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The True Citizen, Wednesday, September 28, 2022 — Page 3
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Imaging Clinic Opens in Old Library
Burke Health opened the
doors to their new outpatient
imaging clinic last Thursday
in the former Burke County
Library at the corner of 4th&
Jones.
The facility has undergone
months of construction in
preparation for this transition
of Burke Imaging. Renova
tions continue in the rear of the
building for expansion efforts
that will provide a large reg
istration and waiting area, as
well as a drop-off area that is
more accessible for patients of
both Burke Imaging and Burke
Therapy. Outside landscaping
and sidewalks have been reju
venated, bringing life back to
the facility.
Inside, the old building that
had been used as storage for
many years has been com
pletely remodeled with a mod
ern aesthetic and advanced
technology. Nuclear Medicine
and Cardiac Rehab are new
services that will be added to
the facility to complement the
Cardiology program that Burke
Health started earlier this year.
In addition, Burke Health
will be relocating the mobile
MRI unit to the Burke Imaging
facility in the coming weeks
but intends to add permanent
MRI technology as the lease on
the mobile unit draws closer.
X-ray and CT will remain in
side the hospital.
Burke Therapy will join
the space at the beginning of
next year once construction
and parking efforts have been
completed on the Burke Health
campus.
Sardis heads toward community event center
SHELLIE SMITLEY
thetruecitizen.shellie@gmail.com
Sardis Mayor Roger Lane
announced the members of the
Community Events Citizens
Advisory Committee Septem
ber 20.
The committee has been
formed to raise money to re
store the old SGA auditorium.
Lane said he hopes to renovate
the building one section at
a time with the intention of
providing the city a place to
hold events. He is hoping the
Burke County Board of Com
missioners may contribute to
reconstructing the gym.
The committee may work on
other projects in the future but
will focus on the auditorium
and Christmas programming
for now.
“Anyone that would like
to come and participate and
help out we would more than
happy to have them come and
be a part of it,” Lane said. “We
would like the whole commu
nity to be involved.”
The committee members
include: Crystal Milner, Bar
bara Harris, Veronica Las
siter, Karen Perkins, Vickey
West, Katrina Winston, Brenda
Smith, Brenda Lane, Chuck
Milner and Billy Lane.
Members will serve for one
year.
vote
for
CLINTON
Burke County
Commissioner
District 4
Donations to:
Bates For The
People
P.0. Box 372
Waynesboro, GA
30830
Keysville
it’s important to him to receive
information on the city’s fi
nances every month.
“We live in the city,” he said.
“They collect taxes, there is
water, and there are other fines
Meeting
BCSO to have their own hu
man resource employee. He
said worrying about how much
money it takes to supply the
BCSO’s budget keeps him up
at night.
“My opinion is that you have
more than enough money in
your budget to operate with,”
he said. “My opinion is that
you can’t manage the money
you have. I’m tired of this
whole thing.”
Williams began his response
by pointing out that a price tag
could not be attached to mak
ing the county feel safe.
“I’m glad you stay up wor
rying about how much is
enough,” Williams said. “You
don’t stay up worrying about
someone breaking into your
house or hurting your family.
So, I submit to you what we
are giving you is safety or the
feeling of safety.”
Williams pointed out that he
was not there to argue and that
he had asked multiple times for
the board to sit down with him
and go through his budget and
discuss what could be reduced
or eliminated.
“I beg and long for the
day that I can sit down with
the county manager and go
through my budget line item
by line item and he can help me
figure this out... in six years I
have never been afforded that
opportunity.”
Williams pointed out that
when he took on the role of
Shirts
of Burke County Health Foun
dation, with proceeds of T-
shirt sales benefiting the new
organization, which offers as
sistance under a much broader
umbrella of care.
“The Board of Health will
retain $1,000 of proceeds to
continue offering scholarships
for two Burke County graduat
ing seniors, but all remaining
that being imposed. You got
SPLOST funds coming in.”
He wants to know how the
city is putting some of the
funds aside in order to fulfill
some of their major tasks they
Sheriff, four deputies per shift
were covering 835 sq. miles.
“Drug dealers ran this place
before six years ago,” he said.
“The sheriff’s office runs this
place now.”
