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RECREATION FOOTBALL SIGNUPS Monday - Friday see Lindsey at the Probate Court 9 am- 5 p.m. Saturday At the High School Fieldhouse 12 noon - 2 p.m. Age 7-12 $75 Flag $25 Contact James -478-258-0110 or Lindsey at 478-836-3313 with Questions! Chamber Sponsored Business After Hours is being hosted by Security Finance on Thursday, August 22, 2013, 5:30 p. m, - 7 p.m. Foods, Door Prizes and a grand prize worth $50! O NATIONAL MODEL AVIATION DAY Roberta Rebels RC Flying Clubw will be flyer Model Airplanes Saturday, August 24th 8 a.m. - 5 p.m. at 6889 Hwy. 341 S Roberta at Emmett Walker Airfiield just behind A&W Metal Fabrication. Issue 32 Thursday, August 15, 2013 The Voice of Crawford County Since 1921 2 Sections, 12 Pages One Dollar also serving Byron and Peach County Dirt shoveled for medical and senior services facilities time estimated at 8-10 months Construction A groundbreaking event was held Friday to highlight the scheduled construction of medical and senior services facilities in Roberta. Flint Professional Group, LLC an nounced its plans to build a medical office complex and a Bsenior living community on its site located at the inter- BY SUSAN GARNTO The Georgia Post August’s meeting for Roberta City Council was filled with appearances from various people. First up was Julita Mar tin who was in attendance representing the Word of God Tabernacle Church. The group wants to hold an event in the city park and hand out school supplies and hold a gospel concert. Mayor Becky Smith asked Martin if she had met with Joanne Hamlin who over section of US 341 and East Agency Street last year. Due to inclement weather a tent was set up to keep those in attendance out of the rain. The medical building will house physicians’ offices, a pharmacy, and other health related retail shops. The multi-story building of over sees the park to understand fees and what was expected. The mayor also wanted to know how many they were expecting to attend. “First of all,” Martin said addressing council, “the number of people that we’re expecting is a rough draft because it’s open to the com munity and anyone who’s passing by can definitely stop by, so, with that being said we’re thinking between too to 150 people with the churches that have respond ed. I have not spoken with 24,000 square feet will be named Milford B. Hatcher MD Medical Complex in honor of the late Dr. Hatcher, a Macon physician who worked tirelessly to bring health care to rural areas and was the founder of the Mercer Medical School. Mrs. Kathleen Cook, Ms. Joanne, if you could give me that information I will have it as well.” The mayor told her, the questions council had were because there is not really an area stage set up for a concert. Martin said they had picked out an area but wanted to know about other stipulations. The area was discussed and it was arrived at being on the grass area in the park. Martin said they just wanted to make sure that they were well in the bound- daughter of Dr. Hatcher, is a member of Flint Professional Group and has been instru mental in the company’s development plans. Other members of the group include David L. Mincey, III, an at torney in Roberta and Chris McIntyre. The assisted living facility is to be named Hydrangeas Senior Living, named after aries. The clean-up, noise and the porta- potty was again addressed and Ham lin’s phone number was given. Martin said there would be a Concert, Game Stations, Food & Fellowship and the Word of God Taber nacle would be in charge of the clean -up. Martin told council, “I appreciate this opportunity,” and exited. The next guest, Eve Tomberlin representing ALS Walk told council the walk was to raise money to help find a cure and to support the Oak Leaf Hydrangeas found here. The structure will include five apartments of various sizes. Hydrangeas will be a private pay community providing residents with an array of social activities, assis tance with activities of daily living, medication assistance, and an active lifestyle. The facilities are to be built by Hogan Construction families who are living with ALS. She continued say ing her husband had it and died in April of this year. Tomberlin explained, that the walk was piggy back ing on a big Walk in Atlanta called, “Walk to Defeat ALS” and the team in Roberta is called “Tread for ED”. She showed them a flyer which is in the works for the event. Contributions go to the main ALS Association, which goes to research and for assis tance to families. Tomber- COUNCIL, Page of Atlanta simultaneously, beginning immediately. Con struction time is estimated at 8-10 months. Paul Hogan, President of the company is a native of Crawford County. The architectural and design work for both buildings was completed by CDH Partners of Atlanta, led by Paul Ste- genga. Insignia Senior Living will be the senior community op erator. Insignia and its related companies own 19 assisted living communities in Florida, Georgia, and Puerto Rico. In signia’s principal and Chair man Milton Cruz attended the ceremony along with Ramsey Jennings, Insignia President. Insignia’s cooperate offices are in Alpharetta, GA. Speakers at the ceremony, led by Mincey, included rep resentatives from each of the development team members. Mincey welcomed a large crowd on hand for the event, introduced the project partici pants, and spoke of the proj ect’s beginnings. Mincey said “many have worked tirelessly for the past two years on this effort” and “there would not be a project at all without the leadership and support of Kathleen Cook.” According to Mincey, Mrs. Cook’s, Mc Intyre’s and Mincey’s overall purpose is to bring needed services to the community and to create additional com merce for a small town. Hogan expressed his enthu siasm for the project and for Crawford County, saying his firm “is honored to