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Volume 150 CRAWFORDVILLE, GA 30631 TALIAFERRO COUNTY, FEBRUARY 16,2024 NUMBER 7
Sharon
Shenanigans
Sharon Shenanigans -
Community Fair
Saturday, April 27 2024
10AM 4PM
Sharon/Raytown
Community House
302 Raytown Rd
Sharon, GA 30664
Sharon Shenanigans is only
a couple of months away.
If interested in booth space,
pleasegotosharonshenanigans.
com for a vendor application.
Again this year, there will be
crafts, crafts and more crafts.
Food is a major attraction also.
Plants for your spring garden,
both vegetable and ornamental,
always sell out early.
We will give away trees again
and there will be fun for the
kiddos with bouncy houses and
a scavenger hunt with prizes.
Make plans to be there on
April 27, from 10am until 4pm.
More details will be available
soon. Keep watching and
waiting.
Georgia Bikes establishes
Active Transportation and
Recreation Resource Center
In support of our mission to
advance safe, equitable, and
sustainable transportation and
recreation as vital components
of a thriving, livable Georgia,
Georgia Bikes announces a
new initiative with seed funding
from the national Rails-to-Trails
Conservancy (RTC) to create
an Active Transportation and
Recreation Resource Center
(ATRRC). The ATRRC will seek
to increase both the quality
and quantity of applications
for bicycling and walking
infrastructure grants from
communities statewide, with a
special focus on underserved
communities.
“I’m honored that RTC has
selected Georgia and invited
Georgia Bikes to lead the way on
this exciting initiative,” Georgia
Bikes Executive Director,
John Devine, AICP, said. “It’s
clear that Georgia’s cities and
counties have a substantial
interest in making their streets
better for people who walk and
bike.”
More federal and state
support for active transportation
infrastructure is available today
than ever before, yet many
Georgia communities lack
the resources to successfully
identify project and funding
opportunities, or do not have
adequate staff to research,
write, and administer grant
applications. The ATRRC will
fill this gap by providing local
governments and advocates
with educational training and
technical assistance to inform
project development and
pursuit of funding sources;
promoting funding opportunities;
advising communities on local
matching requirements and
responsibilities of administering
awards; and preparing
applications for funding.
Springfield
Baptist
Church
Food Bank
The Springfield Baptist
Church located at 1320
Springfield Road, Crawfordville,
GA Rev James E. Wright, Sr.
Pastor.
The Food Bank is open for
Food Distribution every 3rd
Saturday, from 09:00 am to 12
Noon.
Food is Distributed from the
Church Fellowship Flail. You are
Welcome to visit.
Thanks,
James E. Wright, Sr., Pastor
Mr. Edward J Sigman, Jr.
Ms. Essie Sigman
Food Bank, Managers
“Local decision-makers know
all aboutthe benefits in safety and
public health, equitable access,
and economic development
that active transportation and
recreation infrastructure bring
to their communities, but
many places lack the in-house
resources to fund and develop
these types of projects,” Devine
said. “The ATRRC will address
this need head-on by providing
both training and direct support
throughout Georgia, especially
in underserved communities.”
The ATRRC will start small
and grow sustainably, with the
first phase beginning in 2024 as
Georgia Bikes seeks additional
funding beyond the seed
grant from the Rails-to-Trails
Conservancy. After offering
initial pilot educational and
technical services, the ATRRC
will expand with the eventual
goal of working within every
region of the state annually
to directly increase dedicated
infrastructure for walking and
bicycling throughout Georgia.
Thanks to support from the
Rails-to-Trails Conservancy,
communities throughout
Georgia will benefit from the
ATRRC as they improve their
local infrastructure by building
more safe places for people to
walk, bike, or roll.
Georgia Bikes is very pleased
to add the ATRRC to its catalog
of services and looks forward
to increasing the amount of
federal and state funding for
bicycle and pedestrian projects.
These completed projects
will make Georgia safer and
more accessible for active
transportation and recreation.
For more information on
Georgia Bikes, please visit
www.georgiabikes.org or follow
Georgia Bikes on Facebook and
Instagram.
Saturday, February 17, 2024
from
7:00 PM-10:00 PM
Oconee Brewing Company
202 North West Street
Greensboro, GA
More information: Oconee
Brewing Company is excited
to announce that Greensboro's
Motown on Main is being held
in our Event Center! Jarvis
and Friends will perform. All
proceeds will benefit Greene
County Family Connections.
General admission tickets are
$25.00.
Attention citizens of Crawfordville
The MAYOR AND CITY COUNCIL want to remind the citizens of an important city problem. This
problem involves animals off leash and uncontrolled. Several incidents have occurred involving
loose and uncontrolled dogs. Two dogs, one looking like a German Sheppard and one white with a
black spot visited a home in town recently and killed a pet cat, jumped up on the front porch of the
house as the owner tried to get them to leave.
Please remember that there is a great deal of legal liability if your uncontrolled animal causes harm
to a person or property. A wandering animal can be picked up by the city and held until identified and
appropriate fines paid. It is the owner’s responsibility to control their animals at all times.
If you have any questions, please call City Flail (706) 456-2605.
Daytona 500 History
Sunday, February 18, 2024 at 2:30PM
Watch on Fox
The Daytona 500 is a
500-mile-long NASCAR Cup
Series motor race held annually
at Daytona International
Speedway in Daytona Beach,
Florida. It is the first of two
Cup races held every year at
Daytona, the second being
the Coke Zero Sugar 400, and
one of three held in Florida,
with the annual fall showdown
Dixie Vodka 400 being held at
Homestead south of Miami.
