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JHS DRAMA CAST TO PERFORM TREASURE ISLAND’
Jefferson High School will present “Treasure Island” at the Commerce Cultural Arts Center on Nov.
29-Dec. I.The award-winning drama cast from JHS recently placed third in One Act Play Regional
competition held at Rabun Gap. In addition, they also received special recognition for outstanding
ensemble. Katie Powell was awarded a best supporting actress for her role as the pirate; and Belle
Gunn, Josh James and Alex Tate received all star actor recognition. The cast of “Treasure Island” is
shown.
New Gum Springs principal named
BY KERRI TESTEMENT
ALISA HANLEY will be a
busy woman for the remaining
school year.
Hanley — who is principal
of West Jackson Intermediate
School — recently was named
principal of the new Gum
Springs Elementary School by
the Jackson County Board of
Education.
Gum Springs Elementary
School is slated to open next
school year, next to West Jackson
Middle School. The elementary
school will have a capacity of
875 students, but is expected to
open with 650 students.
Hanley will handle administra
tive duties at both schools for the
remaining of the school year.
Hanley has been principal at
WJIS for five years. Prior to her
role at WJIS, Hanley was prin
cipal at West Jackson Primary
School for two years and assis-
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HANLEY
tant principal for instruction at
Benton Elementary School.
She also was a technology spe
cialist in the Jackson County
School System’s central office,
and taught first and fourth grades
for eight years at Maysville
Elementary School.
Hanley said she has spent her
entire 20-year career in educa
tion with the Jackson County
School System.
Gum Springs Elementary will
bring some new challenges for
the veteran educator.
The school will be Jackson
County’s first two-story elemen
tary school and the largest ele
mentary school in the county
school system.
Hanley said Gum Springs
Elementary will cut the popula
tion of both WJPS and WJIS next
school year. According to the first
round of the proposed redistrict
ing plans for West Jackson, WJIS
will open with 333 students and
WJPS with 335.
Outside of school, Hanley says
she loves to read and spending
time with her family.
“Much of what I read now
revolves around my 14-month-
old daughter’s interests, how
ever,” she said.
Hoard to speak at Jefferson library Nov. 29
HOARD
Author Richard “Dickie”
Hoard, who grew up and attend
ed school in Jefferson, will hold
a reading of his recently re-
released memoir, “Alone Among
the Living,” at 7 p.m. Thursday,
November 29, at the Jefferson
Public Library.
Forty years ago on August 7,
1967, Jackson County solicitor
general Floyd Hoard was killed
by a bomb planted in his car,
which was parked outside his
Jefferson home. At the time,
Hoard was deeply involved in a
case to break apart the “Dixie
Mafia,” a local bootlegging and
car-theft ring.
“Alone Among the Living,”
written by Hoard’s son, Richard
“Dickie” Hoard, recounts the
days leading up to his father’s
murder, as well as the struggles of
the days and years that followed.
At the time, Richard Hoard was
a teenager living in Jefferson and
attending school there.
R. Hoard’s book was first
printed in 1994. To mark the 40th
anniversary of his father’s mur
der and to keep the story alive,
Hoard is re-leasing the book for
a printing of 1,000 copies with a
new cover.
Now a Methodist minister,
Hoard resides in Watkinsville
and is pastor of Oconee River
Methodist Church.
Rescue chief request repairs to building
BY CHRIS BRIDGES
MAYSVILLE RESCUE chief
Richard Parr made a plea to the
town council last week for repairs
to his department’s building head
quarters.
Parr said the 15-year old build
ing has never had any work done
to it and has reached the critical
stage. Mayor Jerry Baker had
asked Parr to get two quotes on
needed repairs and both were in
the $20,000 range.
Parr said the building has
numerous issues which need to
be addressed including leaky
ceilings, no training room, out-
of-code bathroom facilities which
are not handicap accessible and
the building is not air condi
tioned. A sink in the building is
falling off the wall.
During the meeting, Parr was
asked if a grant could be applied
for to help with the cost for
repairs. The chief said grants
can only be used for purchas
ing equipment and since the city
owned the building grants could
not be used.
City clerk Barbara Thomas said
the city could perhaps apply for a
grant but the rescue department
could not.
Parr also detailed how when
the building was constructed the
vinyl siding was applied improp
erly and is now warping causing
it to need repairing. The rescue
facility does not have a proper
training area as it has to con
duct outside classes in one of the
bays.
