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Wednesday, August 3, 2022 - Pike County Journal Reporter - Page 3A
SPECIAL PHOTOS
Just Because Ministries members who helped pack bags with
school supplies recently include (l-r) Sheila Patrick, Wendy
Sawyer, Stacy Berry, Chrystal Badgett, Bobby Berry and Pha-
edon Bartlett.
JUST BECAUSE: Ministry
provides school supplies
FROM PAGE ONE
Just Because Ministry
welcomes new members
and looks for ways to
support local families in
need. Their mission is
unity in the community
and according to their
mission statement, they
“wish to bring joy to the
community by extend
ing kindness and making
others feel seen. Every
one has a story and Just
Because ... could be the
blessing and encourage
ment they needed.”
Their goal is to fol
low Isaiah 6:8 which
says, “Then 1 heard the
voice of the Lord saying,
‘Whom shall 1 sent? And
who will go for us?’ And
1 said, ‘Here 1 am. Send
me!’”
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Just Because Ministries gathered bookbags and all the school
supplies needed at Pike’s schools. Local youth helped packed
the bags. Pictured are (l-r) Bella Browning, Lauren Berry, Wyatt
Bartlett, Abby Berry, Andrea Patrick and Kimberly Badgett.
Public meetings
The next scheduled meetings in Pike County are:
• Pike County commission, Wednesday, Aug. 10, 9 a.m. in
the main, upstairs courtroom of the courthouse.
• Concord city council, Tuesday, Aug. 9, 7 p.m., city hall
• Meansville council, Monday, Aug. 8, 7 p.m., Meansville
city hall, 6:45 p.m.
• Molena city council, Monday, Aug. 8, 6 p.m., city hall
• Pike County agribusiness authority, Thursday
Aug. 18, 7 p.m., Farm Bureau office.
• Pike County board of appeals, Thursday Aug. 18, 6 p.m.
• Pike County board of education, Tuesday Aug. 16,
6 p.m., Board Room at the Pike County Schools Memorial
Annex.
• Pike County library board, Thursday Aug. 11, 4:30
p.m., J. Joel Edwards Public Library.
• Pike planning commission, Thursday, Aug. 11, 6:30 p.m.
• Pike County tax assessors, Tuesday, Aug. 9, meeting at
11 a.m., Pike EMA/Storage Facility 1132 Twin Oaks Road;
office closed to the public on Wednesdays.
• Pike County water authority meeting, Thursday Aug.
18, 7:30 a.m., authority building.
• Williamson city council, Thursday Aug. 4, 7 p.m.
• Zebulon city council, Tuesday, Aug. 9, 6 p.m.
• Zebulon Downtown Development Authority, Tuesday,
Aug. 16, 7 p.m., A Novel Experience, 426 Thomaston St.
• Board of elections and registration, Tuesday, Aug. 16,
4 p.m. in the commissioners’ conference room.
• Pike County Parks and Recreation Authority, 6 p.m.
Thursday Aug. 18, EMA facility.
• Williamson Planning Commission, 6 p.m. Thursday,
Aug. 18, Williamson City Hall.
CHURCH BULLETINS
Joyful Tabernacle of Praise Church Homecoming and
Revival: Homecoming is Sunday Aug. 8 with Bishop Willie
Smith speaking and Revival starts at 7 p.m. nightly Thurs
day Aug. 18 and Friday Aug. 19 with Bishop Thomas Staples
of New Beginning Outreach Ministries in Roanoke, Alabama.
City of Meansville
Notice of Candidate Qualification
Period and Notice of Election
A General Election will be held for the City of Meansville on November
8, 2022, to fill the following offices:
Office
Mayor
Council Post 1
Council Post 2
Council Post 5
Incumbent
Virion Rachels
Randall Parker
Britney Miller
Janet Minter
All persons desiring to run for these offices are required to qualify in the
Office of the Meansville City Clerk located in City Hall, 41 Means St.,
Meansville, GA 30256. The qualifying period opens on Tuesday, August
16, and closes on Thursday, August 18. Candidates may qualify between
the hours of 12 to 4 p.m. The qualifying fee for Mayor is $35 and Council
$24.
The General Election will be held on Tuesday, November 8, 2022, from 7
a.m. until 7:00 p.m. at the Meansville City Hall located at 41 Means Street,
Meansville, GA 30256.
Persons desiring to register to vote in this election may do so through
October 10, 2022.
A runoff election, if required, will be held December 6, 2022.
#232 8/3, 10
Teen life flighted after wreck
Pike deputies respond
ed to a serious collision
July 29 on Old Lifsey
Springs road at the inter
section of Roberts Quar
ters road at 10:48 a.m. A
vehicle was attempting to
cross Roberts Quarters
Road when it was struck
by a logging truck. The
18-year-old driver of the
car was life flighted to
Atlanta for medical treat
ment. The collision is still
under investigation by
the sheriff’s office.
