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Mark your calendars!
Georgia Power. Southern Nuclear and The Shaw Group will host a supplier in
formation meeting in Waynesboro on Tuesday. Dec. 1 to familiarize local vendors
with the procurement process for the new construction at Plant Vogtle. The meeting
will be held at 7:00 p.m. in the auditorium at Burke County High School on Burke
Veterans Parkway. At these sessions, potential suppliers will learn more about the
construction project and available opportunities to provide products, materials and
services to support construction. Participants must register in advance at
www.georgiapower.com/supplier/. Space is limited on a first-come, first-serve basis.
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Vol. 129, No. 33 - Waynesboro, Ga. 30830
Wednesday, November 25, 2009 - $1.00
Catch me if you can!
Gingerbread artist takes fourth consecutive win in contest
By Anne Marie Kyzer
annemariek@thetruecitizen.com
She’s done it again.
Just as she has for the past four
years. Jennifer Mooney garnered
first place honors in the Augusta
Museum of History’s annual gin
gerbread village contest.
The museum displays and
judges sugary renditions of area
historical buildings submitted for
its Holiday Gingerbread Village.
This year, Mooney was named
a $1,000 grand prize winner for
her fresh-baked version of the
downtown streetscape including
Good Day Cafe. First National
Bank and First Burke Insurance.
Constructed entirely of ginger
bread, fondant icing and gum
paste, her edible creation features
details ranging from the Christ
mas decorations adorning the
facade to the brickwork in the
sidewalk. A view from above
shows the interior of the build
ing, complete with patrons en
joying dinner in the cafe and tell
ers working at their computers
in the bank lobby.
Mooney began planning for
her project months ago and can’t
begin to count the hours she has
spent sculpting figurines, furni
ture and the fine points of the
exterior. In the end, she said the
product was well worth her
while.
“I like the downtown scene,”
the 22-year-old Mooney said.
“When I finished it, I realized
I liked it more than some of the
others I did just because it was
downtown. It was more fun.”
In past years, Mooney has
won awards for her gingerbread
versions of the Burke County
Courthouse, St. Michael’s Epis
copal Church and Williams An
tiques. She honed her skills as a
baker and cake decorator at
Pineland Bakery, where she has
worked for the past six years.
In this year’s competition,
judges awai'dcd two first place
ribbons, with the second going
to the creator of a gingerbread
version of the Holy Trinity
Greek Orthodox Church in Au
gusta. But because Mooney has
dominated the competition so
many times, organizers are talk
ing to her about becoming in
volved in the event in other ways.
All of the entries in the con
test are up for auction at the mu
seum, where they remain on dis
play. The auction closes Sunday.
GINGERBREAD BUILDING 101
Mooney will host a ginger
bread house workshop Monday,
Dec. 7, at the Burke County Li
brary. It is open to children ages
7 and up (younger participants
must be accompanied by an
adult). The workshop will begin
at 4 p.m. and should last about
two hours. Registration is $30
and sign-up sheets are posted at
Pineland Bakery and the library.
Deputies recover
cache of stolen
goods and guns
By Elizabeth Billips
lizbillips@yahoo.com
A burglary suspect with a stolen SUV full of stolen goods
has been arrested.
And as investigators in Burke and Jenkins counties sort
through the evidence, they’re finding links to a number of
property crimes.
Sardis resident Henry Mick Leonard
McGee Jr., 30, was arrested at his estranged
wife’s home outside Waynesboro last Thurs
day after Burke County deputies zoned in
on a blue Tahoe parked out back with two
handguns, a moneybag and collectors’ coins
on the seat.
Witnesses in both counties had reported
seeing the SUV in connection to several
burglaries, and deputies already had two
outstanding warrants to serve on McGee -
one for pointing a pistol at someone.
When deputies knocked on the door of the Horseshoe Circle
home, one of McGee’s children answered while McGee tried
to escape through two other doors where officers were wait
ing.
Deputies took him into custody without incident, and
quickly realized the arrest was a big one.
