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Volume 112, No. 43
Count ,t to extend
water mains north
Affirmative action was taken by
Covington City Council Monday
night to install adequate sized water
mains above Interstate 20 to the city
limits on City Pond Road in ex
change for developer Jeffery
Wearing providing a sewerage lift
station and force main located at I
-20 and Dried Indian Creek, and
deeding the same to the city.
The water line was extended to
encourage future industrial, residen
tial and commercial expansion in the
area, and was done in accordance
with a proposal from Welker <S
Associates, engineers.
Action on the proposal came after
Wearing, president of Covington
East, Inc., met with the council to
discuss cost estimates on extending
water and sewer services to the City
Pond Road area where he plans to
build a modem apartment complex
in two phases.
Carl Lambert and Terry Hall met
Covington Recreation Dept. Day Camp
Molly Chappell, right, and Dee Dailey, left, are showing this little
girl how to tie-dye tee shirts. This is the last of six weeks of activi
ties local children have been enjoying at the camp directed by
Mrs. Chappell. The children have learned many crafts and games
at the day camp, and have taken field trips to Fembank Science
Center, Lake Lanier Islands, the monastery in Conyers, and other
places, and this week will visit Grant Park Zoo.
New discipline tool
Alternative School
By Greg Jones
News editor
Students who would normally face
suspension for exhibiting disruptive
behavior at Newton County
Comprehensive High School
(NCCHSI or the county's two
middle schools will be dealt with in a
different and, school officials feel,
more productive manner during the
coming year.
Instead of spending his suspension
at home and missing school work
that could cause him to fail, the
unruly student will more likely find
himself attending the system's
Alternative School, a strict learning
environment where discipline is
stressed.
The Alternative School, which
gained approval from the Newton
County Board of Education
recently, will be housed at the board
of education building.
The school system’s administrative
offices will be moved to the Service
Center on the Sharp School campus
where other administrative per
sonnel and system instructional and
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with the council to request a business
license for a discotheque to be
located at Charwin Plaza. After
discussion a motion passed to refer
the request to the legal department
for study and advise. Action is
expected at the next council meeting.
Three ordinances were approved
for final adoption: the paving of
Banks Street from Eberhart Street to
the 1-20 fence; and to assess two
thirds of the actual cost against the
abutting property owners for the
paving; and the paving of Hickory
Drive from Highland Drive to the
dead end, and to assess two-thirds of
the actual cost against the abutting
property owners for paving.
Minutes of the July 19, 1977,
meeting of the Covington Planning
Commission were approved with the
exception of re-zoning property on
Herring Street.
A motion passed to quit claim to
maintenance materials are already
housed. The move is expected to
begin next week.
The Newton County Outpost of the
Griffin Child Development Center,
which will be displaced from the
Service Center by the administrative
offices, will share the board of
education building with the
Alternative School.
"'rhe discipline problems at
Cousins, Sharp and Newton County
Comprehensive High School have
declined over the past year, both in
number and in severity; however,
there are a few students whose
classroom behavior is such that it
keeps other students from receiving
the full benefits of the class.
"I am unwilling to tolerate this
kind of misbehavior. The Alter
native School will provide the school
administration with the means to
remove the student from the class
until the behavior changes without
suspending the student from
school," School Supt. Frank Cloer
said in announcing the new
program.
Officials say the idea of the
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adjoining property owners the 12
foot alleyway beginning on
Elizabeth Street and extending east
through the Steele property to the
old Stillwell property, provided that
any electrical easements be re
established or protected.
The council voted to approve for
payments, statements from Hemrick
and Associates in the amount of
$ 1,948 and assessment from the Gas
Section, Georgia Municipal Associa
tion, in the amount of $2,451.
Approval was voted the operating
and maintenance plan for the city
natural gas system, and to have it
filed with the office of Pipeline
Safety Operations.
A bid was approved from Newton
County Tree Service in the amount
of $2,800 to trim and remove tree
trunks as necessary to repair damage
caused by the windstorm on June 6.
Purchase orders for the street and
water departments were approved in
the amount of $5,331.36.
Priori' ’ adjournment projects
schediirir/for the next budget year
were discussed. These will be
brought up at the next council
meeting for action.
Cloer tells of school achievements
“It is an awesome responsibility to
train youngsters for the future, and
we in education challenge you
Rotarians and the citizens of this
county to join us in the development
of a comprehensive plan to meet our
youngsters' needs,” Superintendent
of Newton County Schools Frank G.
Cloer told members of the Covington
Rotary Club Tuesday at their noon
meeting.
Cloer, addressing the club for the
first time in three years, brought his
audience up to date on ac-
Burglary is solved
Area law enforcement officers solved one burglary last week and
began investigating another which occurred during the week.
