munity. This award can be for someone who has done a selfless one-time act which has benefitted the commu nity or another resident or for their long-time service that has enriched the quality of life in Crawford County. This award is not an annual award, but will be given only when someone warrants such rec ognition. For the last several years the Youth of the Year award has been difficult for the RC- CCOC to obtain any or few nominations for, so they are asking especially for nomina tions in this category. The nominees for the awards will be judged out side of the county and the RCCCOC is asking for all nominations to be turned in by February 4, 2013 to allow time for judging. To make your nominations for these awards you can drop by the RCCCOC office in Down town Roberta (at the train de pot) to pick up an application or visit their website at www. robertcrawfordchamber. org. School Board Gets Lesson In Renovate Vs. Build New Mincey & Mincey was chosen as the business of the quarter for fourth quarter of 2012 by the Roberta-Crawford County Chamber of Commerce. Pictured from left are David Mincey, Jr., Donna Hicks, Joel Sherlock, Amy Fripp, Charles Cook and David Mincey, III. By Abigail Adams The Georgia Post The new year began for the Crawford County Board of Education with a new board member, but the chairman and vice chairman will stay the same. The January 14th regular meeting of the BOE was the first for newly elected board member Brad Cody, who will be taking the seat of Eddie Harris. Board member Lee Sanders nominated last year’s chair man Raymond Dickey to re main chairman. The nomina tion was seconded by board member Tim Johnson and approved unanimously by the members present (board member Jake Howell was late to the meeting and was not present for the nominations and vote). Johnson then nom inated Lee Sanders to remain as vice-chairman. This was also approved unanimously. Parrish Construction out of Perry, Georgia gave a pre sentation on their business and how they could help the school system renovate or build a new gymnasium for the high school. Parrish is a K-12 specialist construction company with their main fo cus on the construction and renovation of schools. The company was es tablished in 1995 and has been ranked as the leading K-12 contractor in Georgia by ENR. The company ex plained to the board how the process of deciding whether to renovate or rebuild and the differences between a hard bid and construction manage ment. The biggest difference is the amount of bids brought in, which is about ten times more with construction man agement allowing the owner more options and better qual ity when choosing a subcon tractor. Parrish prides themselves on their ability to meet dead lines and offer guaranteed maximum price contracts. They also told the board that See SCHOOL, Page 10 City Says ‘No’ To Holding Private Parties In The Park By Victoria Simmons The Georgia Post Roberta City Council dis cussed the retention of doc uments schedule suggested by the Georgia Archives, not wanting private parties to use the city park and re ceived annual comparisons on the Special Purpose Local Option Sales Tax (SPLOST) at their meeting last week. Mayor Becky Smith noted that the city should get about School board members from left: Jake Howell, Lee Sanders, Tim Johnson, new est member Brad Cody, and Raymond Dickey - board chairman. the same amount of SPLOST monies as last year but could get more if some areas were annexed into the city. With the Georgia Archives providing a retention sched ule for city documents, the city will be able to get rid of a lot of paper, noted the city clerk. It was brought to coun cil’s attention by Mayor Smith, that Jo Anne Hamlin of Keep Roberta-Crawford Clean and Beautiful, who is also in charge of David Bailey Park, requested that the city rule that there could be no private parties in the park. There was discussion back and forth as to what constituted a private party. At one time Councilman B. J. Bassett said that since Hamlin had been taking care of the park all along, she should submit a policy draft for council to consid er. City Clerk Vicky Grant stated that Hamlin wanted the city to say no private parties were allowed. Bas sett indicated that a private party was not identified but he certainly did not want hooping and hollering and to have the police department called. He felt private par ties should be identified. Af ter more discussion, Robert Cody made the motion that no private parties would be allowed in the park and Bas sett made the second. The motion passed. Cody did note that the city had to be careful and when someone inquired about the park, the city should make sure they have permission from Ham lin. The biggest problem, he said, was people having things and then not cleaning up after. The mayor noted that fundraisers were not a problem. Though it was putting the “horse before the cart”, city council approved Christmas bonuses for personnel which had already been put in the budget and already dis bursed to employees. City Clerk Grant said she was told it had to be included in the minutes as well. The DARE program which Wesley Griffis in in charge of, was discussed briefly. Cody said that a pre sentation needed to be made to the board of education. Mayor Smith said that the board of education had said they would help out with the program but so far had not. Cody said he felt they would once they saw the presenta tion. He also noted Griffis was presenting the DARE program to the Kiwanis Club on January 23rd.
