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THE JACKSON HERALD
WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 1, 2010
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SCOUTS COMPLETE COMMUNITY SERVICE
Jefferson Junior Girl Scout Troop 11941 recently completed its first of several com
munity service projects that will go towards their Bronze Award. The girls helped
the pre-school director of Jefferson United Methodist Church spread mulch on one
of their playgrounds in preparation for the new school year. Pictured are: (front
row) Avrie Crum, Cassi McCormack, Delaney Duke, Laura Leigh Feeman, Mattie
Jane Cox, and Ariana Long; and (back row) Lori Chaffin, pre-school director, Diane
Feeman, troop leader, Misty Cox and Mary McCormack.
QUARTET ENTERTAINS ROTARIANS
Jefferson Rotarian Bob Stites, program chairman, is shown with the Up Front
Barber Shop Capella Quartet, which entertained the Jefferson Rotary Club at
a recent meeting, with gospel and old-time favorite songs. Shown are: (L-R)
Mike Walsh, baritone; Scott Patzer, bass; Alan Smart, lead; Pete Pifer, tenor; and
Stites.
SPEAKS AT LIONS MEETING
Lions Zone I. Chair, and president of Winder Noon Lions
Club, Bob Long, was featured speaker recently at a
regular meeting of the Jefferson Lions Club. Long was
introduced as featured speaker by JLC president Mack
Cates. Long emphasized the need for Lions to consis
tently be creative and to avoid becoming comfortable
with the status quo. “Be especially alert for things
we can do to make things better in our communities,”
he said. Examples are many, he noted, including tak
ing part in Georgia Special Olympics, sending a Kid
to Camp for the Blind, etc. He particularly cautioned
against falling victim to the “...everybody, somebody,
anybody, nobody” trap. In providing service to both
the local and global community, he said, Lions continue
to move forward, achieve truly meaningful accomplish
ments, and are faithful to our motto of, “We Serve.”
Lego-building competition ahead at Nicholson library
THE HAROLD S. Swindle
Public Library invites children of
all ages to attend a special pro
gram at 3 p.m. Saturday, Sept.
11, for the second annual Lego
building competition.
This year's theme is “Amazing
Architecture,” and all building
will be done at the library. All
Legos and building materials
will be provided.
“All ages are welcome, and
we ask that everyone come with
lots of creativity and be ready
to build,” branch manager Kelli
McDaniel said.
The winners of each group
will receive a special prize and all
participants will go home with a
small prize for participating.
COMPUTER CLASS
The library will offer a four-
day beginner's basic computer
class in October.
Classes will be held at 7 p.m.
Oct. 12, 14, 19 and 21, and will
cover introductory word pro
cessing, computer terminology,
Internet searching and e-mail
setup.
Registration is limited to 10
participants.
Call the library at 706-757-
3577 to sign up.
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competition:
•3 p.m. Saturday,
Sept. 11, Nicholson library
Autumn Leaf pageant, fall festival coming up
Pageant set Sept. 25 at EJCHS
THE MAYSVILLE Ele
mentary School PTO will be
hosting its annual Miss Autumn
Leaf Pageant on Saturday,
September 25, at 6 p.m. at the
East Jackson Comprehensive
High School Auditorium.
The pageant is open to all
Jackson and Banks county girls
with a Maysville address. Entry
applications can be picked up
at many Maysville businesses
or the Maysville Elementary
School office.
The deadline for entries is
Sept. 17 at 4 p.m. Tickets will
be available at the door the eve
ning of the pageant, adults/$3,
students/$l and children under
3 are free.
For more information e-mail
ntootle@jackson.kl2.ga.us (sub
ject- pageant) or call 706-652-
2241 or 706-202-9006.
Festival planned for Oct. 1-3
PLANS ARE under way for the annual
Maysville Autumn Leaf festival on Oct.
1-3. The parade will be Saturday, Oct. 2,
at 10 a.m. Parade participants should be
lined up by 8:30 a.m.
There will be live entertainment each
day, along with craft and food booths.
There will be plenty of games and activi
ties for children as well.
The Maysville Community Improvement Club is accepting appli
cations for craft booths. All items are to be homemade and/or hand
crafted. Applications are available at victorianmaysville.com.
Movie continued from page 1C
“City manager John Ward has
been a tremendous help,” Guess
said. “The entire film will be shot
in Jefferson. I believe this could
really be good for our little town.
It will bring more people (and
money) our way. We also have
a lot of students from all four of
the Jefferson City Schools. All of
the teachers I have talked to are
all aware of the movie and have
been super supportive.”
FROM ACTING TO
SCREEN WRITING
Guess has been modeling
since she was 15 and decided
to try her hand at acting about a
year ago.
“I played a student in the
movie ‘The Blind Side’ and
loved it,” she said. “That’s when
I started looking for more acting
work. I’ve worked on ‘Vampire
Diaries’ (TV), ‘Drop Dead
Divas’ (TV), ‘Life as We Know
It’ (movie), ‘The Walking Dead’
(TV), ‘Franklin and Bash’ (TV),
‘Nefertari’ (Web series) and on
Monday (Aug. 23) I played a role
on Tyler Perry’s newest Madea
movie - ‘Madea’s Big Happy
Family.’” Guess’ profile can be
found online at http://www.imdb.
com/name/nm3735316/.
The dream that is resulting in
House From Hell actually started
as a book Guess was writing.
But there was a twist in the
storyline when Willie Jones of
Atlanta Motion Picture Studios
contacted Guess.
“I played ‘Tracy’ for a web
series shot by Atlanta Motion
Pictures Studios,” Guess said.
