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PAGE 16A PICKENS COUNTY PROGRESS THURSDAY. JUNE 28. 2007
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Plan for 60 mile North Georgia Loop green area
put in front of top officials from five counties
failed and successful collabora
tions.
“We've been disappointed in
taking a look at how fractured
the land community is in terms
of being able to work together in
partnership,” King said. “We
cannot delay on this topic area. I
am watching those caterpillar
tractors do a lot in the state, and
I travel every county in Georgia
on a rather frequent basis.”
The MCT hopes to fund the
project through private founda
tions as well as federal and state
funding. The Georgia Land
Conservation Program (GLCP)
is one such venue for funding.
Curt Soper, Director of
GLCP, gave some background
on his organization, explaining
that the GLCP has effectively
been operational for only a year.
The program reviews appli
cations for grants and loans for
cities, counties, and the
Department of Natural
Resources to help conservation
across Georgia. It has a $49.5
million budget for grants.
Two things must be done for
a project to even be considered
for a grant: one is that an overall
value of the project must be esti
mated, and the other is that the
landowner must be shown to be
willing to sell the land with a
general agreement on the price,
Soper said.
“It’s clear to me that this
group is a groundswell of the
[Loop] project,” Soper said after
the meeting. “Hopefully they
can put together a couple of spe
cific projects and apply to us
[GLCP] and we can help out.”
Keller added a small emo
tional element by showing a
slide of a cute, furry rodent and
other wildlife, saying that the
animals were another reason the
habitat is critical.
“We've got people here in
this area that can provide the
science that will show that if we
protect these areas, then it’s
going to result in the preserva
tion of good conditions, and
we’re going to see these [endan
gered species] stick around,” he
said.
The next step is to write up a
memorandum of understanding
that all the county commission
ers can agree on, to show the
state they are serious about the
project.
“The success is going to be
wrapped around the capacity for
current boards of commission
ers to establish a system that
will be picked up by future
boards of commissioners,” King
said in a follow-up interview. “I
hope to see that.”
“If they decide not to work in
partnership with each other,
they’re going to have to do a lot
of similar work,” he said, “and I
find it to be a shame that they
wouldn’t be sharing their expe
riences with one another,
because they’ll learn quite a bit
from their day-to-day interac
tion with growth management.”
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Luke McClain started off the
ceremony by thanking all those
that donated. He then asked the
four descendents and relatives
of the Fitzsimmons family in
attendance to stand and intro
duce themselves.
McClain also introduced
Chastain, the dowser, and Mimi
Jo Hill Butler of the Marble
Valley Historical Society.
Butler was a large part of the
preservation effort for the ceme
tery. She has researched
Fitzsimmons’ family history
and related some of it to the
audience.
Fitzsimmons emigrated from
Ireland and stumbled, literally,
upon a marble deposit here in
Pickens County in the early
1830s. He built an enterprise
called Long Swamp Marble
Company with two Irish friends,
John Frohock and James Ferrell.
Long Swamp Marble made
the first memorial to be carved
from Georgia marble, an obelisk
erected in 1840 to honor
Gwinnett County men who died
in the Texas revolution at Gilead
and some others that died in a
battle with the Creek Nation
near Lawrenceville, Georgia.
Fitzsimmons was murdered
in 1844, and no one was ever
pinned with the murder.
Butler said the land that
holds the cemetery has changed
hands three times and was
donated to Pickens County by
Imerys Marble, Inc. in 2005.
She then introduced the two
marble craftsmen that carved
the new monument, David
Carver and Hugh Bozeman.
“Hopefully this marker will
be around for many generations
to come for people from around
the county, around the country,
and around the world to enjoy,”
Carver said.
He said there was work yet to
be done on the cemetery, includ
ing a marble bench and several
other markers to put in place.
Commissioner Rob Jones
said a few words of thanks and
optimism at the ceremony for
what the project means.
“I think it’s a plus for the
community,” Jones said after
wards. “Since we’re trying to
make a tourist attraction for
Pickens County. It’s just one
small stepping stone amongst
many.”
After the new monument
was unveiled, a small crowd
trudged up the steep wood-
chipped path to inspect it up
close. It gives a brief history of
Fitzsimmons’ life and death
with an intricately engraved
Irish cross to the right. The back
has a list of donors and volun
teers.
“It’s so much more than just
a cemetery,” Butler said.
“They've underestimated this
man [Fitzsimmons] for years.”
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Man jailed for contempt of court order
residence when he noticed
emergency vehicles going in
that direction one evening last
summer. Hayles said he was
checking to see if there was a
fire that could have spread and
threatened his residence. There
was no fire.
Judge Harry Doss found
Hayles in contempt of court.
In addition to a 72-hour jail
sentence, Hayles was ordered
to pay a one hundred dollar
fine, and Hartman's legal
expenses in the amount of one
thousand dollars.
Hayles and Hartman live on
Mountain Crest Drive, off Price
Creek Road.
During witness testimony,
Hayles claimed the original
restraining order did not pro-
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Due to lack of items for an
agenda, there will not be a
Pickens County Planning
Commission meeting on July
9, 2007.
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or yelling profanities. He noted
the order only states that he may
not at any time be within 300
yards of Hartman, his family or
his residence.
Hayles attempted to con
vince the court that what he was
accused of was a form of pro
tected free speech. When asked
for a case citing to support his
claim, Hayles could not provide
one.
He also argued that he did
not know he was under a
restraining order when he made
the accused violations. Hayles
said he was not served with a
copy of the restraining order as
required by law when it was ini
tially filed. H e
added he only found out about
the order when he was served
Notice of Meeting
A Nominating Committee
was appointed by the Board of
Directors of Amicalola EMC at
its June meeting to make nomi
nations for directors whose
terms expire at the Annual
Meeting to be held Oct. 6. This
Nominating Committee made
up of Truman Paul Henderson
(Cherokee/Bartow); Charles F.
Finley (Dawson/Forsyth);
Grady Evans
(Pickens/Gordon); Edward E.
Tucker (Lumpkin); and Freddie
Vick (Fannin/ Gilmer/Murray)
shall meet at the headquarters
office on July 3 at 7 p.m.
Card of Thanks
We would like to take this
opportunity to thank Cagle
Funeral Home and the nurses at
Mountainside for their help.
Thanks to our neighbors and
friends for their help. We would
like to thank Hospice for what
they done. The singers and
preachers, Bill Neese and
Wallace Parks, thank you. We
thank Ball Creek Church for
their help. May the Lord bless
you all.
Family of Herschel Padgett
with a motion for contempt in
August 2006.
In an indirectly related case,
in October 2006 Hayles filed a
multi-million dollar lawsuit
against Hartman, another neigh
bor, the sheriff's office and
selected deputies, the district
attorney, and an attorney who
represented one of the deputies
in a previous case.
In that suit he has alleged a
“campaign of harassment”
orchestrated by the parties he is
suing. Since filing the original
suit, Hayles has dropped the
district attorney from his claim.
Sheriff Billy Wofford, Chief
Deputy Allen Wigington,
District Attorney Joe
Hendricks, and numerous
Pickens County deputies were
present at Wednesday’s hearing.
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