have been selected to construct facilities that will help put Roberta, Georgia on the map.” Hogan stated that the project will have his personal attention and will be something that created pride for his company and residents of Crawford and surrounding counties. He said 75% of the construc tion will be built with local contractors. Cook discussed her involve ment with the care of her Mother as she aged, express ing her commitment to not only a beautiful building but a high quality service needed by the aging population. Cruz and Jennings spoke briefly of their appreciation to be selected as the com munity manager. Insignia has experience in providing services both in small towns in Georgia and in metropoli tan areas. Hydrangeas “is the best example we have seen of local individuals using private resources to help a small town prosper and allow its seniors to stay close to home”, said Jennings. Hydrangeas will create jobs for citizens and can become a focal point of Roberta according to Cruz. The facility will be a place for groups to meet and families to visit. Cruz said Insignia’s purpose is to provide “safe and joyful environments for seniors” and Hydrangeas will be a great asset to the area. Those interested can obtain more information about the development by calling 478-836-2273 (CARE) or by e-mailing Hydrangeas@ insigniaseniorliving.com Following a welcome and brief remarks from those involved, ground was broken for the Milford B. Hatcher, M.D. Medical Complex and Hydrangeas Senior Living facilities. Kathleen Cook, center, wore a pink hat which she said was for her granddaughters. Pictured above Ramzy Jennings, Paul Hogen, Chris Mc Intyre, Kathleen Cook, David Mincey III, Clark Todd Gollotte, Milton Cruz. No vote taken on raising taxes by BOE BY SUSAN GARNTO The Georgia Post Though the room was foil, very few people spoke at last week’s meeting of the Crawford County Board of Educa tion. One point which people were concerned about was the possibility of doing away with the ROTC program. Though the board had said they were looking into all possibilities no deci sion had been made on eliminating the program. Chairman Raymond Dickey told the group, “To my knowledge the board has not made a decision for eliminating the ROTC Program, I don”t know of any board members that heard or communicated that. We don’ know how that information got out but the board has not made a deci sion to eliminate this program.” One citizen asked if they were con sidering or was it a rumor? Mr. Dickey replied that as far as I know, far as I’m concerned, that is a rumor, again, we don’t know how that rumor got started but it is not something that this board has made a decision on. John Douglas (Superintendent) addressed the budget saying that “We have created another budget”. He explained that the board needed 2 V2 mil to factor in the “New Budget”. The difference between this one and the last one is the last one started out at 4 V2 mil. Douglas said that instead of cutting the bus drivers a total of 20 furlough days, they were looking at five instead of four which would be 18 days. With the changes of the way the Ad Valorem tax is done Douglas said that he had no idea how that was going to work so far. “So what’s the idea of the budget? I would like to address this board, like I said, it’s going to require about 2 V2 mil increase in taxes.” Douglas went on to try and explain how that would affect property and the cost explaining that it was pretty easy math with $100 on a property taxed at $100,000. (One mill = $1 for every $1,000 of assessed value.) There was discussion about the new title tax which went into effect this year which no one has a real clue as to how that will affect revenues. Douglas mentioned that the fur lough was for Budget and math pur poses. Teachers will physically work 169 days. Students will attend school physically 160 days; nine days are Staff Development days. Dickey asked Douglas if staff contracts had to be ad justed to renew with the shorter school term. Douglas said, “The contract for years has not had that in there. “ Dickey said, “I thought that we had to renew this contract because we had to put all the information in the contract for a certain period of time”. Douglas responded, “There’s a clause that’s always been in there that say’s based on availability of funds.” Because there will be an increase of 15 minutes more of school per day for the children, if you picked up your child at 3:00 last year, this year it will be at 3:15 for the new school year. If your child rides the bus and was picked-up at 2:45 last year, this year it will be at 3:00. For Back to School the exact times and schedule will be put in the paper. Becky Smith, Roberta mayor, addressed the board about a Sewer Easement. She passed a paper around for the board nembers to sign on the Sewer Easement. It would not inter fere with the traffic much, if any she said. The board passed the easement unanimously. Then Smith spoke on the Resolution of the BOE to An nex the real property and CCMS into the City of Roberta. There was some discussion among the board members and no decision was made at that time, Smith told them, “Thank you, I hope we can work it out on the annexation.” It was announced that the first official football game starts August 30, 2013. Scrimmage is on the 23 but there is rain in the forecast so that could change. A young lady said that you could go to the maxreps.com then choose ghs website and you can see the schedules, print them out. Pretty much, whatever you’re looking for about the sports, she said. Dickey said that the schools this year are mandated to have an Advi sory Counselor at every school. He then asked Douglas if they had the required people with specific coordi nated positions? Douglas replied with “yes”. Council approached about activities; incomplete accident report