Williams said the BCSO
needed complete autonomy
of their computer system to
ensure unauthorized people
were not accessing sensitive
information.
“What if we are investigating
a commissioner for wrongdo
ing and somebody sees it?”
Williams asked hypothetically.
The BOC and the Sheriff dis
agreed on whether the BCSO
was entitled to spend $35,000
of grant money on legal fees
pertaining to the mandamus pe
tition hied against the county.
Commissioner Tommy Nix
claimed it was a violation of
law because the BCSO was
not charged the same rate the
county would be obligated to
pay their county attorney.
“The board here is going to
be faced with tough decisions
in the next week or so when
we get our audit report back...
and there is one big item there
and we are going to expect the
Sheriff to recoup funds that
were illegally spent to Hull
Barrett law firm...,” said Nix.
“That is $35,000 that we can
recover.”
Williams explained that
charitable donations were
necessary steps to building
community relations. In the
proceeds will be donated to the
health foundation,” Richardson
stated.
“The success of one being
shared with the other, I think,
just clarifies Burke County’s
sense of community. This
shared commitment embod
ies a feeling of being part of
something much greater than
ourselves.”
identified.
“To know about the health of
the city,” he said. “Are you col
lecting money to pay the bills?”
However, Neely may need
to tone down his approach.
event controversy strikes, the
Sheriff said it was his job to
make sure the BCSO builds
trust beforehand.
“Is Tim Tebow going to help
you do that?” Commissioner
Art Lively asked, and sug
gested that the BCSO should
conduct fund raising events
that produce money for dona
tions.
Williams said he hired a
human resource employee
because the county had one
HR person for 450 employees.
BCSO employees were still
using paper timesheets to docu
ment their time.
“We were doing nothing
electronically,” Williams said.
Chaos broke out when Com
missioner Lucious Abrams
encouraged the panel to give
the Sheriff a chance to speak
about the topic he intended to
present in the first place.
“I can talk whenever I want
to talk,” Lively snapped back.
“Wrap it up.”
Finally, Williams pointed
out that the county manager’s
office reported the BCSO’s
budget increased 19% since
last year’s budget.
“We are getting $9,000 more
than we did last year,” Wil
liams said and pointed out
that $650,000 came out of the
clerk of court’s budget while
$429,000 for resource school
officers was also added to the
BCSO budget. Although the
money was moved, he said,
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T-shirts are available in both
grey and sand at the Bloom
Room and B. Famar Murray
Public Health Center. Specialty
colors of pink and blue were
submitted for special order
last week and will be avail
able soon. Designs include
Fangford’s mosaic as well as
the traditional bird dog.
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Wilkes said she may have to
request a deputy to attend the
monthly city meetings to retain
order.
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it is not additional money
but simply money that was
once allocated for the specific
purposes through other depart
ments. The movement of the
funds from one department to
the other gives the appearance
that the BCSO is gaining $1.2
million to their budget, he said.
REVIVAL
Green's Cut United Methodist Church
263 Green’s Cut Church Road, Waynesboro 30830
Sun., Mon., Tues., - Oct. 2,3,4 at 7 PI
Guest speaker
will be
Jordan Clayton
Senior Pastor at
East Baptist Church
in Sardis
Pastor Clayton will also
present special music each
nightl
Come out and
receive a blessing!
CROSSWORD
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27) Crumbs from a meal
29) Religious maxims
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33) Acid that will make you see
things
36) Some desert growths
38) What an eclipse can do
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46) Non-offensive expletive
50) Sing like a canary
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sometimes
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3) Flush-hush
4) Author also known as H.H. Munro
5) African republic on the Red Sea
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8) Frosts, as a cake
9) Common degs.
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11) Japanese martial art
12) Convenient wallet filler
13) Johnny in gray
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19) House of usher?
24) "Micro" add-on, in libraries
25) Spotted
26) Consumes
28) gin fizz
30) Santa's reindeer, collectively
31) Gangster's gun, in B-movies
34) Legendary QB nicknamed the
"Snake"
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37) Like Salvation Army goods
38) VHS alternative of old
39) Sport invented by Native Americar
40) Absolute greatest (Abbr.)
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59) Straddling
60) Stratocaster attachment
61) First half of a swanky California
neighborhood
62) Fourposter, e.g.
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