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PAGE 8A PICKENS COUNTY PROGRESS THURSDAY. APRIL 8. 2021
Georgia lawmakers choose
permanent daylight saving time
Notice to Bidders
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Copies of BIDDING DOCUMENTS may be obtained
at Pickens County Administration Office, 1266 East
Church Street, Suite 188, Jasper, Georgia 30143.
The successful bidder will be required to furnish a
Bid Bond and a Performance and Payment Bond. A
certified check in the amount of 5% of the bid
amount will also be acceptable. Check to be re
tained by the County until all work is completed to
satisfaction.
Provide the County a copy of Certificate of Insurance
as additional insured.
After the award of the contract and before the start
of work, you will be required to attend a preconstruc
tion conference with representatives of the County.
The conference will serve to acquaint the partici
pants with the general plan for paving of the streets
and to discuss any special conditions that the
County may have that may alter the original bid
price.
Hill City children displaying their dictionaries are: front row - Camila Derrosa Guerrero, Kiley Stokes, Katelyn
Willaford and Marley Patterson; middle row - Brooklyn Cabb, Hallie Mullins and Andrew Bannister; back row - Jesse
Kellogg, Gus Raines and Sawyer Jones.
Eleven (11) roads in the project herein described are
to be completed within sixty (60) calendar days from
the date of award of contract.
No bidder may withdraw his bid within thirty (30)
days after the actual bid date of the opening thereof.
Pickens County reserves the right to waive any ir
regularities or reject any or all bids.
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Capitol Beat News Service
ATLANTA - The General
Assembly decided Wednes
day to leave the standard ver
sus daylight saving time
debate up to Congress.
On the final day of this
year’s legislative session, the
state Senate voted 45-6 to put
Georgia on daylight saving
time permanently. But under
federal law, that change can
take place only if Congress
makes daylight time perma
nent nationwide.
The Senate, which passed
legislation in F ebruary to put
Georgia on standard time all
year long, voted instead on
Wednesday to side with the
Georgia House of Represen
tatives, which favored year-
round daylight time.
The one point of agree
ment between the two cham
bers throughout the 2021
General Assembly session
was that Georgia should stop
switching back and forth be
tween standard and daylight
time twice a year.
Sen. Ben Watson, R-Sa-
vannah, and Rep. Wes
Cantrell, R-Woodstock, who
sponsored two competing
versions of the bill, cited a
number of studies to their
legislative colleagues de
scribing disruptions to sleep
patterns and more serious
health issues that increase in
frequency following time
changes, particularly the
yearly “swing forward” shift
from standard to daylight
time.
However, Georgians will
continue switching back and
forth under the bill that
gained final passage Wednes
day, unless and until Con
gress takes action. The
legislation now heads to Gov.
Brian Kemp for his signature.
Rotary and Community Bank present
dictionaries to all third graders
April 2021
SEPARATE sealed BIDS for the construction of 2021
ASPHALT PAVING PROJECT will be received by
Pickens County, 1266 East Church Street, Suite 188,
Jasper, Georgia 30143, until 2:00 p.m. local time on
the 8th day of April 2021, and at said place publicly
opened and read aloud.
The work to be done consists of cleaning, tacking,
and placing an asphaltic overlay on selected streets
in Pickens County, the approximate length of the
streets are as follows: Carver Mill Road 9,821 ft.,
East Price Creek Road 14,996 ft., Sutton Road 4,964
ft., Old Mill White Road 4,594 ft., Evans Road 5,492
ft., Thompson Lane 2,429 ft., Yellow Creek Road
13,200 ft., Scarecorn Creek Road 7,023 ft., Old
Waleska Road South 1,848 ft., Refuge Valley Road
2,904 ft., and Roland Road 2,218 ft., for an approx
imate total of 69,489 linear feet of resurfacing and
approximate tonnage to be 13,809 tons.
No bids will be received or accepted after the above
specified time for the opening of Bids. Bids submit
ted after the designated hour will be deemed invalid
and returned unopened to the Bidder.
tary’s core values. The serv
ice group meets each
Wednesday at 12 noon at
Chattahoochee Tech and is
open to the community. Visit
www.jaspergarotary.org for
more information.
Tate Elementary students Sawyer Gaddis, Cydney
Haney, Noah Newton, Emma Ostrum, Ellah Durrett and
Brayden Hill are happy they have their own dictionaries.
Submitted by partnered with the school
Jasper Rotary system to give each third
grader their own dictionary.
For the sixth year, Rotary The 365 dictionaries are
and Community Bank have published by the Dictionary
Harmony learners Briar White, Kennedi Starks, Briaali
McArthur and Ryleigh Bagget pose for their picture hold
ing their personal reference book.
