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Women's Health
Fair Is Friday
At Local Clinic
The Jackson County
Health Department will
host a women’s health fair
from 8 a.m. to noon Friday
Jan. 30, at the Commerce
Clinic, 623 S. Elm Street.
Free health screenings will
be offered for lower-income
women 50 and over and
uninsured.
The screenings include
blood pressure, blood
tests for diabetes and high
cholesterol, Pap smears,
breast exams and mammo
grams. Mammograms will
be performed at the health
department by the Mobile
Mammography Unit of
Athens Regional Medical
Center.
A health educator from
the Northeast Georgia
Health District will be on
hand to discuss blood
pressure results and talk
to women about the high
blood pressure/diabetes
treatment program offered
by the health department.
Space is limited and pre
registration is required. To
sign up, call the Commerce
clinic at 706-335-3895.
Mentor Idea
Swap' To Be
Held Feb. 5
Lindsay’s Legacy
Mentoring Program will host
a mentor idea swap from
5:30 to 6:30 p.m. Thursday,
Feb. 5, at the Jackson EMC
auditorium.
The “after hours’’ event will
include light snacks, sodas,
and a chance to meet and
share ideas with other men
tors.
“We now have almost
200 mentors participat
ing with Lindsay’s Legacy
Mentoring Program,’’ said
coordinator Lisa Stephens.
“We will be sharing ideas
of things that are working,
ideas for things to do with
your student and providing
a chance for you to network
with other mentors in your
area.’’
RSVP to Stephens at 706-
410-5525 or jacksonmen-
tors@yahoo.com.
Jefferson
Debates
Scrolling Signs
Jefferson leaders debated
Monday night whether or
not businesses should be
allowed to display signs
containing scrolling mes
sages.
A proposed amendment
to the city’s sign ordinance
has been discussed by the
Jefferson City Council
since December. The coun
cil was set to take action on
the proposal at Monday’s
meeting, but decided to
postpone a vote until the
February meeting.
Some council members
are concerned about wheth
er scrolling messages on
signs would create a safety
hazard for motorists.
“We want people to be
able to get their message
across, but we don’t want
to have a public safety haz
ard,’’ Mayor Jim Joiner said.
The current ordinance
does not address this issue
and two businesses in the
town already have scrolling
messages on their signs. The
council members agreed to
take a look at these signs
before taking action at the
February meeting.
“It’s time to decide what
we want before it becomes
a whole set of problems,’’
Joiner said.
EMC Signs
To Get Meters
From Sensus
Jackson Electric
Membership Corporation
(EMC) and Sensus
announce an agreement
to deploy nearly a quarter-
million iCon smart meters
and the Sensus FlexNet
AMI solution for the co-op’s
residential and commercial
customer base.
Cooperative officials say
FlexNet’s tower-based sys
tem became the AMI sys-
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PUBLIC
NOTICE
District 4 Commissioner Di/vain
Smith will be holding a Town Hall
meeting on Thursday, February
1 B, at 6:DD p.m. in the IMicholson
Community Center.
This will be an open agenda
meeting, and the public is invited
to attend.
tem of choice once it proved
to require a minimal infra
structure while yet offering
an advanced set of utility
and consumer features. The
11 Tower Gateway Base
Stations needed to run the
FlexNet system for Jackson
EMC will all be housed on
existing, utility-owned infra
structure.
“Once evaluated, it
became obvious to us that
FlexNet would be the most
efficient system for our
expansive territory, and it
would provide enhanced
services to both our utility
and our customers,’’ said
Jim Smith, vice president of
engineering & operations
for Jackson EMC.
The cooperative has
experienced a 54 percent
growth in membership over
the last 10 years, with dra
matic growth in three coun
ties — Barrow (94 percent),
Jackson (65 percent) and
Gwinnett (56 percent) —
that were listed among the
100 fastest-growing coun
ties in America for 2002-
2004. This growth created
the need for a system that
would meet short- and long
term goals.
Sensus will provide its
iCon smart meters for the
total deployment, which
are designed to optimize
operational efficiency when
paired with the FlexNet
system. By doing so,
Jackson EMC officials lay
the groundwork for future
smart grid solutions, such as
demand response, remote
connect/disconnect, and
load control.
Because FlexNet oper
ates on an exclusive and
FCC-protected primary-
use license spectrum, offi
cials say the territory of
the co-op will easily be ser
viced via the powerful and
uninterrupted two-way data
transmissions.
