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THURSDAY. MARCH 5. 2015 PICKENS COUNTY PROGRESS PAGE 15A
Adams, a single mother, left
two young children behind.
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Adams
Nichols said.
“At this time we don’t know
if she was under the influence of
anything,” he said.
Adams was a single mother of
two. Her daughter, 11-year-old
Aleya Dozier attends Pickens
County Middle School and her
son, Jayden, attends Harmony
Elementary, according to her
boss Amanda Moore, the human
resources director at Image
Maids in Canton, a residential
cleaning company.
Moore said Kristen had
worked for her parent’s company
for the past 10 years and had just
recently been promoted into the
office as the route and field man
ager doing sales and scheduling.
“She worked really hard for
that promotion. She was an out
standing individual,” Moore
said. “She was soft-spoken and
had a big heart. She was always
striving to do better. She wanted
more for her future and for her
kids’ future. She was just really
a sweet girl.”
Kristen talked constantly
about her children, Moore said,
and always wanted a better life
for them.
“She wanted them to have a
better life so she was that person
who was always open to work
extra hours and was always eager
to help.”
Kristen grew up in Canton
and attended Cherokee High
School. Her parents are Steve
and Shannon Adams. She has a
brother, Michael.
“Kristen was a dedicated
mother, dedicated to her family
and her career,” Moore said.
“Customers and co-workers
loved her and relied on her de
pendability, honesty and caring
character.
A Celebration of Life event
was held Tuesday, March 3rd at
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Stanger
letting Stanger’s neighbor re
ceive a driveway permit well
after the driveway was installed.
However, it does not appear
that Stanger’s complaint will
gain much traction in the local
courts. Chief Magistrate Judge
Allen Wigington said what
Stanger has alleged are violations
of county codes, not the law.
Wigington said Stanger’s com
plaints would need to go back to
the county’s administrative side,
not into the legal system.
Stanger, a 20-year resident of
Upper Bethany Road, said the
county codes are clear that any
one who puts in a driveway with
out a permit “shall” be fined. He
said the code doesn’t give the
land development office the abil
ity to waive the fine.
“[Dropping the fine] is up to a
judge, not a county official to de
cide,” he said.
Former Director of Planning
and Development Norman Pope
said generally when someone
needs a permit after-the-fact they
charge double the normal
amount. But in this case. Pope
said the property owner had been
cooperative and there was mis-
communication between the
owner and a timber company on
who was getting the permits so
they didn’t charge any additional
amount. Pope also noted that nei
ther the county nor an inspection
by the EPD found any violations
at the property in question.
Pope, who still works for the
county, but not in the planning
office, said the philosophy of the
county has been to “educate not
fine.”
Pope said in his 16 years, he
has faced numerous gripes and
complaints about the county
being too strict, but this is the
first where someone was angry
that they didn’t fine and inspect
enough.
Stanger initially began his re
search and complaints to the de
velopment office after a
neighboring 32-acre piece of
property went into foreclosure,
was purchased, cleared and par
tially made into a pasture by
Stone Creek Farms, LLC, which
is owned by Christopher Geist.
Stanger objects to the fact that
his home is now exposed to the
road and there was no buffer area
left between his property and the
pasture. The whole area had for
merly been woodland.
But, as Stanger concedes after
a good deal of research, the
neighboring property owner did
n’t violate any land use codes.
Stanger said the problem isn’t the
quality of work but the lack of
protection in the codes.
“I believe people will be sur
prised by how little protection
they have,” he said.
Stanger points out that there
are hundreds and hundreds of
homes adjoining agriculture and
timberland and they have very
little protection with buffers.
Stanger further notes that zon
ing and land use codes are de
signed and written for
development stages of projects
and often tied to building per
mits. But, in cases like this, there
are few requirement for proper
ties that aren’t changing hands
and when no structures are being
built.
Stanger also said the current
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Painting where he created and
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Winston Churchill’s paintings.
Churchill’s life, while history
hails him as a great leadership
icon, also boasts turbulence in
his career as an author, journalist.
politician and statesman, accord
ing to Sandys.