From 1988 to 2019, it was one of
the four restrictor plate races on
the Cup schedule. The inaugural
Daytona 500 was held in 1959
coinciding with the opening of
the speedway and since 1982,
it has been the season-opening
race of the Cup series.
The Daytona 500 is regarded
as the most important and
prestigious race on the NASCAR
calendar, carrying by far the
largest purse.Championship
points awarded are equal to
that of any other NASCAR
Cup Series race. It is also the
series’ first race of the year;
this phenomenon is unique
in sports, which tend to have
championships or other major
events at the end of the season
rather than the start. From 1995-
2020, U.S. television ratings for
the Daytona 500 have been the
highest for any auto race of the
year, surpassing the traditional
leader, the Indianapolis 500
which in turn greatly surpasses
the Daytona 500 in in-track
attendance and international
viewing; however, in 2021 the
Indianapolis 500 surpassed the
Daytona 500 in TV ratings and
viewership.The 2006 Daytona
500 attracted the sixth largest
average live global TV audience
of any sporting event that year
with 20 million viewers.
The race is the direct
successor of shorter races held
on the Daytona Beach Road
Course. This long square was
partially on the sand and also
on the highway near the beach.
Earlier events featured 200-
mile races with stock cars. A
500-mile stock car race was
held at Daytona International
Speedway in 1959. It was the
second 500-mile NASCAR race,
following the annual Southern
500, and has been held every
year since. By 1961, it began
to be referred to as the Daytona
500,by which it is still commonly
known.
Daytona International
Speedway is 2.5 miles long and
a 500-mile racerequires 200
laps to complete. However, the
race was considered official after
halfway (100 laps/250 miles)
had been completed from 1959
to 2016. From 2017 to 2019, the
race was considered official after
the conclusion of Stage 2 (120
laps/300 miles) when stage
racing was introduced. In 2020,
they revised the rule in which
a race is considered official at
either halfway or the conclusion
of Stage 2 (whichever comes
first, in this case halfway). The
race has been shortened four
times due to rain (in 1965, 1966,
2003, and 2009) and once in
response to the energy crisis
of 1974. Since the adaptation
of the green-white-checkered
finish rule in 2004, the race
has gone past 500 miles on ten
occasions (2005, 2006, 2007,
2010, 2011, 2012, 2015, 2018,
2019, 2020 and 2023). It took
two attempts to finish the race
in 2010, 2011, and 2020. The
2023 running is the longest
Daytona 500 contested, lasting
212 laps/530 miles.
In 1959, Lee Petty, patriarch
of the racing family, won the
inaugural Daytona 500 on
February 22, 1959, defeating
Johnny Beauchamp. The 1979
race was the first Daytona 500
to be broadcast live on national
television, airing on CBS, whose
audience was increased in much
of the Eastern and Midwestern
USA due to a blizzard. In 1998,
Dale Earnhardt finally won the
Daytona 500 after “20 years of
trying, 20 years of frustration.”
Though Earnhardt had usually
been a strong competitor in
the Daytona 500, mechanical
problems, crashes, or other
misfortunes had prevented him
from winning. In 2001, Also
known as “Black Sunday”, or the
“darkest day in NASCAR”, as
Dale Earnhardt died in a crash
on the final lap. Michael Waltrip
and Dale Earnhardt Jr. were
running first and second on the
final lap, while Earnhardt Sr.
was third. In turn 4, Earnhardt
lost control after making
contact from Sterling Marlin,
and crashed into the outside
wall, taking Ken Schrader with
him. Earnhardt suffered a fatal
basilar skull fracture. The death
overshadowed Waltrip’s first
win, which came in his 463rd
Cup Series race.
M/UUSON-MoiKiAS
Conservancy
Land Stewardship
Workshop Series IV
Thursday, February 22,2024
Thursday, February 29,2024
How to protect a
critical mass of farmland
and how two counties fund it.
Join us for either workshop
to learn more about:
• Why and How Morgan County can
protect a critical mass of farmland to
sustain its existing ag/forestry industry
• The opportunity to protect farmland
through the Agricultural Conservation
Easement Program / Agricultural Land
Easements (ACEP/ALE) and the Working
Farms Fund
* How these programs protect farmland in
rapidly developingareas
• How counties like Oconee and Carroll
help fund farmland protection
Each workshop will include the same
presentations and speakers, so choose the
best date for your schedule,
$25 perworbhop
Includes light supper
Register online or by mail:
www.mmcGeorgia.org
5:00P,M.-7:30 P.M.
Chop House Grille
202 5. Main Street
Madison, GA 30650
$25 per workshop
Includes light supper
Farmland Protection: The Big Picture
Mctllory O’Steen, American Farmland Trust
ACEP/ALE & How it Works
Annafise Sampson, American Farmland Trust
Skroti Swagger, Natural Resources Conservation Service
Oconee County/Athens Land Trust ACEP Partnership
lustin Merrifidd, Lund Trust Alliance
Thad Padgett, Oconee County Farmland Preservation Committee
Working Farms Fund
Krisuian Varsa, Conservation Fund
Discussion
Get deeper into the weeds on any part of the agenda
Contact us for more information:
(706) 818-8046 | info@mmc6eorgia.org
