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PAGE 2A PICKENS COUNTY PROGRESS THURSDAY. JULY 7. 2022
Big Canoe Chapel awards scholarships to Pickens students
Since program began 40 years ago more than $2.8 million given to help local students
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Pickens students at the program held this spring. The Big Canoe Chapel has awarded scholarship to 2,600 students,
totalling more than $2.8 million since 1982.
Green’s public service
started with his election to
the Pickens County School
Board when he was still a
junior at the University of
Georgia (UGA), and serving
as School Board Chair for
two years. He is currently
serving on the board and ac
tive in the Jasper Optimist
Club. He’s also an entrepre
neur, owning Tucker Green
and Associate, Inc.
Included in the Chapel’s
general grants were awards
from The Joe Dodd Memo
rial Scholarship, established
in 2018, and received by
Ethan Smith of Dawson High
School (DHS) and Amanda
Nelson from Pickens High
School (PHS).
Smith will run track at
Berry College, while Nelson
will play basketball at Rein
hardt University.
The Sally Shannon Me
morial Scholarship, estab
lished in 2020 by her brother,
is given to well-rounded stu
dents who display a high de
gree of proficiency in math
and who plan to focus on
math or a math-related field.
This year’s awards were
given to Malina Palmour and
Haley Simpson of DHS and
Angelina Casey of PHS. Pal
mour and Casey will both at
tend UNG, while Simpson
will attend Augusta College.
The iPhone/iPad scholar
ship was established in 2016
and awarded to Dawson and
Pickens County seniors who
are planning to major in an
area of computer science.
The recipient this year was
Ethan Erb of Dawson High,
who will attend UNG.
The PHS and DHS vale
dictorians were also awarded
scholarships: Piper Duncan
of PHS will attend UGA, and
Megan Wright of DHS will
attend Rice University.
Reverend Len Walker
presided at the awards event
with an inspirational mes
sage, and music was pro
vided by Noah Burnett.
Green passed along the
following advice to students:
maintain your faith, stay in
touch with family on a daily
basis, be disciplined, estab
lish a routine and stick with
it, and don’t fear failure but
leam from it.”
To which Big Canoe
Chapel says a whole-hearted,
“Amen.”
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Georgia Power to recycle coal ash
from plant near Cartersville
Town of Talking Rock
By Dave Williams
Bureau Chief
Capitol Beat News Service
ATLANTA - Georgia
Power announced plans
Wednesday to recycle more
than 9 million tons of coal
ash stored at Plant Bowen at
a pace of about 600,000 tons
per year.
The largest beneficial use
project for coal ash in the na
tion will excavate ash from
the plant near Cartersville
and convert it into concrete
for constructing roads,
bridges and buildings across
Georgia and the Southeast.
“Finding and securing
these opportunities to benefi
cially use coal ash will not
only reduce and save space
in landfills,” said Aaron
Mitchell, Georgia Power’s
vice president of environ
mental affairs. “[It] will also
serve as a financial tool to
help offset the cost of ash
pond closures for our cus
tomers.”
Georgia Power is spend
ing $9 billion on a multi-year
plan to close all 29 of its ash
ponds at 11 coal-burning
power plants across the state.
While ash is be excavated
and removed from 19 of the
ponds, the other 10 are
scheduled to be closed in
place.
Coal ash contains contam
inants including mercury,
cadmium and arsenic that
can pollute groundwater and
drinking water as well as air.
The future of Plant
Bowen is uncertain. Two of
the plant’s four coal-burning
units were due to be retired
by 2028 under a proposal
Georgia Power submitted to
the state Public Service
Commission (PSC) last Jan
uary.
But an agreement the At
lanta-based utility reached
with the PSC’s Public Inter
est Advocacy Staff this
month would leave that deci
sion up to the commission.
The PSC will vote next
month on the agreement as
part of Georgia Power’s Inte
grated Resource Plan (IRP),
an update the utility provides
every three years on the mix
of energy sources it will rely
upon for the next 20 years to
meet the needs of its cus
tomers.
The decision on whether
to close the two units at Plant
Bowen by 2028 or wait until
a future date likely won’t af
fect the viability of the bene
ficial reuse project, said
Bobby Baker, an energy
lawyer representing Atlanta-
based sustainability non
profit Southface Institute in
the IRP case.
“There’s sufficient coal
ash on site right now to pro
vide adequate supply for sev
eral years for their program,”
he said.
“The coal ash at Bowen
can be reused regardless of
whether or not the power
plant itself retires,” added
Charline Whyte, senior cam
paign representative for the
Sierra Club’s Beyond Coal
Campaign in Georgia.
“It would be a huge mis
take to view the plant as a
coal ash factory when the
power it produces is costing
customers millions in excess
costs and still pollutes air and
water.”
Utah-based Eco Materials
Technologies, the nation’s
leading producer of sustain
able cement alternatives,
will manage the project at
Plant Bowen for Georgia
Power.
“As the largest partner
ship of its kind in the U.S.,
this project will not only use
material from landfills and
ash ponds, but also keep
millions of tons of [carbon
dioxide] from going into the
atmosphere,” said Grant
Quasha, Eco Materials
Technologies’ CEO.
The installation of infra
structure necessary for the
work at Plant Bowen will
begin immediately, with ash
removal expected to begin
by 2024.
seeking town clerk
Town of Talking Rock is taking applications
for the position of part time clerk. This po
sition will be for 12 hours per week and will
pay $800.00 per month.
Please submit resume to
townderk@talkingrock.com
Or you may place in drop-box at town hall
at 4675 Hwy 136 W, Talking Rock, GA
30175. A list of duties is posted on our web
site www.taIkingrockga.com and our
Facebook page. Office # is 706-253-5515.
Deadline is July 15, 2022
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Seventy-four Pickens and
Dawson county graduating
seniors were awarded
$115,000 in scholarships to
universities ranging from the
local University of North
Georgia (UNG) to Savannah
College of Art & Design
(SCAD) to Rice University,
in a Big Canoe Chapel cere
mony held on May 1. This is
the 40th year the Chapel has
been blessed to offer scholar
ships encouraging high
school students to attend col
lege.
Since the program’s in
ception in 1982, the Chapel
has awarded scholarships to
2,600 students totaling over
$2.8 million.
Tucker Green, a 2017
scholarship recipient, was a
speaker at the service, and
shared the impact of his
award, “Personally, I most
appreciate that this scholar
ship is not only a financial in
vestment but a genuine desire
to see young people succeed.
This is evident with the per
sonal ceremony every year
and the important gift of a
Bible to each recipient. I still
have mine today.”
“It is the support that I
have received from many in
our community just like this
scholarship that has greatly
impacted my life and led me
to public service.The support
of that scholarship aided me
in my studies and I am proud
to say that I graduated this
past spring from the Univer
sity of Georgia. Furthermore,
I am proud to say with the
help of financial aid like this
scholarship, I graduated debt
free. The investment made by
this scholarship is tremen
dous and has a long trail of
impact in both Pickens and
Dawson counties.”
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