Dale Reed of the Newton County Sherriff’s office reported the
recovery of over SSOO worth of stereo components, cameras, and a
vacuum cleaner in a raid at 3197 West Street in Covington. The
recovered items had been taken earlier in a burglary on Lang Road
near Walker Harris Marina.
Kenneth Tynsley of the West Street address where the items were
recovered was being sought on a warrant charging him with theft by
receiving.
Meanwhile, Covington police reported the theft of about SBOO worth
of saws, drills and similar items in a July 31 burglary at Ad-Signs at
7148 Highway 278.
Alternative School will be “to
provide a structured learning en
vironment while placing emphasis
on behavioral change.”
The school can accommodate up to
48 students at one time and will be
staffed by four teachers, one of them
a specialist in behavior disorders.
Students will be referred to the
Alternative School by the principal
of their school for any offense which
would normally result in their
suspension.
That includes flagrant violations of
school rules, truancy, use or
possession of drugs, defiance of
school authority, physical abuse to
others, school vandalism, theft,
excessive use of profanity or other
severe violations, school officials say.
According to Cloer, students at
tending the Alternative School will
not be allowed to smoke or possess
tobacco in any form and must
adhere to a set of strict disciplinary
procedures, including riding to
school either on a bus or with a
parent.
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Educational progress and new programs for the
coming year was reviewed for Covington
Rotarians at their Tuesday meeting by School
Superintendent Frank Cloer. Left to right are
complishments of the school system
in the past two to three years and
outlined new programs in education
that will be taking place during the
coming school year.
“During the past three years our
emphasis has been on reading and
math, and each year state tests have
shown an increase in student scores
because of our efforts. This coming
year we will place special emphasis
on math in our middle and high
schools,” Cloer said.
Cloer said that Newton County
Tire fire causes problems
When truck driver John Aaron Jones stopped to change a blow
out on his truck on 1-20 last week, he noticed that the tire was
smoking but didn't think much about it ax he tossed it on the
back of his brick truck and continued on his way. The tire blared
up, however, and Jones got off at the Covington exit to seek help.
He stopped at a service station on Highway 278 where the Coving
ton Fire Department was called. Firemen had the blare under
control in a matter of minutes.
Superintendent speaks at Rotary Club
schools are one of the few systems in
the state that offer “exceptional
children” in- ruction, whether they
be gifted., slew, deficient in certain
< areas of Jieir academic instruction
on mentally retarded.
“We are especially pleased with
this accomplishment, for our process
is to individualize instruction to the
individual child's need. We
mainstream students by allowing
them to participate on a level of their
performance ability according to
testing, and we offer them additional
instruction in areas where they have
special needs,” Cloer said.
Pointing out that a school
superintendent should be held
responsible for the kind of education
program offered and the fiscal
management of tax dollars spent in
providing the program, Cloer said
that presently over 60 percent of
local education dollars are spent in
the classroom in paying teachers
salaries, aides, and for books and
classroom materials for use by
students.
"Our budget for operating Newton
County schools for the coming year
calls for only a 7.8 percent increase
in local tax dollars,” Cloer said,
"and I think this is remarkable when
we look around the state and note
that other systems have submitted
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Rotary President Bill McCart, Superintendent
Cloer, Don Bollinger, program chairman, and
former Rotary President (1949-50) Howard
Milligan.
budgets calling for as much as 35
percent increase in local support to
carry out the educational program
for their youngsters.”
“Our educational system is the
biggest industry in Newton County
and employs over 700 people. Our’
budget this year is $11,429,239,
(local, state and Federal funds), and
I can assure you that we are getting
our money's worth for every dollar
spent for the children who attend our
schools," Cloer said.
Cloer pointed out that there were
six students from Newton County
Comprehensive High School chosen
this year to participate in the
Governor's Honor Program, “one of
the largest groups from any school
system in Georgia.”
“This year we had one student that
was a National Merit Scholarship
finalist, and our student test scores
are climbing each year,” Cloer said.
Speaking of new programs, Cloer
said the Newton County school
system was one of nine systems in
Georgia selected this year for a High
School Improvement Project, and
this project will be developed
over the next three years. Os these
nine projects, one will be selected by
the Georgia Board of Education to
be implemented in all high schools in
Georgia.
This year the system will be one of
five in Georgia operating an
“alternative school” where
disruptive students in the middle
and high schools will attend classes
from "three days until we feel they
are ready to return to a normal
classroom situation and function
with good behavior.”
Newton County is one of 20
systems in Georgia that has received
a Comprehensive Planning Grant
from the state legislature, and
citizens and educators will meet,
plan, and set goals for local students
that are to be submitted to the state
board of education for approval.
Newton County schools are
presently accredited by the Southern
Association of Colleges and Schools,
the highest rating any system can
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