In an article this year in the
Atlanta Business Chronicle,
Sandys said, “Failure shapes us,
knocks the edges off, unleashes
creativity, helps us to see what is
important and critically prepares
us for success. We cannot avoid
failures but we can control how
we recover and learn from
them.”
“Real leadership is a messy
business and those leaders whom
we admire the most are seen as
courageous people who make
transformational decisions. But
courage goes hand-in-hand with
risk and often produces failure,
an essential element in forging a
great leader. How someone re
acts to failure is the true mettle of
leadership. What we revere is
both their ability to remain calm
when things go wrong and how
they learn the lessons from fail
ure.”
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Churchill, Britain’s World
War II leader, is regarded by
many as an iconic leader, rally
ing the British people during
the war and leading his country
from the brink of defeat to vic
tory.
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Prophecy
Ely said, just back from a 2,000-
mile drive around north Florida
in a vintage Airstream lettered
with a portion of the prophetic
message. “It kind of scared me
because it’s really, really heavy.
But God wants me to bring this
to the world.”
Ely walks around the side of
the silver RV and reads aloud.
“Hear this and understand,”
he says, “this word shall move
throughout the land. Go and tell
every man, hear this word it’s my
command. Say this in their ear.
my coming is very near.”
The message is signed
“Jesus.”
“When I first received it I
thought I was supposed to go to
churches and spread the message
there, but then God told me it
was supposed to be moving. In
his original message God said to
me, ‘Know this and understand,
this word shall move throughout
the land.”
Ely said the message was de
livered on April 22, 2014 at 3
a.m., which he said was commu
nicated exactly seven days after
the Blood Moon on Passover, at
exactly 3 a.m.
“I had no idea about that con
nection,” he said. “Seven is a
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and the Blood Moon is impor
tant. He later showed me that
seven represents spiritual perfec
tion, and this prophecy is spiritu-
ally perfect.”
Ely has vowed to take this
message - the warning of a rap
idly approaching End Time and
Jesus’ return - back and forth
across America’s highways and
interstates, and eventually the
world.
“I pull the RV with my truck
and drive 50 miles an hour on the
highways so people have to pass
me and they’ll see the message,”
he said. “This is what God is
calling me to do. I don’t know if
we’ll stay or sell the business,
but when He returns, I’ll be
found doing.”
Ely calls for Christians who
are saved to “press into” the high
calling of God through active
and participatory service. For the
unsaved, he says, the time for
salvation is now.
“You have to wake every day
and ask, what can I do to glorify
Him?” Ely said. “God knows
your heart. He is so close to you.
When He comes will you be
ready to go?”
This isn’t the first time Ely
says he’s been contacted by God.
The upstate New York native
who was saved at 39 years old
says God has made audible con
nections with him three times -
twice in 1988 and once in 1990.
“I don’t really know of any
one else who has been audibly
contacted,” he said. “These
prophecies are delivered, but
people in this town don’t really
know who I am. Prophets aren’t
really known in their own
towns.”
But Ely said at this point his
path has been defined.
“I don’t know if we’ll have to
eventually sell the business,” he
said. “I just don’t know. But I
know I’m doing God’s will.”
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ton.
An account has been set up to
honor Kristen Adams and the fu
ture for Aleya and Jayden. All
funds will be used directly for
their care.
“If your heart feels led to help
the children, please visit
www.gofundme.com/KEAChil-
dren and also leave your expres
sion of love on her memorial
page Kristen E. Adams Memo
rial on Facebook,” asks organ
izer.
Links to the gofundme and
memorial page are both included
with this story at our website,
pickensprogress.com
system doesn’t adequately insure
that timber taxes are paid when it
is an “owner harvest” where the
owners are being paid by a com
pany.
Much to the homeowner’s
chagrin, a county official sent
correspondence noting that the
work on the adjoining piece of
property was “outstanding” in
one e-mail from Norman Pope to
the owner.
“The pasture is very pretty,”
Stanger said. “But the point is I
have been aggrieved and I have
no protection.”
Stanger said in addition to the
citizen’s complaint he will ad
dress the board of commissioners
at an upcoming meeting.
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