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WEDNESDAY, JULY 5, 2023
Pike’s 6U baseball and softball All Star teams
played well at state and will advance to the
2023 All Star World Series in Mississippi.
See page 1B
www.pikecountygeorgia.com
JOURNAL
ALL STARS SHINE!
PIKE'S PEEK
Students get
free lunches
Old Mount Calvary
Outreach center in
Concord will provide
meals for all kids 18
and under each Satur
day through July 22.
The meals will be
offered from 9 a.m. to
11 a.m. and the event
will include fun
activities and
healthy, free
meals. The
outreach
center is
at 408 Sec
ond Street.
For more
information,
email PatriciaBeckham
73@gmail.com.
The Summer Food
Service Program
(SFSP) is a federally
funded, state-admin
istered program that
reimburses provid
ers who serve free,
nutritious meals and
snacks to children and
teens in low-income
areas when school is
not in session.
COVID cases
at zero for past
two weeks
There have been no
confirmed COVID cas
es in Pike County over
the past two weeks,
according to the Geor
gia Department of
Public Health.
There were
two con
firmed
cases in
Pike for
the week
of June
19 but zero
confirmed
cases for the
two weeks prior
to that.
There have been 908
cases and six deaths in
the state over the past
two weeks.
County approves tax discount for
seniors 70+ who apply by July 24
BY RACHEL McDANIEL
news@pikecountygeorgia.com
Commissioners will allow
citizens 70 and older who already
have L4 exemption to receive the
school tax break (L7) if they ap
ply by July 24. Tax commissioner
Donna Chapman and chief tax
appraiser Greg Hobbs addressed
the board and asked for seniors
to be allowed more time to apply.
“When most of these seniors
got their L4 exemption, they
were told they would never have
to reapply as long as there were
no deed changes,” said Chap
man. “These people have worked
their tails off and now taxes are
going up and everything costs
more. Not everybody gets the
newspaper or has social media
or family to tell them they need
to apply for this.”
Hobbs said there are 50
citizens who qualified for L4
and could receive the school
tax break if they apply. He said
most of them flat out don’t know
about the exemption. He and
Chapman asked commissioners
to allow them to apply through
July 24 - the deadline for appeals
- and the request was unani
mously approved.
SPECIAL PHOTO
The Pike County 6U All Stars are headed to the World Series in Gulfport, Mississippi July 12 to
16. In this picture, the boys are wearing their ‘Lit Jack Boys’ shirts that were made to support
the 2023 state bound Pirates baseball team. Pictured are (front row l-r) Levi Kelly, Brantley Kel
ly, Able Blount, Liam Davis (back row l-r) Tucker Sweeten, Lawson Brooks, Kason Snyder, Rhett
Daniel, Graham Jones and Shea Skinner. Not pictured are Nathan Wells and Cainan Adams.
6U All Stars headed to World Series
Pike County’s 6U
National All-Stars are
preparing for the World
Series in Gulfport, Mis
sissippi from July 12 to
16. They played sub-state
in Newnan prior to the
state and went undefeat
ed and took first place.
They earned second in
the state championship
on June 18. Overall, the
All-Star team has an 11-3
record.
The 6U All-Star team
includes Cainan Adams,
Abel Blount, Lawson
Brooks, Rhett Daniel,
Liam Davis, Graham
Jones, Brantley Kelly, Levi
Kelly, Shea Skinner, Kason
Snyder, Tucker Sweeten
and Nathan Wells.
Coaches include Adam
Snyder, Jacob Jones, Matt
Kelly, John Wells, Jason
Thomas, Josh Daniel and
Nick Adams.
They played in the
state tournament in
Covington June 17-18
and went 4-2. In their
six games, the team had
177 at bats and scored
83 runs on 137 hits with
57 put outs and seven
double plays.
“West Walton beat us
in the pool game and
then we ended up having
to play them twice on
Sunday. We beat them
the first game in extra
innings with an interna
tional tie breaker,” said
coach Adam Snyder.
See ALL STARS page 1B
Library to host
Laurel Blount at the
July 6 Books'n Bites
The J. Joel Edwards
Public Library will host
Thomaston author Lau
rel Blount in the third
Books ‘n Bites summer
reading event on Thurs
day, July 6 at 5:30 p.m.
Laurel will discuss
Courage in the Storm,
the third installment in
her John’s Mill
Amish Ro-
mur-
der of
their
maneuver through the
invasion of the movie
industry, and struggle
through the difficult
intricacies of love and
forgiveness while striv
ing to embrace their
Amish traditions.
A chronic multi-task
er, Laurel writes Amish
romance for Berkley/
Penguin Random House
and contemporary
Christian romance for
Love Inspired. She’s
the recipient of the
ACFW Carol Award, the
New England Reader’s
Choice Award and
GRW’s Maggie Award
for Excellence.
Courage, along with
the preceding install
ments, Shelter
in the
Storm
and
Strength
in the
Storm
are all
currently
available at
A Novel Ex
perience on
the square in
Zebulon.
The J. Joel
Edwards Pub
lic Library’s
Books ‘n Bites
programs are
free and open to the
public. For more, call
the library at 770-567-
2014 during regular
business hours Monday,
Wednesday and Friday
from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.,
Tuesday and Thursday
from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m.
and Saturday from 10
a.m. to 3 p.m.
mance series,
set in an
idyllic Ten
nessee farm.
This saga
follows the
trials of the
Hoch-
stedler
siblings
as they
recover
from the
brutal
Power outage after heavy equipment takes down lines
BY RACHEL McBANIEL
news@pikecountygeorgia.com
Citizens on the south
side of Pike County were
delayed after a truck
towing heavy equipment
snagged on a power line
on Monday, June 26 at
the Mountain View gas
station on Highway 19
south.
Traffic was temporar
ily rerouted while the line
was still down before the
power company arrived.
The truck, driven by Reg
gie Blount of Pike County,
was towing a hay cutter.
He cleared the awning
of the gas station to get
fuel but somehow did
not clear the line which
was hanging down after
high winds from a recent
storm. No one was in
jured in the incident but
the power was out at the
nearby Dollar General for
a short time.
PHOTOS BY MARK ANDRADE
Above, a power line snagged on a hay cutter at the Mountain View gas station June 26. At right,
emergencey workers gather beneath a power pole as lines hang down.