Tornado Drill
Set Statewide
For February 4
A statewide tornado drill
will be held Wednesday,
Feb. 4, as part of Severe
Weather Awareness Week.
The week — Feb. 1-7
— will include “Family
Preparedness Day’’ Sunday,
“NOAA Alert Radio Day’’
Monday, “Thunderstorm
Safety’’ Tuesday, “Lighting
Safety’’ Thursday and
“Flooding’’ Friday, which is
also a back-up day for the
statewide tornado drill.
4 Departments
Plan Live
Fire Training
Four fire departments will
conduct a “live fire’’ training
exercise Saturday, Jan. 31,
starting at 8 a.m.
The training exercise will
be held at 6578 U.S. 129
North in Pendergrass.
The training will allow for
newly-appointed firefight
ers to obtain “real life’’ expe
rience and apply classroom
training and skills in a mod
ern fire environment.
The training will be con
ducted according to the
National Fire Protection
Association’s 1403: Standard
on Live Fire Training and
supervised by Georgia
State Certified Live Fire
Instructors from Jackson
and surrounding counties.
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Department in conjunction
with the North Jackson Fire
Department, Plainview Fire
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County Correctional
Institute fire brigade will
conduct the training.
County Seeks
10% Cuts From
All Departments
HOMER - Banks County
Board of Commission
Chairman Milton Dalton
told county department
heads Wednesday, Jan. 21,
that each department is
possibly facing a 10 percent
reduction in their budgets.
“We are looking at a possi
ble 10 percent reduction in
each department,” Dalton
said.
No purchases are being
made unless it is a “dire
need” as of Jan. 12. A pur
chasing and hiring free was
implemented by the county
Jan. 12.
Banks County Finance
Officer Randy Failyer said
the county departments are
actually under budget as of
this time. “What we are run
ning into is revenues are
down $1.1 million,” Failyer
said. “Revenues from sales
tax, hotel/motel tax and
landfill use fees are down
and these are things that the
county will not recoup. The
county’s lanfill use fees are
down $100,000 per quar
ter.”
Failyer also said the coun
ty’s tax bills will not go out
until next week and they
will be due at the end of
March. “This will put us in a
cash flow problem and you
have to be aware of this,”
Failyer said.
Farm Bureau
Offers Classes
On Beekeeping
A beekeeping class will be
held at 6 p.m. Tuesday, Feb.
24, by the Jackson County
Farm Bureau as a follow-up
to its previous beekeeping
jumpstart class. The class
will be held at the Farm
Bureau office, 2388 U.S.
129 North, Jefferson.
A meal is included and
master beekeeper Keith
Fielder of the University of
Georgia Extension Service
will offer a program on pest
and diseases affecting hives
in Georgia.
The meeting is free, but an
RSVP is requested. Contact
Ali Merk at ammerk@gfb.
org or 706-367-8877.
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BANKS COUNTY
HISTORICAL SOCIETY, INC.
meets first Monday each month
7:00 p.m. in the Banks Co. Historial
Courthouse at 105 U.S. Hwy. 441
North in Homer pa.-07/09
JEFFERSON
'AMERICAN LEGION
Albert Gordon Post 56
Each 3rd Tuesday, 7:30 p.m.
Harvie Lance, Commander
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Meets the third Thursday each month
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underground pipelines and booster stations in
Madison Co. Meetings 6:30 p.m. at the Colbert
Grove Baptist Church the 2nd Thurs. of each
month. 706-783-4702. Pd.04/09
White Plains Baptist Church
Faith Bible Class meets every Sunday morning
at 10:00 a.m. It is a place where strangers
become friends and friends become family.
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White Plains Baptist Church
3650 Hwy. 124 West, Jefferson, GA 30549
The Jackson Co. Republican Party
Would like you to meet us for
breakfast the second Sat. of each
month, 8:00 at The Jefferson
House. For more information, call
706-652-2967 or email
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BANKS COUNTY
AMERICAN LEGION
Post 215
Meets each 3rd Thursday, 7 p.m.
In Homer, GA at the
American Legion Building on
Historic Highway 441 Pd.06/09
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Each 4th Tuesdasy, 7:00 p.m.
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1st Tuesday of each month, 7:30 p.m.
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JEFFERSON LIONS CLUB
Meets 2nd & 4th Monday
Jefferson City Clubhouse
6:30 p.m. *(706) 387-1156
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JEFFERSON ROTARY CLUB
Meets Tuesdays
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12:30 p.m. *(706) 367-7696
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