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The True Citizen, Wednesday, December 9, 2009 — Page 7
In Waynesboro
Council says no
to modular home
By Elizabeth Billips
lizbillips@yahoo.com
A zoning change request has been denied for a Lodge Circle
woman who had hoped to move in a modular home and set up a
daycare center.
“The problem is not the daycare but the modular home.”
Waynesboro’s community development director Trinetta Skin
ner said Monday night, telling city council that the current R2
zoning doesn’t allow for either modular or mobile homes.
In a unanimous vote last month, the city’s planning commis
sion reviewed a request submitted by Waynesboro resident Robbie
Boyd and decided against recommending it to city council.
Monday night, Boyd showed council members photographs of
the used modular home she wants to move onto her lot and said
the daycare center would benefit the neighborhood.
However, around 20 of her neighbors signed off on a petition
stating they didn’t want it, and councilman James “Chick” Jones
said he’d been inundated with phone calls from others who felt
the same way. Jones said he was worried a “spot zoning” change
to R3 would open the gate for more modular and mobile homes,
which many residents had made clear they were opposed to.
City council unanimously rejected Boyd’s request (Willie Roy
Williams was absent), leaving her with a Superior Court appeal
as the only option for recourse.
Christmas parade
slated for Saturday
From Staff Reports
The annual Jaycees Christmas Parade is coming through town this
Saturday.
The procession will leave the Exchange Club Fairgrounds at 1 p.m.
and travel through downtown Waynesboro to the Jaycees Tree Farm
by Southern Bank.
The parade, which is themed around “The Wonder of Christmas
Morning,” will feature the Ride of Burke County marching band,
dance troups and floats from area businesses, schools, churches and
clubs. The Jaycees say Santa is expected to make a special appear
ance too.
New Beginnings,
Old Fella chosen for
community grants
By Elizabeth Billips
lizbillips@yahoo.com
Two Burke County organizations will receive more than $20,000 in
grants from the Community Foundation for the Central Savannah River
Area.
The foundation is distributing more than $400,000 to organizations
who are "meeting pressing and changing community needs and are
improving the quality of life for the individuals they serve.”
Among the 34 agencies selected by the board were the Center for
New Beginnings and the Old Fella Burke County Rescue.
The Center for New Beginnings was tapped for a $15,000 grant to
provide individual counseling, shadowing services, respite and tutor
ing to children and adolescents with special needs, as well as their
families. The center, which is currently housed inside First Baptist
Church of Waynesboro, provides therapy for children with a spectrum
of disabilities, including a large number with autism and other sensory
disorders.
Old Fella will get a nice check toward their cause, as well. The
Community Foundation is putting $5,575 into the organization’s on
going spay/neuter program. Besides taking in abandoned animals and
finding homes through fostering and adoption programs, the rescue
group provides educational programs at area schools and recently of
fered free spaying and neutering to nearly 100 pets.
In addition to the two local organizations, a number of agencies that
serve Burke County were also on this year’s list of recipients. The
Augusta Judicial Circuit Drug Court will get $15,000 for its substance
abuse treatment program. Nearly $9,700 was awarded to the Augusta
Technical College Foundation to provide tuition, book and uniform
fee assistance to students enrolling in the college’s new associate de
gree nursing program, and the Lydia Roject will receive $9,644 to
help with living expenses for female cancer patients who are in finan
cial crisis because of their illnesses.
All the grants will be administered through Community Foundation’s
unrestricted fund, which is primarily supported by the Augusta Na
tional Golf Club/Masters Tournament and provides tremendous flex
ibility in how the monies may be used.
Seventeen community volunteer panels of more than 123 area lead
ers reviewed and analyzed the applications and made recommenda
tions.
Boss Hog contender on
TLC barbeque series
By Elizabeth Billips
lizbillips@yahoo.com
Boss Hog Cook-off contender Myron Mixon is making a name for
himself on a new TLC television series about competitive barbequing.
The Unadilla caterer and three-time world
champion is one of seven pit bosses chosen
for the weekly reality show, BBQ Pitmasters.
In last week’s premier Myron, the only com
petitor from Georgia, took home the grand
prize as well as a reputation as the quick quip
ping country boy viewers from all over the
country called everything from adorable to
obnoxious.
In Burke County last May, Mixon and his
teammates on Jack’s Old South finished sixth
overall, with top-five finishes in ribs and bris
ket categories.
If you missed him at the Boss Hog, catch
Myron on TLC this Thursday at 10 p.m. as
he squares off in the Murphysboro Barbeque Cook-off in Illinois.
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Myron Mixon
Chamber holds annual legislative breakfast
From budget cuts to public safety and creating jobs to funding Lake Yuchi, state legislators covered a host of issues
at the Burke County Chamber of Commerce’s annual legislative breakfast last Thursday at Mobley’s Cafeteria. Local
officials, business owners and residents gathered to hear from and pass along concerns to State Senator J.B Powell,
below, and Representatives Gloria Frazier and Mack Jackson.The hottest topic on the table, however, was healthcare
reform. Though Senator Powell acknowledged he had not read the version of the healthcare reform bill currently
before the U.S. Senate, he said changes are in order. “We have to do something about healthcare,” he said. “I’m a small
business owner. I have concerns about what kind of plan they throw me under...but we have to do something.” Burke
County Hospital Authority
chairman Gerald Murray
warned that certain
changes, such as cuts in
Medicaid and Medicare re
imbursements to provid
ers, could cost this county
dearly and asked legisla
tors to think carefully
about advocating what is
happening in Washington,
DC. “We have a first class
hospital and when you get
your tax bill, not a penny
of it will go to your hospi
tal,” he said. “If they pay for
it this way, the Burke
County hospital will either
close or the county will
pick up the tab.”
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