“Willie Jones sent me an email
asking if I knew of any scripts
or if I could write one for me to
star in. I was at the time working
on a book of a dream I had.. .So
when AMPS contacted me, I had
to learn how to format a screen
play and then started breaking it
down into that format.”
Once the script was written,
Jones made suggestions, Guess
made revisions and so forth
and so on until the story came
together.
“There were many guidelines,
including the number of pages it
had to be,” Guess said. “Once all
of that was complete, the charac
ter breakdown was done. I had to
look at every single character in
the movie, see which was cast,
and begin looking for people
for the ones that weren’t already
cast.”
CASTING, PROPS...
AND ACTION
“I chose the cast with the
help of AMPS and my brother
(Jeremy Rogers),” Guess added.
“The ultimate decision to hire
was left to me, which was an
extremely hard task because I
met such phenomenal actors
throughout this process, but only
had so many roles. We had an
open casting call a few months
back. At that point, we had all of
our main actors.”
Next up, props.
“As for the budget, the good
thing about this movie is there
isn’t much money needed,”
Guess said. “The blood is home
made. I bought all of the props.
All of the actors will be paid at
the end when it is sold. So there
really isn’t much to pay for.”
With the help of her brother,
Guess said she found props any
where from ebay to thrift stores
to antique stores.
“Special effects are all comput
erized,” Guess said. “Our tech,
Kevin Alexander, is amazing at
what he does and we are thrilled
to have him working with us.
Some of the scenes will need to
be green screened and others he
can simply add what we need on
the computer. I can’t wait to see
my vision go from paper to the
big screen.”
Costumes for the period actors
were handmade by an Amish
woman and alterations were
made in Jefferson by Hemline
Alterations.
Guess worked with AMPS
and Alexander to determine
camera placement and angles at
the Jefferson film sites.
“It has certainly been a hard
and tiring process, but I am
thankful AMPS is giving me
the chance to co-direct to ensure
what I had envisioned doesn’t
get too distorted,” Guess said.
“They gave me full casting rights
and have let me make most of
the decisions. I am thankful for
this opportunity and hope to
bring everyone a movie they will
love.”
While there is no set date for
movie release. Guess said she
hopes for a date by November.
PART 2 IN THE WORKS
While this is Guess’ first writ
ing for film, she often has writing
projects in the works, including
writing articles on Georgia and
Ireland for a travel site, www.
didyouweekend.com. Guess’
family is from Ireland, and she
has friends there, as well, and vis
its as often as possible. Already
she has begun writing for “House
From Hell 2” and will stay in
Ireland for the filming.
“My brother was a wonderful
help,” Guess said. “He would talk
the scenes through with me and
help me decide where to take
the characters. He has been an
enormous help through this and
will also be working on part 2
with me.”
For more information, to see
the fidl cast of characters and
view costumes, visit www.house-
fromhell.net.
Nicholson
library group to
meet Sept. 11
THE NEXT meeting of
the Friends of the Harold S.
Swindle Public Library will
be Saturday, September 11,
at 10 a.m. at the library.
“We will be deciding on
programs for Thanksgiving
and Christmas,” organizers
state. “We hope everyone
interested in the library will
come and join us.”
The Harold S. Swindle
Public Library is located off
Hwy. 441 next to Benton
Elementary School. Call
706-757-3577 for more
details.
GRANDMOTHER...The fol
lowing is a portion of a note
received recently from an ACS
grandmother. “Thank you for
keeping your watchful eye on
my grandson. We feel so
blessed that he can be in such a
wonderful environment. We
pray every day that Cod will
continue to bless Athens
Christian and all the teachers
and students. ”
Our thanks go out to this pre
cious grandmother, and we
thank her for her daily prayers
for ACS.
And, for the many people who
pray for the school, we send our
heartfelt thanks to you...We’re
happy to say, “the Lord is
answering your prayers.”
ATHENS
CHRISTIAN SCHOOL
“Affordable Quality Education Since 1970”
K3-12TH CALL (706) 549-7586
www.athenschristian.com
NOTICE
The Jefferson City Board of Education does hereby announce that the millage rate will be set at a meeting to be held at the Jefferson High
School board room on September 9 at 4:00 p.m. and pursuant to the requirements of O.C.G.A. 48-5-32 do hereby publish the following
presentation of the current year’s tax digest and levy, along with the history of the tax digest and levy for the past five years.
CURRENT 2010 DIGEST AND 5 YEAR HISTORY OF LEVY
INDEPENDENT
SCHOOL SYSTEM
2010
2005
2006
2007
2008
2009
Real & Personal
Motor Vehicles
Mobile Homes
Timber
Heavy Equipment
300,903,004
19,830,140
273,320
0
159,813
358,759,000
20,354,140
208,253
0
39,363
450,240,604
24,964,870
191,735
0
263.790
500,523,029
28.988.730
171,157
0
58,864
504,068,549
31,383.860
168.193
0
0
498,477,086
28,074,970
145,935
0
0
Gross Digest
Less M&O Exemptions
Net M&O Digest
321,166,277
31,063,310
290,102,967
379,360,756
38,031,175
341,329,581
475,660,999
71.824,763
403,836,236
529,741.780
75,211,179
454,530.601
535,620,602
90,160,506
445,460,096
526,697,991
92,472,956
434,225,035
Net M&O Millage
Net Taxes Levied
14.00
4,061.441
14.00
4,778.810
13.242
5.347,599
13.242
6,018,894
13.283
5,917.046
13.283
5,767.811
Net Taxes S's Increase
Net Taxes % Increase
451,838
12.6%
717,369
17.7%
568,789
11.9%
671,295
12.6%
(101,848)
(1.7%)
(149,235)
(2.5%)