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The Crawford County Counseling Center is raffling off a Savage 308 Caliber Rifle with a camouflage scope. Tickets are $5 or you can get 15 tickets for $50, 35 tickets for $100. The rifle can be seen at Wester Auto. Contact RCCCOC at 478-836-3825 for tickets. Thursday, June 27,2013 2 Sections, 14 Page Issue 26 One Dollar The* Uoice. oft Clawftotd County 6inc£> 7927 (isJtuing (/Tyton. & (peach Co. J Roberta Musicians Foundation will be meeting every Saturday at 5 p.m. next to Duke’s Pawn Shop in the Piggly Wiggly shopping center. Everyone is invited! Bring your musical instrument to play with the group or just bring a chair to sit and enjoy the music! ire J ‘Stairway To He Saturday, June 29 atCampGra n v Water Causing ‘Frog’ Problem For Creekview Drive Tax Commission Office To Stay Put By Victoria Simmons The Georgia Post Mosquitos, frogs and snakes. Not usual subjects you would expect to hear at a meeting of the Crawford County Commission but these subjects were men tioned frequently at last week’s meeting. Creekview Drive resident, Julie Peters and her husband are not hap py about the water in their yard and she said she had never seen so many frogs in her life. Snakes like frogs so she is worried about snakes and of course, mosquitos live in standing water. Peters said they had moved to the property after the county had taken over the road and that she pays county taxes like everyone else and wants the road fixed. She presented the board with pictures of the water on her property. Peters requested the board look at the issue and determine if anything could be done to remove the water from the property. Brett Yearwood (neighbor) who said he had worked with Bibb County and the City of Warner Rob ins which gave him some expertise on the subject, stated the problem was cre ated due to a cross drain pipe being improperly installed and water was flowing into the yard rather than out of the yard. Peters said she was con cerned because there are a number of small children in the neighborhood. She also said the county told her they can’t dig because it is county property but the county won’t do anything either. After much discussion back and forth, John Thomas said the property was in his district and he said he would look into the problem with Pat Kelly, County Manager and respond back to Peters as soon as possible. “We will take a look and see what we can do,” Thomas said. Moving on, the board again was presented with a list of possible road projects which included Billy White, Mt. Paran, Tribble, Jack- son, Rowell, Cool Springs, Walton, Causey, Dixon and Hortman Mill. Kelly told the commisisoners they needed to reduce the list so they would come within the $360,000 spending level for 2014. Chairman Dean Fripp said that Jackson and Rowell roads were in his district and could be done in house and DOT would pay the county for 70% of the total cost. County Attorney David Mincey III stated that if those projects were selected, the DOT standards would have to be followed which could mean additional rights of way would have to be secured. Frank Hollis asked that the board consider rock surface for the Tribble Road project. The board discussed the projects further and then tabled making any final de cision until the next regular meeting in July Though moving the Tax Commissioner’s office to the courthouse was discussed several times and it was decided to get request for proposals on cost at a previ ous meeting, the subject was readdressed. Kelly told the board there had been a security incident at the De velopment Authority build ing the previous week which upset some employees in the various offices. The inci dent involved a man acting very strange and asking for money This, he said, caused him to question security for all county employees in the building, not just tax com mission employees. He sug gested that the board may want to reconsider efforts in relocating the Tax Commisi- son office to the Coverdell Room. Many offices in the building, he said, handled money and therefore ad ditional secureity might be needed for the whole build ing. Commissioner Thomas said that while moving the Tax Commissioner’s office would take care of their se curity concerns, there were other offices in the build ing which would still have the same security issues. He said that the old school building was good but need ed security on the doors. Chairman Fripp was con- cered the board had made a decision and was concerned about reversing that deci sion. Mincey told him the board only authorized RFP to determine costs and had not voted to proceed with renovations. Kelly suggested he be allowed to research the cost of installing security earners and adding a security guard at the building. There was also discussion about entrance to doors, especially the back doors. The com missioners agreed to further look into the issue and to proceed with estimates for various security measures at the Development Authority building. The item will be back on the agenda for next month. Continuing on with the agenda, Kelly told the board the resolution for the Rober ta City Council’s approval of intergovernmental agree- ment for the 2015 SPLOST initiative would be ready to adopt at the next meeting. The board approved amending the budget for the Roads Department for an increase of revenues in the amount of $5,413.80 in conjunction with the 2012 LMIG to resurface Hopewell Road. The budget for Clean