Project out of Columbia, S.C.
and they believe a dictionary
is an essential tool to help
students do their best work
Education is one of Ro-
Georgia Mountains
Hospice
Asks You To
Vote for your local
“Mardi Gras in the Mountains”
King and Queen
PLANNING UNDERWAY FOR MARDI GRAS IN THE MOUNTAINS
Georgia Mountains Hospice will again be hosting the annual Mardi Gras in
the Mountains Gala on Saturday, April 24th, 2021. They are partnered this year
with the Ellijay and Jasper Councils of the Knights of Columbus and the Rotary
Club of Jasper. Festivities the night of the event will include a catered buffet
meal, music by “Banks and Shane” and a silent auction that will run throughout
the evening.
The highlight of the evening will be the crowning of the “Mardi Gras in the
Mountains” King and Queen in true New Orleans style. The Gala committee has
chosen six individuals from three surrounding counties as nominees and are al
lowing you to vote in an online process that will keep the chosen couple a well
kept secret until the night of the event
The nominees for
Pickens County
Queen Nominee
Kim Kinne-Ryan
King Nominee
Mark Mitton
Visit https://mardigrasinthemountains.org to review the nominees of the
“Mardi Gras in the Mountains” Gala event and place your monetary bid for your
favorite King and Queen. Votes will be monetary donations, with each dollar
equaling one vote. Tickets may be purchased online, there is a discount for early
ticket purchase.
Do not miss this opportunity to celebrate with members of these organizations
who share in the same vision and dream for members of your communities. All
monies raised from this event will benefit Georgia Mountains Hospice and local
charities supported by the Knights of Columbus and the Rotary Club of Jasper.
For more information on the evening events, how to purchase tickets
or the voting process, please contact Gina Pendley at 706-253-4100
or 800-692-7199 or go to https://mardigrasinthemountains.org.
Votes may be mailed to Georgia Mountains Hospice
70 Caring Way ~ Jasper, GA 30143
Community Responds: Best pranks
By Angela Reinhardt
Staff Writer
areinhardt@piekensprogress.com
The day before April
Fools Day we asked our
Facebook followers what the
Attention Bidders
The bid is for five (5) permanent mounted genera
tors.
2331 Hwy 136 Jasper Ga 30143
306 Hawkins Ridge Jasper Ga 30143
184 Pinhook Rd Ranger Ga 30734
3379 Steve Tate Rd Marble Hill Ga 30148
3043 Camp Rd Jasper Ga 30143
Contractor to provide the following services:
• Furnish and install Kohler propane and natural
gas driven generators.
• Generator system include engine block heater,
flexible fuel lines, sound attenuated enclosure,
weather resistance steel enclosure, stainless
steel flexible exhaust connector,
• Critical grade exhaust silencer, battery
charger, or kohler DEC 3000 Microprocessor
control. And RSAIII-Remote annunciator,
Factory authorized startup, operator training,
and system load testing using building load at
beginning and all conduit and wiring for
connection.
• Generator to be located in area specified by
Pickens County and contractor to construct
concrete pad (3,000 psig) as foundation for
generator with in conduit in concrete.
• Five-year equivalent extended warranty on
generator system to be provided.
• Full first year factory authorized maintenance to
be included.
The work will consist of producing and installing
the generator with all applicable connections and
wiring. The work is to be completed within 120 con
secutive calendar days from date of the awarding
contract.
All bids must be in by Thursday April 8, 2021
at 3:00 pm. No bids will be received or accepted
after 3:00 pm, April 8, 2021. Bids submitted after
the designated hour will be deemed invalid and re
turned unopened to the bidder. Pickens County re
serves the right to waive any irregularities or reject
any and all bids.
Bid Packages can be picked up in the Water De
partment at the Administrative Building located at:
1266 East Church St. Jasper GA 30143
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best prank they’ve ever
pulled, or what the best prank
was that had ever been pulled
on them. Here are some re
sponses:
JoAnn Lowe - “Well I
have been teased a lot grow
ing up. My birthday is on
April 1st. My parents were
going to name me ‘April’ but
with my maiden name of
Poole, I can only imagine
how much more teasing I
would have gotten. It would
have been April Poole bom
on April Fools.”
Paula Eubanks Wright -
“I did not do this but I
thought it was very creative,
as we know Ann Parks is the
best. Many years ago teach
ers had a phone list to call
one another in case of school
outage. Ann Parks called and
told her phone contact that
school was cancelled due to
[ajwater line breaking and
the streets were flooded.”
Michael B. Morris - The
first one I remember pulling,
I was in first grade at Tate El
ementary (April 77). Ms.
Gloria Thompson was the
teacher. She had on white
pants that day and I tried to
be really serious and told her
she had something on the
back of her pants. She
jumped and looked and (I re
ally do think she believed
me) then I said ‘April Fools! ’
For some reason, I've never
forgot that one. I guess be
cause I really loved her as a
teacher.”