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THURSDAY. OCTOBER 21.2010 PICKENS COUNTY PROGRESS PAGE 13A
Community Bulletin Board
Volunteer Training
Georgia Mountains Hospice invites you to share your time
and talents with the community agency serving people living
with terminal illness. The training is held on the first Wednesday
of every month at 9 a.m. in the Stancil Room of their building at
70 Caring Way in Jasper. Serving Cherokee, Pickens, Dawson,
Murray, Gilmer, Fannin and Union since 1993. Call 706-253-
4100 or 1-800-692-7199 for details.
Ga. Legal Services
Free legal services are available to low income clients in this
area. Services are based on case type and financial eligibility.
GLSP does not handle criminal cases. For an appointment please
call 800-745-5717 or 770-535-5717 between 9 and 11 a.m.
Monday-Friday.
Notice
Drug Problem? Local meetings. Call Narcotics Anonymous
for meeting times, 770-893-8991.
Twirler Square Dancing
Square dancing the second, fourth and fifth Mondays every
month, 7 p.m. at Bent Tree Club Tamarack. Experienced dancers
welcome. Classes offered. Call David & Dolores Johnson, 706-
692-7914.
AA
Alcoholics Anonymous in Georgia - Turn on Burnt Mountain
Road. At three-way stop turn right on Cove Road. About 2 miles
(pass through a couple of S-curves) turn right on Griffith Road
(Holy Family Episcopal Church). Follow signs to the food pantry
building located at the back of the church property (past the
Sunday School building). Monday-Wednesday-Friday meeting
at 8 p.m. Tuesday-Thursday-Saturday meeting at 6 p.m. Sunday
meeting at 4 p.m. Pick up the phone - not a drink. Contact num
ber, 706-253-2323.
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Green Team continues
recycling service here
By Jeff Warren
Many Pickens County resi
dents of an Earth-friendly out
look recently found their recy-
clables figuratively blowin' in
the wind after the main home
pick-up recycling service here
went suddenly out of business.
Fortunately, Green Team
Recycling was able to step up
in the aftermath to continue the
same kind of service.
Sharon Harp heads Green
Team. Harp chaired the recy
cling committee for Keep
Pickens Beautiful when North
Georgia Recycling, the compa
ny locals had come to depend
on, crushed its last soda can. At
the time. Harp said, some KPB
members suggested she take
on the job of continuing a recy
cling service in the county.
When she agreed to do that,
KPB friends even helped with
paperwork to incorporate her
new firm, Harp said.
With that done, she owned a
recycling company on paper
before she ever acquired a
truck or labor force, Harp said.
But quickly, she also secured
those needed essentials. By her
volunteer work as a store coor
dinator with the Community
Thrift Store, Harp knew the
Timothy House, its leaders,
and Timothy House clients
who work at the store, she said.
"I got together with
Timothy House," Harp said.
"They had the truck. They had
the labor. And Green Team was
started."
The Timothy House is a
Christian ministry, located in
west Pickens County, that
helps men overcome dmg and
alcohol addictions. A step of
the program involves commu
nity service performed by
Timothy House clients without
expectation of pay.
Clients now run a collection
route for Green Team, gather
ing recyclables set aside by
homeowners and businesses to
keep the materials from going
into a landfill. Locally this col
lection work by Timothy
House men is a service to the
community. In the bigger pic
ture, it serves the whole planet.
There is not a great deal of
money to be made in Pickens
from the wholesaling of recy
clables, Harp explained.
"Aluminum averages 50 cents
a pound, and that fluctuates,"
she said. Other scrap metal
brings nine cents per pound.
Harp is paid nothing for plas
tic.
Cardboard will bring two
cents per pound, something
she doesn't even bother with.
Harp said. Green Team collects
cardboard for recycling, she
explained, but that goes
straight to a county recycling
center to be shredded and
baled.
The county pays nothing for
recyclables but mans two col
lection centers for the conven
ience of residents. County col
lection centers are funded in
part by revenue generated
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when the county sells accumu
lated recyclables to a wholesale
buyer.
Green Team makes most of
its money on the fee it charges
customers for pick-up of recy
clables, Harp said. "It's $15 a
month for weekly recyclable
and limited trash pick-up," she
explained. And customers are
expected to separate their recy
clables from their trash.
"Green Team recycles plastic
water and soda bottles, alu
minum cans, tin cans—they're
actually steel, but we call 'em
tin—and cardboard," Harp said.
Two kinds of cardboard are
eligible, she explained. One is
corrugated cardboard, the
heavy-duty, multi-ply stuff used
in shipping boxes. The other
kind is the single-ply cardboard
used in grocery packaging:
cereal boxes; noodle boxes;
cardboard rolls that toilet paper
and paper towels are wound on.
"We also do newspapers,
magazines, and books," Harp
said. Assorted clean paper and
assorted glass bottles Green
Team will also carry away to be
recycled.
Some materials they cannot
accept. Styrofoam is one.
"There may be a [recycle] trian
gle on the bottom of it, but
there's no facility here that recy
cles it," Harp explained.
Another item Green Team
cannot recycle is any food-con
taminated paper product, such
as a fast-food to-go bag or con-
Green Team Recycling
owner Sharon Harp.
tainer. And they don't accept
those plastic bottles motor oil
comes packaged in. That is
because residual motor oil is apt
to leak from such containers and
contaminate other collected
recyclables, Harp explained.
