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Issue 26 Covering Byron & Peach County email: byronbuzz@pstel.net Thursday, June 27, 2013 Company closed the music fest about 6:40 p.m. Proud donors for the fest were Cheddar’s Casual Cafe, Freshway Market, Sledge Farms, Whitewater Creek BBQ Sauce, Captain Jack’s Crab Shack, Mongros Pizza & Burgers, Party Play grounds Indoor Fun, Blessed Soul Creations, TAIL- GATERS, Southern Reflec tions Taxidermy, Georgia Bob’s Barbecue, Byron Better Hometown, ARQ Pest Control, Byron Fire Dept., On the Mark Custom Screen Printing & Embroidery, Mason Pecans and Bob & Betsy Murdock. The follow ing businesses gave inkind donations. City of Byron, Flint Energies, Robins Pac ers, Adopt-A-Potty, Sunbelt Rentals, Sutton Audio & Crew & Don’s Tent Rentals. The event’s stage was donated by Danny Evans. Local area businesses who gave items for the silent auc tion were: Doodle Bugs Flo rist, Tire Distributors of GA, Party Playground Indoor Fun, McReynolds Automo tive, Rosa’s Gifts, Georgia Bob’s Barbecue Company, Byron Better Hometown, Tim’s Total Fitness, Mos ley’s Garage, Ooh n Ahh, U Save It Pharmacy, Ador able Pet Salon, A&E Styles, Exquisite Nails, Gottwall ”1 cannot say thank you enough to the members who serve on the Battle of Byron committee and the volun teers who stepped up to the plate with short notice and made the benefit happen,” said Karla Chidester about Saturday’s Battle of Byron RAISES Moore Music Fest. It was a beautiful day in Byron at North Peach Park which was the perfect set ting for a day of fundraising for a community close to a thousand miles away. Chidester said without the following group of folks, the success Saturday would not have been possible. ”It was my friend Tony Elmore of Sugar Creek Band’s idea that we could make some kind of difference in the lives of those who were affected by the devastating tornado that hit Moore, Okla. mid May. He pulled the bands together and the Battle of Byron committee worked on the rest,” Chidester said. Terry Pops Barker (The Human Trumpet) opened the Music Fest with his rendition of the National Anthem then other bands followed: Six String, The MaMa T Band, Sugar Creek, Charles Oliver & Friends, The Human Trumpet, Road Pizza w/ EZ Cleghom. Byron’s own Paul Carreker of Big Daddy & Battle of Byron Raises Moore MusicFest was very successful Saturday with bands throughout the day, activities for the kids, food and vendors. All monies raised will be given to the Moore, Oklahoma tornado relief. In addition to $5 donations, t-shirts were on sale, a silent auction was held, and there were chicken plates for sale. Money will be sent through Samaritan’s Purse. Pictured from left are committee members. Chair of Battle of Byron, Karla Chidester, kneeling in front with a $100 bill which was donated to the cause. Over $5,000 was raised to send to the tornado victims. PHOTO BY DANIEL VARGA Elbert McQueen, SVP of Central Georgia Health System knew about another hospital having a local photo con test as a way to get photos for the facility and passed the idea along to Ellen Terrell, director of development, who got the ball rolling for The Medical Center of Peach County. Local photographers, about 170 of them, submit ted over 1700 photos of which 235-250 would be chosen. A volunteer committee narrowed down the entries and chose the photos as well as chose first, second and third place. Citizens were given the chance to select a Peo ple’s Choice by on-line voting. Tony Dugan’s photo of a Cherokee Rose took first place, Nita Harrison captured second with a photo of flowers in a window of a wooden structure and EG Kight’s photo of a goat took third. Lee Hering’s photo was chosen as People’s Choice. Pictured far left are CEO Nancy Peed with first place winner Tony Dugan. Above from left are Danny Gilleland who helped select photos, Nita Harrison (second place), EG Kight (third place), Nancy Peed - CEO, Lee Hering (People’s Choice) and Helen Rhea Stumbo who was on the com mittee and chairs the Capital Campaign. The photos were to be peaceful settings and are located throughout the hospital in rooms and hall walls. A reception was held Sunday for the photographers, some of whom were also employees of the hospital. Byron Council Adopts Firearms Amendment By Victoria Simmons The Byron Buzz Byron City Council held a short and sweet meeting last week with only one real item on the agenda — the second reading and adoption of ordinance concerning the discharging of firearms. There was a group of citizens in attendance from Toomerville who asked that Tiffany Peavy, Byron Better Hometown & CVB Director speak about the Urban Redevelopment Plan. If Toomerville is accepted into the plan is could benefit some houses in the area with money for roofs, handicapped access and possibly heating/ air