The rescue chief said it is impor
tant to be able to train properly as
new methods and equipments are
constantly be added and updated.
Council officials asked Parr
why the rescue department was
not located in the fire department
off Hwy. 52. After hesitating to
answer, Parr said it was because
fire chief James Lyle did not want
them in the building.
An issue was also raised about
the entrance door to the rescue
building which several months
ago was kicked in and broken.
Parr requested funds from city
officials to fix the door.
Council member Rebecca
McNeely, who represents the area
of Maysville where the rescue
building is located, asked Parr
why he had not fixed the door.
Parr said it was not his respon
sibility to pay for the repair since
the city owned the building.
After going back and forth with
McNeely over the door issue,
mayor Jerry Baker authorized a
new door be purchased at a retail
store and for a city employee to
install it.
Discussion also focused on
moving the water department
in the building with the rescue
department and Parr said he had
not objections to that if a barrier
would properly separate the two
departments. A storage trailer is
also currently located in the back
of the rescue building which is
used for storage for the city’s
water department although no one
could seem to remember when or
why it was placed there. Town
officials did discuss the option
of moving the storage unit and
expanding the building.
No decision was made on the
rescue building repairs. Council
member Scott Harper, whose term
expires at the end of the year, said
they need to decide exactly what
are we going to do with the build
ing before a bid is awarded.
“It’s obvious something needs
to be done,” Harper said. “I think
we need to discuss it and see
what we can do.”
A work session date was not
set by the council although one
is typically held the Thursday
before regular meeting. The next
meeting is set for Dec. 3 which
would put a work session on
Thursday, Nov. 29, at 5:30 p.m.
Food bank hours are announced Disaster program sign-up underway
THE HOURS of operation of
the Banks-Jackson Emergency
Food Bank, located at 111
Atlanta Avenue, Commerce, are
from 9:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m.
every Monday, Wednesday and
Friday.
The food bank provides one
time emergency food supplies
for individuals and families
referred by churches or social
service groups.
Local government meetings open to public
THE FOLLOWING local gov
ernment agencies hold regular
meetings which are open to the
public:
•The Jackson County Builders
Association meets at 7:30 a.m. on
the third Thursday of the month
in January, February, April, July,
September, October and November
at the Jefferson Clubhouse.
•Nicholson City Council, 7 p.m,
first Monday of each month at
city hall; work session held on the
Thursday before the first Monday
at 7 p.m.
•Hoschton City Council, 7 p.m.,
first Monday of each month at city
hall. A “work session” is held the
Thursday before.
•Maysville City Council, 7 p.m.,
first Monday of each month at the
Maysville Public Library.
•Talmo City Council, 6:30 p.m.,
first Tuesday of each month at city
hall, located on A.J. Irvin Road.
•Crawford Long Museum Board
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of Trustees, noon, third Monday
of each month at the Crawford W.
Long Museum.
•Jefferson Historic Preservation
Commission, 6:30 p.m. second
Thursday of every month at the
Jefferson Civic Center.
•Jefferson Downtown
Development Authority, 7 p.m.
fourth Tuesday of every month at
the Jefferson Civic Center.
SIGN-UP IS under way for
new livestock and crop disaster
programs offered by the U.S.
Department of Agriculture.
The Livestock Compensation
program compensates farmers for
feed losses between January 2005
and Feb. 28, 2007, due to natu
ral disasters. It includes producers
who suffered losses from disasters
that began in 2006 and continued
into 2007. Producers should get a
count on their livestock for 2005
and 2006 and contact the Farm
Services Agency (706-335-8111).
The Crop Disaster Program pro
vides benefits to farmers who suf
fered quantity and quality losses
to 2005, 2996 and 2007 crops
from natural disasters if the crop
was planted before Feb. 28, 2007
Producers who incurred qualify
ing losses in 2005, 2006 and 2007
must choose only one year to
apply for benefits.
Only producers who obtained crop
insurance under the Noninsured
Crop Disaster Assistance Program
for the year of loss will be eligible
for benefits. Producers must have
suffered losses in excess of 35
percent to qualify.
For more information, contact
the Jackson, Madison, Banks FSA
office, 1458 Ila Road, Commerce,
or call 706-335-8111.
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