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2A ®[)£ Heraltr <§a?£tt£ Tuesday, January 12,2021
Citizen wants no change
in name for 12th Street
THE HERALD GAZETTE/WALTER GEIGER
Child lifeflighted after golf cart incident
First responders load a
boy into an Air Life medi
cal evacuation chopper at a
makeshift landing zone in a
field off Morgan Dairy Road
Jan. 3.
The juvenile, whose last
name is Wallace, was the
passenger in a golf cart
when the driver, a juvenile
named Smallwood, applied
the brakes to avoid a car on
Liberty Trace. Wallace was
thrown from the cart and
injured.
His mother reported
Thursday he is at home and
recovering well. “We are
thankful for the Butts County
EMS, Lamar deputies and
EMS, all the Lamar County
volunteers and the Air Life
crew that responded to the
call,” Ashley Wallace said.
KAY S. PEDROTTI
news@barnesville.cam
Barnesville City Coun
cil will discuss the matter
of changing the name of
12th Street to Annie M.
Harris Street at its next
two council
meetings.
The
change
had been
scheduled
for an or
dinance as
requested
by councilman Chris
Hightower, said Mayor
Peter Banks. The ordi
nance procedure would
be followed by a first
reading
in Febru
ary and
a second
reading in
March.
Pamela
Smith,
whose
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family she described
with three others as
the “founding families”
of 12th St., was on the
agenda to speak to the
council about the 12th
street residents’ objec
tions to the renaming.
Hightower had asked
for the renaming, but no
official action had been
taken.
“The remaining
residents there,” Smith
said, “are the ones who
made a community on
12th street, and were and
are important to the city
today.”
The families cited by
Smith were Jones, Wim
berly, Brown and Smith.
She said that at one time
there had been two pub
lic swimming pools there,
and “every home had a
garden.”
If the name is changed,
Smith added, “it would
be like erasing history.”
She said she would re
turn for the next council
meeting.
During his report,
councilman Bill Claxton
called attention to what
appears to be “a clogged
pipe” at 726 Greenwood
St. The pipe problem will
continue to flow excess
water onto
Greenwood
unless it is
taken care
of, Claxton
said.
Other
council
reports
called for a conference
with county authorities
to discuss what appears
to be a lack of ambulance
coverage in the city, and
some public works ques
tions.
In other
business,
the council:
Ap
proved a
resolution
designat
ing mayor
Banks and
acting city manager Tim
Turner as city officials
COVID-19:
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for handling any matters
concerning the MEAG
trust for member cities.
Set the qualifying fee
for council seats now
held by Christopher
Hightower,
Ward 2;
Larry
Whitworth,
Ward 4,
and Butch
McDaniel,
Ward 5.
The fee
is $45 per
candidate
for any
one who
qualifies to
run in the
November
election.
Ap
proved the application
process for a Community
Development Block Grant
of $750,000 to continue
water and sewer im
provements toward
Jackson Street.
Appointed Irvin Trice
to the Three Rivers Re
gional Commission for a
one-year term.
Voted Christopher
Hightower as mayor pro
tern for
2021.
Mayor
Banks
asked for
prayers of
city man
ager David
Rose (after
the meeting Rose died
on January 9). See the
obituary on page 5A.
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Lamar County was
reported as having
952 confirmed cases of
COVID-19 as of the Jan.
10 update from DPH.
That number is up from
858 cases Jan. 3. Lamar
has had 66 coronavirus
related hospitalizations.
The community also re
corded its 28th COVID-19
fatality last week - that of
a 60-year-old white male.
As of early Monday,
sheriff Brad White was
tracking 171 positive
cases at 138 local resi
dences.
Local COVID-19
numbers and those from
surrounding counties are
updated daily at barnes
ville.com.
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GSC delays start of classes to Jan. 25
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After approval from
the University System of
Georgia (USG), Gordon
State College adjusted
the start of spring semes
ter classes to Monday,
Jan. 25, 2021.
Originally set for a
Wednesday, January 13
start back date, GSC will
begin classes on Jan. 25
instead with move-in to
residence dorms set for
Sunday, Jan. 24. With a
streamlined approach
to the spring semester,
classes would end on
Monday, May 3, and still
maintain the appropriate
level of contact hours
(i.e., instructional min
utes per credit hour) as
identified by the USG and
the Southern Association
of Colleges and Schools
Commission on Colleges.
“After careful and
thoughtful consideration
of our campus communi
ty, we view this decision
as the right move to take
for the continued health
and wellbeing of High
lander Nation,” said Dr.
Kirk A. Nooks, president
of GSC. “In light of the
current national, regional
and local public health
situation, we remain
committed to a spring
semester that can start
and end successfully.”
Nooks said by delay
ing the start of spring
classes by approximately
two weeks, GSC will use
the time to gather addi
tional data on the health
status of the Highlander
Nation population fol
lowing the holiday break,
including the Dr. Martin
Luther King, Jr. holiday
break of January 16-18.
He said one prior
ity given to this revised
approach will be to
conduct class sessions
during the previously
scheduled spring break,
which was set for March
15-19, as well as adding a
maximum of two asyn
chronous class meetings
(depending on the class
schedule).
Since the return to
campus on January 4 fol
lowing the holiday break,
Gordon State College has
continued to monitor the
case numbers related to
the COVID-19 pandemic.
A number of regional
school districts and
other institutions have
made similar decisions
to alter the start of the
semester.
For updates and ad
ditional information,
visit the GSC web site a
gordonstate.edu and so
cial media on Facebook
(@GordonStateCollege
#GSCHighlandersFor-
ward), on Twitter (@Gor-
donState) and Instagram
(Gordon state).
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