and plumbing. Peavy told the group that there are steps which have to be followed and they were a ’’ways down the road” yet. The plan has to be approved by mayor and council and Peavy noted that there already may be a plan which could be added onto to include west Byron. Resi dents would be informed if a grant is made available. The ordinance concerning discharging firearms within the city limits was read for the second time and passed by council. It adds a new section 24-5 to Article 1, Chapter 24 of the city’s code of ordinances. The ordinance states that: ”It shall be unlawful for any person to discharge any firearms, such as pistols, shotguns, rifles, machine guns, dynamite caps or other explosives within the corpo rate limit of the city unless: 1. In defense of person, habitation or any other prop erty to the extent such de fense would constitute legal justification under state law; 2. By an officer engaged in the discharge of his official duties. 3. By persons engaged in military duties. 4. With pemiission of the mayor. 5. At an indoor commercial shooting range licensed by the city or 6. At a municipal shooting range.” Under the ordinance it is also unlawful to discharge a BB or pellet pistol or rifle from or into any public property, including but not limited to city parks, streets or alleys. The ordinance pro hibits discharging a BB or pellet pistol or rifle from or into the property or another person without the expressed permission of the property owner. With no other business council adjourned after just being in session for about 10 minutes. Books, Rats n Snakes, Sweet Treatz Custom Confections, Real Estate South, Jewels, Go Fish Education Ctr., Rita Pirc’s Krafts, Peach Tire, Blaze Photography, The Hu man Trumpet, Atlanta Motor Speedway & Jeff Smith Chevrolet. Media coverage included: The Telegraph/Sun News, 13 WMAZ, The Byron Buzz, z93.7 Brian Roberts, WDEN 99.1 Laura Starling, Mix in the Morning w/ Rick Knight & Gary Thigpen, battleofby- ron.org and Leader Tribune. ”It’s with all the people mentioned and our compas sionate community that’s made a difference for a state as far away as Moore, Okla homa,” Chidester said. The Battle of Byron RAIS ES Moore Music Fest raised over $5000 to aid those who were devastated by tornadoes in Moore, Oklahoma. Chidester ended, ”1 thank most of all, my Heavenly Father for allowing us the opportunity to give back to those in need. We are blessed.” CEO Says New Facility Will Continue To Operate Lean area and the unusable will be sold for scrap value, McQueen said. More doctors are requesting privileges at the new hospital which was one of the selling points for a new facility. Credentials were approved for one year for William Bames, M.D.; two year reappointments for Robert Nelson, M.D. and Pulipaka Rao, M.D. Terariologists ap proved for two year appoint ments included MDs Jacob Abraham, Jose Arjona, Desi Barroga, Amanda Bauer, Roxanne Chan, Lanita Daw- son-Jones, Francis Ferraro, Pejman Firouztale, Margaret Fynes, Maheep Goyal, Antje Greenfield, Henry Jones, Nannette Kovash, Gaulham Mallampati, Ashford McAl lister, Terrence O’Loughlin, Eugene Pretorious, Shervin Rafie, Robert Roche, Jana Sulzer, Frances Wu and Navid Zenooz. The new location will open at 12 noon on July 16th. The ER at the old location will shut down at 6 p.m. that day. Board chair Tom Green made note of the beautiful board room and said he ap preciated all the work that had been done. The Patriotic Quilt package raffled by the Comforting Quilters to raise funds for their Sandy Hook project, was won by Patsy Sims. Sims is a patient access supervi sor at Houston Healthcare. Julie Love, captain of the Comforting Quilters, delivered the goods which included a picnic basket with plates and utensils, place maps, napkins and, of course, the beautiful quilt. By Victoria Simmons The Byron Buzz Nancy Peed, CEO, The Medical Center of Peach County, Inc. told those present at last week’s board meeting held at the new facility, the community had been very supportive of all recent events. Those events included a rib bon cutting, media tour, VIP tour and more. She also noted there were 40 plus Auxiliary members which was a bonus. Peed stated that the new facility would continue with same goal as old, to remain as lean as possible while provid ing the best possible care. The MCPC is integrating with the Medical Center of Central Georgia, of course, for ef ficiency and a new partnership has been forged with Houston Medical. The hospital has been awarded a grant and more in formation will be forthcoming on that in the near future. Elbert McQueen said that seven or eight other hospi tals have indicated a level of commitment in an alliance and other alliances were being pursued. Equipment not to be used at the new facility has been donated to clinics in the