Fire scare at Racquet House South
Around 11:53 a.m. on
Sunday, July 31, 2022, Pike
County Fire Department
personnel responded to
11500 Highway 19 (Rac
quet House South) for
report of smoke inside.
Chief Wright and respond
ing firefighters investigated
upon arrival. Firefighter
Jackson was able to trace
the origin of the smoke to
the start capacitor on the
compressor of the bever
age machine. There was
no fire and no injuries.
ARREST REPORT
Between Monday, July 25, and Sunday, July 31, Pike
law enforcement agencies made the following arrests:
PIKE COUNTY SHERIFFS OFFICE:
Ahmad Carey, 40, of Zebulon, driving while license
suspended or revoked;
Denver Clay Dickson, 35, of Griffin, probation viola
tion;
Jeffrey Ethan Earls, 17, of Senoia, furnishing to
bacco products to minors, possession of marijuana
less than one ounce and sale, distribution or posses
sion of dangerous drugs;
Stephen Tracy Harvey, 50, of Williamson, criminal
trespass family violence and simple battery;
Johnny Ray Minyard Jr., 42, of Concord, failure to
appear for fingerprintable charge;
Billy Wayne Shultz, 27, of Zebulon, criminal trespass;
Crystal Renee Vickery, 42, of Thomaston, two
counts probation violation.
ZEBULON POLICE DEPARTMENT:
Rogelio Rivas, 32, of Irondale, AL, driving without
license (unlicensed/wrong class) and windshields and
windshield wipers violation.
BARNESVILLE MARBLE &
GRANITE COMPANY
Serving Middle Georgia For 110 Years
Designers & Manufacturers of
Marble, Granite & Bronze Since 1908
George & Janice Moore
770-358-1470
124 Railroad St., Barnesville, GA 30204
PHOTO BY ELLEN TEW
Photograher Malgorzata Florkowaska (left) and local farmer Steve McCrary (right) hold a photo
which shows Steve with farm helpers (l-r) Melissa Santimo, Anna Garvey and Laci Brown who
helped revitalize his family’s Molena farmland.
Local farmer's story told through photographs
BY ELLEN TEW
Photographer Mal
gorzata Florkowska
captured the changing of
seasons at a historic Pike
County farm in Molena for
two years and the photos
were recently on display
at A Novel Experience in
Zebulon.
“It took two years to
finish working on this
show due to having to
photograph different
seasons of the year on
the McCrary farm,” she
said. “1 was surprised so
many people came to the
artist’s reception. A lot of
family members of Steve
McCrary came as well as
friends from the Universi
ty of Georgia where I used
to work also came.”
For A Season shared
snapshots of the incred
ible harvests at the farm
as well as the work it
took to reach that point.
The Molena property has
been home to generations
of the McCrary family
and has changed much
over the years, recently
enjoying new growth that
benefits the community
and workers as well.
“In the 1950s, a boy
couldn’t find a more excit
ing place to grow up than
Molena, GA, the turkey
capital of the world. Steve
McCrary should know.
With thousands of poults
in the brooder house and
waves of brown gobblers
grazing the pastures,
McCrary Turkey Farm
hummed with life. Em
ployees, kinfolk, sales
reps, cooperative exten
sion agents and neighbor
ing farmers came to do
business and stayed to
visit,” wrote local author
Gwen Roland. “Steve
was in the middle of the
action whether they were
moving pasture pens or
plucking birds. A train
even chuffed through on
its own spur track, drop
ping off feed or picking up
processed birds headed
for markets in distant
cities.”
Over the years that
followed, turkey farming
took an industrial turn
which moved the turkeys
indoors, increasing feed
and housing costs.
“Later, droughts and
the 1980s farm crisis took
their toll. McCrary Farm
managed to hang on lon
ger than most but eventu
ally closed in the 1980s.
Steve and his wife Patsy
started their own busi
ness across the road from
his grandparents,” said
Roland. “Life was good
but he longed to bring the
old farm back to life.”
Local horticulture stu
dent Anna Garvey helped
revive the land as a farm
again, revitalizing the
greenhouse and expand
ing the farm’s offerings
to include flowers and
bedding plants. Other
horticulture students
Miranda Baumgartner and
Melissa Thornton helped
the McCrary market grow
beyond Pike County to
Senoia and Peachtree City
with a self-service farm
stand under the shade
trees of the farm’s circular
driveway.
Malgorzata’s photo
graphs shared the farm’s
fertile growth as well as
the personal growth of
those who worked the
soil and expanded the
market for its produce
and flowers - continuing a
generations-old tradition
of farming.
“Steve inherited his
love of gardening from
our father Lewis ‘Buck’
McCrary and our grandfa
ther Lester McCrary,” said
Steve’s sister Amanda.
“Daddy was Steve’s best
resource for any specific
gardening questions or
concerns and enjoyed
helping out in the garden,
tending the muscadine
vines and gathering and
shelling pecans for mar
ket. My father was always
one of Steve’s biggest sup
porters and 1 know that he
was very proud that the
family tradition of farm
ing continues to live on
through his children.”
It's that
simple.
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