and Beautiful was also amended to increase by $4,000 for the purchase of a fork lift. Hope Chest Open On Tues. & Thurs. Only Phyllis Thiessen is managing the Hope Chest and though the emergency food bank is open for folks with a referral voucher on Tuesday and Thursday from 10 a.m. - 2 p.m. they can only accept donations those days as well. Thiessen says all dona tions are appreciated but they can only be taken on the days someone is available to receive them. Future plans do call for a donation drop box and there will be a grand opening sometime in August. The Hope Chest is located on Wright Avenue. Please do not leave donations on porch when no one is on site. The Crawford County seven and eight year old coach pitch All-Stars baseball team fin ished fourth place in the district tournament held at West Macon’s baseball field. They lost the first game to Perry Maroon but elminated Taylor County and Lamar County and then lost to West Macon. Pictured front row from left: Chase Crosby, Ethan Bus- bee, Kendall Rozier, Haiden Childres and Trace Hodges. Second row: Hank Adkison, Dashawn Gaines, Luke Cody, Parker Henley, Judd Puckett, Gavin Spillers and Trevor West. Back row: Coaches Shannon West, Troy Hodges, Chad Childres, Brandan Spill ers, Nick Rozier and Craig Puckett. Talented Artist Was Named 'Most Artistic' While At CCHS By Victoria Simmons The Georgia Post Not everyone is creative or artistic but Christopher John son always drew and made art in one form or another, even as a small child. In middle school he was into comic books and would create characters with unique superpowers and silly cos tumes. As he aged, he began to love music and would con stantly draw band logos and skateboard company designs. Chris, a graduate of Craw ford County High School, and his family moved to Roberta in 1998 which was the begin ning of his junior year in high school. He says his father, Wayne, always wanted to build a golf course and Ro berta was a place that had a lot to offer (Private Reserve 54). In high school, Chris and his friends would trade notebooks and sketch on the covers to make really intricate collaborative drawings. “I would also draw the names of girls I liked and give the draw ings to them between classes,” he said. Recently, Chris had an exhibition of his artwork in downtown Macon at the Con temporary Art Exchange as part of the First Friday events. He said a lot of his family and friends from Roberta attended the show and he can’t wait for it to happen again. “It was awesome to have so much support from so many friends from the area. In the future I hope to get the chance to participate in the JugFest and help promote the arts in Rob ert and Crawford County.” Art was his creative outlet and Chris felt he was good at it. As a student at CCHS, he took art classes with Pam Perry and continued to be involved in the creation of art. During his senior year, he was selected “Most Artistic” along with his friend, Anna Shepard. “I remember we took our yearbook photo at the old train depot in downtown Roberta with spray paint cans and paint brushes,” he said. Chris said he formed some lasting friendships while at CCHS, especially in his art classes, including a friendship with Perry. In fact, they are practically family now since one of his brothers married Mrs. Perry’s daughter. He said, “We have remained close since my time at CCHS and to this day we spend a number of holidays and family gather ings together year-round. She even comes to my art shows in the region to show her sup port for her former student.” After graduation in 2000, Chris moved to South Carolina’s upstate region. He worked for a few years and was attending technical school. He was accepted to the Clemson University art program where he received a Bachelor of Fine Ant degree in 2008 with a focus in visual art. Once he graduated from Clemson, he moved to Co lumbia, SC where he attended graduate school at the Uni versity of South Carolina and received his Master of Fine Ants degree in printmaking and drawing. While at USC he was awarded a graduate teaching assistantship. “I had the privilege of teaching printmaking to undergradu ate art students as a graduate student,” he said. Chris says he is drawn to printmaking because of the various materials that can be used to create a print. “Printmaking also allows for the ability to create multiple works from one original matrix, allowing for print ing on a variety of surfaces and materials,” he said. “The physical task of carving wood or etching metal is another appealing aspect of working with such substantial materials and I am interested in the fact that printmaking is a medium that has both a two-dimen sional and three-dimensional component.” Chris graduated from USC in 2011 and continued to teach studio art and art history courses at the college level and at a variety of artist work shops around the area. In July 2012, his wife, Nata lie, accepted a librarian posi tion in Columbus, Georgia and the couple relocated back go Georgia where he is cur rently living. He is working at the Auburn University Art De partment in Auburn, Alabama and also teaches art history at Columbus Technical College. Recently, he has exhibited his artwork around the Southeast and has had three solo exhibi tions and three group exhibi tions in the last six months. The most recent was with the Macon First Friday Festival. You can check out examples of his artwork by visiting his website at: chrisjmfa.weebly. com.
