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PAGE 4B PICKENS COUNTY PROGRESS THURSDAY. MAY 25. 2023
Living in the Woods -
Common Sense Measures to Minimize the Risk of Wildfire
By Clayton Preble
President
Wildcat Community
The wildfires raging in
Canada should serve as a
wakeup call to all of us in
Pickens County.
In 2006 a group of neigh
bors worked together to forge
a plan to address the unique
needs of our Jasper mountain
community.
What came from those
discussions was a volunteer
organization known as the
Wildcat Community - made
up of those communities lo
cated in the Pickens moun
tains.
In 2009, with the support
of the community and the
county, we opened our all
volunteer fire station - Pick
ens County Station 10.
Today, the Wildcat Com
munity is made up of 10
communities: Bent Tree, Big
Canoe, Burnt Mountain Es
tates, Monument Falls, Sas
safras Mountain Estates, Tate
Mountain Estates, Toma
hawk, Wintermont, Wind-
song, and Independents.
The cornerstone of the
Wildcat Community is the
nationally recognized pro
gram known as FireWise
USA. Firewise USA is a vol
untary program that provides
the framework to help neigh
bors get organized, find di
rection, and take action to
decrease the risk of wildfire
Farmers Market brings more than 60 vendors every week
For any homeowner who lives in a remote area, making sure to establish and maintain
a defensible zone around their house is a key step in being firewise. Find out more about
the national program at the Wildcat Community’s website, wildcatcommunityga.org.
to their homes and commu
nity.
The Wildcat Community
is certified Firewise, and as
such each member commu
nity supports and promotes
Firewise initiatives. Those
initiatives include under
standing wildfire threats,
preparing homes for the risk
of wildfire, removing dead
fall, establishing a defensible
space, etc.
Why is this important for
you? Although recent rains
create lush and green foliage,
we are entering the time of
the year when the risk of
wildfire reaches its peak.
With summer approaching
and the likelihood of dry con
ditions, all of us (long time
and especially new residents,
who may not understand the
risk), need to be mindful of
our individual responsibility
to take steps to minimize the
risk to ourselves and our
neighbors.
We should also become
educated about steps each of
us needs to take to make our
homes Firewise and be pru
dent and extremely careful
with fireplace ashes and out
side fires.
Factors that affect the
spread of wildfire include
humidity, ground fuel
(leaves, branches, limbs,
etc.), wind and slope. In ad
dition, our mountains pro
vide the watershed for our
community. If that water
shed is destroyed by wildfire,
our entire community will
suffer.
For more information on
Firewise please visit the
Wildcat Community web
site: www.wildcatcommuni-
tyga.org.
Pickens County
Veterans KIA
WWI1917-1918
Charles M. Barrett, John
W. Barrett, Grover Cleveland
Brooks, Homer Carver,
William Champion, Charlie
Disharoon, Frank Elrod,
Howard Lee Minter, Claude
Leo Moss, William V.
McBee, Charles Pendley,
Arthur L. Roland, Pleas B.
Russell, Joe Tatum, Joseph
B. Teague.
WWII1941-1945
Linton Bruce, Hilbum
Bunch, Newman Columbus
Bunch, David Winston
Champion, James T. Cham
pion, George M. Dodd,
Robert H. Dorsey, Charles C.
Evans, SamT. Fitts, Welford.
A. Fitzsimmons, James
Hugh Fowler, Willie Frank
Free, McFarland Gayton,
Paul Junior Gayton, George
W. Hayes, Mose Washington
Hendrix, Etsel F. Holbert,
James W. Hulsey, Joseph
Lewis Jarrett, Clifford Waldo
Owenby, James Hugh (Sam)
Philyaw, Robert L. Pittman,
George Lewis Pruitt, C. F.
Reeves, Theodore Benjamin
Reese, Lee H. Shipman, Joe
F. Stanfield, Bennie L.
Stephens, Henry Stephens,
Dallas Glenn Thacker, John
William Wehunt, Reynolds
James Young, Donnas Hank
Boyd.
Korean War
Curtis E. Bunch, Jack
Alexander Burrell.
Vietnam War
Billy Guinn Langley,
Bobby Arthur Young,
Charles George Boling.
Iraq War
David S. Collins
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With more than 60 vendors every week, the Jasper Farmers Market (Lee Newton Park)
is the place to be on Saturday mornings (7:30 a.m. until noon)!
Beautiful heads of cabbage, broccoli, cauliflower, as well as onions, carrots, lettuce,
and even artichoke and a little squash freshly harvested and locally grown were available
when the bell rang at 7:30.
Master Gardener Kerry De£oe speaks about the
invasive plants damaging our environment. Learn
what to plant and what to avoid in your garden.
Date: June 3,2023
Time: 1:00 to 3:00 PM
Place: Pickens County Extension Office
68 D.B. Carroll Street, Jasper, GA 30143
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non-perishable food they
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REPRINT — Due to a technical font problem, if anyone solved last week’s puzzle,
they had to be a complete master of reading gibberish produced when a table/fonts
don’t match up on a printing press. Here we are making another shot.
For this month’s Pickens Puzzler we’re honoring our
veterans and the upcoming Memorial Day with a military-
themed crossword. For clues to the local veterans
referenced see a list of fallen vets in Pickens on this page.
You’ll also find historical footnotes to some answers near
the answers on 8B.
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Across:
2. Tune played at Memorial Day service
6. Memorial Day, once called?
7. Four down's unit, 101 st Eagles
10. Iconic general purpose, off-road vehicle
11. Last name "H", 2 local brothers KIA in WWII.
12. Where marines planted flag in 1945
14. Oldest branch of service
15. Local KIA in '06, Iraq
18. "Blue Yonder" branch of service (abbv.)
21. A local venerable park
22. "Main" branch of service
23. Omaha or Utah
26. Jim Edmonson's WWI fighter, P38
27. Local KIA in '69 Vietnam
Down:
1. Branch for "Leathernecks" (abbv.)
3. Forward aid station or TV series
4. Local KIA in '70 Vietnam
5. Patriotic group, American
6. WWII's Allied ETO Sup. Comm, (inits)
7. Rank of both 4 down and 15 across
8. Nickname for 6 down
9. High-ranking officer
10. They attacked on Dec. 7, '41
13. Sutton survived attack on ship, Big Ben
15. 515/53 inters, honors them (abbv.)
16. Short for former service member
17. Local Mem. Day service location
19. Benning, Bragg and Hood
20. Patriotic org., Marine Corps.
24. Rank of 27 across (abbv.)
25. June 4, 1944
The Pickens Puzzler is proudly sponsored by:
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Jasper, GA 30143
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