New to Pickens County in
2004, Harp quickly plugged
into organized efforts to bring
benefits and improvements
here. She continues in that way.
"Part of our [Green Team] mis
sion statement is ten percent of
our proceeds goes back to non
profit organizations in the com
munity," Harp said.
She listed recent Green Team
contributions to Ruth House
Ministries and to the Boy
Scouts. A Green Team contribu
tion to the youth of Tate United
Methodist Church was made not
in cash but in aluminum cans,
Harp said.
"I was trying to come up
with a gimmick," she said,
"because everybody gives
checks." The youth group col
lects aluminum cans it turns into
cash to support its activities,
Harp said. Green Team's donat
ed 25 pounds of cans filled a
pickup truck bed, she said.
"A whole pickup truck load
of aluminum cans made a good
photo opportunity and encour
aged recycling," Harp pointed
out. She still chairs the recy
cling committee for Keep
Pickens Beautiful, promoting its
green vision county-wide.
"It's such a community-
based area," she said of Pickens.
"And that is awesome. It is such
a strong community-based area.
And the views are gorgeous,"
she added.
Trusting there are many
other residents equally in love
with the natural environment
here, Harp hopes they will con
nect with her recycling business
as a help to the environment.
"Think clean. Think Green," she
said.
You can contact Green Team
Recycling proprietor Sharon
Harp at 706-253-3474 or at this
e-mail address:
sharonh@etcmail.com
Energy Assistance Program opens for
homebound and elderly opens Nov. 1
The State of Georgia,
Department of Human
Resources, with whom North
Georgia Community Action,
Inc. contracts, has announced
that an Energy Assistance
Program will officially open on
Nov. 1 with the beginning of the
Homebound/Elderly application
intake period. Homebound
households are defined as those
households in which every
household member is confined
to the home because of medical
conditions or disabilities.
Elderly households are defined
as those households in which
every member is aged 65 years
or older. (If anyone in the
household is under age 18 and
all the other household mem
bers are 65 or older that house
hold will meet the definition of
Elderly.)
All households participating
in the program must meet the
income criteria; be responsible
for paying the cost of energy for
home heating directly to the
supplier; and be US citizens or
aliens admitted to the US for
lawful, permanent residence.
To apply, applicants must
bring their most recent electric
bill, proof of household income,
proof of valid Social Security
Number and proof of citizen
ship or alien status. In addition,
Elderly households must pro
vide proof of age for all house
hold members.
Assistance will be in the
form of a one-time payment on
behalf of the eligible household
to help offset the cost of heating
their homes. The checks are
issued directly to the home
energy supplier. No checks can
be issued until North Georgia
Community Action, Inc.
receives the funds from the
State of Georgia, Department of
Human Resources. Assistance is
on a first-come, first-served
basis while the funds last.
Any low-income residents of
the county who feel that their
household meets the definition
of “Homebound” or “Elderly”
should contact the North
Georgia Community Action,
Inc.’s Community Service
Center for their county of resi
dence beginning Nov. 1 at 8:30
a.m.
Georgia Farm Bureau to award
Agriculture Scholarships
Georgia Farm Bureau will
award a total of $14,250 in
scholarships to ten high school
seniors who plan to pursue a
college degree in agriculture,
family and consumer sciences,
or a related field, John Tatum,
Pickens County Farm Bureau
president, recently announced.
The top three students will
each receive a scholarship of
$3,000. The remaining seven
students will each receive a
$750 scholarship. Students are
eligible to submit an applica
tion if they, a parent or legal
guardian were a member of
Georgia Farm Bureau as of
Sept. 1, 2010.
Applicants must plan to
enter a unit of the University
System of Georgia or Berry
College during the 2011-12
academic year to pursue an
undergraduate degree in agri
cultural and environmental sci
ences, family and consumer
sciences or a related agricultur
al field. All applications must
be submitted by Friday, Feb.
25,2011.
“I would like to encourage
any high school seniors in our
county who are planning to
pursue a degree in agricultural
and environmental sciences,
family and consumer sciences,
or a related agricultural field to
consider applying for the Farm
Bureau Scholarship,” said John
Tatum, Pickens County Farm
Bureau president.
Please contact the Pickens
County Farm Bureau office at
706-692-6457 for more infor
mation about the scholarship
program or to obtain an appli
cation. You may also download
a copy of the application by
visiting http://www.gfb.org
then selecting GFB Programs
and then FB Women.
The application includes a
list of all the University System
of Georgia Institutions students
may attend to qualify for the
scholarship and examples of
qualifying majors. All scholar
ship applications must be
approved and signed by the
Farm Bureau president of the
county where Farm Bureau
membership is held before
being submitted to the Georgia
Farm Bureau home office.
Farm Bureau welcomes the
opportunity to assist our state’s
future agriculture leaders in
continuing their education.
The scholarship recipients
will be announced in May 2011.
The scholarships will be distrib
uted in the summer of 2011
after the recipients provide con
firmation of their enrollment in
a college/university and their
major area of study.
The Georgia Farm Bureau
Mutual Insurance Company and
the GFB Women’s Committee
sponsor the scholarship pro
gram.
Georgia Farm Bureau is the
state’s largest general farm
organization. Its volunteer
members actively participate in
local, district and state activities
that promote agriculture aware
ness to their non-farming neigh
bors. GFB also has 20 com
modity advisory committees
that give the organization input
on issues pertinent to the major
commodities grown in Georgia.
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