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Vol. 142, No. 26 - Waynesboro, Ga. 30830 Established in 1882 Wednesday, August 17, 2022 - $1.00
Mulching facility plans cause uproar
SHELLIE SMITLEY
thetuecitizen.shelliel@gmail.com
The City of Waynesboro asked for
re-zoning from A-1 to 1-1 to develop
and install a leaf and limb mulching
facility on a 9.85 acre tract located
at 195 Bates Road.
Neighbors of the proposed project
went up in arms, since the city-
owned tract adjoins 16 properties.
Retired Board of Elections Direc
tor Laverne Sello says she and her
husband Lonnie are greatly con
cerned about the city implementing
a mulching operation right behind
their home.
“My concern is that if they are go
ing to be bringing in leaves and limbs
and they are going to be piling them
up, it is going to bring rodents,” she
said. “There will also be a lot trucks
coming in and out and the machin
ery is going to cause a lot of noise.
It doesn’t need to be in a residential
neighborhood.”
A neighbor, Frances Lewis, is also
opposed to the project.
“I don’t want anything like that
near me,” she said.
Roger Jenkins lives across the
street from the proposed site. He is
aware of what a mulching facility en
tails since he is a retired public works
employee. He is also concerned that
the facility will bring an increase in
rats and snakes, along with odors and
potential health risks.
“The truck traffic is just going
to create wear and tear on the road
and the dust is going to mess up our
homes,” he said. “It will create a lot
of noise when they grind it and we
will have to live with
that too. Years down
the road it will mess
up the water table
under the ground and
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MULCHING,
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This 9.85 acre parcel is the site of a proposed mulching facility.
Waynesboro PoficeUepartment’s Chief Willie Burley participated, in cl
the Burke County Middle Schoof s^Baek to Stjhool'Bash August 13.
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Accused rapist charged twice before
SHELLIE SMITLEY
thetruecitizen.shellie@gmail.com
A man already on probation for
two cases of statutory rape, is facing
charges that he raped a 5 year old.
The Burke County Sheriff’s Of
fice arrested Sammie Latroy Jones
August 9 after a 9-year-old female
said he raped her when she was 5
years old.
Jones was 16 years old at that time.
The child revealed the incident to her
mother during a recent Bible study,
according to the official incident
report. The mother told the BCSO
officer that her daughter was in the
home of someone who was watch
ing her when the incident occurred.
The person watching her had gone
to the store and had left the child in
Jones’ care.
In October 2020, Jones was in
dicted in two different molestation
cases in which it was alleged that he
engaged in sexual intercourse with
two female minors under the age of
Sammie Latroy Jones
16 years old. In both cases, Jones
pled guilty to the lesser charges
of statutory rape. He received 12
months probation in one case and
five years probation with 3 months
of jail confinement in the other.
COVID is on the rise
COVID once again seems to be surging through the community.
Edmund Burke Academy reported several positive cases last week,
including multiple teachers. They reminded parents not to send children
to school who have experienced a fever within 24 hours.
Burke Count Public Schools reported 22 new cases among students
last week and 9 cases among their faculty/staff.
The Department of Public Health reported 43 new cases throughout
the county during the 2-week period preceding August 10.
Is violence a
SHELLIE SMITLEY
thetruecitizen.shellie@gmail.com
Although week-after-week violent
crimes are reported by media, it’s not
anything new.
Burke County is no stranger to
violent crime, as this look back in
history shows.
He meant to kill him
Waynesboro resident John Rogers,
father of Frank Rogers, 19, swore
out a warrant charging R.E. Terrell
with intent to murder September
4, 1926. Terrell admittedly slashed
Frank’s throat with a razor earlier
that week. Terrell was the former
chairman of the Jefferson County
Board of Commissioners, serving for
12 years. He slashed Frank’s throat
for keeping his daughter out until 2
a.m., according to an article in The
True Citizen at that time.
“Of course I meant to kill him,”
Terrell told Sheriff Thomas. “I didn’t
cut as deeply as I meant to.”
Frank and 16-year-old Hester Ter
rell were walking home across an
sign of the times?
open held toward her home, when
R.E. Terrell met them and without
saying a word slashed Frank’s throat
with a razor, almost to the jugular
vein from the front of the neck to
the right ear. Frank didn’t die, but
reported to the newspaper that he
was lying at his home in Waynes
boro in a dazed condition. Dr. J.B.
Lewis reported that Frank’s injuries
required 10 stitches to the throat.
Deputy Sheriff Clark Wright, who
arrived on the scene shortly after the
occurrence, said that Terrell told him
that he “cut to kill and would have
taken pleasure in watching the boy
strangle to death on his own blood.”
Witness testimony collaborated
Frank’s story that a flat tire delayed
him from returning his date to her
father’s home on time.
Frightened to death
In another case, Mrs. K.T. Walden,
wife of one of the most prominent
farmer-merchants in the Grange sec
tion about 12 miles west of Wrens,
died in October 1925 following a
nervous shock from a fright that oc
curred at her home just three days
earlier. The circumstances leading up
to Walden’s death were “sensational
and of rather an ugly nature”, accord
ing to an article in The True Citizen
at the time.
Walden was left in charge of her
husband’s store when Tobe Willford
and his two daughters arrived armed
with shotguns and pistols. They
informed Walden g^
they had come to
kill her husband. VIOLENCE,
“Mrs. Walden 14