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PAGE 4B PICKENS COUNTY PROGRESS THURSDAY. OCTOBER 10. 2019 The Sheriff’s Beat From the Pickens Sheriff’s Office Some of the details from a few of these calls are listed below: Case #19102681 Wanted Person Located Limestone Ln. @ Old Mill White Rd. Deputies performed a traf fic stop on a vehicle. During the stop, deputies learned that the driver had a Felony Pro bation Violation Warrant out of Hall County. The driver was arrested and transported to the jail without incident. Case #191002655 False Name Deputies assisted nar cotics agents with two indi viduals attempting to gain fraudulent prescriptions from a local pharmacy at their res idence on Burnt Mountain Road. During the investigation, both individuals provided false names and date of births. Both individuals were taken into custody and trans ported to the detention center. Case #191002649 Suspicious Person / Wanted Person Deputies responded to Monument Road in reference to suspicious persons walk ing down the road. Contact was made with two juveniles who advised they were told to pack their belongings and get out of the house. The ju veniles were returned to their residence and the parents ad vised they were trying to teach the juveniles a life les son. The juveniles were al lowed back in the residence. A GCIC inquiry of the par ents returned advising the fa ther was wanted for an outstanding warrant out of Pickens County. He was ar rested without incident. Case#191002641 Warrant Service / Posses sion of Meth Deputies were on patrol in the area of Fortner Road when they observed a known fugitive sitting on the side of the road. The individual had a small black case sitting next to him on the ground that had multi ple baggies of suspected Meth, a loaded syringe, glass pipes with residue a scale and suspected Marijuana. The individual was ar rested and transported to the jail without incident. Case #190902627 Warrant Service/VGCSA: Possession of Meth Fortner Rd @ Duckett Ln Deputies were patrolling the area of Pea Ridge and Fortner roads when a suspi cious vehicle attempted to turn and avoid them. The ve hicle pulled into a driveway near Duckett Lane and turned off all lights and engine. When Deputies made contact with the driver, it was deter mined that she had a Felony Probation Violation warrant out of Pickens County. During a search incident to her arrest, a baggie of Methamphetamine was lo cated in her purse. She was arrested and transported to the jail without incident. Court Services In addition to the above activity from the Uniform Patrol Division, Court Serv ice Deputies reported the fol lowing statistics for the past week: Persons Scanned at Front Door: 1237 Weapons Found: 11 Courts Held: 8 Arrest Made in the Court house: 2 Civil Papers Received : 123 Civil Papers Served: 65 Adult Detention Center: Total Jail population: 85 Total male inmates: 70 Total female inmates: 15 Sex Offenders: There are currently 65 sex of fenders registered with the Pickens Sheriff’s Office. Good soil for the garden is as simple as dirt By Dee Boggus Pickens County Master Gardener More times than I want to count I have listened to folks complain about the inadequa cies of our north Georgia soil. Even I have to admit that just one look at our red clay dirt (looks like an unbaked brick and sometimes digs as hard as if it were a brick) can be off-putting. Surprisingly, our local dirt can be very fertile if you understand the character istics and limitations of clay soil. Regardless of color, good gardening soil should be crumbly and friable. It will hold together as a soft lump for a minute when you squeeze it but will fall as crumbly bits as it slides off your hand to the ground. One analogy would be to think of good garden soil as a living organism, with visible and invisible living forms, and understand that it has (so to speak) its own breathing sys tem and pores. It even has a circulatory system of water and soil solution and a diges tive system carried on by beneficial soil bacteria. A gardener who loves this process will open the soil up for good circulation (tilling) and feed it with organic mat ter or fertilizer to keep its systems healthy (the idea of feeding plants is a common misconception- plants make their own food). Scientifi cally speaking, feeding soil with minerals and organic matter supports the microor ganisms which provide nutri ents, enzymes, and antibiotics that are taken up by the roots of plants or ex changed in the mycorrhizal association of carbohydrates, proteins, and other materials between fungi and roots. Scientists have studied soil types for a long time and have devised several meth ods for classifying them, but in simple terms there are three main types: sandy soils, silty or loam soils, and clay soils. Silty or loamy soils are the goal of most gardeners, as they have an ideal structure; some sand particles and some clay with a good percentage of humus. Humus is the dark organic matter that forms in soil when dead plant and an imal matter decays. Loamy soils hold enough water and nutrients to support plant health without overwhelming (excessive water kills plants more often than not). Sandy soil has large parti cles in it and feels gritty when you rub it between your hands. Because the par ticles are larger there are more spaces for water to run through and air to get in, so sandy soil dries out and warms up quickly. This porous quality drains the bac terial decomposition of or ganic matter and nitrogen rapidly, so recommended soil improvements for sandy soil are the addition of organic matter in the form of com post (both fine or rough) or other mulch materials to slow this process down. Ironically, the “fix” for clay soils is the same- an ad dition of organic matter that will create humus, provide air circulation, and improve internal drainage. Clay soils tend to be very fertile, as their smaller particles provide many more surfaces to hold nutrients and water for longer time periods than sandy soils. Many of the minerals and chemical compounds clay soils hold are exchanged for hydrogen when taken up by the plant root. Since pH is ba sically a measure of the amount of hydrogen in the soil, that exchange is one rea son why our clay soils are often acidic, needing the ad dition of lime. (Another cause of acid pH in clay soil is compaction, which leaches alkaline bases from our dirt.) However, be judicious in the amount of organic material added to your clay soil. Dis proportionate amounts of fresh plant residue and/or fer tilizer can cause nitrogen to be unavailable to your plants, as an excess will cause bac teria to multiply and con sume nitrogen until they rob the soil. Another loss of ni trogen can come from too much water, which depletes mineral nutrients and slows down the release of nitrogen into the soil. Most soils are not of per fect gardening quality to begin with therefore soil im provements are always an important part of successful gardening. And while we have little or no control over environmental conditions (sun, wind, rain) you can buffer your soil with im provements in order to miti gate the effects of extreme environmental forces and make your garden a success. Call our office during regular business hours at 706-253- 8840 for answers to any gar dening questions. Notice of Public Hearing November 7th, 2019 Talking Rock Town Hall Notice is hereby given of a hearing to be held on November 7th @ 7:00 pm at the Town of Talking Rock Town Hall, 4675 Highway 136, Talk ing Rock, Georgia, before the Mayor and Town Council. The purpose of the hearing is to discuss the pro posed 2020 budget for the Town of Talking Rock. Notice of Public Hearing November 7th, 2019 Talking Rock Town Hall Notice is hereby given of a hearing to be held on November 7th @ 6:30 pm at the Town of Talking Rock Town Hall, 4675 Highway 136, Talking Rock, Georgia, be fore the Mayor and Town Council. The purpose of the hearing is to discuss a re quest submitted by owners, Audrey Kirsten & Steve Lewis, to have parcel 020A-048-049 be granted a variance to allow the owners to have a private resi dence above their business, Shadow Creek Antiques. During this past week, the Pickens Sheriff’s Office responded to or initiated 1,214 calls for service. These numbers are taken from the report provided directly from the 911 Center where all calls are logged as they are performed. Below is a breakdown of all dispatched calls by the call type for each incident. Accidents 14 Suicide Threats / Attempts 3 Domestics 19 Theft / Burglary Related 26 Forgery / Fraud 5 Traffic Stops 85 Citations Issued 15 Animal Investigations 10 Suspicious Persons/Activity 44 Alarm Calls 9 Stranded Motorists 10 Street Hazards 6 Vandalism 6 Abandoned Vehicles 2 Extra Patrol of neighborhoods, businesses and residences 725 In addition to these, other calls include search warrants, civil service, 911 hang-up calls, assaults, disorderly persons, missing persons, assistance with medical calls, natural death investiga tions, demented persons, funeral escorts, harassment, trespass ing, and many more. Breakdown of Charges for those Arrested: 36 individuals were booked into the Adult Detention Center on charges from the Pickens Sheriff’s Office. Out of these, the fol lowing charges were taken by PSO deputies (note: some indi viduals have multiple charges): Suspended Registration 2 Violation of Georgia Controlled Substance Act 7 Obstruction of Law Enforcement Officer 3 Simple Assault 2 Probation Violation 8 Giving False Name / DOB to Law Enforcement 3 Forgery 2 Identity Theft 3 Possession of Firearm During Crime 2 Battery 5 Theft 1 Theft by Receiving Stolen Property 1 Driving on Suspended License 2 Outstanding Warrant 7 Interference with Government Call 1 Disorderly Conduct 1 Stalking 1 Public Indecency 1 Bond Violation 1 \ new"&7mproved] M&P Shield2.0 9mm or 40S&W Slim Profile Perfect for Carry & Conceal $ 359 95 CLASSIC! - !!" 1 Rgmington 1911 R1 .45ACP 5" Barrel 7+1 Capacity RUGER AR556 ONLY $499.95 NEW!!! GRISHAM&POOLE.PC Criminal Defense | Family Law “You can’t go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending.’’ ~ c.s. Lewis 21 COURT STREET JASPER, GEORGIA 678.880.9360 Experienced. 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