According to Jenkins County Sheriff Robert Oglesby, the
guns inside the Tahoe were stolen in a Highway 17 South
burglary just hours before Burke County deputies made their
move.
Henry Mick
Leonard McGee
Jr.
- See Arrest, page 13
Sardis and Waynesboro
City council runoffs
slated for Tuesday
By Elizabeth Billips
lizbillips@yahoo.com
Di-Lane stables to be named for Mobley
The late Lamar Mobley, left, poses with his wife Nell and
champion pointer Here’s Johnny. The red derby hat that
became his trademark will be included on the sign posted
at the stables.
By Anne Marie Kyzer
amemariek@thetruecitizen.com
The new barn at Di-Lane will
bear the name of the man who
returned Burke County’s longest
running field trials to prominence
nearly 30 years ago.
The 39-stall horse bam com
pleted on the property last year
will be dedicated as Lamar
Mobley Stables to commemorate
his devotion and years of work
to keep the field trial sport alive
in Burke County. A dedication
ceremony will be held during the
annual professional stakes held at
the wildlife management area
(WMA) in January.
Mobley’s widow, Nell, said she
couldn’t believe it when she first
heard the news of the honor but
can’t think of another individual
who contributed more to Burke
County’s trials.
“When they called me, I was
shocked and surprised,” she said,
adding that her late husband cer
tainly deserved it. "He saw the
need to keep the field trials go
ing because he loved the sport.”
Mr. Mobley became involved
in the field trials, which have
been held here since 1904, as a
youngster when his father sup
plied horses for the participants.
He attended as often as he
could and pitched in as an adult
wherever he noticed a need.
When the number of competi
tors in the Burke County trials
plunged in the late 70s and fell
below 20 dogs in 1980, Mr.
Mobley stepped in to save Burke
County’s stake in the sport he’d
adored since childhood.
In 1981, he took over the lo
cal event and for nearly 20 years
he headed up the Georgia Lield
Trial Association (GLTA), re
turning Burke County’s stakes to
their stature as one of the top
competitions in the country.
When GFTA members learned
in 1988 they would no longer
be able to use the property of a
local landowner for the trials,
Mr. Mobley secured the right to
use Di-Lane Plantation from
then-owner William S. “Billy”
Morris IU. Mr. Mobley spear
headed efforts to prepare the
land for the event. When Mor
ris decided to sell Di-Lane,
Mobley contacted the Army
Corps of Engineers about using
the plantation’s 8,100 acres as
mitigation property. The Corps
bought the property and leased
it to Georgia’s Department of
Natural Resources, which turned
it into a WMA and began to man
age it for quail and maintain a
course for the trials.
“I feel like it was really under
his influence and watch... he saw
that property for sale and brought
it to the attention of the right
people,” Mrs. Mobley said.
- See Stables, page 13
Round-two of the Sardis and Waynesboro city council races
will be settled next Tuesday, Dec. 1 in runoff elections.
Both elections have been on tap since Nov. 3 when candi
dates couldn’t quite garner at least 50 percent of the ballots
for an outright win.
In Sardis, the score will be settled between incumbent
Donnie Hickman and newcomer Zenobia Freeman. On Elec
tion Day, nearly 60 percent of Sardis’ 356 registered voters
turned out, with Hickman claiming 78 votes and Freeman
taking 62. Contenders Grace “Beth” Smith and Jerry Glynn
Johnson Jr. were knocked out after receiving 41 and 23 votes,
respectively.
In Waynesboro’s Ward 3 runoff, generating voter interest
will be the key to a win. Incumbent Curtis Bell Sr. and Portia
Washington will face off once more, following the Nov. 3
election in which only 9.3 percent of the ward’s 1,002 voters
cast ballots. Bell tallied 36 votes to Washington’s 32, and
contender Barrett Madison was squeezed out with just seven
less.
Early voting continues today in both cities.
EXERCISE YOUR RIGHT
Polls will be open 7 a.m. to 7 p.m., Tuesday Dec. 1. Sardis voters
should report to the old SGA schoolhouse, and Waynesboro voters
will go to the Burke County Office Park.
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