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THURSDAY. SEPTEMBER 30. 2010 PICKENS COUNTY PROGRESS PAGE 17A
Most Beautiful Pet final week of voting
Votes means funds for local animal rescue group
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The 2010 Most Beautiful Pet
Contest is in the final week of
voting and the number of con
testants has increased to a total of
16. The entries include 10 dogs,
4 cats, 1 horse and 1 goat. One
dog is even a former PAR rescue.
Be sure to place your vote for
your favorite in Pickens Animal
Rescue’s Most Beautiful Pet
Contest. Your last chance will be
at the PAR booth at the Marble
Festival. The contest is a fun way
to participate in raising much
needed funds for Pickens Animal
Rescue and helping them care for
the stray and homeless dogs and
cats of the county.
Watch for some of the PAR
Rescue Ranch dogs in the Mar
ble Festival Parade with their
“Adopt Me” signs. After the pa
rade there will be a brief “Meet
& Greet” with the animals at the
Rescue Thrift Store until noon. If
there is a particular pet you are
interested in, please call 404-
202-2026 to make the arrange
ments. The Rescue Thrift Store
will also be having a big book
sale outside after the parade.
Come support PAR this weekend
at the Festival or at the Thrift
Store.
Blessing of Animals and the Feast of St.
Francis of Assisi Oct. 3 at Holy Family
Episcopal Church of the Holy
Family will have its annual
Blessing of the Animals on Sun
day, Oct. 3, at the 10:30 a.m.
worship service. Special prayers
remembering the Feast of St.
Francis will be offered. The Big
Canoe Handbell Choir will join
the Holy Family Folk Choir pro
viding the music at this outdoor
service.
Animal services are usually
held on World Day for Animals,
Oct. 4 (the birthday of St Francis
of Assisi) or on the nearest Sun
day which is now designated
‘Animal Welfare Sunday’ in
many places. Services usually
focus on four themes:
• repentance for our abuse of,
and cruelty to, animals
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• thanksgiving for animal
companionship
• celebration of God’s crea
tures
• compassion for individual
animals
All are welcome - the animals
might benefit from having their
humans attached to them by
leash, tether or cage. The service
will be at the outdoor altar near
the Conference Center, 200 Grif
fith Road, Jasper. In case of in
clement weather the service will
be moved to the Pavilion behind
the Conference Center. Please
bring folding chairs. George
Yandell is the Priest in Charge of
Holy Family Church. Informa
tion: 770-893-4525 or
www.holyfamilyjasper. org
The goat Silver Threads and
dog Annie at the 2009 service.
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Doubts raised on assault/rape
pect, but that was a dead end. As
we interviewed the victim, she
developed inconsistencies with
her story.
“As we looked into those in
consistencies, she became unco
operative. Now she doesn’t want
to speak or cooperate with us at
all. We’re not saying she’s lying,
but if we prove she’s lying, she
would be charged with a felony,
False Statements.”
Lovell said law enforcement
officers are now “in limbo.”
“We can’t get to the bottom of
this,” he said. “There’s not
enough to prove that she’s been
making false statements, but we
can’t get any further because she
won’t talk to us anymore.”
Lovell also reiterated the fact
that, despite the sea of rumors
that have been circulating around
the county, there have been no
other reported incidents.
“We just want to ease peo
ples’ minds that this was an iso
lated report,” he said. “We’ve
heard all kinds of rumors about
serial rapists and dead bodies,”
but Lovell said there is no truth
to them.
“This is a small community,”
Lovell added. “Things like this
are expected down in the Big A,
but not here. We’ve got little old
ladies scared to death, and we
just want to suppress some of the
rumors.”
Lovell said law enforcement
is still treating the case as a rape.
The Progress received the fol
lowing e-mail from the victim
Tuesday morning as a letter to
the editor. The Progress had not
contacted her nor requested an
interview. Her name is withheld.
“I am the rape victim from
Pickens County,” she began.
“First of all I will not be inter
viewed, however I do want the
true story told. As for the GBI
inconsistencies, #1 I got the vic
tims height wrong because the
bat marks were inconsistent on
the wall with that height, when
you’re being raped you don't ask
can I measure you before you
leave so I can give a correct de
scription. #2 my time was off by
10 to 20 minutes. When you’re
being raped you don't watch the
clock to see how long it takes, he
could have been there 5 minutes
or an hour but it felt like forever,
the only thing on my mind was
getting to the back door. #3 my
bruises were wrong because he
should have been standing in
front of me. He was behind me
and I showed Detective Matt
Dawkins, with my husband pres
ent, how my hands were and it
was exactly consistent with my
bruises. I have been very cooper
ative with the police and given
my statement many many times
and it hasn't and will not change.
I was questioned from the second
I got in the ambulance to two
days later. They came to my
house very late at night to ques
tion me again and take pictures
that should have been done at the
hospital. I was at the hospital for
over an hour before the rape kit
was done. I was then asked to go
to Cleveland for a lie detector
test. The day after my rape I was
taken to my home to re-create the
rape. I felt like I had been vio
lated all over again. I was ex
hausted and just wanted to be left
alone, at this time I hadn't even
had time to process this myself
or have personal time with my
family. My daughter has been
teased at school and I really need
to be with my family and take
care of them and myself. I went
to the police station and said I did
not want to be questioned any
more. I have said everything I
know and if I remember anything
else I will let them know. So yes
I have frilly cooperated and given
them all of the information I can
remember. And something that
was not told to the public was
that my house was broken into
the day before and nothing was
taken. The police told me they
could have been scoping out my
house to get a look at where
everything was. Thank you for
your time.”
Continued from Page 1A
Commissioner’s meeting
veloped InterfaceSouth to
heighten awareness of and pro
vide information about wildland-
urban interface (WUI) issues in
the Southern regions of the
United States,” according to the
GFC website.
The federally-mandated study
identifies places where urban
structures and forestland/farm
land are close in proximity and
which have other factors that
make them high-risk. If a struc
ture close to a forest catches fire,
for example, it could ignite a for
est fire.
“This has to do a lot with
amount of egress out of an area,
the type of trees in an area, but
also fire department access and
ability to get into driveways,”
Howard said. “If you have wood
siding and you live next to the
woods, then you are at higher
risk. If you have a brick home
and live in a clearing, you are at
less of a risk.”
Howard said the eight areas
identified as high-risk for Pick
ens are Old Mill White Spark
Springs Road, Mountain Oak,
the Christian Way area off of
Hwy 136 West, Marble Hill
Church and Cowart Mountain
Road, Cove Road at Old Mill
White Road, the Price Creek
area, Grandview Road at Song
bird Drive, and the Hickory Cove
area.
This study did not include the
gated communities of Big Canoe
and Bent Tree, which have inde
pendent fire hazard studies per
formed.
Included in the Pickens
County study are GFC safety
recommendations that help resi
dents reduce their risk for fires.
Some suggestions include using
a more fire-retardant siding on
structures or avoiding highly-
flammable landscaping material
such as pine straw.
Howard said those who live in
high-risk areas will not see an in
crease on insurance policies.
“The [Insurance Services Of
fice] does not recognize any of
these findings,” Howard said.
Pickens County Attorney Phil
Landrum is reviewing the study,
and it is expected that Jones will
sign shortly after Landrum okays
the document.
The study, including maps
and safety recommendations,
will be available on the Pickens
County government website fol
lowing Jones’ approval.
Howard said the study is for
information purposes and does
not mandate the county take any
action, nor does it financially ob
ligate the county in any way.
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